A popular PS4 exclusive is coming to Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite in April. More specifically, developer Falcom and publisher and NIS America have announced that The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV finally loses its PS4 exclusivity and will release Nintendo Switch on April 9 in both North America and Europe. Meanwhile, a week later, on April 16, the game will hit Switch in the Oceania region.
Earlier, the aforementioned couple announced that the game would be coming to Nintendo Switch on March 18, but only in Japan. And this release date still applies to Japan. However, the rest of the world will have to wait another month to get their hands on the game, at least on Switch and Switch Lite.
At the moment the game is only available on the PS4 and PS4. It debuted in 2018, but only in Japan. Western gamers had to wait until 2020 to get their turn with the RPG. And now the game is coming to Switch, and it’s also planned to come to PC sometime later this year.
As for the game itself, it’s both part of it Paths series and the bigger ones The Legend of Heroes franchise. Meanwhile, it is the fourth and final entry in it Cold steel tetralogy. At the time of publishing, the RPG has a very solid 82 on Metacritic.
“The Erebonian Empire is on the brink of all-out war,” read an official pitch of the game. Takes place shortly after the end of Trails of Cold Steel III, the heroes of class VII find themselves against the full force of the empire in an attempt to stop its path of total domination. In addition, the hero of the Erebonian Civil War and Class VII instructor, Rean Schwarzer, is missing. Now, the students of Class VII, old and new, must unite with heroes from all over the continent to create the only chance that the world should be spared total destruction. “
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