The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie Review - A JRPG Masterpiece 

I love the subliminal message that Rixia is indeed a waifu

Holy shit, you guys gave it a solid 10. Not surprising though, because it's a faithful epilogue to both Crossbell and Cold Steel Arcs. Looking forward to this!

The Trails series is JRPG heaven. I admit I'm getting a bit old and some of the tropes are a bit cringy but there's a lot of heart in these games, so much character development, you really get rewarded in the end. Not only that, the battle systems are some of the best in the genre and they get better with every installment.

What a fantastic review! Zero spoilers and to the point, finishing CS4 so excited for this!

You giving the game a 10 and calling it your favorite game of all time was what got me into the series. Halfway through FC and I didin't know what I was missing!

Wow, I feel like you all got this game so much better than IGN did. Their 8 out of 10 felt so strange after all of the praise they gave it. This review actually gets me excited for the game, thank you Noisy Pixel team!

it's strange to me that so many people gloss over hajimari and skys the 3rd as much as they do - they're my two favorite games of the series in terms of world building/character development and combat hajimari is my favorite simply because i LOVED the C-route and all the daydream events that really fleshed out the backstories and upcoming storylines to come. it was so wonderfully done and so bittersweet to finish knowing that it was my last adventure w/ this entourage excellent review!

Great review. I still didnt play Azure so i'm gonna start it now to hop on reverie after. I kinda like this gacha mode, like you can make the party from your dream.

Hyped, every Trails game is great to me. I dont mind the tropes/harems/etc, just a good fun story and crew

Sounds like they just put the best parts of every game prior in this one. Man I can’t fucking wait 🔥🔥

I CANNOT WAITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

i thought Cold Steel 4 already have all the cross over there ever could be with Estelle and Lloyd being so prominently featured throughout the story, excited to play this epilogue chapter before Calvard arc!

I’m barely on Trails in the Sky the 3rd but I love this series and I’m glad that Reverie is actually like the 3rd in its own modern and unique way!

I love hearing about anyone’s favorite game of all time. :)

I get why people use turbo mode, but it looks terrible for video reviews it looks ridiculous

Game is massive, and when you think you are done you have that Godly post game in the Reverie corridor that adds countless hours of fun playing. Story wise its a little weaker that the Crossbell or Cold Steel arcs, but its still head and leaps above Sky The Third. Falcom never dissapoints, masterpiece after masterpiece, with as little as 80 developers and 1 game yearly, its amazing.

Got payment confirmation this week from NISA for the limited edition. My body and soul is ready.

I'm at Act 4 for all three routes, and I love how self-referential this game can get, especially when it comes to recurring tropes. As an example, the episode with Machias and Dudley really shown a spotlight on Machias basically being Dudley Jr in design, personality, drive, hobbies, and vocal inflections. It becomes all the more evident when you get specific group character quotes based off similarities: as an example, I loved how one group drew attention to the fact that each arc had at least one short-haired dual swordsman dress in drag for a mission. My second favorite example is how each series has its own character who's basically an analytical prodigy.

A great review. I really looking forward to this game. Only a few day's waiting now. It's just around the corner. One remark - It would be nice if there was at least one scene where turbo mode was disabled. That would give a impression how the game play's in "standard" mode. Personally I don't like that speeding up very much, especially with interactions. If feels far to fast, impatient and hasty, and gets onto my nerves. I like to take a far more relaxed approach. But everyone his/her/its choice of course. Anyway - Other than that, a really nice review. I will definitely dive in the moment the game is released. It will probably sound a little premature, but... I wonder how long it will take to get the Kuro series to the west. However, that's something for another day...

Platinumed Hajimari like 3 years ago, looking forward to doing it again, loved the game probably my favorite of the non-2d games.

i love to play the final arc of zemuria god bless falcom waiting for kuro no keski and ys x thx for the review 🙏🏻

The only thing I don't look forward to is swapping around all the marbles between all the different parties

Ohh we already know that!!!! Trails is amazing!!! 🤩

The game was released in 2020, but because Falcom doesn't give a shit about western fans it took 3 years for localization. Enough time for NISA to introduce game breaking bugs, wrong descriptions and Link Attacks are not working. This is a slap in the face of all western Trails fans...

Holy Rixias! 10 outta 10!

How long is the book for the new characters? I have aphantasia (no imagination, can't make mental images) so while I love jrpgs and don't mind reading the graphics, music, etc. all tie in. Just blank text though? Most boring thing ever for me. Can take my favorite story of all time from a game, put it in book form and I'm bored within 5 minutes

This may be surprising, but my friend and I played every single trails game and talk a lot about trails lore, ricky and anton, ourbouros members, why the hell is kevin graham in prison since 3rd by Falcom, etc. Reverie was.. the worst entry we agreed. If you liked the SSS it actively makes you hate them, their motivations no longer align and it's closer to fanservice about what if something else happened, but that thing was written worse. I couldn't even stomach the prologue, so I experienced it watching a friend play and it took.. months.. it never took us months to beat a game.. it was tedious. Fights are horribly imbalanced where I feel overpowered as hell or something is an hp sponge for an hour long fight for no reason and can one tap half my team members at will. But honestly, cs 3,4, and reveries are the worst works of falcom in the trails series so far. best being azure, zero, sky 2nd. Sky, 3rd, cs 1+2 were ok the fine tier. But I have been playing daybreak and it was like taking smelling slats after the crap that was reverie to me. woke em up and got me reinvigorated. reveries felt like.. ps3 clunk.. and it made me just sad and think I would leave this series behind. Thankfully daybreak was a snap back to the senses.

Wow, great score, but I hear you need to play 9 other games before this one.

Can't wait for the 7th! The story system is very reminiscent of Suikoden III.

this game reminds me and im sure most of us as well of Grandia 1, 2 , and best of all Grandia 3

This is like watching the avengers come together for the first time, truly magical.

2 yrs. Freaking finally. I was thinking of replaying Zero/Ao. I played them in 2015 and it was the best Trails arc imo. Lloyd is my favourite Trails protagonist and I like SSS a lot more than Rean's harem (or Class VII) was it called.

I heard this ones really good, I want it for my Switch.

Can't wait to play, started zero recently. Then azure, then cold steel

Thanks for the thorough review! :D So happy you enjoyed the game. It's my second favorite after Trails in the Sky the 3rd, and I and the team poured our hearts out for it.

Great review. Though I’m looking forward to Tio’s breakdown at having to destroy a servant of her beloved Mishy.

been trying to finish zero and azure but, i've been replaying cs 3 and plan to replay cs4 as well aiming to get the save data bonus

SSS least favorite? really? have you played Crossbell arc even?

Just made it to Cold Steel 4 and have loved the journey thus far.

arrrgh...I have a massive trails backlog

I feel like my gf and I were the only ones who thought this game was a bit disappointing. The end was very lackluster, and C's route was by far the most interesting (which is crazy since we have fan fav characters in the other 2)

My body is ready

This just feels like a better jrpg than ff16. Ff16 is obviously a much better graphically game but trails feels way more rpg than ff. 9/10

Damn, Kino no Kiseki does it again

can i play this if i skip Cold steel series? Theres too many story problems with that arc and character problems I just cant stand them

Not watching bc dont wanna see anything but commenting for algorithm. So excited for the game. Need to finish ff16 in time

Can't wait to play this! The "avengers" game of jrpgs. Loved CS4, but my only complaint is some characters boobs are suddenly way, WAYYY too big

I’ve never played any of the trials games, where’s a good place to start?

What a great review... done subscribe

Where should i start if i want to get into the series and play this game as soon as possible?

Preordered, i have all of the games but have never had the time to play, looking to start soon!

I understand that it can get annoying playing a long rpg and having animations play over and over but when you are getting footage for a review could you not skip and speed up all animations?

I haven't played any of the past games. Would I be lost if I started with this one?

only english dub or jp ?

Wait, did Lloyd get married?!

Why do you sound like tts LOL

Omg everything is masterpiece today!

Day one pick up physically for the Switch!

I really want to play it but I've never managed to play a trails game to completion because the first arc starts so so so slowly and i want to do all games in order...

rixia god damn

Have this preordered looking forward and glad to see a turn based rpg so highly rated thank you for the awesome review

What a year for gaming. So many good games.

I really want to get into this series but my god 9 games and the first 3 are only available on steam. Really wish they would make this series more accessible for newcomers

😢 haven’t played any of the Trails games yet 😢 Feels like I’m too far behind to even bother at this point… same with Yakuza 😢

That score, wow! Just out of curiosity, how many games in this continuity came before this one?

I liked Trails 1, 2, and 3 but 4 was such a task for me to finish that it almost made me drop off from the series entirely. I didnt like it at all. Its good to hear Reverie is good so maybe I should at least finish this arc.

Have always had a roller coaster battle when it comes to cold steel but man has it been an adventure. Im so excited for this the mini games and book additions make it so worth it. Everything getting put on hold whej this comes out

No sky toons. So sad.

Best Story Saga but lack of killing human

I just don't have the TIME to play it ON VERY easy mode YET in ENGLISH.

The story I would give 9/10 but to pretend like the whole game a 10/10 when people is basically been playing the same game over and over again( I mean all the legend of heroes games. You fight the same bosses, visit the same location and complete the same side quest ). There no in innovation in the series at all let’s hope the next game better I would give this game a 7/10 and I’m a trails fan.

I hope English dub it's now available

They finally fixed the plot lines and character development.

Having never played a Trails game before and not having the time commitment to play all of them, I'm passing on this one. Also, I kept rolling my eyes every time I saw a female character with a ridiculous bust size (so I don't know if they're for me).

If this is as "jrpg Masterpiece" as FF16 was ,no thank you 😂

Another mediocre entry to a niche snoozefest of a franchise.

Don't think of it as "You have to play 9 games before this." Think of it as "You get to play 9 games before this."

Trails needs major modernization. It’s stuck in the early 2000s

I'm sick of class 7 not sure if I can go through another game with them lol

What?! No voice acting during character interactions?? This is 2023 people.

Looks more like a 7 to me. Sorry, but this game looks so barebones, the typical cheap JRPG with Anime characters. There are way too many of those games. But it's clear, that Noisy Pixel absolutely prefers JRPGs.

Same graphics and same battle system as tocs4. A lazily made game that reuses assets. They should be like square enix, every final fantasy game is unique

can't wait to pirate it and do the same with kuro in 10 years

both sites i look at nintendo life and nintendo world report mentioned the performance issues this game has.. so how can you give it a 10 score.. one gave it a 7 the other a 8.5