r/Falcom • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago

Quick Questions Thread

This thread (to be posted every four weeks) is a place for people to ask quick, common, or simple questions regarding Nihon Falcom and its games. The community is encouraged to ask here if your question is not opinion-based, such as where to find something in a game or when something occurred. Please mark all spoilers with the >!text!< format and remember to provide context.

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u/No_University1600 7d ago

I checked the FAQ link, it looks severely out of date. I was looking for the most recent starting point for trails series and it cuts off at Kuro no Kiseki, which appears to be a 5 year old game with at least 2 following it.

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u/TehNolz 6d ago

Since the franchise has a single overarching storyline, you want to be playing everything in release order;

  • Trails in the Sky FC (or the remake)
  • Trails in the Sky SC (or the upcoming remake, releasing in September)
  • Trails in the Sky the 3rd (remake TBA, but inevitable)
  • Trails from Zero (remake TBA, but they've mentioned wanting to do it)
  • Trails to Azure (if they're remaking Zero, they're remaking Azure)
  • Trails of Cold Steel
  • Trails of Cold Steel II
  • Trails of Cold Steel III
  • Trails of Cold Steel IV
  • Trails into Reverie
  • Trails through Daybreak
  • Trails through Daybreak II
  • Trails beyond the Horizon

Skipping games is not recommended since you'll miss references, won't recognize recurring characters, and will get spoilers for whatever games you skipped. If you're going to skip stuff, at least make sure you start at the start of a story arc (FC, Zero, Cold Steel 1, or Daybreak 1) as you'll just be completely lost otherwise.

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u/alyosha3 3d ago

Adding the slight dissent that CS1 and CS2 can easily be played before any of the earlier games without any significant losses. This is what I did. You will miss some fanservice references but nothing important, and you then get the fun of going back to the earlier games and uncovering the context. This was more relevant before the Sky 1 remake gave you a modern-graphics starting point, though, which was previously the main reason for starting with Cold Steel.