First game?

[Kunio Murai]

I own Legenf Of Hero's A Tour of Vermillion and The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch for the PSP.

I thought that the first game of the series was Tour of Vermillion. With Avin & Mile as pretty much main characters.

But I keep seeing that this game Trails in the Sky is the first game. Stated so on the store page and on the community hub.

I want to know whats the deal? This game seems like a later installment of the series. Unless I am mistaken.

Can someone explain?

[Asr163]

This is the sixth game in the The Legend of Heroes series but the first game starting the trails in the sky trilogy. new story, characters and all that. this is the first chapter of a 3 chapter trilogy

[omgfloofy]

This is technically the sixth "game" in the series.

DragonSlayer: The Legend of Heroes was released in 1990 for PC-9801, then it had a sequel of its own- DragonSlayer: The Legend of Heroes II. This duology is its own story that's known as the Iselhasa story.

The Gagharv Trilogy makes up 3-5: The Legend of Heroes III - White Witch (Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch in NA), The Legend of Heroes IV - A Tear of Vermillion, Legend of Heroes V - Cagesong of the Ocean were released in 1994, 1996, and 1999 for PC9801 and Windows. This trilogy is also a self-contained story.

Trails in the Sky is Legend of Heroes VI - Sora no Kiseki First Chapter. It's the first part of the Kiseki series within the Legend of Heroes series. Currently, it is made up of the following games:
Sora no Kiseki FC (Trails in the Sky) - Released originally for Windows in 2004, ported to PSP in 2006, PS3 in 2012
Sora no Kiseki SC - Released for Windows in 2006, PSP in 2007 and PS3 in 2013
Sora no Kiseki the 3rd - Released for Windows in 2007, PS3 in 2008, and PS3 in 2013.
Zero no Kiseki - Released for PSP in 2010, PC (China) in 2012, PS Vita (Zero no Kiseki Evolution) in 2012
Ao no Kiseki - Released for PSP in 2011, PC (China) in 2013, and PS Vita (Ao no Kiseki Evolution) in 2014
Sen no Kiseki - Released for PS3/PS Vita in 2013
Sen no Kiseki II - Coming this year in September 2014 for PS3 and PSVita

The Kiseki series makes up a single, continuous story that's, so far, been told in three arcs (Sora no Kiseki FC, SC, 3rd / Zero and Ao no Kiseki / Sen and Sen no Kiseki II) that have a different character set and so forth. However, the stories that were started, just get bigger, to become a larger, more encompassing series of events that start to wrap up other people in other parts of Zemuria. It's considered kind of groundbreaking in the concept that, at 7 games, it's still telling the same story.

[Kunio Murai]

Thanks for a fast answer from both of you. I would love to see the whole series on steam seeing as how the first two I have played were fantastic.

I also play RPG's in order, So it would be a while before I would play this one seeing as it is the 6th game.

Again, thanks for the fast reply.

[MichaelXC]

And to add to what was said above, the endings for the the 3 separate arcs do bring closure (Sora no Kiseki FC to The 3rd), Zero to Ao no Kiseki, and Sen no Kiseki 1 and hopefully 2), so you don't have to worry about cliff-hangers at the end of the arcs. Mind you Sen no Kiseki II is not out yet, but just going from how Falcom usually does things, the ending shouldn't leave you hanging.

[omgfloofy]

Originally posted by Green Guy:

I also play RPG's in order, So it would be a while before I would play this one seeing as it is the 6th game.

Thankfully, you don't need any of the games to play the Kiseki series. It's like you don't need the Iselhasa games to play Gagharv. They're pretty great like that.

At the very least, FC and SC both make a complete storyline for the most part, with minimal loose threads to worry about, and have extremely light references to the Gagharv trilogy- and even then, they're just playful references, with no requirements for knowing them.

Originally posted by MichaelXC:

Mind you Sen no Kiseki II is not out yet, but just going from how Falcom usually does things, the ending shouldn't leave you hanging.

I'd say wait and see on that one. Kondo's already said that Sen II's ending is 1) a gamechanger, and 2) extremely shocking. It'll probably close things up, but we're not really in a position to guess how /well/ things will be closed up.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I have Dragon Slayer on a Game Boy multicart...that was one of those games I couldn't figure out how to play as a little kid...all I could do was move this representation of a player-character around, and if I picked up this item, I could move blocks, but the blocks would just get me killed when I let enemies out of their pens.

Little did I know that this game had to do with that game, until I read up on the whole series.

[MichaelXC]

Haha, we'll see, I still think Sen II would end on a pretty positive note, the post-credit picture for Sen I is hinting at one (that flower...). Not to mention the ending for Ao no Kiseki

[mOnocularJohn]

I didn't know this was related to Dragon Slayer.. I was just about to start a Let's Play of that one on an emulator.

http://youtu.be/Mk3omsZpgkM

[Motoki]

Ha I totally remember that game on the old Turbografx. It came out about a year or so after Ys Book I & II did. I had no idea this game was in the same world.

[Arsene Lupin]

Originally posted by Asr163:

This is the sixth game in the The Legend of Heroes series but the first game starting the trails in the sky trilogy. new story, characters and all that. this is the first chapter of a 3 chapter trilogy

This. And we're getting the second chapter later this year, hopefully.

Was the third game on PSP, or Vita? I can't remember. It's such a confusing franchise to follow (Why the **** can't anyone use NUMBERS any more?)

[Erpy]

3rd game was on PC and PSP as well.

[Monterossa]

see this table:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Heroes#List_of_games_in_the_series

[Mr. Bovine Joni]

Originally posted by Monterossa:

see this table:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Heroes#List_of_games_in_the_series

So it looks unlikely that we'll ever see the trilogy finished in english? That's lovely.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Whether the Third Chapter gets localized will be dependent on sales of the Second Chapter (as well as the First Chapter).

This was stated by omgfloofy, presumably in 'eir official capacity with that dev tag and all. And I find it reasonable to believe. (Too lazy to dig up the posts now...)

[Monterossa]

Originally posted by Savage.Dingo:

Originally posted by Monterossa:

see this table:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Heroes#List_of_games_in_the_series

So it looks unlikely that we'll ever see the trilogy finished in english? That's lovely.

I think if the first 2 games sell well, we can expect the final chapter. It will be a slap to the fans if we finished 2 games and they just give a middle finger to us when we ask for the last part.