![]() You’re not tempted to check every shelf or vase and wasting time from what I could tell. there’s lots of different locales and buildings to check out, and naturally no-one (usually) bats an eye if you just barge in like any good JRPG protagonist! What I found interesting is the odd lack of “check anything to find an item” thing you’d expect in JRPGs normally. Aside from that, the town of Crossbell is mighty big. Alot of the same stuff is here, so if you’re super familiar already, you should feel right at home here, despite this being quite a few games earlier (remember Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure take place prior to the first Cold Steel). So, it’s become a sort of competition to win the town’s trust and favor against the bracers, so to speak.Īgain, with the gameplay, you’ve got your arts, your crafts, team attacks, and you buff your abilities with the orbment tech you may recognize from later games as well. So apparently the bracers are what the town see as the big heroes while the police, at least Lloyd’s group… not so much. You eventually find a couple of lost kids and all of the sudden find yourselves face-to-face with a huge monster… only to get saved by a famous person in town Arios MacLaine, who’s one of the big bracers, sort of the top-dog fighters in town. You here get a better idea of how the combat works (it’s classic turn-based fashion and just like Cold Steel III if you remember how that played). Once he’s arrived and gets to the police station, he meets up with the other three members and their boss Sergio Lou and after everything’s initially setup, you get your first task to explore the sewer known as Geofront (also the name the game’s English translation was based on, how about that). Then we go back to seeing Lloyd on a train heading back to Crossbell, again after three years, so it’s a bit of a homecoming for him. Anyway, the game begins in a sort of… flash forward(?) where you four explore this interior and familiarize yourselves a bit with the game. Lloyd also happens to be the leader of the group so it makes perfect sense in my book (plus he is the main character and all). Lloyd actually grew up in the town and is back after 3 years, so he’s the most experienced with the town and is able to help the others familiarize with the town as time goes on. They have just joined the SSS (Special Support Section) as police officers to protect the town of Crossbell and to keep things in order. Anyway, we began with our core cast of four characters Lloyd Bannings, Elie MacDowell, Randy Orlando, and Tio Plato. I mean the sprites also tend to walk in place when idle! Yeah, pretty retro. The game is a more old-school looking JRPG, with pre-rendered sprites in a simplistic 3D world with a fixed camera, so don’t expect some grand open exploration like in the Cold Steel games and such. So how does the game fare on Switch? Is it a zero, or a hero? Let’s find out!Īn example of a battle in the Geofront sewer. Would you believe that the Switch (and PC) versions of both games are actually widely considered to be BETTER than the PS4 versions? That’s because where as the PS4 version (by Falcom themselves) is more of a straight port of the PSP original (with some touch ups), the Switch and PC ports are by PC port legend Durante of PH3 Games and these ports come with MANY enhancements, both quality of life, as well as visually. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This and its immediate sequel Trails to Azure both take place after the Trails in the Sky trilogy (sadly not on Switch yet), but before the Trails of Cold Steel series, and this is the first time both Zero and Azure will be playable officially in English in the west, finally filling in some gaps for fans of the franchise!īoth Zero and Azure began on the PSP and have had a clusterfuck of ports over the many years and it’s crazy even with this new release by NISA. So this was a long time coming for fans of Falcom and the Trails/Kiseki series specifically. Title: The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zeroĭeveloper: Nihon Falcom/PH3 Games (Switch version) ![]()
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