Trivia / The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie

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General Trivia

• The base game has 50 playable characters outside of Daydreams, with 51 total after DLC. They are divided as such:
  • The Day of Reindependence: Lloyd, Elie, Tio, Randy, Noel, Wazy, Rixia, Lechter, Tita, Agate, Alisa, Sharon, Machias, Towa, Estelle, Joshua
  • Lost Symbol: Rean, Juna, Kurt, Altina, Musse, Ash, Claire, Elliot, Jusis, Millium, Emma, Gaius, Sara, Laura, Fie, Crow, Celine
  • The Miserable Sinners: C/Rufus, Lapis, Swin, Nadia, Renne, Duvalie, Arios
  • Guest and True Reverie Corridor: Elise, Aurelia, Olivier, Alfin, Angelica, Roselia, George, Toval, Victor, Vita
  • Characters added through DLC: McBurn
• The Trial Door challenges inside the True Reverie Corridor feature the following match-ups:
  • Lloyd and Kurt vs. Hollow Rixia and Hollow Shirley
  • Tio, Emma, Altina, and Lapis vs. Aion Type-β II
  • Elie and Juna vs. Hollow Mariabell
  • Musse and Nadia vs. Hollow Aurelia
  • Ash, Swin, Rixia, and Renne vs. Loa Luciferia
  • Randy and Gaius vs. Hollow Wazy and Hollow Noel
  • Rean and Arios vs. Hollow Victor (with both arms) and two Zero Guardians
  • Alisa, Estelle, Noel, and Celine vs. Aion Type-γ II
  • Joshua and Duvalie vs. Hollow Campanella with a Moon, Sun, and Star Guardian
  • Wazy, Jusis, Tita, Elise vs. (True) Zoro-Agruga
  • Fie and Toval vs. Hollow Gaius and Hollow Wallace
  • Laura, Agate, and Roselia vs. Hollow Arianrhod
  • Elliot and Vita vs. Hollow Olaf and an Achtzehn tank
  • Crow, Towa, Angelica, and George vs. Magic Knight Sigheim and Magic Knight Dynagram
  • Machias, Olivier, and Alfin vs. Ark Kaitos^note The final boss of the True Reverie Corridor's 4th floor, the last one you could fight before the update
  • Sara, Sharon, Aurelia, and Victor vs. Hollow Vita and Hollow Roselia
  • Rufus, Millium, Lechter, and Claire vs. Hollow Osborne
  • McBurn vs. Overlord McBurn
• As The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure weren't given dubs when they were officially released to the West, this game marks the first time a good chunk of the Crossbell characters received English voice acting.

Designated Mission Groupings (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

• Team Trails-Blazers: Lloyd, Rean, Rufus
• Team Protagonists: Swin, Nadia, Roselia, Toval
• Team Slack Attack: Tio, Altina, Nadia, Fie, Celine, McBurn (optional)
• Team Big Sticks: Randy, Ash, Gaius, Estelle
• Team Ironbloods: Rufus, Millium, Claire, Lechter
• Team Jaeger Bombers: Randy, Fie, Sara
• Team Upperclassmen: Crow, Towa, Angelica, George
• Team Swordsmanship: Rean, Kurt, Laura, Duvalie, Arios
• Team Magical Girls: Rean, Juna, Altina, Musse, Alisa
• Team Lil' Bro Havers: Rufus, Gaius, Olivier
• Team St. Astraia: Elie, Musse, Elise, Alfin
• Team Tomboys: Noel, Juna, Laura, Estelle
• Team Monsters: Agate, Arios, Aurelia, Victor, McBurn (optional)
• Team Big Sis Havers: Lloyd, Elliot, Machias, Joshua
• Team Cute 'n' Clever: Musse, Nadia, Renne, Towa
• Team Androgyny: Wazy, Kurt, Swin, Joshua
• Team Survivors: Olivier, George, Victor, Toval
• Team Kittens: KeA, Lapis, Tita, Renne, Angelica, Roselia
• Team Big Bro Havers: Lloyd, Kurt, Swin, Jusis, Joshua
• Team Pigtails: Tio, KeA, Nadia, Estelle, Celine, Alfin
• Team Bad Boys: Wazy, Ash, Crow, Agate, Lechter
• Team Lil' Sis Havers: Noel, Juna, Millium, Vita
• Team Boozehounds: Sara, Sharon, Aurelia, Scherazard
• Team Homoncuties: KeA, Altina, Lapis, Millium
• Team Virtuosos: Rixia, Elliot, Claire, Olivier, Scherazard, Vita
• Team Hot Curves: Elie, Rixia, Alisa, Emma
• Team Teatimers: Lapis, Jusis, Renne, Sharon, Duvalie, Elise
• Team Technobabble: Tio, Lapis, Alisa, Tita
• Team Specs: Machias, Emma, McBurn

Tropes

• Acting for Two: Inevitable with the size of the cast, so it's best to limit examples to ones specifically for this game.
  • In Japanese:
    • Rikiya Koyama as Matteus Vander, Sergei Lou, and Roy Gramhart
    • Naomi Shindo as Sonya Baelz, Angelica Rogner and Cedric Reise Arnor
    • Toshiyuki Morikawa as Arios MacLane and Teo Schwarzer
    • Mai Nakahara as Mireille and Isara Irving
    • Junichi Yanagita as Emperor and Valimar
    • Ryunosuke Watanuki as Michel and Ordine
  • In English:
    • Kayli Mills as Tio, Fran, and Mint.
    • Suzie Yeung as Rixia and Nadia; for bonus points, the two have unique dialogue for each other when performing Rushes and finishing battles.
    • Austin Lee Matthews as Ash, Ian, and Dieter.
    • Michelle Marie as Millium and Shizuku.
    • Christopher Corey Smith as Schmidt, Matthew, and Dudley.
    • Brent Mukai as Sergei, Wald, and Roy^note meaning that Sergei and Roy share their actors in both Japanese and English.
    • Edward Bosco as Machias, Matteus, and El-Prado.
    • Laura Post as Erika and Ilya.
    • Mick Wingert as Garcia and the Emperor.
• All-Star Cast: As the 10th game in the Trails Series and featuring nearly every major character from the previous installments, the game is loaded with big name Japanese voice actors, including Tetsuya Kakihara, Aya Endo, Rina Sato, Shin-ichiro Miki, Masumi Asano, Kōki Uchiyama, Yui Horie, Mariya Ise, Saori Hayami, Shinnosuke Tachibana, Ami Koshimizu, Tomoaki Maeno, Hisako Kanemoto, Megumi Toyoguchi, Takehito Koyasu, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Daisuke Hirakawa, Takahiro Sakurai, Rie Kugimiya, Junko Minagawa, Kazuya Nakai, Masakazu Morita, Jun'ichi Suwabe, Akemi Kanda, Mitsuki Saiga, Aoi Yūki, Mai Aizawa, Satomi Sato, Tomokazu Sugita, Yukana, Rikiya Koyama, Hisao Egawa, Satsuki Yukino, Mai Nakahara, Yuu Asakawa, Yuu Kobayashi, Mitsuaki Madono, and tons more.
• Content Leak: Epic Games Store accidentally confirmed the localization prior to the official announcement by launching the store page too early.
• In Memoriam: The end credits of the English release have a dedication to Scott Tijerina (one of the translators for Zero and Azure) and Billy Kametz (the first English voice actor for Wallace Bardias), with both of them passing away some time before Reverie's English release.
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition
  • The Japanese Premium Meister Box includes a vocal collection CD (celebrating the series' 15th anniversary), a 2020-2021 calender and 24-set of clear posters. The box itself is shaped like the trunk Lapis carries around.
  • The English release includes a hardcover artbook, the "Songs of Reverie" soundtrack CD, a softcover edition of the in-universe novel "Three & Nine", an acrylic print and a steelbook. It also includes the option for plushies of Lloyd, Rean and C.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": A collaboration event with Brave Nine wound up becoming Swin and Nadia's debut in the West.
• The Original Darrin: After being replaced by Phillip Reich and Alan Lee in Cold Steel IV, this game brings back Max Mittelman as the voice of Lechter and McBurn respectively.
• The Other Darrin:
  • In Japanese:
    • Due to the passing of Unshō Ishizuka in 2018, Sergei Lou is now voiced by Rikiya Koyama.
    • Scarlet is voiced in this game by Naoko Komatsu instead of Hiromi Nishikawa.
    • Toshiyuki Morikawa voices Rean's father Teo, replacing Moriya Endoh, who voiced him in the Cold Steel drama CD.
    • Ryuunosuke Watanuki replaces Yasuhiro Takato as Michel.
    • During his brief appearance in the Final Chapter, Valimar is voiced by Junichi Yanagita instead of Daisuke Matsubara.
  • In English:
    • Despite Erica Mendez reprising her role as Elie from Cold Steel IV, she doesn't voice Rixia like she did in Cold Steel II, with the role instead going to Suzie Yeung.
    • Courtney Lin takes over the role of Renne from Sandy Fox, who played the character in the Sky games, as well as Cold Steel IV.
    • KeA, previously voiced by Lauren Landa in Cold Steel IV, is now played by Ashlyn Madden.
• Playing Against Type: Rufus (the real one) is Daisuke Hirakawa's third role as a protagonist after the infamous Makoto Itou and Muneakira. His resume usually is either a supporting character, a villain, or one of the main cast but not the central one. Ditto for his English voice actor D.C. Douglas, who has never played a protagonist in his resume prior to Reverie.
• Role Reprise: The Japanese version saw a number of characters last seen in Azure return with the same VA they had in the Evolution ports 6-7 years prior. They include big names like Masumi Asano as Noel, Junko Minagawa as Wazy, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Arios, Kazuya Nakai as Dudley, Yasunori Masutani as Henry, Naomi Shindo as Sonya, Mai Nakahara as Mireille, Hisao Egawa as Garcia, Eiji Takemoto as Dieter, and Mitsuaki Madono as Novartis. Other notable reprisals include Osamu Ryuutani as Zeit and Wald, Moyu Arishima as Fran, Fumiko Inoue as Shizuku, and Takahiro Fujimoto as Ian.
• What Could Have Been:
  • According to an interview with Toshihiro Kondo, president of Falcom, Estelle Bright was considered for the role of the third route's protagonist. However, he and the developers felt that her story had already ended in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC, and weren't confident that they could develop her any more as a character. One of the new developers then proposed to make the new character C to be the third protagonist, a proposal Kondo approved.
  • C's identity at first wasn't supposed to be Rufus but instead it was a simulacrum version of Lloyd. They scrapped the idea because the developers realized it would be too similar to the plot twist of Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, where the playable Adol for most of the game is a copy of the real Adol.
  • During the game's climax when members of the Gralsritter arrived in their Merkabahs, the one labeled Merkabah 3 was originally going to be labeled 4 to foreshadow Celis in Trails through Daybreak. However, the mistake was discovered too late and was kept as a result.
• You Sound Familiar: Junichi Yanagita was cast as the Emperor after previously voicing multiple different characters in Cold Steel III and IV, most notably Patrick Hyarms.

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