What are you playing?

Anyone playing Trails in the Sky? While I'm not generally into anime aesthetic games at this point, friend got me the remake so I'm playing it. Never played any of the Trails games, but I've heard they're the great traditional RPG series of the 2010's+ in the mold of your Suikodens and Grandias.

I'm about an hour in and I have to give the game credit for making all of the female characters ridiculously hot. Tight midriffs and belly rings are something I'm happy to still see games doing in 2025.

Droigan said:

Very large story driven games. I think there are 2 or 3 trilogies? Very good games, and apparently the remake is quite good. I've only played the demo.

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Yeah, I think they're up to like the 9th Trails game at this point. In a few months when the next one comes out, the U.S. will at last officially be up to where Japan is with the series. When the first one came out here, I think Japan was about to get the 5th one.

The series takes place on one big continent, and each game has filled in a different province of the continent. At this point I think they have one trilogy left before the continent is fully covered by the series (doesn't mean they can't make more games, or do a full slate of remakes). The continent is about 75% playable over all the games in the existing series.

Given how Elder Scrolls was a similar situation that completely dropped the ball with covering most of the provinces (at least they're making one of the five* remaining lands, I guess), it's pretty cool to see a series set out to cover an entire continent's worth of lands and actually follow through with it.

* - Six if you count that more than half of Morrowind didn't get included in the Morrowind game. Figured it'd be in the Black Marsh game or in a Morrowind 2, but here we are 15 years after I made those speculations and it all seems quaint now

Anyway, the Trails series seems really good, something actually worth getting into if I ever want to do a full RPG series that doesn't drop the ball with its potential.