When the remake was announced Trails fans: "surprised gasp" People interested: "surprised gasp" Falcom: "surprised gasp" Trails fans: Why are you surprised!? I just thought that was funny Also for the op I'm interested in what version of "Sora no Kiseki" they would use, one like the OG or one like the vocal version as they are 2 very different tones
I really hope they can do English voices because it makes it more enjoyable and not have to read the text all the time. Also, some English actors/actresses are really good at it and I don't care what others say. I ENJOY english dubs.
@@JunKurosuactually no. Both coldsteel 1, 2 and Reverie have more voice acting in English. In the case of reverie only around 1k extra voice lines on top of the Japanese 19k. But for cs1 and 2 you get around 5k extra voice lines per game. And for those it's extra noticeable since they only have around 9 or 10k voice lines in Japanese. Going from 9k or 10k to 14 or 15k is quite a bit! Also for all those people saying not all is voiced so not kneading to tag its not a argument. It's all 15k voiced lines of dialog that I don't have to read. What little bit helps.
I'm really hoping for an English dub... and PH3's involvement with a PC port. As it stands, NISA is currently our best chance of getting both of those outcomes -- and the same could be said for bringing anyone from the original localization team back to handle any new content Falcom might sneak in. I'm *really* hoping NISA's dismissal was just an empty PR statement, but who knows?
I feel like since Falcom is still not even on the phase of actually adding voice lines in the game, I can see that any deal for localization is not on the table really. Since Falcom as per how Falcom does things, they usually have the game finished before making localization deals which is why there is always a localization delay with their games. Like even the japanese voice actor tweeting about the remake said they haven't heard anything yet if they are gonna reprise their roles. So even if they actually make Nisa localize it, asking NISA now if they are gonna localize it will only result to of course to Nisa answering with "they haven't received any calls for Falcom".
I do hope that it will have an English dub, I always prefer to hear the characters speaking in a language that I can understand, unless the game takes place in a location where it would make sense for the characters to be speaking in a different language. I know that people love their Japenese sub, but I'm one of those people who finds that not having the English VA's kind of ruins the immersion.
Honestly for me it’s just as simple as not getting to know what dialogue the characters are saying in battle with no subtitles makes special moves and victory lines less memorable since I can rarely get what their saying.
My predictions: Not a Switch exclusive, although Nintendo might have exclusivity for a period of time. EN Dub will happen. Falcom knows the western market has the most untapped potential. The news that they aren't using the Evo voices makes it more likely. Expect a lot less voice acting compared to that version, however. No chest messages. It hurts to type, but deep in my soul I know it to be true.
the thing is that chest messages are so easy to code in and you can just put the new guys to work by doing the more menial tasks like writing chest messages (the same could be said about the books in trails) I really hope they put chest messages
Potentially platform announcements at TGS, but I'm not gonna hold my breath too much. But yeah it wouldn't surprise me if this has been a side project for a number of people at falcom for a while (we know from Kondo that their employees wear many hats), and what we've seen so far is mostly all that exists. (It would make sense with as little info as they can give about VA and publisher.) Once Kai releases, then the game can enter full production-as we already have confirmation that Kyoto Xanadu will mostly be used for training fresher hires, as Tokyo Xanadu did the decade before.
I'm not really worried about anything. They are keeping the original combat except it's in 3D this time. I played the original game with no voice acting, so whether it's in Japanese, English, or no voice acting is fine by me, though I would prefer an English dub, especially for characters like Loewe and Alan Richard. Either way, I will be there!
I feel like SC would be pretty inexpensive to remake considering like 90% of the world map could be reused. And all of the returning characters could have their models reused (especially the ones that appared in like CS 3 and onwards). They have the script in both Japanese and English so their'd be minimal new translating/localization required. The main things that would take up development resources would be new music (if they decide to redo the soundtrack), animating the cutscnenes, modeling any new areas that weren't in the previous game. And recording for voice acting (if they decide to have both the English and JP version fully voiced). Sky The Third would be a similar story.
When I woke up at Midnight I saw the Trails in the Sky Remake Announced then I was like "Woah Sky Remake is real." I felt that and it's really awesome. Can't wait to see what Sky Remake is capable of.
Not likely, Again if you paid your game to be featured in it, it would be irresponsible for nintendo to not tell Falcom of when they will feature their game. Also Kondo was like on a dengeki online livestream talking about the remake the day after. And that livestream was a scheduled episode 1 for series of playthrough that a dengkionline staff playing the OG Sky game. Like they would not have been able to work the timing of that if they did not know when Nintendo will reveal the remake.
@@Snzn_7 well they obviously meant something. And it's more logical to assume that than the only other option, which is that they didn't know about the direct at all which makes even less sense
Crossing my fingers for dub I think people are over reacting a bit the Nintendo bit I'm sure falcom just didn't know what day it'll be it is supposed to be secret so people just going way over bored with it and people seem really nis understanding lot of what said from va to if game doesn't sell well witch kondo says that for every game just need to be patient let falcom and kondo cook
I would absolutely love connections to future games, tweaking of existing crafts, and more spotlight on some of the traveling companions. Daybreak turned Zin into a badass and a connection to the underground. Show us more of that side in sky. As long as we don't find out that this remake is part of some multiverse plot, then I'll be happy with whatever they do
Yeah I wouldn’t mind little tidbits being talked about. Vita’s hinted crush on Loewe before she met Crow. Loewe and Mcburn’s rivalry. Arionrhod training Loewe and Mcburn.
13:01 It's almost an insult. Falcom has made games for 40+ yrs and people still believe we're just crossdressing. NO, peope! That game thing is a Falcom thing. 😂 IT'S what we do here, since 1981 we've dabbled in games. What do you think you've played these 2 decades?! 🎉
I never play these games in eng dub because the jp dub is usually leagues above. Maybe I it fits better due to it's anime style... that's how I feel at least. But I get the feeling that if you are already used to something (the voices of the characters in this case), it can be a pain to adapt and accept a different version of it. Well, I hope you guys get your dub but if not... welcome to the sub club haha
11:15 Quartz wise, I just want them to fully upgrade to the system used in the Azure. The peak of the old quartz system. Definetly want my master quartz!
@@sanane66543 Eh, I wouldn't be worried about casual players. Most of those don't finish games statistically, so yeah. Like, if you look at games that just have the "beat the final boss on any difficulty" types of free achievements, there's a staggeringly low % of people with that, most only having the "beat the tutorial/first area" types of achievements. So yeah, casuals drop games, but those who stick with it won't mind anyway.
@@FieryAnubis yea if we fans eat good + alot of new fans joining in is enough of a win really like the celshading style it has compared to other trials games
The thing is, if it were XSEED localizing the remake, wouldn't it have made sense for the reveal to include mentioning them? While it may appear the same XSEED script is used in the dialogue for the preview pics, it's possible it's just a placeholder. Given The 1st is a straight up remake and not a remaster like Ys Memoire, maybe the same doesn't apply to XSEED having publishing rights for the former, especially when Falcom is practically in bed with NISA now.
It will definitely be on other platforms. They cant bring new players if it will be on switch only. Im worried for the english dub though. They didn't have it on Zero and Azure.
Since i own ALL games on PlayStation, and various Japanese limited editions on PS4 and 5, i would be PISSED that this would never come to PC/PS5... Since these are my Gaming platforms. I don't really like the switch (maybe a Switch 2 i would get), but even still since my collection is on one platform, suddenly getting to "switch" to another for this franchise would "kill" me. But i would do it, because Trails is life. But a remake for switch only makes me sad... Make it Multiplatform like you are doing now Falcom... Everyone deserves to play this.
Even with my dislike of Daybreak 2, Van easily takes the cake as one of my favorite protagonists, so I would love if you see or hear more about what he was doing behind the scenes in Liberl. It already kinda bugs me that they really talked him up as being super active in Erebonia but they never actually go over what he did during the war despite supposedly playing a huge part in bringing it to a close. But I guess you could just chalk that up to the early warning signs of the declining writing of his arc. Regardless, more Van is good. Especially if it includes more of his interactions with a certain little lady. Those were honestly the highlights of his games for me, I love their chemistry
Thought about the sky remakes earlier today and I swear we might at least get a PS version announcement at TGS, because TGS starts exactly on kais release date which Falcom probably wanted to get out of the way, expecting Nintendo to do their direct after TGS.
If Falcom is developing this in-house, I wonder if they also need to find a third party to help with porting to other platforms, though you could be right.... these might be scenes from a PC port that is being worked on. As far as voice acting goes, I guess a dub will depend on who the western publisher is and how much money that publisher its willing to fork over. Adding in voice acting is expensive, and this still will be a niche title. If Falcom decides to stick with the Evo voices and publishes it themselves, I won't be surprised if that is what the west gets to.
As long as this game comes out I'm good. I started with Trails Through Daybreak so now I'm committed to starting from the beginning but gaming on my PC is just not feasible for me
I am positive the fanbase is worried over nothing. Sky the 1st is a Switch 2 launch title, the localization hasn't started yet and it was just announced. There is obviously not enough information yet, because there shouldn't be. Just wait and see what happens. Don't worry over it. Too many people are being dramatic over nothing.
Falcom finally self-publishing? Hell to the yeah. Some people would probably be disappointed by no dub but i'm original voice purist anyway so, yeah, wouldn't be a deal breaker for me. If it's not an switch exclusive and not published by Nisa or any of publishers that are on my no-buy list i'm 100% buying it when it's available. Hope it succeeds and SC and 3rd will get remakes too, who knows, maybe Crossbell duology will get the same treatment, and someday Ys V, let a man dream...no seriously, i genuinely hope they'll remake Ys V someday.
I think some of the answers will be revealed in due time. I'm really interested in those future game details. I think most of that will probably be cases like using the proper name of a city or character. Including a future character could be interesting too (like Juna and Towa in Crossbell). I hope they announce it for PlayStation and PC too. The console exclusivity could be something like Metaphor ReFantazio. In that case, most (if not all) of the promo material has the Xbox logo, but you know it's coming to other platforms. They will probably announce the other platforms in their December shareholder's meeting. That gameplay IS NOT running on Switch. I refuse to believe so. If it does, they have wizards working at Falcom 😂Like you said, that's probably Switch 2 or PC dev footage. I am also thinking about the Western Publisher thing. Could there be a scenario where Falcom asks NISA to work with the original script? I think they would love to get a simultaneous release for this game. They could probably check that everything in the English script is in the right place, maybe work on the new logos/signs/menu text, and handle the distribution over here. I think an English dub would be awesome for the game over here. I'll still be playing it in Japanese, but an English dub is essential if you want to reach a bigger audience. But all of that will depend on the Western publisher. I think Kondo also said in an interview that the SC and the 3rd remakes depend on the sales of this remake. I think he's probably saying that to not get everyone's hopes up (and because he can't confirm or deny anything right now), but I can bet they are going to make the whole trilogy either way. I don't think their plan was to remake FC and call it quits. They probably want to focus on this remake. Man, the "news" that Falcom didn't know the remake was going to be revealed there is so dumb. Some sites want those clicks no matter what😂 Sorry for the long comment XD
8:28 I think he sends a vailed threat because when the original sold via exceed, the sales in the beginning were slow. So he's going "don't go drop us this time or we'll move on from this without anything more" because for this putting they're properly posting a substantial investment for a game people already have on their shelves.
Phil’s voice actor had passed away very recently for KH3 though, if it had been something that had happened further in the past, they would have recast him
I wouldn't worry too much, as I do think it still will do really well for a multitude of reasons. Beautiful Visuals, being the first in the series, gameplay improvements to keep up with some modern standards but also faithful to what veterans like, not locked to PC only (heck even being on a Switch even for a while isn't too bad, especially in Japan where even by it's 8th year, it's still a Top-Dawg) and as you mentioned it has a cliff-hanger. A Japanese only dub wouldn't hurt too much, even tho i would still prefer to have dual audio with an English dub (heck the Atelier Ryza games don't have a dub and it's currently the highest selling Atelier and even brought a huge bank for the new Atelier Yumia), and I know majority of Yakuza/Like A Dragon fans always like to prefer playing the newer entries in Japanese, despite some of them having a dub. Sure whether Falcom self-publishes it, might be a bit wonky depending how much they handle with merch and CEs (I know NISA is abysmal with tracking, but they do work it out well), but if they are pulling for a WW release, then fine by me. I think Falcom not knowing, is mainly due they probably didn't know the direct was happening which is more plausible. I kinda laugh thinking that Sky the 1st would be outsourced, some people thought that Gust, the Atelier devs were making this, but LOL NO
The Man, the Myth, the Kaiser! I saw some people on Twitter talking about how the game looked Gust-like xD would've been interesting if that were the case but it was still funny Kondo had to clarify that.
even in the japanese, some of the the well known cast had already been replaced. Renne's va was replaced during CS3, Kevin has a new va in Kai, Claire's og seiyuu died so she was replaced by a new on for cs 3 onward. Japanese dub will tend to keep the main cast but they will still replace the va if they were unavailable for any reason. That aside I had played the games with the japanese voice so the possibility of not having a japanese dub is not a big issue for me. But redubbing the remake as a whole make me worried if the new dub will not be as extended as the EVO dub(which dub all the main story lines and important side quest dialogues). It's highly likely that if they will make a new dub it will be like the rest of the 3d trails games. (though that formula probably would have work for the english dub since that will keep the voice acting budget more in check) Also Estelle's seiyuu in va did answer say they haven't recieved any calls yet for the remake when she asked in twitter.
How big is the scope of this game? If it isn't gigantic then they can focus more on graphical fidelity. Focusing one platform allows them to optimize for that. I do think PlayStation and PC versions are coming though. Also about the Direct, I think Kondo expected the Direct to be in September instead of August lol
@@Cyrus_Bright interesting 🤔 yeah I didn't think about load times. We did see them run into the town seamlessly. This might be Monolithsoft levels of wizardry haha
My only hope is that if theirs no English dub option, that theirs at least an option to change the subtitle size and color. Because quite honestly sometimes it’s really difficult to read the standard white subtitles. And for a game as text heavy as the trails series not being able to read some of the text means you’d miss out on a fair amount. Regardless I’ll still be buying a physical copy of this game as the sky trilogy is one I have not played yet❤
I think they will end up porting to other platforms eventually, but it makes a lot of sense to make Switch or Switch 2 the lead platform. There is no competition in Japan between switch and ps5. At the end of its life, the Switch is outselling PS5 on a weekly basis 5 to 1 when the PS5 is mid cycle
I think we'll have a "Zero" situation as far as voices go. Evo voices reused and no English dub, with the ability to turn off event VO. Combat changes, we already saw a glimpse. "Daybreak lite" basically, so yeah, that's gonna feel a bit jarring for people going with these remakes and then Zero and Azure (which don't need remakes imo). There's a lot of small things basically adding up to an off feeling when starting the series, but if that's what console only players get stuck with, that's just how it's gonna be I guess.
@@Snzn_7 Nostalgia about "the simpler days" and making their own voices up or just quick readers who don't feel like sitting there for the VO. Personally, I let the voices do their thing, but yeah, I kinda do understand why some people would do that.
@@ZephyrK_ bruh, I play old jrpg games too, and as technology progressed when Cutscenes and Voice acting were introduced. They were kinda like a "special thing". Having played through those transition like most people learned the value of voice acting in the same way people learned the value of cinematic cutscenes like how Fvii did. So I don't get the need to why people skip cutscenes or turn off voice acting altogether. Since it is basically tied to the storytelling jrpgs do offer. Also again it's Trails. Where a lot of the fandom went a lot of effort just to put the "Evo" voice in their steam version of Sky games. Add to that where the fee events we get for games again is mostly use voice actors as spokes person for Jrpg games. Like that just leaves you out of the loop when people starts talking about the games and since the spokes person are voice actors it will the dedicate a big chunk of the event just revolving on the voice acting performances.
Never say never. But it would be a first. Since pc-88. I'd never miss out on a trails release for a switch, so maybe i'd need a new family member next to my psp and ps2, If Falcom in some way chose to go exclusive with Nintendo. That'd be a crazy move.
hope it's not switch exclusive at least release it in pc. Kinda disappointed if they just doing the fc, i like sc more and tc also refreshing. i don't have any problem without english dub, the translation also so liberal in OG and not rare they change the way they talk, moreover i prefer their original personality. i heard people hate it when estelle translation start getting closer to her personality in sc/tc. I just hope this doesn't make the game action based combat, or at least let player choose.
That and I'm not even sure how many of the actors from the X Seed games version of FC to the 3rd are still alive or even retired BUT the ENGLISH dub of Hajimari didn't really keep the FC/SC/3rd actors for Estelle Tita Agate anyways.
I really don't think this will be a remake but something like final fantasy where there are changes. I mean with Kai trying to reset the world... What better way to redo sky ... Has noone connected this as a possibility?
I've seen maybe a handful of people mention that, which would be interesting for sure, but I'd rather they not make any significant changes unless they can somehow weave it into the story seamlessly without making any drastic changes to the original script
@@Cyrus_Bright I know what you mean. But think about the license for creating , it needs to be different for it to be redone if someone holds the rights for example flame toys for creating power rangers. Etc. I can see it happening maybe not as a continual for Kai but maybe not.
@@keroclow9059 And that's why there's the references to Cold Steel and Daybreak? (They'll probably show a few scenes of Renne interacting with Van, and other things like that)
Ah yes, the "We'll have to wait and see" video that the Sky remake is infamous for by now cause every video is saying that because it's true lol Man, each week that goes by and no English Dub is confirmed for this game still my anxiety grows lol It would be very crazy and head smashingly confusing if for a Remake there isn't one but we'll just have to...wait and see.
@@Cyrus_Bright After experiecing that cliffhanger at the end of Sky FC in 2011 and then waiting all that time to play SC, I better learn how to wait and see with this series lol
my theory on the switch exclusivity is that it has a pretty obvious reason for it. i think it's so that the sky remake's release doesn't hurt the international release of trails into daybreak 2. so i assume it's going to be timed exclusive for that reason. it so the two games are not going completely head to head with each other, since Daybreak 2 is going to be released on other platforms besides the switch.
4:26 uh, troy baker? With all due respect, I just can't get the feeling of real Olivier without hearing his Japanese dub from one and only Takehito Koyasu
They'll probably pull a Persona 4 and keep Mercer if they're making it fully voiced - he has been Olivert's VA the whole time, after all (When he became voiced, I mean - not just battle lines)
The original voice actors for this game don't really matter. There was almost zero voice acting in the original games. Edit: I'm talking about the English voices.
No ENG dub would be a huge disappointment. Even the dub mod for FC made the game a lot more fun and immersive. Also, I'm gonna be that guy and say that if any DEI or woke politics touches this game falcom will be dead to me.
