The Trails Series continues to exemplify how it’s world building and character writing are utterly masterful and near unmatched.
Reverie concludes the culmination of over 6 games of development through Crossbell and Erebonia and acts as the final sequel to both of the arcs. There is not a single plot line or aspect of this portion of the world left unanswered and brings about new questions for the next arc in a spectacular way. Making use of three different perspectives to tell its story that are handled exceptionally well in getting the story across clearly it manages to balance the development of several characters as they are all partaking in there own side of things.
Questions I thought that would never get answered do get resolutions that are satisfactory and all use ideas and concepts that have been present in the world for several games and all but one have explanations to back them up and the one that doesn’t is something more on a global scale that has yet to be explained since the beginning of the series, I can only assume we will get its answer nearer the end.
I want to make this spoiler free but I could go on for hours about the sheer complexity and depth to the characters in this series is absurd. (Rean and C are great examples for this game but there’s several other characters I will refrain from mentioning in this review.)
I cannot recommend this game enough, however I can only recommend this game if you have played the rest of the series prior. It’s such a core factor in this series that experiencing the events of the previous arcs and characters weigh heavily on the later titles which is something I feel watching a story recap will never be able to live up to and you would be doing yourself a disservice. Although 9 entries feels daunting it goes by so fast once you get into it and I wish more games that try to make sequels spoiler free for previous entry’s took this approach (looking at AI:NI).
I want to keep this short as a spoiler review of this game would last over 30 or more paragraphs but to sum it up; this games has an absolutely amazing story, characters, gameplay, world building, music and payoff for several plot threads created years ago to see them to their conclusion.
Undeniable 10/10
Reverie concludes the culmination of over 6 games of development through Crossbell and Erebonia and acts as the final sequel to both of the arcs. There is not a single plot line or aspect of this portion of the world left unanswered and brings about new questions for the next arc in a spectacular way. Making use of three different perspectives to tell its story that are handled exceptionally well in getting the story across clearly it manages to balance the development of several characters as they are all partaking in there own side of things.
Questions I thought that would never get answered do get resolutions that are satisfactory and all use ideas and concepts that have been present in the world for several games and all but one have explanations to back them up and the one that doesn’t is something more on a global scale that has yet to be explained since the beginning of the series, I can only assume we will get its answer nearer the end.
I want to make this spoiler free but I could go on for hours about the sheer complexity and depth to the characters in this series is absurd. (Rean and C are great examples for this game but there’s several other characters I will refrain from mentioning in this review.)
I cannot recommend this game enough, however I can only recommend this game if you have played the rest of the series prior. It’s such a core factor in this series that experiencing the events of the previous arcs and characters weigh heavily on the later titles which is something I feel watching a story recap will never be able to live up to and you would be doing yourself a disservice. Although 9 entries feels daunting it goes by so fast once you get into it and I wish more games that try to make sequels spoiler free for previous entry’s took this approach (looking at AI:NI).
I want to keep this short as a spoiler review of this game would last over 30 or more paragraphs but to sum it up; this games has an absolutely amazing story, characters, gameplay, world building, music and payoff for several plot threads created years ago to see them to their conclusion.
Undeniable 10/10