{"id":40033,"date":"2024-11-18T18:21:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T09:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=40033"},"modified":"2024-11-18T18:21:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T09:21:56","slug":"trails-in-the-sky-remakes-devs-are-being-told-the-game-looks-unlike-falcom-in-a-good-way-and-they-dont-know-how-theyre-supposed-to-feel-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/trails-in-the-sky-remakes-devs-are-being-told-the-game-looks-unlike-falcom-in-a-good-way-and-they-dont-know-how-theyre-supposed-to-feel-about-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Trails In the Sky Remake\u2019s devs are being told the game looks \u201cunlike Falcom in a good way\u201d and they don\u2019t know how they\u2019re supposed to feel about that\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nihon Falcom is currently developing <strong>The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st<\/strong>, a full 3D remake of the first ever title in the long-running Trails series. Commemorating the franchise\u2019s 20-year-anniversary, the revamped RPG is scheduled to launch worldwide in 2025 for the Nintendo Switch.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not long after the remake and its beautiful trailer were made public, Nihon Falcom\u2019s CEO Toshihiro Kondo <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/trails-in-the-sky-remake-is-developed-100-in-house-nihon-falcom-president-assures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made a public comment<\/a> assuring fans that the game is being developed 100% in-house. This was apparently prompted by people speculating that the bright and bubbly anime-style graphics might have been outsourced to another company.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241118-40033-001.jpg\" alt=\"Joshua Bright in Trails of the Sky's remake\" class=\"wp-image-40038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241118-40033-001.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241118-40033-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241118-40033-001-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting further on the topic in a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/dengekionline.com\/article\/202411\/23531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dengeki Online<\/a>, Kondo mentioned that, \u201cWe\u2019ve received a large number of comments along the lines of, \u201cThe graphics are unlike Falcom in a good way,\u201d and we\u2019re not really sure if we should take it as a good thing or a bad thing (laughs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kondo also gave some insight into why the graphical style looks so different in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st. \u201cDuring the development process, we did away with our usual method of direction, and gave each of our designers a single instruction \u2013 to design things in a way that would make Estelle\u2019s energy and the scenic beauty of Liberl Kingdom pop right through the screen. As I watched them work, I noticed how vibrant the colors and images looked even when viewed from a distance. The trailer we put out was the result of doing things this way.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u300e\u82f1\u96c4\u4f1d\u8aac \u7a7a\u306e\u8ecc\u8de1 the 1st\uff08\u4eee\u79f0\uff09\u300f\u30c6\u30a3\u30b6\u30fc\u30c8\u30ec\u30fc\u30e9\u30fc\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0vmMaTcluNo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nihon Falcom\u2019s president says that the team purposely went for an atmosphere that feels a bit different from the usual Trails series look. He hopes that The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st will become an attractive and easy-to-pick up entry into both the series and the RPG genre as a whole.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.falcom.co.jp\/sora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1<sup>s<\/sup><\/a><sup>t<\/sup> is scheduled to launch in 2025 for the Nintendo Switch. Other platforms and Western publishers are TBD, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2024\/08\/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-in-the-sky-the-1st-announced-for-switch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gematsu<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nihon Falcom&#8217;s CEO gives some insight into why the graphics in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st look so different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":40037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trails In the Sky Remake\u2019s devs are being told the game looks \u201cunlike Falcom in a good way\u201d and they don\u2019t know how they\u2019re supposed to feel about that\u00a0 - 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