Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter

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Histoire grandiose, c'est le gros point fort du jeu. Si vous êtes fan de JRPG ou curieux de découvrir le genre je vous le recommande grandement !

( 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.

Cinema

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.

An amazing game through and through! Has many of the beloved classic JRPG story beats and is a beautiful recreation of the original game. Excited for Trials in the Sky 2nd Chapter, I hope most of the older games get this kind of treatment with this type of reimagining. This was a fun game to 100%, I feel like an Expert Bracer now.

王道RPGのリメイクとして原作をやった事が有る身としては懐かしく思いつつ非常に楽しめました。 FCとの変更点としては2Dから3Dへの変更に加え、アクションゲーム要素が追加され、従来のRPG+アクションと両方楽しめるようになっています。 その他にもバーストシステムやサポートアビリティなど追加されていて、サブクエなどもマップに表示されるなど、かなり優しい仕様へと変更されています。 ゲームの難易度もFCと比べ、かなり優しくなっており、途中で難易度も変えれるのでゲームが苦手な方でも気軽に楽しめるようなシステムなっており、王道物語が好きな方なら是非オススメしたいゲームの1つです。