~ DIFFICULTY ~
🔲 My grandma could play it
🔲 Easy
☑️ Normal
🔲 Hard
🔲 Dark Souls

~ GRAPHICS ~

🔲 MS Paint
🔲 Bad
🔲 Meh
🔲 Graphics dont matter in this game
☑️ Good
🔲 Beautiful
🔲 Masterpiece

~ MUSIC ~

🔲 Bad
🔲 Not special
🔲 Good
☑️ Beautiful

~ STORY ~

🔲 This game has no story
☑️ It's there for the people who want it
🔲 Well written
🔲 Epic story
🔲 You choose your fate

~ PRICE ~

🔲 Free
🔲 Underpriced
🔲 Perfect Price
🔲 Could be cheaper
🔲 Overpriced
☑️ Complete waste of money

~ REQUIREMENTS ~

🔲 You can run it on a microwave
☑️ Average
🔲 High end
🔲 NASA computer

~ LENGTH ~

🔲 Very Short (0 - 3 hours)
🔲 Short (3 - 15 hours)
☑️ Average (15-50 hours)
🔲 Long (50-90 hours)
🔲 Extremely long (90-110 hours)
🔲 No ending

~ FUN ~

☑️ I'd rather watch paint dry
🔲 Hard to enjoy
🔲 Repetitive
🔲 Actually pretty amusing
🔲 Ride of your life

~ REPLAYABILITY~

🔲 It's a one-time experience
🔲 Only for achievements
☑️ If you wait a few months/years
🔲 Definitely
🔲 Infinitely replayable

~ WORTH BUYING ~

☑️ No
🔲 Wait for sale
🔲 Yes

Eiyuu no densetsu IV : Sora no Kiseki, or just The legend of Heroes : Trails in the sky in west is the first game of the "Kiseki" franchise even if it's technically the 6th one of a long series of spinoff in the Dragon Slayer series. Like the games prior in that spinoff series it embrace the label of "Story-RPG", so basically games focusing first on the story and then the RPG elements. As the first game of this series that Falcom launched way back in 2004, it have the mission to introduce the player to the universe, the terms, the characters, the systems etc and try to hook them into the series, first Second Chapter the sequel and the all the other games that expand the universe even more, planned or not from the beginning.


Did Sora no Kiseki succesfully completed this mission ? I think the answer is yes and surely without problems. Between the OST, the envrionement, the diversity of all characters, the charming art style, the slow story but surprising having an enough good pacing to hook the player from the start. Sora no Kiseki did succesfully all those points. Also in West we were lucky to have the excellent translators and Localizators from Xseed giving us probably one of the best translation in the industry, well in PC rerelease, we don't talk about the first translation on PSP.

Personally Sora no Kiseki is one of my favorite game in the series, I probably love everything about it, from the characters to the exploration of grancel sewers. I think this game is a masterpiece in terms on an introduction of an universe and sadly outside of Zero no Kiseki Falcom wasn't able to reproduce something on this scale for me, maybe Kuro no Kiseki in the future, but we will see at that moment.