Pretty sure that was the same in both CS1 and 2 on PS3. Unless Falcom allows it, that won't change.
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The Kiseki / Trails (of the Sky/Zero/Ao/Sen/Etc) Community Thread: SPOILERTAGS OR DIE
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Pretty sure that was the same in both CS1 and 2 on PS3. Unless Falcom allows it, that won't change.
encephalon
Member
Maybe I just don't recall, but I feel like VA is the least consistent it's been since Zero. I haven't played the localized versions, so I was just basing my post off of the "XSEED added voice acting!" posts I've seen on NeoGAF.
Yeah they did that for the PC ports. They have the code and can work on it. Falcom would need to do the console versions (iirc they wanted to add more VA to the original PS3 versions but couldn't because of this).
The voice acting inconsistency bugs the shit out of me in CSIII though yeah.
encephalon
Member
I don't remember Ao being this inconsistent. I wish they would just stick to voiced scenes and non voiced scenes and not do this weird half and half business.
I've not played Zero/Ao (though I do own the Evo versions and may play them at some point though I hold out hope for a PC XSeed version), is there voice acted scenes in the normal Zero/Ao versions? Since Sky was pretty much all combat scenes only, I assumed the same was true of Zero/Ao (ignoring the Evo versions)
I can imagine that the amount of lines to voice would be expensive but I agree, don't have half voiced and half non-voiced in the very same scene. Sometimes they have blue boxes voiced mixed in with non-blue boxed voiced scenes (not often but I still remember seeing a few).
Bugs me so much. It's probably my biggest complaint with Sen III personally.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
There's not really any reason to believe that at all. They are still releasing Falcom games, Tom has said they still have a good relationship, and the two games other publishers picked up both make sense.
I also doubt anything is stopping XSEED from picking up all their games but their own business decisions (and NISA in the case of Ys VIII). Over the last decade, excluding ports, Falcom has released less than two games per year on average. Meanwhile XSEED is localizing indie/doujin games these days due to a lack of licenses.
Thanks Falcom, I guess you wanted to get the new fans to experience the despair that is
I mean, there was CS1, but that didn't feel as painful as this one.
Also,
a cliffhanger ending from back in the FC days.
FUCK
I mean, there was CS1, but that didn't feel as painful as this one.
Also,
Jusis, Laura, and Alfin on a one-way trip to suffering with Rean in front. Not cool.
Melissa Fahn for the twins is an inspired pick
Hatsuu is stupidly talented for an amateur, holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
Her Mint is straight up great
ResourcefulStar
Neo Member
I braved the wiki, and it lists
*****24*****
*****one is*****
Talented as a director, or does she actually voice Mint? I don't see it mentioned in any of the linked Facebook posts.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
That fishing mini-game in Trails 3rd was some painful, unfun bullshit. :\ I hope the remaining mini-games are better.
She mentions voicing Mint HERE
Gotta wonder if she has any experience voice acting, because she doesn't have the tell-tale "person who isn't a voice actor voicing a character" vibe
ResourcefulStar
Neo Member
Are you sure it's what she meant by that tweet? I read it as "Mint is the most high-pitched thing I've heard while performing my duties as a director". It would be a little odd if Brittany publicly gushed about her own performance and called her own voice "cute" like that, without any sign of self-deprecation. She also posted this, which would display an even bigger lack of humility on her part if she really was voicing Mint.
Source?
I remember she mentioned voicing Ferris in one of her tweets, didn't know she did Fiona too.
EDIT: here it is
EDIT: here it is
ResourcefulStar
Neo Member
Thank you. I'll be even more surprised if Hatsuu voices Mint now. Fiona and she have very different voices, and I don't see anyone developing this kind of range without frequent practice.
They can go to hecky.
i really don't like her voice as ferris to be honest. :/ she sounds goofy and annoying, in a children's cartoon sort of way. i sorta feel the same way about that provinical army officer, too.
hmm, interesting. i remember seeing that they announced (cs3 spoiler-ish)
...did i forget one? i wonder who the other
, then. not that i want to know.
it's definitely the most anyway. hnngh, random information like this really is meaningless but how else am i supposed to survive the wait?
hmm, interesting. i remember seeing that they announced (cs3 spoiler-ish)
rean, alisa, emma, laura, fie, machias, jusis, elliot, gaius, millium, sara, altina, juna, kurt, ash, musee, tita, agate, randy, tio, aurelia, olivier
1/2 is/are
it's definitely the most anyway. hnngh, random information like this really is meaningless but how else am i supposed to survive the wait?
ResourcefulStar
Neo Member
Whoops, I may have made a tiny mistake. No spoilers beyond the number of playable characters past this point.
I went over past news articles and found out that two characters I thought had been confirmed as playable, had not been. Randy has never been officially confirmed to be playable, by the way, so there are 3 more playable characters in addition to the other 21 you mentioned, and I'll leave it to your imagination whether or not Randy is one of them.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
I kind of wanted them to voice her to figure what the hell Becky's accent is. 80% of the time it's scottish (glaswegian specifically I think it's supposed to be?) but it seems to veer into Irish sometimes and I swear at one point it's west country.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
Touché.
God dammit can't wait for CS II on pc. Loved the first one!
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be Scottish, IIRC the translator is Scottish so they went with that to do something out of the norm for localizing her accent.
CS1 Chapter 4: Well that escalated quickly.
Rean's been pretty vanilla so far, but now I'm very curious about his backstory and what this all means.
Also I thought the game had been telling me
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a
to attend. 
I knew Rean had some secrets but I wasn't expecting it to be that he had a super anime white-haired form.
Also I thought the game had been telling me
Rean belongs with Alisa but now everyone, including Alisa, seems to ship him with his sister. It worked with Estelle and Joshua but Elise and Rean will NEVER be Estelle and Joshua.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a
summer festival
ShadowSoldier89
Member
she does really well as Fiona here. I like it a lot more than her work as Ferris
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
Oh he/she is actually Scottish? Nevermind, then; maybe I'm just being oversensitive. I'm too used to certain media conflating every non-southern english accent together.
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Careful to anyone playing on their second playthrough in Sen III there is a bug where you lose one of your masterquartz if you play with the inherit MQ option.
It happens in chapter 2 upon the character with the Titania MQ joining. If you block off Titania by equipping it in a mainslot the quartz you lose will change.
You can basically at most control between losing Titania, Kaguchi, Skuld, Sirius or Diva.
It happens in chapter 2 upon the character with the Titania MQ joining. If you block off Titania by equipping it in a mainslot the quartz you lose will change.
You can basically at most control between losing Titania, Kaguchi, Skuld, Sirius or Diva.
Is this for Sen III?
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
yes forgot to include that.
ResourcefulStar
Neo Member
You mention plenty of new Master Quartz. Are there any standout passive effects on them that you found to be particularly fun to use and to build characters around? Is there anything less conventional that would enable odd gimmick setups, or are random ailments and stat penalties as crazy as it gets?
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Mmmh hard to say since I have not gotten down to finding any special builds yet. I've mostly been falling back on staples like dodge tank. There are quartz that raise dmg when enemies are affected by status effects and there are things that raise dmg when people are in break mode. But knowing the available quartz I'd say there are more things possible now than before for sure.
Well no, it has nothing to do with adhering to some silent protagonist/audience surrogate principal. It's just that Rean has always had the most lines in these games, and they couldn't afford to consistently voice them all.
Ah, yeah I think I misread that completely.
It's fitting for a character like Ferris who is pretty much ripped straight from a children's cartoon.
Random aside, but real talk, the entire sequence where Blue Destination plays in CS2 for the first time is a peak Kiseki moment. The way it conveys the feeling of power and elation for the first time is fucking wizardry, holy shit.
CANNOT wait to play the CS2 PC port
CANNOT wait to play the CS2 PC port
Young Magus
Junior Member
Ah yes, my favorite Kiseki song
Seriously though, I'm currently absolutely loving this theme (no spoilers in title/video/description). Had to rip it myself since I couldn't find it on YT. Almost certainly my favorite Sen III song so far. It's like Phantasmal Blaze meets Vesper Umbra (from TX).
When it plays again in CS3
One of the many emotional gut punches. Sen III just doesn't hold back.
That typo did not just happen, I refuse to accept it happened
IT DID
AND IT'S A REAL SONG, AHHH
And yeah, that song is particularly great. I'm still shocked that people are kind of down on the OST. Repetitive song use aside, the individual tracks are really great
Honestly I feel like the game just has fun with that and doesn't take it 'too' seriously.
I feel like the game ships him more with Alisa than Elize or anyone else. CSIII just confirms that to me as well.
Yeah, I remember mentioning how much I love it (speaking as someone who is Scottish) or something on twitter to them and was told it was cause one of their team were Scottish so they went with that for her ascent.
I read every single one of her lines in my head with the perfect voice/ascent. It's awesome
When they eventually have to voice her, I wonder who they will get.
PK Gaming said:
My problem with it is that a lot of the less remarkable tracks get used an absolute ton, while many of the best tracks are used infrequently and backloaded. It has 90 tracks but it manages to feel like significantly less. Judging by track names, I'm guessing I've heard about 72 tracks by now, but it feels closer to 50. There aren't as many tracks that I can see myself regularly listening to out of context as in most other games in the series.
ResourcefulStar
Neo Member
Thank you. On the subject of status effects, are there any changes to the underlying philosophy behind boss resistances? In the first two CS games, complete immunities are relatively uncommon (excluding Petrify and KO), but resistances are quite high across the board, and the duration is capped at 1 turn. As a result, you can inflict just about any ailment once in a blue moon, and it's really nice when you do, but the consistency needed to make it the cornerstone of your strategy just isn't there. The only exception is Delay because it's unaffected by the duration cap, and because all its sources have a base infliction rate of 100% and stack in baffling way: as long as a single roll succeeds, the total sum of all Delay values is applied.
Is this still the case in CS III? I think the encounter design could be improved if bosses were immune to mostly every status effect, but had a few glaring gaps in their ailment defenses and were balanced under the assumption that the player would keep them under the effect of these ailments all the time. I'd like to see an early game boss that could wipe out your entire party with late game arts, but could be Muted with ease, or a boss with impenetrably high DEF and ADF stats that was meant to be defeated with percentage damage from Burn, Freeze, and Poison.
I don't think they've been specific. Most likely sometime in the first few months.
Along with FF15 pc, NNK2, Lost Sphear, Secret of Mana. Did I miss something? lol
That still hasn't been patched? Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep lingering around in chapter 1 then.
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Yup hope next week we get a patch I have stopped on my plat run for now only missing nightmare and treasure hunter too.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Should be pretty early, since initially end of 2017 was on the table but not likely. Barring QA issues I wouldn't be surprised if it's released before the end of winter.