History VideoGame / TheLegendOfNayutaBoundlessTrails

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early on in the game, after using the teleportation device, Nayuta gets sick over it, with Noi explaining that since he’s human, it takes a bot of getting used to. Cygna, however, uses it and is completely fine. [[spoiler:It’s later revealed that Cygna was once part of the People of Mythos, who build such devices, meaning that he no issues using it]].

After the success of the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Trails in the Sky]]'' trilogy and the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Crossbell]]'' duology, Creator/{{Falcom}} took a little detour and came out with ''The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails'' (那由多の軌跡 - ''Nayuta no Kiseki''; literal translation: "Nayuta's Taken Path"): a "story ARPG" taking the characterization of the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' and combining it with the fast-paced action of their ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'' and ''Zwei'' games. In order to make the barrier to entry easier for newcomers, Nayuta has no direct story associations with the other games, although it shares some concepts and terminology. It was originally released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable in 2012. An updated version for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 came out in June 2021 in Japan. The PC port was released on December 11th, 2021 on Steam in Japanese while a port for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch was released on May 2022 in Japan, with the port being developed by Falcom themselves with the title ''Nayuta no Kiseki: Ad Astra''[[labelnote:*]]''那由多の軌跡: アド・アストラ'', lit. "Nayuta's Taken Path: To the Stars"[[/labelnote]] in Japan. All three versions came out in the West in September 2023 [[labelnote:note]] 19 in North America and 22 in Europe [[/labelnote]] thanks to Creator/NISAmerica. Anyone who had already purchased the game via Steam received a free patch with the English translation.

After the success of the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Trails in the Sky]]'' trilogy and the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Crossbell]]'' duology, Creator/{{Falcom}} took a little detour and came out with ''The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails'' (那由多の軌跡 - ''Nayuta no Kiseki''; literal translation: "Nayuta's Taken Path"): a "story ARPG" taking the characterization of the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' and combining it with the fast-paced action of their ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'' and ''Zwei'' games. In order to make the barrier to entry easier for newcomers, Nayuta has no direct story associations with the other games, although it shares some concepts and terminology. It was originally released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable in 2012. An updated version for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 came out in June 2021 in Japan. The PC port was released on December 11th, 2021 on Steam in Japanese while a port for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch was released on May 2022 in Japan, with the port being developed by Falcom themselves with the title ''Nayuta no Kiseki: Ad Astra''[[labelnote:*]]''那由多の軌跡: アド・アストラ'', lit. "Nayuta's Taken Path: To the Stars"[[/labelnote]] in Japan. All three versions came out in the West in September 2023 [[labelnote:note]] 19 in North America and 22 in Europe [[/labelnote]] thanks to Creator/NISAmerica. Those who purchased the Steam version received the English translation via a free patch.

After the success of the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Trails in the Sky]]'' trilogy and the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Crossbell]]'' duology, Creator/{{Falcom}} took a little detour and came out with ''The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails'' (那由多の軌跡 - ''Nayuta no Kiseki''; literal translation: "Nayuta's Taken Path"): a "story ARPG" taking the characterization of the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' and combining it with the fast-paced action of their ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'' and ''Zwei'' games. In order to make the barrier to entry easier for newcomers, Nayuta has no direct story associations with the other games, although it shares some concepts and terminology. It was originally released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable in 2012. An updated version for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 came out in June 2021 in Japan. The PC port was released on December 11th, 2021 on Steam in Japanese while a port for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch was released on May 2022 in Japan, with the port being developed by Falcom themselves with the title ''Nayuta no Kiseki: Ad Astra''[[labelnote:*]]''那由多の軌跡: アド・アストラ'', lit. "Nayuta's Taken Path: To the Stars"[[/labelnote]] in Japan. All three versions are slated to come out in the West in September 2023 [[labelnote:note]] 19 in North America and 22 in Europe [[/labelnote]] thanks to Creator/NISAmerica. Those who purchased the Steam version will receive the English translation via a free patch.

* IKnowYourTrueName: [[spoiler:Zext tried to do this on Noi to persuade her to cooperate with him. It failed.]]

* MeaningfulName: To fit the "star" theme, nearly all the characters are named after various constellations or famous astronomers. And yes, including the {{NPC}}. For example, Nayuta is a Hindu number meaning 10 to the power of 60 (or 72, depending), or just a very large number, fitting for the sea of stars.

* OneWingedAngel: One of the gimmicks of the bosses of this game is that they have multiple forms.

* SayMyName: "Creha!", [[spoiler:"Cygna!"]], and "Noi!" make up 80% of Nayuta's speech during the last few chapters. [[spoiler:Taken to its logical extreme before Nayuta fights Noi's nightmare.]]

* VerbalTic: Noi ends all of her sentences with "na no!" in the Japanese version.

* AloofBigBrother: Cygna fits this trope to a T. [[spoiler:Both metaphorically (to Nayuta) and literally (to Creha).]]
* BadassAdorable:
** Noi may be tiny, but don't underestimate her spells.
** Nayuta is short, nerdy, polite and a {{determinator}} trained by one of the best swordsmen in the world.
%%* BadassBookworm: Nayuta

* CannotSpitItOut: Lyra has a crush on Nayuta. But every time she wants to confess, Noi always comes in. Even when no one isn't around, Lyra was always too afraid to confess.

%%* GirlishPigtails: Noi and Sasha.

%%* MsFanservice: Eida and Erislette.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Noi isn't technically a fairy, but is referred to as such just because it's easier. Averted with the low-level spirits that hang around the shrines.

%%* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:Creha, Cygna/Selam, Zext, Noi... pretty much everyone who lives on Terra.]]

%%* TokenMiniMoe: Noi, owing to her sheer small size.

* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Cygna and Selam are originally just one person called Selam el Ordine.]]

* OneWingedAngel: One of the gimmicks of the bosses of this game is that they have multiple forms. [[spoiler:Creha and Cygna/Selam are literally one thanks to their father.]]

* SiblingYinYang: [[spoiler:it's hard to believe that Creha and Cygna/Selam are siblings, eh?]]
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Probably the happiest game to ever carry the Kiseki name.
* TacticalSuicideBoss: All idol bosses are this. If they don't perform attacks that allow Nayuta to strike at their weakpoints, the fights would be impossible to win.
* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:Cygna/Selam and Creha became petrified when Zext took their power in the Final Chapter. Fortunately, it didn't last long.]]

* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:Zext]] owned a Star Fragment with an image of [[spoiler:Selam, Creha, and himself, all looking happy]].

%%* {{Foreshadowing}}: It's a Trails game. It's bound to happen.

* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler:Chapter 6 reveals that Humans used the weapons made by the People of Mythos for War, resulting in the near annihilation of the original Terra]].

* ArtShift: Unlike the main series, The Legend of Nayuta features 3D models instead of sprites, making it look closer to Zwei.

%%* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The opening movie is one of the most misleading opening in the Trails series. Particularly when it comes to [[spoiler:Cygna's fate and his relationship with Selam]].

* FromBadToWorse: At first, falling ruins appear near Remnant Isle. But things take a turn for the worse with events like [[spoiler:Cygna leaving, Eartha nearly dying and a mysterious winter on the usually sunny Remnant Isle]].

%%* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Or so what [[spoiler:Creha and Selam thought when their race was brutally mass murdered]].

** Song Priestess Erislette, governing the continent of Rieseweld.

%%* TheDragon: The masked swordsman Selam fulfills this role for Zext.

* WorldShapes: Early on in the game, there are many references to an end/edge of the world, which Nayuta does not believe in, thinking the world may be a sphere. It turns out they are [[spoiler: both correct, as the world is a sphere with a giant chunk blown off, leaving an inhospitable rim region over a gaping maw of exposed mantle that covers about a third of the surface of the planet.]]

* VerbalTic: Noi ends all of her sentences with "na no!"

%%* FromBadToWorse: Everything simply started with Nayuta and Cygna climbing the fallen ruins out of pure curiosity. Then stuf happened...

* InterfaceSpoiler: Averted with Selam, because his voice actor wasn't revealed until the game's released. [[spoiler:And one reason how almost no one could guess that Selam and Cygna are the same person.]]

* LivingMacGuffin: Creha, Creha, CREHA. [[spoiler:Cygna/Selam becomes one in the epilogue as well.]]

%%* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:invoked by Zext to Creha in the end of Chapter 4.]]

* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: After Zechst is defeated, his skin cracks to reveal he's really an android with Zechst's memories, and was never truly human.]]

* RedBaron: Each of Terra's continental managers has one.

** Lynchis Gio, governing the continent of Oltapia.
** Song Priestess Erislette, governing the continent of Rizweld.

* CannotSpitItOut: Lyra has a crush on Nayuta. But every time she wants to confess, Noi always comes in. Even when Noi wasn't around, Lyra was always too afraid to confess.
* DolledUpInstallment: In a sense. An independent story that looks and plays like Zwei II, but is named a Trails game.

* ElementalPowers: Depending on the season.
** Spring: PetalPower
** Summer: BlowYouAway[=/=]ShockAndAwe
** Autumn: GreenThumb[=/=]PlayingWithFire
** Winter: AnIcePerson

%%* MasterComputer: the Astrolabe
%%* MacGuffin: The Master Gears. And later, [[spoiler:the Stella Gears.]]

%%* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:Poor Lyra...]]

* BraggingRightsReward: The one-handed InfinityPlusOneSword is granted by getting three stars on every level in the game, including the twelve bonus levels on NewGamePlus. Doing that proves you can take anything with the possible exception of four [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]] that are stronger than the final boss. The two-handed InfinityPlusOneSword is crafted from the drops of said bosses.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: or so what [[spoiler:Creha and Selam thought when their race was brutally mass murdered]].

* ThatsNoMoon: [[spoiler:the second moon. You know, the big one? That's actually Lost Heaven. Or rather, Terra, an artificial satellite containing plant and animal species wiped out in a disaster 1579 years ago.]]

* TimeSkip: one year between [[spoiler:Final Chapter and After Story.]]

The Ciencia Sea, a vast ocean dotted with countless tiny islands, is notable for two different peculiar phenomena: "star fragments" which contain images of a beautiful alien world (animals, plants, and rarely buildings no one's ever seen), and "falling ruins" in which ancient buildings fall out of a clear blue sky onto people's heads. (No, really.) Both phenomena are concentrated around Remnant Isle, a tiny settlement built on top of many of these ruins. Nayuta Herschel, student and amateur astronomer, and Cygna Alhazen, master swordsman and Nayuta's best friend, are returning to Remnant Isle for a relaxing summer vacation when the biggest ruin yet falls out of the sky.

* LastOfTheirKind: [[spoiler:Creha and Cygna/Selam are the only survivors of a powerful race called "People of Mithos".]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Cygna and Selam are originally just one person called "Selam".]]

* LostWorld: Lost Heaven, the beautiful paradise seen in star fragments, contains species not extant on the Ciencia Sea. [[spoiler:It's revealed that Lost Heaven/Terra is literally a LostWorld because it got lost in an explosion 1579 years ago.]]

* FlatWorld: All the best scholars in the Sciencia Sea believe the world is flat, and moreover, that it's very small. Nayuta disagrees and sets out to prove them wrong.

* LostWorld: Lost Heaven, the beautiful paradise seen in star fragments, contains species not extant on the Sciencia Sea. [[spoiler:It's revealed that Lost Heaven/Terra is literally a LostWorld because it got lost in an explosion 1579 years ago.]]

Nayuta and Signa naturally go check it out and meet Noi, a tiny visitor from another world. Soon enough they meet Creha, a mysterious silver-haired girl sleeping in a coffin-like bed of flowers, and from there Nayuta is plunged into an adventure beyond his greatest imagination.

* AloofBigBrother: Signa fits this trope to a T. [[spoiler:Both metaphorically (to Nayuta) and literally (to Creha).]]

%%* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The opening movie is one of the most misleading opening in the Trails series. Particularly when it comes to [[spoiler:Signa's fate and his relationship with Selam]].

%%* FromBadToWorse: Everything simply started with Nayuta and Signa climbing the fallen ruins out of pure curiosity. Then stuf happened...

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Creha, Signa, and Noi all choose to stay on Remnant Isle in the ending.]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: Averted with Selam, because his voice actor wasn't revealed until the game's released. [[spoiler:And one reason how almost no one could guess that Selam and Signa are the same person.]]
* LastOfTheirKind: [[spoiler:Creha and Signa/Selam are the only survivors of a powerful race called "People of Mithos".]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Signa and Selam are originally just one person called "Selam".]]
* LivingMacGuffin: Creha, Creha, CREHA. [[spoiler:Signa/Selam becomes one in the epilogue as well.]]

* OneWingedAngel: One of the gimmicks of the bosses of this game is that they have multiple forms. [[spoiler:Creha and Signa/Selam are literally one thanks to their father.]]

%%* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:Creha, Signa/Selam, Zext, Noi... pretty much everyone who lives on Terra.]]

* SayMyName: "Creha!", [[spoiler:"Signa!"]], and "Noi!" make up 80% of Nayuta's speech during the last few chapters. [[spoiler:Taken to its logical extreme before Nayuta fights Noi's nightmare.]]
* SiblingYinYang: [[spoiler:it's hard to believe that Creha and Signa/Selam are siblings, eh?]]

* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:Signa/Selam and Creha became petrified when Zext took their power in the Final Chapter. Fortunately, it didn't last long.]]

The Sciencia Sea, a vast ocean dotted with countless tiny islands, is notable for two different peculiar phenomena: "star fragments" which contain images of a beautiful alien world (animals, plants, and rarely buildings no one's ever seen), and "falling ruins" in which ancient buildings fall out of a clear blue sky onto people's heads. (No, really.) Both phenomena are concentrated around Remnant Isle, a tiny settlement built on top of many of these ruins. Nayuta Herschel, student and amateur astronomer, and Signa Alhazen, master swordsman and Nayuta's best friend, are returning to Remnant Isle for a relaxing summer vacation when the biggest ruin yet falls out of the sky.

* BadassAdorable: Noi may be tiny, but don't underestimate her spells. Also, Nayuta is short, nerdy, polite and a {{determinator}} trained by one of the best swordsmen in the world.

* {{BFS}}: one of the weapon type Nayuta can choose. Selam also sports one, a cool-looking one to boot.
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The opening movie is one of the most misleading opening in the Trails series. Particularly when it comes to [[spoiler:Signa's fate and his relationship with Selam]].

* EasterEgg: There are several references to the Zemuria games, but the most notable and least spoilery is the presence of Mishy.

* FromBadToWorse: Everything simply started with Nayuta and Signa climbing the fallen ruins out of pure curiosity. Then stuf happened...

* MacGuffin: The Master Gears. And later, [[spoiler:the Stella Gears.]]

* OneWingedAngel: one of the gimmicks of the bosses of this game is that they have multiple forms. [[spoiler:Creha and Signa/Selam are literally one thanks to their father.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Signa or Cygna? Worlance or Volans?

* {{Expy}}
** Nayuta looks a bit like Forte, fellow main character from ''The Legend of Heroes V: Song of the Ocean''.
** Lyra also looks like Una from the same game. Both even have "CannotSpitItOut" issues with the main characters.
** Creha is a mix between [[spoiler:Arianrhod]] and Moonlight Witch Gueld.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: It's a Trails game. It's bound to happen.

* GenreShift: From story-oriented, tactics-flavored JRPG to fast-paced ARPG with platforming (still story-oriented, though).

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:invoked by Zext to Creha in the end of Chapter 4.]]

* ShoutOut
** World building-wise, this game is an intentional ShoutOut to the Gagharv trilogy, especially ''The Legend of Heroes V: Song of the Ocean'', if [[WordOfGod the latest Falcom interview]] is to be believed.
** One of the greatswords Nayuta can get looks like [[VideoGame/{{Ys}} Tovah's heirloom]].

* TheDragon: The masked swordsman Selam fulfills this role for Zext.

* TokenMiniMoe: Noi, owing to her sheer small size.

* WholePlotReference: [[spoiler:the story behind Signa and Selam's separation? [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Seems familiar...]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"Discovery awaits beyond the horizon!"]]