This is the worst game in the trilogy. This does not say much because first two games are amazing, so being worst out of three does not mean the game is bad. Frankly if it was not named Trails in the Sky it could be rated 4, but unfortunately it is, so it has a huge shadow form the previous games looming over it. Where to begin. It's too bad i cannot attach screenshot as one of the characters summarize the sentiment pretty well. The bizarre idea to exchange main protagonists from the first 2 games to a glorified extra and total nobody who never even appeared in any of the games before. It's like if mass effect 3 would not be about Shepard but about that pretender Shepard from mass effect 2. That is an AMAZING decision isn't it? The plot of the whole game is week, game mechanic just go in your face gamey (i.e. tree selling you food ingredients), arbitrary "challenges" for no reason, disjointed storytelling, pathetic new level design to the point that assets pilfered from the first 2 games are more fun to traverse. Awful and contrived minigames (yes, i installed RPG to play turret shooting section blergh). Writing also feels weaker (not sure how much of that is translator and how much it is original writers fault) and writing is what elevated the first 2 games above mediocrity. On the plus side some of really annoying mission design where designers went above and beyond to screw up with your bracer rating and top tier weapons, though annoying hoop-hopping from the first 2 games were replaced with tedious mob killing grind. It's not an Asian game if heavy grind is not involved i guess. Combat system became a bit more dynamic and interesting, though it is not a huge advancement. Overall I would not recommend you buying this one full price. It does not live up to it's predecessors and the trilogy ends not with a bang but with a whimper...
I am certainly bedazzled by all the praise to the game. It is NOT A BAD game but it is FAR from all the hallelujahs singing in praise of it. If anything it is average in all respects. Story: not bad but nothing to shout from the rooftops. Graphics - same. Animations - same. Mechanically - the amazing system of elemental interaction from first Original Sin is back(yey), unfortunately messed up with the ablative “hitpoint” armor system that fucks it up to almost complete irrelevancy. Unfortunately the net result ended making the mechanic a regression rather than improvement on the original game mechanics. The removal of cooldown shortening by the stats (as it was in the first game) was a god decision - the armor mechanic was not. On the plus side the Llarian's Marry Sue Bellegar is nowhere in sight.... Let me reiterate: it is not a great game. It is not a bad game either. It is merely average – therefore 3 stars. I am not able to go into detail on all the flaws of this game as when i try to get a short list(Yey for the Llarian i guess)
