Trails in the Sky PS5 Remake Reportedly Double the Length of Original Game

We know what we get with RPGs. Almost always, a long time affair. So, bring it on!!

I don't mind the extra length. As it was stated the cutscenes are fully-rendered now as opposed to the original. That alone makes sense to add to the length considerably as there is always lots of dialog in Trails.

I'm still very much looking forward to it's release.

I started this on my old laptop a couple years back to start Trails as a series (was never sure where I could comfortably jump in). I think I got really close to the end when my laptop finally died on me. I had a great time with it though, and it’s been long enough to start from scratch without it feeling too similar, so this should make it feel extra fresh! I wonder if they’re re-recording the music? I loved the main theme.

I didn't ever imagine being only 40hrs...

@NieR_Dark
It sounds like they are re-recording it, from the trailers. It's still not orchestrated, but oh well.

Knowing these games it's probably all dialogue.

80 hours? This is short for a Trails game. I average 120 hours in most of them.

I can’t wait for this, and it sounds like there will be a lot more content. And by content I mean dialogue.

Depending on Trophy Challenges it could be longer to 100%. These are generally not taken into account before the challenges go live at release, but can massively impact how much there is to do.

@Ralizah Lmao, considering how slow paced the first game is, I’m sure you’d love playing for twice as long!

@DonkeyFantasy There have been a whole bunch of trailers with the English dub, mostly character introductions — most recently for Tita and Zin a bit over a week ago. Most can be found on Gematsu or the r/falcom subreddit.

I also find the voice styles used in English dubs of shounen-anime and shounen-anime style JRPGs (and Trails falls squarely into that category) generally irritating so play with JP audio wherever possible: because it's a foreign language to me the unnaturalness of it all isn't so immediately grating.

I just hope that if SC gets remade it doesn't get bulked out to that extent, given its script was already twice the length of the original FC.

@nessisonett oml 😭

Why does every JRPG need to be a million hours now?

Almost nothing happens in this game. It's just build up to the sequel.

@Ralizah At that length, they would have been better just putting FC and SC together. Uses basically all the same assets anyway.

@nessisonett An 80+ hour experience that combined both games would've been awesome.

Instead they went the FFVII Remake direction and bloated the heck out of this.

I still really like the new combat and visuals, though, so thankfully the gameplay itself won't be such a slog.

Honestly this is in line with my expectations for how long it was gonna take. But getting exhausted with devs bragging about insanely long game length like it's a positive.

Taking into consideration how expensive games are getting now (at least where i live), I'll take what i can get in terms of length. So yes, more time = higher chance for me to buy the game, especially if it's an JRPG game

The Thing I'm wondering about is all of the Dialogue Voiced it always drove me Crazy how one Cutscene being fully voiced then the next one being just text.

Honestly, I'm glad. I enjoyed the original but felt there was more they could have added side content wise. And in terms of time, I will happily just play when I can for as long as it takes. I'm not one who has to be able to finish a game in a couple of sittings and the finish with it

So basically it's another Trails game? lol

I AM SO READY!!

"Great"...even more bloat...

Probably fair to experience it but yeah bloat strategies working, sigh.

The original Trails in the Sky 1st on PSP was a pretty solid JRPG with good pace and length. I finished it between 20-30 hours and i never feel one bit it needs to be longer.

So i'm curious with this decision. Why Falcom thinks it's a good idea to double the length of this remake? And what triggers them to came up with that idea? Was it fans demands, shareholders demands, or what?

I really need a good article that explain this trend of why devs feels the needs to make their games bigger and bloated, which launch their budget into the sun.

@themightyant If you want to try, you can get the original Trails in the Sky. I've seen the 1st game on PS Vita store for $20 and the sequel for $30. But i believe there's also a PC / Steam version but i don't know how much.

Wish Falcom would go for quality over quantity.
30-40 hour of a more focused storytelling, without bloat.
As a fan of YS, from the very first game, the last one, felt more like Trails, than YS, and made me drop it, after only 10 hours. It's like all their franchises, just blends together now.

Maybe I should try the original version instead, if it's less bloated?