bbkkristian
Member
I can't find the monster I'm supposed to hunt in the Highlands (chapter 3). The general says its north of Zender Gate in the basin. There's no marker for it on my map. Anyone know anything to help me find it?
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel |OT| Class Warfare
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iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Spoilers!
head towards the watchtower. It's kinda in the middle of the circle fields once you take a right coming from the fort to tell watchtower.
bbkkristian
Member
Found it: east of the Gate.
EDIT: Thank you for the response.
I found it in like seconds before you posted lol
EDIT: Thank you for the response.
I found it in like seconds before you posted lolI figured cuz of Alisa but the mere fact that it's a setup is UGH.
Pellegri Testament
Member
So, few questions about NG+. Since bonding status can carry over, do characters you've already done an event for, have a point above their head like you ones you haven't done one for yet? Would rather not have to just now start keeping track of which ones I've done already, if everyone has an exclamation mark again.
Also, since it's sounds like it's a point system, just how much are you able to bring over with a normal mode file? Like can you carry over levels, bonding events and a few other things? Or is it really stingy with the points and only lets you do 2-3 things?
Also, since it's sounds like it's a point system, just how much are you able to bring over with a normal mode file? Like can you carry over levels, bonding events and a few other things? Or is it really stingy with the points and only lets you do 2-3 things?
Nightengale
Member
Honestly, hard to tell. Power levels in Trails are rarely quantified and measured between characters.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
The dialogue in this game is unreal.
Every incidental character is so well-developed and connected to the larger world, if you're not talking to everyone after every major scene you're seriously doing yourself a disservice. I'm glad this game though makes this kind of easy thanks to displaying every NPC on the map, enabling quick travel to help you get around, and as I recently discovered holding R1 lets you run!
I also think the game has rather nice pacing, giving you a small amount of Quests each time as opposed to bombarding you with countless ones so you feel eager to do them as opposed to saving them for later, and each Quest so far has been fairly simple and rewarding in terms of story.
Game's great. One question though, what's up with having those bond scenes with non-playable characters? I want to use them for the actual party members, but I'm worried I'm missing out on something by skipping the ones with Sarah and the Council President---though I recall hearing MAJOR SPOILERS
Every incidental character is so well-developed and connected to the larger world, if you're not talking to everyone after every major scene you're seriously doing yourself a disservice. I'm glad this game though makes this kind of easy thanks to displaying every NPC on the map, enabling quick travel to help you get around, and as I recently discovered holding R1 lets you run!
I also think the game has rather nice pacing, giving you a small amount of Quests each time as opposed to bombarding you with countless ones so you feel eager to do them as opposed to saving them for later, and each Quest so far has been fairly simple and rewarding in terms of story.
Game's great. One question though, what's up with having those bond scenes with non-playable characters? I want to use them for the actual party members, but I'm worried I'm missing out on something by skipping the ones with Sarah and the Council President---though I recall hearing MAJOR SPOILERS
there's actually another playable character?
Some of those scenes update a character's profile with additional notes. Not really important if you're not going for the trophies.
As for what you said at the end, I'm in chapter 4 and
I've had 2 additional characters become playable. Plus Sara is playable in the opening. Granted 2 were playable for short time and another was only one battle, but odds are they'll fully join later. Or maybe in CS2?
This first Chapter 3 area really kinda bites. Waaayyy to big for really no good reason. Plenty of baddies at least!
I feel the opposite way! It'd be a chore zoomin' around talking to every single person ever over an over. The old tried & true once an done approach ta talking to peeps works for me especially when I wanna get outta the slower parts of the game.
Ugh, making such slow progress. Still in Chapter 1, second day of the field study. I wasn't impressed at abusing Simple Omelet cooking to make money but once you can afford to buy tons of ingredients at once it gets a little more rewarding per try. I had to mass-cook about 20 times or so, which earned me enough mira to buy out just about everything in town. Finally, I no longer feel like a pauper student living off cup-o-noodles (or the Erebonian equivalent).
Se7enSword
Banned
Hey now! I'm enjoying how big it is. Somehow i'm mesmerized by it. :/
Indeed!
Trails in the Sky First Chapter is what you played. Second Chapter, aka SC is the sequel to that and resolves that story thread. They're two halves of the same game, although SC is the biggest game in the entire franchise and one of the most beloved entries in Trails. You even can transfer your save file from FC to SC.
That being said, you can jump into Cold Steel if you don't care about resolving that storyline. Cold Steel is a great place to jump in for newcomers.
Nightengale
Member
You get 5 carry-over points for each subsequent playthrough up to 15 after your third. What carries over and its costs are as follows:
- Link Levels/Rush/Burst (0)
- Mira/Sepith (1)
- Items (1)
- Notes (1)
- Character Levels (2)
- Final Chapter's special outfits (1)
- Other outfits (1) -- not quite sure what this refers to, but I assume their personal clothing
- Swim wear (2)
- 300.000 Mira and 3.000 of each Sepith (2)
- Unlimited Bonding points (4)
Two, in fact.
Xenoflare
Member
This is what I like and hate about Trails
Every single character are interconnected, to a point that it becomes formulaic.
Pellegri Testament
Member
Have to put some thought into it then I see lol. They really don't want you to get those outfits or bonding points on a 2nd run without sacrificing good shit it seems.
Xenoflare
Member
Side quest spoiler
It's clever for Falcom to spice the simple fetch quest a little
Edit: oh yeah this game is a battery hog. I had my vita plugged in and 2 hours of it actually made it from charged to charging again
It's clever for Falcom to spice the simple fetch quest a little
The one with the flowers and twins, honestly I thought the side quest was going to be the most basic fetch quest. I thought it would even ask me questions about what kind of flowers I want
Edit: oh yeah this game is a battery hog. I had my vita plugged in and 2 hours of it actually made it from charged to charging again
Didn't know there's NG+.
I was kiinda not a fan of TiTS's battle system (hated it in fact lol), anyone mind sending me their clear save game I could use to start on NG+ right away? Unless it's.. Copy-protected or something.
I'd love to be able to fully focus on the story and characters
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What I really appreciate is them not needing to pad the game with generic fetch quests but with tons of character development and NPCs to talk to.
And yes this game keeps making me think my Vita's Batt is dying.
Se7enSword
Banned
Chapter 3
June 27
Is it me or does the guardian of the Nord Highlands look like a giant robot that's stuck there for ages? I've seen enough mechas that it feels like a giant robot to me.
Pellegri Testament
Member
Both versions have account bound saves because of trophies.
Bummer. Trophies/achievements have done truly nothing to improve my console gaming experience.
Chapter 3June 27
Is it me or does the guardian of the Nord Highlands look like a giant robot that's stuck there for ages? I've seen enough mechas that it feels like a giant robot to me.
Welcome to one of the mysteries of Erebonia.
He's also Toshihiro Kondo's favorite character, too.
That was my immediate thought. I always thought that was a cool concept even divorced from that series.
Yeah, the entire sequence is awesome. It really makes me curious
about how connected this old society was with mental imagery. Like, my first thought was after the dream regarding 'wait, so the people from the time period were advanced enough to do all this, and there was probably a really good reason why the imagery for that fight was in a blackened landscape filled with blades. The fact that Rean is essentially being given a war machine must be at least somewhat connected with the imagery present. I mean, the entire thing was a 'test' to give the Ashen Power to Rean but, like, I feel like there was more to it than 'it looks cool.'
That's not fanart. That's official artwork.
You can see it and several of the other illustrations Falcom made for the game here: http://www.falcom.com/sen/world/showroom01.html (there are some spoilers in this section, of course.)
Oh, whoops. I thought that wasn't official. That's cooler, actually.
Yeah, in the end despite animations being subpar (I'm especially sensitive because that's my profession) I was actually able to look past that and the game was so strong that the animation stuff is my only big nitpick about the entire title.
From an art standpoint, the actual game itself (despite the actual polycount, textures and generally simpler 3D work) really came together and looks like a lived-in world that is artistically consistent. Also, the fact that there are a lot of things that aren't necessarily alive that move around and don't NEED to be given lifelike animations helps a little - like random enemies on the field that are obviously not biological in construction 'sells' the animation a little more because they don't conform to needing to animate like the monsters on the field that are clearly alive.
The fact that Cold Steel II has far, FAR improved animations makes me all that much more excited for what's in store, on top of the praise that's being heaped on it for being even better than the first game.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Hey now! I'm enjoying how big it is. Somehow i'm mesmerized by it. :/
Indeed!
Yeah; it wouldnt have worked if it was the size of a backyard.
Basileus777
Member
Not really a problem on the PS3 where you can easily resign them.
Also, I wrote up a really long post detailing what I loved about this soundtrack but deleted it. It'd probably not be very feasible since I can't decide what to spoiler and not to spoiler.
I can at least say that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JDWIPftf1M
"To Become the Foundation of an Era" reminds me of a mix between Falcom-style tracks with hella violins and ZTS-style trance/electronic pulsing beat in the background. It's a lot like listening to worldenddominator or dreamenddischarger from the Umineko no Naku Koro Ni soundtrack but with a Falcom touch to it. It's especially clear when the song hits :42 and the background beat hits.
It almost makes me feel like the music is evolving and getting more and more 'modern' with the franchise as the game world's technology rapidly moves forward.
I can at least say that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JDWIPftf1M
"To Become the Foundation of an Era" reminds me of a mix between Falcom-style tracks with hella violins and ZTS-style trance/electronic pulsing beat in the background. It's a lot like listening to worldenddominator or dreamenddischarger from the Umineko no Naku Koro Ni soundtrack but with a Falcom touch to it. It's especially clear when the song hits :42 and the background beat hits.
It almost makes me feel like the music is evolving and getting more and more 'modern' with the franchise as the game world's technology rapidly moves forward.
bishopcruz
Member
Any tips on getting Mira? I did the omelette thing in Chapter 1, and it worked ok, but now in Chapter 2, I am nearly out of Mira after upgrading everyone. Resources are even more of a bitch in this game than they were in TiTS.
The big mira earning key in this game is to sell sepith masses to store merchants. I didn't really have any issues with money after I realized this.
When you kill monsters, you not only get regular ass sepith, you also get the masses at the bottom of the list of sepith>mira exchange at vendors - if you go to a non-orbal vendor, one that just sells cheese or something, you will only be able to trade them sepith masses when you exchange sepith for mira with them.
Equip the septium vein quartz when you get it. It increase the drop rate of all sepiths including masses. Sell masses for money.
I posted this plat guide before but now it's been updated so that it has English names. Should make it easier.
YankeeDonB
Member
Finally finished chapter 2 (about 20+ hours). Story beats in this chapter are excellent. Always learning something new about some characters that makes more sympathetic, resolving minor mysteries, and getting intriguing clues into future mysteries surrounding other characters' backgrounds. Jusis' brother is a boss and Sara is really growing on me.
Also, this is a minor thing, but I appreciate how there's some kind of reasonable story justification for the characters getting stronger each chapter. Combat and tactics are a big part of their school study, and they're also getting used to working together and w/ their unusual orbments.
Also, this is a minor thing, but I appreciate how there's some kind of reasonable story justification for the characters getting stronger each chapter. Combat and tactics are a big part of their school study, and they're also getting used to working together and w/ their unusual orbments.
BassForever
Member
I dunno if I was sightly over leveled or if the game intentionally scaled group b to be about a level under group a because if it was intentional its brilliant.
YankeeDonB
Member
Interesting, didn't notice myself. If so, good for the developers for making some effort to tie gameplay strength in an rpg into story-related strength/experience.
Found the last two chapters disappointing
Oh forgot asking something about Sharon
up to the part the game says here take Escaflowne, which was all kinds of awesome the cliffhanger was a total kick in the nads tho
she is an oroborous agent, so why they don't arrest her, isn't that group the bad guys from TitS?
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
It has to be intentional, and it is quite brilliant in its subtle detail.
Though, to be fair, the attention to detail in the game is insane. Even with side characters and NPC's you see heavy character development, blink and you miss a huge world being developed around the main characters. Characters who frequent a store frequently starts becoming employees. Noble children who make friends with commoners irk parents who want to continue the status quo.
One thing that really is great about the game is that there is an entire world developing outside the main cast, and it is a sense of world development that is missed by 99.999% of JRPG's.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Chapter 3
When the music kicks in
Nord Highlands
When the music kicks in