If you're a fan of 100-hour long Japanese RPGs and you happen to have a Japanese PlayStation account complete with PS Plus Extra, then you've just struck gold. The new PS Plus tiers, Premium and Extra, have just launched in Japan, and the Extra option includes almost every Falcom RPG available on PS4. (You can find a complete list of the PS Plus Extra launch games for Japan through the link.)
That's right, Extra subscribers get the two remastered Crossbell games, Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure, as well as all four titles in the Cold Steel series. Even Trails into Reverie is included — the game that takes place after the Cold Steel saga, and isn't due out here in the West until sometime next year. Oh, and don't forget spinoff The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails. That's eight highly rated JRPGs.
That's already an absurd amount of adventure — a catalogue that could keep you busy for weeks, if not months. But it doesn't stop there: PS Plus Premium subscribers get access to the older Trails in the Sky series via PS3 streaming. Jeez!
And as if that wasn't enough, Falcom's other major property, Ys, is also a big part of the PS Plus Extra package. PS4 titles Ys: Memories of Celceta, Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, and Ys IX: Monstrum Nox are all on there. Remastered action RPG Tokyo Xanadu eX+, too.
Now then, the big question: are any of these Falcom games going to be on PS Plus Extra outside of Japan? Honestly, probably not — Tokyo Xanadu, maybe — but we obviously can't say for certain. Part of our reasoning is that the four Cold Steel games were made available through PS Now in Japan earlier this year, so it makes sense for them to be included with PS Plus Extra. As for the other PS4 Trails titles...well, they haven't been localised yet!
So yeah, we wouldn't get your hopes up. Still, this is an impressive offering for Japanese players, and well worth highlighting so that we can compare how things stack up when Extra arrives overseas.
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Would honestly be crazy if the west would get all these Falcom games as well (the one released in English of course). But yeah, unfortunately don't see it happening. Seem like it would be way to good. Lol
Good for Falcom, get those extra Yen Girl
The Only Ys Game Missing Is Origins
I have this Japanese PS1 game, Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix
My question, does PS PLUS have DDR 3rd Mix ?
@Anti-Matter There’s off topic and then there’s Anti-Matter
Hopefully at least the Cold Steel games can be on the service. The more Western fans of Trails there are the better the incentive to keep localizing the series!
@Korgon The PS3 Versions Of The First 2 Were On PS Now So Most Likely It Will Be The Same With This.
Falcom games are self published in Japan while in the west they're published by others like NISA or Marvelous. So it's easier for Sony to get a deal in Japan to include all their games but will be more difficult in the west since it would involve multiple publishers, who may prefer their other properties be included instead.
I would imagine it's down to simply how popular jrpgs are there and not having a solid selection would be blasphemous not to have some like these. While it would be nice for those of us who like these kinds of games it may not happen in the early days because many are still considered niche in the west.
It makes me kind of sad that of the eight old Trails games going to PlayStation plus in Japan. Only four have been released in the West. One has a release date for later this year. The remaining 3 supposedly coming in 2023.
The latest game doesn’t appear on the service hasn’t even been announced for releasing the west yet.
Of the 3 PS3 games. The english translations are available on steam.
It’d probably take a player a good three or four months of fairly heavy play to get through those Cold Steel games (if not more!). You’d need more than a one-month membership, to be sure.
This is why I'm still unsure about which Tier system I would be better off with.It takes me ages to play and finish any game let alone a huge rpg like the Trails games.By the time I start one game the others might get removed or the game I'm playing gets removed from the service.It took me over 2 weeks just to start and finish Eiyuden Chronicles Rising!
Europe/uk getting screwed again. I get that we can't have the crossbell games yet as they've not been officially localised yet but Sony done this back in ps3 generation as certain games were out in the US but not on uk's like breath of fire 3/4 , legend of dragoon. It doesnt make sense why certain countries have certain games and other don't. Accept if they were banned due to cultural or ethnic reasons
@Wazeddie22 trails games aren't that long 25-30 hours well compared to long j-rpgs like persona 5 etc
Lucky ducks, they always get more games than us.
@johnny30 Depends how much you put into them.I played first two Trails Of Cold Steel games and second one took me about 80-90 hours lol.But even so a 25-30 hour game could take me a few weeks.
@Wazeddie22 yeah I suppose depending on what difficulties level etc ,probably longer for me as I only really game at weekends due to try keep the electric bill down and studying lol
@johnny30 there is more than 30 hours of dialogue in Cold Steel 3. There is no way you could finish it in under 50 hours unless you skipped all the dialogue and played in high speed mode the whole time. Just going through the game normally and doing the side quests that are presented to you, it’s 100 hours easy.
@Niktaw tbh I was in high speed for most of the game lol
@johnny30 well that explains it lol. I’m 90 hours in no end in sight, so when I saw 25-30 hours I was like what am I doing wrong?
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