J/SRPG fans. Trails through Daybreak or Unicorn Overlord?

[Darashiva]

Torillian said:

Darashiva said:

Trails is one of my favourite series of video games in general, so based on that I'd suggest Trails through Daybreak, but as others here have also pointed out, it's the 11th game in a series with a consistent overarching plotline in addition to each sub-series having its own self-contained story, so while you can probably jump in at the start of any of the series (Trails in the Sky, Trails from Zero, Trails of Cold Steel, or Trails through Daybreak), you will likely miss some references and details that carry over from one series to the next, and also lose some context for a lot of the major events.

I'm curious, what kind of attempts does the game make to bring people up to speed? I guess the most basic level would just be a bibliography of sorts that you can read if you feel like it but are also easily ignored, but I'd think a long standing series like this would be better off doing an actual recap at the beginning of the game. Some like what later Mass Effect games did.

It's been a while since I've played some of the games, but if I remember correctly the Cold Steel games do have a kind of "story so far" option in the start menu where you can read up on what happened in the previous games, and I think Trails to Azure has one that recaps Trails from Zero, though I'm not entirely about that. Some of the games do recap certain events from previous games as well, but usually only the most significant events.

Part of that is that some of the subseries take place around the same time in-universe, so technically recapping certain events would constitute as spoilers for the game's own story every once in a while if people hadn't played the other games before. That's why they don't tend to do big recaps of what happened in the other series, but they do reference a lot of those events during the story itself.