In a world where Japanese publishers have finally started to embrace global simultaneous releases, and there's no longer much stress over whether we'll see niche role-playing games come to the West, one series remains woefully behind: Trails, also known as Kiseki, also known as the best JRPG series out there.
If you are wondering what the top-selling item on Steam is right now, beating out the likes of Battlegrounds and the Star Wars collection, wonder no further: It's Trails in the Sky the 3rd, a PC-only JRPG that's out today.
Playing Trails of Cold Steel is like eating a hero sandwich that's way too heavy on the bread. Often you'll get nice big chunks of turkey and salami. But sometimes -- more often than you'd like -- you'll realise that all you can taste is fluffy white filler.
Take a dash of Suikoden's world-building, add some Grandia-style combat, stir it all in with the setting and social links of Persona, and bam, you've got Trails of Cold Steel, which comes out for PS3 and Vita in North America today. Australians will have to wait until January 29.
