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News Trails through Daybreak Release Date Set for July on PS5, PS4

The day breaks

NIS America has given Trails through Daybreak a confirmed release date. Previously, the Falcom RPG was simply slated for 'summer 2024', but now it's locked in for the 5th July. The title also has a new English trailer, which you can watch above. In Japan, Trails through Daybreak is known as Kuro no Kiseki — and it first launched...

• Tue 5th Mar 2024
• NIS America
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails

News Trails through Daybreak Stream Will Showcase First English Gameplay Next Week

Falcom's RPG gets a release date...?

NIS America, the publisher in charge of bringing Trails through Daybreak — and all of Falcom's other RPGs — to the West, has announced that it'll be hosting an "early look" livestream of the game next week. NISA's partnering with speedrun charity RPG Limit Break, and the broadcast will air through its Twitch...

• Fri 1st Mar 2024
• NIS America
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails

News A New Trails Game Will Launch in Japan Next Year as the West Continues to Catch Up

Kuro 3 all but confirmed

Falcom's latest financial report reveals that a new Trails title is set to release before September 2024. It's highly likely that it'll end up being the third game in the series' latest saga, following on from Kuro no Kiseki and Kuro no Kiseki 2: Crimson Sin. The latter hit Japan in 2022, as Falcom focused on Ys X: Nordics...

• Fri 10th Nov 2023
• Falcom
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails

News Trails through Daybreak Is the Official English Name for Kuro no Kiseki, Coming to PS5, PS4 in Summer 2024

The next Trails saga begins

Known as Kuro no Kiseki in Japan, publisher NIS America has confirmed that it'll be bringing the RPG westwards in the summer of 2024. Its official English name is Trails through Daybreak, and it's coming to both PS5 and PS4. This new beginning in Falcom's Trails saga first released in 2021, but over the last 18 months or...

• Thu 21st Sep 2023
• NIS America
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails
• Trailers

Interview Falcom Boss Talks Everything Trails, Reverie, Importance of Western Fans, and More

Also answers our dumbest questions

Trails into Reverie's long-awaited release is just days away at the time of writing, and with the series finally ramping up here in the West, we wanted to reach out to developer Falcom in order to organise our biggest interview with the company yet. Luckily for us, Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo has been kind...

• Wed 5th Jul 2023
• Falcom
• NIS America
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails

News Kuro no Kiseki Localisation News Coming 'As Soon as Possible', Falcom Hopes

The Trails saga looks set to continue

Originally released in 2021 in Japan, Kuro no Kiseki marks the beginning of a whole new story arc in Falcom's long-running The Legend of Heroes: Trails series. Western fans have been waiting on a localisation announcement for close to two years at this point, but it's yet to happen. To be fair, though, the...

• Wed 5th Jul 2023
• Falcom
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails

News Falcom's Trails Series Tops 7 Million Sales

The legend grows

Falcom has announced that its Legend of Heroes: Trails franchise has now topped 7 million sales. The RPG series has been around for close to two decades, and it's always been somewhat popular in its homeland of Japan — but in recent years, the property has also started to catch on here in the West. 7 million is a respectable...

• Thu 22nd Sep 2022
• Falcom
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails
• Sales

Interview Falcom on The Legend of Heroes' Future, Bringing New Trails Games West, and More

Holding out for Heroes

With Japanese RPG series The Legend of Heroes more popular than ever before here in the West, we wanted to get in touch with developer Falcom to find out more about the franchise and its future. Luckily, we landed an interview with Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo himself, and he was happy to answer some of our most prominent...

• Wed 15th Jun 2022
• Falcom
• NIS America
• PS4
• Interviews
• Features

News Falcom on Bringing Kuro Trails Games West: 'Of Course We Intend To'

An update from Kondo himself

By now, Trails fans know all too well that it can take a long time for the latest entries Falcom's RPG series to come West. Publishing partner NIS America appears to be trying its best to bring the games over as quickly as it can, but colossal scripts mean that the localisation process is particularly gruelling. As...

• Wed 8th Jun 2022
• Falcom
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails

News The West's Already Huge Wait for the New Trails Games Just Got Even More Painful

First details on Kuro no Kiseki II are here

We're very thankful that, over the last decade or so, Japanese companies have finally grown accustomed to releasing their games outside of Japan in a timely manner. Publishers like SEGA are actually going all-in on worldwide release dates, which is a massive step in the right direction when you consider...

• Thu 7th Apr 2022
• Falcom
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails