The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure

Absolute Cinema, Peak Trails.

If you like this series it's another great entry into the series. The last boss is NOT to be underestimated - grind for good foods and levels.

Recommended because I enjoyed the part of the game that I could play. Unfortunately my PC is "not supported" according to customer service. On integrated graphics, the game crashes about 80% through during a 6+ minute series of cutscenes due to lack of video memory. I have tried it multiple times and each time it crashes at the same spot. As such, I couldn't complete the game. Guess that will have to wait until I dump money on a high end gaming PC so I can play something that came out in the PSP era. Don't want to downvote it because of that, but be aware if you have integrated graphics you might not be able to finish it.

My personal game of the year as of the time of writing this review. Absolutely solid conclusion to the second half in otherwise my current favorite arc in the trails games. The characters are so memorable and likeable, alongside the absolute banger of a soundtrack, and a story where the stakes continue to get higher and higher. Had a blast playing through this and I cannot wait to see what the future trails games have in store for the continuing story across zemuria.

If there's one good thing about being unemployed is that you're able to play these games to their fullest with little to no hindrance. Aidios, Azure-Zero will siphon off your time away to some obscure dimension. It would seem that Trails games are all about pay-offs. They'll take you into a slow-burning long journey with lingering questions and doubts on whether these questions are ever going to be answered. Guess what? The pay-off does its job and answers most of these questions while leaving out some few as setups to future games. Trails to Azure is no different to that rule. In fact, it highly benefits from it. Azure setup so many events, mysteries, old and new characters, and so many questions. The way the game untangles all of these threads right at the very end is nothing short of miracle. One question that's been nagging at me since Zero was [spoiler] why the heck are Estelle and Joshua with the SSS when they went into Sun Fort yet at the beginning of the game there was only Lloyd, Elie, Tio and Randy [/spoiler]? I'm glad I was inquisitive enough to not let go of this question because Azure fully answered that at the very end. Hundreds of hours of holding onto these myster…

So far one of the best trails games, a grat conclussion to the Crossbell arc that leaves the door open for more (and you'll want more after that ending)