Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter

mira chavito, este es un plot twist pero de los GOD

Yeah, it's alright. Already played the original, but nice to revisit I guess. Story really does drag on. Thankfully game speed-up helps improve the experience. New combat system is pretty fun. Disappointed in the OST - They could have done so much more with the music. Full orchestral recording perhaps. Just seemed to lack some dynamics/excitement for me

Este es mi primer juego de la saga Trials y fue increible, la verdad no esperaba que me gustase tanto. No puedo describir lo buen juego que es, excelente banda sonara, he escuchado unas canciones similares en Ys, buen apartado visual, excelente gameplay que mezcla combate de acción y juego por turnos, pero en lo que más sobresale es sin duda en su historia, es un prologo, pero bien interesante.

紛うことなき良リメイク 2nd買います

I get it now. I had this game on my radar since it came out to PSP and PC back in the days. But while interested and liking the song "Silver Will" I never made it past the prologue. But with the remake...I get it now. Played through the entire game, did all the side quests and even got the ultimate weapons for our main duo. I love the worldbuilding in this. I adore that every NPCs dialogue evolves based on their own little story while we move through our story. E.g I had a pair of lovers in the prologue and saw them later in the final chapter doing their date they planned in the early game. That is attention to detail I love. Some minor remarks: The OST while great can be sometimes to repetative (not the main combat theme. That is banger I will never get tired off). And the story is good, but is defnitly on the slow cooking end. But there are layers to the characters which are paying off later or are only teased at and hopefully will find their resolution in later games. So a definitiv yes from me, but you need to have some patience with it

( full review with screenshots: https://gaming-parrot.com/post/trails-in-the-sky-first-chapter-review/ ) The original Trails in the Sky kicked off a story arc that's still going strong over a dozen games and two decades later. There's really nothing else like Falcom's commitment to this world in gaming, so it's only fitting that they've shown the game itself the same love and brought it into the modern era. While the original is still a classic, it very much shows its age and suffers from having so many obscure interactions that you're almost guaranteed to miss content unless you follow a guide. For those unfamiliar with the original, you play as Estelle Bright and her adopted brother Joshua and journey across the kingdom of Liberl while solving all kinds of random quests. It's a famously verbose game that, even beyond telling a lengthy story, also contains an absurd number of unique background NPCs who all have their own small plot lines you can follow throughout the game. While the main appeal is seeing how the grand story plays out, it also has a unique combat system that gives you a ton of freedom in how you build each character and that makes it easy to use your most fun skills frequently. Rather than fully overhaul the game like Square is doing with FF7, Falcom opted for a remaster that makes major changes to the graphics, minor changes to the gameplay, and minimal changes everywhere else. Visually, the game has gone from running on the PSP to being a visual treat with all sorts of modern features. It's easily the best looking JRPG I've played that doesn't have "Final Fantasy" in the name and even looks great on Steam Deck thanks to support for AMD's upscaling software. There are new details added throughout the world to flesh out areas that weren't visible to the original camera and tons of new visual effects added to things like stained glass that show the remastering team really cared about this world. The gameplay is largely unchanged outside of the new Quick Combat. This allows you to fight action RPG-style in the overworld, much like in Metaphor. Also like that game, the primary purpose of Quick Combat is to trigger a stun and thereby get in advantage in regular combat, but unlike Metaphor, it is perfectly viable to beat most enemies entirely in Quick Combat if you want to. It will take longer (ironically) and be a bit tedious thanks to the simplicity of the QC controls, but it does mean that you can avoid damage entirely if you're good at dodging. The only other notable change to combat is that the turn-based mode has more freeform movement than it did before and battles take place on the exact spot you trigger them. This doesn't make a huge difference, but it does feel more modern. Outside of combat, most gameplay changes are focused on reducing the need to play with a guide. The original Trails was infamous for having loads of missable content that was hidden in places the game sometimes explicitly told you not to go. Now, all important quests and books are marked with indicators on the map, so you know if you need to go back to town and talk to a completely random NPC in order to get the next chapter of a book. The indicators don't tell you what you need to do, though, so the small puzzles that a few of these had are preserved. Beyond that, this is pretty much the same game it was in 2004. There are new versions of the soundtrack, but they are remasters in the most literal sense and the differences are little more than audio quality. The text has been retranslated, but not notably modified, and the plot follows all the same beats that it did before. Unfortunately, the frequently hilarious empty treasure text dialogue of the original translation is entirely gone since that was an addition made by the localization team and not a feature of the original story. It's sad to miss out on that, but I can live with it when everything else is done so well.

Really great JRPG. Story is a massive slow burn with no big plot changes for like the first 80% of the game, but it's really well done. Not that surprising considering this is a multi-series JRPG with whole story told in like 8 games. Combat is very fun, you are not forced into turn based combat by some trash 1lvl mob hitting you once, you can choose when you want to initiate or not so no need to farm dozens of hours of trash mob packs for no reason like in some JRPGs to artificially prolong the game. The turn based combat itself is also very good with a lot of options, positioning ,resource managing and very cool looking flashy animations. Quite a lot of re-used assets for NPCs, but all the unique NPCs are well done and voice acted for the most part.