This series is shit. >99% of FC is irrelevant and serves absolutely no purpose >Shit music besides 3 tracks >Too much time based missables that are only available for a brief period of time
>SC >Consists of going through the same bland areas yet again >Oh look, here's an Ouroboros agent >Oh look, he's "too strong" for us now so he's going to summon some monster to battle us before running away >Slightly more better tracks than FC >God awful difficulty that puts you at the mercy of RNG (Final boss of the prologue and Divine Penguin immediately come to mind, I sure love being surprise attacked and having the escort die from 1 hit before I even get a turn to react :^) )
The pacing in this series is terrible. This series can be described with 1 word. Filler. >Bracer quests are all the same old fetch quest / kill this crap that I did in the first game >Have to go through a ton of meaningless story just to get to the one semi-interesting part of each chapter, the Ouroboros stuff, and even that isn't all that great since it basically comes down to - "Aha, yes, it was I that was causing (insert regional disturbance here), and yes I lead you here to this secluded dungeon! All so I could make you fight something else before disappearing into the sunset!".
These games are fucking utter trash and I cannot believe they even have a fanbase, as small as that fanbase is.
As far as RPG's go, I wouldn't even stick this crap in my top 25.
I can clearly see that you have awful taste in music if this is the type of shit that appeals to you.
Actually, I just want to shit on the game for a good thread or two to make up for all of the time I spent putting into this mediocre crap.
Noah Brown
If you think the games so fucking shit, why did you not only play the first game to completion, but also continue on with the second game?
That's far beyond the point of "I'm not enjoying this, maybe it will get better."
Grayson Cooper
Ok I'll fucking bite, literally what is wrong with that track? It's a completely inoffensive overworld tune. I wouldn't listen to it on its own but how is that the example you pull for the series having shit music?
Robert Sullivan
Git gud
James Rogers
Very easy to answer. It's bland as all fuck and there's no thought or effort put into the piece, just like the majority of the other tracks in the games.
The tracks that I enjoy all have hidden nuances and set a great atmosphere. The other tracks put me to sleep and get grating after a mere 1 loop of hearing them. The main issue is you hear them for much longer than 1 loop because all of the worst tracks are fucking town ones for the most part.
Compare that shit to a good JRPG with actual effort and quality poured into its OST and the difference is night and day.
It pisses me off, I cannot stand shit OST's in video games.
Isaiah James
What would you consider a game with a good soundtrack to be then?
Anthony Walker
Oh man, and just this series got like, 40 different albums! For such a shitty music! Those japs must be pretty crazy, amirite?
Ryder Campbell
he's right fucking crazy why people consider this garbage good I'll stick with Ys
Hudson Powell
This. At least tell us what you think a good soundtrack is.
Sebastian Cook
Radiant Historia. Easily.
I'm looking forward to your knee-jerk attempt at saying that has a poor OST.
Most Ys games as well while we're at it.
Here's a sample of the huge difference between Radiant Historia's OST and Kiseki's.
The Radiant Historia tracks absolutely shit on anything in this game. It's not even close.
Angel Taylor
SHMUPFAG
I THOUGHT YOU DIED
Jose Fisher
Fuck you mate, I am eternal.
Jack James
oh it's you. we've been over this before, RH is a cut above basically every other jrpg, it's not fair trying to compare it to others trails games are generally happy feeling for the most part while RH is bleak and depressing, you can even hear that in the two tracks you posted right there.
Cooper Ross
Thanks for the heads up ,OP. Now I know I just have to skip these games and jump straight to Cold Steel.
Jack Mitchell
Some of Trails FC and SC themes are a bit bland, I'll give you that, but it still has quite a few good tracks in my opinion. Calling it shit is hyperbole no matter how you look at it.
Radiant Historia has a great soundtrack, I'll also give you that.
Easton King
just play SMT
Brody Clark
...
Austin Harris
So can we just ignore OP now and talk about how perfect Anelace is?
Ryder Kelly
anal ace
Anthony Torres
It's good to have you back. How long before you start pretending you played the Crossbell arc again?
Andrew Allen
Oh, it's that RH faggot again.
Post best girls.
Logan Martinez
>shit taste >thinks his opinion is of any value ok
Aiden Martin
The issue is that most of the tracks in the OST are bland. For such a long game this becomes abundantly apparent.
There's literally 4 tracks that I like in FC, 1 plays at the end, the other plays once and the other 2 rarely play too.
Other than that, it's mediocre shit.
user please, you know I don't tell lies.
I'll eventually play Cold Steel and that'll probably be shit too.
Bentley Jackson
His autism is almost approaching Superior Limb-based Combat user's
Blake Murphy
>you know I don't tell lies. Last time I saw you, you were shitting on Zero saying you played it on an emulator. Then you left for a while after people pointed out that the game didn't run on JCPSP and you were just copying info from a wiki someone had edited to have incorrect info cause nobody policed it to revert the edits
Kayden Phillips
>Everyone is acting as if Crow isn't a terrorist who won't be spending the rest of his life in prison should they be able to beat him. >Vita only got involved with the war to see the knights do battle, because that was clearly the most effective way to make that come to pass and couldn't be arranged in any other way. >Vita doesn't give a single shit about the war after the fight is done and even takes the side of those she fucked over for the entire game so far. Nobody bats an eye at that, not even suspicious cat. >Why was Cedric even necessary to pilot Testarossa? Dreichels was not its Awakener and if imperial blood is the only requirement then Cayenne should have been able to do it, too, considering his ancestry. >Why did Cayenne push Cedric into Testarossa? He had no means to control the boy or the robot and it only served to make his already shitty position even worse. >The fucking chancellor coming back to life with no explanation given. >Chancellor lets a top dog of an international criminal organization go just to deliver a message to said organization's leader and the content of that message is his intent to fuck them over hard. Announce your plans to the enemy. What could go wrong? >Every action undertaken by the so called neutral faction proves to be beneficial to one side of the war and only to that one side. >All those times the Ouroboros dudes could have finished off the party, but didn't for whatever reason. >Mandatory seventeen fucking floors dungeon that serves no purpose after the conclusion of the story. Fucking Cold Steel, man. And to think that I suffered through that cliffhanger for this.
Brody Price
I don't recall such a thing happening at all. The only thing I can think of is you've mixed up somebody else with me during that occasion. The only time I've posted about Kiseki other than recently was when I was in an argument with some guy about the church always being evil in video games.
>Then you left for a while after people pointed out Nigga please, I say wrong shit all the time, even when I know it's wrong, I'd never let such a petty thing scare me away.
I didn't come back to Kiseki threads because I hadn't played them yet. Now that I have, I'm not going anywhere no matter what.
Isaac Edwards
Nah, it was definitely you, it was a thread where someon mentioned Renne and you got #triggered that someone implied a non-shmup game was better than BD. Just be sure to play CS, you'll get actual angry responses from Vitards all the time because it's actually bad unlike the other two arcs.
Colton Lopez
>TOZ sold more than FC despite being released 1 year earlier How does it feel that a "kusoge" beat your favorite JRPG, Sup Forums?
Anthony White
Branding is one hell of a drug.
Dylan Powell
Not really surprised.
Cameron Harris
1 year later* Fuck, I should go back to sleep.
Charles Phillips
Huh, well maybe it was me then, that does all sound plausible. I won't be playing CS until after I've played the third Sora game though.
I'll be sure to prioritize it though, I can hardly wait to pick at its flaws.
Jeremiah Mitchell
FC had a 1 year headstart. SC would make a better comparison.
Elijah Reed
>you will never plow shmupfag's tender boypussy as he shitposts about your favorite videogame why even live bros
Hunter Harris
SC sold even less.
Wyatt Gray
Precisely.
Cooper Baker
Cool opinion? What was even the point of this shitpost?
Luke Campbell
Now tell me, who should I bother picking? I'm playing hard mode again and I fucking despise it.
Oh and I fully believe you that CS is bad. Vita lovers have proven time and time again that they have god awful taste. The fact that most of them actively praise Ys Memories of Celceta when it's a piece of shit that blemishes an otherwise amazing series is extremely telling of how dog shit their taste is.
Fuck off mate, I only date cute japanese cartoon girls.
To shit on the game since my opinions hold more weight than the vast majority of Sup Forums's combined.
Henry Mitchell
Also interestingly enough was around 3 months ago or so and the only game that has not sold a single copy since that time was SC.
Kevin Ortiz
So, because you wasted your time, you now want tot waste more of your time.
Carter Stewart
Is she a lesbian?
I hope she's bisexual at the very least.
Matthew White
Jokes on you, I actually greatly enjoy making threads/posts like this, so it's anything but a waste of time in my eyes.
Nathaniel Hernandez
Some games aren't just for everybody.
Thomas Ward
This track made me go back in time and play my super nes.
Wyatt Gonzalez
This thread made me want to listen to the FC OST again.
Brayden Wilson
It could have been though. They just needed more consistently good music instead of reserving the good tracks for 1 time usage while the shit tracks are what you hear most throughout the game. Cut down on the filler shit (which is admittedly hard since the game is mostly filler) Actually play test the difficulties.
Tada, the game is now a cult classic.
Luis Ramirez
What was your favorite of the OST then?
Evan Martin
I generally kept Olivier in the party as often as possible, given that he is both amusing as hell and he has damn good magic, with the plus that you can do whatever the fuck you want with his orbment setup.
Kevin is also acceptable since he is like a Diet Olivier, and his S-craft is pretty handy for some of the bigger fights.
>given that he is both amusing as hell and he has damn good magic
Cannot really deny that.
Tita or Kloe to go along with Oliver then?
Jose Watson
I never cared much for Tita, honestly.
I generally run on a 'you can never have enough magic' policy, and Kloe is good at that, and she has to have blue quartz so she is going to have healing, which you can use here for along with whatever offensive/support magic you can slap on her. I think if you can get their turn orders rigged up right, you can use her, or anyone else with a heal really, to abuse the fuck out of that skill that hurts Agate and gives him a metric fuckton of CP. Just make sure the cast happens right after his turn, and you can spam his s-crafts/
While I never used him much, admittedly, I hear Zane can do some pretty stornk damage if used properly.
Zachary Harris
I basically ran with the full magic based team in FC too. Agate seems pretty decent this time around though for the reasons you stated, so I might keep him around and have the rest be more focused on magic as usual.
Maybe I'll give Zane a try if I run into any trouble though.
Samuel Perez
Zane is a great tank man. He has Earth Wall too, so get that up as soon as possible.
Oliver Russell
I enjoyed Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2 far more than Sky games
Alexander Collins
Hold the fuck up. The thread can't die yet.
Somebody post a link to the title screen theme that plays for SC, then the thread has my permission to die.
It's the one that is an arrange of Tower of the Four-Wheels, I can't seem to find it.
Everything for another trails fans, user. In my place no one played the game. Either FF or persona.
Jonathan Rogers
This is why you never try to criticize shit JRPGs. The fanbase loves eating shit and will just deflect any arguments.
Lincoln Morales
OP didn't really create an argument in the first place.
Lincoln Garcia
Go play Skyrim OP.
John Cox
The guy just seems to like starting threads by shitposting, he probably likes it really. Nobody would bother playing through two very long JRPG's that they didn't like (and then say they're going to play the third) just to shitpost...right?
Grayson King
Is grossly recycling areas and quests not an argument for bad game design?
Kayden Flores
RPGs are an addiction
Oliver Jones
I'd say it's part of the world building.
Bracers are doings jobs that all of the cities are having problems with.
Jack Ortiz
Skyrim has better gameplay and story than Trails in the Sky FC and SC. I really don't get why Sup Forums love these kusoge so much. Same for Ys and Dark Souls. They're overated shit.
Cooper Rivera
Altina part of main party when. Need the bonding points for Altina
Nolan Gomez
>Skyrim has better gameplay
They're two different types of games.
This is good bait though.
Evan Rivera
>Skyrim >gameplay
Henry Baker
>argumentum ad populum wew lad
Luis Martinez
Soon user, soon.
Thomas Martin
Fact is both Neptunia and Tales of Zestiria are better than Trails in the Sky.
Jacob Johnson
ok.
Levi King
By what metric?
Daniel Ward
So I'm confused, does OP like the game or not?
Justin Gray
I like Neptunia games but now you're just b8ing m8.
Jason Sullivan
>Skyrim has better Stopped reading there.
David Lewis
SC sold like shit because people didn't like FC.
Eli Jenkins
Yes, he loves it
Ian Young
What was everyones personal list of favorite games? Cold Steel at least had the best girls.
