Unlike Final Fantasy or the Persona series, fans of the Trails and Ys JRPG franchises have had to wait years after the game’s original Japanese releases for the English versions of the game to arrive. However, that might not be the case in the future anymore.

Speaking with PC Gamer, publisher NIS America representative Alan Costa said:

“I can’t really talk specifically to what we’ve done internally to do so, but I can say that we’ve been working hard to make sure that we do localize [Falcom games] more quickly. We recently announced Trails Through Daybreak 2 is coming out next year, which is a substantial cutdown in terms of … the timeline that we used to have for Trails games. And as you can probably guess based on the timing of this game, we were also working on Ys 10 concurrently.

You can kind of expect [a waiting period] by nature of the fact that these games, you know, they’re released in Japan and we license them,” Costa said. “But we do want to bring that timeline down.

We do want to bring [games] out as quickly as possible, but not at the expense of the localization quality… Finding that balancing act is something that we’ve been working on for years at this point, and we’re getting better. So hopefully we can continue to see decreased time between the launch in Japan and when [games] come out in North America and Europe, as well as a high level of [localization] quality.”

In the meantime, check out our review of The Legend Of Heroes Trails Through Daybreak.