Just coming off a Replicant play session myself.. Hoping the release of the next one is in the Nier future👍

The backlog keeps piling and piling lol BTW you come across more & more celebratory every day!

I picked up Trails Through Daybreak at my local Gamestop after hearing some positive reviews. I'll add it to the backlog and give it a go as soon as I can. Might just try it sooner rather than later so I can know if I want to pre-order Trails Through Daybreak II

I have been on youtube since 2006 and can easily say: superderek is one of the best channels I ever discovered. I buy my own games (locally to support my nearby stores) so I dont wanna win anything- but we managed to convert this guy into a fan of the series, and now even he is shilling for it and giving away copies of it. NICE!

Woo!

geh bitte, du wast genau nix üban landgeher, des ist ein stalkergame für perverse

This is my first Trails game alongside Sky FC and 20 hours into Daybreak but so far it's just okay I'm not feeling the hype for it. I'll stick with it but I hope the other Trails games live up to their reputation 🤞🏻

It wasn’t brought up in this video about the questionable translation of the game. But I’ve heard of trails fans not playing it or even stop playing the trails series all together. An example includes “I was just wondering what pronouns to use for you”. And others. What are all your thoughts? Is anyone here bothered by the translation?

The link won't allow me to accept the invite. Not sure why, but I can't join the discord... Thank you for the video either way.

I'm going to take the plunge.... Even though i have major backlog (i plan on retiring soon though); i bought cold steel 3, and plan on doing all the trails on switch!

Timestamps: Complete Timestamps are now finished. Welcome Back to Hit Point! 0:00:00 Welcome Back to Hit Point! 0:01:19 Intro 0:02:04 Baku how have you been? 0:06:10 Leading Headline Last Week's Comments: 0:02:47 Comment 1: Speaking of trails and one piece, if I didn’t start one piece like I did in 2020, I wouldn’t have been able to start my trails journey,... 0:04:47 Comment 2: On the topic of Sea of Stars, it felt better to just run around the world and do whatever than progressing through the story... Developer Interview: 0:08:43 Interview: Interview with Saxon for Infinity Knights: Xross introduction 0:10:38 Interview: Trailer for Infinity Knights: Xross 0:14:04 Interview: How has that been to work as a three brothers and a Indie developer? Does it make it easier? 0:16:20 Interview: When and how did you decide to make games together? 0:18:02 Interview: What were some decisions that you made because of the experience of playing games together? 0:21:05 Interview: Shout-Out to the Kickstarter campaign for Infinity Knights: Xross 0:22:06 Interview: Can you explain what Armaments in your game world? 0:28:13 Interview: What is the general Story and the Setting of the game? 0:32:55 Interview: What is the origin of your Company name? 0:35:23 Interview: Will there be a physical edition for the game? 0:36:37 Interview: What are the challenges to balance between onw, two and three player coop? 0:40:14 Interview: Could you include a little brother mode? 0:42:13 Interview: Will the game have Network coop? 0:44:27 Interview: How are you handling character progression? 0:48:05 Interview: Will all playable chracters have a different personality and growth or is it Xross with his fellow party members? 0:52:18 Interview: Do you see this game become a series? 0:55:26 Interview: What are some of your favorit games that you played recently? And have you adapted anything from them? 0:58:28 Interview: Why does the name Xross a X? 1:01:09 Interview: Can you tell use a bit about the town/kingdom building part of the game? 1:07:35 Interview outro Upcoming Releases This Week 1:09:43 Riviera: The Promised Land New Game Announced: 1:14:55 Tako no Himitsu: Ocean of Secrets 1:17:48 .45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND 1:23:29 Spy Drops 1:26:26 Death end re;Quest Code Z 1:29:57 Tokyo Clanpool 1:32:47 Ys X: Nordics 1:37:39 Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana Industry News: 1:40:35 Shueisha Games On! - July 17 1:41:54 BitSummit Drift - July 19 Side Quests (Discussion Topics): 1:42:47 Our time at "Too Many Games" in PA 1:49:50 Storytime with Baku about MAGFest experience 1:53:53 We got to play the Demo of Kingdoms of the Dump Responding to Super Chats & Outro 2:02:13 Super Chat 1: I love you Baku 2:02:28 Super Chat 2: A new Knights baker appears. 2:03:08 Outro

The way you're saying Vans name is killing me. It shouldn't bother me so much but you've heard characters say his name and you're still saying it wrong.

I'm not just a Trails Fan or just a Ys fan I'm a Ys and a Trails fan. So I hype both franchises equally responsible and I'm looking forward to Ys X and Daybreak 2 while I play Daybreak 1.

Stunning collectors edition! I still have no idea where to start with these games an what arc to start but I will make it one day😂

I think the interview went quite well. hope you're going to do stuff like that every now and then from now on. Great show you two !

Really cool show. It's very interesting to hear a young developer perspective

Over 34 hours, and It is truly the best in the series, especially in terms of translation and the revamped battle system. Over the 20 years since 2004 | have completed 12 other titles in the series, except Reverie, and this is the only one which battle system I really enjoy. Trails Through Daybreak Il is slated for early 2025. The 3rd installment in Daybreak Arc is called Kai no Kiseki - Farewell, O Zemuria, and set to be released on September 26, 2024 in Japan, Mandarin, and Korean languages. No news yet of when the English version will be released. Perhaps between 2025 and 2026--or even 2027.

finished TOCS 1 ,started to play From Zero , bit playing TOCS 2 when daybreak got released. Playing it this past weekend and am having a blast! I can say of all the arc this one is the best IMO. They polish and improve everything from prev titles

It’s looks like a very very very excellent game

That collectors edition is solid, makes me wish I ordered one. Oh well maybe I'll win!

I've only played Falcom's action RPGs, but I've been wanting to get into the Trails series and it seems like Daybreak will be a great entry point!

Love this channel and series! Im still on trails im.the sky SC!😂

I love the Trails series. Easily one of my favorite series ever.

What’s with the new look? Lol haven’t watched the channel in a while

Oh man! Looking forward to what persists with this

I'm still working on Cold Steel 1 and I've got 2, 3, 4, and Reverie in the backlog. To be honest I think that's where I'm gonna draw the line with this series. Don't get me wrong I enjoy Cold Steel 1 but it's very wordy. Four more games of that same thing is plenty enough for me. 😎

40 hours in and loving it

Physical edition is life!

tell ya what, if I win, you can keep the steelbook. I just want the box, artbook, and artcards to replace the damaged bits in my LE, lol

I can't wait to get started on Daybreak. Unfortunately, I won't have time until next week :( Any plans to do a video review for Reverie (or did I miss that video)?

This is my first trails game

This game is great and i have always loved your channel 👌🏽.

Good luck!

So far, I don't think it's a bad starting point but you will get bottle necked 2 is already made and done and the game after that has a lot of reoccurring characters returning so you may get away with this one and the next one but the game that drops after that? yeah you're just gonna be lost af if you don't go back and play the whole franchise leading to that point

Such a gorgeous collector's edition! ❤

Amazing first interview boys! 🔥 I'm fucking stoked for this game after watching this. Thanks! Just picked up physical copies of Sea of Stars and Unicorn Overlord today! Hooked on Unicorn Overlord!

Good luck to all participants :D I don't have or want a Switch at the moment so I am away from this giveaway. However this is a game I really want to play as fan of the series and JRPGs in general.

Veritus looks rad! And I'm really hoping XSEED, NISA and Falcom can be one big happy family and can work together on localizations both old and new to give the games timely western releases. Also, as someone who is fan of Sonic, Dragon Ball and RPGs, I dunno if my wallet is gonna survive this October xD

I’m still trying to plow through the other trails games. I’ll get to this one… eventually… probably 😂

Your editing makes me giggle.

I hope they remake or remaster the cold steel series I've been looking everywhere for it and can't find. I only came across cold steel 3 once but couldn't afford it at that time and by the time I had the cash it was gone.

Van is a breath of fresh air for JRPG protagonists imo

I've been dying for every trails game to come out years before their release preordering every one after sky FC. But this time this one just snuck up on me without me even realizing it because I wasn't really following it that close since the past couple years have been pretty rough financially and all that. I'm more upset with myself for failing to realize it than I am that I'm not playing it day 1 lol. When I first heard though that they were implementing action-combat mechanics (before the game was even out in Japan I mean) I was really skeptical of the idea and thought it was a new dawn where trails gameplay would take a turn for the worse. I LIKE turn-based combat mechanics. But I have yet to hear anyone who has actually played it complain about it so now I'm actually looking forward to seeing what it's like with an open mind. Still a bit cautious though because I do prefer the single-character Ys combat over the party-mechanics just because I like doing the combat myself, but don't want the inflated health pools on enemies if I choose to just play with 2 party members dead the entire time.

There are art assets taken straight out of Trials of Mana and I think even Secret of Mana. I'm hoping they are merely placeholders.

I cleared Japanese version three years ago and so did Daybreak II two years ago. it amazes me the localization needing so long time

Not discussing Daybreak??? Bad form Baku

15hs in and alrady completely hooked and loving the new combat and gameplay. The world building and characters, well this is Falcom, so it is stellar as always!

I'm in the final parts of chapter 2, talking with every npc so far took me around 28 hours. So far feels like one of the better trails games, the characters are all interesting, the story have alot of intrigue, kinda reminds me of Trails to Azure in some areas. The structure of the game after the prologue is what you would expect from a Trails games, the prologue is definitely different from other games, it actually feel like a prologue for once. The battle system seems interesting, still feel that is a bit early for me to say much, it is fun at least.

Japanese business cards are called meishi and it's like a ceremonial sign of respect between both parties where both parties respectfully bow and present their meishi. It is a pretty cool concept and something we definitely lack here. It was one of the first lessons we learned in my Japanese class in high school. Funny thing is I've been reading Batman comics for the last 2 weeks on the DC App trial and then a game with a detective motif appears. It sounds like it is calling out to me. I like that it is a new entry because trying to figure out a starting point in some of these sagas is kinda hard. I'm glad it still has the turn based combat I was concerned at first they were moving on from that style.

I just got to Chapter 5 so I'm approaching the end, and I have mixed feelings about the game. It's very well made, but there is nothing in this game that I like more than the previous arcs except the graphics. I instantly fell in love with the cast of Trails in the Sky and Cold Steel and I don't have the same feelings here. I like Van and Agnes, but the rest of the main characters are pretty blah imo compared to previous entries. On the positive side, I like a lot of the side characters, particularly Elaine. The action combat is fine, until you realize that they accomplished the same thing by hitting enemies in the back on Cold Steel games. In this game you can defeat enemies without going into turn based combat, which is nice, but the majority of mobs have enough HP that you will want to go into turn based mode after you can stun them. I would rather just start turn based combat with and advantage and skip the action part. If they keep this system, it's fine, I just think it tricks you into thinking it adds more to the combat than it actually does. The seamless transition from action to turn based is very well done, though, which is a point in this system's favor. I also much preferred Cold Steel's orbment system compared to this game and arts are really bad at the beginning of the game. Around Chapter 4, arts starts to become competitive with crafts, but before then they're pretty much useless except healing. it was kind of like that in other games, but it's really noticeable here. Septium is not plentiful enough, you're constantly starved and have no spare to craft hardly any quartz. You have to save all of it to open slots. This makes it difficult to customize your shard abilities because you have no spare septium for crafting. At Chapter 5, I still have to open one more slot on every character, which is 960 of every septium per each character. I have about 1k each now. This was not an issue in the Cold Steel games. The story is uneven. I like it for the most part, but really didn't enjoy Chapter 3's story that much and the ending of the intermission felt very manipulative and out of character for the series. Without going into spoilers, I feel like the story writers in this game wanted to go for a bunch of shock value and say "look, we can write dark stories", but it's incongruous with the presentation and tone of the rest of the game and series. I felt like the darker storytelling worked in like Sky the third, or a little bit more under the surface. The ending of Chapter 1 was far more effective than the Intermission imo, and was the right way to have a more consequential storyline. Lastly, this game has the worst soundtrack in the series, and is objectively the weakest part of the game. I admit the rest of my criticism above is mostly personal taste. I'm certain I'm in a small minority on this one. I like the game, but it's hard not to compare to what you previously loved. I loved Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel (I only watched Crossbell arc in let's plays because they weren't available in the US at the time I watched them), and I merely like this game. I fell in love with the charm of the series, and that signature charm is missing for me in Trails Through Daybreak.