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

cruel

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Big F towards Juna from my side as well, so many things I despise in one package: dumb, emotional, 'act first think later', fanboyism (SSS), crazy patriot, etc. I would dump her in the lake on the first occasion if I could (same with Estelle tbh).

Alisa best waifu. Smart, classy, cute, honestly cares about Rean, big tits.

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Endemic

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EDIT: spoiler tagging the whole post. Cold Steel spoilers galore!

For Juna, I had multiple issues with her. First, she was terribly shoehorned into the story. I played the Crossbell games and she never appeared there, nor was her existence hinted at.

Well, that was "fixed" in the Crossbell remasters some months back.
 

somerandomdude

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One of the characters is a tranny in Kuro. I stopped playing after I saw that. Calvard is very woke and cucked. Erebonia is/was way cooler. I vote for Ouroboros over Calvardian Democracy.
 
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somerandomdude

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"Citation needed"?

It's Aaron Wei, he dresses up in drag and prances around like a fairy on stage, there was even dudes hitting on him during one of the cut scenes. It's literally the gayest thing in the entire Trails series. I mean, if you like gay stuff, trannies, diversity, democracies founded on anti-racist ideology (Yep, that's Calvard) by a female college student who fought to dethrone the patriarchal white monarchy, then Kuro is the game for you, 100%. But some of us are tired of the woke bullshit in games.
 

Reinhardt

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calvard is based on eastern countries and asians view things differently, wommyn roles ARE played by men in japanese theater for example. not everything is supposed to be they/them globohomo.
 

arekks

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Alisa best waifu. Smart, classy, cute, honestly cares about Rean, big tits.
Dude I love Alisa. First of all, she has rich parents. Secondly, she is fucking intolerable as a person. She's basically my ideal babe because I could leech off her inherited wealth with zero guilt and simply play videogames all day instead of being a productive member of society
(jk Laura is best girl)
Juna is fine I just wish she wasn't so forceably included... her being mad about her country being used as a suzerain state from both sides was one of the only genuinely good moments in CS3&4, which plotwise were otherwise fucking retarded and gay....
 

arekks

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"Citation needed"?

It's Aaron Wei, he dresses up in drag and prances around like a fairy on stage, there was even dudes hitting on him during one of the cut scenes. It's literally the gayest thing in the entire Trails series. I mean, if you like gay stuff, trannies, diversity, democracies founded on anti-racist ideology (Yep, that's Calvard) by a female college student who fought to dethrone the patriarchal white monarchy, then Kuro is the game for you, 100%. But some of us are tired of the woke bullshit in games.
Dude I'm actually a big fan of gay stuff, trannies, diversity, sucking dick, democracies based on the aforementioned, spreading my ass hole, et cetera. Are you telling me there's a whole nation in these games made for people like me? That's absolutely based my nigga
 

Jermu

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Maxie

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"Citation needed"?

It's Aaron Wei, he dresses up in drag and prances around like a fairy on stage, there was even dudes hitting on him during one of the cut scenes. It's literally the gayest thing in the entire Trails series. I mean, if you like gay stuff, trannies, diversity, democracies founded on anti-racist ideology (Yep, that's Calvard) by a female college student who fought to dethrone the patriarchal white monarchy, then Kuro is the game for you, 100%. But some of us are tired of the woke bullshit in games.
Dude I'm actually a big fan of gay stuff, trannies, diversity, sucking dick, democracies based on the aforementioned, spreading my ass hole, et cetera. Are you telling me there's a whole nation in these games made for people like me? That's absolutely based my nigga
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shh calm down. there's a website for your ilk it's called 4chan they even have a games subforum.
trails have always been family friendly fun and the full extent of gay stuff in them was just stereotypical japanese okama crap
nobody's 'pushing an agenda' on you, you're allowed to have fun and not be offended at a video game

well except if you're considering cold steel, then you should be offended at how miserable it is
 

somerandomdude

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People can "drink large quantities of copium" and make excuses for the gay stuff, but it's a fact that Calvard was founded as an anti-racist Democracy, it was specifically stated as such in the story, and a female antifa activist led the revolt against the Western/European monarchy. There were constant references to how bad racism was to the point where it was kinda in your face woke at times, and they even pitched the same angle the left does equating racism with terrorism. So, continue fixating on "okama" copium without addressing the other stuff.

So, it's not just the one example of some femboy dressing up in drag in one cutscene, it's a number of other things that I also take issue with.

Do some of you get that one of the reasons why some of us play these JRPGs, is because there's typically little to none of this type of stuff in these games, or at least far less than we get from Western developers? They took it way farther in Kuro than they did in the previous Trails games which had little to nothing like this, or it was vague and not in an in your face manner. Like, Joshua Bright is guilty of being a cuck for sure for letting girls talk him into wearing a dress, but that's way different than all the woke shit in Kuro.
 
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Given how Ao introduced the ILF and the Anti-Immigration League, does Kuro show the AIL's side of their story, like how Cold Steel showed the ILF's side of their story?
 

somerandomdude

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Given how Ao introduced the ILF and the Anti-Immigration League, does Kuro show the AIL's side of their story, like how Cold Steel showed the ILF's side of their story?

Nope, the anti-immigrant league are portrayed as a bunch of racist terrorists. The same way the left portrays anyone who takes an issue with immigration in the West.

There is no "other side" of the story like with the ILF, where people in Jurai got shit on by the Chancellor, and the little guys decided to fight back. It's just leftist talking points regurgitated with all the i's dotted and t's crossed with seemingly impeccable precision without an ounce of fairness.
 
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Rean

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Strap Yourselves In
Me as the lads talk about the potential destruction of my favorite series

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santino27

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My team has the sexiest and deadliest waifus you can recruit.
Any idea if the english patch for Kuro will ever expand to include all of the ancillary NPC dialogue?
 

Shadenuat

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This scene make you feel better about the supposed wokeness of the game?
i feel like this stuff looks adorable in isometry with sprites, but with outdated 3d it feels a bit more like cheap hentai game.
but, that is not what would frighten me from leaked content of this new game.
what I find troublesome is that devs seem to try make their stuff even more "serious", with some dialogue scenes and brooding protag almost giving me final fantase 8 memories. I have no interest in terribly long self reflection dialogue with their writing.
and graphics and design is again, one step towards glamour asian ghey.
 

Lyre Mors

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Cut the dramatics. At least play it for yourself before you feed into an obvious troll account's bewailing of it. Good god, I expect better from you, Rean.
 

Thorakitai

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I'm currently playing the psp version of Trails in the Sky:Second Chapter after finishing the First Chapter and choose hard mode due to wanting a challenge but not too bad like Nightmare mode.

The first three bosses are noticeably tough but managed to beat them through proper use of buffs and orbal attack arts.

Then the fourth boss at the fortress area is huge step-up in difficulty. The boss is both fast, powerful and tanky (9,000+HP), can buff his str and speed and can hit you no matter what distance your characters are.

I start off with two characters, mostly equipped with basic quartz and can barely have time to damage him.

Is there a proper strategy to beat him or do I need to grind more? I hate reading a guide since I want a spoiler-free playthrough.
 

Jermu

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Is there a proper strategy to beat him or do I need to grind more? I hate reading a guide since I want a spoiler-free playthrough.

Nightmare difficulty this fucker is the hardest boss in any trails game (main way is to make surprise cookies and pray).

But for hard difficulty earth guard + tear + items should be good and if u have proxy puppet left you should use it in this fight. If you are interested here is some1 killing him nightmare without cookie spam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck4B6FGbQJI

grinding some levels is also helpful but also painfully boring last time I grinded few levels hunting for shiny poms in the forest.

I have only played trails sc on nightmare difficulty with carry on bonuses from first game so cant give more specific advice.
 

Thorakitai

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Thanks for the help. I managed to beat the annoying boss, mostly by being lucky enough that he wasn't being utterly aggressive with his skills that I was able to both heal and attack at the same time then unleash both the S-crafts and the Suprise cookies ones he's low enough to die. It helps I've deliberately separated both Estelle and Anelace so that he's in the very middle.
 

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