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Return to the Calvard Republic and unravel the mystery of the crimson beast! One day, a shocking series of murders set the wheels of fate into motion once again. Chaos looming on the horizon, the spriggan Van Arkride receives an unexpected visitor. Who is behind the murders, and what is their goal?
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II is a rpg, action and adventure game
developed by Nihon Falcom and PH3 GmbH
and published by NIS America and Inc..
Released on February 14th 2025 is available only on Windows
in 2 languages: English and Japanese.
It has received 395 reviews of which 359 were positive and 36 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 22 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Settings: 1080p, 30 FPS, Performance Graphics Profile
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After finally completing the entire series this year, I have context to say that Trails Through Daybreak 2 is probably the closest I’ve come to disliking a Trails game, which makes it very difficult to provide it a recommendation without the caveat of: You will need to play this game if you are committed this far into the series. I have major problems with this game, and I feel like these issues would have been deal-breakers in your average JRPG, but when a series is riding this high on so many critical-hits, I have to give it tough-love as a result. I probably should be giving this game a thumbs-down, but I also feel like to do so would be akin to telling someone to skip it, and if you have played the series, then you know that skipping isn’t an option. Does it ruin the series? No, thankfully. The main positive I can give it is in two areas: It has an intriguing first half, especially at its midpoint Fragments chapter when fans of the series are given an ultra-dose of pay-off regarding a certain moment in Sky 3rd, and it has a strong finale. There are two ‘plot gimmicks’, one involving time (which I liked) and one involving Chapter 3 (which I hated, and I will elaborate on this later). DB2 also has better combat than DB1, but only by lieu of having more options; in many ways the combat in DB2 feels unyieldingly easy, even on Nightmare difficulty more so than any other game in the series, simply because unlike DB1, it utterly spams you with resources that you will never run out of, which makes it very easy to over-load on strong advantages throughout the runtime. I like the technical changes like the nerf to S-breaks (which were flat-out broken in DB1) and the return to stealing battle-bonuses w/ S-breaks. One major shortcoming in DB2 is that multipliers basically got shrugged off, in the sense that while you needed to stay on top of them in DB1 to maximize your limited resources, you can just not care in DB2 because the game over-spoils you in resources, regardless. Good feelings done. Now let’s not talk about the bad so much as we are going to talk about the ugly. One shortcoming that cannot be denied is its second half. The controversial Chapter 3 (which is longer than Chapter 1+2+Fragments combined), which is absolutely deserving of the ridicule and hate I’ve seen it garner in discussion threads across every platform I read fan-posts from. It is long, over-indulgent with an added plot-gimmick that overstays its welcome, and its payoffs cause a lot of damage to the integrity of the game. A villain is introduced and immediately killed off at the end of Chapter 3, and without giving spoilers, it is the most bafflingly introduction I think this series has ever had, and it genuinely feels like absolutely no adequate foreshadowing or build-up warranted this. I’ve seen fans complain about the Cold Steel games leading to schlock in its finale, but here’s the thing: The shlock was set up. I don’t care if it seems schlocky, as long as there is a set up to justify its existence, which there was. DB2’s Ch. 3 grand reveal did not accomplish this, and it also committed a grave crime on top of that. The crime being that it effectively damaged two characters; a character responsible for the situation that called forth Chapter 3’s inclusion (which personally frustrated me because that character is tied to one of my favorite characters and thus hurts that character, too, by association), and most importantly, it damaged our main character Van Arkride via spotlighting his irrelevance. I have seen fans discuss who their favorite Trails lead is, and I must say, as much as I liked Van in DB1, DB2 has really done him a disservice by pushing his significance to the absolute back-row. He very much is a tag-along in his own game, and unlike games like Sky 3rd and Reverie where there is a balance of ensemble spotlighting, Van just coasts, and I think it has led me to believe that he is now my least favorite Trails protagonist by and large. Light tangent. I have a belief about JRPGs, which is that I don’t care about its main plot so much as I care about its characters. If I can get behind the characters, the plot could be utter nonsense and I would be on-board. Trails has had a track record with getting silly and trope-ridden in its plots, but holy crap have I been absolutely in love with the majority of its characters. In DB1, I absolutely hated Agnés, because she felt like the most generic good-girl tag-along, and everyone else felt fleshed-out. This ends up reversing, with her stepping up in DB2 to be a more independent role, but the cost is that Van just became a back-seater. The major issue with Van is that unlike most JRPG protagonists, he is what I call a ‘Veteran’ character. IE he is a character who has already been-there, done-that. A lot of what we learn about Van comes from his past more so than his present, and it leads him to just being a very reactionary character more so than a character going on a journey. He HAD a journey in DB1, but with its conclusion, his story is pretty much done, making his inclusion in DB2 feel like a forced inclusion that I don’t find appealing for a main character. Overall, if you have made it this far into the series? You will finish this one, and then move onto the next game. I’m ultimately giving it a recommendation, not out of desire, but as a reminder that yes: You will need to play this game. There are things we learn that will be necessary in the next game, so proceed with caution. It is a rough game, in my opinion, but it is one we fans had to endure, and now that I am finished with it, I never want to replay it again.
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Daybreak 2 is kind of a mixed bag depending on your expectations for what a sequel game in the series will/should do, but I think that aside from the story/general amount of progression in the plot it is a really good and fun game. Typically you expect Trails to go from setup game → payoff game, aside from the occasional epilogue game. The setup game introduces you to the setting and characters while mostly ignoring the overall Trails plot, and then the payoff game wraps up the localized plot of the setup game while progressing the overall Trails plot in a considerable way. DB1 was the setup game, however, DB2 is definitely not a payoff game, and only makes a relatively small progress to the overall plot. In fact, it kind of actively kicks the can down the road by having setbacks in the plot (without getting into spoilers). While it isn't something that is necessarily forgiveable, and isn't something they should ever do again, it is at least understandable if you know the context of the game's development. In 2022, Ys X was meant to release for Ys's 35th anniversary. For whatever reason Ys was delayed for a year, and Falcom has to release a game every year due to founder/shareholder expectations. So sadly Trails got tapped into a rushed release that wasn't planned, skipping basically the entire preproduction phase and having an even shorter full production phase than the normal one year dev cycle they usually have. It's pretty obvious from the lack of new assets, locations, and skills in the game that it was impossible to continue the story as originally intended with this crunch deadline. So I do feel for the devs and even the writers this time, as it's not their fault, but ultimately the company is to blame here. With a lot of the negativity and elephant in the room out of the way, I can get into the positives. One of my bigger issues with DB1 was the very rigid formulaic way its structure was set up, similar to the first 2 sky games and all of cold steel. DB2 definitely mixes the formula around a lot, with some segments starting you in the middle of action, some with a slow start, and some with just completely unique structure overall. I would like to see a less-formulaic structure used again in the future. Another thing is that you get to see a lot of characters (and even npcs) without the MC around for significant time. I really like this, and it is something that Cold Steel for example desperately needed but sorely lacked. The combat I think got that nice bit of extra polish that puts it on par, or at least close, to Reverie in terms of overall fun. Sadly, there is still not much challenge even on higher difficulty (but this has really been true since Cold Steel). But everything flows so well, and a number of things like s-craft spam got balanced better. The control of the characters in the field combat feels better in general, improving the already good flow of action combat → break → turn based, from the first game. Especially Cross Strike adds to that feeling of flow, by allowing you to instantly change chars and strong attack after a perfect dodge. Other additions and new ideas like Quick Arts, EX Chain, and dual element arts add more choices or leave the possibility for new creative ideas to build off them in the future. Lastly, while the lack of new crafts/s-crafts and ESPECIALLY shard skills feels like a bit of a let down, at least they have the new spells, drivers, holo cores, and quartz. Minigames are back, which I think is a good thing overall to give an option of other activities to mix up what the player is doing, even if you aren't a fan of them. I think the fishing is the best implementation of it overall in the series so far. It's relatively simple, but well executed. The hacking minigame I wasn't big on at the start, but I eventually liked it quite a lot. The stealth missions—I think they're unnecessary overall. But despite a bad first impression it wasn't very difficult or frustrating, and was just neutral. Basketball is very simplistic, but fine. Seven Hearts I think is relatively on par with Blade 1 in CS1. Not a lot of skill involved and will be boring to some people, but if you compare it to card games like war, go fish, old maid, or uno, it is fine enough. There are some parts with connect events involving more than one character, and I think SO MUCH YES to this. Very good idea that mixes up the formula, and can allow for more nuanced/complex events in the future. In general the character interactions throughout the whole game are excellent as usual, and characters have decent, even if often somewhat subtle, progression. There is one section of the game where the characters are behaving kind of weird, but it is explained in the game, and I think goes along well with the 'truth vs falsity' theme of the Calvard arc in general. It did kind of get absurd at a point, but in the end they never crossed any of my personal lines like Cold Steel did over and over, so I came out the other end a lot happier than I expected. Also NPC enjoyers can rejoice. The first half of the game has pretty lackluster NPCs, due to how short you spend in the locations, but the second half has some of the best NPC arc continuations I can remember. I'm now interested in a number of NPCs that I didn't care for in the first game. The Marchen Garten I don't think is as good as the True Reverie Corridor. But that is in equal parts because of the rushed development, and also that TRC was a way to unlock the side content—whereas MG *IS* the side content. It could have done with some more variety, but at the end of the day it is a nice QoL to be able to go and get more money or sepith—or just have some battles to mix things up—at almost any point you want. Feels criminal to gloss over this, but I'm running out of space so I will quickly say that I liked DB1's music a lot. It's probably in my top 5 Trails games. But the music of DB2, man oh man, I will need like a year or two to look back on it and decide but it may be my favorite in the series. We're continuing the strong jazz theming, but a lot of songs have more energy—especially the main battle theme, which despite clearly building directly off the less memorable first game's main battle theme, is so incredibly good to me. In the end, I want to say that despite the plot kind of kicking the can down the road, it does still progress the story forward some. It also answers several questions from the first game, does give some big reveals, and does leave you with a few new questions for the future. I hope that in the next game we will see a lot of the things pay off that we didnt even realize were set up here. But as it is, DB2 is still a fun game overall. I'd rank it about middle of the pack of all Trails games.
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Game is amazing, most of the criticism and reasons why it's mixed are just wrong. Saying this game is filler is ridiculous, many storylines from previous games come up and are either concluded or expanded upon, introduce new arcs that will be touched upon in the future (we know this for a fact), and expands the cast in a pretty good way with amazing character moments that I felt were missing in Kuro 1. If that sounds like filler to you, I recommend pills. I was not that big on Calvard with only Kuro 1 and was not expecting great things from it but this game singlehandedly changed my opinion on it and now I am very excited for the next entry. This game suffers from Sky 3rd syndrome in where being a character focused game that introduces new plots that are meant to be concluded later categorizes it as filler. Like I said, the game is amazing, do not care about the preconceived notions of it and you will find a gem.
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I mean its Trails, if you need a review you need to go back and start at the begining: Trails in the Sky. on a side note, can we do something about whichever cornball millennial is localizing these for NIS? No character in this series should ever be saying that they need to "up their Rizz". it gives very "hello fellow zoomer" vibes.
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Daybreak 2 is a flawed sequel with really low lows and some very high highs. The biggest complaint people have about this game is not living up to Daybreak 1 potential and mostly being a filler, but the latter is not completely true, while the overarching plot didn't move that much, Daybreak 2 serves as a continuation that tries to close loose ends from Daybreak 1 (the 8th genesis and the message from <<C>>). My biggest complaint however is the time leap mechanic and the dead ends surrounding it, it's clear falcom took the inspiration from re:zero, but the implementation of this mechanic in here is awful and it's mostly evident in the act 3 where the use of this mechanic is becoming a comedy routine where the writers basically made their own characters act like clowns for the sake of these dumb dead ends.... That said the gameplay is incredibly fun, it improves the foundation from the previous game making it even more fluid and faster while also balancing some broken aspects like s-craft spams. The gameplay loop is incredibly satisfying. Music is a step down from the first Daybreak, but it has some really great boss themes and action themes in general are very nice. Van is still my favourite trails protagonist despite falcom giving him a rather poor treatment and his interactions/chemistry with the characters are still fun. Daybreak 2 also has some of the best connect events in the series. Overall it's a flawed game that suffered from the rushed development and undercooked ideas, but the game ends on a really positive note and offers some of the best highs in the series. 7/10
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II received 359 positive votes out of a total of 395 achieving a rating of 8.41.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II was developed by Nihon Falcom and PH3 GmbH and published by NIS America and Inc..
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II is playable and fully supported on Windows.
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Developer
Nihon Falcom,
PH3 GmbH
Publisher
NIS America, Inc.
Release
14 Feb 2025
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