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You can play throughThe Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverieany way you like… so long as you do it the way the developers intended. Sure, there’s a degree of forced linearity in terms of whose routes you can complete in what order every chapter - limitations designed to ensure players experience the story in a comprehensible manner.
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But there are ways to further enhance one’s enjoyment by starting and stopping at specific points. The story beats will land fairly well if you don’t follow our guide, but the pacing of it all will be that much better if you do. Read on for a quick and easy way to make Reverie shine all the brighter.
Trails To Walk, Explained
Early on in your Trails into Reverie playthrough, you’ll be introduced to a gameplay mechanic called ‘Trails to Walk’. (Truly, the Trails moniker has been used in nearly every conceivable way by now.) ‘Trails to Walk’ permits players toswitch between the three ongoing stories and their respective partiesat various points per chapter.
This is great since swapping from Lloyd Bannings' big group to Rean Schwarzer’s big group to C’s not-quite-so-big-group can keep things fresh and never really bog you down in one for too long. On the flip side, too much swapping can become confusing, or kill the narrative tension at awkward times. This is whythe game will force you to switch perspectives sometimes.
But the switches aren’t necessarilyideal, since if they were, Falcom would probably just nix the ‘Trails to Walk’ thing altogether and make us follow their ‘golden path’, if you will. That’s whyfans have pieced together their versions of the absolute best times to switch partiesso that the three stories' twists and turns occur at points that are most befitting the overarching narrative we experience.
The Optimal Route Order
How exactly have Falcom fans managed to figure this all out ahead of the Western launch? Well, it’s taken a full three years for Trails into Reverie to reach Western shores, that’s how! Some of the most diehard of the bunch have completed the game in full, even if most of us are arriving at the party stylishly… on-time.
Without further ado, then, here’s what we’ve pieced together from across the fandom far and wide;this is the best order to switch protagonists so that Trails into Reverie’s story is perfectly smooth.
The four acts are followed bya conclusive fifth and final actwhich asks you to choose someone again - butit doesn’t really matter who you pick. The results are the same from this point forward! Once again, we’d like to thank early players for piecing together the best path through Trails into Reverie’s first four acts; and if you decide to go another route,don’t worry - only a few things will occur vaguely ‘out of order’!
