The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is the first installment in the main Trails series, serving as the beginning to the Liberl arc and the series as a whole. The game follows protagonists Estelle Bright…
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Nihon Falcom, released 24 June 2004 on PlayStation Portable and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 67 hrs to finish.
What The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Nihon Falcom and released in 2004. It was published by Ghostlight Ltd.. It is available on PlayStation Portable and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the kingdom of Liberl, a man named Cassius Bright serves as one of the land's greatest Bracers, a freelance organization dedicated to keeping peace and helping those in need. When he is called off to business in the neighboring country, his daughter Estelle and his adopted son Joshua take on his work as upcoming Bracers. But when the airship he was traveling on vanishes, his children seize the task of discovering the truth behind the incident, and rescuing their father.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Heroes series
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is the sixth of 68 entries we hold in the The Legend of Heroes series. It arrived 5 years after The Legend of Heroes V: Umi no Oriuta. The next entry was The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch in 2004. Its critic score of 85 is 5 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter at 87.
How it was received
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 86 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 67 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium III 550 MHz, 512 MB RAM and 32 MB VRAM, 3D accelerator compatible w/ DirectX 9.0c. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky launched on 24 June 2004, within three weeks of Silent Hill 4: The Room, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, Spider-Man 2 and Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Silent Hill 4: The Room, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, Spider-Man 2, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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