The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC

released on Mar 09, 2006

Picking up shortly after The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Estelle travels across Liberl in search of Joshua. The journey involves more than seeking loved ones, however, as the Bracer Guild also tasks her with unraveling the mysteries behind the newly unveiled Society of Ouroboros. Comrades both old and new join your team in this story-driven RPG with new combat mechanics and other features that improve the gameplay experience from the first entry.


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I finally jumped back into Trails in the Sky after beating the first game in late 2019 or early 2020. I have to say that I'm glad I did. The writing is just as good as the first game, with the story building off of the first game's cliffhanger. Estelle's quest to find Joshua has to take a backseat to helping the different regions of Liberl, but it's always there at least. And it's great to revisit all the regions and locales as well as all the characters we met there.

A big change for me this time was that I ignored the people who say you need to read every NPC dialogue after every plot point or else you're missing the game. I engaged when I wanted to and didn't when I wanted to just plow through with the story and that helped me avoid burnout and love every chapter of this game. The way the story comes to a head is worth all the hours I put into both games.

The battle system is exactly the same as the first game, but it's cool that it starts you all at level 40. It's a serviceable system, with the orbments tuning (like materia) being a fun way to customize the party. Thank god for the devs putting in the turbo option though, which makes the entire game a breeze to walk through instead of a slog of slow battle animations.

A super fun JRPG that is totally worth the time investment. I loved it in spite of some of its anime tropes.


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Me sleeping peacefully knowing that four-eyed bastard can now be put on my McDonalds French Fries

Peak falcomiction

everyone told me it gets really bad after this part and while I believe them I have to keep following where this gang goes. trails in the sky fc was nicely paced and the perfect idea of what a first chapter should be to me, and sc closes their story perfectly if you ignore all the cliffhangers and sequels. joshua and estelle are young and silly and trying too hard to do too much but theres no way they could ever do any less and thats why we love them.

A Truly Amazing Game!

The game's prologue was a great immediate continuation of the finale of fc and served as a nice break from everything we saw from trails thus far in terms of the mountain area and it's structure.

The first half is admittedly pretty slow but it has enough switch-ups in it's episodic returns and investigations of each region (especially 3 & 5), for me to keep interested. A latter chapter also has some element of repetitiveness and it's something that I do wish could have been injected with more variety but the boss fights are fun and it serves it's purpose.

The character work is still incredible and potentially even much better, FC's planted seeds begin sprouting and some characters growth or just in general presence is great.

The story was irresistible especially near the end and the way it tugs on your heartstrings was special.

Multi-tiered orbal slots are cool and so are multi-party member s crafts.

Excited for the rest of this series.


While this took me a while to beat, it does everything it can to improve and continue well off of the first chapter ESPECIALLY in the character department. I really enjoyed the progression and dynamic between Joshua and Estelle in this game and I think it is done really well and realistically in a way that really hits for a lot of people. As usual, Trails never misses with presentation, music etc etc and the combat is even more fun than before. Remember, there is one truth: Love is Eternal!

formulaic, but competently! last area was a blast. lovable characters and good music. got riled up every time blueblanc showed up.