Yud quotes Shirou here

I hate that this is true as FSN is my favorite work of fiction ever, but it's real

www.lesswrong.com/posts/3Jn4vo...

I regret to inform you that the visual novel Fate/stay night must also be in there as one of Yud's inspirations, something that causes me great agony

By the way did you get any further

I love Trails beyond the Horizon and I don't think it has *20* years of setup behind it, but it will definitely not hit correctly without context from *at least* one and a third sagas of Trails games.

Furthermore, Manabu Otsuka must be destroyed

...start with the first games of each arc, because the games after those heavily depend on the set up of those first games to work. If you like the series enough, you'll be curious about the older games to play through those arcs anyways.

Furthermore, Manabu Otsuka must be destroyed

...Cold Steels II onwards and Reverie, etc.

The games that *begin* an arc always are beginner-friendly by nature since we're starting a new arc, so new introductions need to be made to settings and characters. So if you want to start Trails...

Furthermore, Manabu Otsuka must be destroyed

As someone who started the series before everything was translated, I do think the original Sky FC is the best entry point, but there are other entry points. The wrong/bad places to start are games in the middle of arcs: Sky SC and 3rd, Azure...

Furthermore, Manabu Otsuka must be destroyed

i have no idea how RGG Studios has somehow failed every single attempt at avoiding PR disasters. You'd need a plan and a brilliant chinese tactician from the three kingdoms to fuck up this constant at every single opportunity to turn it around

I need them to hug and sob together so bad

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO