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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 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

News The Latest Trails Game, Kuro no Kiseki, Is Already Getting a Sequel in Japan Next Year

Falcom, NISA, please

The West is now so far behind with Trails games that it's actually starting to hurt. The latest game in Falcom's long-running JRPG series, Kuro no Kiseki, released for PlayStation 4 earlier this year in Japan — but there's been no definitive word on a Western launch. And now, Falcom has announced that a direct sequel — the...

• Fri 17th Dec 2021
• Falcom
• PS5
• PS4
• Trails