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Two new legend of heroes games confirmed for the west. Unfortunately it's not the two sequels to trails in the sky. Trail of flash 1 and 2 are being renamed trails of cold steel 1 and 2. While it's great that the series is continuing in the west xseed have had to skip a tonne of beloved JRPGs that are regarded as some of the best ever made just to catch up with the series. Also the first game had a muted reception while the second had a lot of fan backlash. The series has had unanimous praise for its excellent BM style (before moe) writing which completely ignores anime tropes or turns them on its head (players of trails in the sky will understand this, Estelle was a fantastic character that was the complete polar opposite of most modern anime females).
Trails in the flash unfortunately is very trope-y but hopefully it's still a great game.
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Estelle reminded me of my wife, not sure if that's a good or bad thing :P
Shame the sequels aren't coming, had my hopes up after reports earlier in the year that they were on the way.
Well xxseed did release a ten year old game on PSP this year with Brandish so don't give up hope. That was a passion project they wanted to release for years and it finally happened. They really do want to get all the legend of heroes games out there but they just have an insane amount of dialogue that it takes ages to localise. At least we should get the two trails in the sky sequels eventually on steam, they are dedicated to getting them out. The others aren't looking too good since I think there might be PS3 only games there and by the time they get to it that console will be long dead. Maybe Falcom will do some remakes though?
Having a wife like Estelle is no bad thing especially if she does the Estelle disapproves face, it cracks me up every time
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I get that face A LOT! Don't usually find it amusing though!Retr0gamer wrote: »
Having a wife like Estelle is no bad thing especially if she does the Estelle disapproves face, it cracks me up every time0 -
Retr0gamer wrote: »Two new legend of heroes games confirmed for the west. Unfortunately it's not the two sequels to trails in the sky. Trail of flash 1 and 2 are being renamed trails of cold steel 1 and 2. While it's great that the series is continuing in the west xseed have had to skip a tonne of beloved JRPGs that are regarded as some of the best ever made just to catch up with the series. Also the first game had a muted reception while the second had a lot of fan backlash. The series has had unanimous praise for its excellent BM style (before moe) writing which completely ignores anime tropes or turns them on its head (players of trails in the sky will understand this, Estelle was a fantastic character that was the complete polar opposite of most modern anime females).
Trails in the flash unfortunately is very trope-y but hopefully it's still a great game.
They were never actually called Trails in the Flash, that was just a bad translation by Siliconera
TITS: SC is still coming out before them and as long as you've played those two you should be getting MOST of the story
They may not have entirely given up on the other ones either. It's sort of a "hope sen increases the popularity of the franchise so we can go back and do the other ones" thing
It's very much a labour of love for the people working on it, they really care about this series
In other news, Tales of Beseria has been announced for PS3 & PS4
http://talesofberseria.tales-ch.jp/
http://gematsu.com/2015/06/tales-berseria-announced-ps4-ps3
it's about a female pirate and she looks awesome, excited already, hope she's as great as Milla was0 -
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Well tales in the flash or whatever is kind of a tough title to translate, I think cold steel is a very good interpretation of in.
The trails in the sky sequels are definitely coming but the two after it are kind of now in limbo. At least we know xseed are so dedicated to getting the games out they might bankrupt themselves to get them out. Tom from xseed is always fighting for the series and it was him that pushed for brandish.
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They were never actually called Trails in the Flash, that was just a bad translation by Siliconera
TITS: SC is still coming out before them and as long as you've played those two you should be getting MOST of the story
They may not have entirely given up on the other ones either. It's sort of a "hope sen increases the popularity of the franchise so we can go back and do the other ones" thing
It's very much a labour of love for the people working on it, they really care about this series
In other news, Tales of Beseria has been announced for PS3 & PS4
http://talesofberseria.tales-ch.jp/
http://gematsu.com/2015/06/tales-berseria-announced-ps4-ps3
it's about a female pirate and she looks awesome, excited already, hope she's as great as Milla was
Great news and all but eh.......when will we see over here? we still have no release for Zestria0 -
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Listening to / reading Richard Eisenbeis on USgamer and Kotaku on Xenoblade Chronicles X, the game sounds like an absolute chore to play
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »Listening to / reading Richard Eisenbeis on USgamer and Kotaku on Xenoblade Chronicles X, the game sounds like an absolute chore to play Endless fetch quests and busywork? No thanks.
Xenoblade Chronicles had that as well. An insane amount of quests, but you really didn't need to do the vast majority of them. Hopefully this is the same.0 -
johnny_ultimate wrote: »Listening to / reading Richard Eisenbeis on USgamer and Kotaku on Xenoblade Chronicles X, the game sounds like an absolute chore to play Endless fetch quests and busywork? No thanks.
Just the same as Xenoblade Chronicles then, still reckon Also sprach Zarathustra has been the best game in the series.0 -
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I found the usgamer people were very down on the original Xenoblade and the reason being they hadn't enough time to invest in it. If Xenoblade Chronicles X is the same as the first where going exploring completes most quests naturally then I've no problem with it. It never felt like busy work in Xenoblade since exploring was so much fun and you never had to complete all quests either, the ones I completed exploring were enough. Locking out story areas with a level cap is actually a good idea since a lot of people got frustrated with Xenoblade and put it down because they critical pathed the story without exploring and usually ended up under levelled for the boss. Levels made a huge difference in the first game.
I've not played Xenosaga 3 but 1 was terrible and 2 was utter poison and I never finished it. Heard a lot of good things about 3 but the story up to that point was absolute nonsense and I hated the battle system so hope they made some big changes. Xenoblade is by far my favourite thing the team has done so far, it's a much more coherent experience with a battle system that actually works.
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