Apart from the aforementioned visual performance issues on the Switch, Trails into Reverie’s biggest flaw is how hostile it is to newcomers. The narrative feels like the season finale to a long-running series, which this technically is, and so it requires you to be familiar with the cast and what they’ve gone through. The same applies to the gameplay. For longtime fans, this is the culmination of the Legend of Heroes, however, and perhaps the best send-off some of these characters could have gotten.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie
Nihon Falcom Corporation · Jul 7, 2023
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What destinies await these three fateful figures? Use the Crossroads system to switch between Rean Schwarzer, Lloyd Bannings, and the masked figure "C", and determine the fates of key characters and locations within Zemuria. Dive into refined tactical combat with new features such as United Front, and discover new allies and challenges within the halls of the True Reverie Corridor!
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- 8.5The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie serves as the grand conclusion to the Crossbell and Cold Steel story arcs, tying up loose ends with an all-star crossover cast of characters. It does very little to catch new players up to speed with the narrative and context, and ultimately is not a good place to start for newcomers. However, Reverie features an incredibly in-depth gameplay experience to keep even the most hardcore of fans engaged for hours on end.
- 9.5As an epilogue to cap off a series spanning a whopping NINE games, Trails into Reverie delivers in all the areas that makes this one of the best RPG series on the market, featuring impeccable world building, compelling, nuanced characters and an enjoyable combat engine with plenty of room for experimentation. In a way, this entry feels like a reward for all those who have stuck with the series thus far and as we look towards Calvard and the future of the series as a whole, we can rest easy knowing that we’ve sent the heroes off in style, without any regrets.
- 8.0The Legend of Heroes Trails into Reveire is an excellent addition to the series. My only advice is that players should consider playing the previous Trails game in order to have a full grasp of the lore surrounding the game and the events leading up to this new conflict. Knowing that this is the epilogue of the Erobonia and Crossbell arcs, I was surprised at how immersed I was with the story and how impressed I was with the JRPG mechanics that don’t feel like they are restricted to just consoles.
- 5.0Trails Into Reverie is a hard game to recommend at the best of times. Are you a long-time Trails fan who wants one last hurrah with some of your favorite characters? Do you find it exciting to see how that baker NPC turned out? Then it has a lot to offer you. As a stand-alone RPG, however, it's almost inaccessible, and you should play the other games first. The extremely poor QA work in this title means that even die-hard fans will likely have a hard time enjoying the game; the well-translated script is surrounded by a truly unacceptable amount of bugs.
- Everything else is the same as any other Trails game. The music, the political machinations, the anime girls fawning over Rean, and Lloyd being the chad he always is. The story here feels mostly skippable except for the C tidbits, but thanks to the localization and the wealth of features in Reverie Corridor, the game's own identity still shines through. It's worth it, just about. It's best classified as a spin-off celebration title, nothing more, nothing less.
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