Falcom seems to be a rather busy company these days. Between its development of brand new games in The Legend of Heroes franchise and its desire to make sure that its role-playing titles are brought West, the developer's really kicked into high gear over the course of this console generation.
It's not slowing down anytime soon, either. During its latest financial briefing, Falcom revealed that the next Trails game is set to release in Japan by September 2020. To be clear, this isn't Trails of Cold Steel V as far as we know, as that overall story arc comes to a close in Trails of Cold Steel IV, which launched in Japan last year. In other words, this is expected to be the beginning of a new saga, or perhaps a kind of Cold Steel epilogue.
Speaking of Trails of Cold Steel IV, it still doesn't have a release window here in the West, although Falcom has all but confirmed that it's going to be localised at some point. We imagine that we'll hear more next year, especially now that Trails of Cold Steel III is out over here.
Back to Falcom's financial call, the company also wants to bring more of its older games to PlayStation 4. This could mean that The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki and Ao no Kiseki ports could be closer than ever. The developer expressed interest in porting both games to PS4 back in July. Of course, Falcom's other properties, such as Ys, are also worthy of consideration.
Are you looking forward to seeing what's next for Falcom? Unsheathe your cold steel in the comments section below.
[source gematsu.com]
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I’m surprised the Sky games haven’t been ported to PS4 yet given how simple it is to run them.
The more LoH games we get in the west the better!!!
This is great news and even though I'm only forty hours into Cold Steel 2 and still have my Special Edition of Cold Steel 3 unopened it's still cool to know there is plenty coming where that came from.
On current form Japan will get the new Trails game long before we get Trails of Cold Steel IV.
Even though I know some of what happened from the discussions in Trails of Cold Steel 3. I still definitely want to play both The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki and Ao no Kiseki.
I really hope the remastered games come as fast as possible to PS4. Here's hoping some of them come physically, but my wish would be for all of them to come physically lol.
I just started Trails in the Sky FC on the PSP recently and I plan to play the whole series in order, so I'm okay with the wait. 😉
I Think Sony Should Help Them Localize Their Games In The West To Help Them Speed Up The Process.
Nihon Falcom is still my favorite jrp dev. I can't wait for more content from them. I really do wish they'd remaster the Trails in the Sky series though; I have yet to play it.
Still have cold steel 1 & 2 steelcase edition unplayed, I wish steel 3 got steelcase edition too so I can buy it, I don't like ps4 normal case and I don't want to buy $60 games digitally unless it's exclusives. Day one on steel 4 if there's steelcase edition, I'll play the series later and at once when steel 4 release in usa
@PunkRx_Lockly Trails in the Sky is available on Steam.
@Ryall But it's not available as a remaster on the PS4, which is where I want to play it.
@Ryall We are talking about ps4 here not PC.
We want it on the ps4.
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