The Fru Fru Brigade~

I've only seen the first minigame for it so far, but it was good! Good Jorb!

Reverie closes the book on two separate and really long-running plot arcs, so it's really not meant to be an entry point for newcomers. You could maybe start at Cold Steel 3 and ultimately do okay, but I'd say Cold Steel 1 is the much safer starting point overall. If you really want to be thorough, then the previous duology, Zero and Azure, is probably the actual best starting point. They stand enough on their own that if you decided to stop there, you'd have a perfectly meaty experience. I really like Cold Steel, warts and all, but when we're talking about 5 games that are 75+ hours a pop, it's a much bigger ask for sure.

I have a soft spot for Tokyo Xanadu, too, actually. That was one of the first games I imported with my first paycheck from localization work about a decade ago. As someone who'll always consider Falcom an action game dev first, it gave that part of my brain warm, fuzzy feelings ahaha.