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ninkendo
12/16/20 4:17:20 AM
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ninkendo
12/16/20 4:33:23 AM
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https://www.gematsu.com/2020/12/the-legend-of-heroes-kuro-no-kiseki-announced

Gematsu article with most of the same info

Weekly Famitsu has a five-page interview with Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo, who shares the following additional tidbits:
The game is set in the Republic of Calvard (the east side of the continent) in the year S.1208.
The title is derived from the Japanese word for Daybreak (Reimei). This is reflected in the colors associated with the protagonist.
The story is focused on characters who can be described as somewhat in the gray zone of society (a detective, a negotiator, a bounty hunter, etc.)
Kondo said it would have been nice if The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki was titled Shiro no Kiseki (Trails of White) instead to compliment Kuro no Kiseki.
The game engine is brand-new.
Character modelling has evolved. There is a significantly different feel when the character is in motion.
Calvard is a cultural sphere in the vein of Eastern Europe with an influx of people from the Middle East. It feels like a mixture of Europe and Asia.
It is somewhat small compared to Erebonia. The scale of the map is equivalent to that of the Cold Steel series. It is still in development, but Kondo believes it will be very close in terms of size.
You could say the additional episode Hajimari no Saki e in Hajimari no Kiseki acts as a prologue to Kuro no Kiseki.
90 percent of the characters in Kuro no Kiseki are new. If you did not know any better, you might look at the game screen and not realize it is a Trails game. The remaining 10 percent of the cast will be characters that are highly anticipated by fans.
Three characters have been revealed so far: a Kirito-looking character, a dual-wielding redhead character with a Middle Eastearn appearance, and a character that looks like Alisa minus the attitude and with the chest of Ryza. Kondo would not say which one is the protagonist. (Though it is obvious if you recall the earlier note about the protagonists associated colors.)
Fans would be disappointed if the Society was not depicted. Kondo also was unable to comment on the Oaths. But each will be depicted properly.
The game will have a proper ending.
If a game does not sell well, there will not be a sequel, and the Trails series is no exception.
The amount of content in the game is about the equal to a single Trails of Cold Steel title.
The Trails of Cold Steel games had a large number of allies, but Kuro no Kiseki will not have as many due to the protagonists line of work.
Instead, there will be more enemies.
There will not be 50 playable characters.
There is a screenshot of a battle scene.
Movement and battles are seamless.
While action elements have been added, Falcom is not considering anything that requires any sort of input skills.
Commands are input in real-time instead of pausing.
You will also have the option to switch to command-style battles.
Arts and Crafts remain as they were, but ARCUS is replaced by Xipha.
There are no Combat Links or Brave Orders. But there is a new system in place that is said to be quite amazing.
There is a Topic System that has to do with conversations with NPCs.
Alignment Flame is a system in which, depending on your playstyle, your characters alignment as Lawful, Gray, and Chaotic will change, influencing your status as well as the story. But there will not be any situation where an event does not occur due to your specific alignment.
There is an alternative to bond events.
As for platforms, Kondo says he would like to release it on PlayStation 4 as well as other platforms where there is demand. He said, Since there are the usual technical challenges, we will consider starting where theres the most demand.
Nihon Falcom as a whole is making preparations to support PlayStation 5.


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ninkendo
12/16/20 4:36:41 AM
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shane15
12/16/20 5:48:47 AM
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Sucks always being at least 1 game behind in this series. You can never join in the latest game reveal hype without fear of spoiling stuff. Guess i'll be more excited for this in 3-4 years when/if it gets localised.

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ninkendo
12/16/20 6:11:53 AM
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xp1337
12/16/20 6:59:53 AM
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ninkendo posted...
The remaining 10 percent of the cast will be characters that are highly anticipated by fans.
anelace or bust

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pyresword
12/16/20 10:04:43 AM
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All I ask for is more Rixia

Edit: okay and more Cao Lee I guess
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ninkendo
12/16/20 10:26:04 AM
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I'm sure all your favorite eastern based characters will show up!

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Mac Arrowny
12/16/20 10:26:19 AM
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wait people like Cao Lee

ninkendo posted...
I'm sure all your favorite eastern based characters will show up!


Does this mean no Zin
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Leonhart4
12/16/20 10:47:28 AM
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It means lots of Kilika and that's good enough for me

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Leonhart4
12/16/20 10:59:25 AM
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Oh and of course Rean will show up at the end to steal all the women

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xp1337
12/16/20 11:01:48 AM
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Leonhart4 posted...
Oh and of course Rean will show up at the end to steal all the women
i mean at the escalating pace here i think it's more likely rean becomes part of the new protagonist's harem somehow

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colliding
12/16/20 11:51:46 AM
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Let's go

I can't wait to play this in 2022 when I'm... shockingly way too old for this. I'm guessing the west will just get a PS5 release as I imagine the PS4 will be on its last legs by then. .

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Leonhart4
12/16/20 1:37:08 PM
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xp1337 posted...
i mean at the escalating pace here i think it's more likely rean becomes part of the new protagonist's harem somehow

You dare imply someone is more irresistible than Rean?

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ninkendo
12/16/20 2:04:54 PM
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ValyrianE
12/16/20 4:59:02 PM
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Sucks that the blonde haired girl looks like another boring moe blob, completely interchangeable with Tita/Ellie/Mirelle/Cecil/Rixia/Alisa.

Couldn't we have gotten a more mature woman like Quistis?

I like red-haired dude's design. Also Chinese Daos woohoo!

I liked the design of the blue trenchcoat guy in Elaine's flashback and on the cover art. He seemed older and broadchested. But the ingame screenshot makes him to be just another bishounen swordsman, and possibly a Rean clone. Meh.

I don't like real time combat so we'll see. I tolerated Ys 8 and TX for the story but hated the combat.
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Janus5k
12/16/20 5:24:01 PM
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ValyrianE posted...
Couldn't we have gotten a more mature woman like Quistis?
given their track record with "slightly older" women I'm not sure if that's actually possible

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LeonhartFour
12/16/20 5:27:29 PM
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Sara and Schera are probably about as close to Quistis as you're going to get

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Mac Arrowny
12/16/20 5:28:21 PM
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Janus5k posted...

given their track record with "slightly older" women I'm not sure if that's actually possible


Making them all raging alcoholics is kinda whack, yeah.
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ninkendo
12/20/20 8:21:06 AM
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UshiromiyaEva
12/20/20 9:27:08 AM
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Looks like Rean and Ash got down.

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ninkendo
12/20/20 9:26:03 PM
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In related news

Hajimari is coming to Steam and Switch in 2021



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Murphiroth
12/20/20 11:18:52 PM
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ninkendo posted...

Oh hey it's Nero minus the white hair
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ValyrianE
12/21/20 1:21:33 AM
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ninkendo posted...
In related news

Hajimari is coming to Steam and Switch in 2021

Not in English, though.
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ninkendo
12/21/20 6:10:28 AM
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well duh they would announce PS4 first if it was

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Mac Arrowny
12/21/20 9:14:24 AM
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ValyrianE posted...


Not in English, though.


They wouldn't put it on Steam if they weren't releasing it in english.
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ValyrianE
12/21/20 5:33:24 PM
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Mac Arrowny posted...
They wouldn't put it on Steam if they weren't releasing it in english.

I'm guessing you didn't know that the Chinese versions of Crossbell and Cold Steel are on Steam too, and they are not in English.
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UshiromiyaEva
12/27/20 12:27:02 AM
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I have no heard Rean's JP voice for the first time...via the Explosive Fishing Arcade Game.

Well, not the first time, but the first time where I know who he is!

Oh...Magical ALISA.

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ninkendo
12/27/20 12:30:02 AM
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Hajimari has a Magical Girl Alisa 3D shooter





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UshiromiyaEva
12/30/20 12:58:47 AM
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Curious how the Xanadu translation was received. It is unbelievable loose and slangy, but it is incredibly well done. I personally love it, but I could see a lot of people being super annoyed as well.

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xp1337
12/30/20 9:35:52 AM
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IIRC, Tokyo Xanadu eX got a patch to shore up the translation a fair bit but you can still see the QA drop noticeably in the back half of the game. Otherwise it's serviceable *chortles*.

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