The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails Review (Steilon)
The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless trails was truly a surprise of a treat to play, it had a mix of the more classic YS style of visuals in some regards with the models mixed with the more recent ones in terms of gameplay, between the story and the gameplay it has that Falcom quality and it literally brings joy to my heart that I got to play this, for an action game it has a lot and is a decent length at that, you're in for a fun time if ya play and even more content opens up on NG+ so it's well worth a second round at that dood.
Okay on to the meat of the review as I usually do, so the game focuses on the adventures of a young man named Nayuta on summer holiday/vacation back at his home town with his best friend Cygna who open up a handyman business, from there things get crazy and escalate in some real fun ways and it just keeps going I'll say that much dood!
The game starts off basic, you have a four hit combo, a jump and a dodge but as the game goes on it expands on that heavily, you have a choice between one handed or two handed weapons too at that, the only benefits being the heavy weapon is stronger but much slower and the one handed is faster, both work well enough though dood.
You have two things to do in the game, first off you can do sidequests for the handyman business, this nets you various things that you will really want and then of course there will be stages to play, they are your typical affair but you also have stars for each stage, these both work as markers of completion for items, gems and stage mission and for collecting enough you can trigger an event somewhere (as to not spoil lol) that will let you learn more skills so it's insanely worth it! They can be a hassle here and there but what's a reward without the challenge dood!!
The games not super hard and has enough mechanics that if you use them well you'll do great, the music is outstanding, in fact some of Falcoms in house teams best work in my eyes (and ears) it made the levels and game itself a real extra good time and it really was for sure, even equipment changes on Nayuta for some great visual differences and the game looks great with the better textures, which are off by default mind you so feel free to make sure to turn that on when ya start dood. (Honestly I appreciate that, not everyone has a crazy powerful rig that can start a game at max settings without crashing, my first laptop suffered hard back in the day x.x)
So yeah all in all the games stellar, it's not like the most amazing modern day visual spectacular that a lot of games are but the heart and gameplay are easily there and it still looks great despite that for it's style, what's more although Falcom stated otherwise there are many things I feel could easily connect to this game and the legend of heroes series so have fun with that if you're as big a fan of the series as I and many others are connecting all these things that are apparently not connected dood! XD
Thank you for reading and I hope if you buy the game you have as much of a blast as I did dood! ^-^