Take the Van on one other journey.
What higher approach to have a good time Valentine’s Day than to share a brand new JRPG with the one you’re keen on? Nintendo Swap avid gamers will get that chance when NIS America and Nihon Falcom launch The Legend of Heroes: Trails Via Dawn II on February 14, 2025.
Final week, Pure Nintendo participated in a web based demo of the sport. It was shortly evident that followers of the primary Trails Via Dawn will have the ability to choose up proper the place they left off with the adventures of Van Arkride and the complete workforce from Arkride Options. Don’t suppose for a second, although, that you simply’re simply getting extra of the identical.
Let’s have a look as what Legend of Heroes followers can sit up for over the subsequent few months.
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails Via Dawn II is ready three months after the conclusion of the primary Trails Via Dawn. This time, the knock on the door comes from Elaine Auclair, alerting Van {that a} “Crimson Grendel” has been attacking folks in Edith. Worse, it’s one way or the other linked to Van.
- This doesn’t imply the journey is centered absolutely round Arkride Options once more. Swin and Nadia, who we final noticed in Trails Into Reverie, issue closely into the sport’s seemingly separate storyline.
- After all, there can be dozens of playable characters new and previous. Sequence followers can be blissful to know that some earlier NPCs can be playable for the primary time.
- Don’t fear should you don’t acknowledge everybody, nonetheless; returning characters are launched in a means that may forestall gamers from feeling misplaced. You gained’t have to have performed earlier Legend of Heroes story arcs to get pleasure from Trails Via Dawn II, however it is necessary that you simply’ve performed Trails Via Dawn.
- As earlier than, constructing rapport with all of those characters by way of Connection Occasions is necessary for get together optimizations. We have been instructed throughout the demo that the Connection Occasions can’t all be seen in a single playthrough, however I ponder if a extremely good walkthrough could make that occur, as with earlier Legend of Heroes video games.
- How in regards to the gameplay? The latest gimmick is a timeline mechanic that bounces the characters again to a earlier level once they fail in a selected mission.
- The time-hopping is 100% story pushed. It’s not that you simply fail a mission or battle as a participant and transfer again to attempt once more. Moderately, the plot strikes them again to attempt a special route, change the get together, or full different aims earlier than returning. The characters are vaguely conscious of the time jumps, and simply type of go together with it.
- Don’t fear, although. These time jumps is not going to drive you to replay lengthy segments or repeat your steps by means of a dungeon. For instance, out-of-the-way treasure chests you’ve discovered and opened the primary time will stay open the second time. And because the time jumps are factored into the story, they don’t delay the sport. Gamers can anticipate the everyday 100 to 120 hours of earlier entries.
- Trails Via Dawn launched action-based battles to the usual turn-based gameplay, but it surely was largely restricted to melee fight. Now, gamers will even have the ability to use arts within the motion fight (by means of excellent dodges and timed button presses).
- Did you discover that some shard abilities left you overpowered within the first sport? They’ve been rebalanced. As well as, gamers can not use two S-craft assaults in a row. In different phrases, anticipate the boss battle to be a little bit more difficult this time round.
- In alternate, new twin arts will enable the combatants to do two sorts of harm whereas taking over just one slot. Even higher, the battle timeline is less complicated to know. No extra squinting (or flat out guessing) to find out who goes subsequent.
February 14th is a means off, however that’ll offer you time to begin (or simply end) The Legend of Heroes: Trails Via Dawn. Our gameplay preview host wasn’t in a position to touch upon whether or not we’ll get a demo of Trails Via Dawn II, but when NIS America retains up their basic follow, we are able to hopefully anticipate {that a} bit earlier than the sport’s launch.
For extra info on The Legend of Heroes: Trails Via Dawn II, together with pre-order particulars on the Restricted Version bodily launch, go to nisamerica.com/video games/daybreak2.
