The company president behind Trails' developer says writing the current arc in the 710-hour series would've been impossible while the developers were in their 20s, because they "didn't have the necessary life experience."
The Trails series is a damn long one. Last year, when The Legend of Heroes: Trails Into Reverie was released, we calculated that for newcomers to become familiar enough with the series to play the new entry, they'd effectively have to play through 658 hours worth of games in order to get there. That was spread over 11 games and three distinct story arcs.
