The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie launches in just a few days and is already getting rave reviews, but this culmination of beloved cult JRPG series is going to require a whole lot of prior experience for you to get the most out of it.
If you're not familiar with the Trails series, it's a line of RPGs from Japanese developer Nihon Falcom that's been running since 2004. You can basically think of it as a sort of continuation of the sorts of mid-budget JRPGs we used to get in the PS1 and PS2 eras. Trails has never managed - or even tried - to compete with the likes of Final Fantasy for sheer spectacle, but the series has garnered a loyal fanbase thanks to its solid combat systems and fantastic worldbuilding and storytelling.
