Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter now 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.
I played the original trails in the sky trilogy, should I play this? Is it largely the same story?
Same story, different localisation, so minimal differences.
You get modern graphics and QoL changes and stuff.
Me, I’m gonna skip, not because I expect they did a bad job; the cinematic direction of the first game’s ending was definitely well achieved. I just recognize there’s a lot to play right now, and the time investment for a large JRPG doesn’t fit in my busy world.
I may end up watching reaction videos of the remakes of key emotional scenes though. A part of me is always going to be nitpicking preferences of the original, perhaps unfairly.
The one review I read said it’s kinda worth it:
Source: www.rpgfan.com/…/trails-in-the-sky-2nd-chapter/
Tho for my part, I struggle to say I’d want to spend dozens of hours replaying most story-focused JRPGs. I could imagine considering it only with my handful of favorites.
I’m playing thr first one right now.
It does not fuck around. This really surprised me, given how cutesy/wholesome it is.
I’ve noticed it’s a good method for Japanese writing. They acclimate you to silly, bashful moments, so that when the writing flexes over to the serious side, it’s a big contrast. Yakuza does a lot of that too.
Comparatively, sometimes when I try series like The Last of Us, or even Nier Automata, I sometimes have a hard time buying into the emotions because it’s been solely despair for a lot of the runtime.
That said, as I’ve gotten used to my own creative writing, I see Sky as having tremendous up-moments that give characters some really star moments, but also quite a lot of narmy, amateurish teenage writing especially with the fights, so it gets to be hit and miss.
To be clear, I’m fine with the wholesomeness, it was what I was in the mood for. I was more referring to the difficulty having crazy spikes, especially in the beginning. You’d expect a game like this to trend easy-ish. Never thought a cute catlike furball intro boss that is eating a farmer’s crops would be a near insurmountable wall.
Funny enough, even after playing the original, I felt that point was a difficulty spike too - and it encouraged me to write a guide that helps people figure out their strategy.
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=35…
Might be worth a look to cover some basics. In spite of Japanese trends, the game isn’t actually that grind-heavy, and the series has a lot of fans that play on max difficulty, Nightmare, for pure challenge.