#Falcom

[alyossan]

What’s that in there? Could it be…A REMAKE??

[trails-inthe-sky]

I'm hyperventilating

3D remake coming 2025

[obscurevideogames]

Demons Ring (Falcom - PC88 - 1984)

[fauldfauld]

小太阳

[bowloflentils]

For those curious about Trails, here are four entries you can jump right into:

Trails in the Sky

Trails from Zero

Trails of Cold Steel

Trails through Daybreak

Starting with the first game (Trails in the Sky) is a good choice, but if that isn't appealing then try out whichever installment above looks the most interesting. See if you like it and worry about the other games later.

Until relatively recently, it was impossible to play through the series in release order officially in English. So many longtime fans, like myself, have experienced Trails in all sorts of wacky combinations. So don't worry too much about where to start and just follow your bliss.

[crowreans]

been keeping a collection

[gzeidraws]

Commission for Luke35117620 of Van and Elaine being in love 💘

[ahammz]

Ys guys with botw study backgrounds

[fostersffff]

Seeing rounds of people respond to NISA saying Trails through Daybreak is a great place to jump into the franchise with "NOOO! IT'S BY NO MEANS A GREAT PLACE TO START!!! WHAT ARE YOU SAAAYING!?!?! IT'S THE 11TH GAME IN A SERIES WITH A CONTINUOUS STORY!!!"

Listen: I understood when it was laughing at how Trails of Cold Steel III was advertised by NISA as "a great place to start", but everyone needs fuckin' relax here. If someone who has never played a Trails game sees Trails through Daybreak and thinks "wow, that's cool!", they are statistically unlikely to go "but before I check out this brand new thing I've never seen before, I will play 10 other RPGs first to make sure I have complete context, including a game that is literally older now than the first Dragon Quest was at the time of its original release". And if people keep saying "NO NO THESE GAMES CAN'T BE PLAYED WITHOUT THE FULL CONTEXT TO APPRECIATE EVER MINUTE DETAIL YOU NEED THOSE 10 OTHER RPGS!!!" they're much more likely to go "oh, nevermind then".

Like, as someone who played Cold Steel I and II before circling back to Sky and proceeding straight through from there, there were moments where I surely missed the impact of some characters showing up, or was a little confused about the why or how other things were happening. Not knowing that the weapon that deleted Garrelia Fortress was one of three giant robots didn't make that game unintelligable; if anything, it made the sudden appearance of the Panzer Soldats at the very end even more surprising. Yeah, I had no idea in what context Lloyd and Rixia showed up at the end of Cold Steel II, but the game just tells you "hey here's who these characters are" and I went "well, ok".

It is so much easier to entice people to get into a thing if they try the new hotness, and then go "woah, there's even more stuff in this series I can check out!?"

Or maybe they don't and just go forward from there, and that's fine too. Just don't actively tell people they gotta do like 800 hours of what will feel like homework to them before doing the thing they actually want to do.

[barefootfriar]

[tinkerhut]

“No title - 2024 calendar” February

https://angyadow.booth.pm/items/5311291

https://angyadow.booth.pm/items/5311301

[alyossan]

Yeah I’m thinking we’re back

[trails-inthe-sky]

Judith Lanster

[prilaja-artblog]

Tough it out! You're almost there.

[corecamilo]

Risette Twinings

Marduk's finest

[bowloflentils]

Magazine advertisements for the many different iterations of Nihon Falcom's Popful Mail (PC-88, Mega CD, Super Famicom, and PC Engine CD).

Sources are: Micom BASIC March 1992, Micom BASIC January 1992, Micom BASIC April 1994, PC Engine Fan August 1994, and Dengeki Super Famicom June 17, 1994.