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 Why Adapting Your Game to use Modern Everyday Language Sometimes Doesn't Work: How Van messes up and why using the word "Pronouns" doesn't always work      While the script adapters at NIS America do their job really well, sometimes they make some decisions that the fandom doesn't like. In Trails into Reverie, people had a problem with the "Tower of Babel" being translated to "Retributive Tower", and there are a few smatterings here and there of people talking about other translation bits. However, when you mix translation with a bit of modern day language that people think is political, you get a lot of problems.      In Trails Through Daybreak, the character Van asks a character "I was just wondering what pronouns to use for you", and while many people were talking about a political discourse that shouldn't exist, that line didn't sit with me for a different reason. After doing some digging, I understood why the translation

Transitioning Through Gender. How Trails through Daybreak handles its Characters' Gender and Sexuality MUCH better than past titles            Throughout the Trails series, gender and sexuality has been more or less a joke. While we all know that Kurt and Joshua can both rock a dress like their life depends on it, there’s not many good examples in the series involving gender and sexuality. While Olivier is a good representative of being bisexual within the series, Angelica and Shirley, the two main lesbians of the series, are portrayed as shallow characters and bad representations of their sexuality. However, Trails through Daybreak gives us a whole slew of characters and our biggest LGBTQ+ ally, Van. Throughout this article, I’ll be talking about how Falcom stepped up their game with gender and sexuality in Trails through Daybreak The first LGBTQ+ character I’ll be talking about is Bermotti. He is an informant, and the owner and bartender of Bernotti. In his first interaction with

Trails through Daybreaking down the Combat System. How Trails Through Daybreak cracked the Combat Formula   The Trails Series has a history of slightly different combat variation. In this article, I am going to talk about the one used in Trails through Daybreak. In my opinion, the Daybreak combat system is the best system, which combines the Trails in the Sky / Trails from Zero combat system with the new open world combat system that flows seamlessly between each other. In this article, I'm going to explain how it works and why it's so genius, so if you already know how it works, you can skip ahead a bit  Slotting up your Quartz Quartz is a running mechanic in the Trails series. By slotting in a quartz, you gain that quartz’s effect. This can range from additional health or critical hit chance, to a chance to status the enemy, or even causing certain attacks (arts) to charge for less time before going off. Included in the newest addition to the series, the Xipha has 4 different