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kane_magus) wrote2023-07-02 12:39 pm
kane_magus) wrote2023-07-02 12:39 pm
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"One of 2023's best-rated JRPGs is nearly here, but..."
Rest of the headline, because Dreamwidth can't handle the whole thing up there: "...you need to play around 658 hours of other games first"
Right, and that is why I will almost assuredly never play either The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie or any of the other games leading up to it. And it's not just the time sink involved to play all the previous games in the series prior to this new one, but also the monetary sink, since I own exactly zero of any of these games at this point in time.
I was fairly sure that I'd written a big, huge, long post about all of this shit at some point in the past, but back when I was going to reference it in a more recent post, I couldn't find it, and I don't feel like trying and failing to find it again, so...
...I'll just give a brief(-ish) summary of it all, again, here.
So, as mentioned in the above linked article, there is the Trails series, which is around 15 games big at this point. Then there is The Legend of Heroes series, of which the Trails series is an offshoot, and which the article shied away from addressing, aside from a throwaway line at the end. And then, not even mentioned in the article at all, there is also the Dragon Slayer series, of which The Legend of Heroes series is an offshoot (which includes games like Xanadu and Faxanadu and Sorcerian). Oh, and there's a crossover game between Trails and Ys. Ys is a whole other thing entirely, i.e. another huge RPG series that I very likely will never play, even though I actually own a fair few Ys games, unlike the Trails/Legend of Heroes/Dragon Slayer games. (The crossover game is "just" a fighting game, though, so doesn't really "count," I guess.)
In any case, most of those are games that I would play if I had infinite time and infinite money, but since I don't have either of those things, I pretty much definitely won't ever be playing any of them.
Right, and that is why I will almost assuredly never play either The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie or any of the other games leading up to it. And it's not just the time sink involved to play all the previous games in the series prior to this new one, but also the monetary sink, since I own exactly zero of any of these games at this point in time.
I was fairly sure that I'd written a big, huge, long post about all of this shit at some point in the past, but back when I was going to reference it in a more recent post, I couldn't find it, and I don't feel like trying and failing to find it again, so...
...I'll just give a brief(-ish) summary of it all, again, here.
So, as mentioned in the above linked article, there is the Trails series, which is around 15 games big at this point. Then there is The Legend of Heroes series, of which the Trails series is an offshoot, and which the article shied away from addressing, aside from a throwaway line at the end. And then, not even mentioned in the article at all, there is also the Dragon Slayer series, of which The Legend of Heroes series is an offshoot (which includes games like Xanadu and Faxanadu and Sorcerian). Oh, and there's a crossover game between Trails and Ys. Ys is a whole other thing entirely, i.e. another huge RPG series that I very likely will never play, even though I actually own a fair few Ys games, unlike the Trails/Legend of Heroes/Dragon Slayer games. (The crossover game is "just" a fighting game, though, so doesn't really "count," I guess.)
In any case, most of those are games that I would play if I had infinite time and infinite money, but since I don't have either of those things, I pretty much definitely won't ever be playing any of them.
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I have Faxanadu and one of the Legend of Heroes games "Trails in the Sky" on the PSP. Of which I never finished that one. I think I just tuned the entire franchise out after I heard there was no actual resolution to the one I was playing (that being in a series itself) and thinking the followups were on other systems etc.
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For shits and giggles, here is the "Nihon Falcom Bundle" on Steam, which apparently has all the Trails and Legend of Heroes and Ys games that are on Steam as of now. It costs fucking $404.88 USD, and that's with a 52% off discount. It is normally $847.78 USD. Fuck the hell out of that shit forever, god damn. With that said, the vast, vast, vast majority of that shit is worthless, asinine DLC packs, too, which makes me all the more disinterested in ever buying these games.
The even older stuff in the Dragon Slayer series is pretty much only on old, defunct consoles, as far as I know. Though, oddly enough, that would make it actually somewhat easier to play those, via emulation and the like.
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I don't know about the trails games, but that bundle doesn't include everything for Ys that's currently on steam. Ys Seven, Ys Book 1 & 2 Origin), and Ys: Memories of Celceta are separate but also on sale.
Memories of Celceta is a good game by itself though as is Lacrimosa of Dana. Both play very similarly - Celceta less complex since it's the earlier game. I'd recommend either of them. Like pretty much all the Ys games, despite them technically following the same guy's adventures, the individual games can be enjoyed on their own. Some references are made to previous games during the story for context, but nothing that affects the current game.
Not sure about Seven - I have it on the PSP... and still haven't started it. >_>;;; Really should break the seal on some of those boxed games.
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim is also on there. Originally a ps2 game. That one's under 10 bucks. Also had a lot of fun with it.