History YMMV / TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky

* BrokenBase: The [[UpdatedRerelease Evolution]] remakes for the trilogy and even the [[VideoGame/ZeroNoKiseki Crossbell Duology]]. What made it not as well received was that according to the fans, the art especially the character portraits and the iconic music of the franchise was considered a downgrade from the original style when it was brought to another company for publishing.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheChessmaster George Weissmann]], the BigBad of both FC and SC, starts off as a [[FauxAffablyEvil seemingly kind]] and helpful [[AdventurerArchaeologist archaeologist]] named Professor Alba. This falls away at the end of FC, when he reveals himself as an evil wizard who was [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating Joshua and the other protagonists]] even before the game started. A high-ranking member of the secret organization of Ouroboros, Weissmann has the desire to [[NietzscheWannabe remake the world damaged by the cruelty of humans in his own image]]. He was behind the massacre of the village of Hamel, which claims the life of Joshua's sister and [[AntiVillain Loewe's]] lover Karin. This in turn sparked the Hundred Days War, which affected the life of the [[TheHero main protagonist Estelle]] and created the events of the game. Weissmann then had Joshua {{brainwashed|And Crazy}} to become a ruthless, cold-blooded assassin, who slaughtered countless politicians and other influential people who were in Weissmann's way. After failing to assassinate Estelle's father Cassius, Weissmann [[YouHaveFailedMe attempted to have Joshua himself assassinated for his failure]]. At the end of FC, Weissmann restores Joshua's lost memories and gleefully observes as he [[MindRape goes through an emotional trauma]]. Towards the end of SC, Weissmann pursues the ancient city of Liberl Ark in the hopes of obtaining the ancient artifact Aureole and [[OneWingedAngel merge himself with it]]. Manipulating Joshua's mind once again, Weissmann attempts to have him execute Estelle [[WhatHaveIDone so that he can free him from his mind spell and enjoy seeing him break emotionally]]. [[AGodAmI Despite considering himself as the savior of all mankind]], Weissmann is completely blinded by his own sadism and [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]], even to the point where he doesn't even realize that most of the events caused by the humanity are the cause of his own actions.

** "Silver Will" is more than worth mentioning, since it isn't an overstatement to say that this music may be even more popular than the game itself. Hell, it's even listed as the Best RPG Battle theme on 2ch ''and'' Youtube! And then there's the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSHVVj0aWJs vocal version]], which takes it even ''further''.

** [[spoiler: Villains may they be, you've gotta admit the scene when the Legions storm the Grancell Castle is completely awesome; it's four {{Badass}}es versus one BadassArmy and our dear villains proves to be the more badass force.]]

* ColonCancer: Not by itself, but as the Legend of Heroes franchise is a spinoff of the Dragon Slayer series, the full title of the first game would be ''Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes VI: Trails In The Sky: First Chapter''.

* DoingItForTheArt: How else do you explain XSEEDGames's willingness to localize a trilogy of games with such ginormous amounts of text, which no other localizer showed signs of having plans to work on? With one person metaphorically nearly killing herself, and another LITERALLY nearly killing himself!

* NoExportForYou: This is being fixed at last courtesy of XSEEDGames, although it still took ''nearly seven years'' for the first chapter to make the jump across the sea, and for a long time fans had resigned themselves to never seeing a release. (The fate of the PC version remains a question-mark.) The delay is mostly attributed to Falcom's past rocky relations with other localizers/publishers in America and the sheer, staggering ''size'' of the scripts for each game. The second chapter had to ship on ''two'' [=UMDs=] for the PSP release, after all.
** And after nice amount of purchase, Trails in The Sky The 3rd is in process of being localized.

* PromotedFanboy: XSEEDGames once proclaimed that the game translators are fans of the trilogy.

* TroubledProduction: The translation of the games has been an epic saga punctuated by incompatible formats, anemic sales, weird bugs, and [[http://kotaku.com/the-curse-of-kiseki-how-one-of-japans-biggest-rpgs-bar-1740055631 Andrew Dice only barely having his attempted suicide interrupted by his partner]]...
** Not to mention the PREVIOUS perosn nearly killed themself, metaphorically, with overwork.

* MemeticMutation: Among the Japanese fanbase - [[{{Lolicon}} LOLICON]] DIVE!!!

** Also, GameFAQs seems to be fond of making fun of people who question Estelle's behavior towards [[DepravedBisexual Olivier]].

* WakeUpCallBoss: Joshua's DuelBoss with Mueller is basically a lesson in maintaining a speed advantage via Clock Down and Clock Up Ex, especially when Mueller only has slightly less SPD than Joshua on Normal while hitting much harder.
* TheWoobie: Joshua, Loewe, Kevin, and Renne.

** Surprisingly, the second battle against [[spoiler:Lt. Lorence counts]]. He has lower STR this time around and his attacks are easier to survive, but he makes up for it by spamming Tearal and Earth Guard EX a lot in an attempt to outlast your resources. Not to mention that his skillset covers confusion, faint, and mute, meaning anyone who doesn't have a Grail Locket will have to be tended to for at least one ailment.

* GoddamnedBoss: Chapter 1 ends with a fight against three monsters that can and will spam a LifeDrain attack on you. They were annoying enough when fought one at a time as sub-bosses in the dungeon leading up to that point.

* WakeUpCallBoss: Joshua's DuelBoss with Mueller is basically a lesson in maintaining a speed advantage via Clock Down and Clock Up Ex, especially when Mueller only has slightly less SPD than Joshua on Normal.

** Loewe in SC. He is such a formidable foe that the game actually lets you choose to proceed without defeating him. Loewe will create two doppelgangers (which, unlike previous Enforcers, are not illusions but full-fledged new enemies to deal with), interrupt your casts (and his doppelgangers share this ability), is flanked by two tenacious mini-bosses and will open the fight with his S-Craft, Dead Emperor Sword, which will most certainly hit all your team members (or only 3 of them if they are spaced out) and possibly kill them outright, or leave them at death's doorstep at best (if hit, [[GlassCannon Tita]] will never survive this attack, no matter how high her level is). In short, you will begin the fight severely wounded (unless you bring Kevin with you and use his S-Craft, Grail Sphere, right off the bat), and chances are Loewe will finish you off quickly if you don't heal your party to full health immediatly. And if you manage to survive the first turns, then you will be outnumbered once the doppelgangers join the fray. The saving grace is that Loewe and the mini-bosses (but not the doppelgangers) aren't immune to Clock Down, allowing you some breathing room once you manage to stick the status debuff on them. For all these reasons, Loewe is considered to be the hardest boss of the game, even harder than the actual final boss.

* ParanoiaFuel: The whole series runs on this. Even the most innocuous looking [=NPCs=] could be in on an AncientConspiracy and even the genuinely legit ones could have been impersonated by the likes of Bleublanc at any point.

* DoingItForTheArt: How else do you explain XSEEDGames's willingness to localize a trilogy of games with such ginormous amounts of text, which no other localizer showed signs of having plans to work on?

** [[spoiler:Renne]] also tends to make people pull their hair out in SC, [[spoiler:particularly the last fight with her when she's accompanied by Pater Mater. It's bad enough that she can use her reaper-esque S-Crafts to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg0KvcpNi78 one shot your entire party]] if you're positioned badly. When she's accompanied by a mountain of steel and HP that can punt you across the arena and ''revive her'' when she's knocked out? The suffering never ends.]]

* TierInducedScrappy: Some people consider Josette one in the 3rd, as she has crappy stats, no noteworthy crafts, and a S-craft that requires the player to win a mini game just to unlock it [[spoiler: and bring her to certain dungeon and boss fight just to unlock its upgrade]].

* TierInducedScrappy: Some people consider Josette one in the 3rd, as she has crappy stats, no noteworthy crafts, and a S-craft that requires the player to win a mini game just to unlock it.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: [[BigBad Professor Weissmann/Alba]] sticks out like a sore thumb in a game all about redemption and [[ThePowerofFriendship The Power of Friendship]]. The good professor orchestrates the massacre of Hamel, bringing about the Hundred Days War and causing thousands of deaths. Believing this tragedy to be proof that humanity is doomed to destroy itself-and ignoring that it was largely ''his own fault'', he then plans to use the Aureole to force humanity's transformation into emotionless superbeings. Throughout the story, he [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mentally]] and [[MoreThanMindControl psychologically]] torments [[TheWoobie Joshua]], mostly to see just how far he can break him. His depravity goes so far that the Church authorizes the use of the [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Pillar of Salt]] just to kill him. Weissmann's [[ManipulativeBastard cunning]] is matched only by his [[TheSociopath cruelty]] and [[EvenEvilHasStandards even his fellow Anguis believe he got what he deserved]]]].