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

[Somberlain]

ToCS4 is the worst when it comes to the harem/fanservice stuff

Still an excellent game though

 

[Valestein]

Somberlain is just asshurt that Claire isn't a waifu.

 

[Valestein]

My response to Somberlain and "Rean"'s ratings:

 

[Ysaye]

Somberlain is just asshurt that Claire isn't a waifu.

??? My understanding was that there is a special hidden bonding moment in CS4....

 

[Shadenuat]

Fur Elise

 

[Valestein]

Somberlain is just asshurt that Claire isn't a waifu.

??? My understanding was that there is a special hidden bonding moment in CS4....

Welp, looks like I'm skipping 4 then. I ain't supporting that bullshit.

 

[Valestein]

Guys I did it, I have earned the third Sara bonding achievement and placed it in my showcase. Aren't you all proud of me for this?

 

[Duraframe300]

I haven't played any of the Crossbell games so no opinion on that.

Cecile and Lloyd stuff is preeetty mild, unless there is some hidden relationship stuff I missed? Even then, it's his brother's girlfriend, so again, not really strictly incestuous.

That doesn't make it much less fucked up.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I haven't played any of the Crossbell games so no opinion on that.

Cecile and Lloyd stuff is preeetty mild, unless there is some hidden relationship stuff I missed? Even then, it's his brother's girlfriend, so again, not really strictly incestuous.

That doesn't make it much less fucked up.

I might be wrong, but the message I got from TfZ was that Guy (Lloyd's brother) and Cecile basically brought up Lloyd. Then Guy got killed, Lloyd went off to the police academy, came back to the city (thus starting the events of TfZ) and everyone seems to want him to get together with Cecile.

 

[Somberlain]

Somberlain is just asshurt that Claire isn't a waifu.

??? My understanding was that there is a special hidden bonding moment in CS4....

Spoiler

There is one semi-hidden scene with Claire near the end but it's much less than the official waifu choices and there aren't any bonding points etc. for Claire.

 

[StaticSpine]

Okay, I finished TOCS 3. Man, it was long. Too long. I'm thankful for the turbo buttons. Those saved me ~25 hours, according to the internal game timer vs Steam playing time.

The ending events were a mixed bag.

Spoiler

Explosion of Courageous was so dumb.
The character motivation behind following Osborne was also lame. Dammit, even Rufus, the smartest guy around, was like "Mr. Osborne is so charismatic, we believe his every word." Ugh.
Once again, the traveling professor appears to be the mastermind.
Fake deaths
"Prophecy"

But when Rean lost and started bashing the sacred beast, and 5 other (total 6 out of 7, as mentioned by Rufus, we still haven't seen the final one) Divine Knights appeared there to calm him down. That was intense!

Also, I didn't like Rean/Elise stuff, though we discussed that enough already.

And another point I want to bring. I'm not too fond of where the setting has gone. It started off like a low-magic, industrialized world, now they threw all kinds of supernatural stuff into the mix. So it becomes less and less believable.

Anyway, still, the game is cool. Looking forward to the ending of TOCS saga.

 

[Valestein]

I haven't played any of the Crossbell games so no opinion on that.

Cecile and Lloyd stuff is preeetty mild, unless there is some hidden relationship stuff I missed? Even then, it's his brother's girlfriend, so again, not really strictly incestuous.

That doesn't make it much less fucked up.

I might be wrong, but the message I got from TfZ was that Guy (Lloyd's brother) and Cecile basically brought up Lloyd. Then Guy got killed, Lloyd went off to the police academy, came back to the city (thus starting the events of TfZ) and everyone seems to want him to get together with Cecile.

There's an established practice of a man marrying his deceased brother's wife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levirate_marriage

 

[StaticSpine]

New IV trailer. Potential spoilers for those who haven't finished III.

 

[Shadenuat]

sorry Rhean is in another castle


but, i mean steel with no rhean? sign me the fuck up

 

[Valestein]

Best town theme in CS3



And the main reason to look forward to returning to Einhell keep.



Oh and a few days ago i finished the game(will do a second run in the future for more chievos) and have mixed feelings about the ending:

Spoiler

Not a big fan with how they handled Osborne in it but seeing Rean lose his shit to rage was cool, as well as them killing off some characters.

Was saddened by my boy Olivier's passing. RIP debaucherous prince

 

[HoboForEternity]

Raquel is legit one of my favorite town theme ever

 

[Valestein]

I should also mention these other bangers from CS3:

Great dungeon theme from my fave chapter in the game, and this is the dungeon where you're greeted with the pleasant surprise of having the Golden Rack-shasa in your crew.



The catchy theme to the card game that's a welcome improvement over blade.



The mech battle theme.



Final dungeon theme that also doubles as the normal battle theme in it without interruption.

 

[Somberlain]

The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki trailer

Spoiler

Claire and Vita both playable

 

[HoboForEternity]

Forget about the thots, my bro GARCIA seems to be playable !!!!!

 

[HoboForEternity]

Anyway it seems like they stepped up their animation. Nice.

 

[HoboForEternity]

noel's noels looking good

 

[cruel]

So... I was going the make the post asking why so many people like this game - I played Trails in the Sky for like 10-15h, got bored and never came back. But few days ago, I realized I got Trails of Cold Steel on one of the steam sales, started playing... and I'm having a blast. Much better game than TitS.

But, after playing TocS for around 10h, and feeling some Persona vibes, it makes me wonder - why this game is not more popular? I think that those first 10h are more fun for me than Persona 5 was, the characters seem actually more authentic, the game is more fun, and clearly a lot of love was put into this. We also have sort of high school setting here, the graphics are nice, music is nice, so what exactly happened that made Persona 5 so popular, while Trails is still 'niche' in some way? Just marketing / hype created?

 

[Ysaye]

So... I was going the make the post asking why so many people like this game - I played Trails in the Sky for like 10-15h, got bored and never came back. But few days ago, I realized I got Trails of Cold Steel on one of the steam sales, started playing... and I'm having a blast. Much better game than TitS.

But, after playing TocS for around 10h, and feeling some Persona vibes, it makes me wonder - why this game is not more popular? I think that those first 10h are more fun for me than Persona 5 was, the characters seem actually more authentic, the game is more fun, and clearly a lot of love was put into this. We also have sort of high school setting here, the graphics are nice, music is nice, so what exactly happened that made Persona 5 so popular, while Trails is still 'niche' in some way? Just marketing / hype created?

One glaring thing is that there are a lot of "Trails Zealots" that will tell new players they CAN'T do what you have just done and play this series out of order (I got a heap of abuse recently on youtube when I told a potential new player just to jump into CS3 if they really wanted to), but new players are conflicted because the older games take a bit of time to get into, and it takes patience and a reasonable investment of time. So that stops a whole heap before they can even get to Cold Steel.

 

[Valestein]

The Kiseki/TITS games aren't too important to the CS games as far as main plots go, and i'm speaking as someone who started with Tits FC. There's some minor references to Estelle/Josh and the plotline for the Tits games but nothing essential.

The only important thing you have to know is that Olivier is the best character from Tits.

 

[Ysaye]

The Kiseki/TITS games aren't too important to the CS games as far as main plots go, and i'm speaking as someone who started with Tits FC. There's some minor references to Estelle/Josh and the plotline for the Tits games but nothing essential.

The only important thing you have to know is that Olivier is the best character from Tits.

Agreed, but a lot of people don't hold this view and tell people looking to get into the series (who will often ask the question as to whether they have to go all the way back) that they must go all the way back.