{"id":1377,"date":"2025-07-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:52:37","slug":"feature-never-in-my-wildest-dreams-would-i-have-expected-this-falcom-president-talks-20-years-of-trails-in-our-big-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/feature-never-in-my-wildest-dreams-would-i-have-expected-this-falcom-president-talks-20-years-of-trails-in-our-big-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: &#8220;Never In My Wildest Dreams Would I Have Expected This&#8221; &#8211; Falcom President Talks 20 Years Of &#039;Trails&#039; In Our Big Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Going Beyond the Horizon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Falcom is one of the most influential and long-standing Japanese developers out there. Pioneering the action RPG space with the <strong>Ys<\/strong> series, it&#8217;s recently become more well-known for its continent-spanning epic turn-based series, <strong>Trails<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>15th January 2026<\/strong>, the series&#8217; 13th entry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/legend-of-heroes-trails-beyond-the-horizon\">Trails Beyond the Horizon<\/a>, will be launching on Switch and Switch 2 in the West. And, as a huge fan of the franchise, it&#8217;s probably the most excited I&#8217;ve been for a new game from Falcom in some time. Daybreak&#8217;s more-thoughtful and modern threads have really connected with me, and Van has become one of my favourite RPG protagonists in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/never-in-my-wildest-dreams-would-i-have-expected-this-falcom-president-talks-20-years-of-trails-in-our-big-interview\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going Beyond the Horizon. Falcom is one of the most influential and long-standing Japanese developers out there. Pioneering the action RPG space with the Ys series, it&#8217;s recently become more well-known for its continent-spanning epic turn-based series, Trails. On 15th January 2026, the series&#8217; 13th entry, Trails Beyond the Horizon, will be launching on Switch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}