The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie

Game 10/13 The unofficial 3rd Crossbell game Perfect ending for the 1st half of the story and where the turn based gameplay of trails peaked before switching to the hybrid combat in Calvard. I really liked the format of this game with the 3 protagonists per route. One of which really surprised me with their whole character arc. The way they treat the redemption arc for one of the main characters is really well done and had me excited what they had in store for him in the future. This game also continues the story of the SSS and finally puts a perfect bowtie over the Crossbell arc. For those like me who felt azure's ending felt too open ended, I believe you'd find this one very satisfying. Rean's arc also got a very interesting surprise from cs4. I very much like what they did with his character here and we continue to see him grow. Gameplay wise its a step up from cs 4 in terms of build variety and I LOVE the reverie and how much fun you can have with it. Overall one of the strongest entries in the series for me. I don't have much to complain about from what I remember of this game. Definitely picked the series up from cs4 for me. I would replay this game over others someday.

Story feels like a bad fanfic of trails, but gameplay is alright.

One of my new favorites in the series. Fixes most of my issues with Cold Steel 4, and the Reverie corridor was kind of addicting to grind even with how repetitive it was. Soundtrack was great, but they used certain tracks a bit too often.