I’ve been playing Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, and the Suikoden vibe is completely there. I loved that game world, its mythos, the soft connections between the games. It contributed to the inspirational vibe, too.
What some of your JRPG worlds you really liked?
The Trails games. There are about 11 mainline games available in the west now and from start to finish, they all take place in, and develop, a consistent world with its own lore, factions, characters. Even nonchalant, passerby npcs have names and personal story arcs that span across games if you care to read their text boxes. An NPC kid you might completely pass by in one game becomes a significant party member as a young adult in a later game. Newer protagonists talk about and sometimes encounter protagonists from older games… the only problem is that the series is best played from the very beginning (Trails in the Sky FC), and it takes a long ass time to catch up. That said, if you’re okay with a lot of reading, there’s nothing regrettable about it.
Yeah, the age of the series is its biggest problem at the moment. Hopefully they do get around to remaking Sky.
While there might be other worlds I like a little more, I don’t think there are any in the genre as fleshed out as Zemuria. Big part of why I enjoy the games so much.
It’s for sure best played from the beginning. But i started with trails of cold steel 1-4 and enjoyed it so much that i just want more. Fine to start semewhere else as well.
I keep waiting for them to port Trails in the Sky games. I have played the first one, and loved it, but don’t feel like playing on PC anymore, so keep postponing playing SC, waiting for some news on port, since they are pretty much the only games that aren’t on modern consoles.
I think they should remaster the Sky trilogy and sell it as a bundle, making all of FC a free “demo” just to get more people hooked. I casually enjoyed FC, but the twist at the end made me jump right into SC without even waiting.
Yeah, if it was on console, I would’ve jumped in right away too, but I was having trouble finishing it on PC, so took a break. But then then announced Trails to Azure and from Zero ports, so I just started waiting for any Sky trilogy news. Though, I am losing hope in that, and may end up just playing it on Steam… or maybe even the PSP version.
As for a remaster, I would love it, but at this time, I would even take a straight port.
A Sky remaster/remake is likely a long way off. Falcom’s still a rather small company, and their recent expansion has gone into more development of existing properties (like Tokyo Xanadu). Trails has also had a decline in Japan, which doesn’t help.
They’ve licensed the property out to mobile devs and anime, so it’s possible they’ll do the same for another Sky project. Not something they’ve done in a long time, though.
sigh
I guess I should just bite the bullet and get the game on Steam. Rest are available on Switch and PS, so it wouldn’t be much of an issue to play through them.
Thanks for the heads up.
If you do, I highly recommend the voice mod. Sky is fully voiced in Japanese and it adds a lot of texture to the characters since it’s such a text-heavy game.
Oooh, didn’t know about that! Thanks for the info. Going to save your comment so that I remember it when I get around to it.
Currently playing two big games, Octopath Traveler and Kingdom Come: Deliverance, so it’s going to be a while before I get around to it.