![]() It wasn’t until Falcom started publishing for PSP when I started to get some hope for it.” “There was always a feeling of ‘this would never be localized’ with their PC games, while I would gnaw at the bit for any sign of English speaking gamers to get the chance to play the games. “Being a fan of Falcom, in general, was kind of wild in the 2000’s,” she said. It was a difficult time to be a Falcom fan, though. She fell in love with Falcom after trying the Ys series in the late ‘90s, then became a committed fan in the early 2000s. Kirsten Miller runs, one of the premier Falcom fan sites in the West. It’s something fans have been waiting decades for. However, in the past six years, Falcom and its publishing partners have been working to raise awareness of the series worldwide. Publishing delays and the series’ own density account for some of that. Yet, for all its narrative ambition, the series remains largely unknown outside Japan. Nihon Falcom sought to change that with its Legend of Heroes: Kiseki series, or Trails in English.Ĭonceived as part of a goal to create the grandest RPG epic of all, the Trails series tells a weighty tale of political intrigue, personal drama, and social unrest spread across 10 games, with more on the way. Role-playing games are a story-heavy genre by nature, but for all 16 Final Fantasy games, five Suikodens, and 11 Dragon Quests, few series weave together continuous narratives.
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