Probably like 2 weeks before it comes out, XSEED like to leave it until the last minute.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel PS4 |OT| This should also fall under the scope of our field study!
- Thread starter Barrylocke
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So that's leaving out early May with mid May being in question. I'm just hoping anytime before June 1st as I'll be out of town for about two weeks.
I'm familiar with the XSEED name but no clue on how they go about things. Here's hoping this release window works out in my favor.
I've been under the assumption that my Amazon release date, 5/28/19, was correct.... Is that not listed anywhere else?
It was May 7th like a week ago, but it seems to have been pushed to the 28th.
Even if it were, it wouldn't be relevant anyway since it's just a placeholder date that has no official ground.
I will start this game soon, is the new english voice-over worth it? I really prefer japanese voice acting in games like this one, but since the new english voice-over has 50% more lines recorded compared to japanese, i'm thinking maybe I should go with english?
But at the same time, english isn't my native language so i'd end up reading anyway... hmm...
But at the same time, english isn't my native language so i'd end up reading anyway... hmm...
The English voice-over had the benefit of some great directing and is fantastic. It's definitely worth listening to.
Thanks guys, i'll definitely give it a shot then!
It gets even better in 2 once A Certain Someone joins the fray...
For me that would be
Duvalie
Haha, she has literally just appeared and I'm about to fight her. It's Eden Riegel, right? It sounds like her. She's pretty great, as is her bro.
Yup it's her. Legendary performance, hope she's back for CS 3 and 4 :)
Currently in Chapter 4. By the time I finish with this game and move on to MK11, Cold Steel 2 will come out which will be perfect stop gap.
Still the long wait for Cold Steel 3 (hoping the localization is solid), gives me some time to go back at catch up Trails 1 and 2.
I hope there is even plans for Cold Steel 4 to be localized. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite RPGs, the world lore and interconnected regions remind a lot of a Suikoden game in which each of it's games all took place in the same world just different regions of the same world.
Sky being Liberl, Cold Steel is Erebonia, and Azure and Zero are Crossbell. Hopefully the Crossbell games are addressed in some fashion from the time after CS3 releases as well as the hopeful plan of CS4 coming out in English.
I wonder how the first two Legend of Heroes games Dragon Slayer 1 and 2 and the Gagharv Trilogy tie into the Trails series.
Still the long wait for Cold Steel 3 (hoping the localization is solid), gives me some time to go back at catch up Trails 1 and 2.
I hope there is even plans for Cold Steel 4 to be localized. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite RPGs, the world lore and interconnected regions remind a lot of a Suikoden game in which each of it's games all took place in the same world just different regions of the same world.
Sky being Liberl, Cold Steel is Erebonia, and Azure and Zero are Crossbell. Hopefully the Crossbell games are addressed in some fashion from the time after CS3 releases as well as the hopeful plan of CS4 coming out in English.
I wonder how the first two Legend of Heroes games Dragon Slayer 1 and 2 and the Gagharv Trilogy tie into the Trails series.
Wait, so if I do all the given missions in chapter 3 I'll still get a B grade? Did I miss something?
There's one hidden sidequest each evening of your free day and one during your field study. (the sidequest in the Nord region was a doozy since it required you to make several trips between the settlement and Zender Gate) Those are fairly small ones though.
Maybe you botched your practical exam by using arts where you weren't allowed to?
What I SUSPECT happened is that you screwed up your mid-terms. If you do everything perfectly, Rean should end up at rank 7, just one place above Alisa. There's a lot more to it than simply getting all the questions right. There are also a handful of NPC's to speak to (both teachers and students) who can give you additional pointers that Rean then ends up making use of off-screen. And if that isn't enough, there are also a handful of study books spread around campus (recognizable by the shimmering similar to the shimmering of items on the ground if you break certain pots/crates in dungeons) that you need to find and which also boost your final score.
I got 7th place on my midterm, mostly by accident.
I'm thinking it was the hidden mission in Nord. I need to look it up.
I didn't know about all the hidden missions though. That's annoying. I thought I would unlock everything if I would just talk to everyone as I go. I have a earlier save so I'm gong to try and find that Nord hidden mission.
My first play through I got like 2 B's and 1 C. Maybe 3 B's and 1 C.
I came to this thread and YouTube and I learned there's a ton of content that I missed. Granted most of which are minor side stories but stuff I'm finding interesting on my second play through.
On my first play through I didn't talk to anyone and did most of the side quest. To me they were pointless busy work side quest but now on my second play through I actually see that for every future side quest I will do there's small build ups from all the NPC characters. It's really intriguing. Most of these side quest don't just pop up like in other games, there's actually a story that leads to them.
I just want to see as many of these as I can. I said this earlier in the thread but I wish I would've found this game series sooner.
Don't know if it's been posted yet but there's a great guide if you don't want to miss anything.
https://psnprofiles.com/guide/3724-the-legend-of-heroes-trails-of-cold-steel-overall-walkthrough
https://psnprofiles.com/guide/3724-the-legend-of-heroes-trails-of-cold-steel-overall-walkthrough
Thanks, I'll most likely do a second playthrough to get everything else down the line.
Yeah this guide is perfect. On my second playthrough on PS4, following this I got an S every single chapter thus far. My original save on PC I just did what I wanted in without any regard to completion.
Gaius is probably the most boring character I've seen in a video game in a long while. Like holy shit, I dislike chapter 3 not because of the locations or the plot that takes place there but because of him and his snooze fest ass. The dude is a personality black hole.
Gaius is a bro, but the fact that he's the only member of Class VII who grew up in a perfectly normal and healthy home makes him less exciting than the quirkier folks in the class. There's some irony in the fact that it's the foreign exchange student who's the most well-adjusted member of the class.
A lot of the *interesting* stuff with Gaius is in the subtext, but really for the most part he's just a really nice guy who doesn't talk much. I think the moment I was sold on him was (End game bonding events spoilers)
Anyway, I totally get why some people may find him boring, but a Cold Steel without him would be a lesser game.
When he did a painting of the time they were at the nord highlands, and I was just like "AWWW he loves both of his homes". Which you know, is made abundantly clear throughout the game, but it that moment in just seemed so genuine.
Unless i'm Forgetting something Elliot's family situation was pretty normal aside from
his dad being a bit overbearing and restricting his choice of schools. greated his mom died and his dad probably wasn't present too often due to his job
I loved how the game builds up Olaf Craig to be a terrifying, stern military man and the game suggests there will be great tension when Elliot sees him. Then he is introduced and while a badass, he's also a goofy, affectionate dad who adores his son.
The problem is that Rean is milquetoast on purpose as a stand-in for the player and yet, he has more character development and growth than Gaius. Gaius is an end-state, finished, fully matured character with basically no flaws and no actual conflict with any character, ever. There was a moment where maybe racism could have kicked in as a story thread to give him a real moment to shine, but that switched back to nobles vs commoners the very next second which is Jusis and Machias's thing. Gaius has no room to grow and as such, he's the most boring PC in the game by a long shot, possibly the most boring character in the game as a whole.
I still think Rean is underrated because he has some top tier speeches. He's quite the orator when he gets fired up.
Gaius slips into the background as soon as you're done with Nord. It's a shame because I love the character.
Gaius slips into the background as soon as you're done with Nord. It's a shame because I love the character.
From what i've Heard there seem like there might be some big developments for Gaius in CSIII, but not being able to speak Japanese this is purely based on one piece of second hand info
Yeah these games, more than just about any other, reward you for checking in on all the NPCs every time the story progresses. Any NPC having a name pretty much indicates that they will have their own little story that plays out in the background, usually with a side quest for Rean at some point.
There's a nice little payoff in the second game for knowing who all the minor character students are as well.
Now at chapter 5 in Trails in the Sky SC. The game turned into Xenogears for a moment at the end if ch. 4.
How does the status inflicting quartz work in Sky SC? Do they trigger with arts? For example, I have Kloe set up so that she has access to Diamond Dust which has a 20% chance of freezing the enemy. If she also has the Freeze quartz, does that boost the chances of DD freezing the enemy to 30%?
I know in Cold Steel, status inflicting quartz only trigger with crafts and normal attacks.
How does the status inflicting quartz work in Sky SC? Do they trigger with arts? For example, I have Kloe set up so that she has access to Diamond Dust which has a 20% chance of freezing the enemy. If she also has the Freeze quartz, does that boost the chances of DD freezing the enemy to 30%?
I know in Cold Steel, status inflicting quartz only trigger with crafts and normal attacks.
No, the status ailments from quartz and the ailments from arts are two separate things. The ailments from quartz only land when you hit an enemy with a physical attack.
That said, enemies don't have partial resistences in the Sky games. If an attack has 100% chance of landing, say, confuse or blind, the enemy will either always resist it or will always be affected by it.