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Message: [QUOTE="Barbed Lotus, post: 186974, member: 1520"] I miss their 2003-2011 output. I think that era was their peak, creatively. You had the Napishtim engine Ys trilogy, Gurumin, Zwei 2, the Trails in the Sky trilogy, the Crossbell duology, Brandish: The Dark Revenant, and Xanadu Next. Barring Ys VIII, I feel like they've largely fallen off ever since. Trails devolved into a trend-chasing mess with a noticeable drop in writing quality. Celceta and Monstrum Nox didn't really live up to their immediate Ys predecessors. Tokyo Xanadu is about the most banal, derivative game I've ever played from their library. Granted, I haven't played Ys X or the Calvard arc yet, but Trails into Reverie burned me out on Trails and I'm still waiting for the upgraded re-release of Ys X before jumping into that title. [/QUOTE]

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