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>>3920416
it's the low stakes and slow pace of it. ironically, some really dislike how each chapter is its own story arc with some minor building up to the overall story.

>>3920422
Yeah, when the games were introduced to me, it was couched with "It gets really good, but it's super slow and you have to stick with it, but it's rewarding if you do." And it is rewarding, but that slow journey is its own reward to me. I love how the game takes as much time as it wants to tell its story and let you spend time with these characters. I love how almost every element of the gameplay is contextualized in the story and the lore. It's just right up my alley.

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>>3920422
>each chapter is its own story arc
I get the feeling that used to be more of a JRPG thing before they started taking story too seriously. Like how you're dealing with individual dragons in Lunar 2, for example.

I've been playing through the remake of FC and I'm having more fun with the gameplay of the remake than the original. I feel kinda bad for dropping it though.

I love all of the characters in this game so much. Even the basic NPC feel like characters involved in the whole story with how they're usually involved in the bracer quests.


I'm currently in the final dungeon and goddamn. the fucking music for the place is amazing. In fact the whole OST is fucking amazing.There is not a single track in this game that gets tiring to listen to.

September can't come any sooner man.

>>3920462
You're in for a treat when the second remake comes out. As good as the first one is, SC is even better.

I love the original Trails trilogy and the Crossbell games are pretty good. I really hate what they became from Coldsteel onward, it's such a drop in quality.

>>3920416
i don't really get all the people who keep harping the "slow and low stakes" mantra, the only part of the game (all 3 of them) that has that feeling is the first part of the Ruan chapter in FC.
People see - you are hunting after sky pirates, as like ... eating toast somehow and it just makes no sense to me at all.
They have so many games out there where you're also going from place to place and solving that place's problems while following a bigger storyline, but it seems like people just peg TiTS as being some kind of exception instead of being very standard in the genre in regards to that.

>>3920643
>People see - you are hunting after sky pirates, as like ... eating toast somehow and it just makes no sense to me at all.
The reason is that the sky pirates are unrelated to the big bad and so it's seen as irrelevant i.e. slow meandering quest stuff, instead of seeing it as character growth for Estelle, proving herself as a Bracer, and introducing characters relevant to the story (later).

>>3920416
aren't there a million permanently missable things

also I bought trails in the sky years ago and I haven't even touched it

>>3920819
Okay go play it then
Don’t be a bitch and use a guide

>>3920416
OP here again. My favorite animes are Love Hina and Lucky Star. I really like the slice of life aspects and they are funny too.

>>3920416
This series really was so much better when it was simple

>>3920886
The first 7 games in the series weren't an endless string of memberberries. Now that's all the series is.

>>3920720
>The reason is that the sky pirates are unrelated to the big bad
The sky pirates are working for the big bad, they just don't realize it.

I love the way that the story can impact the gameplay, sometimes in really tiny ways, but like how at one point in the story Seig goes missing, and for that little chunk of the story, Kloe can't use her craft that involves summoning him. Just the details like that really impress me.

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>>3920416
FC in particular is underrated as hell, everyone just sees the superb ending and pretend that the rest of the game is mediocre. But the reason you genuinely care about Estelle and Joshua in the ending is because of the very well built relationship that slowly progresses through the entire game. The worldbuilding is solid. The plot moves without you being there. It's truly a breath of fresh air.

>>3921075
Still plays so well too. I like the Playmobil graphics, I love the artwork. I'm glad it got a modern remake so more people can enjoy the story, but the original is still so easy to fall in love with.

>>3920937
In SC, when the orbments stop working, one of the only characters who can heal your party is Kurt because Kurt's healing is actual magic and not orbal arts like the rest of the party.

>>3921416
I didn't even know Kurt could join your party.

>>3920910
Because it's a classical trap of "we must reference everything that ever happened". Games now at least have a brief summary of what happened in earlier entries.