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If you actually want to publish news like these, can you deep dive more on it? Yes, overtime has existed forever, I'm in IT and when we have an MIO, it's not surprising to work over 16+ hours to get it fixed. Or when we're trying to push new things into production without breaking the system.

But we get paid extra for it. Overtime here is 250% regular pay, so that's a lot of money when you have to Overtime.

So let's do deep dive, how much are they getting paid? is mandatory OT or crunch or whatever you wanna call it means they work unpaid? is it as bad as the anime industries? were they blindsided? was this not outlined in their employment contract that they signed? Without extra details, this is nothing more than tabloid level gossip.

This kind of news is fine, but let's stop fearmongering without getting into the details of things. News outlets are pushing fear articles with AI and crunch, and then have the audacity only reporting half of it. If the idea was to garner sympathy for these folks, well, it failed. Especially for companies like Hoyoverse who made hundreds of billions with their gacha and last time I checked, somehow still have the lowest turnover rate and lowest termination rate (which means they somehow treat their employees well with their pay structure and bonuses) in the industry.

People are not tired of these games yet? they all just look the same to me now.

Honestly the only thing that probably make me willing to try another gacha game is Ananta.

@rawzeku That's fair, but this is the same developers that creates HSR, Genshin, and Honkai. In the end, they will still want to make money and power creeping is the easiest to do so even if they're dangling a temporary carrots to entice new players for now with buffing old characters. It's an old playbook.

Still a gacha.

With the evolving trend of this genre with cosmetic only gacha like Infinity Nikki, Where Winds Meet, Duet Night Abyss, even the upcoming Ananta, spending $$$ for characters that only will get powercrept a few patches later no longer hold any interest on me. I uninstalled Star Rail because of this.

As someone who lives during the era where Trails fandom was absolutely not sure whether or not we're ever getting a continuation to Cold Steel after the second one, this actually made me tear up.

I'm happy they decided to focus more on global release so we don't have to wait 5 years to catch up to the next series, and I'll be more than happy to buy all Falcom games to support their decision to do this.

I'll will definitely start this demo closer to the release date so that I won't have to wait too long to start the next chapter.

The only true football game for me now is Inazuma Eleven.

Day 1 for me whenever it's released by 2035.

This is a respectable score and while IGN doesn't have their final score yet (still playing the game), the vibe was also more positive there.
As someone who like OT1 and absolutely loves OT2, the demo for OT0 was probably the first time I actually groaned in disappointment when the 3 hours notice flashed on my screen. I really enjoyed what OT0 offers, as it reminds me of my all-time favourite JRPG franchise, Suikoden. Yes, it's not obviously as massive as that as we're not recruiting 108 characters and rebuilding an entire kingdom, but the vibe and the theme are pretty similar from what I gathered in the demo. The recruiting, the side missions, the rebuilding, I enjoyed them all and I can't wait to actually play them tomorrow.

That being said, OT0 is a great blueprint, and I hope Square will consider creating a proper recruiting/townbuilding JRPG again from scratch. Maybe Octopath Traveller 0-2, or OT3.

It's an easy path, Falcom. Finish Sky, then Crossbell. That's your remake money maker. I'll be happy with either remakes anyway.

Anyone in the comments thinking the $37million write off was a big disaster for Paradox, clearly has no idea what this publisher has in their portfolio. Age of Wonder, Europa Universalis, and Crusader Kings franchises alone are more than enough to offset this cost as their millions of loyal players are more than happy to pay for their overpriced DLCs and expansion packs as they usually give us thousands of hours of games, yes me included.

They'll be fine; in fact, I'll argue that the major success of their other franchises that they are strong at, is the reason why they can occasionally take risks like publishing this game.

That historical accuracy though.

What a joke...

I'm so starved for a proper Wuxia game since Jade Empire, I will day-1 on this.

Can't wait!

Once again Rob is making my day with the news he's sharing on this site.

Marking my calendar for this as I truly enjoyed the 1st chapter remake. And that's coming from someone who has played the OG in 3 separate consoles and occasions.

@Hyrule_Herb If you could only get 1 of them, get Yotei. It's an improvement from the game and really did take full advantage of a PS5 exclusive game. Tsushima while pretty good for its time, but had a clear drawback and inferiority when you compare it to Yotei.

Tsushima walked so Yotei could run.

There was an SOP today??? wow...probably the first time I actually missed an SOP.

@AverageGamer How is Yotei a sequel story to Tsushima?

Different story, different region, different motivations, different gameplay mechanic, different time settings, and even a different adoption of the moniker "ghost".

The only connection was during a small quest during the end of the game where Atsu's finding the equipment of the first ghost. Otherwise, the story between the two has no connections at all. Tsushima's story was "one and done".

Did you play Yotei?

Add an additional asterisks on how skewed the votes were because people who haven't even touched Ghost of Yotei were also voting.

The best parts on this comment sections are those with "Haven't played Yotei", yet feel warranted to give their opinions on both games.

If you haven't completed both games, your opinion is as useful as a cow's opinion. It's "moo".

Just Old Yeller this company already.

I literally went back to Tsushima after I completed Yotei and simply couldn't get back into the combat anymore.

Once you get used to Atsu's whirlwind of deaths and a lot of thrown katana to quickly clear a camp, Jin just feels so slow.

Yotei also won on how it handles side missions, side stories (some of those tales and duels are one of the best written story I encountered from a game in a while), as well as their mini games. It never feel as bloated and I love the clue systems.

I played this game on PC, and everything about it just so mediocre.

Yes, there are some improvements from the first game, but if you're expecting the same prowess from New Vegas, it's not there anymore.

Obsidian clearly has lost the charm that made it great in RPG.

Did an AI wrote this review? why is everything sounds so vague and abstract? is the game vague?

After how they butchered the second one, I call ***** on this. Not gonna bother on the 3rd one.

People really do stopped reading after "Assassin's Creed Boss Leaves Ubisoft" and then made a comment about it?

This business move is VeryBadium.

Although, just like Octopath Traveller 0 and Atelier Resleriana, they may ended up porting this to console at one point if it's successful enough.

If there's a mobile game I want them to port to a proper console, it would be War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Too bad they just axing that as outside of the bloated gacha mobile trash, there's a pretty good game and story there.

Are they just counting physicals? I'm lazy so I only by games digitally and I'm pretty sure my spending habit increased this year as I can just "swipe" my card from the comfort of my couch. October alone had me purchasing 4 games at once (Trails remake, Grand Bazaar, Digimon Story, and Ghost of Yotei), Nov and Dec aren't going to be any difference either with Inazuma Eleven and Octopath Traveler 0.

PSStore, Nintendo Online, and Steam, I think I pretty much purchased every games I had my eyes on this year and I tend to buy the expensive version for it too (Digital Deluxe or whatever they want to call it)

You don't need to be a brain surgeon to see this writing in the wall back then, anyone who took a basic Economy 101 class would've seen this coming.

How do you say "I told you so", without saying "I told you so?"

No, and not because of the game or anything, I'm just a big baby with scary games.

So I'll probably just watch the story recap in Youtube down the road.

The game absolutely really does look ambitious, and I will try it when it's out.

That being said, what is the song used in the trailer? it's sooo catchy and perfect for its vibe.

I mean, after P5 Royal no upgrade path from PS4 to PS5 treatment, I'm not surprised but still disappointing nevertheless.

And just like P5R for PS5, I'll probably ignore this one too.

Nope, I'd pay for digital deluxe like usual though.

Bring in more trailers, I will welcome it!. Already preordered this with my hype level in a critical mass, but always love to see more of it till the release date.

Pavlov me, Sony!

Absolutely well deserved, this is the most fun I had in Trails games in a while and I played all of them. Great voice acting, great animations, excellent new cinematic animations for craft attacks, and fantastic QoL enhancement that made the game even more streamlined and friendly for newcomers.

Also it made me laugh that I remember when Square Enix announced FF7 remake and they said they couldn't make it a turn-based combat because it's outdated?

Then Falcom remade their first Trails and come out with this hybrid gem of a combat system and Expedition 33 sold for 5 millions and counting? SE can be such a clown.

Hopefully they'll carry this momentum and remake Crossbell arc too after they're done with this Trilogy.

Falcom clearly showed their love and care on their IPs as this is HOW you remake a classic.

I'm ok with that. The modern part of the game was atrociously bad and removed me from what I enjoyed in Black Flag, the pirate game.

At least a Ubisoft decision I can get behind for once.

If there's a game that desperately needs a demo, this is it. Nothing from the trailers convinced me at all with this game.

I really love that they brought back the chibi loading icons on the bottom right corner of the game.

And this may just be my greed talking, but I did hope they also bring back the "Treasure Chest Dialogue" that has been missing in modern Trails games. Some of those were really, really funny.

Lovely review, and absolutely what I expected. Thanks for this!

I finally picked up the demo on my PS5 so I can get a headstart when it finally lands this Friday and oh boy, the moment
'The Whereabouts of Light' plays, the nostalgia hits like a freight train. And I'm really happy to see how well done this remake engine is, the animation, the UI, the voice acting, everything just blends perfectly. And you're right, it's nice to go back to when Trails is a bit on a simpler time.

I can't wait to go back to Liberl this Friday; move over FFVII, because this is HOW you do a remake!

I always welcomed more Trails in my life and I honestly it'll be silly for them not to remake the entire trilogy.

I honestly hope the momentum continues and they'll remake Crossbell arc too.

I tried the demo and really, really loves it, absolutely can't wait to deep dive into it more. Definitely a perfect timing too as I'm getting tired of missteps in Pokemon games.

Hopefully this one sells well as they do finally looks like they're getting the budget they deserve. Digimon Story could be one of BAMCO JRPG lineups.

Ghost of Yotei.

I'm so glad that neither of these games interest me at all, so delaying the release doesn't impact me whatsoever.

I'll be laughing when the mythical Silksong failed to get the ROI they wanted like it did with Hollow Knight though. Duke Nukem was a unicorn as well when it finally released, and we know how that ends.

So NISA being a ***** NISA?

I have a Switch 2 and I'll wait for this to hit PS5, else I'll just skip it.

Unlike P5 to P5 Royal, Nordics to Proud left a sour taste for me and now it skipped PlayStation? arguably the platform that made the entire Falcom's catalogue becomes a mainstream in the west to begin with?

Of course!

While I understand the need for marketing, Falcom really doesn't need to try this hard, it's preordered and I can't wait to start the demo.

So basically it's another Trails game? lol

I AM SO READY!!

Wasn't interested in this title at first trailer, not gonna be interested in it now. It's crazy to charge that price for the first game for an unknown developer, as much as I love Sony, that's such a brain-dead greed move.

And August 29th week is already stacked with a well-known titles. Super Robot Wars Y, the new Story of Seasons, Mafia, and hell, I'd probably grab Varlet first before even glance at this game.

I wish them luck though, but Sony, chill your *****.

I'll sacrifice my entire family to complete the game's equivalent of Gwent decks!!

I was initially disappointed that they pushed this back to January, but now with how stacked their original release windows are with other games and JRPGs, I'm kinda glad they pushed it back lol.

This cute but weird accessory aside, Gust definitely poured in more love and effort to the collab events compared to the Tekken team. The Tekken side was just absolutely embarrassing.

Can't wait to dive into the new quests once I'm home later tonight.