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

[Jinn]

There is nothing wrong with Hard mode and shame on you for spreading misinformation HoboForEternity!

MicoSelva, much like in a challenging Shin Megami Tensei game, there are generally viable ways to overcome any tough encounter without chipping away at HP. You usually just have to be a little clever about how you're using the tools at your disposal. If you want a good challenge and some of the most interesting JRPG combat ever as a result, pick Hard.

Also, grinding is pretty much discouraged. You can do it, but the game lets you know when it becomes futile and when it's time to start using your brain to figure out an encounter.

 

[Somberlain]

Due to the way damage calculations work in TiTS, you have to commit to the offensive stats to actually deal good damage on higher difficulties. As in, magically oriented and support characters will deal much less physical damage than they would on normal/easy but high strength characters will deal almost as much damage. The actual enemy HP difference between difficulty levels isn't that big.

Also, magic damage is "easier" to deal, as in, even characters who aren't pure casters can deal decent magic damage, especially if the enemy is weak to certain elements. Just don't use offensive spells with characters with criminally low ATS like Zin.

The only Trails enemies that I think have excessive amounts of health and take too long to kill are

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Angel Weissman in SC and Anima Mundi in 3rd, ie. the very final boss of each game.

 

[Doktor Best]

When i took a look at the first TITS game there was no easy option. Just normal, hard and nightmare. As i am a challenge fag and JRPGS usually are too easy for my taste, i took the last option. Did i fuck up and should i start a new game on hard?

 

[Somberlain]

Easy mode was only added in TiTS 3, I think.

The first game is easiest of the three so starting it on nightmare is fine, you just need to know and get used to certain things. These apply to the entire trilogy:

-there are only two "tank" characters who can take multiple hits before dying and neither of them is available until later in the game. Most characters will die in 2-3 hits even from regular enemies unless you are seriously above their level. You should normally put your characters in the back row and bombard the enemies with spells to weaken them as much as possible before they get to you and you should also keep your characters at full health all the time. Healing spells have the fastest cast time in the game so it's not too difficult.

-on nightmare, enemies have a huge speed boost in the TiTS trilogy (much bigger than in the later Trails games), so it's a given that they pretty much always get the first turn unless you get a preemptive attack during normal fights. You should preferably equip all characters with Action quartz to increase their speed so the enemy doesn't overwhelm you with the amount of turns they get. One of the two main/starting characters, Joshua, is the fastest character in the entire trilogy so make use of that.

-most enemies, even some bosses, are vulnerable to strong status effects like petrification, instant death and confusion. Confusion is particularly useful since there is low cost spell called Chaos Brand that has 100% chance of confusing enemies who are not immune to it, and confusion in these games basically makes enemies your allies since confused enemies attack other enemies 95% of the time.

-if you find a battle impossible, there is sort of a "cheat" tool in the game. In the options menu, there is an option called "retry offset" which weakens the enemies every time you die and retry. And these games are pretty lenient since you can always retry from the start of the battle if you lose, instead of going back to the previous save.

 

[Gearmos]

The former Lead Editor for AtlusUSA & Sega joins XSEED:
https://twitter.com/derkbramer/status/1083898871711821824

Edit:

 

[Doktor Best]

So i just finished the prologue of FC and i am already hooked by the writing/worldbuilding. The combat so far is also really good. The endfight gave me a pretty hard time, but i wont complain since i am the idiot who picked nightmare difficulty as a newcomer to the series The only minor complaint would be that character development is a bit barebones up until now.

The game doesnt feel like a typical J-RPG in many regards, which is also very refreshing and came unexpected since this genre tends to follow very narrow design guidelines.

Thanks to my fellow codexians who were gushing so hard about this game, wouldnt have bought it otherwise.

 

[Somberlain]

NIS America to announce new title on January 17

NIS America will announce a new title, likely a localization of an already-announced Japanese title, on January 17, the publisher teased in an e-mail sent to press today.

Happy 2019! It feels awesome greeting you in the new year, dood! What’s even greater is that we have a new title announcement coming up January 17th, with a follow-up panel at PAX South on the 18th at 11 AM CST in Falcon Theatre!

Stay tuned.

Thanks, Nintendo Soup (via GoNintendo).

 

[HoboForEternity]

if kiseki goes to NISA i would rage

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and would still buy it anyway because it is our only chance

 

[Urthor]

https://twitter.com/NISAmerica/status/1085899542262894593

Rumour has it that they have a former XSEED localizer on staff though, but well it's NISA

 

[Somberlain]

At least Rean seems to have the same voice actor.

 

[Dodo1610]

At least Rean seems to have the same voice actor.

Well that's a good sign. Let's hope they won't fuck it up... . Though I highly doubt that the PC version will be as good as the previous ones.

 

[Viata]

Let's hope they won't fuck it up

Good luck with that, mate.

 

[Somberlain]

Fabulously optimistic

 

[Gearmos]

The hashtag was #TrialsofColdSteelIII instead of #TrailsofColdSteelIII, so here is the new tweet:

Well that's a good sign. Let's hope they won't fuck it up... . Though I highly doubt that the PC version will be as good as the previous ones.

Right now it's a PS4 exclusive... They probably don't want a repeat of the YS VIII fiasco and won't say anything until the port is almost done and working. They should hire Durante.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Japanese dub and fant translation fix will fix it no worrie guys

right?

 

[Gearmos]

NISA claims to have aboard "talent that already has experience with the series, to help contextualize, translate and localize the title". One of them might be Varion, the main translator of CS1&2:

https://twitter.com/Theswweet/status/1085912353441427456

We will know who they are tomorrow. They have been working on the game since late 2017, and we'll have Switch/PC ports in the future:

https://twitter.com/Theswweet/status/1085919935371534336

 

[karoliner]

On one hand i don't like NISA but on the other the butthurt is glorious. On others forums people are losing their minds.

 

[Viata]

The best way to avoid all this is just to play the Japanese version.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Don’t care that it’s NISA if previous Trails talent is on board. It will be consistent with previous localisations thanks to that.

Falcom will have come down hard on them after the Ys 8 fuck up. And if they’ve really been working on this since 2017 then it’s not a rush job.

If the Rean VA is back then it is likely the others are back too.

I don’t mind there won’t be a PC version at launch. Trails is the best video game series out there right now - it is well worth the double dip.

I’m just happy it’s finally been announced.

 

[Viata]

There was never a PC version at launch, anyway. It was usually 6 or so months after console release.

 

[Valestein]

Don’t care that it’s NISA if previous Trails talent is on board. It will be consistent with previous localisations thanks to that.

Falcom will have come down hard on them after the Ys 8 fuck up. And if they’ve really been working on this since 2017 then it’s not a rush job.

If the Rean VA is back then it is likely the others are back too.

I don’t mind there won’t be a PC version at launch. Trails is the best video game series out there right now - it is well worth the double dip.

I’m just happy it’s finally been announced.

Let's just hope Sara's VA (Carrie Keranen) is back...

 

[HoboForEternity]

coming exclusively to ps4


F U C K N I S A.

SOMEONE SHOOT THEM UPPPPPPPP

 

[HoboForEternity]

NO PC POOOORT

 

[HoboForEternity]

you better hope they really hire brittany or this will be your cold steel 3

https://imgur.com/a/g6f8y

 

[Dodo1610]

Guys the game isn't a "real!" PS4 excklusive. Real PS4 exclusives have the Playstaion Clip before the trailer and this one hasn't. There is no good reasion to think that we won't be getting a PC port later.