Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Trails into Reverie?

I still haven't started it.☹️ Still working on Azure and FF16. It's downloaded and ready to go though!

As someone who also got to review it, gotta be consistent with my scoring. I had so much fun with Reverie

I just finished Lloyd's initial patrol of Crossbell. The game visually looks sharper and crisper than any previous entry, and it's nice to see so many familiar characters for the first time in 3D form. My only issue thus far is that moving around feels somehow stiff and disjointed; approaching NPCs and other characters to initiate conversation requires far more effort than it should. Actually it slowed my progress in exploring to such a degree that I took multiple breaks away from the game just in this section, something I never had a problem with before in Trails games. I'm not referring to the lengthy dialogue that's always been a hallmark of the franchise; I'm talking about movement and interactions that feel absolutely glacial, deliberate as opposed to natural. Even as a huge fan who's also a completist I imagine it's going to be tough to deal with over the course of dozens of hours of gameplay.

Gave it a 9 as it continues the excellent high bar the series had set for itself. Combat is second to none when it comes to turn based JRPGs, the dialogue is well written as always, and the story is surprisingly engaging for what essentially is a giant interlude to the next arc of the story.

Complaints are the usual cringe we unfortunately have to deal with in these games. Also some of the voice acting is a real head scratcher (Why does KeA sound like an adult?)

I feel like this is more a question for the review itself but as someone who never touched but is interested in the Trails series, should I play the older titles before this one? The buzz surrounding this game has me super interested!

I played the Japanese version enjoyed it a lot which I give it around a 8.5 . Currently going through the English version. Some of the voices are on par with the JP version some worse. It's a great length game if you like long RPGs.

@Hida they mention this in their review of the game, but jumping into this game without experiencing the others is not advisable. This is the 10th game in the series. While I still haven't played the first 3 games, the Sky trilogy, I would say you should experience the story as close to the start as possible.

However that's obviously daunting to play 6 JRPGs in preparation to this. The bare minimum would be to play both Cold Steel 3 and 4. You get introduced to most characters in those games and while you may miss some of the finer details, it's pretty easy to catch up through googling characters and events they you don't understand.

@Jayslow I probably should of read the review before commenting! XD But thank you for your answer. I actually own all the NA releases of this series so far and never touched it (yet). Although the games are long, I will start with them in order then. Thanks for responding!

8 but it would be a 9 if the Liberl crew didn't take a back seat compared to the other two casts. Still love the depth of the battle system and the way you can build your characters.

People who give solid fun games a 0 or a 1 need to get a grip.

@Mendax

Stupid. Localization takes time, those people not porting and translating should always be cease and desisted. DLC is fine and it's a solid 9. You may be the only person ever to think zero.

Nisa and Falcom forever!

I love Those who gave it a 1 and saying it is abysmal !!!!!
Did they even play it ?

Yeah, the amount of content is really good. Especially for JRPGs these days. I put 70-80 hours into my save in the Japanese version. Finally play as most of the cast. I definitely like the playable character selection a lot better than Cold Steel 4.

Cold Steel 4 felt like the Avengers of the Kiseki series for me. Which I liked the other entries more. Hajimari/ Reverie is a good entry overall and Kuro 1 is fantastic which I hope that the English release doesn't take too long for that.

I enjoyed my time with the game, but note that I played the fan translation.

Minor spoiles follow!!!!!

Visuals were a step forward but even though the game is fun to play it makes you think that it is a bit unnecessary. Firstly, the bizarre trope to redeem the evil characters continues yet again.

What I did not like is that they threw Rean's social links in the toilet and flushed it, as was the trend with all Cold Steel games. There seems to be only very minor references to the woman you have chosen as girlfriend. I was not a fan of the Rean harem theme since some possible choices seemed way unethical and all other male characters were stripped of possible romantic interests but the game forgets so it doesn't really matter in the end.

The biggest problem with the narrative was that Crossbell seems to be taken by another force every other Tuesday. There is a rehash of storylines in Reverie. Crossbell doesn't look like how a moder country should function, even in the concept of "videogame logic".

It is not the best Trails, but so far there are no bad Trails games.
And see everybody together again is sooooo cool!
Sadly, to me one of the routes should be given to Sky characters, and not C. But still great! Can't wait for Kuro!

Not quite there yet. I have played through the Liberl and Crossbell arcs, and just finishing up the first game in the Erebonia arc. I am glad that most outlets and fans seem to be giving it pretty good reviews though and I look forward to eventually getting there.