All of its increasingly severe writing issues aside, it's a little bit funny how for the first five games the Trails series was developing this fairly nuanced through-line about how mechanised warfare is bringing about the end of the age of lone heroes, because yeah, it's very impressive that you can punch an armoured vehicle to death with your bare hands, but while you were having an epic twenty-minute boss fight the other 41 mass-produced tanks in the battalion just drove past you – then from game six onward everyone is piloting giant robots for some reason, and it's like whoops, forget all that, lone heroics are geopolitically relevant again! Yaaaaay!



















