Should I start with the Trails in the Sky arc? Or are arcs independent of each other, like in Final Fantasy, and unnecessary for the plot? Thanks in advance!

I'm not trying to start a fight or cause problems but what purpose is there for me, someone who owns the Geofront versions of both Zero and Azure, to pay top dollar for this just for slightly better graphics? I would have considered buying and playing both games a second time if English dub was an option. The fact that it doesn't exist at all is making me personally decide to skip these official versions as I've already played these games....

Why not?

It's 4th game from trails series I'm currently playing and I still feel like I don't get the quartz system. In Trails in the Sky (FC) I mostly shuffled quartz around till I got good spells. I only learned what lanes in orbnaments do thx to random guide after finishing FC. In SC I actually tried making setups which got me through the end on normal diff but still I felt like I was shuffling around till something good came out without much thought. TC I mostly replaced default setups with better version of qu...

Since these games won't have English dubs, then that means these games are going to be a hard sell to people who already own the Geofront versions. Even if Durante makes good on his lofty promises in his AMA, and makes the NISA versions of these games be a bit better than the Geofront version are, is that really going to be enough to justify an owner of the Geofront versions double-dipping and paying top dollar for the NISA versions (which, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the NISA versions are ...