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smash-64 · 11 days ago
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2024 Game of the Year Countdown #1: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC Sony PlayStation Portable, 2015
Replaying a Top 3 all time favorite game is never anything short of a great time, and during my 70 hours with this game, I was constantly reminded of why the Sky arc of the Trails series is so well regarded. I have enjoyed all the Trails games; even my least favorite is still a 7/10 in my mind. However, one-note characters have become a bit more common in recent games, and part of that is most likely due to how big the cast has gotten. In Sky, we have a much smaller cast and we get to see more facets of each character. It’s a much more intimate journey, and we see Estelle grow much more than other main characters. As Estelle is my all time favorite character from anything, I’m here for every snappy quote.
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We get identical combat to FC, gaining only a combo attack, which is mostly worthless, and some enhanced arts. I love this setup and it’s a joy to have dozens of arts available to you at all times. That’s one change I really disliked in later Trails games: they simplified the arts system, but severely limited the number of arts you have at your fingertips. I really enjoyed having so many arts at hand, and especially setting up my quartz to get some really ridiculously powerful arts, too. 
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Everything I mentioned in my FC review applies to SC as well. The character portraits, sprite animations, how music plays into the cutscenes, and especially the NPCs. Something big happens at the end of FC, and SC picks up the story immediately. When Estelle returns to her hometown, it’s so touching to see everyone thrilled to see her. I love how this type of worldbuilding makes the world feel so real and something we should care about. 
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It’s actually really fun to come back and play this game after having played all the games that have been released in, literally, the 20 years since Trails in the Sky first came out. We get to see all the things that eventually come to be, locations we visit, and people we meet, many of which or who are mentioned in these early games.
Characters also have a lot of depth, with many supporting characters getting their time in the spotlight. FC introduced characters to us, but SC showed us what was inside. Incremental growth is something the Sky arc does well, and it’s nice to see characters grow slowly and organically. It makes them feel very real and gives us time to understand them and their paths through life. This game had me in tears numerous times as we get to see really emotional and moving things in characters’ pasts, as well as getting to see them work through it in the present, leaning on others for support.
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Emotional moments are punctuated with a great score and perfectly chosen tracks for specific scenes. From new battle tunes that pump you up, like Fight with the Assailant and Fate of the Fairies, to the cheery sounds of Le Locle, the soundtrack to SC builds upon the base we got in FC. FC’s many location tracks return as well, and are welcome for when we revisit favorite locales, like Cat Relaxing in the Sun for slow-paced areas and your childhood home, or some of the standard route tunes like The Way They Walk in Liberl. Yet, SC adds so many new tracks that hit me really hard every time I hear them in context. Decision to Leave was used just once in FC, at the very, very end, but returns here and feels much more like an SC track than one from FC. We also get the harmonica version of Hoshi no Arika, a deeply important track to many of the characters. Hamel is also a very sad tune that fits many situations. This is the height of soundtracks from the Sky arc for sure.
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It can be hard to put into words exactly why a game is a masterpiece to you, personally, and I’m going to stop myself from writing some 50,000 word essay on it. Trails in the Sky SC is the one game I wish I could erase from my memory just so I could replay it again for the first time. It requires playing FC first, but that game is amazing on its own and SC is well worth it. Play this game. What is stopping you?
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ahammz · 1 year ago
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Aboard the Liber Ark
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morgenstern16 · 5 months ago
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You know, out of all the final dungeons in Trails, the Liber Ark has by far the best vibes. A lot of final dungeons in Trails are some kind of creepy dark castle/ruins but the Liber Ark has this serenity that nothing else in the series comes close to.
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You walk through beautiful greenery and go through pristine houses and walk down clean pathways, which look they've only seen a bit of wear, not the literal centuries they've been gone. You really get the sense that this was literal paradise (at least for a while before things went to shit) for the ancestors of the Liberlian people.
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There's this sense of wonder as you explore the city, but at the same time it feels very alien to the setting. You feel just as out of place as Estelle and the rest of the party do when you're exploring it, but at the same time there's a sense of familiarity to a 21st century player in terms of the technology that Estelle's party wouldn't get. It combines to create this uncanny valley sort of effect where you can see how this all came about but it clashes so much with the late 19th century to early 20th century level of tech that you've been used to seeing in the Sky games.
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The music is absolutely beautiful as well, but as you listen to it you can hear a bit of the Aureole motif (at least I think that's the Aureole motif, I'm not a music nerd), which by this point you've come to associate with danger and threat.
All of this comes together to make a final dungeon that's both gorgeous but also deeply unsettling at the same time in the best way possible. I'll be honest, most of the final dungeons in Trails just have one image each in my mind but I feel like I can remember a lot of the twists and turns in the Liber Ark ages after I've gone through it because it's just that memorable.
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therealsoulking · 2 years ago
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I think I'm on to something...
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therealsoulking · 2 years ago
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if a character is under 13 years old i dont care what they did i dont care who they murdered or annoyed they are just little to me. tiny little. small. take my hand little guy i can take you to gamestop none of your haters will find you there
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calochortus · 2 years ago
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k-itsmaywriting · 1 year ago
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here, take my clamouring heart (Loewe/Agate)
Fandom: Sora no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Relationships: Loewe/Agate Crosner Tags: Canon Compliant, Missing Scene, Enemies to Lovers, Making Out, References major spoilers for Trails in the Sky SC Summary:
Loewe may not have lost this fight, but he certainly didn’t win it either. [Extra scene for Chapter 5 of Trails in the Sky SC]
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rehncohro · 3 years ago
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These are a few of my favorite RPG boss battle themes.
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masky-arts · 4 years ago
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I co-organized a Kevin Zine and we have preorders open RIGHT NOW until March 14th! PREORDER HERE! 
20 collaborators
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We also have merch bundles!
The cover was a collab between myself and my forever-wonderful co-organizer @jabbloo! 
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polkiuu · 5 years ago
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Estelle
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DAY 1489) The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - Central Tower "Axis Pillar"
Composer: Wataru Ishibashi
someone showed this one to me for the subtle polymeter and wow I’ve fallen deeply in love with this track hahaha it is extremely my thing at so many levels. the whole first minute and 2:12 to the end is exactly my favorite type of sound design/instrumentation/chords/everything AAAh I had no idea this game had anything like this in it I love it so much
anyways, this is mostly not odd time at all but :15 - 1:02 is all 5/4 against 4/4 polymeter, though the 5/4 layer resets itself to realign with beat 1 at :32 /:47
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zine-no-kiseki · 6 years ago
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Reminder that we still have LIMITED stock of the outfit swap zine and some merch left!
 If you missed your chance, NOW is your time to grab it because once they’re gone, they’re gone for good! 
 Buy yours today HERE! 
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morgenstern16 · 1 month ago
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So uh, I somehow completely missed this screen when I was first playing through SC. I completed about 90% of the chapter without arts, including the sidequests, before some folks in the group chat informed me that you could use the ZFGs as accessories.
It was... an Experience.
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trails-inthe-sky · 4 years ago
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therealsoulking · 2 years ago
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‼️ BRO IS FLABBERGASTED ‼️ 
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terranoctis · 4 years ago
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