@renwillis@mstdn.social I played 3rd a couple years ago (and most of the rest of the series since). It's definitely a weird one.
I think it does pick up somewhat as you get deeper. Trails loves its slow build up plots where nothing happens or is explained for awhile in the beginning, and this one is disconnected enough from Sky 1 and 2 that it's almost a story arc unto itself so that hits hard here.
But really the main meat of 3 is its side stories. Lots of juicy side character and other tangential lore.
@BarrierWithAshes Mobygames has a massive database of games with enough metadata to be a good trick for obscure queries like this. Not perfect (I guess cataloguing metadata on every game ever made is complicated?), but good enough to give some plausible leads if you want to dig a bit. For example I see that there's a Banjo Kazooie GBA game that looks like it might be up your alley.
Link to "isometric platformers", since it doesn't seem to have a collectathon genre tag:
@renwillis@mstdn.social I played 3rd a couple years ago (and most of the rest of the series since). It's definitely a weird one.
I think it does pick up somewhat as you get deeper. Trails loves its slow build up plots where nothing happens or is explained for awhile in the beginning, and this one is disconnected enough from Sky 1 and 2 that it's almost a story arc unto itself so that hits hard here.
But really the main meat of 3 is its side stories. Lots of juicy side character and other tangential lore.
@BarrierWithAshes Mobygames has a massive database of games with enough metadata to be a good trick for obscure queries like this. Not perfect (I guess cataloguing metadata on every game ever made is complicated?), but good enough to give some plausible leads if you want to dig a bit. For example I see that there's a Banjo Kazooie GBA game that looks like it might be up your alley.
Link to "isometric platformers", since it doesn't seem to have a collectathon genre tag:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/genre:isometric/genre:platform/sort:date/page:4/