Vita/PS3 owners, would you buy this JRPG?

Falcom is making Legend of the Heroes: Trails in the Flash for PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3. While the game doesnt support Cross Buy (meaning you get the Vita and PS3 versions for one price), one DLC purchase will work with both versions of the game.

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Falcoms upcoming RPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Flash is set in Thors Academy, a prestigious military school in the Erebonian Empire.

As a member of Class VII, you will take part in school activities, including history lectures, military training, and home ec.

During a lecture, the instructor may suddenly ask you a question to test your knowledge. If you answer correctly, your evaluation will go up. siliconera

Here's the game's website: http://www.falcom.com/sen/product/ps3_vita.html

Interested? Read more at Siliconera:

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/07/29/see-the-heroes-of-trails-in-the-flash-in-action/

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/08/09/going-to-school-in-trails-in-the-flash-involves-both-studying-and-fighting/

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/08/06/legend-of-heroes-for-ps3-and-vita-supports-cross-saves-and-cross-dlc-purchases/

Looks like a combination of Final Fantasy VIII, Persona 4, and Atelier games. It reminds me of Final Fantasy Type 0, which remains unlocalized. Speaking of localizations...There are no plans for a localization. So, my question, is would you be interested in this JRPG? Did you play the PSP game Trails in the Sky?

Yes, yes, yes,yes and yes!

Totally interested. As for why I am interested? I played Trails in the Sky FC on the PC (and about 1/3rd of Trails in the Sky SC). Currently playing Trails of Zero: Evolution for the Vita (42 hours in) and loving the pants off it. Love it enough that I'm looking to get Trails in the Flash day one.

I love Trails of Zero because the game is really refined and player-focused:

i. All sidequests are designed to give unique (awesome loot) and/or give you new areas to explore and/or

ii. The sidequests inform you of the various actors, rivalries and history of the world (which go towards making the core narrative easier to follow as well as acting as foreshadowing). I've not skipped a single side-quest so far because there is less fetch-questing/running around than the previous games.

iii. Awesome features: no random encounters, enemies run away from you if they are weaker than you and if they are really weak you can attack them on the field and insta-kill them without even having a formal encounter (yes,you still get the loot).

These design choices are all part of a design direction that looks to continue in Trails in the Flash. Also helps that the characters are really awesome in the game (each one is really likeable and has an interesting back story,as well as brilliant chemistry between them). It is gonna be interesting because all the characters in Trails in the Flash are confirmed to be in the party from the start (much like Type-0), but unlike SE, Falcom is skilled at writing casts of likeable characters (instead of a collection of amnesiac anime cliches).

Aside: I really do think that Falcom should consider making the games episodic because:

i.They are already episodic (broken down into chapters)

ii. Faster localisation times as only parts of the game have to be translated at a time

iii. Safer for the publisher because they can dip their toes in with a low(er) localisation cost as they are translated a chapter at a time rather than a whole game

iv. More room for profit as each part can be sold at a slight mark-up rather than the entire going from for £30. It would only be a £1-2 more for the users per chapter but it would mean more profit for the publisher/developer (and would further mitigate risk).

edit: You can probably tell I've been thinking about this game a fair bit :P

Certainly loks interesting. I'm all for supporting RPGs on the Vita especially, so I'd be down for it.

I'd buy it.

Absolutely YES, and probably day 1.

Would buy, but what's Japan's obsession with high school student heroes?

I'd totally buy it

the more the jrpgs the better so YES

God yes.

Would I? I would pre order it.

I would pick this game up in a heartbeat. It looks fantastic!:D

Hey look persona 5... oh wait nevermind

Yes I would... PSV needs more quality JRPGs :)

yup, game looks pretty interesting and definately worth picking up.

I bought the first game of Legend of Heroes on the PSP and I must say it was the best I played on the PSP (didnt own more 10 games on PSP)

so I would give this a try

Lol for a second there, I thought that this was a new Valkryia Chronicles hahaha xD. But hecks yeah I would get this :). A revamped Legend of Heroes game? I'm definitely in. I believe Legend of Heroes was my very first RPG on the PSP to begin with, definitely interested in seeing how much the series has changed :)

No.

A new video interview has just gone up on Youtube.

Here are the key points:

-The is the first trails game to be set in the Elbonian Empire.  Up until now the empire has been treated as 'the enemy'.

-The protagonists are students at Thors Military Academy School.

-In this school the students are divided into classes based on their background; there are classes for the nobility and classes for commoners.

-However the class the protagonists belong to (Class VII) is a unique mixture of the two; should make for an interesting set of personalty clashes.

-Many characters from the Elbonian Empire have appeared in the Trails series before and some will reappear here as party members (unclear if permanent or guest).

-As with other Trails games all the NPCs have unique names and personalities. Detail has even been paid to their familiy structure.

-The party is made up of 6 characters.  4 of them are controllable battle participants and the other 2 are support types.

-The support members can also swap out with frontline party members mid-battle.

-You can attack enemies from behind on the field to get a pre-emptive strike.

-Observation: As with Ys 7 the enemies are weak against different types of strikes (cuts, blows, shots and one other type that I can't quite make out at this video resolution).

-New 'Link' system (character affinity system).  Characters who get along well with each other help each other out in battle (follow up attacks, taking a hit for you).  

-There are also story events in game that boost character affinity if you trigger them.

-Supports cross-save between PS3/Vita versions of the game.

Slightly off topic... What happened to Trails in the Sky 2? They released part one on the PSP (which I picked up), but there were supposed to be 2 more parts. I did not want to start playing it till I got the next 2...just go straight through. I have enough of a backlog to keep me busy for as long as it takes. Your save data was supposed to carry over. But it looks like they are never coming??? Also (since it is in the OP), anyone know if FF Type 0 is dead as far as an English release?rawsavon

I got all excited when I read the words Legend of Heroes, because I was hoping for some news of the follow up to Trails in the Sky. Really want that sequel (although I thought there were rumours floating around about the series getting a PS3 release).

Still, taken on its own merits this one looks pretty good.

I'm glad I posted this, I didn't expect very many positive posts or even just posts for that manner. For all of us, I wish this to be localized, I hope Xseed or Falcom will pick it up. :)

If it gets good reviews I'll check it out but as of right now sad to say i am not interested.

It does look VERY interesting :) But I'd like to know and see more of the game before considering getting it.Kenny789

It looks interesting. I never played trails for psp but I plan to someday down the road. Also why did you mention type-0 cause now you made me all sad and stuff. I still dont get why that didint come over. I loved the demo.

Hell Yus! I have trials in the sky on my vita right now, luv it :P

Already buying it on release. I do need to get further along in my Japanese studies before I can play it though.FlamesOfGrey

New 13 minute gameplay video up. 

I've never known Falcom to make a bad game.  I'm a huge fan of the Ys series, and I picked up Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky for the PSP, though I haven't started it yet.  I'd definitely get this when/if it gets localized.  XSeed has a great working realtionship with Falcom and they've brought over almost every Falcom game this gen, so fingers crossed...

I've never known Falcom to make a bad game.  I'm a huge fan of the Ys series, and I picked up Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky for the PSP, though I haven't started it yet.  I'd definitely get this when/if it gets localized.  XSeed has a great working realtionship with Falcom and they've brought over almost every Falcom game this gen, so fingers crossed...

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Interesting fact. After their initial reveal line-up of Vita games at Sony's conference, Sony showed off a reel of upcoming Vita releases. The cool bit? Trails in the Flash was the first game in that reel. Front and centre stage. Looks like the game is getting quite a bit of attention.Articuno76

[QUOTE="Articuno76"]Interesting fact. After their initial reveal line-up of Vita games at Sony's conference, Sony showed off a reel of upcoming Vita releases. The cool bit? Trails in the Flash was the first game in that reel. Front and centre stage. Looks like the game is getting quite a bit of attention.bbkkristian

Awesome! :D lets hope sales will be high out there. Looks like it will be a while before it even is considered for localization, since we're only on the first sequel that's coming out next year.

looks good day 1 buy.

If it ever gets localised I shall buy this. Or I could learn Japanese?

If it ever gets localised I shall buy this. Or I could learn Japanese?

Megavideogamer

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If it ever gets localised I shall buy this. Or I could learn Japanese?

FlamesOfGrey

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If it ever gets localised I shall buy this. Or I could learn Japanese?

Articuno76

That's a depressing thought. I'm a fan of a lot of western stuff and all(Completely done with COD, though) but it's getting depressing how entire genres like jrpgs are dropping out of the market. I miss varied catalogues. *sigh*

[QUOTE="Articuno76"][QUOTE="FlamesOfGrey"] Chances for localization are about 10% at best. Sure, you could. Keep in mind to be able to play a game like this you're looking at around 2 years of study.Steel_God

That's a depressing thought. I'm a fan of a lot of western stuff and all(Completely done with COD, though) but it's getting depressing how entire genres like jrpgs are dropping out of the market. I miss varied catalogues. *sigh*