Capsule Computers writes:

“When it comes to the Trails series, the franchise has always had a heck of a daunting shadow hanging over it for possible newcomers. Sure, players could jump into any of the games and try to dive in immediately into this long running JRPG series or even at the start of one of their new arcs, hoping to simply pick up on context clues to the past and guess why these characters are friendly or countries are hostile. But the problem has always been the fact that, for the most part, the Trails series tells a storyline that can be connected all the way from the most recently released in English title The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II all the way back to 2004 with The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. Sure, the game has been ported a couple of times, in fact one of those ports was the first time the game was actually released in English back in 2011, but other than a few QoL adjustments, little was done to this title that helped start it all.

So now Nihon Falcom has returned to the beginning of this long fourteen mainline game franchise to remake Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter from the ground up, giving everyone a chance to see just who Estelle is and why this prominent Bracer has appeared in almost, if not every single title since then. Ironically, considering my personal jumping point into the franchise started just after the Trails in the Sky trilogy concluded with Trails from Zero, this served not only as a proper introduction to the very beginning, but a way to see how far the franchise has come.”