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Thought it made be worth creating a news thread for this series since it seems to be gathering steam recently. It’s a long running series of jrpgs by Falcom that has multiple “arcs” and most of the arcs span multiple games, and they all interconnect with each other. I think the appeal lies mostly in following the stories and the characters, rather than fancy graphics or flashy gameplay. The newest announcement is The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak which is coming next summer. https://www.rpgsite.net/news/14862-the-legend-of-heroes-trails-through-daybreak-launches-in-summer-2024-for-playstation-5-playstation-4-nintendo-switch-and-pc Apparently it’s the first game in a new arc.

I’m all for rpg stories that continue for multiple games, so hopefully this one gets things off to a good start.

That looks excellent. Could be the next great rpg.

That looks like a laugh, if nothing else. Could be cool.

Reviews: Gamespot - 10 IGN - 9 PC Gamer - 87% Game Informer - 8.5 Destructoid - 8.5 Polygon - Recommended RockPaperShotgun - Recommended Somehow I need to finish BG3, finish Tears of the Kingdom and then play this… Guess I should stop watching cheap horror movies on Netflix.

The Lamplighters League and Cocoon both look brilliant. Payday 3 is bound to be a laugh as well. That’s a good list.

This could get ugly. https://www.pcgamer.com/dc-comics-adamant-the-wolf-among-us-source-material-is-not-in-the-public-domain-as-its-creator-calls-them-thugs-and-conmen-and-insists-it-is/

On a related note, the franchise is now in the public domain. https://www.eurogamer.net/the-wolf-among-us-and-fables-creator-clashes-with-dc-and-puts-entire-franchise-into-the-public-domain

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/09/level-5-premieres-multiple-trailers-for-its-upcoming-switch-games This looks like Level-5’s best game in years.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/old-school-crpg-broken-roads-is-fallout-1-via-post-apocalyptic-australia-and-it-finally-has-a-release-date Nag’s Fantasy Critic pic just snuck in.

I think that’s won you Fantasy Critic.

Will launch in Early Access on Steam next Spring. https://www.polygon.com/23873700/hades-2-release-date-announcement I consider Hades one of the “holy trinity” of great modern indie games (along with Hollow Knight and Outer Wilds) so I have no doubt that this will be brilliant.

https://www.gematsu.com/2023/09/tales-of-arise-expansion-beyond-the-dawn-announced 20 hour expansion. Out November 9th.

https://www.gematsu.com/2023/09/honkai-star-rail-for-ps5-launches-october-11 This has been confined to the EGS on PC for a while but it’s coming to PS5 on October 11th. It’s miHoYo’s follow-up to Genshin Impact, albeit a turn-based sci-fi rpg. It was critically acclaimed when it came out but I assume it will get a lot of new reviews now that’s it’s getting a console release.

Comfirmed. The 2.0 update is coming five days early on the 21st. https://www.eurogamer.net/cyberpunk-2077s-major-20-update-arrives-next-week-on-xbox-series-xs-ps5-and-pc Makes perfect sense. I won’t be getting around to this until I’ve fished BG and Zelda though, otherwise I would have downloaded it to get used to the changes.