Meanwhile. This giant fucking cockroach sucked. But we got ‘em on the 2nd try with better equipment on.
Juna is 💪
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Epic Fie moment from Trails of Cold Steel 1. Fie is 🤴🔥
My reaction seeing Estelle, Joshua, Renne, Lloyd, Elie, and Kea all together.
Same, Estelle, same.
Well, around 140 hours later, the Trails of Cold Steel 1 & 2 duology is complete. What a journey! I’MMMMM POOPED! — That epilogue did a number on me!
Going to need a Trails break before hopping back into Cold Steel 3.
Epic screenshot is epic! #TrailsofColdSteel 2
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After ToCS4's ending, I was severely put off playing Trails into Reverie, but today, I decided to try it.
Right from the _first scene_, I was back. It was like seeing old friends again.
Juna from the #Trails series really changed after graduating, tho!
Biblioteczka #TeamPudełka powiększyła się też o jeden z tytułów z serii #TheLegendOfHeroes, a konkretnie pod-serii #Trails – #TrailsOfColdSteel2 😄
Dlaczego część druga, skoro nie mam części pierwszej? Bo dostępność tego wydania się coraz bardziej pogarsza, podczas gdy jedynka wciąż jest łatwiej dostępna. Oczywiście jej brak będę musiał szybko nadrobić.
A dlaczego w ogóle ta seria? Kończąc trylogię #Utawarerumono zacząłem szukać sobie kolejnego tytułu, lub serii, do ogrania. Seria #Trails zdecydowanie najczęściej przewijała się w polecajkach. Choć oczywiście nie może być za łatwo – jakbym chciał zapoznać się z nią w prawidłowej kolejności, powinienem zacząć od #TrailsInTheSky. Pozycji w którą właściwie nie da się dzisiaj zagrać 😅 Drugim polecanym punktem wejście, było właśnie #TrailsOfColdSteel i tak się tu znaleźliśmy.
Oczywiście w międzyczasie zapowiedziano remake pierwszej części serii – #TrailsInTheSkyThe1st – więc 2025 rok zapowiada się cudownie dla takich osób jak ja, nadrabiających #visualnovel.e sprzed lat ♥️
Samo wydanie, na pierwszy rzut oka nie zaskakuje – zwykle pudełko, ładna okładka. Dopiero po jego otworzeniu okazuje się, że dostajemy też alternatywna okładkę – niby pierdoła, ale doceniam.
Nouvel article de #Falcom sur les RPGs #TheLegendOfHeroes ! J'ai eu du mal à trouver des choses intéressantes à dire sur le développement de ces épisodes plus modernes. Falcom communique beaucoup moins que par le passé après tout...
Et puis, j'avais envie de parler d'autre chose ! #TrailsofColdSteel III, IV et Reverie parlent de sujets politique dans un monde tangible loin du symbolisme d'un Final Fantasy. C'est donc un article bien plus critique sur le scénario que d'habitude que je vous propose là !
https://www.lost-town.com/dossier-d82-the-legend-of-heroes-partie-6-effondrement
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There’s a nice Steam sale going on this week from XSEED and Marvelous! games. I’ve also seen a number of Bandai Namco games on sale, so I grabbed Code Vein and Tales of Arise while I was at it. They have been on sale for some time now. Time means days in Steam time. I’ve seen both games on PS+ for ages and never played them. Under the XSEED/Marvelous! banner, I bought something else.
I reacted so strongly against Trails in the Sky that I decided the best way to move on was buying another Trails game (right?!). This time, I decided to be careful. I would buy it, install it, and see if I liked it as soon as possible. We only have two hours to play and test a game before we either decide to ask for a refund or keep the game. When we run a Trails game for the first time, it displays a configuration tool, and the timer starts even when we’re only trying to figure out the appropriate config for our setup. My setup is not like a setup. It’s a laptop, so it was set up for me, which I am very grateful for. That didn’t discourage me from prying it open and upgrading my RAM because, for some reason, I decided it had to be a weekend project. Imagine the nerves. I never did that before in my life. This must be nothing to you but to me it was dangerous! You can’t imagine the obsessive preparation I did before to make up for my lack of experience. Now, I can proudly say that I’ve gained 500 XP, 100 Knowledge, 50 Endurance, and 1000 Faith.
But back to Trails. Trails in the Sky can pretty much be played in a calculator. I’m sure my Casio fx-991EX Classwiz could play the game if it wanted to. That little config tool was easy to set up, and the game was pretty much ready to go on my very old laptop, where I played it for the first time. I don’t know what I was expecting from a 2004 game. I’ve written somewhere in my first posts that I didn’t grow up playing these games. I don’t know how I should put this, but I do enjoy older games in general. I’m by no means a retro gamer, but I’m curious, and I want to learn about the millions of games I’ve overlooked. However, sometimes my body decides to reject some games, and it so happened that Trails in the Sky was one of those games.
The pastel colors and textures didn’t do any good for my sight, as I couldn’t identify many elements in the open world. During the exploration in the first town, I tried panning the camera, although the way it moved as well as the perspective gave me nausea. Traversing the town was painful, to say the least, and I was constantly losing my sense of direction because I wanted the camera to stay static, except I had to move it, either left or right, to see my characters. I tried the map, maybe it could help me, yet I found it very hard to read. I barely used it, but of course, I had to in order to complete the first quests. Navigating the dungeon (sewers?) was easy, but the combat appeared to be very convoluted. I didn’t enjoy navigating the menus, and at a certain point, I had loads of crap I didn’t know what to do with. The thing is, this was not like Shin Megami Tensei or Persona, where I didn’t know what to do, but I wanted to learn it so badly. In Sky, I just wanted it to be over with. -400 Willpower.
I pressed on and completed the quest where we had to save two or three kids. Then we had to go all the way back to the village and then home. I found my way back home (took me a while) and read the conversation between Estelle, Joshua, and their father. It was a cozy moment of respite. Our father had to depart somewhere, and we would be on our own from then on, completing quests to get stronger and wiser. I’d love to see the story through, but I decided to say my goodbyes to our father at the station before closing the game for good. It was the least I could do. I cared about those characters, but I cared more about myself. +100 Dodge.
I even read some guides without spoilers and intended to put my experience out there. I’m glad I didn’t because the Trails community can be very… passionate, especially when there’s conflict of opinions, and I didn’t have the time nor energy to deal with the consequences of my ramblings. Some kind souls on Reddit expressed the need for a full-on remake of the Sky trilogy to accommodate new players. You can only imagine the backlash. It wasn’t violent, but if you’re any good at reading between the lines, there were layers there. It’s like saying in public that you’re happy with the implementation of casual mode in Fire Emblem. Layers.
You could ask me why you want to like a game so badly? Because I lack a personality of my own. It’s because I’ve read countless words of love about the series. I wanted to partake in that love and sense of discovery and adventure. Trails games are known for their long and riveting story arcs. I don’t think it’s wrong to at least experience one of those arcs, even if it’s not the best one. Thus, I decided to dig further, comparing games, taking a closer look at screenshots, and finally going for Trails of Cold Steel on this week’s sale.
Before launching the game, I had to go through the config tool. I enjoy testing different types of settings, but I didn’t have much time. The 2 hours mark, remember? I launched the game. The first cutscene was stuttering at times. Something went wrong, the clock was ticking, I had to quit the game, enter the config tool again, and lower the MSAA. It got better with no visible loss. I just wanted to try the game to see if it was playable or if it had buildings trying to aim at my jaw. And, Seiros in heaven, it was! It’s a 3D game. I’m inside the environment with no camera or angle issues. I was never so happy to experience such an evolution! The map was readable, with zoom in/out and camera angles. The textures were fine, and due to the lighting and sharpness, I didn’t even have to squint!
I’d like to play more but it was too late yesterday. Estelle isn’t there, nor is the rural setting from Sky. I’m at a military academy, in a special class with commoners and nobles, a bit like in Three Houses. I’d like to have time to try the combat at my level. The game started some months after the initial events, so the first fight went smoothly with no issues. I tried crafts, attacks, and arts. I think it’s possible to build a nice variety of characters with buffs, debuffs, and magic attacks without freaking out about the menu navigation. Making plans is always a good sign. I’m still on the fence, though, but I found this first experience very promising.
I’ve played a bit more today and decided to keep the game. There’s only so much we can do on a Trails game before the timer runs out. There’s a lot of dialogue, and I didn’t find it necessary to skip anything. The game shows its age in terms of graphics, but everything else seems to be working just fine. Occasionally, I experienced some minor issues with character movement when I break objects, but it’s nothing serious, at least so far. I’m curious about some characters and what they have in store for our group. I only went through the normal introductions and inside the first dungeon. I experimented with the combat and familiarized myself with the ARCUS combat orbment. I’ll learn as I go, as I always do. This can be the beginning of a love story or just a good time! I’m good with either! In the end, I forgot to ask myself if I had the time to play it.
https://swordofseiros.wordpress.com/2024/02/21/trails-through-frustration/
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It could have been worse :) I enjoyed writing about #TrailsInTheSky to finally put it behind me and I also went over the first 2 hours of #TrailsOfColdSteel Some #Falcom games are now on sale on #Steam Enjoy! #videogames #pcgaming #jrpg
https://swordofseiros.wordpress.com/2024/02/21/trails-through-frustration/
🔴 Live on Youtube with some #TrailsOfColdSteel
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Another character gets the mermaid treatment with a dash of Distress. It was cool to try to design a mermaid design for her, taking elements of her and adding a twist to them. I'm honestly mostly proud of is the sword, it has a good amount of interesting details but I'm happy to be able to nail it in Cel-Shading.
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a part of me feels bad for Vincent, like i can't even remember why she's so fixated on him of all people
A new YCH is complete! Thank you https://deviantart.com/thatdude1993 for commissioning me to turn Klaudia from Trails of Cold Steel into a mermaid by means of an angry deity!
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completed #TrailsofColdSteel last night, installing #TrailsofColdSteelII tonight. still got 14 pieces of DLC to install and going to play Final Fantasy XIV first before starting
2023 Completed Game No. 12 - #TheLegendofHeroes #TrailsofColdSteel
great story though i felt that it held itself back because it was trying to align with the events of Trails to Azure as evident with how things really ramped up at the end
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