The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak

軌跡初見の方へ 素直に空からやって、零・碧・閃・創で終わりましょう。最新作は実質創の軌跡です。黎の軌跡3作はシステム含めて全てが劣化しているので。 購入を迷っているシリーズファンへ イースや他のシリーズもですが、今のFALCOMは金の無駄なので、FALCOM作品は見限りましょう。ちなみに私はガガーブから入って、空FCから創まで発売日購入、イースも9まで、Zweiや那由多もやってます。黎はイラストレーターが気に入らないので、発売時点では見送りました。 発売時点でもうつまらなそうだったので、黎の軌跡は軌跡シリーズで初めて発売日にやりませんでした。でも大正解だったと思う。 2Dイラストは零で叩かれた人をわざわざ連れてきて、その人のイラストはみんなブサイク。シナリオはそこらじゅうで叩かれてるように、引き伸ばし&展開めちゃくちゃ。適当な同人ライターでも連れてきたらどうです？もっとまともな"お話"作れますよ。 しかも自慢のはずのBGMもパッとしない…そもそも軌跡ってシナリオとBGM頼りだったのに、黎シリーズは音声が流れるとBGMがフェードされる。BGMの出来の悪さをスタッフも感じてるんですか？ 音声付きテキストは過去作では✕長押しで早送りができましたが、今作はできません。 パーティーの固定メンバーが多いので、編成の自由度はありません。選べて1-2人程度。いわゆるクエストですらほぼ固定です。しかも小倉唯のフェリというキャラゴリ押しです。シナリオ上のヒロインはアニエスのはずなのに、そのエピソードでフェリの活躍がなくても、フェリが固定なことがかなり多いです。作中でも「この会話でそのセリフ必要？」と思うセリフでもフェリが喋ります。

As the series emerges from the confused erraticness and cleaning up from that as it barrels to completion, Daybreak shows thats over and its ready to end on its feet. The Trails Conversations are extremely numerous, probably the most in the series, giving this tale alot of gravitas and indirect "showing by telling" that's just good character writing. And it takes the place of another field of critters to slay for some slow leveling; like Reverie before it, just have interesting characters bounce off each other and sometimes go deep instead of cramming it at the end. I like Van. The reason he does stuff, says stuff, does this job, relates to others like this, all makes sense. He's like a few of the facets of previous protags but without any of the mishandlings. Durante's PC Smorgasbord Of Options is the industry standard. Its insane other devs/porters wont learn from this embarrassment of riches, especially in audio. Some of the combat stuff was erratic; Shards was fun, as was the semi-return of Quartz lines, but the timeline is a confusing mess making Artes hard to gauge when they'd actually go off, and there's no turn stealing with Supers. The end is also very...overly sentimental? Like, it was for the last game of an arc? So you'd have dangerous characters hanging around like neighbors and reused job plots. Makes the Finale take 3 times as long as it needed.

Probably the most mixed I've felt about a game in this series so far. Most of the new characters are pretty good, although Agnes might be the most boring party member in the entire series, didn't care for her. The pacing is all over the place, the final chapter in particular was a huge slog to get through. The real time combat is also extremely jank, with some pretty awful hitboxes and others that linger for too long so you dodge and get hit anyway. Still a pretty good game, but a big downgrade from Reverie in just about every way in my opinion.

I have to separate this one into two reviews: Story An excellent recovery after the disorganized mess of Reverie. No more branching, no more random generated dungeons or chests. The story is stronger for it, and the characters are better too. The more adult tone is also refreshing after 10 games, Falcom must know their audience aren't kids anymore. I do wish Trails would do away with the plot armor that every character seems to have, but overall this was one of the better ones for story. Gameplay Far, far, too easy, even on nightmare (not new game + even). It's just too easy to chain crafts back to back and obliterate every boss in this game. With Grendel, that goes double. Regal Beatdown is severely broken. I found myself using the Xipha far less than I'd used prior games' Orbments because strategizing which ones to tweak for each player mattered far less here. Speed is still king, as ever. The new field battle system is a good change. Overall I had fun, despite it being far too easy.

Esse Trails é um ótimo respiro pra quem não tava aguentando mais Erebonia kkkk. A Falcom mudou bastante coisa aqui, não só o tom da história que tá um pouco mais dark que antes, como o combate também (o que é bem surpreendente, já que o combate do Trails into Reverie é muito bom). Eu gostei bastante da história, ela é bem simples e tem muitas facilitações pra funcionar (o Van NÃO QUER o trabalho, mas no fim o treco da Agnes sempre brilha e a história obriga o protagonista a participar), fora que o final do jogo é bem arrastado e eu não aguentava mais ver o jogo martelar que é o poder da amizade que vai salvar tudo. O mais importante é que a maioria dos personagens foi muito bem apresentado, acho que só a Judith precisava provar um pouco mais o pq ela tá ali no meio do pessoal da Arkride Solutions. Eu gostei que dessa vez a gente tem alguns vilões que são MALVADOS com M maiúsculo (o dia normal do Melchior é acordar, tomar café e fazer uma chacina) e, inclusive, eu sentia falta de um vilão bem mal mesmo desde o From Zero. O combate é bem gostoso aqui, mas sei lá, falta aquele empurrãozinho pra ele clicar de verdade, sabe? Fora que achei meio mal equilibrado. Não sei se foi só comigo, mas à partir do Capitulo 4, eu estava usando S-Craft e dando Hitkill em tudo (até em chefe). Só os bosses finais que eu tive que usar mais do meu time pra ganhar. Dito isso, repito que a Falcom é muito corajosa. Eles mudarem o combate tão bom do Reverie é preciso muito coragem, mas eu aprecio o que eles trouxeram e estou animado pra ver o que eles vão adicionar nos próximos.

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DO the work. Don't play this as a first entry. I realize asking people to play like 10 games is insane but just stop thinking about it/waiting for remakes and just hop into FC or 1st and ask questions later. You'll probably catch up faster than you think, even if you are busy/work full-time. Game is really solid. If you really need a number, I'd give it exactly 4/5. In terms of overall ranking, I'd probably put it behind FC or 3rd as the 5th or 6th best entry so far. I think Daybreak is a refreshing entry after the quality dip this series experienced in the Erebonia arc (and to a much lesser extent reverie). I'll briefly go into the three things that bothered me about Daybreak 1 just as a heads up, but chances are you will probably like this entry. -Chapter 3 is kind of bad. Thankfully there are a total of 6 chapters+ an Intermission chapter and I think all of them vary from good to very good parts of the game. -The writing does get carried away and hard to take seriously at times (with respect to power scaling and the extent of the main characters' knowledge with respect to the overall plot and villain motivations). Thankfully, it rarely affects the important parts of the story so it mostly just comes across as side eye rolling cringe moments. -The main villain group "A" is split in half between 3 interesting and 3 uninteresting villains 2 of which are basically just slight variations of C's sidekicks in CS1. This isn't to say that A as a whole is a bad villain for Daybreak 1 (the organization's motivations and lore are compelling). However, when half of the main villain gallery consists of, for the most part, forgettable characters it does detract from the overall experience/satisfaction in bringing them down towards the end of the game.