Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter on Steam
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Turn the page on the explosive 2nd chapter of Nihon Falcom’s legendary Trails saga! Estelle Bright sets out on a new journey across Liberl to uncover the truth behind Joshua’s disappearance and defeat the sinister Ouroboros organization.
  • Katana314@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    17·
    2 个月前

    I saw a front page about Saudi ownership, multiple game shutdowns, gen AI, etc, and figured I’d post something seeming a bit more positive/interesting.

    The Sky duology is very much built such that you shouldn’t even watch trailers for the second if you haven’t finished the first. To put it bluntly, it’s a JRPG with turn-based combat, and everyone I have seen watch its conclusion has been immediately on board for its sequel - but that is a very large qualifier given how many people drop out due to some honestly quite slow, “soft” dialog early on.

    I wouldn’t consider myself a Trails nut; I tried the three games in the series following this one, and they felt progressively worse and worse in terms of teenage Japanese anime writing. But, while this part of the saga holds a few of those issues, I do hold these early installments in high memory, and the remake has been very faithful as well as making use of a newer age of visuals (on the plus side, it doesn’t rely on DLSS, but on the minus, the environments are often pretty basic). I’m also guessing a lot of people skipped the first after seeing it was a duology, so now the option of playing both interrupted is on the table. While there is a third game, there’s no confirmation it’ll be remade, and it’s more like a smaller series of enjoyable extras anyway.

  • I_Jedi@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    2 个月前

    I was onboard with this series until CS4. I hate the stupid bracer points system. I always need to use a guide to make sure I get all the stuff, but it always drags me down, since it takes forever.

    By CS4, I just completely lost track of WTF is going on, and quit midway through.

    • Magical_Spark@jlai.luEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      Quite true that CS4 is kinda a low point in the series, it left me soo disappointed after how good Cold Steel 3 felt in comparison, and I hated how similar the plot felt to Cold Steel 2, and how slow things were happening for a game that should conclude everything in the arc.

      At the very least, Reverie felt like a step in the right direction, and the Daybreak arc felt better with the removal of romance options and side quests being a change from feeling like a bracer (since you are more on the grey side of things, you can blackmail people to solve a quest among other things).

  • pentastarm@piefed.caEnglish
    2·
    2 个月前

    Really gotta finish chapter 1. I was doing pretty good working my way through, and then Cyberpunk 2077 went on sale for $18 and I just … That fucking game took over my life I swear … Lmao

  • _Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    2 个月前

    Really liked the first games. Haven’t played the remakes since the Cold Steel subseries made me kinda hate the series (and IMO the games were perfectly fine in the original form. I don’t see why a remake was needed, especially since it still split them in two parts).