@Cyber-Robin:
It just seems a bit of a shame tbh. I'm still enjoying 2 (just recruited the first friend again) but seeing that everyone in the world I helped seems to have forgotten Rean and my progress on fishing just makes me slightly :/
Really enjoying 2 thus far. It feels so much more smoother than 1. Although wow that first boss was ridiculously difficult for a first boss XD Also is it me or did they make attacks miss a lot more? Both Rean and Toval are missing all over the place
If it makes you feel better the save import is really not comparable with things like Mass Effect so forgetting about your fishing achievements is a thing that happens either way I believe? That said the way the game does carry over stuff from a story perspective is that it often assumes that you played the first game so continuations on quest of prior games and a lot of "remember how you helped me?" happens.
That sounds terrible when I say it like this but honestly it's pretty impressive how organic they make it feel just through the writing and kind of shows you don't need the ME budget to have a evolving world.
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I just finished Zero and holy fuck. It really feels like Falcom's magnum opus for the sprite era games part 1.
But to rail it back a bit Zero to me was as good if not slightly better than the Sky games it edges out in giving you amazing fan service in a way only long form series that are connected in this way can give you, rewarding you a lot for playing prior games.
It also made me more aware of how much the team must have actually struggled with Cold Steel and the switch to full 3d. There is just so many things in those games I've missed from Cold Steel but most of all Falcom does the focusing on 4 characters only right in those games. Something that kind of was extremely apparent especially after FFXV does it so wrong.
The fan translations I think aims to release somewhat close after the release of the 3rd. So really keep an eye on that. One way or another I believe all the games will make it over. Lots of stuff to look forward to.
Going to take a major Trails/RPG break for Yakuza 0 though before I finish up the platinum and then move on to Ao.
I've overdosed on RPGs for now. Need to play a "reset" game.
Edit: Randy is such a cool dude. What a great balance Falcom struck on his character arc type to make him feel just right.