I have played Xenoblade and Dragon Quest, can someone tell me how this series compare to those games
Games are incredibly story-heavy and have tons of world-building. Word vomit, tons of words, much of it fluff for the sake of the world and characters and continuing everything. It is both to its benefit and its detriment. The pacing in these games is often questionable. In terms of pacing, DQ11 and Xenoblade 2 for example likely have the edge on that front story-wise (and often don't sacrifice character work to do it either). But in terms of sheer detail using words in jrpgs, they're second to none. I find that Falcom is stumbling more though, CS3 has more "anime" like xenoblade 2, but it's more prevalent throughout, more repetitive and duller than even XC2's worst (particularly thanks to choosing rean's romance partner which really hurts a bunch of the character work in these games) which is a shame since Trails in the sky was had less of that. Itemization isn't nearly as good as DQ games. The battle systems are nice in concept but have some notable execution flaws that don't quite work out most of the time usually with encounter design. The main selling point is their dialogue and stories and detail in every orifice that falcom can find.
What is also notable is that up to CS2, these also had some of the best localization work in JRPGs as a whole.
At the very least, play the trails in the sky games, they're quite good and interesting. But the series as a whole is well worth playing for how crazy ambitious it is.
