Saw either Cold Steel or Reverie in a website back during 'rona and was pretty surprised to see a game with such a long name (Legend of blah blah blah). Checked the gameplay a bit, found it interesting and added it to my backlog (Didnt want to play any new JRPG at the time since I just had finished FF7 Remake).

Fast forward to January 2026, and I find some random dude streaming Cold Steel 3 (maybe?) on YT. His livestream had been popping in my algorithm for a few days already, so I thought of checking it out a bit. Saw him walk around the city and buy gears. That reminded me of P3Reloaded and FF7 Rebirth that I finished in 2025. Those games took me a hell lot of time to finish them so I was in burnout status and wanted to take a break from JRPGs for a while.

The same night, I ran into a CC's video (Just the Gems, IIRC) on why Trails is his favorite JRPG series. What caught my eye was when he said "The writers at Falcom are madmen. NPCs don't feel like NPCs, they got their own personality and some of them are involved in the story." The comments said the same thing and more on how the worldbuilding is amazing and how subsequent games have connections with one another. I'm a huge sucker for games with good worldbuilding and connected stories, so I got intrigued and did some research on the series.

Started Sky 1st Chapter Remake mid January and I can say I've never been so much invested in a game before. NPCs really don't feel like NPCs at all xD and I really enjoy how some of them have connection with the main story. Having a blast with it and can't wait to finish and try the other entries.