moonspeaker here, i dropped this series in 2014 after sen 2 showed falcom had no idea what to do with the series

if you kept playing the games past that you were just wasting your time

i'll add anothet gift to you lads

falcom isnt really one to make good games without copying/plagiarizing
after zero/ao they garnered way too much attention, that they cant easily rip shit off without getting called out

it took them 6 tries until they got the story of joshua and estelle right, hence trails in the sky was originally "legend of heroes VI"

and then look at that, the games they got right gets re-released endlessly or remade endlessly because they really cannot survive the spotlight, they cant do shit, they hit the jack pot with the sky trilogy, and the crossbell trilogy and the went back into being a kusoge publisher

the sooner you let go the better