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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel |OT| Class Warfare
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Se7enSword
Banned
Excellent OT!
Can't wait for PSN to update the store.
Can't wait for PSN to update the store.
Matt Attack
Member
I'm glad to know that I'll have this waiting for me as soon as I finish SC- I've always got time for more Trails. Does this game have a similar experience system as FC/SC (in that it's very easy to level up lower leveled characters)?
Also, I definitely approve of the OT title.
Also, I definitely approve of the OT title.
Crash Station
Member
Great OT! Looking forward to it!
So how long does it take for anything of note to happen? I haven't played SC yet, but with Trails FC, the only time I felt it actually got interesting was pretty much the climax.
So how long does it take for anything of note to happen? I haven't played SC yet, but with Trails FC, the only time I felt it actually got interesting was pretty much the climax.
NegativeCero
Banned
Only in Ch 3 in SC. Gotta finish it first, but already preordered this one.
BrokenFiction
Member
I am so sad I sold my PS3
Yep, and my Vita.
My PS4 is staring through the rain covered window now...
rockmanjoe
Member
Bought a Vita around last month just in time for this game and the other Falcom games of course.
Still can't believe we got two Trails games in one year, and so close to each other! So excited to play this, although I need to replay FC and play SC first.
Still can't believe we got two Trails games in one year, and so close to each other! So excited to play this, although I need to replay FC and play SC first.
twentytwo22
Member
(Regarding Alisa) "apparently XSeed thinks her last name is a spoiler as per the Battle Trailer so I've hidden it here as well."
I'm not sure if they think it is a spoiler so much as that's how Alisa refers to herself for a decent portion of the game.
Also, really, really glad this is hitting NA tomorrow! Enjoy it, everyone!
Also, +1 for Sara and Sharon. I think my favorite character of the main cast is Gaius or Emma, but Emma's stuff mostly comes through in II.
I'm not sure if they think it is a spoiler so much as that's how Alisa refers to herself for a decent portion of the game.
Also, really, really glad this is hitting NA tomorrow! Enjoy it, everyone!
Also, +1 for Sara and Sharon. I think my favorite character of the main cast is Gaius or Emma, but Emma's stuff mostly comes through in II.
ChickenHunter
Member
In on the PS3 version's LE and ready to dive back in. Great that we're getting another Trails game so soon.
ShinRPGamer
Member
My Vita CE order has been held up on Amazon so I won't be able to dabble into the game right away. That said, great OP. Looking forward to playing Cold Steel.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
I wonder if the Academy has so many Alisas that they have to go the elementary school route and have an Alisa R., Alisa P., and Alisa J.
I wasn't sure if it was spoilery or not, but it definitely ties into her character so I figured better safe than sorry!
This is the first game and it will release digitally whenever Sony updates their store. If you mean the Trails in the Sky games, both are available on PSN as digital PSP titles and can be played on the Vita.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
It still doesn't feel real to me that we're getting another game in this series so soon.
I probably won't be able to play until Saturday, but good luck to everyone who gets in on launch day.
I probably won't be able to play until Saturday, but good luck to everyone who gets in on launch day.
Best OT title.
Ah, it'll probably be another week yet before I can start playing my physical copy.
I know, right?
Here, use jdkluv's updated chart from his Dragon Slayer 30th Anniversary thread. What it lacks in character and supped meats it makes up in accuracy and pretty pictures:
Ah, it'll probably be another week yet before I can start playing my physical copy.
I know, right?
Here, use jdkluv's updated chart from his Dragon Slayer 30th Anniversary thread. What it lacks in character and supped meats it makes up in accuracy and pretty pictures:
I bought 3 LE physical copies of this game( 2 vita + 1 ps3) and I will buy a vita digital copy tomorrow as well... I really wanna play Ao & zero and the evolution versions in english
The LE is very much worth it in my opinion, the packaging is pretty and the art book is big enough. I found the pin to be a little underwhelming as it is very small and the colors are not very bright. The only difference between the ps3 LE and Vita is that the pin's box in each one is the size of the respective game version's box.
I've already played the japanese version of the game and I found it to be as good as SC but a bit worse than FC. Really looking foward to play it again in english tho!
Edit: I forgot to add another difference between versions: the ps3 version contains a game manual inside the box that is not present in the vita version.
I'm a dreamer
The LE is very much worth it in my opinion, the packaging is pretty and the art book is big enough. I found the pin to be a little underwhelming as it is very small and the colors are not very bright. The only difference between the ps3 LE and Vita is that the pin's box in each one is the size of the respective game version's box.
I've already played the japanese version of the game and I found it to be as good as SC but a bit worse than FC. Really looking foward to play it again in english tho!
Edit: I forgot to add another difference between versions: the ps3 version contains a game manual inside the box that is not present in the vita version.
Best OT title.
Ah, it'll probably be another week yet before I can start playing my physical copy.
I know, right?
Here, use jdkluv's updated chart from his Dragon Slayer 30th Anniversary thread. What it lacks in character and supped meats it makes up in accuracy and pretty pictures:
Thanks, I'd actually lost that. Appreciate it.
How is this in terms of missables? I read that it requires two playthroughs for the platinum trophy, but I probably won't be doing a second playthrough anytime soon since I still have some other games in my backlog, so I'd like to do as much as possible just playing through once.
Se7enSword
Banned
Similar to Trails in the Sky series, it has its fair share of hidden quests & missables. Yes, it would take 2 playthroughs (One of them being in nightmare) to acquire all trophies.
Yes. And also consider Trails in the Sky First Chapter & Second Chapter if you have a PSP/Vita/PSTV or a PC that's been bought after 2002. Those two and this one take place in the same world (though different neighboring countries and Cold Steel is a little time after Sky).
Will let ya know, I know of at least one real life person and one streamer(masterll) who seem to have done alright understanding the game without even playing sc or fc first. I think I'll be ok as long as characters are tolerable.
Despite your tag, Ive done it! Ill follow up with the TitS games if I find that Im way into this one.
Off to play Lost Dimension while I wait
skLaFarebear
Member
Great OT. Won't be touching the game at least until I finish Xenoblade, but I'll definitely start it afterwards.
This is kinda concerning to me, especially given that all the character descriptions are as generic and tropey as you can get. I want to get on board with this game but I was burned bad with Type-0, its similar school setting and especially its unbearable cast.
Grim Patron
Member
I'm so happy to finally be playing this. I checked the JP OT before the English version was announced and wondered if we would ever get it. Glad to finally be playing it and more than halfway done with it
Also based Falcom Sound Team JDK music.
Also based Falcom Sound Team JDK music.
Palette Swap
Member
Now that's a clever subtitle.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
God, I hope the Asian PSN releases on time >_<
I don't think you'll have to worry too much about that. Trails games' strength is their writing and character development, for the most part. Not everyone will like every character - some people hate Estelle in FC/SC which is beyond my understanding.
Nowhere Man
Member
I'll be picking this up wednesday but it'll have to sit for a while, I'm still working on Yakuza 5 and XCX. I really try not to guy games just to send them into the backlog but I have concerns about this one becoming hard to find before too long.
The Gagharv trilogy was localized by Bandai Namco in the West, and outsourced.
The translation was not only not that great, it was also riddled with a ridiculous amount of spelling and grammatical errors. The battle systems were also changed for the worse in the process of localization, replacing it with a Lunar rip-off that wasn't great.
As for the original Sorcerian, it got a DOS or western PC release IIRC.
You can kind of go here. But in short: the Gagharv trilogy suffered from poor localisation, in particular since impressionistic writing was what made the originals so good.
Augemitbutter
Member
still very busy with Yakuza 5. this will probably arrive before i'm done. this is a good time with many high quality releases all around.
An enormous empire full of worlds and towns out there to explore, indeed! And the best part is that Cold Steel only covers the eastern half of the nation; the western half will follow sometime in the near future.
The only samey dungeon would be the old school building you explore. The towns you visit and their dungeons are generally pretty varied, I think.
Shouta
Member
Yeah, it'll be nice to get thoughts on the story from the other direction.
Klutz glasses girl! Get it right!
I wouldn't worry. It is a Nihon Falcom game so all of them their time to shine and develop within the story. They actually spend a lot of time developing the dynamics of the characters as well.
It's really a matter of preference, IMO. I like this cast quite a bit personally.
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Deleted member 20920
Unconfirmed Member
That's nice to know. Just finished the prologue and that dungeon was uninspiring.
Was contemplating whether to play this since I've only finished the first 2 chapters or so of FC. But I think I will continue anyway.
Likewise. A bunch of tropes tied together couldn't possibly have evoked what Class VII did to me.
ColossalLazy
Member
Too bad I am not able to buy the LE right now. Gonna buy the digital version as soon as I finish SC.
As far as Falcom writing goes, I'm hoping for more the quality of TitS SC as opposed to Ys VII, Celceta and Nayuta no Kiseki.
(But who am I kidding? I'll probably still play it and enjoy it. At the very least, I'm guaranteed a good soundtrack.)
Well, Ys has never been a storytelling front for Falcom. They let Trails leak in a little bit but the games are focused around awesome boss fights and fun combat.
If you didn't read Nayuta in Japanese you probably got a bad impression of Nayuta, even if Nayuta doesn't reach the heights of the rest of Trails, compared to the others. That English fan translation was machine translated and isn't great.