The Legend of Heroes Thread - Trails of Cold Steel in the Sky

[HoboForEternity]

Arianhrod's fight in CS 4 is probs my favorite moment in the series. too bad they doesn't just reuse unfathomed force for the battle.

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the immortals rivalies has been great (except for crow since he lives anyway). there is just a sense of closure and finality to it and i am fucking glad they ended lianne even though she got cheated by rufus. the rest of the awakener probably won't die since they aren't dead.

I think you are forgetting one awakener....

(And yes sad about unfathomed force but Rivalry of the Seven is an awesome track.)

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Osborne? yeah. i didn't initially count him ,but i guess he's technically part of the rivalries

also the final villain kinda remind me of (mistborn/stormlight archives spoiler)

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ruin from mistborn and odium from stormlight. fragment of a god that obtained malevolence and manipulate humans for their own agenda.

 

[Reinhardt]

Started Trails in the Sky again. Myabe this time i will finish it. Finished prologue and now in the middle of first chapter.

Finished tournament, i guess it's almost finish line for first game. It's gud.

 

[Deflowerer]

How the fuck do you play through it so fast? I started FC on 2nd of January and I am still in chapter 3.

 

[Reinhardt]

I have nothing better to do right now.

Btw fuck Lorence.

 

[Reinhardt]

No, seriously, this fight is just retarded. I can't kill him, he can't kill me.

 

[Jermu]

No, seriously, this fight is just retarded. I can't kill him, he can't kill me.

debuff with kloe, buff speed and use dmg spells. Save s-crafts until you can finish him with those. Depending on difficulty level you might have to go back to get better gear/quartz setups.

 

[Reinhardt]

Killed him, but it's really luck based fight. He can heal from 1/10 hp to full with zero efforts. Literally between my turns - prepare, cast heal, prepare, cast heal. 4 turns in a row,

 

[Reinhardt]

Final dungeon is yuge. Started it with lvl 33-34, now i'm 40.

 

[Reinhardt]

Aaaaaaand finished. Really enjoyed it. FUN!

 

[Valestein]

How the fuck do you play through it so fast? I started FC on 2nd of January and I am still in chapter 3.

You're just real slow grandpa.

 

[Reinhardt]

How the fuck do you play through it so fast? I started FC on 2nd of January and I am still in chapter 3.

Already finished prologue of part 2. Only 4 hours. You need to step up.

 

[Valestein]

NG+ runs don't take too long with the use turbo and cutscene skipping, speaking of which, my long delayed CS3 NG+ run finally began today and soon, I shall began CS4 and become one of the one cool kids again.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Pea brain= claire

Room sized brain = sara

Galaxy brain = duvalie

 

[Rean]

Ahem.

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Saint-Arkh mansion.

 

[Rean]

claire

Literally not even once.
Although she pales in comparison to the DISGUSTING Angelica.

 

[Reinhardt]

Will there be more prizes later? Spent half day here...

 

[Reinhardt]

Investigation sidequest was nice.

 

[Rean]

While an improvement overall story-arc wise (as has always been the case with each successful game in the series), I will say I'm not a super big fan of this aspect in CS4 (still playing, not trying to spoil anything):

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A lot of the enemies seem to be reluctant to fight and they simply throw themselves at you in a pathetic, desperate attempt to slow you down or a 'trial of strength'. Intelligence division, Claire, Jaegers, Main campus, Armored division. This takes away from some of the tension, as it makes the whole deal a lot less of a 'do or die' situation. I hope the stakes are upped soon. As it is, all the main villains seem to be lacking confidence in their own beliefs.

 

[Rean]

Come to think of it, I actually can't think of a single villain that the aforementioned behavior does not apply to.

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Maybe McBurn, although, I'm sure he also has his own redemption arc? I understand what the writing is trying to showcase (not EVIL, but humanized villains with grounded motives), but they could have done so without being all like "come and please foil all my plans, I've been waiting for it!".

 

[Ysaye]

Come to think of it, I actually can't think of a single villain that the aforementioned behavior does not apply to.

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Maybe McBurn, although, I'm sure he also has his own redemption arc? I understand what the writing is trying to showcase (not EVIL, but humanized villains with grounded motives), but they could have done so without being all like "come and please foil all my plans, I've been waiting for it!".

One character that is not conflicted about what they are doing or trying to test the heroes in this game is:

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Rufus - he knows exactly what he wants and stoops pretty low to try and get it; if he is appearing to hold back so far, it is only because there is more power to be had in doing so and he definitely just moves in and takes advantage at one key point.

Technically "Black Alberich" knows what he is doing (and what he is doing is trying to do something pretty bad) and is not out there to test anyone or the like; like Rufus what he wants he can only get by waiting till the right moment.

McBurn gets a IMO great "redemption" / explanation near the end of the game but I shouldn't say much more about that either.

 

[Rean]

Come to think of it, I actually can't think of a single villain that the aforementioned behavior does not apply to.

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Maybe McBurn, although, I'm sure he also has his own redemption arc? I understand what the writing is trying to showcase (not EVIL, but humanized villains with grounded motives), but they could have done so without being all like "come and please foil all my plans, I've been waiting for it!".

One character that is not conflicted about what they are doing or trying to test the heroes in this game is:

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Rufus - he knows exactly what he wants and stoops pretty low to try and get it; if he is appearing to hold back so far, it is only because there is more power to be had in doing so and he definitely just moves in and takes advantage at one key point.

Technically "Black Alberich" knows what he is doing (and what he is doing is trying to do something pretty bad) and is not out there to test anyone or the like; like Rufus what he wants he can only get by waiting till the right moment.

McBurn gets a IMO great "redemption" / explanation near the end of the game but I shouldn't say much more about that either.

I see, looking forward to seeing all that.
I had to get through this joke of a fight last night (and even more similar ones after).
They've seriously overdone it with the depressed adversaries who just fight planning to lose. Makes you almost feel bad for annihilating them, was that the intention?

 

[Ysaye]

Come to think of it, I actually can't think of a single villain that the aforementioned behavior does not apply to.

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Maybe McBurn, although, I'm sure he also has his own redemption arc? I understand what the writing is trying to showcase (not EVIL, but humanized villains with grounded motives), but they could have done so without being all like "come and please foil all my plans, I've been waiting for it!".

One character that is not conflicted about what they are doing or trying to test the heroes in this game is:

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Rufus - he knows exactly what he wants and stoops pretty low to try and get it; if he is appearing to hold back so far, it is only because there is more power to be had in doing so and he definitely just moves in and takes advantage at one key point.

Technically "Black Alberich" knows what he is doing (and what he is doing is trying to do something pretty bad) and is not out there to test anyone or the like; like Rufus what he wants he can only get by waiting till the right moment.

McBurn gets a IMO great "redemption" / explanation near the end of the game but I shouldn't say much more about that either.

I see, looking forward to seeing all that.
I had to get through this joke of a fight last night (and even more similar ones after).
They've seriously overdone it with the depressed adversaries who just fight planning to lose. Makes you almost feel bad for annihilating them, was that the intention?

Fair enough - you are in possibly the slowest bit of the game right at the moment (and yes most of your opponents at the moment only want to test you and/or don't want to fight) - the end of Chapter two is where it goes into another gear and the start of chapter 3 is where some of the motivations of the real baddies and the pretend baddies become more transparent.

 

[Reinhardt]

I'm in chapter 2 of sc right now and best fight so far in both games was with Cid in training mission. No mumbo-jumbo, no cheap tricks, just proper human boss fight.

 

[Valestein]

Matt McMuscles recently did a vid on TiTs SC's troubled localization.

 

[Reinhardt]

Why they look different?