The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC

Trails in the Sky SC is an even better sequel than I'd thought. It did a great job providing amazing payoffs for all the intricate story threads that the first game created. Having played the Cold Steel games before this, I can now see that the formula of how Trails games "build on" to their sequels is well established here. From the expanded game mechanics to the pace of how the story unfolds, SC does a marvelous job of grabbing the player's interest considering how slow FC was. Revisiting areas from the previous game can be a bit of a chore but thankfully the game provided a good enough experience through interesting quests and NPC interaction that I never really got too bored except for a few places. If I have any complaint about the Sky series so far, its that both FC and SC should never have been split into two different games to begin with. In a narrative sense, the FC really suffers because of this and I can imagine quite a lot of players dropping the series because FC didn't do a good enough job of really informing the player of the ambitious story that the series is trying to tell. I don't really need to say this but I'll say it anyway, SC is a must play if you've played the first game. Players will be doing themselves a disservice if they didn't jump onto this game immediately after the first one as this game really fleshes out what the series is all about from both a narrative and gameplay standpoint.