Nihon Falcom recently released a demo for Trails in the Sky: First Chapter ahead of the game’s full launch on Sep. 19, and if you’ve hung around RPG spaces online for the past decade, you might know the game as just one piece of a multi-part series that spans decades That’s an intimidating description on its own, and eager proselytizers of the series usually follow it up by saying that Trails‘ interconnected story is one of the best reasons to play. They’re right, to an extent, but playing 13 long games just to see how all these narrative threads eventually spin together is a huge ask. The good thing is: You don’t have to. Trails in the Sky is excellent on its own merits, even if you never play the other games in the series.
Trails in the Sky First Chapter demo is the perfect place to start
