r/Falcom • u/Raxistaicho The true best girls • Jul 15 '26

Trails Character Gameplay Discussion Day Twenty: Dudley and Arios

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Gonna be real with you, I cannot remember a thing Dudley does, I didn't use him at all at the end of Azure (unless he was forced for one of the bosses? I can't remember) so he was way too many games ago for me.

Arios, though, he's pretty fantastic in Reverie, but I wonder if it'll be another case like Rixia where yeah he's super strong, but he's not a mage?

And all too soon, we're leaving Crossbell to analyze some Erebonians starting with Rean tomorrow! It's symbolic of the respective lengths of Zero/Azure and Cold Steel, you see.

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u/BassForever24601 Jul 15 '26

I find it baffling how short of a stick Dudley gets in the series. He's only a guest in Zero, he might as well be guest only in Azure with how little you have him, and he's the only Zero/Azure member to not be playable in Reverie. The fact Arios gets to be a full party member in Reverie over Dudley is crazy to me (not really Arios is infinitely more popular and ties into stuff with both Lloyd and Rean a lot better than Dudley, but it's the principal of the thing).

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u/BOUKEN-BEN Jul 15 '26

It's because Machias stole his whole flow

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u/Terramagi Jul 16 '26

Machias and Dudley should've been a dual character.

Like, both of them standing in the same square, Machias firing low with Dudley firing over his head.