Are joshua and estelle not a big part of the 3rd game?

[KFCBUCKETS9000]

It does not look like it from what I have played.

[Serval]

They have their story in the game and are playable, but they are not the main protagonists. You'll meet them soon enough after the start of the game.

[KFCBUCKETS9000]

Originally posted by Serval:

They have their story in the game and are playable, but they are not the main protagonists. You'll meet them soon enough after the start of the game.

I hope I like the game enough to finish it, I got through the first 2 because I really like the character's

[Berahlen]

IIRC Joshua shows up pretty early, and Estelle a little less than halfway. They're not the stars but they don't exactly stay in the background once they're around.

[Oguzhan]

This game is basically a fan service for the entire cast of the Sky arc. You have the doors, interactions in the garden (some of which are cutscene style) and certain boss fights. At the beginning of the game, the garden is very empty as you don't have any characters but towards the end it is filled with your friends and all of them have cool dialogue. Sometimes, I just change my team to see what kinda dialogue I might be able to get.
I love Joshua and Estelle too, hell Estelle is my favorite character ever, but you gotta let go of your characters and change the spotlight at times so that they don't get tired. They basically finished their main arc in SC and now are just playing catch up with Renne. After that they are basically done with their character arcs. Kevin and Ries have a lot of interesting interactions so don't worry.

Also, trust me when I say this, this game does do a lot of world building for the future games.

[Dragon]

Are joshua and estelle not a big part of the 3rd game?

No they aren't. The 3rd game demotes Joshua & Estelle to being pointless side characters.

They have a couple of very brief side-stories that feature them, but which have absolutely nothing to do with the main plot, the main plot which they areboth irrelevant to.

They could have entirely deleted both Joshua & Estelle from this game by making very few changes to the script...which just goes to show how totally meaningless they are to this game.

Originally posted by Oguzhan:

They basically finished their main arc in SC and now are just playing catch up with Renne.

But they aren't really doing that in this game either. This game is mostly irrelevant to that plot point too.

Someone who skipped Sky the 3rd and went to straight from SC to Crossbell would see the real development of that plot point happening in the Crossbell games, and even after skipping the 3rd, they would have missed almost nothing in regards to that point.

Although 3rd does have crucial development for the Renne character, which the player would be missing if they skipped 3rd.

[Serval]

Originally posted by Dragon:

Someone who skipped Sky the 3rd and went to straight from SC to Crossbell would see the real development of that plot point. But the 3rd doesn't feature it.

Well, not exactly, imo. After 3rd we at least know why exactly EJ come to Crossbell (which is really short on bracers, but if that was the main reason they would have stayed in Crossbell in Ao, but they didn't) . 3rd reveals this part just a bit. Nevertheless, I find this part of plot in 3rd slightly inappropriately done, as I was really mad with Estelle's ignorance.

[Minako-desu]

I stopped at SC because I prefer playing as Estelle the main character, sucks that they went back to the japanese traditional route of male protagonist. I wonder if 3rd is even worth it at this point. Games I played that dont mind a male protagonist are tales of arise, persona 4 golden etc.

[Phoenix-san]

Originally posted by Minako-desu:

I stopped at SC because I prefer playing as Estelle the main character, sucks that they went back to the japanese traditional route of male protagonist. I wonder if 3rd is even worth it at this point. Games I played that dont mind a male protagonist are tales of arise, persona 4 golden etc.

They don't play as much of a role as in sky fc/sc but if you plan to contrinue playing trails it's very very worth it. Game serves as both and epilogue of sky, telling you about events that happened SC, about some character's fates, explores characters in more depth and sets up a lot of future plot threads that continues in Crossbell, Erebonia and Calvard.

It feels very different, as there are not that many people to talk to. But it's absolutely packed with important content and lore. If you liked Estelle, at the very least check out moon door 4 on youtube if you don't plan to play trails further.

It won't be the last time you'll see Estelle and Joshua in games either. If you plan to continue trails journey, sky 3rd is a must. Also read the short manga Ring of Judgement about Estelle and Joshua and what they were doing after SC, it mostly happens shortly before 3rd (and also ties into the beginning hours of tales from zero).

My favorite protagonist is Estelle as well, but crossbell games are about just as good as Sky or some might say even better.