#oneaday Day 321: Trails

Forgive me for thinking out loud a bit in this post, but I'd also welcome any thoughts you might have on this!

I want to cover Falcom's The Legend of Heroes: Trails of [[x]] series on MoeGamer. However, at the time of writing, this covers six games, each of which are 100+ hours each. Were I do to a "Trails" Cover Game feature, it would likely take several months if not the whole year to complete.

I'm not necessarily opposed to this, but I also like having a bit of variety from feature to feature, so what I'm considering is tackling the series one game at a time over the long term, perhaps alternating with other games.

So what the schedule might look like is something like Trails in the Sky -> something else -> Trails in the Sky: SC -> something else -> Trails in the Sky the 3rd -> something else -> Trails of Cold Steel -> something else -> Trails of Cold Steel II -> something else -> Trails of Cold Steel III.

I don't want to leave too long between installments because I understand one of the core appeal elements of the series is its interconnected nature. At the same time I don't want either me or my readers to get "burnt out" on Trails. It's an important series to a lot of people, so I want to do it justice — plus I feel like taking each game one at a time will be an opportunity to take it on its own merits rather than everything blurring into one continuous lump. I don't know how different the various games within each series are from one another — I know Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel are significantly different due to being a hardware generation apart on their original release — but I feel like this will probably be the best approach.

If you have any thoughts on the best way to do this — or on what you'd like to see from some in-depth Trails coverage — I'll happily hear them! I'm not promising doing this any time soon, but I do want to acknowledge the fact that multiple people have asked me if/when I will take on this series, and the fact that I absolutely want to!