I've learned the cultures, political troubles and social shifts of the three countries they've explored in their world so far as well as the stories and individual troubles of the characters at their cores.Īs for popularity, they are very much gaining ground after the success of the Cold Steel games. They have their own form of ambition, which is some of the best world building in the history of not only JRPGs, but the video game medium in general.
They are made on a much lower budget which is why the earlier games are sprite based (for context, the earlier ones were PSP games which are now being ported to PC). I say this as a person who has Xenoblade is my favourite game of all time, but the Trails games are fantastic. For myself personally, it brought X down a bit. I wish NLA was more like the concept art - a large city on the level of Alcamoth in it's scale. The combat and exploration aren't as exciting as the two Xenoblades, but Sky is entirely centered around the writing (every single NPC has unique dialogue, there are countless minor stories told through characters that venture through the world like the player, and entire towns worth of people react to events with changed dialogue, kinda like XenoChron but on a far larger scale). In that respect, the Trails in the Sky games are objectively some of the best JRPGs ever made, due to the sheer scale of content (SC's script has more words than the Lord of the Rings trilogy).Įven with the amazing world, XenoCross felt like a lesser game than XenoChron because of it's smaller emphasis on the main storyline (even if the affinity missions were great), although the lack of multiple major settlements didn't help X's case.Īlso, no, Trails in the Sky is 3D isometric rotatable camera with 2D characters, just like Xenogears, while Trails of Cold Steel is fully 3D. Like Xenogears and Xenosaga, I look forward to the story most in a Xeno game, gameplay is simply there to carry it forward. Unmarked spoilers in non-spoiler threads will be removed. For example, in a thread called " Discuss the Ending" you don't need to tag every spoiler, but in a thread called "Question about the story" you do. If a thread title is clearly marked as a spoiler thread (either through a spoiler flair or in the title) then spoiler tags aren't necessary when commenting in that thread. Typing >!Shulk is blonde!< will appear as: This includes any potential spoilers (speculation, theories, spoiler-related names etc.) Please add spoiler tags to things to avoid spoiling events for others. Please contact the moderators about troublesome users here. During discussion, attack the argument, not the person. Hate-speech, personal attacks, harassment, witch-hunting, trolling and similar behavior is not allowed. Please be civil and be respectful of others. No hate-speech, personal attacks, or harassment Please try to remember to apply a flair to your post after submitting it.
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