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News Trails through Daybreak 2 Is at Least Trying to Get You Caught Up on the Story

Official recap revealed

Both its greatest strength and its most apparent weakness, the Trails series is built on a huge, overarching story spread across 11 games at this point (13 if you're going by Japanese releases). For new players, getting into the franchise can be truly daunting — but Falcom and western publisher NIS America are at least...

• Tue 5th Nov 2024
• NIS America
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails
• Trailers

Interview Falcom President Talks All Things Trails, Daybreak 2, and Kai in Our Biggest Interview Ever

Taking a (Day)break

With the release of Trails through Daybreak earlier this year, Ys X: Nordics fast approaching, and Trails through Daybreak 2 arriving in February, we once again got to catch up with Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo at a recent UK press event. We asked Kondo-san all sorts of questions about the Trails series in particular,...

• Wed 16th Oct 2024
• Falcom
• NIS America
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails

News Trails through Daybreak 2 Adds to an Insane February Release Schedule on PS5

Bear the nightmare

February is looking like an absolutely stacked month for PlayStation fans. Having previously been pencilled in for 'early 2025', Trails through Daybreak 2 now has a confirmed 14th February release date on PS5 and PS4. As the name suggests, this is a direct sequel to this year's Trails through Daybreak — yet another fantastic...

• Tue 15th Oct 2024
• NIS America
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails
• Release Dates

News NISA Committed to Bringing Falcom's Trails and Ys Games West at a Faster Pace

Daybreak

It sounds like localisation speed is a key point of improvement for NIS America, as the publisher has reiterated its intent when it comes to bringing Falcom titles West. As you may already know, the American arm of NIS is responsible for translating, marketing, and publishing franchises like Trails and Ys, in place of Japanese developer...

• Wed 7th Aug 2024
• NISA
• Falcom
• Trails
• Ys

News Trails through Daybreak 2 Gets Surprise Early 2025 Release Date in the West

Breaking

The West is now coming very close to being completely caught up on the Trails series. Trails through Daybreak 2 has just been confirmed for a Western release — and that's crazy, because its predecessor, Trails through Daybreak, only just launched today at the time of writing. It's a seriously impressive turnaround by publisher NIS America...

• Fri 5th Jul 2024
• NIS America
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails

News Trails through Daybreak 2 Leak May Point Towards Imminent Announcement

Daybroke

The first game isn't even out yet here in the West (it releases next week, on the 5th July), but a PSN leak appears to have just confirmed that its sequel is also heading our way — with a suggestion that a localisation announcement could be coming much sooner than anticipated. Trails through Daybreak's sequel is called Kuro no Kiseki 2:...

• Wed 26th Jun 2024
• NIS America
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails

News The Next, Next, Next Trails Game Gets a September Release Date in Japan as the West Continues to Wait

The Trails train never stops

We've said it once and we'll say it again: NIS America has been doing an admirable job of bringing Falcom's Trails games to the West — but boy does it sting when you realise just how far ahead the series is in its native Japan. In an age where most Japanese publishers and developers are going out of their way to ensure...

• Wed 22nd May 2024
• NIS America
• Falcom
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails

News A New Trails Game Will Launch in Japan Next Year as the West Continues to Catch Up

Kuro 3 all but confirmed

Falcom's latest financial report reveals that a new Trails title is set to release before September 2024. It's highly likely that it'll end up being the third game in the series' latest saga, following on from Kuro no Kiseki and Kuro no Kiseki 2: Crimson Sin. The latter hit Japan in 2022, as Falcom focused on Ys X: Nordics...

• Fri 10th Nov 2023
• Falcom
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails

News Falcom's Trails Series Tops 7 Million Sales

The legend grows

Falcom has announced that its Legend of Heroes: Trails franchise has now topped 7 million sales. The RPG series has been around for close to two decades, and it's always been somewhat popular in its homeland of Japan — but in recent years, the property has also started to catch on here in the West. 7 million is a respectable...

• Thu 22nd Sep 2022
• Falcom
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails
• Sales

Interview Falcom on The Legend of Heroes' Future, Bringing New Trails Games West, and More

Holding out for Heroes

With Japanese RPG series The Legend of Heroes more popular than ever before here in the West, we wanted to get in touch with developer Falcom to find out more about the franchise and its future. Luckily, we landed an interview with Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo himself, and he was happy to answer some of our most prominent...

• Wed 15th Jun 2022
• Falcom
• NIS America
• PS4
• Interviews
• Features