Jul 022019
Still hoping the Crossbell arc of the Trails series will be officially translated? Don’t give up hope yet!
We first talked about the Crossbell games, Zero no Kiseki and Ao no Kiseki, in 2017 when Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo spoke about how much he wanted them to be localized.
It came up again earlier this year, when the Trails of Cold Steel III localization announcement came accompanied by a report that NISA was discussing the Crossbell situation with Falcom.
If both the developer and potential publisher wanted to localize them, that seemed like a good sign.
Still, there was no definite evidence of localization, and many people felt it would come to nothing. However, now we have reason to be hopeful again! In an interview with Noisy Pixel, Kondo once again spoke about the Crossbell games and how he’d like more people to play them, this time saying Falcom hopes to bring them to newer consoles.
More significantly, he said, “And once we do, I’m confident that NISA will translate them for you and release them in the west.”
That’s a much more clear-cut statement.
It still isn’t confirmation of anything, but now the if is whether or not Zero no Kiseki and Ao no Kiseki will be brought to newer consoles or not. Then NISA would still have to make the decision to localize them, but if Kondo is confident they will, those discussions must have gone well.
What do you think? Is there hope for the Crossbell arc to come west?
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I never heard of it before, but the art style is just like the Star Ocean 4 art. The main character there really looks a lot like Edge.
Huh, interesting. They’re probably fairly different games, though, since the Trails games are turn-based.
Have you ever played any Star Ocean? Star Ocean: The Second Story is slow at the start but brilliant once it gets going.
Not yet. I have a PS2 copy of the third one, but I haven’t played it yet. I’ve heard great things about the second one… I wish it was easier to find.
Yeah, shame it is so expensive. And the PSP version just isn’t as good. I used to like SO3 (aside from the dumb ending), but I went back to it last year and hated it. It hasn’t aged well.
I know the first game was getting another remake, so maybe they’ll do the same with the second.
I forgot they were doing that. It’s really surprising.
Since the last couple of games in the series haven’t been received too well, maybe they thought a remake was safer.
That’s true, but second story was a lot more popular. Maybe they will give SO2 the same treatment in the future.
That would be nice.
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