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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky PC |OT|
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thunder_snail
Member
I'm used to playing this game on PSP.
Anyone know how it plays with a mouse?
Anyone know how it plays with a mouse?
PumpkinPie
Banned
When is it coming to GOG? It's not on yet.
The guide on GameFAQs by yangxu has a bracer point checklist, a quest summary section split into sidequests and hidden quests, and a Carnelia book location thingy in its appendix.
It's not anywhere yet. About 8 hours for Steam, probably the same there.
I would think later today, not that I know anything, it just makes sense for a game to appear on gog and steam at the same or about same time.
Yeah, the preponderance of permanent, timed missables caused me to drop the game on PSP.
SparkleMotion
Member
Is this game really long? I need to know beforehand if I am getting myself into an 80+ hour RPG.
Edit: I should have checked a page back.
Edit: I should have checked a page back.
You're very unlikely to spend that long on the game. 40 hours is the average for most people.
Yeah, it's really quite terrible in that regard. Trails in the Sky is full of missable sidequests that expect you to be at random places at very specific times. It's really frustrating and was the biggest reason why I didn't enjoy the game as much as I'd liked to back in the day.
People who've OCD with that kind of stuff and don't want to consult a guide, probably should think twice about buying this game, it pains me to say.
It's also one of the reason I anticipate the PC release so much, though. I really want to give it a second play-through without worrying about quests that will time out in the span of 5 minutes or something. I think it'll help me enjoy the game much more.
I'm gonna be taking the opposite approach lol. I skipped a lot of side quests in my PSP playthrough some weeks ago, so this time I'm gonna try and do them all.
Should be nice to have a close to 100% save to import to SC when it comes out.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Okay I give in. I'm going to get this. It should work with Wine on Mac right?
Basileus777
Member
I'm divided on whether to go for this, or let someone else do the work and just download some save files when SC is released.
Dragon1893
Member
I'm so excited!
Here's some FC wallpapers in case anyone wants to use one:
Hadn't seent this one yet, damn it's beautiful.
I am going to do my first playthrough without a guide and then do a second one later on using a guide. Stressing yourself about easily missable sidequests would probably take the enjoyment out of playing the game for the first time.
GOG usually updates the site around 3AM PST (12:00 CET), but also sometimes a little bit later for a staggered release. I guess we will see in forty minutes.
Yeah, Trails is definitely an acquired taste. It's for people who enjoy small, personal stories as opposed to large, sweeping epics -- as I like to put it, "where saving the world is a side quest."
The Legend of Heroes series in general has always kind of been like that. White Witch, for example, has a scene where Julio goes into a coughing fit while passing by a volcano, and Chris makes fun of the way he coughs. Julio then gets defensive, and the two of them get into a rather long, protracted argument about the proper way of coughing.
If that sounds like a charming scene of character banter to you, then you'd probably enjoy what the Legend of Heroes series -- Trails in the Sky included -- has to offer.
If it sounds like pointless nonsense, then you probably wouldn't.
...I know it's kind of weird to use an example from a totally different game in the series to make this point, but that's always been a scene that's stuck out to me, and I feel it's a really good (and easy to explain!) example of the sort of charm that the series as a whole exhibits.
-Tom
Hours Left
Member
I'm jealous of people getting to play this for the first time.
SliceSabre
Banned
Gonna be a first time for me! Looking forward to this once I get home from work.
StarCreator
Member
You and me both... I dislike using guides if I can help it, but I am also completist to the extreme.
You will want to use a guide then.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
And so, our hype train nears the station. Unfortunately I won't be around by the time the store page updates so this will be considered the final Hype Train in the sky:
Big thanks to everyone who showed their tickets, this train is boarding almost 60 people (2 self-admitted slackers) on the way to launch! I hope everyone's enjoyed their ride upon the Galaxy Express 999 and have fun playing
TitS. This is your conductor, signing off~
Big thanks to everyone who showed their tickets, this train is boarding almost 60 people (2 self-admitted slackers) on the way to launch! I hope everyone's enjoyed their ride upon the Galaxy Express 999 and have fun playing
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Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Scrooge McDuck
Member
This interests me greatly. Character interactions is a really important part of an an RPG to me. I've already forgotten Final Fantasy IX's plot, but Quina's lecture to Eiko on how to prepare dishes is something that I'll always remember fondly.
I'm worried, however, about the apparent "wordiness" of the game. I don't mind really slow pacing (I like the introduction part of Suikoden V, for example), but verbose Japanese games tend to repeat information and over-explain everything. Virtue's Last Reward is the most recent game I played that drove me crazy with these.
I'm not sure what to expect myself but Suikoden V's first eight or so hours worked for me because of grounded the writing was, in terms of introducing the characters, before the shit hits the fan. All that time developing them really pays off in the end.
Hopefully TitS scratches that same itch for me, where I get so invested in the characters that pacing and a less epic story simply doesn't matter. The last JRPG I played (Tales of Graces f) totally failed in getting me to like the characters or care about what was happening so I'm a bit burnt out on the genre but we'll see...
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Not sure if XSEED tested runtime in a WINE environment...a question worth asking.
I'm not too keen on missables, as it sounds like the benefits of getting higher and higher Bracer ranks diminish if you worry too much.
It won't show until the game is available to purchase.
Welp, I can't say I'm not put off after reading this. Are the missable sidequests important or can I live without them?
You should be fine without them. I didn't use a guide when I played through the PSP version and still really enjoyed it.
Nothing missable is important.
Nightengale
Member
They're not important, but... I'd say they're worth discovering for. It's not important, but there's small stories attached to them that isn't just 'wipe out monster X' and be done with it.
RyougaSaotome
Member
Echoing everybody else. You'll be fine without them.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
It's not as though you need the Sword of Kings to beat Earthbound anyway.
Yes, but you'll always have it in the back of your mind.
That was the biggest problem for me. You aren't missing much, but I just dislike the feeling of being locked out of content, especially so when the requirements feel abritrary.
Yep. I'm not clean of OCD, I'm recovering from it :lol
Dragon1893
Member
I'm imagining the day when we're 3 hours away from SC, goddamn I will totally lose my shit.