Dec 232024
When we talked about the Trails in the Sky remake, Ys X: Proud Nordics, and Memories of Celceta for the Switch on Friday, I figured we’d have Falcom news covered for a little while.
Little did I know that later that same day, a remaster of Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga would be announced for 2025, with a western release already confirmed.
Ys vs. Trails in the Sky is a fighting game originally released for the PSP only in Japan, featuring characters from the Ys and Trails games. It’s now being remastered for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC by publisher refint/games.
It will have remastered graphics, both local and online multiplayer, and an English dub.
And, like with the Crossbell games, the fan translation from Geofront has been licensed for this release.
One especially interesting thing about this is that Falcom is working with a variety of different publishers now. NISA is still handling the major new releases, but Aksys published the Switch version of Tokyo Xanadu, Xseed did Ys Memoire, GungHo has the Trails in the Sky remake, and now refint/games is here with Ys vs. Trails.
Now I’ve never been a big fan of fighting games, so I probably won’t end up playing this one. At the same time, however, I’m more tempted to try it than any other fighting game. So we’ll see. I certainly have plenty of games in both series to catch up on in the meantime.
Are you interested in Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga?