Boundless

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails is one of the older falcom games on steam, and still holds up quite well. It has an incredible soundtrack as is per usual for falcom, and plays something like a combination of Ys / Zwei 2. While it's not actually related to the "Trails" series, this game is a wonderful one-off from falcom with a lot of cool, cute and fun things to see.

Blue haired teen meets a pink haired fairy girl and proceeds to go on adventures through portals and save both the real world and the space world because he just cares so much about his friends and other characters he met just moments ago. Soundtrack is nice, gameplay is generic but this is an old game so its fine

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! ^-^

The seasons change, but one thing stays the same: The Legend of Nayuta is gorgeous, charming, and addictive from start to finish. The environments are majestic, the music is soothing, the boss fights with their multiple stages may be the best Falcom's ever did thanks to the designs and the whole rhythm.

Fun game that is standalone within the series but won't be surprised if they try to connect it to Zemuria story. Characters are endearing and the stages are fun despite some frustrating platforming jank. Bosses are also fun and this game just makes me wish that Falcom makes more platformers in the future.

Of course the music in this era of Falcom games slaps so no complaints there.

Easy 8/10

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails is the weakest Falcom game I've ever played. It's mostly fine, but it lacks almost everything I love about other Falcom titles. Let's explore the ups and downs of the game (+, +/-, -, ?):
+ The world is pretty interesting as it is not the same (timeline or anything?) as Zemuria in Trails titles. The world has a nice vibe to it and it looks mostly fine. Could it have anything to do with Ys...?
+ Falcom shines in character design and character quality, so it's not surprising that these characters are great. It's always a pleasure to spend time with everyone.*
+ The hack and slash gameplay is mostly fun and acquiring new skills, art and everything is super fun.
+ This is one of a rare games where one-handed and two-handed weapons feel great! Hell yes!
+/- The game looks mostly fine, but it's very blocky and shiny. The characters just standing there with their mouth open doesn't make it any better.
+/- The story starts off very good, and is mostly fine, but I found myself logging out very quickly. In the end, I really didn't care about anything here.
+/- The OST is surprisingly not a very good one. Falcom OSTs are always legendary, but I struggle to find anything diamond tier here. That being said, it's not actively bad or anything.
+/- This games a breeze. There's almost no challenge on normal, but I didn't really mind it.
+/- This is the shortest Falcom title I've played, but it felt very, very long.
- The stages feel very meaningless AND their perfect completion requirements are, at times, infuriating. There are many stages you need to play multiple times, or go back to, or repeat because an enemy attacked you off-screen and made you fall down, or... Personally, the forced speedruns are the worst...
-... or then it's the blocking. The blocking seems not to work all the time. Especially after jumping. It's infuriating to see Nayuta just standing there taking damage...
-...but that doesn't matter. Due to the easy difficulty level, and your healing items, you can just brute force your ass into victory.
- The game gets extremely repetitive in no time. I had to take long breaks between my sessions.
- *Nayuta is a terribly boring protagonist. He's up there with Vaan in "the most boring protagonists" tier.
- Could Noi please shut up for a second. Her supposed cheering has the opposite effect on me.
- The story has many almost meaningless elements to it. If anything happens, it's dealt with almost instantly or it's relevant for just a moment. Also, "I am now on the side of evil. Oh, you beat me. Guess I am good now".
? The final weapon looks a lot like Testa-Rossa hmm....
? The depth perception feels very poor at times, but this might just be me.
The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails is an almost forgotten Falcom title, but for a good reason. While it provides some good mindless action, there's almost nothing here that makes you want to stick with it, or its main characters. This was likely a failed experiment, but it's wasn't a total bomb. There are promising elements here, and I'd like to see this world/timeline expanded. 6/10.

Falcom's take on a classic Super Nintendo game: It has elements from Mario, Zelda and Metroid and combines them with the Trails universe. Plays smooth as butter too!

As for the connection with Trails proper: There is not much but THAT thing was a huge reveal...