Imagine seeing the same town and countryside as those games made many years later, just with a lower polygon count and a simpler graphics engine. Perhaps the most interesting part was seeing what was essentially a 'demake' of the city of Crossbell, as Cold Steel III and IV have a much more detailed version playable in those later games. I also noticed quite a few musical pieces that are also in Cold Steel found their start in Zero as well. For example, bonding events were first introduced with Zero, as were after-battle bonuses. So now, nearly twelve years after its initial release in Japan, The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero has finally arrived on Western shores.Īs the arc that sits in between first Sky games and the newer Cold Steel ones, it became obvious while playing Trails from Zero that the evolution of the series was ongoing, as many of the changes Cold Steel brought after playing Sky were first pioneered in this duology. Having already done the translations' heavy lifting, NIS America worked out a deal with the Geofront group to license their translations for official release! NIS America also worked with PH3 GmbH to take the Japanese PS4 version of Zero and make a superb PC and Switch port with added features and improved graphics. This release was well known everywhere as being done by some of the most dedicated Trails fans, and was done to an extremely high quality level, going beyond merely translating, but also making custom art and more. After many years of this situation seemingly going nowhere, a group of extremely dedicated fans from the Geofront fan translation group released a fan translation of the two games, Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure. Games four and five, known as the Crossbell duology, were stuck in a terrible limbo for many years, as they were critical to the larger Trails story, but were cost-prohibitive to localize. The Legend of Heroes' Trails series is one of the most unique in gaming, as it's a long-running series with sequels that directly follow one another, that spans over a dozen games now. Thank you NIS America for sending us this game to review! ESRB Rating: Teen for Fantasy Violence, Language, Simulated Gambling, Suggestive Themes, Use of Drugs
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