Dorde P reported for Automation West that the remake of Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, is receiving a simultaneous global release on September 19 [Source: Automation West]. The report notes that this is Nihon Famicon’s “first simultaneous global release in the [long-running] Trails series” (consider this fact why I categorized this as a Things I Learned post). I included LoH: Trails in the Sky in my list of the games that left the biggest impression on me. Suffice it to say I am a fan and have some interest in the remake (albeit I plan to re-play the original before touching the remake). But I was not prompted to write this short learning post solely because I am a big fan of Trails in the Sky. 

Back in 2023, I wrote about an orginal Japanese-language GIF ad I found on a June 5, 2004 Wayback Machine capture of the Vector Software Libary for the then-upcoming June 24, 2004 release of the original Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. The original Trails in the Sky did not make it stateside until it was released for the PlayStation Portable on March 29, 2011, and the original computer version (which is what I played) came to North America on July 29, 2014, more than 10 years after the original Japanese release. For those of you who may be wondering why I was perusing mid-2000s Wayback Machine captures of a Japanese freeware software site, I was looking for information about the release history of a freeware doujin visual novel called Aru Fuyu Monogatari (I had previously reviewed its English localization, A Winter’s Tale).