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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I will. After Azure. I just beat CS2.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Azure is the best in the series, enjoy. No I'm not a drama gay or an elitist I like all the games (except CS1)

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No thanks

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    1>3>2>4
    Prove me wrong, you wont.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >dude what if we split a game into two
      >but like dude, let's make the seuquel 90% filler that doesn't solves the plot
      >yo bro, let's do that but twice

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        one man's filler is another man's content. technically, it doesn't advance the plot forward but you get to interact with characters you like.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      3>1>2>4 because nuclass 7 is better

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      3 rand like shit for me despite all the other games being totally fine. Also Nu7 don't have as much internal friction as the old team had in their first year. I still liked it but it was a rough start to the second half of the saga.

      I'm more of a Ys enjoyer
      I don't care about all these 1000 hours of exposition and lore dumps

      I really liked Dana, how do the other YS games compare to it?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        IX is the most similar but the environment is mostly a drab grey city / prison instead of the tropical environments in VIII. If that doesn’t bother you, every other aspect is pretty good compared to VIII.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Hm, a lot of the appeal was the comfy island exploration and the music. Also Dana's pits.

          Guess I'll wait on a sale and grab it sometime.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Don't do it, it's honestly terrible. it's like 8 if they sucked all the heart and soul out of it. The story isn't good, the characters aren't good, the world SUCKS to explore. Combat is good but it's just 8's combat with a few added bells and whistles. I'd wait to see if 10 is good.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Ys before 7 was a very different beast. They're generally like a more action-focused Zelda with light RPG mechanics, and you can beat each of them in one sitting if you know what you're doing. The combat is always simple, but more engaging than the character-swapping games. I think they're all great, my favorites being Chronicles 1 and Dawn of Ys.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      1>4>2>3

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If one is the best three has to axiomatically be good as it's a MGS2 recreation of 1 because of
        >muh cycles, muh curse

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Actually good tier
      1 and 2
      >CringeKino with an extra helping of cringe tier
      4
      >please kill me this is genuinely embarrassing tier
      3

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >CS2
        >genuinely good
        This has to be bait.

        Your argument has no merit when the first three games is a literal sao romance story with no substance.

        What on earth are you talking about?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          C2 is the best one because it's literally the only one that feels like things are happening. Stupid dumb things that don't feel like they have consequence but at least the party has a mission rather than just bumble fricking around doing even more moronic errands.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >2
        >One side of the civil war are literally evil racists doing a coup
        >We have to be a neutral party
        >Proceeds to spend the entire game exclusivly fighting the racists doing a coup
        Lol, lmao. Not to mention rean screaming, crying, falling to his knees, shitting his pants and cumming every time he finds a member of class 7 despite only ebing gone A MONTH during which time he was asleep.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          i honestly have to ignore the time frames of trails. it's the one thing that is horribly done.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >evil racists
          I mean, at least try to be credible. The only "evil racists doing a coup" in Trails are in Kuro

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      1 > 4 > 2 > 3
      3 is a fricking abomination with some of the most insulting chapter endings I've ever seen. nu class 7 are way better than OG class 7 but CS3 just has too many problems for it to work out. 4 is much better and anyone who says otherwise never played it. Don't care about your arguments or rebuttals, it's a fact. Nobody who has actually played 4 thinks it's worse than 3.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I honestly don't understand how you can have FOUR games and still barely develop half your cast.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I think it boils down to two things.
          >Writing characters with a simple premise and not taking much consideration into how they're going to fit in the overarching story.
          >Having too many ideas and not enough time to combine them all into a cohesive narrative.
          These days, Falcom craps out a new Trails game like every one to two years. It's not like back during Sky's development period where the staff essentially took five years to finish the original Sky duology, which were developed a single game from the get-go.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I really think Cold Steel's setting works against it. You have too much of your cast either locked in one place or punted off on side field trips (Which we never get to see but were probably way more exciting) but there's never a sense of real progression because the game wants you to be high schoolers too so there's always kind of a feeling of security. The Crossbell games were kind of the same way but I think it worked there better in part because your main party was smaller by about half so the characters weren't fighting for screen time so even if they weren't super developed they at least felt present. More to point, because they were older (if only slightly because LOL ANIME) and you know, cops, they were actually more proactive in how they were handling conflict. In cold steel 1 it's like you just sort of kept Scooby Dooing your way into major plot situations one after another but then your teachers would be all "Nah, man forget about it and go learn math or some shit."

            I feel like there's a reason so many RPGs don't really have you in one location for too long and have a more sense of forward moment. It's because it allows characters to come and go as needed rather than just sit in the closet and never be used.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Crossbell was the most kino arc

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >I honestly don't understand how you can have FOUR games and still barely develop half your cast.
          it's quite simple anon, there are too many fricking main characters to properly develop all of them.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I think it boils down to two things.
          >Writing characters with a simple premise and not taking much consideration into how they're going to fit in the overarching story.
          >Having too many ideas and not enough time to combine them all into a cohesive narrative.
          These days, Falcom craps out a new Trails game like every one to two years. It's not like back during Sky's development period where the staff essentially took five years to finish the original Sky duology, which were developed a single game from the get-go.

          I really think Cold Steel's setting works against it. You have too much of your cast either locked in one place or punted off on side field trips (Which we never get to see but were probably way more exciting) but there's never a sense of real progression because the game wants you to be high schoolers too so there's always kind of a feeling of security. The Crossbell games were kind of the same way but I think it worked there better in part because your main party was smaller by about half so the characters weren't fighting for screen time so even if they weren't super developed they at least felt present. More to point, because they were older (if only slightly because LOL ANIME) and you know, cops, they were actually more proactive in how they were handling conflict. In cold steel 1 it's like you just sort of kept Scooby Dooing your way into major plot situations one after another but then your teachers would be all "Nah, man forget about it and go learn math or some shit."

          I feel like there's a reason so many RPGs don't really have you in one location for too long and have a more sense of forward moment. It's because it allows characters to come and go as needed rather than just sit in the closet and never be used.

          OG class 7 didn't really get much development but I think they handled nu-class 7 pretty well.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        3 was so bad I just dropped the series altogether

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cold Steel 3 is the worst one.

      >What was that?
      >Instructor Rean! quick, this way!
      >are those... [placeholder]!?
      *Rean pulls sword out of thin air*
      >Class Seven, our duty is to stop [placeholder]
      *kills enemies*
      >wew, they're unconscious for now, lets move!
      >Reans students yell: RIGHT!!!!
      *make it to destination*
      >It's it's [characters name]... No it's [Characters Title]!
      >Well if it isn't Class Seven!
      >What are you doing here!?
      >We're here for a special mission of sorts. Information I can't share with you.
      >Well we'll just beat it out of you!
      >CLASS SEVEN, MOVE OUT!
      >RIGHT!
      >Que: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APhiVB7ipfc

      INFORMATION: REMOVE 40% OF ENEMIES HEALTH

      *battle Over*
      *Rean kneeling and panting with his students*
      >No... They're too strong... I'm going to have to use... THAT.
      >No Instructor Rean you can't!
      >HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
      >Que: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_tEhzh5X0
      >Wait... is that..! [Old Class Seven name placeholder]!!!!!!
      *is able to drive back the enemy like it was nothing, the same enemy Rean and kids couldn't stop*
      >Well that's enough fun for today
      >!?
      >WAIT! WHAT IS OUROBOROS AFTER!?
      >Haha... wouldn't you like to know.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Kek I'm midway through trails in the sky SC, is this how falcom handles every single interaction even in cold steel games? It's basically every chapter so far in SC

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          There's a reason why people say cold steel is just a reskinned sky. Even crossbell is the same way.
          Every complaint that people have on crossbell and cold steel all goes back to the sky trilogy.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I didn't know Falcom's writers posted here.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I need to believe the character title thing that started in 3 is some kind of translation issue.
        The characters sitting around autistically listing the title of everyone present for 5 minutes on both sides made my brain melt.

        Also,
        >Heh you're pretty good you made me use 5% of my power let's get serious
        >No the students
        >[voice]: Oh no you don't!
        >Signature attack form off screen
        >Que: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_tEhzh5X0
        >Orobours member/ Ironblood dodges it
        >Is that? Its...
        >Returning character swoops in
        >Kept you waiting huh
        Is peak shonen cringekino and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        So shitty interactions aside is the story at least good if I ignore the Haremshit and the Scooby Doo interactions?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          CS3 is full of big nothingburger interactions. All the Haremshit is a meme, Rean can only choose one girl to hook up with much like the Persona games.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      1>4>2>3

      Are people nostalgia gayg or something? Cold steel 1 was its lowest entry on a technical level to a so so story with bland characters and nothing as stakes. Just at the end was really something.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Cold Steel 1 is just Sky FC but way better paced and actually doing a good job of teasing the important shit to the player to keep them intrigued on what's to come instead of forgetting about it for the entire playtime until dumping everything on the player in the last act. Also Thor's was a comfy hub and I enjoyed going back to it after every chapter.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's honestly kind of hard to rank 1. Because you're not wrong but a lot of the major problems with the series weren't really evident till later. When you played 1 the problems were there but you're kind of left thinking things will improve and can forgive 1 as being the entry point that needed to set things up. You can't really blame the first game because the later ones never made use of the stuff it put on the board without the benefit of hindsight.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's the last entry to feature blood or people definitively dying on screen.
        It sets up how and why erebonia operates the way it does with sensible consistent political storytelling, not thought memes.
        It's the first and last game to feature rean having character traits flaws or anything approaching development.
        >Doth thou desire the power?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >It's the last entry to feature blood or people definitively dying on screen.
          ? That couldn't be further from the truth. CS4 has the highest body count of any Kiseki game ever in terms of named character deaths.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Kuro 2 has the mc being impaled multiple times. Discuss.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Sounds gay.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >IF THEE AND I ARE OF ONE ACCORD A COVENANT CAN BE MADE
          >ONE HAS BUT TO CALL OUT MY NAME
          I came. Valamar is the most based character in cold steel.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've only played 1, but it had a lot of flaws
      I've heard it gets better, but:
      >teasing problems with zero conflict until the end
      >Blood and Iron [Redacted]
      >Rean is flawless
      >far too much hinting with no resolution
      It's mindblowing how the cat didn't know who the radio hostess was

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >It's mindblowing how the cat didn't know who the radio hostess was
        Magic

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      why do people like cs1? it's by far the most boring game in the entire series
      cs2 might be moronic but at least it feels like things happen in it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      4 > 3 > 1 > 2

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm more of a Ys enjoyer
    I don't care about all these 1000 hours of exposition and lore dumps

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Giwtwm

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >STR vs DEX.webm
      >5'11 vs 6'0.webm

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sorry, but I'm not autistic enough.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    does it have breast physics?

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Start game
    >immediately get thrown into a "school kids save the day"
    yeah no thanks.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No, how about YOU play Trails Before Dawn

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cute desert girl

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The cutest

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You mean trails of white people bad?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No Rean no play.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Kys

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Woke shit

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I still can't believe that /misc/ killed Towa.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Four games about the inherent issues of a strictly defined class system that directly enables and benefits from a system of hereditary privilege (I'm using that in the historic sense don't get triggered) and how that manifests in people's lives and their political system.
        >I sleep
        >Race mentioned even once
        >It's woke
        Lol, lmao even. Just admit you're a racist and any discussion about race anywhere by anyone triggers you because you hate brown people and women.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >4 games of nobility
          >The nobility are still there and acquit them pretty well by CS4
          >one game of Kuro
          >WHITE PEOPLE BADDDDDDDDDDD

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Why do you have to lie, pretending that "race is mentioned once" in Kuro when the major plot is literally white supremacists and the racist mafia they funded?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Your post disproves you homosexual

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >I posted it being said once
              >so it was never said again
              Nani?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Armata doesn't give a crud about race.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              So why did they nuke Creil? And explain

              I CAN'T WAIT FOR TRAILS INTO ESG

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No thanks.
      Not even female rean true mary sue who will get a pass because she is female or literal strip clubs will get me to play that shit.
      Eastern zemuria fricking when?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Just end the whole damn saga. I'm sick of Ouroborus. I'm sick of everything being endless hints of things that never come. I want to end the damn trip already.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I will now play your game.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Hell, I figured this wasn't coming to NA until 2024-2025, does it have an English patch or something?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yep, it's easy to find with a quick google search.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm in the middle of Cold Steel 4 and I have absolute zero investment in the story. It's like a horrible light novel that should have ended years ago but they've dragged it on for an extra decade.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    These games seem like they have shit harem writing compared to the OG trails in the sky

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Shoujo romance writing is not inherently better than shonen harem writing.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It is actually, shoujo romances tend to be a small step above Shounen Haremshit since a staple of Haremshit writing is there usually never being a canonical main girl

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Shoujo romance does not have a canon romance interest, only a canon rapist.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Which reveals the true nature of women, and it's based
            Estelle is literally "I can fix him" as well

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I am currently playing at the proper and true beginning of the kiseki series, Trails in the Sky FC!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Evo portraits

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      When the frick is this coming to switch, what the frick
      pS4 and Switch release when??

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You will NEVER see a Western release of Sky, Cold Steel 1-2, and older Ys games because of the situation between Xseed and NISA. CS 1/2 are already on Switch in JP.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >lgbt series
    No. I hate japan

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >LGBT series
      >The only two confirmed lesbians are sex predators
      Sure thing buddy.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've only ever played the original ones on PSP, I liked the first one but two and 3 were very boring, I didn't like how much they changed the combat. How are the more modern games? They're pretty frickin expensive still despite having assfrickloads of dlc.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The "DLC" for the Cold Steel games is just fluff like accessories and costumes, there's zero gameplay relevance there. It's not like there's a DLC story expansion or whatever, you can ignore all of it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Regardless, the fact it exists and they're still charging near full price for it even on sale kills my interest.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    When CS4 is sub $30

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I love chest messages! They better have put them into Azure.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Frick you Black person, XSEED chest messages were good, NISA/Geofront are cancer.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          SC's messages repeated too much, and 3rd were cancer
          >dude what if we just dumped a couple short stories in and split them between text messages so they're unintelligible

          Zero is the best these messages have ever been.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Trailgays

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm gonna play Tokyo Xanadu instead

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Asuka bros... where is our sequel?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Wow, kino

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I really would like one. Seriously I'm interested in Ys X but I will take literally anything from Falcom that isn't another fricking Trails game at this point. Enough has been enough.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          But TX is just a Cold Steel asset flip with a half-written plot.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            And Cold Steel is the flag ship series that had four games and still feels half written.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I honestly enjoyed it more than the last few trails games because it was at least different and a complete story even if the story itself was fricking terrible.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              It was dumb as hell but it was more in that almost early to mid 2000s anime kind of way. Completely idiotic but I can dig it. It didn't try to pretend like it was some massive sweeping epic.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Seriously I'm interested in Ys X but I will take literally anything from Falcom that isn't another fricking Trails game at this point
          >hajimari 2020
          >kuro 1 2021
          >kuro 2 2022
          falcom was pretty moronic for releasing a new kiseki game for 3 years straight, even japan has gotten burnt out because the kuro games are flopping hard.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >>kuro 1 2021
            >>kuro 2 2022

            haha...

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              (laughs)

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The Kuro games are flopping hard because they're absolute garbage. People who hate CS are doing the sunk cost fallacy thing and praising Kuro despite that.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Nintendo needs to buy Falcom so we can have a Trails, Pokémon and Fire Emblem cross over dating sim

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Nintendo needs to buy Falcom
                frick no, the games wouldn't come to pc anymore

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That's just too low of a bar for me. Having the Xanadu brand tainted with a stupid dollar store ARPG Persona isn't worth it.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Are the xanadu next games good?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              It's just one game, and yes it is good. The rest of the Xanadu series is hit or miss. The original Xanadu is VERY old and janky. The PC Engine CD games had fan translations in the works, but the team working has been silent for like the past 6 years.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Having the Xanadu brand tainted
            Your game spent most of it's life as an N-gage exclusive don't pretend the Xanadu brand has any special meaning.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Your game spent most of it's life as an N-gage exclusive
              Better than filler title shat out in ten months to appease shareholders.
              >don't pretend the Xanadu brand has any special meaning.
              The original Xanadu was literally the best-selling Japanese PC game during the 80s, and was the game that really put Falcom on the map.

              Are you trying to tell me that the people that hype up Sky's writing are zoomers that simply don't know any better? I don't think there's really anything wrong with sticking to the tropes, once I got through my initial seething about how god damn terrible Sky FC was I actually enjoyed the subsequent 2 games quite a lot. I think people just set the wrong expectations for me which made me feel disappointed. I might have to replay FC at one point with my expectations right to see if I enjoy it more.

              [...]
              I need to play the Crossbell games next but I'm going to keep my expectations low this time. I enjoy dumb tropey stuff and I like how slow the games are, gives you that sense of belonging instead of rushing from plot point to plot point.

              [...]
              I wouldn't go that far. FC as I said was god awful, introducing characters and throwing them away before you could get attached to them, there was no hook beyond finding Casius which was way too sparse and uninteresting. Joshua's and Estelles interactions weren't fun for me, they aren't interesting characters and Estelle is kind of obnoxious and I really didn't like how much of a Mary Sue she is being forced into places in SC that she really had no place participating in and people sucking her dick like she was the best person ever. Their romance just felt melodramatic at times too. Maybe if you haven't played too many JRPGs Sky's writing could impress but to me it just felt tried and tested without really doing anything to set itself apart writing wise.

              >Are you trying to tell me that the people that hype up Sky's writing are zoomers that simply don't know any better?
              Nah, sounds like you just have shit taste and can't appreciate a slow, cozy cross-country trip.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Nah, sounds like you just have shit taste and can't appreciate a slow, cozy cross-country trip.
                The slow, cozy cross-country trip was exactly the thing I DID enjoy about Sky though, it was everything else that I had issues with.

                >I feel like even Ys 8 was a better written game than the first 3 Sky games.
                it's no secret that Ys VIII is the best game falcom has put out since their 2000s era.

                It wasn't really a slight Ys 8 is genuinely up there as one of my favourite games of all time. It's just that from my understanding Ys is the gameplay series and Kiseki is the story focused series.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >it was everything else that I had issues with.
                Then literally what are you complaining about? That was 90% of the game. SC is when it turns into FF4 meets shounen battle mangas. That seems to be your main subject of criticism for the trilogy.

                Cold Steel 1 is just Sky FC but way better paced and actually doing a good job of teasing the important shit to the player to keep them intrigued on what's to come instead of forgetting about it for the entire playtime until dumping everything on the player in the last act. Also Thor's was a comfy hub and I enjoyed going back to it after every chapter.

                Better paced my ass. That game takes twice as long to finish as Sky FC and reveals even less than that game - especially considering its place in the series' overarching story mostly amounts to rehashing stuff that Crossbell already revealed from a different perspective.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Then literally what are you complaining about?
                That the actual characters and story were uninteresting and not enjoyable.
                >SC is when it turns into FF4 meets shounen battle mangas.
                I liked SC WAY more because the cast actually got fleshed out and still had the globe trotting adventure of SC. To me SC is what FC should have been but with higher stakes so unfortunately I never got to experience the comfy adventure feel of FC with actual not awful characters.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Over a dozen games and literally nothing has happened

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hag Love

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Which one is this?
    I looked at the first one but it looks like PS2 shit compared to your pic

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's the third game.
      The thrid and fourth games are huge graphical upgrades because the series did really well and they were not longer shackled to the vita.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Either CS3 or CS4. Those ones were PS4 and later Switch only so they bumped up the character model polygons.

        Thanks, can I skip the first two if I just want that one white e-girl girl people post and that one titcow webm I always see?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Don't play the games for fanservice or for the e-girls.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            ???
            But thats literally all I see when people post webms of the game
            Post some combat or cutscene webms to convince me theres more

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Here's a speedrun of the first game I did awhile back

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Either CS3 or CS4. Those ones were PS4 and later Switch only so they bumped up the character model polygons.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It feels like nowadays people only play these games for the coom factor. The story went to shit, Zemuria appeal as a setting wore out, and the gameplay kind of devolved into a bloated tri-Ace tier recruitment JRPG with way too many characters and no real semblance of balancing.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I like the broken gameplay but I'm unsure about these new trails games since people say it ain't turnbased anymore and that's enough to put me off entirely

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Your argument has no merit when the first three games is a literal sao romance story with no substance.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I don't know anything about SAO aside from that its garbage isekai so you're going to have to explain this or I'm just going to assume you watch bad anime and compare it to everything you see.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Sao
          >isekai
          lol

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Gottem.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >b-b-b-but the forced romance makes it GOOD!!!!
        >It's good when sky does it!!!!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Story went to shit
      Yes, or at least erbonia's story did.IT went from an interesting story about the politics of why erboina is the evil empire next door (and is it really even that evil) to Erbonia is literally the evil empire next door because of magic memes.
      >Zemuria appeal as a setting wore out
      I disagree, but I think the world-building is getting away from them. We've gone from liberal being some sort of super progressive country because it has usable airships and a single computer (but otherwise being medieval jrpg fantasy) to crossbell having modern intercontinental banking, cars and the internet to erbonia having fricking mechs, modern computers, modern pleasure yachts and smartphones in the space of like 7 years.
      >no real semblance of balancing.
      Fie is the most broken character from second one of the first game to the credits of 4. I don't think there was ever balancing.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Magic memes was in the story from the VERY beginning.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Liberl's had almost no impact on the modern state or its politics (beyond the establishment of the monarchy). Might have been a cool idea that it that some small amount of its power was making the inventors tech dreams a reality (but that doesn't happen).
          Crossbell's is so irrelevant to the plot it committed sudoku
          Erbonia's is responsible for not only the state of the country but the specific way each game plays out, down to where a bunch of students go, the order they go there and why (twice).

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It feels like nowadays people only play these games for the coom factor. The story went to shit, Zemuria appeal as a setting wore out, and the gameplay kind of devolved into a bloated tri-Ace tier recruitment JRPG with way too many characters and no real semblance of balancing.

        I'd strongly contest that the story went to shit in these games. Because saying it went to shit implies it went anywhere. I wish the game's plots went to shit, because that would at least mean something significant was happening. Once you realized that falcom has no intention of ever ending any of these it's impossible to muster up the energy to care about any of them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Go back playing Snoy games with fuglyass women, you wokeshit bastard

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'm not saying that all the fan service is necessarily a bad thing, but I don't have to play 80+ hour-long JRPGs to find and enjoy that.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You should play Snoy games then, wokeshitting shitpig. They hate female fanservice and are full of wokehomosexualry, just the way you like it.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Kuro fan calling anything else woke
            Stay in your lane.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            dude, the franchise is currently being put on the back-burner because the last two games flopped hard due to being woke

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              they already confirmed kuro 3 and next year is the 20th anniverssary
              your seething is not reality

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Hello, Romangelo. Taking a break from playing with Barry today?

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I already beat cold steel. Now im just sitting here waiting for another rean centric game.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know jap, and I don't want to read troonylations
    Besides rpgs are not real games

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I always do the initial dungeon mission and then once it turns into highschool meet and greet I drop it instantly. I own all the games

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Shit game for autists
    >but the story!
    The story is shit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >no new poster in thread
      huh

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The main appeal of Trails for me, over other JRPGs, is that the series has kept a shared world between games with recurring characters. I am tired of JRPGs always resetting their world.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >The main appeal of Trails for me, over other JRPGs, is that the series has kept a shared world between games with recurring characters.

      Suikoden did it years before and did it better. This isn't a big deal and a shared world is meaningless when it's not an interesting one and the games have no real story to go with it. Each Suikoden takes part in the different time in a different part oft he world but always manages to tell a complete story. Even 4. Trails is what happens when you use "world building" as an excuse to hide you have nothing to say.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I played Sky and it's plot and characters were way too generic for how much I see people criticise Cold Steel for being generic and one dimensional. Sky's cast outside of Olivier(who is based and the best character in the series) and Kevin are a bunch of walking stereotypes without a hint of personality. I legit thought I was playing the wrong game with how hyped up it was in the writing department by people in these threads. I feel like even Ys 8 was a better written game than the first 3 Sky games.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      its more that the tropes sky takes are from a generation of games/anime most people don't encounter because they are older than them.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Are you trying to tell me that the people that hype up Sky's writing are zoomers that simply don't know any better? I don't think there's really anything wrong with sticking to the tropes, once I got through my initial seething about how god damn terrible Sky FC was I actually enjoyed the subsequent 2 games quite a lot. I think people just set the wrong expectations for me which made me feel disappointed. I might have to replay FC at one point with my expectations right to see if I enjoy it more.

        Cold steel is just a more polished version of sky, minus the 10 hour prologue.

        I need to play the Crossbell games next but I'm going to keep my expectations low this time. I enjoy dumb tropey stuff and I like how slow the games are, gives you that sense of belonging instead of rushing from plot point to plot point.

        Even if you wanna single out the characters as trope heavy you can't deny the writing of Sky was strong. Sky SC has one of the best endings in a JRPG ever and an extremely well done romantic plot as well. That's not to say CS doesn't have its moments too, it's just that Sky is too iconic and solid.

        I wouldn't go that far. FC as I said was god awful, introducing characters and throwing them away before you could get attached to them, there was no hook beyond finding Casius which was way too sparse and uninteresting. Joshua's and Estelles interactions weren't fun for me, they aren't interesting characters and Estelle is kind of obnoxious and I really didn't like how much of a Mary Sue she is being forced into places in SC that she really had no place participating in and people sucking her dick like she was the best person ever. Their romance just felt melodramatic at times too. Maybe if you haven't played too many JRPGs Sky's writing could impress but to me it just felt tried and tested without really doing anything to set itself apart writing wise.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          When it comes to giving you the sense of belonging, cold steel basically does it the best because one of the backdrops of the game is being part of an academy.
          Actually, community is a big theme in the first two cold steel games. You're basically doing the same thing in sky where you're traveling around the country and helping people, but you're dealing with diverse communities and groups every chapter.
          The big difference is that while cold steel rotates party members, you'll still get a decent amount of time with them as opposed to sky where you get a party member and then they're tossed aside.
          That's why people tend to say cold steel is just a better version of sky.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >The big difference is that while cold steel rotates party members, you'll still get a decent amount of time with them as opposed to sky where you get a party member and then they're tossed aside.

            The problem here is that despite the extra time you get none of that time is meaningful. I'd honestly argue that a shorter time spent with anyone character in a meaningful capacity is all the more memorable because their section of the game feels more compelling and unique rather than just another member for the party. And for as much as you say CS is about the community none of the characters really have any strong relationships outside of the MC. Which is honestly kind of a major deal. And surprisingly something TX actually did a decent job of with it's EX chapters taking the spotlight off Kou to give other characters a chance to interact with each other if only for a single brief dungeon.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Non criticism. I like CS becuase it shows them growing to be a group instead of just being BFFs right from the get go. The best shit in CS1 was exploring the school between chapters and seeing what everyone was up to. Something you never got in Sky, you see their other relationships outside of the main party, you see their interests, their hobbies, all kinds of unique proclivities that would have been left out if it was just another generic JRPG. CS1-4 are to me the only games in the series to properly make use of Kiseki's unique pacing to really flesh out its cast in a mundane real life kind of way. It felt real like they were just some kids who were thrust together. If anything CSs cast is TOO strong in their relationship with each other. This post reaks of someone that just rushed the story and didn't take his time to stop and smell the roses. The CS games have some really nice little details that you'd miss if you just speed through the game, most people just don't seem willing to give it a chance. Also frick you Tokyo Xanadu is one of the worst written video games I've ever seen. The characters are INSANELY dull. They're a bunch of robots.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >I like CS becuase it shows them growing to be a group instead of just being BFFs right from the get go.

                No it doesn't, it's the same Persona problem where the characters will get an implied arc but it's all served by and around MC and only the MC. None of the characters can tie their shoes without needing the MC to come over and pat their heads.
                >Also frick you Tokyo Xanadu is one of the worst written video games I've ever seen. The characters are INSANELY dull. They're a bunch of robots.
                At least they didn't need four games to achieve a level of banal.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >persona
                concession accepted.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                That's only barely an issue in CS1 because yes, they do literally revolve around Rean becuase it's like Rean's friends. They don't know each other, they don't spend time with each other so no shit their group is going to revolve around Rean. It's one thing I actually like is that Rean is only the centre piece holding them all together in 1 because their relationships are shallow at that point. If you play CS4 the difference is staggering. You constantly see the cast interacting while Rean's not involved at all. It's called development.
                >At least they didn't need four games to achieve a level of banal.
                CS1 achieved more with its character than TX did. That game is a travesty in writing. MCs childhood friend is literally the only not terribly written character.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >That's only barely an issue in CS1 because yes, they do literally revolve around Rean becuase it's like Rean's friends. They don't know each other, they don't spend time with each other so no shit their group is going to revolve around Rean.

                Literally, LITER-FRICKIGN-ALLY the entire point of class 7 was to pull the best from both class groups and mix up the status quo. It's the entire reason your group even exists. It should be the driving force behind the entire plot but it's all but ignored because the universe has to orbit Rean.
                >. They don't know each other, they don't spend time with each other so no shit their group is going to revolve around Rean.
                THEY DON'T KNOW REAN EITHER! Fie knows about as much of him as she does Gaius. Gaius could probably tell you as much about Laura as he could Machias. We should be seeing all kinds of inter party mix ups. For as much as Machias screams about nobles why does he never so much as speak to Laura? Does he have anything to really say about Alisa who despite being a commoner is richer than most nobles? Why is Gaius even here?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >THEY DON'T KNOW REAN EITHER!
                Have you even played CS1? You do know what you do in the game right? Yes they don't know Rean, but YOU as Rean interact with them so they get to know Rean. That's the point, Rean is the student council helper who goes around bridging the gaps between them They do not interact with each other so Rean brings them together, it's the biggest reason why he's the leader. Saying "it's bad because everyone else isn't BFFs despite them being BFFs with Rean" despite Rean having reason to get close to them while the others don't is a monumentally stupid complaint.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Have you even played CS1? You do know what you do in the game right? Yes they don't know Rean, but YOU as Rean interact with them so they get to know Rean.

                I am aware. But here's the point. For as much as they interact with Rean, there's really no reason they shouldn't all be interacting with each other either. The rest of class 7 do have stories outside of the class with their clubs and whatever but instead of focusing on their extra curricular lives they really should have more moments of the class acting as a class.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's still a minor complaint considering even in CS2 that problem doesn't really exist. The whole "the whole cast revolves around Rean and don't feel close to each other" literally only applies to 1. In fact the rest of the group literally get paired togehter to form more intimate relations. Gaius and Elliot, Laura and Fie, Machias and Jusis, you even get a romance with Jusis and Millium(though contrived I'll admit). I feel like a lot of it is intentional so they can show how they grow closer to each other through the games. It's a complete non complaint considering CS1 is the set up game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Thats how you spot someone who never played cold steel.
                Everyone in class 7 has their own friends and they're all in different clubs.
                There was even a storyline in CS1 where two characters who weren't getting along became friends.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Everyone in class 7 has their own friends and they're all in different clubs.
                Thus defeating the purpose of them being Class VII in the first place. That's the entire point people are complaining about. Nobody is saying they don't have stuff going on, what they're saying is that the stuff they have going on is mixed in with superfluous nonsense rather than exploring the very question and ideal the class was formed to develop. Nobody fricking cares about swim club drama or fricking polo bawds.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >what they're saying is that the stuff they have going on is mixed in with superfluous nonsense
                This is exactly the biggest problem I have with a lot of Cold Steel criticism. This is not objective criticism. Just because you wanted them to focus on something you considered to be of greater importance does not mean the game needed to focus on it. "game didn't do thing I wanted it to do" is not criticism. The ideal that they were formed to develop was only something Olivier thought. It was never the plot focus or any of the actual Class 7 member's focus. You wanted it to focus on that and that's your problem.
                >Nobody fricking cares about swim club drama or fricking polo bawds.
                Again, YOU'RE expectations are yours. I loved that shit. I loved all that "superfluece" additions. It's literally why CS is my favourite of the 3 arcs. I like it becuase it doesn't just feel like another JRPG plot, it feels like a real world where people do their own things with their own lives and any happenings are simply that, things that happen in this world. For me Kiseki world building will ALWAYS trump its story. I don't really care that much about its story it hasn't been that interesting to me even back in Sky but the World is what I care about.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >This is exactly the biggest problem I have with a lot of Cold Steel criticism. This is not objective criticism.
                It is literally the point of the class. They literally tell you YOU ARE HERE TO EXPLORE A MIX OF SOCIAL CLASS. I am only expecting this because this is what they tell us in the opening act of the game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They also explicitly state that their goal is something long term for way after they've graduated so your point is moot.

                >like it becuase it doesn't just feel like another JRPG plot
                play more JRPGs

                Name one, you can't.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >They also explicitly state that their goal is something long term
                But enough about Falcom's story telling plans.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Erebonia's problem is Class structure
                >Nobles tend to separate themselves from the commoners and the commoners are fairly powerless to stop that stratification without becoming mega wealthy and/or politicians
                >Olivier decides the solution is to bring together some of Erebonia's most talented future leaders from both the nobility and commoners into one classroom where they can interact and get to form bonds with one another
                >he does this
                >it works they become best friends and their magical phones literally bond link them together so they can think as one in battle
                >Erebonia's future is better off because the noble leaders of tomorrow aren't going to be anti-commoner jackasses and the commoner leaders of tomorrow aren't going to be anti-nobility jackasses
                >hurray!
                It's not complicated anon. Just because you personally, as Rean, didn't see every single interaction between the Class VII members doesn't mean they don't actually know or like one another. They're all best buddies. Half of Class VII's missions in CS1 happen without Rean being there.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >like it becuase it doesn't just feel like another JRPG plot
                play more JRPGs

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              TX definitely did some things better in terms of how the hub town functioned and how characters interacted when one another, but the content was so tripe and derivative that it didn't mean much in the end. TX isn't a BAD game per se, but it's offensively mediocre and creatively bankrupt.

              Most of the FF6 characters get two (2) cutscenes of development, each only a few minutes long, and they are more memorable than the Class 7 characters. The problem is the writing, not the amount of screentime.

              You're comparing an industry-shaping classic to a bunch of cheap otaku media made by a much smaller company. Not exactly fair, but considering some Trails fans do treat it like the second coming, I can why you'd feel the need to bring it up.

              >Maybe if you haven't played too many JRPGs Sky's writing could impress
              yeah it's this. Sky came out when jrpgs were brand new on steam so that's when the PCgays who are new to the genre got into it. this fandom is infamous for not playing any jrpgs besides trails, so they can only compare the games to the other games in the series. that's where the loud praise for Sky comes from.
              It's always funny seeing actual jrpg fans try and get into the series and going "wait that's it?"

              >It's always funny seeing actual jrpg fans try and get into the series and going "wait that's it?"
              This isn't the case, though.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >You're comparing an industry-shaping classic to a bunch of cheap otaku media made by a much smaller company.
                I just want to illustrate a point. I know Trails love its WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS and Trails fan love it, but to say "The characters aren't developed because... there was too many of them so some of them don't get enough screentime" is completely delusional. It's just a matter of writing.

                I have a cookie I found, but I don't know if the ingredients to make more were just sold by the woman at the inn.... Now she's been kidnapped.

                [...]
                I think I'll start again then. I finished the first one on Hard and only a few fights were really hard, so I tought I should do the same in this one. There's also the fact that it's possible to import the save, so I guess I should have started more prepared with my old save, I don't know.

                Half the ingredients were sold by the woman at the inn and the other half are dropped by enemies.
                > I finished the first one on Hard and only a few fights were really hard, so I tought I should do the same in this one.
                Sky SC's Hard and Nightmare modes are the hardest in the series, mainly because they were tacked on without any balancing.

                >I think I'll start again then.
                You can use a save editor to change the difficulty without starting over, I've never done it but if you search online you should find some info

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >This isn't the case, though.
                I'd disagree, I've seen people call Sky a 9/10 constantly in Kiseki threads. They've sort of died down in the extreme views as of late but they were fricking zealots around the height of CS4 release.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >TX definitely did some things better in terms of how the hub town functioned and how characters interacted when one another, but the content was so tripe and derivative that it didn't mean much in the end

                I'm not trying to pretend like it's especially ground breaking or anything but it as least something and that's very often enough. Give characters complimentary personalities and if it's on cruise control it can take care of itself. Take the reclusive computer geek put him next to the genki tomboy, take the older characters and let them act as voices of wisdom, have the generic childhood friend get jealous of the ever distant growing hero as he spends more time with the mysterious heroine. It's nothing new, it's like you say pretty well trodden ground, but it's SOMETHING.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                My bar for enjoyment just isn't that low, unfortunately, and I know that Falcom were once capable of much better.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Which game is this?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection. It's very good.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Is the first game required or are they self contained?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Mostly self-contained. The first game is... rough.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Maybe if you haven't played too many JRPGs Sky's writing could impress
          yeah it's this. Sky came out when jrpgs were brand new on steam so that's when the PCgays who are new to the genre got into it. this fandom is infamous for not playing any jrpgs besides trails, so they can only compare the games to the other games in the series. that's where the loud praise for Sky comes from.
          It's always funny seeing actual jrpg fans try and get into the series and going "wait that's it?"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cold steel is just a more polished version of sky, minus the 10 hour prologue.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Even if you wanna single out the characters as trope heavy you can't deny the writing of Sky was strong. Sky SC has one of the best endings in a JRPG ever and an extremely well done romantic plot as well. That's not to say CS doesn't have its moments too, it's just that Sky is too iconic and solid.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I feel like even Ys 8 was a better written game than the first 3 Sky games.
      it's no secret that Ys VIII is the best game falcom has put out since their 2000s era.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Biggest argument why old class 7 is better: It has Laura
    Biggest argument why old class 7 is worse : It has Alisa

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Biggest argument why new class 7 is better: Altina

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      nuClass VII was the best thing to happen to the series.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Alisa is the second best Cold Steel though.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Aw. I liked Alisa. You may call me vanilla or whatever, but her scenes with Rean were just adorable.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Alisa is everything wrong with jap female characters.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        People just hate on alisa because she has blonde hair. If she had silver hair people would put her on a pedestal.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        People only hate Alisa because she's tsundere and they're tsundere about tsunderes.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The big problem with Alisa isn't so much that she's tsundere but the game wants to force you to accept her as the main girl but then pretend you get persona esque dating sim crap too. So you'll be courting Laura for example but then the game will go out of the way to have Rean and Alisa sit down under the stars in a big romantic moment. Like if they just cut the crap, let the other characters have relationships outside of Rean (Not specifically romantic but maybe) and just had Alisa as the one heroine... well I can't say I'd like her too much really but I'd be less annoyed at the very least.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            They really should have done Alisa only, or a choice between Alisa and Laura. Pretty much none of the romances between the other girls felt natural and felt shoe-horned in and because everyone was a potential choice all the scenes were shallow with little to no meaningful development.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              To three's credit it did try to narrow it down to Alisa, Laura and Emma but then four threw that right out the window and just went all in on everyone. Even when it doesn't make sense

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Everyone makes sense.
                Just give everyone a choice because forcing something on people is just going to piss them off.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yes so many people were pissed off when Joshua was forced on Estelle.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Joshua should have picked Josette, she was the superior tomboy.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I played these games thinking Alisa was gonna be a typical b***hy tsundere but they got over that shit in an hour. She's inoffensive otherwise.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I prefer the prisma illya spinoff starring Alisa

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      wish it had more content

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I honestly think only mentally ill people would play such an ugly game.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >saves webm of game he hates and posts it on Ganker
      anon, i...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      kys

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      kys tourist

      https://i.imgur.com/jkFGcHI.jpg

      Play Trails of Cold Steel

      is it true that only the first trilogy is good?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Cold Steel 1 is pretty good too. Just pretend the story ends there.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        From what I'm seeing yes, just play all the games and maybe cold steel 1 because past that it's like they made the game for 12 year old kids while still trying to retain plot elements from a nearly 20 year old series

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >this is supposed to be a super serious moment

      this webm single handedly killed any interest I had in this series

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's not that bad in the context of the proceeding and following cutscenes, with the music playing and the context of what's happening.
        It obviously looks like shit but it's really just there to show what everyone is doing.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >this is supposed to be a super serious moment

      this webm single handedly killed any interest I had in this series

      You know I can forgive the bad graphics. I really can. But god I just wish falcom would improve it's animations. Every game going forward could look like Celceta and I wouldn't fuss if they just could animate. Even simple gestures like kneeling or getting up or handing off objects are done via fades.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Reminds me of FFXIV 2.0+, which actually has an excuse as its an mmo with a character creator.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The fades truly are out of hand and I have no clue why they resort to this.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >beat boss
    >MC and friends are huffing and puffing
    >oh I wasn't even trying, now let's go for real
    Yup, it's McKino time.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      For such a goofy looking homie with such a dumb fricking name McKino has no right being as fun as he is. He's legit my favourite antagonist in the whole series. He's just so ridiculously over the top that he steals every scene he's in. Love him.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Did you play enough to know why he's called McBurn?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Mera Cu Baldugh Ruang
          Kino

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >oh I'm actually a demon from another dimension

      cya kids

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah can we talk about that. Because forget whatever's happening in this shit hole I want to see what the frick is going on in the his world.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    *dodges*
    WEAK

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >89% dodge in chapter 2
      >auto crit on dodge
      >+400% crit damage
      Why did falcom do this?

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I love how butthurt trails makes predditors, troons, and Gankeredditors
    stay mad, homosexuals 😉

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I played the game up to CS3, it just went to fricking shit

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Kuro 1 was kino until it crashes in the second game to the point not any Cold Steel was that bad.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I refuse to believe it's worse than CS.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Kuro 2 literally has an object established immediately that rewinds every time the paryty dies. So the party starts dying to the point it becomes a monty python sketch.
        It includes the party getting blown up with a bomb, that Shizuna actually sees, but doesn't tell the group just because she wants to see what it's like to die in an explosion.

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Playing trails games past Ao

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >posts gachashit

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I unironically liked the 3rd the most because it cut out the filler bs that would get in the way of the interesting story segments

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I ignore all opinions of 3rdgays because the shit they like it for removing is exactly the stuff that makes Kiseki what it is. Playing Kiseki for the story is only what stupid homosexuals do. You play Kiseki for the LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG drawn out adventures in an interesting world. It's the biggest reason I unironically like CS more than Sky it's because it's slower and yet it's the biggest criticism I see people give CS.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Cuts out filler.
      >Old School house 2 Electric Boogaloo

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      3rd took me the longest of the Sky games to complete, yet it's the shortest one. It feels fricking awful to play with it's pacing and dungeon-to-dungeon layout. The prologue was so kino and set great expectation, then the fricking CUBE shows up. Having it entirely not be grounded in the actual world the series spent two games making felt awful to play.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      3rd has good writing and moments but its absolute trash to go through
      Trails as a dungeon crawler doesn't work.

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Most of the FF6 characters get two (2) cutscenes of development, each only a few minutes long, and they are more memorable than the Class 7 characters. The problem is the writing, not the amount of screentime.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly It really doesn't take a lot. I'd say even most Ys characters are better written than a lot of the trails cast even if and when they're sticking to archetypes. I feel far too many people get it into their heads that a character arc has to be something massive when it just needs to be... well it just needs to be.

      TX definitely did some things better in terms of how the hub town functioned and how characters interacted when one another, but the content was so tripe and derivative that it didn't mean much in the end. TX isn't a BAD game per se, but it's offensively mediocre and creatively bankrupt.

      [...]
      You're comparing an industry-shaping classic to a bunch of cheap otaku media made by a much smaller company. Not exactly fair, but considering some Trails fans do treat it like the second coming, I can why you'd feel the need to bring it up.

      [...]
      >It's always funny seeing actual jrpg fans try and get into the series and going "wait that's it?"
      This isn't the case, though.

      >You're comparing an industry-shaping classic to a bunch of cheap otaku media made by a much smaller company. Not exactly fair, but considering some Trails fans do treat it like the second coming, I can why you'd feel the need to bring it up.

      I don't see why that should matter. It doesn't take a lot to write a decent character arc. All you need is to introduce a character. Give them a goal/desire/problem to over come and boom we're off to the races. It's honestly just kind of basic level story writing. Even if you just follow a template it's better than having the characters just exist to be the MC's cheer squad.

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I started Trails in the Sky SC on Hard but I already regretted it. I spent 4 hours and still don't know how to kill the prologue boss. I'm afraid to start again but on Normal and the game is too easy.
    Holy shit, the beginning is pure cancer on Hard.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Normal on SC is like Hard on FC. Just pick Normal for SC, and when you get to the Cold Steel games pick Hard on those ones.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I spent 4 hours and still don't know how to kill the prologue boss.
      If you didn't invest in cookies it's already too late, you'll have to restart the whole game for a chance to beat him.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I have a cookie I found, but I don't know if the ingredients to make more were just sold by the woman at the inn.... Now she's been kidnapped.

        Normal on SC is like Hard on FC. Just pick Normal for SC, and when you get to the Cold Steel games pick Hard on those ones.

        I think I'll start again then. I finished the first one on Hard and only a few fights were really hard, so I tought I should do the same in this one. There's also the fact that it's possible to import the save, so I guess I should have started more prepared with my old save, I don't know.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I never played the first and seeing as there’s like 10 games and all off them are connected and even the NPCs have dialogue changes…I just already feel exhausted from even thinking of trying to get into this series.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Rean kneels defeated
    >I have no choice but to use my power
    >NOT SO FAST
    >The Yellow Fox?!?!
    >I got this Rean, get out of here
    Rean and his allies are both overpowered and jobbers at the same time.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Does Rean ever have a canon love interest or is he a permavirgin like Kiryu?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Step one of having a harem setup is not making any of the choices canon so as to not piss any fans off.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He remain virgin

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Played the first one for 10 hours and I was getting bored of nothing happening. I entered Ganker and some anons said that the plot only picks up near the end and I said frick it, not worth bothering with

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Actually this. CS1 is nothing happen until the end and the cast is really boring. No reason to waste time on them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the sequel is even worse because the game constantly tells you more interesting things are happening elsewhere while you do filler shit and the story is back-loaded until the last third of the game.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        At this point I'm convinced that fans of the franchise keep saying that it is good just because they have sunk way too much time in the games and it's their way of coping

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I enjoyed CS2 despite its flaws, sorry you guys didn't. It could be better sure, as could most other jrpgs

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I've got the platinum trophy for every Cold Steel games. I genuinely love them in all their cheesy glory. They just aren't enjoyable in the traditional sense. I think even for Sky they sort of have the same appeal as Persona, did you ever play Persona and think "god this school stuff is boring when can we get back to the plot"? If you did you'd probably not like Kiseki. I like Kiseki for the leasurly adventure and more mundane world building and character interactions it has. The wolrd feels vibrant and lived in becuase it deals with what daily life is like in such a setting. In your typical JRPG it's just moving from plot point to plot point with a cutscene between every new place moved but Kiseki is all about the slow life. I enjoy it for that. It's the SOL anime of JRPGS.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The school aspect of persona wasnt bad. It was the constant scene after scene after scene reiterating the same plot point over and over again. Thats when i started skipping dialogue. It was like an event happened then the characters discussed it. Then we have to see 2 useless npcs have the same discussion. Then that happens again. Then characters discuss it again. Then the character runs into an npc to have the same fricking conversation again. Then 2 story relevant npcs have the discussion. Like holy shit how many times do you have to have the same conversation. It got really bad in 5 especially towards the end of september.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              4 was awful about this shit.
              >We rescued Yukiko!
              >Sorry I don't remember.
              >We rescued Kanji!
              >I got nothing.
              >We rescued Rise?
              >SENPAI GIVE wiener <3
              >Naoto, you got captured on purpose please tell me you learned LITERALLY ANYTHING
              >......

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I enjoyed the first two games but then the plot doesn't evolve. I can only stomach so much of;
    >Enemy becomes your allies
    >Rean headpats girl and she joins his fanclub
    >Dominating fights and then the cutscene after is Rean kneeling
    >Characters dying/losing their memory.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Characters dying
      Did we play the same trails series?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Sorry I meant to say "Characters "dying" and then losing their memory"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Character mind controlled. Repeat in Hajimeri, repeat in Kuro 2

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What really gets me is the constant sense than for any progression I may make it's never enough. You introduce your big scary enemy and they kick your ass? Okay cool. You go off, train, and come back ready for round 2. And you think you finally grew and can match them, only for them to be all LOL NO, and then reveal "they were holding back" the entire time. The game absolutely refuses you to feel like you've developed in any meaningful sense.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I could understand it for maybe the first game. But it keeps happening in 2&3. Every fight you just know is gonna go down like this;

        >Heh.. Rean and friends.. show me what you can do
        >Beat them up
        >Not bad.. for a warm up
        >Rean either then proceeds to have to use his power or a teacher or adult comes in and saves you.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I enjoyed the first two games but then the plot doesn't evolve. I can only stomach so much of;
      >Enemy becomes your allies
      >Rean headpats girl and she joins his fanclub
      >Dominating fights and then the cutscene after is Rean kneeling
      >Characters dying/losing their memory.

      Its only gets worse in CS III and IV I think the worst offender for me was how they kept saying they wanted to remain neutral yet only assist one side of the civil war. Worst yet nobody died in a big ass war
      >Otto
      like i said nobody died in the big civil war

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No, I don't think I will.
    Sky 1 and 2 are the only good ones in the series

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm tired of this meme that "character development = character's personality must change through the story"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I hate the term character development to begin with. Characterization is a much more important writing staple than development. Before you think of changing your characters and having them grew flesh them fricking out first. Who gives a flying frick if Estelle gets character development if she develops from a wooden spoon to a metal spoon. She's fricking boring regardless.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I'm tired of this meme that "character development = character's personality must change through the story"
        You know what, fair enough, the characters don't have to CHANGE but you should at least get more insight into who they are what their bag is.

        The issue is that "character development" is kind of a vague term that everyone has their own definition of, then it's treated as a thing writing MUST have, so if it doesn't have "my personal definition of character development" then the writing must be bad.
        For some people, it means specifically the character changes in some way. But why should a character have to change to be considered well-written? And even if some characters change, in a large cast, why should they ALL change?
        For other, it means the character being multi-faceted. Which is obviously a good thing, but do we need EVERY characters to be multi-faceted? For the main characters, sure. I think it's perfectly fine to have some party members who are more simple and one-note. They can still be fun in their own way. A cute little girl can be just that. A grumpy old man can be just that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I'm tired of this meme that "character development = character's personality must change through the story"
      You know what, fair enough, the characters don't have to CHANGE but you should at least get more insight into who they are what their bag is.

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I HATE EREBONIA AND REAN.

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    CS would have been better if it didn't have a main character.

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that the Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails remaster/remake in English comes out sometime this year
    Pls friends I do not want this series to flop

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Already preordered the LE within the hour of annoucement

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Oh, I didn't even know that was announced yet. Thanks for the heads up.

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I CAN'T WAIT FOR TRAILS INTO ESG

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      this is the fanbase thinks Estelle being written into a completely different character in English was 'good'. I don't think they care.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I dunno that that has to do anything with speeches about inclusion and diversity.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why do you have to lie, pretending that "race is mentioned once" in Kuro when the major plot is literally white supremacists and the racist mafia they funded?

      Woke shit

      What happened? I haven't played that one

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Kuro went into racial politics. It calls white people white. All the nonwhites are comically holy and never do anything wrong, while everything bad is due to white people.
        The term "white supremacist" is unironically used.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I'm so tired of it

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            There's at least 3 quests about white supremacists sending threatening letters to innocent brown or asian people.

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Preorders for western release of Kuro part 1 go up in November Kuro part 2 is slated for May 2024 for its preorders

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do I play these in order of 1, 2, 3,4? Or are they self contained stories. What do I play if not?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Or are they self contained stories.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      At most I'd say only CS1 is a self contained story

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It ends on a cliffhanger!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You would have to take off the epilogue for it to be completely self contained. If it ended after chapter 6, perhaps.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          These games seriously need a "destroy the death star" moment. You know where you stop the big evil threat and it's all cool and you're left feeling good but then you get home and remember the empire is still out there and there's room to explore for future games.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That's CS4.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Agree. that is something that I think Zero did quite well. Lloyd and crew win, but there are still a lot of problems looming on the horizon in the aftermath of defeating the villain who he fished with.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Well yeah. That's part of it too. They introduce a lot of mysterious but there's a more immediate concern that they're trying to deal with. You find crazy magic drugs fairly early on, you deal with the mafias, you try to sort out with all this shit is coming from and there's a big fight, it looks like Crossbell is saved.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They all follow each other.
      Sky -> Sky SC -> Sky the 3rd -> Zero -> Azure -> Cold Steel -> Cold Steel 2 -> Cold Steel 3 -> Cold Steel 4

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You can get away with just playing the cold steel series in order of 1 > 2 >3 >4 but the devs loves to throw old characters at you. So be prepared to meet side characters that are from older games. They get introductions and stuff though.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Each one is a direct sequel which makes it bizarre as to why the cold steel games seem like they're written for middle schoolers when the only people who could be possibly still interested in the series have done so for over a decade

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >You mustn't stare even though all the girls in the series have massive breasts and show their cleavage for the world to see

    I'm still convinced every female is a prostitute in the game series.

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just play cold steel as a harem fantasy mary sue simulator. It's the best way to play. When Estelle blushed when Rean shook her hand infront of Joshua, I almost couldn't believe it. Or when Juna, the girl who hates the empire and Rean falls in love with him.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Just play cold steel as a harem fantasy mary sue simulator. It's the best way to play.
      the world would be a better place if reangays would just cut the bullshit and be as honest as you lmao

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I can't self-insert as Rean. I couldn't do it even if I wanted to. I'm not him, I don't look like him, I don't think like him, I don't act like him, I have nothing in common with him.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Rean is honestly too much to a point where I can't tell if Falcom is having a giggle. He feels like a parody of typical self insert bullshit but there's nothing to indicate it's a joke.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Rean is best enjoyed playing completely straight. Ironic homosexuals need not apply.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've always said that Cold Steel is just dumb fun and Black folk b***hing and moaning about the writing just need to get the stick out of their ass.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Fans of the earlier games didn't sign up for that brand of dumb fun, though. Getting mad over a betrayal of expectations isn't really irrational.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You deserved it for being homosexuals. God smited you for your sins.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Fans of the earlier games didn't sign up for that brand of dumb fun, though. Getting mad over a betrayal of expectations isn't really irrational.

        They did when they started playing a trails game. Implying that the cold steel games are that much different than crossbell or sky is silly.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Fricking this oh my god. This literally wouldn't be a problem if Skygays weren't such pretentious homosexuals Jesus. you moved from one mediocre JRPG that you enjoy for its charming qualities to another mediocre JRPG that you enjoy for its charming qualities. The quality between every game from FC to Hajimari is incredibly consistent. If you were to rate them all out of 10 there'd be like 1 or 2 points different between all of them.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Implying that the cold steel games are that much different than crossbell or sky is silly.
          Last I checked, Trails in the Sky wasn't a corny mech drama with dating mechanics.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            But Sky has mecha though. And corny romance. And a small harem with Joshua.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >But Sky has mecha though.
              There's a difference between having mechs and being a plot centered on them.
              >And corny romance.
              One that actually fits well into the plot and isn't just dumb pandering to shipgays.
              >And a small harem with Joshua.
              Hardly comparable to the lengths CS went to surround Rean with frickbuddies.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Nice deflections.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >yet another episode of "it's fine when Sky does it"
                The laughable double standards of Skyhypocrites never gets old. As expected of the most pretentious JRPG fanbase on Ganker.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >There's a difference between having mechs and being a plot centered on them
                valimar was a bro but the gameplay for the divine knight battles were shit throughout all the games.

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    is the game fun or dooes booba trick youre brain into thinking that your having fun?

  59. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm just here to say that Estelle, Tio and Emma are the best girls in their respective arcs. That's all.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Love Emma. She's the perfect girl to me. Cute glasses and long hair. Smart and fun and a little shy. Sigh.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Also her breasts are huge.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          *mind rapes you in a dream*

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I love how small they look compared to the absolute tit cow in Hajimari and Kuro.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Ellie is mine

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          All these years and no one can't make a new vid or closeup sharp pic.

          ........the frick.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Be the change you want to see.Lazy bastard.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Look man! Blame your folks for spamming that shit everywhere. And also the damn pantsu spam is the reason i'm here. I never seen such huge amount is sharp detail before.

  60. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they look cheap and low budget

  61. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nayuta looks neat. More Ys esque adventure type. I'm down for that.

  62. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hajimari when?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      July 7th.

      Ellie is mine

      Oh hey Lloyd, overcome any barriers today?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Oh hey Lloyd, overcome any barriers today?
        Do hymens count as barriers?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          How the frick is Lloyd still a virgin when he has these two constantly thristing after his big barrier breaking wiener?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Because unlike certain other ladies they won't force themselves on his poor innocent boy body

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They do. But I'm pretty such the marriage barrier blocks the hymen barrier. And the marriage barrier is blocked by the ask her out you fricking idiot barrier.

          How the frick is Lloyd still a virgin when he has these two constantly thristing after his big barrier breaking wiener?

          Trails characters are extremely shy. Estelle and Joshua have been a couple since Sky 2 and they won't tell anyone that's the case all the ways in fricking CS4.

          Because unlike certain other ladies they won't force themselves on his poor innocent boy body

          And people accuse the other 3 of being prostitutes because they show a little skin, yikes.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Uh I believe Joshua literally says they're a couple in Zero.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      already out

      Learn Japanese

  63. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How do anons who romanced Fie feel about her getting railed by Van Dyke every night in Kuro

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why would Van do her when there's a superior alternative?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Who says he only does one of them?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Not Van but Vandyke’s grandson Julian. He’s a haremchad btw

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      im just here for the child belly

  64. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Estelle gets captured and imprisoned on the Glorious
    >"Joshua... No... this isn't time to mope! I gotta get the hell out of here asap!"
    >Rean gets captured and imprisoned on the Pantagruel
    >"I'm so worthless, I can't do anything right haha... I will never, EVER forgive that bastard Crow! How dare he...change my mind with onion rings? Oh Crow..."

    Only homosexuals like CS.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What? 2 different characters have 2 different reactions to things? Stop the fricking presses. homosexual.

  65. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do you think Kuro will sell for having an actual troony in the party?

  66. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone have links to the translation patches for Hajimari and Kuro? Seems like the original site that hosted them got taken down or something.

  67. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    So what's next for Falcom? They've got Ys X coming out soon but what after that? They've already said that they're taking a break from Kiseki so we won't have any new games for the next year or 2 so what games will they make? I'd like for them to have another crack and Tokyo Xanadu. That game sucks ass but it does a lot of interesting things that I'd like for them to build on. Mainly I really like the mix of the Ys gameplay with Kiseki orbmant customisation.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I mean I'd be down for another one. Maybe bring back another IP that's been dormant for a while? Tokyo Sorcerian? Another Popful Mail? More Brandish?

  68. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    why does every kiseki thread have to be falcom general? i just want to talk about kiseki i don't care about their other shit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Make a Falcom general Trails threads gay it up
      >Make a trails thread Falcom chads save it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      All threads about Falcom's games are like this. It's a fanbase full of spergs. Every thread has to be Falcom General instead of just about Trails or just about Ys or whatever else.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ever since the cord found out that Ganker is translating the games the general became unusable because of nonstop shitposting, so they have to use other threads
      its funny as frick, good riddance for years of haha and reanposting

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >why does every kiseki thread have to be falcom general?
      because/fg/ is shit

  69. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I only finished one. I felt like a skeeve going after Millam at the festival when the game shipped me with Alicia though.
    >Elise: ehhhh Rean, is there someone you're interested in?
    >(Dance with Milliam), (Dance with Fie)
    >Elise: 0_0

  70. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Geofront is doing Dinosaur, I don't get into the falcom generals but I haven't seen much talk about it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      because nobody cares

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I care

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Unfortunately, fans of Falcom's non-Ys and non-Trails games are far and few between these days.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        wtf do you mean these days? their games were never popular especially here. zwei 2 almost fricking bankrupted falcom.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          What I mean is the western fandom had more of an open mind for their other games when XSeed still had rights to their franchises. Then Trails blew up and it became like 90% of the fandom's discussion.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Sounds more like you just have a grudge that people like Trails for some reason which probably stems from contrarianism. I liked all their shit that was released on Steam except for TX but the whiners who complain that people dare to like Trails are just fricking losers.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Sounds more like you just have a grudge that people like Trails for some reason which probably stems from contrarianism.
              Cause the level of discussion for Falcom's output has completely gone to shit ever since Trails' rise to popularity? I can't imagine the 2010-2016 era western fandom spawning anything as obnoxious as Reanposting.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Reanposting
                Wouldn't have happened if people weren't so butthurt about his superiority and popularity.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's more like you're just mad that [insert game] doesn't get as much discussion as Trails does which like yeah, why the frick would it? Trails has so much to discuss about it but what can you say about Xanadu Next that hasn't been said already? This is just pure contrarianism. And it's not like theres anything stopping you from discussing whatever game you want to yet people like you have such an insane victim complex just because a series you don't like is popular.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's not about how much discussion those games get. It's about the kind of fandom and discussion Trails brought about as it rose to popularity. Even Trails itself barely has any earnest discussion. People spend more time b***hing about localization delays, spamming Stable Diffusion porn, and posting weird Joshua edits, and shitposting about woke shit in Kuro than discussing stuff like the world and story.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Your stupid general is not the entire world.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The rest of the world is posting dumb memes on Twitter, shipping discussions, fan art reposting, and banal show-and-tell bullshit about newbies' recent purchases and impressions. Not much better if you ask me.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Well there isn't anything to really discuss right now due to the lengthy localization times and the fact that NISA killed the Kuro 2 spreadsheet so nobody discuss that either but this still just comes across as being mad that people post about something you don't like.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I liked the series a lot until its writing and characters declined to the point of mockery. And then the discussion declined alongside those two things.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >telling the truth about Kuro is shitposting
                Well, I suppose it is posting about a shit game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                my guy, /fg/ is not a representation of the entire western kiseki fanbase. it's just infested with a few schizos who do nothing but shitpost about games they didn't even play.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Did you miss the other post?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Ganker has gotten worse after 2016
                wow shocking revelation there

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It was shit way before that.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            why do falcomgays think that because you like one of their games that you have to like literally everything ever made
            i dont give a frick about action rpgs it's why i like trails

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Play Gurumin

  71. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    will kuro ever smash renne

  72. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    we used to have such comfy threads but now its seen as "cool" to hate these games now so unfortunately you'll never have a non moronic thread again

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      grow thicker skin

  73. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Erebonia gets 5 games of build up
    >we view it through holding back haha man in an anime high school
    I will never not be mad

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      More like glad. Love rean simple as. Can't wait for another arc to have him as a playable character as he looks for his master.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You really want him to be in the arc where Towa gets shot by white supremacists? Don't worry she's OK.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Rean is the best part of CS and completely unironically the best written protagonist of the 3 arcs though still not as good as Kevin.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Rean where are you going at this hour, are you out on a date with a lady?
        >W-what? Nothing of the sort. Don't tease me like that! Haha.

        >Rean let me blow you
        >Eh nandette?

        >Guys I'm not that strong, I just picked up a few moves from my master.
        >[goes super saiyan]

        Have you ever read a light novel?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You mean we got kino

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        sometimes i see webms like this and wonder how did i ever play these games

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          lower standards back then

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Filtered.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I never watched the anime, was it any good?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Has a lot of fanservice for cold steel stuff and shows what happened in between CS II and CSIII. Quality is ass, but lore is cool.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              It's pretty cool if you played the games but it has practically no budget.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Rean is the best part of CS and completely unironically the best written protagonist of the 3 arcs though still not as good as Kevin.

        based

  74. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cold Steel would have been cool if it went all in on the mecha stuff instead of leaning so hard into muh dazzling school life.

  75. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just finished the insert act between 1 and 2. Holy mother of mecha kino. Now give me Estelle, Lloyd and Rean mecha fighting

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      In CS4 I'm moronic

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        act 2 of CS4 is the worse part of the game, the ending of said act is pretty kino if you play all the previous games tho

  76. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  77. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Falcom should be progressive and have Rean come as a transexual. Lots of people would buy their merchandise in support and it'd give another us a great character to root for

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Kuro already has a transsexual party member though

  78. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't give a shit about playing the old games, but I like that purple haired scythe girl. Does Kuro have her as the main girl?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No, but she's there

        can you waifu her?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          There's no waifu mechanics in Kuro

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            rip

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            yet

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Definitely possible after how hard Kuro 2 went on being a harem game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                was the scythe girl part of the harem

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Everyone was I'm not joking

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                oh.
                does he fade to black bang them. he seems to have a libido since he goes to strip places.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No, nothing happens with any of them, they just thirst after him

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                is it done in a funny way, though? like, they own their thirst and would be down to bone. Or is it some wimpy 'h-he's holding my hand, what do I do'

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Does Judith also thirst after Van?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They all do

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Does that mean characters are allowed to form bonds with people other than protag this time?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              No. They still all just orbit Van.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              lmao Kuro 2 panders harder than fricking CS did.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                that's just an outright lie cs4 is a 100x worse in that regard

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It absolutely isn't. CS has some girls not be for Rean. Kuro 2 does not.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                stop talking until Kuro gets Hajimari equivalent VR scenes

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No, but she's there

  79. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    After browsing this thread, I'm strongly considering dropping the series after Ao.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      what do you want a medal? do it or don't who cares

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I hate fun
      Okay but that's your loss.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      didn't ask

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I'm strongly considering dropping the series after Ao.
      nothing against that, it's the peak of the series tbh

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I just don't have the energy or inclination to play another 50+ hour game that's no doubt just going to be more sequel bait.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Then don't. Why do people act like theres a gun to their head that forces them to play these games? Stop being a b***h and if you don't like them then just don't play them. Tired of homosexuals like this.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Nooooo nobody is allowed to say anything about muh series
          Piss off fanboy, I put a lot of time into these things. I didn't hate it but I'm not about to act like they're losing their spark.

  80. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the gaming market will always be dominated totally by men
    that is your target audience, pander to them

  81. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Judging by Kuro, they seem to think their market is arabs and trannies

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      frick off back to your general moron

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        seethe

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it probably is

  82. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      is that fie?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yea

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          she finally looks cute after her trash cs3 design

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's Rean(female).

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes but it looks like her head pasted onto another character.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Adult Fie makes me diamonds, most fiegays abandoned her cause she's a hag now though.

  83. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There's just something about the world that I can't help but feel is so staggeringly dull. Maybe it's just the non urgent way quests are doled out, maybe it's the more modern style aesthetic but even when you see something weird and fantastical it's like they just suck all the fantasy right out of it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think Kuro looks incredibly dull, because it's just real world buildings with real world cars.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Well that's part of it too. I kind of feel any setting where you can just take a bus to your destination sort of lacks that frontier spirit. Everything is just so.. blase.
        "Hey there's a highway monster. Why don't you kill it or something. You know, if you want."

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I am entirely fine with the ability to take a bus to your destination, at least within the city... But if the bus is an orbal bus using infinite clean magic energy, it should not just look like a bus from London

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i actually like the mix of technology and fantastical i don't get why every setting has to be medieval

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I didn't say it had to be medieval, I said it was safe. It can be more modern but everything is just treated so matter of fact.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          i don't really get the complaint? of course it's matter of fact is just how the world is to them. why would they treat monsters as being fantastical when they're just a part of life to them?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That's kind of it though. They have a world filled with all kinds of crazy monsters, magic and other crap and it just feels too normalized. The kind of monsters you can have running up and down your bus line really shouldn't be treated as little more than an annoyance. Orbal revolution or not this kind of shit would have a major impact on the development of the world. But everything is just treated like an errand.
            >My kids have gone missing in this monster infested sewer let me just fill out bracer request form 67-b, sign here, wait for an appropriate rank bracer to show up and.... they're already dead.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              It's not though? people get freaked out when they see someone who can naturally use magic without having to use technology and theres tons of supernatural shit that people get weirded out by and i think you're overexaggerating how clinical bracer requests are

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I do think sometimes they give monsters the appropriate threat level, especially in Crossbell, like the time those gorilla monsters threaten the bus.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They felt less like establishing a potentially dangerous threat and more like giving Estelle and Josh a cool intro.

  84. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What is the consensus for Van's writing compared to other Kiseki protags?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I like it when Van punishes white people based on them being white.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        How fragile are you?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          you think it's a genocide when someone plays Hogwarts Legacy, sit down.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            have a nice day politicbrained election tourist homosexual

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              And here you have the Seething Kurogay in its natural habitat, mad at people showing parts of the game to others that they would rather pretend weren't there.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Nobody can even make sense of what you're trying to show nor do they care.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Nah, other people are not Kurogays, they have an IQ high enough to understand things.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You mean they aren't mentally ill like you?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Peak projection. Just read your posts, you're deranged.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Which posts?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The ones where you lash out like a mental patient subanimal leftoid dog.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                So you really did skip out on your pills today huh? Voices must be really loud.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                This is unironically how the Kurogays act in /fg/ every time someone points out something they don't like about Kuro. They're unhinged, rofl.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >admitting to shitting up /fg/ and now doing it here
                Haha, that's our wokegay!

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Does it hurt your ass that much that I'm showing people how woke Kuro is?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        why does Ganker love making mountains out of molehills?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          rofl imagine the shitfit if the races were reversed

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why did falcom go anti-white woke?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Frick if I know

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I like all the little interactions he has with people like his banter with Aaron and his autistic love for his car and the fact that he'll often bite back to people instead of kiss their ass all the time but I feel like the whole "i have to learn to trust and connect with people again" arc is kind of just a retread of what they did with Rean and his relationship with Elaine had potential until they chickened out and probably will just make it a boring harem thing in Kuro 3.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Who's even gonna be in his harem even if that's the case? Hahaman at least has his bawds from Class 7 while Van only has at most two chicks orbiting him.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He's great and has just the right amount of eccentric qualities to make him endearing.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        holy shit, he's based. I might finally have fun with a kiseki protag after 2 arcs

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
  85. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    1 > 4 > 2 > 3

  86. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If it has tio i play it
    simple as

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      UOOOOGH TIO

  87. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Haha, nice one, wokegay. Are you convincing Ganker you're not crazy? How's that working out?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >admitting to shitting up /fg/ and now doing it here
      Haha, that's our wokegay!

      Look at this rancid gaslighting dog.
      Rotten filth.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The ones where you lash out like a mental patient subanimal leftoid dog.

        Now what's next, is that they'll insist you're the schizo, and also that you're me, because they are so mentally broken they cannot fathom more than one person disiking Kuro on woke grounds.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          All these subanimal fiends can do is gaslight.
          They're truly wretched fricking vermin.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            [...]
            Now what's next, is that they'll insist you're the schizo, and also that you're me, because they are so mentally broken they cannot fathom more than one person disiking Kuro on woke grounds.

            Have you considered medication? Here you are angry being called out for doing what you always do, but on Ganker this time. Mental health, not even once.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          One last free (You), on the house. But do consider taking your pills, mental illness is no joke.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Different people. Nice try, wokegay schizo. Here you are doing it again!

  88. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm sure this won't convince those who are in bad faith but w/e

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There were two schizos shitting up the /fg/ thread just like this yesterday as well. What exactly do you think you're proving? That you're not THE wokegay, just one of them? Nice one, truly a win for you.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why even bother, they'll just accuse you of inspect element or w.e and continue gaslighting, the only thing these worthless homosexuals know how to do.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah bro they'll just accuse you, all those voices in your head will.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        So, which one of you is Romangelo/Monterossa? We already know who one of the wokegays is. You play off each other well. Discord buttbuddies, perhaps?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        These people are so unhinged that it's even more fun to do what I do. They're Steven Universe fanbase tier insane.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Based.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Don't take this as I don't think that Kuro is woke or anything. I believe what I'm saying. But when shitty people get super unhinged and mad over it it makes it more fun.

  89. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    im the schizo ama

  90. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    So, is Kuro the last arc?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Kuro 1 and 2 bombed incredibly hard. So hard they have to asset flip it one more time for a third game to recoup their losses. It might put the series on hold after the arc.

  91. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  92. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    We need to go back

  93. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Seriously though bring back Brandish

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