Well, this is unexpected. The next Trails in the Sky game is coming to the West, publisher XSEED announced today. It will be out for PC in 2017.
This is the third game in the Trails in the Sky trilogy, which first hit Australian shores in 2011. After a long, twisted journey full of all sorts of brutal challenges, XSEED finally released the second game, Trails SC, last October. The publisher had expressed interest in localising the third game — which connects both to the first two Trails in the Sky games and to the rest of Falcom’s sprawling RPG series — but after the pain and suffering that went into getting SC to the West, fans have been sceptical.
Now it’s official. Trails the 3rd, which stars the mysterious priest Kevin from SC, will be out in English next year.
In other welcome news for JRPG fans, it appears that the Trails series is doing well. XSEED said today in a press release that all of the games they have released in North America — Trails FC, Trails SC and Trails of Cold Steel — have sold a total of 350,000 copies as of today.
Anyone who reads Kotaku is undoubtedly familiar with my love for the Trails series — they’re brilliant, intricate JRPGs that all connect in some fascinating, Suikoden-like ways. Needless to say I’m… excited about this news.
XSEED also announced today that Trails of Cold Steel II, the direct sequel to December’s excellent Cold Steel, will be out this spring. Like its predecessor, Cold Steel II will be on both PS3 and Vita.
In celebration of all this news, both Trails in the Sky games will be discounted on Steam for the next week.
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5 responses to “Trails In The Sky: The 3rd Is Actually Coming West”
So happy about this. Trails 3rd is different to the first two though. It’s more of a dungeon crawl, and it basically is intended to serve as a bridging story that sets up and introduces the events that happen in the Crossbell arc (Zero/Ao no Kiseki) and Erebonia arc (Trails of Cold Steel), which basically occur simultaneously. I’m really hopeful this means that Zero & Ao are being considered too.
I don’t think it’s surprising or unexpected at all. As the article states, the game is doing well, has received a lot of coverage and overall good rep. If any, all the harrowing problems with the second will be invaluable experience to make the third a much smoother process. It would be more unexpected not to do it.
Extremely happy about this. It’s a series that deserves to do well.
Really excited about this, absolutely loved FC and SC (just finished SC last week!) but is there any news of it hitting vita/psp? That’s where I played the first two and would greatly prefer being able to play this one that way as well
Yes, must be a vita. It just feels so much more.. better? I guess.