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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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Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless will overwhelm new players at the start. But once you get over the hump (perhaps with the help of an online guide), it’ll likely become one of the most unique and inviting SRPGs you’ve played in quite some time.
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Originally developed by Cattle Call and released for Nintendo 3DS in 2015, The Legend of Legacy allows players to take charge of seven adventurers as they explore the mysterious land of Avalon while pursuing their own unique journeys.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails Into Reverie is perhaps the longest denouement in the history of gaming. This entry in the series attempts to tie up two somewhat separate story arcs, and whether it all works depends upon what you want from a JRPG.
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Process of Elimination is a murder mystery that takes place on the island headquarters of a cadre of super-detectives who are being picked off by a sadistic criminal mastermind. I loved it.
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GrimGrimoire OnceMore is a port of a PlayStation 2 game from 2007. I do like a good tower defense game, so I was intrigued by the Switch update, but my enthusiasm was met with some mixed realizations while playing the game.
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Like many Nintendo fans, I hadn’t played a single Legend of Heroes game until Trails of Cold Steel III hit the Switch in 2020. I’ve since played each of the Switch releases, and The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure is one of the best.
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Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society has little interest in whether you’re any good at it. Just when you think you’ve finally got its complexities sorted out, it’ll toss an OP enemy at you just to crush your spirit. So why did I have such an amazing time playing it?
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Halloween may be over, but do you think the residents of Yuzu’s hometown have their Christmas decorations out already? They do not. Rather, the town is plagued by ghosts and monsters…and that may include Yuzu herself.
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If you played Trails of Cold Steel III and IV, The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero does a great job of filling in some of those story gaps. If you’ve never played a Legend of Heroes game, it’s a great place for JRPG fans to start.
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I don’t know exactly how to talk about Yurukill: The Calumniation Games. It does so much, and caught me so completely off guard, that any approach to summarizing it seems inaccurate. The only thing I can say with certainty is that I really enjoyed playing it.
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