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GAME: The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak Game Review

I do wonder if we'll see more game localizations added to Steam simply as updates, rather than separate region-locked listings. It's an interesting new(ish) approach, and definitely feels (far) more consumer-friendly.

- I think Van is one of their best protagonists in the series. It helps that he is an old man by JRPG setting standards- at 24- with some degree of life experience behind him.

- I don't love the changes to the timeline in turn based combat. I can tell whose turn it currently is, of course, and who has the next turn. But any further than that I find hard to tell. It makes it a bit more difficult to plan a fight out.

-The action combat is a bit janky, in ways I wouldn't expect from the developer of a well regarded action series. My primary issue is weird hitboxes- how did the foe shooting a gun straight ahead hit me when I was behind him?

My big issue was that not all of the lines of dialogue were fully voiced, even within the same conversation. Given the sheer breadth of what is on offer here, I understand not being able to voice the entire game—that would be a ludicrous amount to have voiced and is a rare achievement only a handful of games have done. That said, there were times when, within a single conversation, some lines were voiced and others weren't, creating weird pauses that took me out of the moment. I would have preferred for the entire conversation not to be voiced rather than have it cut in and out line by line, which I found more distracting.

Yeeeeah sadly the whole series is pretty much like this. The earlier 2D games were silent outside of Battle lines, and for their PSVita ports only had a decent majority of their story cutscenes and some sidequests fully voiced, but they were outsourced, and done by a completely different company that is now out of business.

Chara-Ani isn't out of business though. They also aren't really a game-developer either. In fact, you can open up the site right now.

NISA actually said at AX that they're planning to go back to their old model of making a new listing on Steam for English releases rather than adding it as a patch to existing releases. They've tried this model a few times now (they also released the English translation for Nayuta as a patch), and in practice, it doesn't work very well; people get confused about which version they should buy (since Clouded Leopard has their own release pages), people buy the game early and get upset when they miss out on launch week discounts/bundles, and the game doesn't show up in Steam's "New Releases" category, which hurts sales.

I actually prefer Rean over Van as far as protagonists go. In general I liked Sen no Kiseki's characters and combat more.

I actually prefer Rean over Van as far as protagonists go. In general I liked Sen no Kiseki's characters and combat more.

I am surprised to hear that from a western fan since you guys usually seem to dislike rean and like van for some reason and also prefer kuro over sen. Unless you are not from the west and if that is how it is I apologize.

I am surprised to hear that from a western fan since you guys usually seem to dislike rean and like van for some reason and also prefer kuro over sen. Unless you are not from the west and if that is how it is I apologize.

I haven't played Daybreak yet but everything I've heard about it paints it as being the 'adult' and 'mature' take on the series like Tales of Arise or Final Fantasy 16. The kind of entry where the producers say they watched Game of Thrones and wanted to do something similar in dealing with more mature topics and themes.

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