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In some series, save transfers merely carry over a few key items. Perhaps, if you're lucky, your party's levels will be reflected. We'll take a guess (and correct this if we can but remember to do so) that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be a good example of this. On the other end of the spectrum, you've got, say, Mass Effect 3 - a game that imports hundreds of important permutations from two prior games.

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Trails to Azure is somewhere in the middle, but it might just be a touch closer to the latter. A slew of variables are involved, ranging from important statistics to Lloyd Bannings' affection rating with his fellow protagonists heading into the game. Here's everything you'll get when transfering data between Trails from Zero and its new sequel.

How To Transfer Data Between Trails From Zero Into Trails To Azure

In the olden days, transferring save files between video games was an awful chore sometimes. Mercifully, porting the decisions you made in Trails from Zero over into Trails to Azure is as painless as accessing Azure's main menu. There, you'll find an option to get the process started.

If you're on PC, you'll peer a bit more into the magic of the procedure, but on Switch and PS4, it's as simple as the game recognizing you've got save data and going from there. Easy breezy. You'll be notified that save data has been spotted and asked if you wish to port it over. All that hard work that'll net you a few extra levels (and leagues more) shouldn't go to waste, so select yes.

Even the PC version isn't much harder - it just demonstrates the nuts-and-bolts as the system searches for a save file. Nothing more to it.

Everything That Transfers Over Between Games

Sure, the squad's got a car now. That's new. But just about everything else you can think of will be influenced by Trails from Zero. You'll have some of it regardless, but frankly, there's enough of an impact on a high enough number of things that we strongly suggest playing Trails from Zero first (and doing so on the same platform you intend to play Trails to Azure).

Affection Points

Throughout Trails from Zero, you can help Lloyd gain affection points with all three of his main companions. Choices you make on who to take with you during certain plot beats, as well as how many times you've utilized their Combo Crafts and so forth, has a direct effect on who shows up during an emotional endgame scene.

Trails to Azure takes this mechanic significantly further by including over a dozen characters from not just that game's (more expanded!) battle party, but other important figures as well. Aiming to view as many of this sequel's own special endgame scenes means doing lots of legwork, and some of it for Elie, Tio, and Randy can be alleviated by transferring up to three affection points for each of them from Zero into Azure. Neat.

Level, DP, Mira, And More

While the affection point transfer is probably the coolest of the crop, don't underestimate what you can gain elsewhere. Your party's levels will carry over, for instance, which can mean starting at a higher level than Trails to Azure's default. That's enough to get a solid edge over the competition early on.

Your Detective Points become bonus Mira, netting you a one-time cash payout that will aid you almost as much as levels. Gearing up will be much easier. Your Fishing Rank grants extra Bait, and fishing plays a larger role in Azure.

Combo Crafts that have been unlocked remain viable in battle. Furnishings, like the Dart Board in Randy's room, as well as any Enigma covers you purchased from Genten, will also appear.

Last but most assuredly not least, you will come to find that certain quests reflect events and choices Lloyd's made in the first game, causing characters to have additional dialogue (or alter preexisting lines) to reflect these situations. It's no Mass Effect, but for a game that didn't really have to do all this to begin with, it's a lovely little boost for fans.

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