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28.07.2023 - 09:39 / pushsquare.com
Calling all Trails fans: we need your help. As regular readers may know, we have our own Best Trails Games guide, which ranks each title in Falcom's RPG series, and it's all user rated. With that in mind, we need some ratings for the latest game, Trails into Reverie — and that's why we've constructed this poll.
Now, without wanting to sway your opinion, the newest adventure was awarded a 'great' 8/10 in our own Trails into Reverie PS5 review. We loved its in-depth RPG systems and its overall tone, writing: «Trails into Reverie is an all-star excursion that feels like one big franchise festival».
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But what review score would you give Reverie? We'll soon be adding it to the aforementioned Trails list, so give it a rating in our poll, and then explain yourself in the comments section below.
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Robert's been a dedicated PlayStation fan since the days of Tekken 2, and he still loves a good dust up. When he's not practising combos, he's usually getting lost in the latest 100-hour RPG, or, y'know, replaying The Witcher 3.
I still haven't started it.☹️ Still working on Azure and FF16. It's downloaded and ready to go though!
As someone who also got to review it, gotta be consistent with my scoring. I had so much fun with Reverie
I just finished Lloyd's initial patrol of Crossbell. The game visually looks sharper and crisper than any previous entry, and it's nice to see so many familiar characters for the first time in 3D form. My only issue thus far is that moving around feels somehow stiff and disjointed; approaching NPCs and other characters to initiate conversation requires far more effort than it should. Actually it slowed my progress in exploring to such a degree that I took multiple breaks away from the game just in this section, something I never had a problem with before in Trails games. I'm not referring to the lengthy dialogue that's always been a hallmark of the franchise; I'm talking about movement and interactions that feel absolutely glacial, deliberate as opposed to natural. Even as a huge fan who's also a completist I imagine it's going to be tough to deal with over the course of dozens of hours of gameplay.
Gave it a 9 as it continues the excellent high bar the series had set for itself. Combat is second to none when it comes to turn based JRPGs, the dialogue is well written as always, and the story is surprisingly engaging for what essentially is a giant interlude to the next arc of the story.
Complaints are the usual cringe we unfortunately have to deal with in these games. Also some of the voice acting is a real head scratcher (Why does KeA sound like an adult?)
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