At which point at least one member of staff had to rehinge their jaw.
About two thirds of the long-running Trails series of RPGs is on Switch currently, and it appears Falcom is going back to fill in some of the gaps.
During a highlight reel today, a new version of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (known as Trails in the Sky The 1st) was shown with a 2025 launch window. Originally released on the PSP and PC in 2011 in North America, the Switch version will include enhanced graphics and a remastered soundtrack.
With the release of The 1st, only four games in the Trails series - the two Sky sequels and the first two Trails of Cold Steel games - will remain to be released (or localized) on Switch.
This is very cool but almost happening a little too late. Ideally we want the entire Trails series available on the Switch but the Switch 2 is right on the doorstep. So what are the odds that remakes of all three of the Sky games actually get released on the Switch 1, let alone the two missing Cold Steel games?
Now all the Cold Steel games actually are on the Switch, just the first two aren't localized as they were originally published by XSeed and the series is now published by NIS. XSeed owns the rights to their English translation and aren't willing to license it to NIS and NIS doesn't want to invest in doing their own. So from a Japan-specific point of view it's only the Sky games that are missing. But even then the timing here is tight. Even if they make one remake per year, the third one would likely show up after the Switch 2 has been out for at least a year, maybe two.
