Cold Steel PC

Comfy highlands edition.

>how far have you gotten?
>how many hours have you put in?
>what difficulty are you playing?
>best girl?
>are you having fun?

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This handsome young man is your new roommate. Say something nice to him.

I don't accept nobles, you can crash in the fucking barn asshole.

The other guy is cuter.

Why are they making you play with literal who's though?

Yeah I'm loving it, Laura best girl.

When is 2 coming out(pc)?Also, did it sell well?

I beat this games ages ago man. It's like every time PC fags get a new game the rest of Sup Forums has to suffer their stale conversation about games we've beaten years ago.

I think being a teacher is the best thing that could happen to Rean, and he can't be a teacher without students. We've already seen tgat he fights the important fights with old class VII so it's all good

Hope he's bottom.

Supposedly this year.

Oh, have we? I didn't see that.

I prefer the one that's not a fuccboi

Just beat the game yesterday, what a ride.
78 hours to beat the game but i use turbo button a lot.
Playing on hard for my first run, boss fight balance seem to be all over the place. One boss may be extremly easy because you can cheese them with various and stacked status, while the next boss fight might come cheap because they have strong AoE that inflict abnormal statuses.
I liked Fie, she's pretty boring early game but got slightly better. Alisa is fine too.

I think the game is pretty fun ride, all that Sky reference is pretty nice too.

Homosexuality is a sin user.

So, new Thors in CS3 is pretty much going to be like the Thors from early Cold Steel script, right? An actual tough military school?

It's the purest form of love.

>best girl?

Laura of course.

Start of Chapter 2
40 hours
Normal
Jusis
Yes

Will you remember him?

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Hard to forget when he's reminding us

Good for you snowflake. Email nu-moot for your special trip code.

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>Valimar gets a whole freight car to himself.
Wow

I absolute adored Trails in the Sky 1 and 2 one of the main reasons were the diverse cast and travelling around Liberl.
From what I gather this game is more focused on your academy class and the school in general. My question is thus: Will I like this game?

Nearly all bosses can be cheesed with just delay

>Comfy
Try barren.

If you really believe that after the mess 1 and 2 were there is no hope for you

Wish I could, one of the worst and least engaging death scenes ever

I am bored to death again like the Trails in the Sky game. I don't know what people see in this series.

I'm on my third playthrough (one for each system) and I still don't understand what race/ethnicity these people are supposed to be inspired from.

Blue-eyed Middle-eastern/Peruvian/Mongolian?

You still travel around Erebonia and there's a lot more story-involved characters in these games.

The school is used as a framing device for all the social-political shit that's happening behind the scenes, your field studies are modeled after the bracers MO so you're still travelling across the country doing shit like finding lost cats to exterminating big monsters, except now it's for school marks. You'll probably recognize a few characters from other series as well so you kinda know something is going on.
That being said, the school setting is still a pretty big part of the story, so you do have your cliches like class hi-jinks, class rivalries and school festivals. It's also pretty prominent and kinda heavy and in your face at times.
Characters are a hit or miss, although it's generally agreed on that the main cast isn't as strong as the past series' casts.

Play the 3rd.

>Characters are a hit or miss, although it's generally agreed on that the main cast isn't as strong as the past series' casts.
Absolutely this, some of the characters were top-tier, but a few of characters were so fucking bad.

Thanks guys, you've officially convinced me. Looking forward to it then.

I really didn't think Kevin was funny nor interesting and mainly found him to be extremely obnoxious. also the whole ordeal with the timegates or whatever doesn't interest me as much as an good old fashioned adventure.

That's what they're saying. The main branch already went full military after Cedric enrolled and Reeves only has 3 classes, all of which are military focused.
Whether or not it actually hold up to that remains to be seen.

60 hrs so far, probably another ~10 hours until I'm near the tutorial area. Pretty good value for $40 tbqh.

Main point of the 3rd isn't about adventure like FC & SC, it's all about additional lore that set up next game or stuff that left unexplained in the past game. They also offer whole lot of additional character story to flesh them out even more.

Beat it last week. Had a blast. Topped out at 60 hours on normal. Sara best girl.

Should I finish TiTS before jumping into this? I dropped FC around chapter 4 for some reason like a year or 2 ago.

>you've officially convinced me. Looking forward to it then.
It's a fun game. Be warned that it's full of modern animu tropes that get called weebshit, but to be fair the Sky games were filled with the animu tropes of its era that get called weebshit too.

So, is this a JRPG? Why should I play it?

As long as you beat 3rd then w/e, since it's basically a big exposition/lore dump that sets up the rest of the series.

You'll miss bunch of reference & some explanation about various stuff, as well as knowledge regarding various faction, organization & some of character background.
Playing with TiTS knowledge about the setting will enrich your experience in CS, but is not a must.
Some people will say "don't skip the game" but it's your choice.

Does the Sky trilogy get any more fun after FC? The battle system in the first was slow and boring as shit.

Yeah, if you don't finish Trails FC, FC, and 3rd then CS will lose any impact it may have had.

They stay pretty much the same for entire trilogy.

You're pretty much at the end, might as well finish it. The problem after becomes whether or not you wanna continue on to SC or jump into CS, since FC ends on a cliffhanger.

Siberian/Mongolian, the blue eyes and brown hair are just it being fantasy.

Not really. The new turbo button alleviates a lot of the tediousness from backtracking and battling though since you can just speed through it.

You should finish it anyway since TitS is much better than CS.

Fuck nightmare arena in 3rd. I thought it's going to be 3 battles like in other difficulties and used all of my s-crafts, that 4th battle was tough.

>japan's top 16 kisekis

11. Renne Hayworth
12. Randy Orlando
13. Alisa Reinford
14. Kloe Rinz
15. Towa Herschel
16. Tita Russell
16. Jusis Albarea(tied with Tita)

>coolest caps character i ever seen in game
what did they mean by that?

>no Kevin
Shit taste.

>Rean in 3rd
Nice.

>Estelle BY FAR the first
everything is right in the world

why are you struggling so hard to put fictional humans into real life categories?

>fie is the most liked cold steel girl

How old is that ranking?

Seems to be a little over a year, but I don't know if they've done any more recent polls.

definitely after CS2 given Fie's outfit.

>Supposedly this year.
I'm surprised, I expected they'd want to wait ages to make sure everyone finishes the first one. It isnt like 3 will be coming west before 2019

Get on your knees

How do I reach Paradise?

>Fie destroying Alica that much
Why are nips such good taste?

Kevin is pretty much a non-entity in SC, he becomes one of the best characters in the series in the 3rd.

Ditto. It's a boring story.
>but the characters
They're archetypes played straight. They don't do anything new or surprising.

>Kevin is pretty much a non-entity in SC
He's just kind of a lamer Oliver

Do Cold Steel games have ridiculously huge amounts of dialog like the TiTS games do?

Yes.

Yes, I have +100 hours on Cold Steel file from reading every single NPC dialogue change.

I just finished 3rd, is there any of the other games fan translated or should I just start playing CS1?

>is there any of the other games fan translated
There's various scripts and translations for some of the others, but they really aren't 100% and for a serious as dialog focused as Trails, I wouldnt bother

>Do Cold Steel games have ridiculously huge amounts of dialog like the TiTS games do?

They all have atrocious pacing.

The devs never heard of "brevity is the soul of wit".

Both games (not combined) have approximately as much text as FC.

They have even more dialogue.

Zero has a serviceable translation. It's kind of awkward at times but it's perfectly fine to play.
Ao has a spreadsheet if you wanna deal with that, but only for the main storyline.
The crossbell games don't really play into Cold Steel until CS2 so you could play the first one and then go back to Zero if you want.

Do I have my choice of girls to fuck in this game?

>at least 9 games into the series
>there is still little to no information available about the actual plot
>every game is just ridiculous """foreshadowing""" with shadowy figures making vague allusions to supposedly important events while the main cast jobs once in a while to a purportedly powerful villain

Yes, but Alisa is pushed a lot since she's the canon choice and her scenes are a lot "better". Feel free to pick whoever you want though.

>implying the reason I play the series isn't to generate crack theories about it's mysteries

Wish I had saved link to that japanese site which had a poll of favourite CS girls

No. No choice you make will ever actually matter since there is no lasting romantic development or even lasting development in general from any choice you select.

>there is still little to no information available about the actual plot
>He hasnt already figured out who the Grandmaster is

>The crossbell games don't really play into Cold Steel until CS2 so you could play the first one and then go back to Zero if you want.
Will do exactly that then, thanks.

>implying the Grandmaster doesn't just want you to think that person is the Grandmaster
>implying that isn't just going to be the resolution on the surface while characters hint that the real Grandmaster was just jobbing in order to further their plans
>implying that Towa isn't going to be shoved down our throats even more as both the Goddess and the fake Grandmaster

I can't wait for her to be even more perfect at everything while being completely beloved by every character with her only """negative""" character traits actually just being various types of moe.

Why doesn't Japan like Sara?

Japs actually buy their games.

It isnt her fault she's perfection

It's so refreshing to have a JRPG protag that's more perceptive than me.

>towa and sword autist that high

>It's so refreshing to have a JRPG protag that's more perceptive than me.

You should play Radiant Historia, then.

Every other group of people in this game is heavily inspired from nationalities in real life. Why shouldn't these guys be so too?

>laura that high

Nice

One of these is not like the others.

He's really bad in SC and like user said just a worse Olivier. He'd pretty much have to make a 180 to replace Estelle as main lead.

Autistic girls are cute

Is it sad that a half-a-decade-old PS3 game might be my GOTY?

No. It's a great game. It was GOTY 2013 with no competition.

He does. The little you see of him in SC when he kills Weissmann is what he's really like.

CS would be my GOTY if it weren't for TiTS 3