Nihon Falcom recently announced The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st, a full 3D remake of the first ever title in the long-running Trails series. Commemorating the franchise’s 20-year-anniversary, the revamped RPG is scheduled to launch worldwide in 2025 for the Nintendo Switch.
A trailer accompanying the announcement of Trails in the Sky’s remake showcases the beautiful new anime-style characters and environments. But apparently, some people found the graphics a tad “too beautiful,” which made them suspect the involvement of other studios in the remake’s development. These voices were loud enough to reach the ears of Toshihiro Kondo, the president of Nihon Falcom himself.
As reported by GNN, Kondo mentioned at a recent event for Asian media that Trails in the Sky the 1st‘s trailer “was of such a high quality that some players even suspected it was outsourced to other manufacturers.” He goes on to assure fans that both the game and videos associated with it are “100% produced in-house by Nihon Falcom.”
Kondo doesn’t go into a lot of detail about the remake, but he does comment that it will be a “bright and cheerful entry that fully depicts the vitality and charisma of protagonist Estelle.” Nihon Falcom’s representative hopes that the game will offer an attractive entry point for those who are interested in the Trails/The Legend of Heroes series but don’t know where to start.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st is scheduled to launch in 2025 for the Nintendo Switch. Other platforms and Western publishers are TBD, according to Gematsu.
