The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak (Kuro no Kiseki) Mini Review (PS4/PS5) - Falcom 

Really glad to hear you enjoy my videos! And also hope that Daybreak is a hit in English! I'm sure you did Kincaid justice.

Hajimari is great, I can tell you that

Hajimari is great, Kuro is great, both have english injection patches out now so you can buy the chinese or korean version and patch them to english yourself.

For me it felt a bit slow near the beginning. Basically just a mafia and a private detective investigating a murder. Maybe a bit of a different narrative for Falcom (and kind of like Zero/Ao now that you mention it), but not something that I haven't seen a lot in TV shows and other media. The story and characters do get gradually better, I think. But this is all just my opinion of course. I hope the game grabs others from the very beginning. Thanks for watching!

ROFL HOW THE HECK do you have the ORIGINAL DRAGON SLAYERS on diskette no less! That's amazing.

Well, because I collect games for the NEC PC-88 computer, as well as other old Japanese PCs. I live in Tokyo and usually buy the games used online in Japan. Check my "PC-88 Paradise" video series. Thanks for watching!

@@BasementBrothers I'm a sucker for detective stuff, sounds amazing but it does also sound slow.

Other than the fact that FF7R was half as* labor cheap about it. This is a good comparison. I care either way, It you put enough labor into you get better sales and product.

Can't really call it action combat, more like improved field combat since every fight that you don't hopelessly overlevel would still end up in turnbased mode. Its a gimmick but one that smoothes out the gameplay a bit so its fine.

The turn based mode in 7Remake is hot garbage tho?

no, the action part is just an improvement to the "getting an advantage before battle" systems in jrpgs. You hit them untill you stun one of them and then switch to tur based to get tons of advantage bonuses. Its way better than the usual "hit monsters behinds once to get advantage bonus".

Definitely give it a go! This is one of the better entry points to the series. Keep in mind that it is a time-consuming series, though, and the characters will talk forever about every little thing. With some patience and a willingness to enjoy the "world", it can be a very enjoyable experience.

@@BasementBrothers Well I've come to expect long dialogue from JRPG's so I should be fine

I suggest starting with either Sky FC or Coldsteel 1. Kuro while being a start of a new arc game has tons of returning characters and Van the new protagonist knows a lot of the preexisting characters.

Yea Class 7 bullshit started to get out of hand. To many characters

It's just me and Mr. Jakes making videos these days. The third brother doesn't make anything.

It's both, man. Like most things it's got a little bad and a little good in it.

No. They still need to release the game that comes before this one, "Trails of Reverie". It's due out in English finally this year.

I will buy the pc japanese version and then patch it in English

It was fine overall. I liked the improvements in the field battles, but I didn't like the time slipping aspect in the story.

@@BasementBrothers to be honest I kind of expected it since the stuff with rean then kea, seen it a mile away. Can see calvard use the septtarion in the past from the old kingdom in the east and or Thier revolution history.

I found it annoying to have to go backward in time and be told "All that stuff you just did never happened!" Even though I knew that I was actually progressing the game forward and I got to keep all my XP, equipment, etc. It just felt like I was being set back somehow and I hated that. I suppose it might not bother some people at all.

@@BasementBrothers I totally agreed with how you feel. I got bored of bravely default because of the same kind of mechanic. Didn't really finish or play any of the others because of it

Hi Anthony. All the Falcom videos aren't mine. My brother makes this stuff. It's not even my voice. -Neo-Alec

There is no split system, its just shitty advertising. Action combat mode is foreplay for turnbased. You weaken enemies and finish them in turnbased. Bosses are fully turnbased from the start.

Sorry, no blatant spoilers here, friend! For that you'll have to go find another video. Besides, I haven't even finished it yet! :)

Nah the existing battle system was fine but they just wanted to spice things up. Arts and crafts combat has existed in trails series since 2003 trails in the sky

Turn based in trail series is already great, I'm playing Sky trilogy right now, have tried a bit of cold steel but i'm gonna wait until i finish sky.

There are no 2 systems. The "action combat" is just improved field combat to serve as foreplay for turnbased. You hit the enemy like 5 times and then do a special move which stuns them as you transition to turnbased. It smoothes out field encounters, nothing more nothing less. There really is no "Do you want to play action or turnbased?" choice, both systems flow into eachother. Though you can ignore the action combat and go straight to turnbased.

The characters are so far above class 7 in terms of being interesting and they don't throw all of them at you at once. Van has an actual personality and doesn't follow all the tropes that Rean was constantly plagued by. Aaron is an actual good pervy character who doesn't let that become his only character trait. All the party members also don't finish their character arcs in game 1 unlike coldsteel so they will stay relevant for kuro's sequel. Connect events are also a big step above bond events. Only time I saw coldsteel writing in this game was chapter 3 which was probably the main thing handled by the old writing staff. Bad parts of kuro are definitely the gameplay becoming even easier and the turn order display becoming a lot more confusing for 0 reason. The game has good music but doesnt use it well, multiple times you face a new cool important boss who should have their own theme but they play the same boss theme for the 10th time while other generic boss themes play just once or twice. The alignment system is pretty trash all things considered. Some jobber bosses also get way overused to the point where you fight them 2x in a chapter. But thats honestly ok, they can fine tune the combat and music placement has always been hit or miss. Having a good foundation however will go a long way for this arc to not end up a mess like CS.

Its a OPTION for a reason Dont like it, dont do it

True. Having well written, varied, believable, and non-shallow character dynamics is also a choice.

@@jesserivera2043 yes

@@akiradkcn Cold steel Killed the series for me. CS3 was the final straw with the forced harem. Sure didnt give me a choice on that matter. Saddens me how it fell from the perfection being Crossbell to the shallow game being cold steel.

@@NisseDood whatever