is trails in the sky and the other trails games good? looking for something with a good story and these games have been shilled on here for a while.
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is trails in the sky and the other trails games good?
If you're not already into trails don't get into trails. Save yourself the endless pain in the ass. The series is a bloated nightmare at this point and after 12 games barely has more plot than a single game.
legend of heroes was shit from the very first game, it was a blight on the dragon slayer branding and a prime contender for the worst turn based jrpg of all time
They're less a good story and more very atmospheric. If the idea of constantly talking to every npc in town after every single event to read all their new dialogue and see their substories progress doesn't sound enticing, probably give it a skip. Though I will say that Sky FC keeping its story fairly low-stakes for the most part is somewhat unique and pretty cool in that regard IMO.
What I will say is you should ignore EVERY SINGLE PERSON who tells you it's okay to play past Sky Third. You could also potentially just be done after Second Chapter. But don't bother with anything after Third, no matter how curious you are about the stuff it sets up.
What about Azure and Zero?
Azure and Zero are excellent
Cold Steel and onwards is even better.
But it's your choice in the end tbh, quality always filters correctly.
Sky's great, Crossbell's good, Cold Steel 1 is a bit ass in an objective sense but still enjoyable. Everything afterwards is pretty bad.
Yes.
Trails in the Sky FC and the first two Trails of Cold Steel games are fantastic, particularly the first two CS games. The first few hours of FC are sluggish and the sidequests are shit and the combat is unrefined. CS1 was engaging from the get go and has very entertaining combat and character building, especially if you play on hard or nightmare difficulty. The Cold Steel sequels had issues and don't reach the same overall high standard of the first two CS games, but were enjoyable too. I did not enjoy the Trails in the Sky sequels or the new Kuro no Kiseki game as much, though again there was some fun to be had there. I found the Crossbell duology to be rather mediocre, though.
The series has pleasant characters, a unique early modern fantasy setting, cool mechas, kickass soundtracks, good aesthetics, and a comfy sense of community. Just don't go in expecting that the overarching storyline to have a satisfying payoff. The world war storyline was botched and the supervillain storyline hasn't gone anywhere since the second game. You have to enjoy the games for the aforementioned merits.
Honestly i actually loved they didn't go into that super evil organization anymore. It is overdone in jrpg and boring now. The low stakes from the first trilogy game was amazing. Just some random adventures in a big country with a few mysteries. I'm loving crossbell too for the same reasons. I really wish we could have a story about the salt pale/jaeguers or some of the northern isolated countries.
Yes they're good but people here froth at the mouth at the very mention of them. Just make up your own mind.
I like them, although I agree that Cold Steel isn't as good as the Liberal and Crossbell games.
Yes, they are.
Sky's story and atmosphere are fantastic, but expect a large chunk of the first game being spent on worldbuilding and introduction of the characters.
The kiseki universe is giant, and the foundation for all of that was laid in that very first game.
>The kiseki universe is giant
You mean gigantic? In theory I guess, sure doesn't feel like that though
Play on hard, don't play on nightmare. Especially SC jesus fricking christ they did not playtest that shit.
I recommend Nightmare myself tbh. It is perfectly doable blind, as I did it. (Regarding SC but also all the other Kiseki games.)
*gets filtered by SC tutorial boss*
Semi-related to OP but when people praise the story of these games do they praise the twists and events or is it more of a character driven game
Why don't just play the psp vita version? Also is voice acting exclusive only of the first chapter?
NTA but if you mean the PSP version, it has a worse translation then the PC version which is superior by all means. The Vita version is a little overhated but I see why. The biggest hit to the game is it's graphics, not just the portraits. Though if you don't have a PC/only play on console and happen to own a modded Vita it's not bad.
I see, thanks anon.
I felt the problem is that is just the same guys working on the games while the interns leave because they Will never have Power. Like go to moobygames to the first Sky Game, and some programmer still work on the same position for Hajimaru, IS insane.
Even guts and Compile have some division, Atelier have the Ryza director and Sophie/Marie Remake director. Ys/Kisekihas been the Kondo/Kusano (and sometimes Takeiri) yard since Ys VI.
Maybe now with the new guy directing Ys X without those three and maybe new staff working on Xanadu, the company can improve and stop being a training Camp for programmer (Kiseki is a lost cause)
Or maybe he the same programmer has been working at Falcom for 20 years because it is near his house compared to other game devs, he likes the games he works on, and he likes the people there.
Trannies In The Sky is one of the most overrated shitty JRPG's out there
All trails games are absolute shit, don't pay money if you're going to play homosexual shit at least.
Trails in the Sky is probably the best jRPG ever made. Way better than more know entries like Final Fantasy, which are mediocre and half-baked most of the time.
This may be true but I believe Cold Steel is even better tbh
if you're the kind of person looking to jrpgs because you want a good story, then you'll probably love it. trails story is as generic as it gets (typical with falcom), and it's full of teenagers and cheesy/poorly translated social drama. it's perfect for morons like you.
>if you're the kind of person looking to jrpgs because you want a good story
so 90% of people who play jrpgs?
>trails story is as generic as it gets
Factually wrong.
>it's full of teenagers
Joshua and Estelle are 18, and every party member besides Tita is older that them.
>cheesy/poorly translated social drama
There's no social drama at all.
Conclusion:
Underage b8 who got his information from Ganker shitposting.
I like the setting and characters, and the gameplay is good by jrpg standards. But I can't call them good because you're expected to be looking at a guide the whole time instead of fully immersing yourself in the games.
I played them blind tbh, still got top ranks in most. That is more your problem than anything else
>expected to be looking at a guide the whole time
The only major missables in Trails is a two part sidequests in Ao. Just be sure to keep talking to the Harolds every day and you won't miss it. You can't miss anything in Trails of Cold Steel onwards as the game holds your hand and points everything out.
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Should I drop the series at CS or is that just an exaggerated Ganker meme? I don't think many people like those games.
Coldsteel's story is a bit cliche but the overall storyline about Erebonia, Calvard and Crossbell is good. Plus many characters from the previous games return and are just as good.
Ganker acts like they're the worst games ever made and it's pretty far from the truth
Kiseki games have only gotten better as the series went on tbh (up to CS4 at least). I haven't played Daybreak yet. There was some dispute within the Kiseki "fanbase" over translations because one group got hired for their work and another did not and this has caused endless seething
Again, the first two CS games are great. After that there are issues but I enjoyed them enough to finish them.
You should have started playing good games instead of this slop.
Considering those games made the series popular, you should try them before dropping. Like what does it matter what anyone said before you try the games yourself.
Definitely play it, but feel free to skip most of the dialogue, I don't know if its badly translated or what. But the combat is nonstop kino
lolno, they're absolutely terrible and get worse and worse with each entry. Stay away, and remember, the shilling is done by a tiny devoted part of the cult of Falcom and in no way represents reality.
>t. /fg/ browser
Liked a lot about the trilogy. Specially how lots of random npcs have mini character arcs. The combat is good, but also simple and gets repetitive very fast, and since they are long games it becomes a chore to finish them.
I would recommed you try the first one and then to take a 2 month rest before trying the sequels, otherwise you risk getting burned out like i did.
Overall tho? pretty decent
playing the first game and liking it but i feel myself going down the completionist rabbit hole and i don't want to hate myself later down the line because i feel for the npc autism. is the side content good or just focus on the main story. currently at bose.
The side content is by far the best part. Enjoy yourself.
And don't worry about burning yourself out. Exploration is the bread and butter of the series
Side content is great, take your time and enjoy the world
Do the side shit, Anon.
Playing them at all is the worst way to play the games.
As opposed to watching them on youtube?
They're kino of all time haters have no taste
Do it NOW
Do you like games where every chapter takes 10 hours to complete due to unskippable dialogue and you can miss out on dozens of achievements if you don't talk to one NPC to get a receipe?
If not then avoid.
>everyone i don't like is the same person
Get HIV
Now kiss!
most Ganker morons are borderline npcs who just parrot complaints without actually understanding them because they get a pathetic little rush off of hating something
It's not a matter of the act of reading, but the content. Xenogears did it well, because it had a good story. FC forces you to read endless babble about spices on a sammich between Josh and Estelle and the like
thats the best part tho
series is great don't listen to the morons from /fg/
Sky trilogy, crossbell duology are great stop once you reach cold steel, turns into generic battle harem shounen slop with no stakes and not much happens over the course of the four cold steel games, honest you can probably just play 1 CS game and skip the rest and jump into kuro. The writers at this point don't give a shit about the story so neither should you
Sniffing Estelle's stregas...
fricking, breeding and fertilizing Estelle's Stregas
cheerful Estelle sex...
cheerful Estelle facial
The sky trilogy and the crossbell games are kino, I think cold steel 1-3 were okay but the problem was that these three games were a buildup to an extremely disappointing conclusion in cold steel 4
For me, CS 1-4 is the best (I haven't played Reverie yet however)
They aren't good. They are extremely immersive and have good gameplay (sadly after the 7th entry you are required to play the hardest difficulty to feel challenged at all).
Also rare case of a JRPG series to be sequel-based and still having Tales/FF number of entries.
Please tell me crossbell and cold steel drop this forced party bullshit. I don't mind having 20 party members but being forced to use the ones you don't like or are underleveled and undergeared it is really fricking shitty. Put those Black folk as guests if you don't take them like any sane rpg
Crossbell games arent bad with that.
CS 1 is very forced party
CS 2 you build up party as you go
CS 3 is very forced party, only have freedom after midgame
CS 4 you have a lot of freedom in party choice approaching midgame, playable roster is pretty big
in zero you use the same 4 people for 90% of the game, azure you have 6 with some guests.
In cold steel there are segments where you are forced to split into two groups so you better have levelled and geared everyone if youre playing on hard!
It’s easy as frick man
The game has a built in system where leveling people to where you’re at is easy, you literally never have to think about this
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In cold steel there are segments where you are forced to split into two groups so you better have levelled and geared everyone if youre playing on hard!
No....not this shit again, i hated it so much on 3rd. Can you lower the difficulty mid game in cold steel? At least i can enjoy crossbell with a smaller cast.
Exp scaling makes it so that the new members catch up in 2-3 trash fights anon.
Sky was the least tuned in this regard.
I don't care about the experience, but the equipment and orbment adjustment for everyone is annoying. And a lot of them will be weak if you don't bother optimizing those things. At least it was for the past games.
Ah, then you will be annoyed tbh. CS1 will annoy you more, CS2 you can do less of the adjustments.
its more like 8-9 fights to get everyone to a workable level, and even then the boss fights will be hard unless you want to spend even more time grinding for everyone's level to match.
This is not even the painful part, the painful part is swapping orbments between parties since some of them are essential for QOL, and also learning everyones crafts since those are way more important in cold steel than they were in sky 3rd
>boss fights
>hard
Oh no he’s moronic
well yeah they are hard on the higher difficulties since you dont know who the boss is or what they do before you split your team and only one team can fight them so if you put characters that are ass against the boss you either have a hard fight or load a save before you split your team and overload the team thats going to fight the boss (e.g juno naval fortress)
You might be right, I have never gone for a 1 party focus so all my characters are probably generally more even-levelled than someone who does something like this.
I told him that he would be annoyed (like you) with the other stuff already tbh.
It's not near as grindy as 3.
Dogshit games. Falcom's the new Compile Heart.
Lmao couldn't agree more, also I've never seen anybody talk about the Kuro games, they seem even worse then cold steel
>ironic weebs and westoids seething over the Kings of JP-KINO
Falcom is too powerful
Compile-hearts KINO is also powerful, glad to see it causing them pain still kek
Yep, you're either trolling or have the worst taste imaginable. Thanks for confirming, schizo. You'll be ignored from now on, LOL.
have a pity (you)
These games are shilled here ironically as a meme. They are literal shovelware at this point and nobody with functioning brain cells would genuinely recommend playing them.
But enough about the fallout series
>open chest in azure
>no message
Dropped
>he didn’t read Trails in the Chest
Man the game songs are so great
I tried playing the first one and I really did not enjoy it. Far as I can tell, their main strengths are great localizations and having a dozen games in the series. Everything else is medicore.
Yes i find hard to recommend this game for people. You either love to death or you hate to death. It doesn't help the gameplay is very mediocre in the first 5 games.
I was initially enthralled by the amount of attention to detail the series have, it is like reading a japanese lord of rings book. NPC having different dialogue after every little thing happening gave them so much life.
The only negative about this series is that the girls are dressed like Muslims