>Played the Cold Steel series first
>Decide to go back and play the original games
>Start the first one
>Get bored within a few hours
>Tons of dialogue
>Very few battles
>There are TWO more games after this one I gotta play
>Everyone says Trails from Zero is superior
Azure is coming to PC in a couple of days, should have just played Zero.
>tights under skirt
MUH DICK. Btw I will never ever, ever play trails garbage.
Yeah Sky is pretty boring and the characterization is outdated. If you played CS4 you know everything already anyway.
I will admit so far that it's very COMFY and has a lot of SOUL, but my god is it boring, it's just so much dialogue with few combat sequences. It's like a glorified VN.
The downfall of the JRPG genre. Appealing to single digit IQ otaku like this. Sad! Japan, dying.
Not even trolling, i think zero is the worst game in the franchise. Yes, even more than Rean's milquetoast adventure
Filtered. Trails in the Sky 1 is the best Trails game.
You’re so fucking dumb anon that I genuinely pity you will never be able to enjoy SkYkino. May god have mercy on your soul.
I would laugh at you but I'm getting filtered by Lloyd's first game. I don't know if I've developed attention problems or if it's just uninteresting
Zero is a really slow game, but the combat is fun enough for me to stay interested until things kick into gear at least. It's easily more uneventful than even FC.
>finish Sky trilogy
>on to Zero, I guess
>realize that I'll never see all my favorite characters again
>the few you do actually get to see have their character completely altered because the series has gone full anime trash
feelsbadman
Zero and Ao does the Sky cast okay.
In Cold Steel however they're absolute trash and it's sad.
>skipping sky to play zero
Normally I'd ask why would you do that to yourself shitmoron but I'm feeling sadistic today so I'm just going to encourage you. Go for it!
Most civilized Renne fan.
I hate the "new" portraits. Joshua looks too much like Legato
Tits SC is the best game in the series by far.
haha...
I love Rean unironically
Did you hate Cold steel 1 too? These games are all the same bro. If you can't handle a full game of SoL before anything happens then it's probably not for you. Zero is pretty much the same as Sky FC. All the high moments happen in the second game, Ao.
no opinion you have on the series will ever matter, then
dood
You failed the having a soul test.
Honestly Falcom's 2D games are horribly boring. Ys and Trails both became interesting after they switched to 3D.
>Tons of dialogue
Play it in Japanese. The localizers added ten times more text to the english version. It's absurd.
Either that or just don't talk to npc's.
>every single boss just laughs at you and continues doing what they were doing after you "defeat" them. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
im making a difference 😀
FC filtering casuals once again
Should I snag Trails the 3rd now (since it's currently on sale until tomorrow) or wait for the Spring sale in like 3 days?
Its at its lowest price it has been now. Doubt it goes lower in a couple days.
No, play Suikoden instead. It's Trails but with much better writing and pacing.
the countries in suikoden are barely connected and its nowhere near as good as trails is anyway
>better writing
there’s like 0 tension half the time. there’s about 20 memorable scenes across trails for the 1 scene in s2 where you kill luca blight
>Played the Cold Steel series first
Sorry anon but you brought it on yourself. If you don't like Sky your brain has already been rotted by Cold Steel. I don't even hate Cold Steel but it's such a drop in quality compared to Liberl and Crossbell. Azure is the best game by the way.
Excited to play azure but why does everyone doom cold steel? I started in order and kinda because I wanted to understand the rean jokes but I'm worried now that I've gotten this deep I may become those who seethe
The writing.
bump
let the thread die you retarded gay
Sky and Crossbell make you feel a part of their world. Like Estelle and Lloyd and their crew are a part of a much bigger world and are just small drops in the pond. They may end up saving the world but they still don't steal the spotlight from the rest of the cast or feel like they're above the rest of the world.
Cold Steel throws this away by becoming a High School harem action light novel. There is legit not a single character in the entire cast of Trails that does not love Rean. The main cast love Rean. The secondary cast love Rean. The villains all rave about him and are interested in him. All the characters from past games who show up love him and are interested in him. It's so clearly pandering to otaku that it becomes sickening and takes you out of the world and story.