The Legend Of Heroes: Trails In The Sky Remake Is Real, And It Looks Amazing

I will wait for all three parts

Sooo... reading various articles online, this would be the first game in the Legend of Heroes series, correct? If so, I look forward to diving in next year!

Interesting, so it has the Daybreak battle system and art style it appears. I'd like to see the original games ported in the old art style, with the improvements Zero/Azure got. It does look like I'll be playing Sky for a 3rd time, and it's great people who don't play on PC or PSP/Vita finally get a chance to experience this amazing story.

@Divide_and_Wander Yes release order wise.

That said you never needed to play Sky 1 to enjoy the Crossbell, Erebonia, or Calvard games since they were largely self contained regardless of the amount of cameos or brief reference throwaway lines they may or may not have.

If you never played the Sky games still though you might as well wait for this release at this point.

FINALLY I will be able to get into this series properly!! I can't wait, it looks amazing!

This is one of those series that seems to have a hundred games on Switch already, so I had no idea where to start. I guess I now know where.

@Arawn93 - I havent played any game in any of the series, mostly because it's overwhelming from a game and time commitment perspective. I still have a few RPGs in the backlog, but it's only a matter of time before I'll want more.

Best announcement of 2024 for me, I wonder if this game is actually a Switch 2 game, as it poised to launch in 2025.

As Switch titles go, the best games so far are Trails Azure and Daybreak; with Azure being the best port.

I don't know Dragon Slayer lore. Is this like a remake of the first game in this sub-series? Did they finally finish the "Legend of Heroes" Arc but need money before they know what to do next so are now redoing it from scratch?

@mauhlin12 I actually can't tell if it has the Daybreak battle system or not. As soon as Estelle hits that enemy it switches to Command Mode. I'd imagine there's no action combat like in Daybreak, but the battles still take place on the overworld instead of warping you to a seperate arena.

I love Sky but the 3D games never really hit me the same way, I’m not that big into the artstyle and the traversal is a bit less enjoyable!

Easily the most exciting announcement of the direct for me, hopefully we'll get all 3 Sky games, and hopefully this is a thawing in the relationship between the two publishers which might mean we can get Cold Steel 1&2 on the Switch like the Japanese have.

@Zeebor15,
Dragon slayer was invented in 1984 but eventually evolved to 'the legend of heroes' in 1989; there are 3 different worlds within this franchise: Dragon slayer, Gagharv and Trails/Kiseki.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Heroes

@Coversnail, I love this series, already own all games available on Switch and I want Xseed to publish the forgotten Cold Steel games to Nintendo.

I presume Nis America, is doing the publishing rights for the remake, as they have mentioned recently about making western releases simultaneously to Japan

Hands down the most exciting announcement I've seen in a Direct in years — wild they didn't even make it a headliner.

And some of the best JRPG news in a very, very long time.

@xenobladexfan so it's dragon slayer, into legend of heroes, into Trails, and this is Trails 1?

And people say Kingdom Hearts is confusing

@nessisonett
would have been cool if it was a trials of mana style situation with the original making its way to switch since i love the 2d art style and being 60fps is always a nice bonus however still unsure what kind of licencing heck those games are in due to the difference in publisher or whatnot.

i do like the more colourful art style compared to the cold steel and daybreak games, and hopefully this runs well on switch.

Nice but it would be very welcome to just give us the original three first before the remake. All three are already on Steam so it shouldn't be that difficult to port those to Switch.

Legends of What Now? Trails of Super Mega Hype!

@Zeebor15 @Divide_and_Wander They're all called The Legend of Heroes as you can see in the list of the games in that Wikipedia article. It's two Dragon Slayer games, then three Gagharv games and then comes Trails starting with Trails in the Sky. The ideal starting point to get into the franchise.

WHY WASN'T THIS A SEGMENT IN THE ENGLISH DIRECT?!

Not a huge fan of the original, but it is very cool that they'll finally be on consoles internationally in a form. This remake looks so much more dynamic and fun than the rather ancient, clunky original game.

@Kestrel Indeed. It's pretty rare that I react to reveals in Directs much, but this proper had my eyes popping and a big "Whaaaahhht?!" leaving my lips.

Just wish they'd committed to announcing the full trilogy and Cold Steel I & II too so I could have them all on Switch.

My worry is that this being a remake might mean it's a long time before the others make it, if ever.

Well looks like I have no excuse to not jump into this series now. Never played a single Trails game before but the remake looks great. Makes me wonder though if this will also end up on Switch 2 since it has a generic 2025 release window.

This is running at 60fps. No way this is a video of the Switch version, lol.

"but we didn't get it until 2009, when the game made the jump over the PSP"

Wrong. Trails in the Sky FC was first released in the West in 2011.

@Foxhound Even then, the second chapter was digital only, I recall. I'm pretty sure at this point, my physical copy of the first chapter is the only one that can be played without moving to another version.
It was unfortunate that Sony stuck with their own corporate brand of memory cards, Memory Stick. But at least that wasn't as greedy as when they took it further with Vita and used a memory card exclusive to that device, charging literally five times the price of an SD card of the same capacity.

so, I've seen another video of this remake and it's still unclear if it is an action RPG or not...?

@SmartNickname It appears to be made in Daybreak's engine and using it's battle system.
If that's the case, it's both.

WHAT. WHAT. WHAT. WHAT.

I'm playing through Second Chapter right now and loving the hell out of it. I would've just been happy with a port of the trilogy to modern systems, so hopefully the remake lives up to the hype!

Alright everyone, if you want to jump into Trails, THIS IS THE ONE. We’ve been waiting for it. It’s been teased a bunch of times. The original is my favorite game of all time. Everything I’ve seen so far makes me believe it will be very faithful. Falcom President Kondo said has gone on record to say that Sky is his favorite game from the series, so it’s a true passion project from the team. IM SO HYPE

Wow this Direct had 3 quite nice surprises for me. That's 3 more than I expected so I am very happy right now^^ even though I'll probably buy everything on PS xD

Estelle Bright @@@@!!!!
Should Be Fully Voice, they have the Evolution ver

I kinda just skipped over this game in the Direct but remembered “wait this is the game with that one song Spotify keeps recommending me”

I'm hype about this. I may jump into this with both feet and just let it ride. If I enjoy it then I'll pursue the other games, or as many as I'm able to enjoy. Watch Cold Steel I and II suddenly drop...

@YourDaddy Good eye. You're probably correct. It's possible it's 60fps on Switch but that's not the norm. Either way I'm excited for this announcement!

I really enjoyed this game. Then they made 500 other games and I just said nope.

@gcunit I seldom react, either. Not a lot of affect with the ASD in general. Thought I did say "**** yeah!" to myself when the Deku Scrubs popped up in that recent Zelda trailer. Deku Scrubs are just the best.

Anyway, I'm still fixated on the Sky games. The first Cold Steel duology is no great thing in my spestimation, but FC and SC in particular I rank at the very top top of the genre — and it's really sucked not being able to have physical copies of the trilogy to put on my shelf. I won't be able to fully relax until they get the SC remake out, too — and, if we're very, very lucky, a The Third Remake, too.

Certainly, we'd all benefit from more Kevin in our lives.

@ everyone who's saying this uses Daybreak's battle system: it does seem to use Daybreak's take on turn-based combat (where characters can freely move around before selecting an action) but it does not contain any sort of real-time combat like Daybreak does.

If you look closely you'll see that the moment Estelle attacks any enemy it instantly switches to turn-based combat, which essentially means they added Zero/Azure/Cold Steel's field attacks to Sky. Land a hit to initiate an advantage encounter, get hit to start a disadvantage encounter.

Golly. This looks amazing!!!

@Divide_and_Wander Yes its a remake of the first game that started it all. It would also be the most appropriate place to start the series really.

@Drake Field Attack was already a thing in Sky. You could kill enemies with it back then. You just had to be sufficiently leveled above them.

@Darkcaptain3 It was not in the original PC/PSP releases, it was added into the Vita remakes that were only released in Japan. In the original games you could only initiate encounters by walking into enemies or having them walk into you (getting an advantage/disadvantage if you touched them from behind or they touched you from behind).

@Drake My pc version has some mods to add a bunch of the evo stuff in so that might be one of the things it added honestly. Which is why I misremember it.

Sky FC is my favorite. I’ll have to get it even though I suspect it won’t beat the original (updated) PC 2004 release, I love that they’re doing this so more people can play Sky.

@YourDaddy eh, I've been plenty busy since, without them.

@Zeebor15, yes you are correct, although the current game world building is just focused on Trails.

Think of it like the Xeno series, there are Xenogears, Saga and Blade although each 'sub series' is unique and different.

@YourDaddy yeah I can't but in to much fomo because there's always amazing games. I really do wish I had all the time in the world but unfortunately it's very limited.

@xenobladexfan Xenoblade is kept separate by copyright law. Falcom is complicated just for the hell of it.

You know what Falcom needs? Part numbers.

@Zeebor15, I agree, so they should just have the entire trails saga, labeled in Roman numerals otherwise it is quite confusing for new players.

Trails in the sky was originally known in Japanese as,
英雄伝説VI 空の軌跡 which translates to Legend of heroes vi: trails in the sky.
Falcom should have kept this naming format, for future entries in the series.

It looks nice but I hated the script of the original. Very poor translation, and endless yapping about nothing.

@YourDaddy Ha very funny cause there are no Trails games or Legend of Heroes games in general release on the Xbox brand of platforms at all ever since its existence in the gaming market since 2001. Those button prompts are either PC or Switch prompts. The closest you get a Falcom game on Xbox is Ys Origins for the Xbox One and that's it, it's just a test game and it didn't sell well on Xbox. If you're an Xbox owner, you will NEVER get a Falcom game on your Xbox system going forward. Phil Spencer should be fired.

@YourDaddy ah good. I like Daybreak's system and all but classic Trails combat rules. Nice, turn based comfort food. Can't wait for this remake!!

Falcom games have graphically been behind the competition for a long time, making up with fun story and good gameplay. But, I think, they are starting to look really good in the graphical department. Of course, I'm aware this video isn't running on switch, but it's a definite leap in overall visual quality. I have loved the Ys series for a long time, so I might have to get it on this.

The only reason i have not gotten into the Trails series is due to the fact these games are very time consuming and having to keep up with the multiple titles across various platforms also i didn't even know which game is the actual first game in chronological order. also i got other rpgs to play as well that take higher precedent. idk if i will ever really get around to playing this series i have a vita i could just play one of them their.

Probably the best news of the day for me. Weird how it was 10 seconds in the direct.