I'm pretty limited on time and tend to ignore voice acting and go through things as fast as I can read.
Well, I just finished it. I've heard that the Trails games start with a slow burn that grows to a big finish, but I was definitely NOT expecting a big finish like that.
How do the other trails games compare when it comes to reveals and the overall intensity of the plot?
10/10. There are very few times I've read/played a story has stuck the landing as well as that one did.
Sky FC has all the nostalgia and mythic feeling of being the first of the series (well, it was published originally as The Legend of Heroes 6: Trails in the Sky), but is generally seen as one of the weakest of the series, although with a great cliffhager that leaves you wanting more.
It's one of the shortest and with less content, and the series grows adding each game new elements, lore etc, that also adds more elekts to reveals, plot twist, characters etc.
Additionally the combat was the most basic, something this remake has definitely solved introducing the Daybreak combat with some callbacks of Cold Steel.
Usually going from FC to SC was a more and better situation, but now with this amazing Remake maybe if you go to original SC you wont
feel the same IDK. The arcs usually have this structure of first game of slow cooking with a big reveal or cliffhanger at the end and second game of payoff, the local story and plot explodes and has a resolution in the last game and then you change of country and start again slowly with a new build up for the new cast. But in the later game they don't explain the basics and go directly for the lore, history, conflict etc of the new country and Ouroboros machinations in it.