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  1. NIS America anunció que publicará #TheLegendofHeroes Trails from Zero & TLoH: Trails to Azure en #NintendoSwitch2 en otoño de 2026. Estas adaptaciones, las cuales podrán comprarse juntas o por separado :3. universo-nintendo.com.mx/2026/

  2. I stopped collecting old #games, but I gladly made an exception for the #TheLegendOfHeroes #Gagharv trilogy. I'm extremely happy I finally managed to nab the full set in wonderful condition.

    #retrogaming #retrogames

  3. It’s surprising that only one year has passed since my first post! 

    I am always complaining about time, or lack thereof, to do all the things I want to. However, this time around, and looking back to November last year, it feels more like a decade has passed.

    My philosophy teacher talked a lot about time and he used to say that, in order to understand its flow, and the effect it has in our being, at physical, perceptive, emotional, and existential levels, a considerable amount of time and experience should have passed. All this to say that he wasn’t expecting an extreme level of maturity in our exams, but knowledge and study, yes! I think we all did well, despite our young age. 

    So time is very elusive and subjective. Me being here one year later, feeling like a decade passed by, is a bit scary, but hell, I’m still questioning if I made good use of it. I had never questioned myself about this before because time was something I had in abundance. Not anymore. Many things happened that completely shattered my idea of permanence. My teacher was right.

    Some months ago, in our many convos on Mastodon, the topic of video games being a waste of time was raised, and even though I met the idea with scepticism and as prejudiced, it made me think that maybe that was the case, and that I had to do something about it – to transform a passive hobby into active engagement. It’s one of the reasons why I kept writing about the games I’ve been discovering. I’m happy with what I created in the past year. 

    Currently I’m playing Trails from Zero. It’s a game from the long running The Legend of Heroes franchise. I have previously mentioned my difficulty playing Trails in the Sky on PC and how Trails from Cold Steel felt much better gameplay-wise. I don’t want to go there again because a remake is coming and I’m going to play that instead. However, it was Zero that made me enjoy every other aspect. The story is extremely slow-burn but I don’t mind. It possibly was one of the most charming games I’ve ever tried, so I’m sticking with it. Also, as a side-note, is this the first JRPG ever to represent religion in a good light? I have to pinch myself. I’m sure the Septian Church will commit some abominable crime any time soon, right?

    As a side-game, also from Falcom, I’m playing Ys X Nordics. It was released on Nintendo Switch (and other platforms) recently and it tells the story of Adol and a mysterious chain of attacks by sinister beings called the Griegr. It’s an action RPG and it challenges my capacity to press the right buttons at the right time for the right combos. It’s maddening but I’m having fun with it! It’s a fast paced game and a very distinctive experience from Zero. I enjoyed all the references to the Vikings and their sagas, their society, the Roman empire, the references to Spain and the trade currents of the time. It’s actually very well researched and the setting serves the game quite well. 

    I plan to write more about both games in the near future but I’ll refrain from expanding on orbments and quartz. I definitely don’t understand how that thing works! It hasn’t been a problem so far because I’m playing on easy for the story and setting. I’m still a tourist with Falcom games and I think the label fits me just fine.

    Another game I’m looking forward to playing is Xenoblade Chronicles X. It will be released next year and I’ll buy it as soon as my go-to online place puts it up for pre-order. I never owned a Wii U and I loved XC1 immensely. There’s a lot of criticism about the combat being too similar to a MMO with its semi-auto mechanics and (fairly) the obnoxious amount of side-quests. What can I say? I loved every aspect of it and had a great time, but boy was it long. I’ll never forget Valak Mountain and the music that played there during daylight.

    And that’s it. I’m not looking forward to much else except Metaphor or whatever Atlus comes up with. I don’t play many AAA games but I’d like to try the new Ghost of Yotei and Dragon Age: The Veilguard. If I had started the blog sooner I’d love to have written about Ghost of Tsushima and Bloodborne. They’re both PS4 games worth buying a PS5 for. Any news about Fire Emblem will also be very welcome. I’m more of a fan of Three Houses than the franchise as a whole. I think the experience was very unique and I’ve never explored a game so thoroughly before.

    Let’s raise our swords to Seiros and to an everlasting reign of Dragons!

    ———–

    You can keep reading from this point on or you can skip it. It’s fine. It’s about the US election, and the perspective I’m writing from will be very clear.

    It doesn’t feel right to avoid mentioning the election results. I know this isn’t the right place for it, but when I look at my stats, many of you, if not the majority, are from the US. 

    First I’d like to say that I’m sorry. I really am. I can’t imagine how many of you are feeling these days. Watching everything unfold at a distance isn’t the same as having to experience the events first-hand. It must be suffocating for many of you who are, or probably will be, at the receiving end of oppressive policies.

    I was talking with my stepfather before the election day, and we were pretty optimistic about it. The media sources we watch may be about the same – mine are directly from the US and his are from our country – but both have informative news articles to get a better understanding of your complex political system. Also, a lot did we see about the ideology of both parties and the way it was communicated. In the end:

    “Americans will have at least some common sense.”

    This was one of the arguments he used to justify his optimism. I answered back with a very colourful Portuguese expression:

    “Fia-te na Virgem e não corras.”

    How can I translate this? You surely have some similar saying in English, but it means to take action when things aren’t looking up and not to rely on faith only to solve the problems arising right in front of you. It literally means, sarcastically, “Have faith in the Virgin (Mary) and don’t run!” It can also mean, in the case of my stepfather, to blindly trust in the accuracy of human judgement and hope for the best.

    Take action. Don’t lean on faith only. But take your time to heal first.

    We all have our ghosts. The difference is that yours are looking straight in your face. Fight them and have faith that you will make a better world for us all, that you will be true and smart and just. I have absolutely no doubt, and I have faith – because at this very moment it’s the only thing I can have – that you will get through this, and will find happiness, seek justice, and save your democracy if need be.

    Whether they want it or not.

    Be well, and reach out to your friends, families, adopted families and like-minded online communities. 

    Be safe. ❤

    https://swordofseiros.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/happy-birthday-sword-of-seiros/

    #action #Birthday #faith #falcom #firstBirthday #gaming #ghosts #hope #nintendo #nintendoSwitch #religion #theLegendOfHeroes #time #trailsFromZero #USElection #USPolitics #VideoGames #XenobladeChroniclesX #YsXNordics

  4. Biblioteczka #TeamPudełka powiększyła się też o jeden z tytułów z serii #TheLegendOfHeroes, a konkretnie pod-serii #Trails#TrailsOfColdSteel2 😄

    Dlaczego część druga, skoro nie mam części pierwszej? Bo dostępność tego wydania się coraz bardziej pogarsza, podczas gdy jedynka wciąż jest łatwiej dostępna. Oczywiście jej brak będę musiał szybko nadrobić.

    A dlaczego w ogóle ta seria? Kończąc trylogię #Utawarerumono zacząłem szukać sobie kolejnego tytułu, lub serii, do ogrania. Seria #Trails zdecydowanie najczęściej przewijała się w polecajkach. Choć oczywiście nie może być za łatwo – jakbym chciał zapoznać się z nią w prawidłowej kolejności, powinienem zacząć od #TrailsInTheSky. Pozycji w którą właściwie nie da się dzisiaj zagrać 😅 Drugim polecanym punktem wejście, było właśnie #TrailsOfColdSteel i tak się tu znaleźliśmy.

    Oczywiście w międzyczasie zapowiedziano remake pierwszej części serii – #TrailsInTheSkyThe1st – więc 2025 rok zapowiada się cudownie dla takich osób jak ja, nadrabiających #visualnovel.e sprzed lat ♥️

    Samo wydanie, na pierwszy rzut oka nie zaskakuje – zwykle pudełko, ładna okładka. Dopiero po jego otworzeniu okazuje się, że dostajemy też alternatywna okładkę – niby pierdoła, ale doceniam.

    #giereczkowo #vn

  5. Decided to return to after 6 months without playing it lol...

    Wondering if I'll finish it this year hmm

  6. There’s a nice Steam sale going on this week from XSEED and Marvelous! games. I’ve also seen a number of Bandai Namco games on sale, so I grabbed Code Vein and Tales of Arise while I was at it. They have been on sale for some time now. Time means days in Steam time. I’ve seen both games on PS+ for ages and never played them. Under the XSEED/Marvelous! banner, I bought something else.

    I reacted so strongly against Trails in the Sky that I decided the best way to move on was buying another Trails game (right?!). This time, I decided to be careful. I would buy it, install it, and see if I liked it as soon as possible. We only have two hours to play and test a game before we either decide to ask for a refund or keep the game. When we run a Trails game for the first time, it displays a configuration tool, and the timer starts even when we’re only trying to figure out the appropriate config for our setup. My setup is not like a setup. It’s a laptop, so it was set up for me, which I am very grateful for. That didn’t discourage me from prying it open and upgrading my RAM because, for some reason, I decided it had to be a weekend project. Imagine the nerves. I never did that before in my life. This must be nothing to you but to me it was dangerous! You can’t imagine the obsessive preparation I did before to make up for my lack of experience. Now, I can proudly say that I’ve gained 500 XP, 100 Knowledge, 50 Endurance, and 1000 Faith.

    But back to Trails. Trails in the Sky can pretty much be played in a calculator. I’m sure my Casio fx-991EX Classwiz could play the game if it wanted to. That little config tool was easy to set up, and the game was pretty much ready to go on my very old laptop, where I played it for the first time. I don’t know what I was expecting from a 2004 game. I’ve written somewhere in my first posts that I didn’t grow up playing these games. I don’t know how I should put this, but I do enjoy older games in general. I’m by no means a retro gamer, but I’m curious, and I want to learn about the millions of games I’ve overlooked. However, sometimes my body decides to reject some games, and it so happened that Trails in the Sky was one of those games.

    The pastel colors and textures didn’t do any good for my sight, as I couldn’t identify many elements in the open world. During the exploration in the first town, I tried panning the camera, although the way it moved as well as the perspective gave me nausea. Traversing the town was painful, to say the least, and I was constantly losing my sense of direction because I wanted the camera to stay static, except I had to move it, either left or right, to see my characters. I tried the map, maybe it could help me, yet I found it very hard to read. I barely used it, but of course, I had to in order to complete the first quests. Navigating the dungeon (sewers?) was easy, but the combat appeared to be very convoluted. I didn’t enjoy navigating the menus, and at a certain point, I had loads of crap I didn’t know what to do with. The thing is, this was not like Shin Megami Tensei or Persona, where I didn’t know what to do, but I wanted to learn it so badly. In Sky, I just wanted it to be over with. -400 Willpower.

    I pressed on and completed the quest where we had to save two or three kids. Then we had to go all the way back to the village and then home. I found my way back home (took me a while) and read the conversation between Estelle, Joshua, and their father. It was a cozy moment of respite. Our father had to depart somewhere, and we would be on our own from then on, completing quests to get stronger and wiser. I’d love to see the story through, but I decided to say my goodbyes to our father at the station before closing the game for good. It was the least I could do. I cared about those characters, but I cared more about myself. +100 Dodge.

    I even read some guides without spoilers and intended to put my experience out there. I’m glad I didn’t because the Trails community can be very… passionate, especially when there’s conflict of opinions, and I didn’t have the time nor energy to deal with the consequences of my ramblings. Some kind souls on Reddit expressed the need for a full-on remake of the Sky trilogy to accommodate new players. You can only imagine the backlash. It wasn’t violent, but if you’re any good at reading between the lines, there were layers there. It’s like saying in public that you’re happy with the implementation of casual mode in Fire Emblem. Layers.

    You could ask me why you want to like a game so badly? Because I lack a personality of my own. It’s because I’ve read countless words of love about the series. I wanted to partake in that love and sense of discovery and adventure. Trails games are known for their long and riveting story arcs. I don’t think it’s wrong to at least experience one of those arcs, even if it’s not the best one. Thus, I decided to dig further, comparing games, taking a closer look at screenshots, and finally going for Trails of Cold Steel on this week’s sale.

    Before launching the game, I had to go through the config tool. I enjoy testing different types of settings, but I didn’t have much time. The 2 hours mark, remember? I launched the game. The first cutscene was stuttering at times. Something went wrong, the clock was ticking, I had to quit the game, enter the config tool again, and lower the MSAA. It got better with no visible loss. I just wanted to try the game to see if it was playable or if it had buildings trying to aim at my jaw. And, Seiros in heaven, it was! It’s a 3D game. I’m inside the environment with no camera or angle issues. I was never so happy to experience such an evolution! The map was readable, with zoom in/out and camera angles. The textures were fine, and due to the lighting and sharpness, I didn’t even have to squint!

    I’d like to play more but it was too late yesterday. Estelle isn’t there, nor is the rural setting from Sky. I’m at a military academy, in a special class with commoners and nobles, a bit like in Three Houses. I’d like to have time to try the combat at my level. The game started some months after the initial events, so the first fight went smoothly with no issues. I tried crafts, attacks, and arts. I think it’s possible to build a nice variety of characters with buffs, debuffs, and magic attacks without freaking out about the menu navigation. Making plans is always a good sign. I’m still on the fence, though, but I found this first experience very promising.

    I’ve played a bit more today and decided to keep the game. There’s only so much we can do on a Trails game before the timer runs out. There’s a lot of dialogue, and I didn’t find it necessary to skip anything. The game shows its age in terms of graphics, but everything else seems to be working just fine. Occasionally, I experienced some minor issues with character movement when I break objects, but it’s nothing serious, at least so far. I’m curious about some characters and what they have in store for our group. I only went through the normal introductions and inside the first dungeon. I experimented with the combat and familiarized myself with the ARCUS combat orbment. I’ll learn as I go, as I always do. This can be the beginning of a love story or just a good time! I’m good with either! In the end, I forgot to ask myself if I had the time to play it.

    https://swordofseiros.wordpress.com/2024/02/21/trails-through-frustration/

    #adventureGames #bandaiNamco #erebonianEmpire #falcom #fandom #gaming #jrpgs #marvelous_ #pcGaming #rpg #steam #storyRich #theLegendOfHeroes #trailsOfColdSteel #turnBased #videoGames #xseed

  7. Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch, released on the PSP in 2006 and is the second release in the U.S. for this trilogy series.

    Shame this didn’t get more releases on other platforms to reach a wider audience.

    #TheLegendOfHeroes #prophecyofthemoonlightwitch #playstationportable #PSP #playstation #RPG #JRPG #roleplayinggames #videogames #game #games #gamer #retro #retrogames #ClassicGames #classicgaming #gaming #playstationgamer #retrogaming #SonyPlayStation #mediavision

  8. Not many people bring up this triliogy
    of Legend of Heroes Games.

    It is a series under the Legend of Heroes umbrella of RPG titles but has no relation to the Trails games.

    The first title, The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion, released on December 17, 2005, for the PSP.

    Have you tried it?

    #TheLegendOfHeroes #playstationportable #thelegendofheroesatearofvermillion
    #PSP #playstation #RPG #JRPG #roleplayinggames #videogames #game #games #gamer #retro #retrogames #ClassicGames

  9. La nueva época de los juegos de rol, marcado por los japoneses y los JRPG. Se alejarían de los clásicos juegos de rol para dar paso a crear obras más originales y culturales. Si miramos a lo largo de la historia de ambas etiquetas, tanto los WRPG como los JRPG han sido influencidos por clásicos como #D&D mas los japoneses querían salirse de la línea cultural de occidente y así nacieron los juegos de rol por turnos con influencia taoísta, sintoísta y budista.

    Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest y Phantasy Star marcaron un antes y un después. Mezclando una clásica ambientación medieval basada en Dragones y Mazmorras, pero mentiendo por debajo su cultura asiática, algo que nadie se ha dado cuenta, ya que todos relacionamos JRPG con "Juegos hechos en Japón y, mayoritariamente, por turnos". Estos RPG hechos en Japón diferían de los juegos de rol occidentales por muchas características, entre ellas, sus monstruos.

    Da igual si hablamos de #Pokémon, #Digimon, Shin Megami Tensei, Final Fantasy o #TheLegendofHeroes... la mayoría de los JRPGs influencian sus monstruos e invocaciones por la cultura de dioses y demonios que existen en el taoísmo y el sintoísmo, además de estar muchos basados en Yokais, tal vez nunca os lo habíais percatado, pero no es de casualidad que la mayoría de juegos de rol hechos en Japón tengan en común esta características.
    Por otro lado, los JRPGs también hacen mucho incapié en el combate elemental. Sí, es cierto que en los WRPG también existen debilidades elementales. Sin embargo, gracias al taoísmo y la cultura de los 5 elementos, más el tao, en los JRPG es muy importante un sistema de magia (aunque a veces les salga cosas como la magia de #FinalFantasy8 o #FinalFantasy15). Y no es de extrañar que los demonios y dioses más importantes (que pueden venir de otras religiones, pero siguen añadiéndole la influencia taoísta y sintoísta), que suelen ser las invocaciones, representen a un elemento y a su vez éste tenga un significado (como pasa constantemente en Tales of).
    Pero de todas formas, independientemente de toda la influencia cultural contenida en cada JRPG, este género se especializó en ser conocido como en juegos de rol por turnos hecho por japoneses, y muchas veces, por tener un sistema de oficios (siendo ese el "rol" del juego), con algunas excepciones de vez en cuando como Tales of o #Ys.

    Pero... mientras tanto... ¿qué pasaba en occidente?
    Estamos en los 90s, los juegos de rol japoneses dominaban el mercado. ¿Qué ocurría en este lado del mundo? La evolución de los CRPG es la respuesta.