Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter demo is out.

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Board 8 » Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter demo is out.
UshiromiyaEva
08/20/2025
10:15 PM
#1
Can't check it out yet but got the DL going.
https://youtu.be/d2qp2scgc_4?si=7k54z8xFv75JQ9ya
https://youtu.be/qj9p6IFSlnk?si=cZ5L4OPM0TjVjwCD
RikkuAlmighty
08/20/2025
10:16 PM
#2
hot damn time to be behind not just the original trails games but also the trails remake/remaster run of the series
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Meow1000
08/20/2025
10:18 PM
#3
I legit can't tell if I'm hyped or not

This is a rare case of a remake that actually feels like more than just a remake but there's this thing called money.
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UshiromiyaEva
08/20/2025
10:24 PM
#4
There is apparently a $1 upgrade between the Switch and Switch 2 versions (based on the Japanese price).

What are we doing with these insanely varied upgrade prices lol.
https://youtu.be/d2qp2scgc_4?si=7k54z8xFv75JQ9ya
https://youtu.be/qj9p6IFSlnk?si=cZ5L4OPM0TjVjwCD
Bane_Of_Despair
08/20/2025
10:30 PM
#5
I own Trails in the Sky but haven't played it, what if I played this demo instead
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NBIceman
08/20/2025
10:36 PM
#6
Meow1000 posted...
I legit can't tell if I'm hyped or not

This is a rare case of a remake that actually feels like more than just a remake but there's this thing called money.
I lost all my hype with the announcement that the translation is going to be "more faithful" to the original.

AKA much more dry and absent of personality, probably.
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UF8
08/20/2025
10:40 PM
#7
GungHo as publisher surprised me

also i went on the eshop and found no demo on the store page for it so idk i guess i'll check later
AuraChannelerCh
08/20/2025
10:57 PM
#8
UF8 posted...
GungHo as publisher surprised me

also i went on the eshop and found no demo on the store page for it so idk i guess i'll check later
The Switch demo is, for some reason, releasing at a later date.
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MacArrowny
08/20/2025
11:31 PM
#9
NBIceman posted...
I lost all my hype with the announcement that the translation is going to be "more faithful" to the original.

AKA much more dry and absent of personality, probably.
Gungho also said that about Lunar and barely changed anything (mostly removed the Monica Lewinsky jokes).
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UshiromiyaEva
08/20/2025
11:49 PM
#10
1 minute in and the dynamic camera movement in the cutscenes is freaking me out lol. That's not the Trails way.
https://youtu.be/d2qp2scgc_4?si=7k54z8xFv75JQ9ya
https://youtu.be/qj9p6IFSlnk?si=cZ5L4OPM0TjVjwCD
UshiromiyaEva
08/20/2025
11:52 PM
#11
Oh fuck I was misled by the term Prologue.

This is apparently a 10 hour demo that carries over your progress.

I will tackle this over the weekend and dip out after saving for now.
https://youtu.be/d2qp2scgc_4?si=7k54z8xFv75JQ9ya
https://youtu.be/qj9p6IFSlnk?si=cZ5L4OPM0TjVjwCD
azuarc
08/20/2025
11:55 PM
#12
The Prologue of Trails 1 is quite long, yes. I don't remember it being 10 hours, though.
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UshiromiyaEva
08/21/2025
12:00 AM
#13
I've seen a few screenshots now of high 8 to high 9, maybe they assess some more stuff?

I imagine the game would go faster if you decide to play in the new active combat(oh my fucking god the music hit while I was typing and I'm getting so nostalgic for Cold Steel lmao) mode rather than the old system, curious what the difference ends up being for completion time.
https://youtu.be/d2qp2scgc_4?si=7k54z8xFv75JQ9ya
https://youtu.be/qj9p6IFSlnk?si=cZ5L4OPM0TjVjwCD
Hbthebattle
08/21/2025
12:05 AM
#14
Oh god this opening cutscene is lagging like hell on my PC

immediately feeling no Durante
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Bossman_Coolguy
08/21/2025
12:41 AM
#15
Estelle English voice is awful wow
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UshiromiyaEva
08/21/2025
12:44 AM
#16
She's always been Estelle's English VA?
https://youtu.be/d2qp2scgc_4?si=7k54z8xFv75JQ9ya
https://youtu.be/qj9p6IFSlnk?si=cZ5L4OPM0TjVjwCD
Bossman_Coolguy
08/21/2025
02:08 AM
#17
Dunno bro I played til cs4 and don't remember her voice lines there
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MacArrowny
08/21/2025
09:38 AM
#18
Is there turbo mode in this?
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colliding
08/21/2025
10:42 AM
#19
UshiromiyaEva posted...
the new active combat

Currently playing through Daybreak1 and we all agree it fucking sucks right? Honestly, Daybreak feels like a huge miss in so many ways that I'm tempted to bail on the series at this point
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UshiromiyaEva
08/21/2025
10:49 AM
#20
MacArrowny posted...
Is there turbo mode in this?

Yep, accessible at any time.
https://youtu.be/d2qp2scgc_4?si=7k54z8xFv75JQ9ya
https://youtu.be/qj9p6IFSlnk?si=cZ5L4OPM0TjVjwCD
UshiromiyaEva
08/21/2025
10:52 AM
#21
colliding posted...
Currently playing through Daybreak1 and we all agree it fucking sucks right? Honestly, Daybreak feels like a huge miss in so many ways that I'm tempted to bail on the series at this point

I've tried and failed to get into a new Trails game 3 times since CSIV (Zero, Reverie, Daybreak) and each time I burn out after 5-8 hours. I'm hoping this can get me back in the mood.
https://youtu.be/d2qp2scgc_4?si=7k54z8xFv75JQ9ya
https://youtu.be/qj9p6IFSlnk?si=cZ5L4OPM0TjVjwCD
_stingers_
08/21/2025
11:05 AM
#22
reverie is probably the best 'game' in the franchise. (havent played daybreak yet) crossbell arc still goated in terms of everything else though
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skullbone
08/21/2025
11:09 AM
#23
Is this remake the best jumping in point if I've never played a Trails game?
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pyresword
08/21/2025
11:10 AM
#24
Just for the record, I think Daybreak 1 is pretty easily the worst Trails so far and that Daybreak 2 has been a reasonable step up. (as of about half to two-thirds of the way through)

I am in the minority viewpoint on basically everything about the above statement, and Daybreak 2 is almost certainly the worst received game by the fanbase overall.

The action combat was all right. It's pretty barebones in Daybreak 1 and gets a little better in Daybreak 2, but it's never really a highlight imo. Have not played the demo for the Sky remake yet, but this aspect looks noticeably better here to be honest.
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Dels
08/21/2025
11:17 AM
#25
Bossman_Coolguy posted...
Estelle English voice is awful wow

oh thank you i wanted to say this after peeking at some streams but i haven't played any trails games other than FC and SC so i didn't wanna risk people being like "??? this has been her voice in every game???"

i don't think it suits her at all . i don't think i could ever play this with english voices.
Mega_Mana
08/21/2025
12:42 PM
#26
The most important question that I'm pretty sure I already know the awful answer to:

Have Erebonian infected Liberl completely so they no longer have chest messages?
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tcaz2
08/21/2025
12:47 PM
#27
The only thing I don't like is the renamed NPCs.
MacArrowny
08/21/2025
12:48 PM
#28
There are no chest messages. Those were always exclusive to the localized version.

also chest messages are terrible and the game's better without them
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colliding
08/21/2025
01:46 PM
#29
Does the Sky remake have the same action/hybrid combat as Daybreak? Because the really bad thing about Daybreak's system isn't that it's brainless, but that it sacrifices stuff like win screens and a meaningful turn order. (I really hate the Daybreak battle system and unfortunately we're stuck with it through Horizons at least)
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AriaOfBolo
08/21/2025
02:22 PM
#30
MacArrowny posted...
also chest messages are terrible and the game's better without them

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_stingers_
08/21/2025
02:24 PM
#31
MacArrowny posted...
There are no chest messages. Those were always exclusive to the localized version.

also chest messages are terrible and the game's better without them
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catesdb
08/21/2025
02:26 PM
#32
+1 for the estelles english voice has always been terrible take
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Xiahou_Shake
08/21/2025
02:33 PM
#33
MacArrowny posted...
also chest messages are terrible and the game's better without them
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NBIceman
08/21/2025
02:41 PM
#34
MacArrowny posted...
There are no chest messages. Those were always exclusive to the localized version.

also chest messages are terrible and the game's better without them
What a silly contrarian take on something that's completely harmless at worst and fully ignorable.
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MacArrowny
08/21/2025
03:09 PM
#35
I felt compelled to check for chest messages when I played the game, and all of them were bad/a waste of time. I would've enjoyed the game more if they didn't exist. Kinda like bad side quests that you end up doing with the hope that they'll be good, y'know?
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Thorn
08/21/2025
03:23 PM
#36
I liked a few of them but I would broadly agree they're way overrated.

Though the use of them in 3rd's Abyss and the reprise in Sigmund's Realm in Azure was pretty good .
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dowolf
08/21/2025
03:47 PM
#37
pyresword posted...
Just for the record, I think Daybreak 1 is pretty easily the worst Trails so far and that Daybreak 2 has been a reasonable step up. (as of about half to two-thirds of the way through)

I am in the minority viewpoint on basically everything about the above statement, and Daybreak 2 is almost certainly the worst received game by the fanbase overall.

The action combat was all right. It's pretty barebones in Daybreak 1 and gets a little better in Daybreak 2, but it's never really a highlight imo. Have not played the demo for the Sky remake yet, but this aspect looks noticeably better here to be honest.

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skullbone posted...
Is this remake the best jumping in point if I've never played a Trails game?

Short answer: probably. It might turn out that the original game is the better experience, but Sky FC (First Chapter) is the first game in the series and so you shouldn't have to worry about the series expecting you to have past knowledge in this one.
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shane15
08/21/2025
04:25 PM
#38
The problem i had with Daybreak is i only really liked Van and Judith from the main party. I think Daybreak 2 was better because you actually get to play as more of the better characters.
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AuraChannelerCh
08/21/2025
04:26 PM
#39
I always wanted to play this series, but...like most of its games are locked behind another publisher, said games aren't on Nintendo consoles, and I wanted to properly start with the very first entry because this is a series that it's best enjoyed as characters from previous games return in the sequels.
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colliding
08/21/2025
05:02 PM
#40
Well here's your chance to play the first (actually important) game!

I checked out the demo and it's actually impressive. It does have a version of Daybreak's battle system but I can already tell it's been improved here. I still hate how battles just end and there's no win screen or anything. It needs to feel important when you gain levels and get items after a battle. Played on PS5 and everything is silky smooth.

It's interesting playing a Trails game where the graphics don't feel a generation behind. It also sticks to the original FC pretty closely (music is remixed but feels original, npc's look like their original character portraits).

Voice acting is average so far. I've certainly played worse. It's true Estelle's voice isn't great but maybe this is a case where she gets better as the game goes on.

Anyway, I went into this feeling pretty down on the Trails series and left having been convinced to preorder.
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UshiromiyaEva
08/21/2025
05:09 PM
#41
colliding posted...
Well here's your chance to play the first (actually important) game!

Does Trails have a smallportion of the fanbase devoted to huffing and hawing about people needing to play the pre-Sky games lol.
https://youtu.be/d2qp2scgc_4?si=7k54z8xFv75JQ9ya
https://youtu.be/qj9p6IFSlnk?si=cZ5L4OPM0TjVjwCD
MacArrowny
08/21/2025
05:53 PM
#42
The earlier games aren't even Trails haha. I don't think anyone says to play the pre-Trails Legend of Heroes first, though they do have some fans.
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Dels
08/21/2025
06:12 PM
#43
oh I've actually played the pre-sky games, the PSP releases. they had an absolutely awful translation (like when you leveled up and learned a new skill the message was like "Estelle was Fire Mastered!" if she learned Fire for example) but Tear of Vermillion was genuinely good despite that. I'd honestly recommend it to Trails fans, at least if there's some fan translated version somewhere or if not, just for dowolf.
dowolf
08/21/2025
06:47 PM
#44
Dels posted...
oh I've actually played the pre-sky games, the PSP releases. they had an absolutely awful translation (like when you leveled up and learned a new skill the message was like "Estelle was Fire Mastered!" if she learned Fire for example) but Tear of Vermillion was genuinely good despite that. I'd honestly recommend it to Trails fans, at least if there's some fan translated version somewhere or if not, just for dowolf.

>_>

I played through White Witch in JP a few years back and enjoyed it, though I don't think it is anything revolutionary (the very short version: it feels like a proto-Sky. Which isn't a bad thing! But it's not a game I'd shout from the rooftops for). I still need to play the other two at some point.
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Dels
08/21/2025
10:26 PM
#45
yeah no white witch wasn't nearly as good. i think white witch came first even though tear of vermillion was released as the first entry here. white witch was clearly much more primitive and the story didn't have the same depth.
Ifrit
08/21/2025
11:05 PM
#46
I'll give this a try. I tried one of the trails games, but I have no idea which one it was. But I remember not liking it very much. It was on ps+ or something. I think it was the first cold steel.
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azuarc
08/22/2025
01:41 PM
#47
UshiromiyaEva posted...
Does Trails have a smallportion of the fanbase devoted to huffing and hawing about people needing to play the pre-Sky games lol.

My reaction to this is "what pre-Sky games? TitS is the first game."

Of course, that's not precisely true since it's a subseries of a spin-off of a...it's complicated.
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SHINE_GET_64
08/22/2025
02:12 PM
#48
I played Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes on the PC Engine

It was fine
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Fiop
08/22/2025
02:19 PM
#49
Do characters or locations from other Legend of Heroes, non-Trails games ever get referred to in Trails?
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MacArrowny
08/22/2025
02:50 PM
#50
No.
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