How is it?

[Vurado88]

Since July 5th English patch is coming I'm looking to get this game. How is the story tho? Is it as good as other trials games? Is it connected to any trial games ?

[Seagal]

Vurado88님이 먼저 게시:

No i played all trial games except Reverie and Daybreak. But daybreak appeals to me visually and i like main protagonist look.

Oh, well, you should probably play Reverie then if you've already played them all. I mean, why not at that point, you gonna just skip Reverie?

But, if you really like the look of Daybreak and its protagonist then just go straight into that. Up to you.

I'm kind of the opposite with the protagonist in Daybreak. Not very appealing compared to Rean, Lloyd or C from Reverie.

[奈緒江]

a fellow marutina enjoyer above me :D yay

i'll make my post short and sweet, i feel like you can take away half the characters and nothing would change

pretty subpar cast, story is whatever and likes to waste your time

i gave it a 5.8/10

[奈緒江]

also agreed, Van is not particularly interesting and gets minimal development.

he can be pretty funny at times but other than that yea, he's just a dude who is there

[Candyman2000]

Seagal님이 먼저 게시:

Can't say for sure how good or bad it is, but Daybreak 2 was a major flop for Falcom and sales numbers are tanking. That isn't exactly a glowing endorsement for Daybreak 1, which could be said is the game that started the decline.

I've been trying to make a decision on whether to buy this or not, and the opinions I've read and content I've seen doesn't make the game look very good. I'm thinking I should just make Reverie my last game and drop the series, or at the very least wait until this is at a major discount.

After all, they're quite expensive games for something that is super low budget, thrown together and not even a "AA" game. The series is in heavy decline in Japan, and Falcom will realistically never live up to the "build up" and expectations they've created. I think people are seeing that and are starting to throw in the towel.

Basically the mcu of gaming is hitting the same sorta wall that mcu or any long form media eventually hits the series needs to take a break. Falcom has been on cruise control for so many years now.

[Shaolin]

Ogami님이 먼저 게시:

Nah the reception of Daybreak was very good and its considered one of the better Trails games overall and maybe the best "first" game in a new arc.
Its biggest strength is that its nearly entirely self contained, the story that starts in this game actually concludes at the end with no cliffhangers or major threads left hanging.
Well , one small thing but apart from that this is a "complete" story.

Daybreak 2 then crapped the bed for multiple reasons.
It was released just a year after Daybreak 1 because FALCOM needed a yearly game release and Ys 10 was not ready.
The story in Daybreak 2 is pretty bad and the entire game feels like a massive filler with no progression for the greater Trails storyline at all, something that even the hardcore fans are getting tired of.
There is also one element to the story players REALLY did not like since it robbed the story of any lasting consequences. time travel

After having played Daybreak 2 earlier this year with the fantranslation its not AS bad as many say but its definitely a bottom tier Trails that does not really need to exist.
Personally i rank Daybreak 1 a strong 8.5/10 and Daybreak 2 a 6/10.

Oh god, that spoiler for Daybreak 2 is my worst nightmare that I have been worrying about for a while with this series now. I hate that aspect in pretty much any form of media as it is *almost* never done well and just ruins the overall experience. At least it still has mostly positive reviews but still disappointed we got to that point. It seems they wanted to make another Sky 3rd type of game but failed in most aspects? Still excited for Daybreak 1 though, if only to get a fresh perspective/more world building.

[Sauriel]

Vurado88님이 먼저 게시:

So is Trails into Reverie better? Cuz i really like the visuals of this game but it see ppl have mix feelings.

reverie did wear out my patience with all the 50+ character optimizations and sudden split party battle twist, but there were a few of those too in the other ones. As the cold steel saga progressed they just added more and more of those characters, i'm not a suikoden type, more of a FF7 type where i tend to stick to a few that i want to learn to use the best together.

Some of those characters are from other arcs, and they lead up to this point, trails of cold steel becomes a sort of culmilation after a point of everything thats been going on in the other two arcs. In trails into reverie characters from all 3 game arcs are present. I dont know anything though about games before trails in the sky arc series, but maybe theres some kind of small nods for those too

[Sauriel]

Shaolin님이 먼저 게시:

Ogami님이 먼저 게시:

Nah the reception of Daybreak was very good and its considered one of the better Trails games overall and maybe the best "first" game in a new arc.
Its biggest strength is that its nearly entirely self contained, the story that starts in this game actually concludes at the end with no cliffhangers or major threads left hanging.
Well , one small thing but apart from that this is a "complete" story.

Daybreak 2 then crapped the bed for multiple reasons.
It was released just a year after Daybreak 1 because FALCOM needed a yearly game release and Ys 10 was not ready.
The story in Daybreak 2 is pretty bad and the entire game feels like a massive filler with no progression for the greater Trails storyline at all, something that even the hardcore fans are getting tired of.
There is also one element to the story players REALLY did not like since it robbed the story of any lasting consequences. time travel

After having played Daybreak 2 earlier this year with the fantranslation its not AS bad as many say but its definitely a bottom tier Trails that does not really need to exist.
Personally i rank Daybreak 1 a strong 8.5/10 and Daybreak 2 a 6/10.

Oh god, that spoiler for Daybreak 2 is my worst nightmare that I have been worrying about for a while with this series now. I hate that aspect in pretty much any form of media as it is *almost* never done well and just ruins the overall experience. At least it still has mostly positive reviews but still disappointed we got to that point. It seems they wanted to make another Sky 3rd type of game but failed in most aspects? Still excited for Daybreak 1 though, if only to get a fresh perspective/more world building.

The way they hinted through the series made me think of a game called radiant historia, but i doubt it will beat chrono trigger after english localization so to speak. The reverie corridor thing have been used before but, they intergrated it along outside story here, and a big roster of characters this time

[Sauriel]

Ogami님이 먼저 게시:

MeldinX2님이 먼저 게시:

Eh i don't think 2 was a ''Dud'' it's not the best in the series but it's generally well received. With more reviews being positive than negative. There is also a Daybreak 3 in the works as well that will probably be the end of this arc. All this said the first game that gets an english release tommorrow is excellent. Good writing and in my opinion a great cast of character and the story is in general abit more dark than the previous titles. Daring to feature more death and destruction in general.

Daybreak 2 is the worst selling Trails game in Japan of the last 17 years.
Also the lowest rated and constantly in last place in polls.
There also will be no "Daybreak 3", that was canceled and they announced that the rest of the series will be drastically shortened from formerly 10 planned games to 3-4 to finish the entire story.
You dont do that if your game sold well.

The next game releasing in September is not Daybreak 3, but " Kai no Kiseki ( Trails beyond the boundery) - Farewell Oh Zemuria" which is explicity designed to answer tons of questions about the mainstory ,like the secret behind the world of Zemuria and the Grandmaster.
It also will have 3 different hero groups like Reverie again, including class 7 and Rean.
And they brought Rean back because he is the most popular Trails character in Japan and they hope it will help the game. Its that simple. Plus other old characters in major roles like Rufus, Kevin and so on. Vaan from Daybreak will also have a big role but he is not the main protagonist.

After Kai no Kiseki the main story will be 90% concluded according to the game director, with just one further 2 game arc planned and then an final epilog game.

sounds like daybreak 2 is a black sheep somehow, reminds me of kq 8 of the kings quest series, except it was a favorite of mine (personally) just like dungeon lords

[Syrin]

It's great

[Miesmann - allkeyshop]

did they increase difficulty with translation ?

[Karjakin]

I have played a couple of the trails games before like cold steel 1, 2 and 3. But in my opinions this game is worth getting even if you haven't played the previous games. Daybreak does have characters from the previous games and also mentions alot of lore that happened in the other arcs of the story.

I think i enjoyed daybreak a lot more than i did cold steel. I love Van as a maincharacter, because he didn't always to the "right" thing. This leads the story to future a lot more mature themes, which i personally enjoyed. I loved the characters and the casual banter between them. I have played over 80 hours and this has become my favourite trails game that i have played.

The story started really slow, but captivated me early, I got really invested pretty early on and wanted to keep going on. While the story might not be the absolute best in the series, you get pretty hooked! For me it felt like the story was more character driven, than one on heavy on all kinds on narratives and 15 other plot points like was the case with cold steel. I'd place the story of this game up in top 3 of the arcs. The game felt fresh thou it kinda reminded me of the original cold steel 1.

[Ogami]

Mies-Man님이 먼저 게시:

did they increase difficulty with translation ?

Nope. Game is still pretty easy, even on Nightmare.
There is some difficulty mod floating around you can install if you want a challenge though.

[rachaellikesblue]

I loved Daybreak! I played it first in Japanese and now I'm playing it in English. I definitely liked some of the darker elements, which I'll leave to those who have yet to play it to discover!

I actually really liked Daybreak 2 as well, although not as much as the first game. The fixing everything through time travel was kind of lame, but all the side stories offered a lot of insight into different characters, and I've always enjoyed the "little moments" of Trails (bonding events, talking to all the NPCs, etc.) so the fact that they went back to the beginning in the end didn't bother me too much.

Play this game or don't; play the other games first or don't. Do whatever makes you happy. There's not just one way to enjoy this series!

[Ceriss]

I just started personally but it kind of hit me like a truck how real the new cast feels. As much as I love the entirety of this series, Lloyd and Rean in particular had a bad habit of leaning into that saturday morning cartoon vibe where a lot of the subtler parts of their personality are glazed over by a layer of cheesy heroics.

Estelle was a bit better back then only because the story was a bit more grounded on her and Joshua and she was realistic in her power scaling and her reactions to the world and people around her.

But Daybreak... Yume is a great example here, a lot of Trails non protagonist child characters tend to be very one note. Mischievous or very good idealized kids.
Yume is a good kid of course but her dialogue feels super real. Van is more animated and reacts much more than Rean or Lloyd did.

I think Falcom was potentially feeling fatigue with what was essentially one big build up to everything in Erebonia.

It feels like their character writing is inspired again. This is without getting into them changing the gameplay without actually scrapping the core system. I'm super impressed.

[CalokAndQkourQcuarante]

Seagal님이 먼저 게시:

Can't say for sure how good or bad it is, but Daybreak 2 was a major flop for Falcom and sales numbers are tanking. That isn't exactly a glowing endorsement for Daybreak 1, which could be said is the game that started the decline.

I've been trying to make a decision on whether to buy this or not, and the opinions I've read and content I've seen doesn't make the game look very good. I'm thinking I should just make Reverie my last game and drop the series, or at the very least wait until this is at a major discount.

After all, they're quite expensive games for something that is super low budget, thrown together and not even a "AA" game. The series is in heavy decline in Japan, and Falcom will realistically never live up to the "build up" and expectations they've created. I think people are seeing that and are starting to throw in the towel.

Could you show me where you get the negative reviews for Daybreak 1? It seems at complete odds with all the ones I've seen. Many people say it's the best arc opener of the series, some even say it's the best game of the series. I've seen pretty much nothing but positive things about it, and so far, I agree (much better than any Cold Steel game imo).

As for the sales, you're half-right. The Japanese PS5 release got very low sales due to the misfortune of releasing in the same week as Tales of Arise, but the PS4 version was the best-selling physical product of its release week.

Daybreak 2... yeah, it's got issues. But because it's so standalone you could probably skip it and still understand the story if you only play Daybreak 1 then go straight to Kai. This series has 12 games currently. They can't all be amazing. DB2's quality doesn't detract as a reason to play DB1.