What? No Estelle and Joshua?

[pianogrinder]

The two main characters are the only ones worthy of making the game are not here??? Replaced with someone we hardly even know?? This is going in a bad direction like a FF XIII spinoff and we all know how that ended up.

[Ryuseki]

They are in the game................

[pelthis]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/131/351/eb6.jpg?1307463786

If you played the previous games, you know Estelle and Joshua's arc is pretty over. They're still in that 3rd game but as sidekicks.
And before learning to love them, they were also random characters we never heard about, but getting insight on their thoughts and feelings made them cool. So it will be the same for Kevin (I don't like him personnaly, but the ending of SC showed us it was some kind of acting) and Ries might be cool as well.

[Domi]

Just play the game.

[DDR]

Originally posted by pianogrinder:

Replaced with someone we hardly even know??

We will get to know them very well in this entry then. (Not to mention everyone else.)

[EndOfTheWorld]

Originally posted by pianogrinder:

This is going in a bad direction like a FF XIII spinoff and we all know how that ended up.

What do you mean? Everyone knows that XIII-2>XIII. So by this logic, it would say that this game will trump the earlier editions.

[Renaissance Of Dreams]

The whole Trails in the Sky cast is back

It's just that the story is not specifically about Joshua and Estelle anymore. Now it's about Kevin.

[chronofantasy]

Doesn't matter who the main characters are. I trust falcom games to have an amazing story and to make an amazing game, no matter who the main cast or which characters are added. The whole overarching plot for the trails series is what really makes it appealing as well.

[omgfloofy]

Would this be the same reaction you'd have if you ever got to play Zero no Kiseki, as the main cast is all 100% new with no information at all? (Or even looking at Cold Steel?)

This series will regularly jump perspectives like this. Since Estelle and Joshua's story is over for the most part, it's time to move the spotlight to someone else so that the series' overall story can be told through another perspective.

And 3rd will teach you that things involving the Septian Church have a lot of importance to them for the whole series.

[SaberVS7]

Heheh, I can tell that someone is salty about Kevin.

[sillymel]

Originally posted by セイバー VS7:

Heheh, I can tell that someone is salty about Kevin.

I see what you did there.

[Corrderio]

Originally posted by sillymel:

Originally posted by セイバー VS7:

Heheh, I can tell that someone is salty about Kevin.

I see what you did there.

Dang it, beat.

[Seldon]

Guys, this game is 10 years old. It's not 'going anywhere', it's pretty much over, we're just late to the party. Legend of Heroes is currently developed in Cold Steel, which is pretty much as good as Trails in the sky.

[Senoinya Aumeriyal'e]

First of all... If you thought Estelle and Joshua were the only two characters in this series worth making a game about, you couldn't have been paying that much attention during the game. Pretty much every character has some interesting details to their lives that are hinted to between FC and SC. There's nothing else to know about Estelle and Joshua after SC. Everything we ever could have wanted to know about them, we know now.

They're still here in this game, because it gives us a chance to watch them grow after that point. However, now it's time to move the focus from characters we now know everything about onto a character we know next to nothing about. Make sense?

[pibedetorres]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the real protagonists of Trails are Anton and Ricky.

[Makesin]

Maybe of the whole series, but the real protagonist of the Sky trilogy is Gilbert.