The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC

FC walked so SC can run. This game worked so well as FC has built the foundation and world building for this game.
Gameplay is virtually the same, except that there's more room for you to customize your team as you can switch around your party members as you wish, to some extent relative to the story.
Story wise it's definitely far much personal and emotional than the first one. All those things in FC is leading up to this.
Most of the characters shine through, while a few of them not so much.

I have to say though, with the world is now opening up, it can be quite a chore to go backtrack when there's no fast travel available. Then again, it's yet another old game so you just got to live with that.

Despite of the oudated game design, it's still a solid JRPG and definitely a really good sequel to FC.

If you're a fan of long jrpg games like persona 5 or long running jrpg series that are really good lets say final fantasy, dragon quest etc. I'd say this is the game for you but the thing about Legend of heroes franchise, you're gonna have to start with the first installment, Legend of heroes: Trails in the sky FC. The reason why is that every game after the previous one builds off of the last game. Let me paint an image for you if you want to read your favorite series lets say one piece, you're gonna have to read the first volume as an example. I love this series, I want other gamers to try it out. If it's not for you that's ok too the best thing is that at least you gave it a try and that's all that really matters. Thank you for reading stay strong out there fellow gamers.

A mostly perfect follow up to the first game. It starts off pretty slow, but if you can make it to chapter 5, you'll be alright. Everything after is all you'd expect and more. It took me about 43 hours to finish, but that's with copious amounts of turbo mode (in-game timer said 66 hours). Can't wait to see what trauma the third game will give me... I've heard the stories.

A wonderful journey, packed full of absolutely delightful NPC's, a great soundtrack, and a well-thought out loving cast. I certainly sunk my teeth into finding every chest and completing every sidequest throughout the 100 hour journey this was. While the very end of the game felt extremely rushed, and certain parts were tedious, this game has an unmistakable charm that made it unique.

The story in SC is much more interesting than in FC. I genuinely wanted to know what was going to happen next from about 1/4 of the game onward, it picks up there and never really lets up till the end. The end itself felt a bit rushed, and some of the character conclusions about the world and their lives felt a little on the nose. Estelle's "final dialouge" being met with "Hmmph" from the main antagonist several times was a bit, jarring? compared to much of the series well-delivered over the top cheese and tongue-in-cheek nature.

Overall I'd give this game a solid 9.4/10, it's truly a wonderful RPG

Instantly one of the greatest games I've ever played.

Peak fiction. Unironically,

Seriously, the first game had me intrigued and I love conspiracy stories but the slow pace made it hard to stay motivated.

But this game kicked ass.

Genuinely, I am stunned by what I just experienced, the voice acting (used skyinstaller) was stellar, the story post-chapter 3 had me addicted and got tears out of me, and every single chapter after 5 could've been the story's end, but they kept on giving more and more and more.

This may be one of the greatest JRPGs I've ever experienced. Ever. And I've played a lot. Turbo mode messes up Steam hours though :(

ABSOLUTE CINEMA

I don't know how they managed to top first chapter but they did. Truly a masterpiece of a JRPG. This just makes me more excited when the Sky remake comes around.

Time to dive into 3rd..

It’s incredible to think that this is just the beginning of such a massive saga, the world building in these jrpgs is simply outstanding and this game is no exception I loved every moment of it. That said, a word of caution: PLEASE AVOID playing on nightmare difficulty It was added exclusively to the PC port without proper or just any type of balancing making it brutally unfair and frustrating in certain sections.

Even so, Trails in the Sky SC might just be my favorite hidden gem game ever.

Great game, great sequel, but compared to the first game it has a ton of flaws that are hard to ignore including:
-Crusty, low-res UI elements
-A lot of script errors (misspelling, poor grammar, etc.)
-The UI will sometimes overlap, leaving some text unreadable.
-Text boxes in some cutscenes will jitter.
And worst of all...
-Estelle talks like a redditor.
Other than that really good game, I highly recommend.

One of the best sequel titles I've ever played, it ties up everything in the first game and kept furthering the lore and battle mechanics in interesting ways. Only downside is you have to play FC to play this game, but that is more because they are one full game rather than 2 separate games with how everything ties together.

Apparently Turbo Mode mid-battle screws the playtime on Steam. My total playtime was 75 hours on Turbo mode x8. Just cleared the game.

Let me be clear, SC is a GREAT game. One of the strongest plot I've seen in a game and probably THE BEST Worldbuilding (FC and SC) I've sever seen.

This game was really good and I recommend it to everyone who's looking for a new JRPG with a STRONG plot and awesome worldbuilding.

Yes the gameplay can be frustrating some time, but it's not COMPLETELY horrible. If you are able to put aside this aged feature of the game, and just focus on the story, you'll have AN INCREDIBLE time.

This is the best video game ever made.

A perfect game from start to finish. I first played this game almost 10 years ago with the PSP version and I still think about this after all these years. I absolutely have zero idea about the japanese version and how well it's written but the localization is beyond great. The dialogues of both main characters and NPCs are so engaging and add up to the world building. Despite the tragic background of this localization, XSEED still really has some of the best writing team out there. Their choices of vocabulary is just *chef's kiss*.

The soundtrack is so immaculate that I still listen to them every now and then. I have them scattered all over my several curated spotify and youtube playlists. This PC version included so much quality upgrade that when I got back to check the PSP version just for comparison, it baffled me how I survived its quality.

I've been starting my pilgrimage of finally playing the rest of the Trails series. Given the enormity of this series, I'll probably won't see daylight for a year.

PEAK.FICTION. An amazing sucessor to FC and yet would not be as great as it is without FC. Truly kino. Sasuga FALCOM

I played this game about 9 years ago and I still think about how it permanently changed my brain chemistry.

this is an awesome game every bit worth the price has good attacks and chain attcks and very good graphics to bad it doesnt have auto in the attacks but still a very good game i recommend this to everyone that likes rpg games

Masterpiece

An amazing JRPG game and incredible series. Everything from world building to characters make it shine and lovable.

An absolutely incredible JRPG, after the quite slowly paced FC, SC is pure action almost the entire time, and while the combat isn't the greatest, the characters are awesome, the world is tremendous, and the soundtrack is electric. I felt fully invested in the entire thing start to finish and there's nothing better you can say about a JRPG.

Also lord give me STRENGTH when FC remake is out and Schera is in fully modern 3d

if you liked the first one you'd probably like this one although at the moment I wish Joshua was the main character over Estella because he seems like a better character.

шедевр

this game is wonderful and the characters really grew on me music is top tier as well.

Great

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i am never listening to reddit ever again

Alright, now it's a party!

Now, granted, whilst I did start the game after feeling the hype from the ending of the previous game, after the prologue was officially done, I had undertaken a massive several months break from the game since I felt quite burned out after going through Sky 1st, which is just a huge prologue. But thankfully, once I got back into the spin of things, I never realised how much of a treat I was going to be getting myself right into.

I haven't much to say on the gameplay as it's essentially the same on how I felt about the previous game, but to a rather lesser extent on the roughness throughout. Instead of two party members for 70% of the game, you just about get four party members for around about 85% or even more of the game and for the most part, they aren't even temporary! Granted, you'll be forced to use two per chapter, but one of them is always Estelle who is the greatest creation of a protagonist ever made and the other two slots are quite flexible depending on the chapter. What I will say is that there were definitely more enemies that actively made me angry, such as the one and only enemy HP draining dust monster. I will cause that species to go extinct if I see it again.

The same best aspects are the writing, worldbuilding and characters, but whilst the middle has already been mostly established because of the previous game, there have been great leaps to make the characters you either like or dislike to be further fleshed out. Most of the party members have gotten fleshed out and stand on their own feet without being completely one-sided to Estelle or Joshua, with my second favourite character of the Sky trilogy being Agate. And of course, I have to give props to the antagonists of this game for being more prevalent within the story and giving us great connections to a good portion of the party members. That being said, one of them had a really nonsensical motivation to be evil and I'm sure you can guess which one it is.

I haven't much to say about the worldbuilding aspects as previously stated, it is still quite impressive with new areas and aspects to explore the previous game hadn't done before. That being said, however, the main issue with this game is exploring the same five areas once again which is the main reason I couldn't exactly continue the game for months. It's painful going through what you've already explored, even if I have a great deal of love for the characters and their stories to untangle. It's especially evident in that one chapter where you got to explore all five areas again for a mission. It was that horribly dull.

Now, if you saw me fanboying over the sheer amazingness that is Estelle Bright, HOOOOOOOOOOOO BOY, I have a lot to say about her. Now, yes, she is arguably one of the weakest characters in the trilogy and because she's the main character, it can be frustrating to deal with her. However, I do not care in the slightest, because her growth is just immaculate. With the premise being that Joshua is no longer around anymore, the idea of Estelle coming into her own as a Bracer without relying on her BF's own knowledge is absolutely fantastic. She remains funny, positive and bright as the sun, but also begins to grow more confident and focused on her aims to help people, which really made me adore her ever so much. I can definitely say for certain that I am, of course, THE number one supporter of the Estelle Nation!

Overall, this game is the great payoff the previous game grants you. It does unfortunately still remains with the old game jank and unbalanced gameplay and there are definitely some tropes that be tiresome to people. However, because of how absolutely I appreciate the character developments, the story, the antagonists and Estelle Bright, I can definitely say this is the best that the trilogy has to offer.

Overall Score: 8/10, quite positive, War Cry 2 is the funniest craft in the entire series thus far.

it's peak

So i would not recommend playing this game immediately after FC like I did. I strongly suggest that if you have just completed FC, for the love of GOD please give yourself some time in-between games. It deserves better.
Also according to steam it took me 58 hours to complete, and i played on easy mode, skipped every
side-quest and used turbo mode as much as humanly possible. I would say my total time is closer to 45 hours.
Quick Tip: if you hit Shift_Tab while in game you can bring up maps and treasure guides as you play. Please dont sleep on this, it makes the game ten times better.

On Final boss I cannot win. Over and over one hit KO. Find out it's cuz boss wipes out floor panels but game shows no floor panels for me as it apparently should so I've no way of knowing how to move my characters away from the ones that are gonna fall. It's impossible to beat the game like this. Very frustrated cuz I spend at least 3 hours already on this boss and on all the phases. There are NO opportunities to save in between all these fights to make it worse. Which is a really terrible game design, even without the glitch.

Other than that like the chars, story, etc. in terms of that it's a good fun sequel. Of course some is pretty cliche but for its time I think it wasn't as painfully tropey yet, I can see where other games also got inspiration from. Gameplay wise it's either boring af or way too difficult and I don't like that, especially final boss glitch just not done. Gonna just watch final scene on YT, game can diaf right now I was literally almost done so at least there's that but damn. I could try to find a way to fix this glitch, sure, but even then I don't wanna redo ALL the other fights and phases before that AGAIN.

Also I find cutscenes pretty obnoxious slow too, thank the world for fast forward but even then it'd grate on me how every time a char walks away we gotta way for it to slowly walk off screen. EVERY TIME. Bro stop. It's NOT important, stop wasting my damn time with that. Also, akin to YS II, they make like confusing af easy to get lost in areas such as the air ship of the enemy oh my spaghetti, at least give us a damn map, I can't be the only gamer who hates running back and forth getting lost, wasting time on that kinda bs? I get that an RPG is a big time investment but that don't mean to not respect the players time yo.

Hope the third game will be filled with less bs. I am invested in the chars and story but the game play itself is really just bah. First one felt better but only slightly, it's pretty rough not gonna lie, heh. No wonder they're making a remake of the first game with potentially the rest of 'em.

If you played FC, go for it

10/10

Amazing story

More Olivier!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good game

Great combat, great story, but still chapped from FC and this does not do anything to make up for it. At least Estelle is here.

Holy moly

Unfortunately Second Chapter is a far cry from the enjoyable and solidly crafted First Chapter in the Trails series. Despite having 16 hours in the game I'm only just sitting at the end of the first major dungeon in Ruan and struggling to find the motivation to play. I often leave the game open for hours at a time just to try and convince myself to come back and keep playing. The balancing at the beginning of the game is terrible with grinding necessary in the prologue if you want to play on higher difficulties. Even when you bump the game down to Normal combat is either frustrating and boring or trivial and boring. Given that the game has the exact same combat as the previous this is all down to the poor combat balancing.

Additionally, everything your characters can do is pulled straight from the first game and so the combat has worn out its welcome by this title. You've done the same moves, cast the same magic, and used the same ultimates for hours and hours in the first title, and they basically all just get ugraded with a "2" in this one as you level. Maybe it gets better and more interesting, but it's not worth the time to get there.

Lastly, the motivation for going on/continuing this journey is the full blossoming of the incest relationship established in the first title. Not a very compelling reason to continue playing even if the mysteries from the first game provide some hook beyond the romantic relationship the game is trying to establish between the brother and sister.

Its so peak

ok

The second chapter in the Sky Arc, and a brilliant jrpg.

It builds up on everything presented in the first game and then goes beyond. Not only is their world building on point, the story will draw you in as well as it provides both the end, and beginning of one heck of a journey.

Despite some visual glitches and the sadly ever-present bad localization that the series has, the games are still gems. In particular the visual glitches tend to be related to switching windows, so simply saving and a good old close and reopen fixes them. For the localization if you understand a bit of Japanese you can get a grasp of the original dialogue via patching the voices, though many lines are not voiced.

Anyhow... definitely play FC first, regarding the series as a whole, take the first game of whatever arc gets your attention the most.

A sequel that enhances everything that made the first chapter special, perfectly developing its characters and story.

Incredible follow-up to the first game. The pacing was really great this time around, kept me engaged the entire time. Really solid JRPG. These games have inspired so many other games in and out of the JRPG genre.

Является прямым продолжением первой части, даже прогрессия начинается, будто бы продолжаем играть, не с 0 лвла. Игра будто бы разделена пополам на две части, чтобы слишком сильно не перегружать сюжет в одной. Механики остались те же, кроме того, что появился третий уровень прокачки ячеек под орбменты. Сюжет не подвел. Чекаем третью часть.

the main dish from trails sky. i cleared on hard difficulty, it really one of my worst decision. through it hard i do enjoy it, the zing backstory is good, it really pay off the grind, except schera its kinda bad. through the journey are good still tho the main villain are too comical and stereotypical. but still i do enjoy the journey, i like how orbment system really gives you freedom to set a chara in a role you want, that most of jrpg doesnt do. like A is should be buffer/debuffer but in trails you can do as you like but it just limited on how orbment, how estelle and joshua are grown up as a characther, etc.

picking up from the big twist ending of TRAILS IN THE SKY 1, local she/her himbo estelle bright sets her jaw and embarks upon a journey to RECLAIM HER BOYWIFE, come hell or high water. choose your senpai and gather the gang cos it's time to GET DOWN TO BUSINESS to DEFEAT THE CULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just make sure that you have played the previous game and have its clear data on hand to reap the rewards of the first 50 hours of so in this Game That Had So Much Game In The Game They Had To Split It Into Two Whole Games.

ok, so, i mentioned in my review of sky first chapter that it's a pretty okay game that sits at somewhere above what the kids today call "mid" i guess with a few dips into serious teeth-grinding territory in terms of agate's character arc. i am happy to report that SC suffers from NONE of these problems. sky 1/FC had an extremely strong ending and the scenario quality just keeps getting better from there, particularly in terms of estelle's character writing and the way characters like joshua and renne's psychology is handled. delicious stuff, 100/10, a+ gold star, extra accolades go to the loc team not just because trails games are a nightmare to translate but because the loc choices wrt character voice are great too.

one of the most enjoyable things about sky 2/sc is how you can really tell that the devs have way more confidence in their presentation. sky 1/fc is like 50smth hours of setup, and now in the second game the devs are going ham. this is especially noticeable with the huge jump in cinematic presentation for cutscenes, the tuning done to the battle system in between games, and so on. it is good stuff.

if i have to voice one single point of complaint with the entire package it's that falcom is doing that evangelion thing of "we're throwing abrahamic mysticism in here for flavor cos its exotic & therefore chuunibyou bait regardless of its original context" thats Really tiresome if youre from a non-christian abrahamic tradition such as judaism, islam, zoroastrianism etc. just like dude... put that down... im dying of secondhand embarrassment lol. personally i find it extra annoying given how falcom managed to simultaneously matrix dodge some narly real world implications w/schera and luciola. like cmon man you can CLEARLY do real good when you try water you doing lol..........

however, even with the pet peevage taken into account, sc is overall a game that rules ass. if you have the requisite free time and cashola to allocate, it is worth your consideration.

JUST REMEMBER TO ALWAYS DOUBLE TAP YOUR TREASURE CHESTS. I AM NOT KIDDING

Amazing game. You need to play the first chapter before this, and the buildup is incredibly slow, but the end point is way worth it!!

优秀的RPG，FC是经典，SC讲完了这个故事，故事比较长所以中段有点冗长，不过结尾的故事写的很好，场景也不错。讲完的故事让人感动，回味无穷。

Идеальное продолжение первой части, игра всё так же хороша во всём, если прошли первую часть то и вторая понравится , в целом говорить больше нечего, достойный сиквел с развитием персонажей.