Nihon Falcom

... um, plus Castlevania.

And, like, anything by Falcom has amazing music.

Uh, not only the original soundtracks, but the many, many arranged soundtracks that have come out over the years.

Uh, I'm gonna say probably Castlevania just because there's many more Castlevania games.

Um, but yeah, what else, um, do you have that you'd like to share? The, the platform is yours to kinda talk about whatever you'd like.

So about last month or so we put out two books.

One is focusing on Ys and some other action RPGs from Falcom.

The official title is Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents Ys and Other Falcom Classics.

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the reason is, f- f- Nihon Falcom releases one game a year.

Uh, they have, they, they operate on a 10-month dev cycle for every game, and these games are, uh, double A $60 games that are made with a 50-person team.

They alternate sometimes between Trails and Ys games, and Ys games are we are going to make large-ass areas with, uh, exploration and combat and a less focus on story, and Trails games are v- you are coming to this first and foremost for the story.

Trails in the Sky is kind of like an old school...

I mean, it's a Falcom game, which is their old school RPG makers.

And it reminds me a lot of just 16-bit RPGs in a lot of ways.

The presentation is obviously very modern.

Switch and Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and PC.

DeHaan Falcom, no stranger to remaking video games, right? They...

sometimes do they

do updates of

Uh, I, I still, one of my favorite moments in all 14 is after you finished the Garuda fight, I think, and you go back to the, the Scions headquarters and you're like realizing what has happened while you were gone.

yeah that's such

a cool moment that i think adds like an interesting urgency to that story and and gives you that sense of like there are multiple forces at work in this plot and i need to like be be wary of that be scared there's there you know there's some threats in this world and there's some things going on so back to trails we could probably talk all day about it but we probably got to wrap up this main show segment so i'm gonna i will broadly say we did get some questions i think uh this is always the thing that comes up uh where should you start with trails what order should you play it in i feel like maybe this is why Nihon Falcom really wanted to do this in the first place.

Yeah.

Las animaciones de ahora donde el que- Hay algo, padre, que yo lo veo y me...

Como que ese, yo no sé, es, es el engine de Falcom, loco, todos los juegos de Falcom que son en 3D, son así, se ven así.

Ya.

Cada vez lo ponen más bonito, eh, que si más efecto de luz, que si más sombra, que si más, más- Sí, tienen un- Mala resolución.