NIS America

I love a good sequel, and I love a good series, as much as the next JRPG fan. But I also love digging into new games, and that’s what Switch and Swtich 2 owners will be able to do soon with IKINAGAMES’ STARBITES.
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Cladun X3 is another 16-bit dungeon crawler that provides all the dungeon running, monster destroying, gold grabbing, level grinding goodness you would expect, but there is much more. And the “more” will either make or break the game for you.
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With so many games and so many tweaks to those games in this series, elements I like and dislike come and go. That’s expected and appreciated, but there’s one element that should remain consistent, and it’s really not in The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II is sure to delight JRPG fans. How am I so sure? Because I’ve now attended two Discord previews from NIS America, the most recent of which focused on the game’s Märchen Garten.
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Fans of the first Trails Through Daybreak will be able to pick up right where they left off with the adventures of Van Arkride and the full team from Arkride Solutions. Don’t think for a second, though, that you’re just getting more of the same.

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Ys X: Nordics has solidified my appreciation for the Ys method of adventuring. Each game receives something new, and this time Adol gets a boat that becomes the central hub of his and Karja’s adventure. Just one other partner? Yes, that’s new, too.
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The gaming industry lives under a canopy of sequels, spin-offs, and remasters, making it hard for new franchises to find sunlight. Natsume Atari and FuRyu’s Reynatis managed to find its opening, but I feel like it needed some more room to grow.
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We’re two week’s away from the release of REYNATIS, and NIS America has just released the demo to help JRPG action fans understand why they’ll want to get their pre-order in.
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We began the month with a Discord preview of Ys X: Nordics from NIS America, so why not close it out with another? This time, the game is Reynatis, due for the Switch on September 27th.
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Last week, Pure Nintendo joined a media preview event for Ys X: Nordics, which is coming to Nintendo Switch and other consoles on October 25th. That may be quite a while off, but NIS America still had quite a bit to show and tell.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak serves as a fresh start. Although some locations, characters, and references will be familiar to series fans of the Trails series, there’s very little to this JRPG that will make newcomers feel lost.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak is the first chapter of the second half of the Trails series, but the game takes place in a new setting with new characters, so players will not feel overwhelmed at the start. Need proof? Try the demo, as I have.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak is just a little over a month away, but series fans won’t have to wait that long to get started. NIS America announced today that a demo is being released on June 4th, and save data will transfer over to the full game.
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NIS America, Inc. has announced that their action RPG, REYNATIS, will be released for Nintendo Switch and other platforms on September 27th, 2024 with special crossover content rom Square Enix’s NEO: The World Ends With You.
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Do you sometimes go to a restaurant and think, “I really like this place; I should come here more often,” then forget about it for the next six months? That’s The Legend of Legacy HD Remastered. Let’s find out why that is.
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If Trails Through Daybreak is as big as the previous Legend of Heroes games, that should give you just enough to complete it before Nintendo’s next console is released.
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NIS America has announced that Ys X: Nordics is coming to Nintendo Switch this fall. Originally released in Japan in September of 2023, it’ll be just about a year later before Adol Christin and his pirate companion, Karja Balta, will be sailing west.
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The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails is an action RPG originally released for PSP in 2012. A part of The Legend of Heroes’ Trails series, how does this entry stack amongst the other games that have made it to the Switch recently? Let’s find out.
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