Just keep trying, I did it at level 63 on hard so it's definitely doable.
Took me like 10 tries though.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel |OT| Class Warfare
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Just keep trying, I did it at level 63 on hard so it's definitely doable.
Took me like 10 tries though.
Just Normal for me, as I mentioned (I'll be going for Nightmare soon, but I'll also have the benefit of using the Shining Pom DLC to get to Lv. 80 before then). Nothing special in my case.
Fuck Towa
She's the very definition of writers pet, a boring and terrible character entirely made for pandering. I cringed every time she was on screen.
Cornbread78
Member
Pandering to the good girl crew? Her script was nothing special, nut she was a very likable character.
coredecepts
Member
Don't worry about levels for the most part. The game will make sure you are at the right level through generous xp scaling.
...I liked Towa. Still, also can't really deny that the writers played her up a good deal.
As far as NPCs who weren't antagonists are concerned, the only ones whom I couldn't stand were Laura's fangirls back in Legram (Jusis' last comments on them before the group left summed up how I felt about them).
As far as NPCs who weren't antagonists are concerned, the only ones whom I couldn't stand were Laura's fangirls back in Legram (Jusis' last comments on them before the group left summed up how I felt about them).
The characters constantly spent 3/4 of their time telling you how special and good she is, she doesn't have any glaring flaws (except maybe "cute" ones like OMG, SHE'S SO SHORT!!) and she's portrayed like some kind of genius to the point government adults rely on her. "Likeable" is pretty subjective.
She's an obvious, empty pandering character, though I guess an effective one for some people.
Ultimadrago
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I'd say Margarita could be added to my list of NPC characters I hated seeing on-screen every time.
Hanako Ohtani chills.
Glitter and Gold
Banned
Please don't talk about my President like this
Towa kinda seems like a LN character.
My Student Council President Cannot Possibly Be This Cute.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
I find it hard to imagine having a super strong opinion on Towa one way or another.
So i'm guessing you've already spammed this thread with fat Towa pictures? Or is that a thing of the past for you?
Ultimadrago
Member
This. She's written rather plainly throughout. Isn't much more recognized in reputation than Rean being the campus "Nice Guy" or Laura being the "Sword-sporting Honors Student".
Cornbread78
Member
Lol, finally some Towa support shows up to balance things out, lol
Despite my earlier post, this is how I feel. Taruranto's criticism is spot-on, and while the praise did get very eye roll worthy at times, I just didn't really care.
She's just there.
Cornbread78
Member
That's the real war in this game's story.
Eww no, I just think her character is bad.
Should I assume you have been posting gory pictures of people fisting Towa then? How does one not get over a couple of pictures he dislike posted two years ago anyway lmao.
Cornbread78
Member
Let's be real, Sara is the true prize
I just like Towa's good natured character. She's strong, caring, hardworking, smart and independant. Can't ask for much more than that. However, her background was extremely lacking.
I don't really have a true "waifu" in this game; I usually try for the "sensei route" by default, lol.
Ot of the end events I watched, I'd have to go:
Alise, Emma, Fie, Laura, Millium. Might even flip Fie and Emma. Fie's was very down to earth and heartfelt but not as a "romantic" interest.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
One interesting bit about Towa's background that I picked up on my second playthrough is
that if you take her to the Eastern Teahouse during the school festival, she mentions that she has eastern blood in her. I'm wondering if that will wind up playing a role in the future, since the series has kind of hyped up all sorts of crazy shit related to the east in the past.
But as her character stands, she just doesn't have a lot going on. She certainly seems like a nice person, but there's no real growth arc or anything.
Yu Narukami
Member
My copy of CS2 is still in Canada. Hurry up!!
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Mine hasn't even shipped yet, but release day delivery has never let me down before, so I'm not really worried.
I just want Tuesday to be here.
Son Of Sparda
Member
Well, I can only talk about myself but the reason that I liked Towa so much at the beginning was because she is simply a nice and considered person.
You come to this new environment and everyone have their own things to do and care about and most people not only don't care about you but some *cough* Sara *cough* even thoughtlessly burden you with new responsibilities left and right. You are quite overwhelmed and no ones gives a damn about you which is annoying. That is until you see Towa. She is nice, she knows that you are overwhelmed, apologizes for the troubles that Sara has put you through (even though she doesn't have to) and tells you it's okay if you don't wanna spend your free days helping her. And she is not saying these things to simply look nice, she genuinely cares about the well being of other students including you.
Well, Rean ends up doing the requests any way but still it was nice to know that someone actually cares about you and isn't simply trying to use you like everyone else.
As the story goes on and you see more of her you start to notice other good things about her character. She is strong, very hard working, kind, caring, smart... and she just grows on you more and more since the intent behind her actions are very clear and mostly pure.
So is she a cliche character? Yeah, you could say that.
But does that make her bad or uninteresting? No, absolutely not.
Honestly, between all these secretive, tsundere, mysterious, etc, etc, characters that surround you, Towa feels like a nice breath of fresh air with how nice and honest she is.
That's like most JRPGs though.
As for Towa, she's just there for me. Personally I find her the most boring from the original Class 7 or whatever they were called (except for George but he doesn't really count), and I do think she's an obvious creator's pet.
Son Of Sparda
Member
All these talk about Towa is making me go back and finish my Towa/Sara run that I need to do before starting CSII.
Glitter and Gold
Banned
Dandy Crocodile
Member
At the very end of the game in the old schoolhouse.
Glitter and Gold
Banned
Always the end of a run. Shining pom's give you a level regardless of EXP, so it makes more sense to accumulate EXP through a run of a game and possibly gain levels that way, then use them
Also for some reason they scale with the enemies in an area. So they're harder to kill in areas with higher level enemies.
So basically when you get to the save point before the last boss in the schoolhouse, teleport back to the elevator, go to school house floor 1 and use your baits
Ultimadrago
Member
Any news on the Cold Steel II OT? Apologies if this has been mentioned in the past. I haven't seen signs of it.
In addition, make sure to go to return to an earlier floor in the schoolhouse to ensure they don't wander off too far. The final stage has some very large spaces loaded with many small/thin platforms sprinkled between. It can make getting to Poms more of a pain when they are spawned. Early floors are smaller and straightforward, making the spawn points easy to reach.
In addition, make sure to go to return to an earlier floor in the schoolhouse to ensure they don't wander off too far. The final stage has some very large spaces loaded with many small/thin platforms sprinkled between. It can make getting to Poms more of a pain when they are spawned. Early floors are smaller and straightforward, making the spawn points easy to reach.
Dandy Croc over there has it covered I believe.
Towa is a really weird character because she shares her last name with the protagonist of Nayuta no Kiseki (which is supposedly non-canon to the rest of the series) and her first name and Nayuta's both mean something like "infinity". Also, (very minor CS2)
AND she appears as a schoolteacher in Tokyo Xanadu (and from what I've heard, she's very conspicuously unclear about her background).
So she's definitely a creator's pet. Possibly to the point of being a dimension hopper to justify her being in more games.
her S-Craft is a reference to the season-switching system in Nayuta no Kiseki
So she's definitely a creator's pet. Possibly to the point of being a dimension hopper to justify her being in more games.
A little more on the name thing, if I recall correctly. They're both Buddhist terms for the same concept of eternity/infinity- just one ('towa') is Japanese, and the other ('nayuta') is Sanskrit.
It's been a long time since I did that research, though, so I may be remembering wrong.
No, I think that's right. I didn't mean to imply that they were both Japanese. Also, I could've sworn I read this once but I couldn't find a source - (CS2)
isn't her best gun also called Nayuta?
Dandy Crocodile
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The12thGripper
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R_thanatos
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What is this blasphemy ?
It's the US cover, duh
My apologies. The last thing I wanted to do is bring obnoxious waifu wars into this. I genuinely like Towa, but I can absolutely understand the perspective of people who don't. I was just being a dick to Taruranto for stuff that happened years ago, which was uncalled for.
NO!
NO!
Ultimadrago
Member
I'll have it posted tomorrow!
Graphics are done, working on text today.
Nice~ Thanks Dandy
