Genre Role-playing video game | Developers Nihon Falcom | |
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Genres Role-playing video game First release Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes; 1989 Latest release The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II; 2014 Platforms PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 Publishers Nihon Falcom, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Xseed Games, Nippon Ichi Software Games The Legend of Heroes: A, The Legend of Heroes: T, Trails to Zero, Ys vs Sora no Kiseki: Alternativ, The Legend of Heroes: T | ||
Turbografx duo reviews dragon slayer the legend of heroes
The Legend of Heroes (英雄伝説, Eiyū Densetsu) is a series of role-playing games developed by Nihon Falcom Corporation. First starting as a part of the Dragon Slayer series in the late 1980s, the series evolved into its own decade-spanning, interconnected video game series, spanning twelve entries over the course of thirty five years, encompassing multiple meta series within it as well. A thirteenth entry, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, is scheduled for release in Japan in 2017.
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- History
- Manga and anime
- References
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History
The first entry of the series was released in 1989 as Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes, and was part of Nihon Falcom's Dragon Slayer line of games. It was released for various computer platforms, as well as consoles such as the Mega Drive, Super Famicom, and the PC Engine. The PC Engine version would be the only version to be released in English, and the only Legend of Heroes title released in North America until 2005. Meanwhile, in Japan, the series continued with Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II, released in 1992 for a similar selection of platforms.
Subsequent games in the series dropped their association with the Dragon Slayer series. The Legend of Heroes III, The Legend of Heroes IV, and The Legend of Heroes V comprised the "Gagharv Trilogy", a set of connected games taking place in the same world.
After the conclusion of the Gagharv Trilogy, a new story began with a new trilogy, the Trails in the Sky subseries. The three titles in it, First Chapter, Second Chapter and Third Chapter collectively made up the sixth entry in the series.
Falcom switched to a duology for the seventh entry, consisting of The Legend of Heroes VII: Zero no Kiseki in 2010, and The Legend of Heroes VII: Ao no Kiseki in 2011. After that, the company moved on to the Trails of Cold Steel sub-series, releasing the first title in 2013, a sequel in 2014, and announced a third entry currently under development.
The series has an inconsistent history of English language releases, with two-thirds (eight of twelve) of the titles officially translated as of January 2017. An additional one game (and the one not-yet-released game, Cold Steel III) have been announced. Translated games include the original, the Gagharv trilogy by Namco Bandai, and most entries in the Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel series by Xseed Games.
Manga and anime
A Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes original video animation anime was released in 1992, the same year that Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II was released, loosely based on the story of the first game. In 1997, It was dubbed into English by Urban Vision and was released onto VHS in North America. The English dub has yet to be released on DVD.
In 2009, three volumes of a Sora no Kiseki (Trails in the Sky) manga were published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten, followed the next year by a sequel Rei no Kiseki - Play Story - Shinpan no Yubiwa, published by ASCII Media Works. Two original video animation anime episodes of Sora no Kiseki were released on October 10, 2011 and January 28, 2012 respectively.