Board 8 > Rate the VG Story Day 120: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC

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Lightning Strikes
10/04/21 7:50:47 PM
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Todays game is Trails in the Sky SC. How would you rate the story on a scale from 1-10?

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Previous Results:
Planescape: Torment - 9.83 (12 votes)
Higurashi When They Cry - 9.69 (8 votes)
Omori - 9.67 (6 votes)
Outer Wilds - 9.61 (22 votes)
Silent Hill 2 - 9.5 (20 votes)
Nier Automata - 9.25 (31 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations - 9.17 (33 votes)
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 9.1 (14 votes)
The House in Fata Morgana - 9.1 (10 votes)
Red Dead Redemption 2 - 9 (8 votes)
Steins;Gate - 8.94 (9 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - 8.91 (30 votes)
Grim Fandango - 8.88 (13 votes)
Zero Escape: Virtues Last Reward - 8.88 (20 votes)
Return of the Obra Dinn - 8.85 (10 votes)
Silent Hill 4: The Room - 8.83 (6 votes)
Suikoden II - 8.8 (11 votes)
Umineko When They Cry - 8.79 (12 votes)
Persona 3 - 8.75 (21 votes)
Xenogears - 8.71 (23 votes)
Tales of Berseria - 8.69 (14 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 8.67 (31 votes)
Metal Gear Solid - 8.67 (27 votes)
Final Fantasy Tactics - 8.65 (23 votes)
Dragon Quest V - 8.64 (14 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask - 8.56 (27 votes)
Disco Elysium - 8.56 (16 votes)
Undertale - 8.45 (42 votes)
What Remains of Edith Finch - 8.41 (19 votes)
Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 8.4 (5 votes)
Chrono Trigger - 8.39 (40 votes)
Mass Effect 2 - 8.38 (28 votes)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - 8.37 (15 votes)
Final Fantasy X - 8.31 (56 votes)
Final Fantasy VII - 8.28 (37 votes)
Dragon Quest XI - 8.2 (15 votes)
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective 8.21 (19 votes)
Final Fantasy VI - 8.19 (43 votes)
The Walking Dead Season 1 - 8.17 (21 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - 8.15 (41 votes)
The Last of Us - 8.13 (35 votes)
Horizon: Zero Dawn - 8.06 (18 votes)
The Wolf Among Us - 8.04 (14 votes)
Xenoblade Chronicles - 7.94 (27 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - 7.94 (16 votes)
Spec Ops: The Line - 7.9 (17 votes)
Bloodborne - 7.88 (20 votes)
Life is Strange - 7.85 (31 votes)
The Sexy Brutale - 7.7 (5 votes)
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors - 7.69 (31 votes)
Doki Doki Literature Club - 7.66 (26 votes)
Bioshock - 7.64 (23 votes)
Celeste - 7.62 (25 votes)
Skies of Arcadia - 7.54 (14 votes)
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - 7.5 (30 votes)
The Last Story - 7.47 (6 votes)
Mortal Kombat (2011) - 7.46 (13 votes)
Mass Effect - 7.35 (28 votes)
Tales of Symphonia - 7.34 (28 votes)
Earthbound - 7.33 (19 votes)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - 7.26 (29 votes)
Tales of the Abyss - 7.25 (29 votes)
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 - 7.25 (12 votes)
Red Dead Redemption - 7.23 (11 votes)
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - 7.17 (25 votes)
Mass Effect 3 - 7.16 (21 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - 7.11 (23 votes)
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 7.1 (30 votes)
To the Moon - 7.07 (7 votes)
Super Paper Mario - 7.04 (23 votes)
Assassins Creed II - 7.04 (13 votes)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - 7 (5 votes)
Final Fantasy VIII - 7 (29 votes)
Hollow Knight - 6.98 (21 votes)
INSIDE - 6.93 (15 votes)
Gone Home - 6.91 (17 votes)
Bioshock Infinite - 6.87 (19 votes)
The World Ends With You - 6.79 (24 votes)
Death Stranding - 6.73 (13 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All - 6.68 (32 votes)
Firewatch - 6.65 (10 votes)
Dark Souls - 6.62 (20 votes)
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - 6.61 (29 votes)
Chrono Cross - 6.56 (17 votes)
Valkyria Chronicles - 6.5 (16 votes)
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 6.5 (13 votes)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - 6.38 (12 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 6.34 (35 votes)
Professor Layton and the Curious Village - 6.16 (14 votes)
DOOM (2016) - 6.15 (13 votes)
Tales of Vesperia - 6.13 (23 votes)
Star Fox 64 - 5.8 (25 votes)
Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception - 5.8 (24 votes)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 5.72 (9 votes)
Final Fantasy IV - 5.78 (30 votes)
Metroid Prime - 5.67 (24 votes)
Kingdom Hearts - 5.51 (31 votes)
The Wonderful 101 - 5.5 (4 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - 5.63 (13 votes)
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box - 5.33 (9 votes)
Grand Theft Auto IV - 5.27 (13 votes)
Uncharted: Drakes Fortune - 5.26 (28 votes)
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney - 4.93 (23 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright - 4.85 (13 votes)
Final Fantasy XIII - 4.79 (29 votes)
Final Fantasy X-2 - 4.79 (19 votes)
Final Fantasy XV - 4.79 (19 votes)
Fallout 3 - 4.76 (17 votes)
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty - 4.72 (9 votes)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 4.64 (40 votes)
Fallout 4 - 4.43 (15 votes)
Final Fantasy - 4.24 (19 votes)
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops - 3.89 (9 votes)
Resident Evil 6 - 3.74 (17 votes)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - 3.69 (13 votes)
Starcraft II (overall) - 3.4 (5 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest - 3.31 (16 votes)
Dissidia: Final Fantasy - 3.29 (12 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates (overall) - 3.29 (12 votes)
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void - 2.83 (6 votes)
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) - 2.66 (16 votes)
Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm - 2.57 (7 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation - 2.4 (10 votes)
Tales of Zestiria - 2.38 (8 votes)

Needs more votes:
Torment: Tides of Numenera

You can still rate previous days games if you missed them, just write <game name><rating>. If you want to change your rating you can just specify that you are changing your rating. Nominations for future days are also welcome, nominate as many games as you like and I will get to all of them.

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plasmabeam
10/04/21 7:52:46 PM
#2:


Pretty satisfied with that FFVIII score. Thought it would get bombed with 1s, but not the case.

Haven't played SC.

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NFUN
10/04/21 7:53:47 PM
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weak 9.5

nominate 3rd

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LeonhartFour
10/04/21 7:59:20 PM
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colliding
10/04/21 8:05:10 PM
#5:


9.5

pretty stellar all around, and the most "all killer no filler" Trails game to date (having not played the Crossbells)

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NFUN
10/04/21 8:07:39 PM
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colliding posted...
9.5

pretty stellar all around, and the most "all killer no filler" Trails game to date (having not played the Crossbells)
counterpoint: most of chapters 2, 4, 7, plus 8 structurally

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colliding
10/04/21 8:14:03 PM
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NFUN posted...
counterpoint: most of chapters 2, 4, 7, plus 8 structurally

counter counterpoint: no

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LeonhartFour
10/04/21 8:14:36 PM
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NFUN posted...
counterpoint: most of chapters 2, 4, 7, plus 8 structurally

man what a great game

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Hbthebattle
10/04/21 8:24:33 PM
#9:


9

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xp1337
10/04/21 8:33:32 PM
#10:


10.

One of the best. I guess if I were to nitpick some of the earlier chapters (except the Prologue which is legit) are a bit slow but they're still good. And the highs of this story are amazing.

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MZero
10/04/21 9:32:02 PM
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6.5/10

The villains really drag it down, and they tried their best to destroy Agate as a character with the Tita stuff. Somehow I didn't end up hating the sibling romance angle even though I was sure I would, so that's worth about 0.5 points. Other than that the story was alright I guess, didn't blow me away at any point.

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malyg
10/04/21 9:36:16 PM
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8.5/10

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_stingers_
10/04/21 9:46:40 PM
#13:


9

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pyresword
10/04/21 9:50:43 PM
#14:


10

Somewhat fitting after the discussion in the FFVIII topic yesterday, but I think what I've always liked about Sky SC in particular is how it manages stories of different scales. You can look at the story through the lens of Estelle as an individual, of the Bracer Guild as an organization, or Liberl as a nation. These all necessarily look different, but the game still manages to juggle them together in a way that makes sense and without sacrificing any of them. And that's not even to mention that every other character has their own goals and journey that still fits in with everything else, and almost all of those are just as compelling. (Sorry Zin...though even you get some cool stuff in 3rd)

There's also tons of real character growth and thematic content which that ties into, but I think I'll stop here.
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unknown_duck
10/04/21 9:51:19 PM
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7.5
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xp1337
10/04/21 9:56:16 PM
#16:


Oh, dang, I missed FFVIII? Weird, I could have sworn the topic I saw yesterday was a game I hadn't played so I skipped the topic.

FFVIII - Let's say... 7.5. I think it goes a bit off the rails at times and there's some stuff I think is a bit unneeded but there's definitely some cool ideas and themes in there that I appreciated back then and suspect I might even more were I to replay it now (but backlog says "lol").

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FL81
10/04/21 10:22:15 PM
#17:


Another 10/10

All my 10s being dropped pretty close to one another

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Fiop
10/05/21 12:51:08 AM
#19:


10

Not many games I'd give a 10 to either.

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Mac Arrowny
10/05/21 12:56:47 AM
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8.9

Some amazing moments in here. A few of the chapters are really excellent. A lot of the villains are kind of nothing, and the ending is way shorter than it should be. Making Estelle x Joshua work after I hated it in the first game is pretty impressive.
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azuarc
10/05/21 1:14:40 AM
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I didn't realize we did the first game.

Control-F FC. 0 results found.

Yeah, I see it's just listed as Trails in the Sky. Did I rate that?

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Axl_Rose_85
10/05/21 1:31:54 AM
#22:


9.5

Solid conclusion to the arc. Pacing is a lot better than the first game.
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Heartfang
10/05/21 2:09:37 AM
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8.5 of 10

My 3rd favorite trails game. Maybe even my second favorite. Generally depends on what I played recently.

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Mac Arrowny
10/05/21 1:21:56 PM
#24:


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Lightning Strikes
10/05/21 6:00:14 PM
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@azuarc You didnt do that one!

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SaveEstelle
10/05/21 6:01:24 PM
#26:


A literal 10

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