A popular PS4-exclusive offer comes this April for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite. More specifically, developer Falcom and publisher and NIS America announced it The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV is finally working on its PS4 exclusivity and will hit Nintendo Switch on April 9 in North America and Europe. Meanwhile, a week later, on April 16, the game hits Switch in the Oceania region.
Previously, the above couple announced that the game will come to Nintendo Switch on March 18, but only in Japan. And for Japan, this release date still applies. 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 the 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 will also be coming to a computer later this year.
As for the game itself, it’s both part of the Routes series and the larger The Legend of Heroes franchise. Meanwhile, this is the fourth and final entry in the Cold steel tetralogy. At the time of publication, the RPG boasts a very solid 82 on Metacritic.
“The Erebonian Empire is on the brink of all-out war,” reads an official pitch of the game. “Takes place shortly after the end of Traces of cold steel III, the heroes of Class VII find themselves against the full power of the Empire in an attempt to stop its path of total domination. Furthermore, the hero of the Erebonian Civil War and Class VII instructor, Rean Schwarzer, went missing. Now the students of Class VII, old and new, must unite with heroes from across the continent to create the only chance that can save the world from total destruction. ‘
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