With The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, a true epic finally comes (mostly) to a close. Spanning four games, each one clocking in at some 80 hours, simply playing through all Trails of Cold Steel is a mammoth undertaking (before you even factor in other Legend of …
If you want to get a taste of Ys IX: Monstrum Nox before its launch next month, you’re in luck, with a free demo released on PlayStation 4 today. The demo lets you jump into two different areas of the game, the ancient waterways of the Cloaca Maxima and the …
The Nintendo Switch version of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III will release in New Zealand and Australia on July 10. It’s already available in North America and Europe, where it released on 30 June, and in Japan, where it came out in March this year. Related: …
There was plenty of great news out of the New Game Plus presentation earlier this week, but perhaps the most exciting announcement of all—at least for me—was that Ys IX: Monstrum Nox is finally on the cards for a Western release. It’s coming to PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC …
I know I’m normally one to rail against games being too long, but The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series are the rare sorts of games that earn every minute of their running time. I said as much in my review of the first game in this four-part …
There’s been a lot of attention on substandard localisation work for Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, to the point that NIS America president Takuro Yamashita apologised for it and promised sweeping improvements. All that criticism was well-founded, but it also drowned out another really important detail: Ys VIII is a …
The Western debut of Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection is one of the most delightful surprises of the year. It’s a localisation of Zwei II, one of Nihon Falcom’s lesser-known titles and a game that, having originally released in Japan in 2008, is almost a decade old. I can’t imagine there …
A couple of years ago, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita owners got introduced to The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, one of the best JRPGs in years. Sadly, the Western release came in the waning years of both those platforms, so it didn’t make as much of a …
There are few games with as rich a world as that of the Trails series. Across a handful of different sub-series, Nihon Falcom built the continent of Zemuria up into one of the most intricate and believable settings ever seen in the medium. Each different sub-series focuses on a different …
Gurumin 3D: A Monstrous Adventure feels old. Well, it is old – this is a 3DS port of a game that first came out in 2004 – but it feels even older. I don’t mean it feels dated, because it certainly doesn’t, but that it has the look, feel, and …
