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

Jermu

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Maxie said:
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Estelle > Kevin > Lloyd > literally who
CS1 was such an unlikeable experience I gave up altogether on this arc, fully content with Sky and Crossbell stuff
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For me CS1-2 are the worst trails games but I would still try to finish CS series since CS3/4 are good games + hard to continue playing other arcs if you decide to skip CS.
 
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Jermu said:
Maxie said:
protag tierlist official
Estelle > Kevin > Lloyd > literally who
CS1 was such an unlikeable experience I gave up altogether on this arc, fully content with Sky and Crossbell stuff
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For me CS1-2 are the worst trails games but I would still try to finish CS series since CS3/4 are good games + hard to continue playing other arcs if you decide to skip CS.
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there are a lot of major events/revelation that places steel games as the most important events in the series so far.
 
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Pathfinder: Wrath
Finally managed to slog trough ToCSIV. Glad its over, would have been better as a trilogy.

Some random thoughts about the game (spoilers obviously):

- NC7 was completely unnecessary. There were way too many characters and overlapping personalities. In the end, they didn't add anything good and only watered down everything. Worst of all, they forced NC7 on you all the time, I really didn't like this.

- Forced party members. I hate this shit. Let me decide who I bring, thank you very much.

- Boring, repetitive Antagonists. After 3 games I had enough of the same idiots from Ouroboros. Fighting the Iron Bloods also felt super forced. There wasn't a single, memorable, original villain which is kinda sad for a finale.

- Same boring dungeons again. Why do we need to crawl trough fucking vents every single game? Why are the dungeons always boring corridors with some gimmick lever?

- Way to easy, samey combat. There is no challenge, even on nightmare. And I didn't even use arts because they were so broken.

Verdict: I had some fun playing it, but was kinda disappointed.
 

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Edginess has taken over this thread. Hopefully the release of Azure will restore this back to the lovefest it once was.
 

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What's absolutely insane with VII duology is that instead of having closed, gated areas you have access to the full map from start(ish) to end.
Imagine a country that's about as big as, say, Bose and Ruan regions, but entierely open to you. It's what i expected from Sky. It's what i got from VII.
And being a Trails, it means that you can follow the NPCs through the entire game.

There's some chapters that don't involve at all, say Armorica Village, thus if you follow the plotline you won't enter it.
But if you do you can see that Every.Single.NPC.Dialogue is regulary updated. It's just mindblowing.
VII also has the best Sidequests hands down.

Also, There's Rixia <3

And that makes it the best games in the series to me (with 3rd for different reasons). It's basically Trails on steroids.

I preferred the Zero game though since i'm more into low key story for Trails and because the ending was much, much better. Azure's ending was, unfortunately, really bad.
 
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rashiakas said:
Finally managed to slog trough ToCSIV. Glad its over, would have been better as a trilogy.

Some random thoughts about the game (spoilers obviously):

- NC7 was completely unnecessary. There were way too many characters and overlapping personalities. In the end, they didn't add anything good and only watered down everything. Worst of all, they forced NC7 on you all the time, I really didn't like this.

- Forced party members. I hate this shit. Let me decide who I bring, thank you very much.

- Boring, repetitive Antagonists. After 3 games I had enough of the same idiots from Ouroboros. Fighting the Iron Bloods also felt super forced. There wasn't a single, memorable, original villain which is kinda sad for a finale.

- Same boring dungeons again. Why do we need to crawl trough fucking vents every single game? Why are the dungeons always boring corridors with some gimmick lever?

- Way to easy, samey combat. There is no challenge, even on nightmare. And I didn't even use arts because they were so broken.

Verdict: I had some fun playing it, but was kinda disappointed.
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Ya there a lot of mediocre jrpgs out there like trails and saga frontier. I recently beat savior of sapphire wings and its definitely forgettable. The problem is there are people willing to put in 1000 hours into shit games and animes that make it hard for people to identify what is worth or not.
 
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Pathfinder: Wrath
Eh the game is certainly not shit, in fact is one of the best jrpgs I played. It was just a bit disappointing, especially because I didn't get the true ending despite having everything done.
 
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Decided to give JRPGs a shot, haven't played one in..I don't even know how long. Think the last memories of a JRPG I played as a kid were of some dude with a gunsword thing fighting a dinosaur. Anyway, Im starting with TiTS, hope I like it!
 
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Decided to binge Zero in anticipation of Azure. Honestly got soured on the series because of CS 1/2 post Trails trilogy years ago but Zero reignited how much I enjoy Falcom's attention to detail and general world building. Plenty of really nice QoL features added by the Geofront team too regarding the PC version. All on board for Azure and hell, maybe I'll finally get around to CS 3/4 with full Crossbell arc context now.

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anyone has a clue where from should you get a copy of ao which will work with the geofront patch without buying it off that weirdo Chinese website
 
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