The Geofront Team who fan translated The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki and Ao no Kiseki, have officially partnered up with NIS America for official localization of the games: Trails From Zero and Trails to Azure, bringing the Crossbell arc to PS4, Switch, and PC officially in the west. The announcements were made at
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The Geofront Team who fan translated The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki and Ao no Kiseki, have officially partnered up with NIS America for official localization of the games: Trails From Zero and Trails to Azure, bringing the Crossbell arc to PS4, Switch, and PC officially in the west. The announcements were made at
Four The Legend of Heroes Trails games that have yet to be localized in the West were found to be listed on Epic Games Store on PC. (Thanks, RPG Site). The four games are: The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero releasing in Fall 2022 The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure releasing in 2023
Fan translation team Geofront has launched an English translation patch for The Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki, translated to Trails to Azure for the occasion, here’s what you should know about the translation, and the importance of the game in the Trails series. The Zelda Skyward Sword Amiibo is Pure Evil Genius BridTV 2014
There’s only a few minutes left until the February 2021 Nintendo Direct, where we will get “announcements” regarding Super Smash Bros Ultimate and possibly a new DLC character, this is the last time to place your bets and share your predictions, so let me tell why I believe Adol Christin from Nihon Falcom‘s Ys series
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox is arguably the most ambitious Ys title Nihon Falcom has released so far, with updated graphics and a much more in-depth (and darker) plotline. At its core, however, is still the soul of the much-beloved franchise but the changes implemented to both storytelling and gameplay make the experience a more refreshing
On December 17 JST, Nihon Falcom announced The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki through the Famitsu magazine released that day. (Officially titled Weekly Famitsu Magazine December 31 2020 Issue). The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki will launch in 2021 in Japan. No platforms were specified yet but it’s likely the first Japanese release
On November 12, Nihon Falcom published its latest financials, and mentioned through them plans for more global expansion in 2021. Meaning yet another hint the remasters Zero no Kiseki Kai and Ao no Kiseki Kai should be localized soon. In the document, Falcom explains it aims to expand further its games in Japan, North America
Game news site a9vg published in early August an interview with Toshihiro Kondo, most notably talking about Hajimari no Kiseki, its sequel, and a bunch of other Nihon Falcom related subjects. The interview was translated by Japanese blog Hokanko, which in turn allowed me to read it. We’ve got a summary below. Let’s take a
Falcom and NIS America revealed the first trailer for the western release of Ys IX: Monstrum Nox at New Game Plus Expo. NIS America revealed on the same occasion that Ys IX: Monstrum Nox will unsurprisingly not be a PS4 exclusive in the west, and will be launching on Nintendo Switch as well as PC.
Falcom and Clouded Leopard Entertainment held a live stream on May 27, revealing new information on the Traditional Chinese and Hangul releases of The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki Kai, The Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki Kai, and The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki on PS4. The stream most notably reveaed Hajimari
Nihon Falcom announced The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki will launch in Japan on August 27 on PlayStation 4. This is quite surprising. Indeed, for years now, Falcom has usually been releasing their games in Japan on the last week of September. We learned the release date of The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no
The long-awaited fan translation patch of The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki will be available on March 14. It’s been rebranded as Trails from Zero to keep in line with the official English releases. Modding team Geofront has released a remarkably high-quality trailer to commemorate. Zero no Kiseki originally released for the PSP back
NIS America is planning two announcements next week. One announcement is coming on March 3, and another will be coming on March 5. This means there are two chances that your favorite Japanese niche visual novel game that only 10 people in the world care about will get localized. “Niche visual novel” is definitely one
Valentine Day 2020 happened and as usual when such events rolls around, Japanese games studios, artists, character designers and developers all shared some Valentine-themed artwork on Twitter. Mobile and gacha games all do their own events too, revealing new illustrations for their characters. In Japan, Valentine Day is about women giving presents to men, with
Clouded Leopard Entertainment is a localization company that handles bringing many Japanese games to the rest of Asia, with translations to traditional Chinese most notably. The company also handles the traditional Chinese localization of Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, and it held an event for the game and new releases on February 7, announcing upcoming releases
Trails of Cold Steel III, revealed to be getting a Nintendo Switch version sometime in Spring 2020, received a brand new story trailer. And in a surprise reveal, the game will also be coming for PC on March 23th. The Switch version includes all the DLC, and presumably the Steam version will as well. There
If you’ve been out of the loop, Nihon Falcom just announced three games part of the Trails/Kiseki JRPG series this week. A brand new PS4 game titled The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki, and two PS4 remasters, The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki: Kai and The Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki: Kai.
Falcom officially announced The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki on PS4 after months of teasing. If you’ve missed that, we suggest reading game’s first story details in our previous article. Following this announcement, Dengeki Online published a video interview with Falcom President Toshihiro Kondo, sharing comments on Hajimari no Kiseki. Toshihiro Kondo most notably
After months of teasing, Falcom, at its shareholders’ meeting on December 18, has finally officially announced Zero no Kiseki: Kai and Ao no Kiseki: Kai on PS4, along with Hajimari no Kiseki on PS4. The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki is the “Gaiden” game that Falcom’s President Toshihiro Kondo previously teased. As such, note
Falcom, at its shareholders’ meeting on December 18, has officially announced Zero no Kiseki: Kai and Ao no Kiseki: Kai for PlayStation 4. Both games will be launching in Spring 2020 in Japan. Falcom announced the two Crossbell games are getting a PS4 port to celebrate their 10th anniversary, and the whole Kiseki/Trails series has
Ys: Memories of Celceta was originally a PS Vita exclusive, but it has now been ported a couple of times. In 2018, the JRPG came to PC. This year, a PS4 remaster titled Ys: Memories of Celceta: Kai was announced and released in Japan. Today, XSEED confirmed that they are bringing the Falcom game westward
Falcom and NIS America have announced that The Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel III will be launching in U.S and Europe on Nintendo Switch in Spring 2020. Falcom’s President Toshihiro Kondo revealed the info via an interview with our comrades at Gamespot. The Switch version will also launch in Japan sometime after the
The latest edition of Dengeki PlayStation magazine (Vol 682) included an interview with Falcom’s President Toshihiro Kondo. He talked about the Ys series and Ys IX Monstrum Nox, the Trails/Kiseki series, and what Falcom is planning to do with PS5. Here are the most interesting tidbits from the interview: Kondo talked about what Falcom will
While it’s been nearly 40 years since its birth, Falcom is an extremely small studio, launching one game per year in Japan, usually at the end of September. When PS4 exclusive Ys IX: Monstrum Nox launched on September 26, Falcom clearly didn’t finish optimizing the game yet, and it currently has huge FPS drops in
Back in September, Falcom announced Traditional Chinese and Hangul localizations for Ys IX: Monstrum Nox. A few days ago, Falcom published its latest financial earnings and plans for the future. These plans once again mentioned Chinese and Korean releases of Yx IX are coming soon. However, the documents also mentioned that Ys IX: Monstrum Nox will
Falcom teased in a mysterious way that an announcement regarding the Kiseki/Trails series would be coming on November 7. What ended up happening is that the small Japanese studio published its latest financial earnings. We learned multiple details regarding Falcom’s upcoming plans through the document. First off, Falcom mentioned how the next game in the
Falcom shared a mysterious tweet on November 6, teasing something is coming on November 7. The tweet only says “Tomorrow” and includes a link towards Falcom’s official site. 明日(*^ ・^)ノ⌒☆https://t.co/uJnrsb9NXE pic.twitter.com/nrjc3Vf5Pe — 日本ファルコム (@nihonfalcom) November 6, 2019 Before we get hyped, there are multiple elements we should keep in mind. It’s best to always take
Falcom revealed the first full-length trailer for Ys IX Monstrum Nox. The trailer was shown on this week’s Dengeki PlayStation Live stream. The trailer has one of the game’s BGM playing, and it’s awesome just like every Falcom game BGM. The trailer also gives us new pieces of information: As we already know, the Monstrum
Falcom unveiled new information for PS4 exclusive Ys IX Monstrum Nox. We’ve got new details on the party members previously revealed with the cast, gameplay videos featuring each one of them and details on the limited edition; New screenshots and a short web commercial with new gameplay were published as well. Doll (previously translated as