Posted on: April 26, 2018

Minuteworld

Games: 343 Reviews: 6

Amazing Jrpg - no dual audio

I will say this right now, I have not been so preocupied with a game nay, an an rpg in many many years. the only jrpgs that I was this invested in was the persona series and smt nocturne. if you love those game, you will LOVE this game. great story, great gameplay, great presentation and if you're a weeb like me, this is a must buy. there are alot of people that will buy this amazing game and be dissapointed that has no dual audio. I for one was very dissapointed as well. luckily xseed has made it very easy for you to manually mod the japanese va's back in the game. to get the japanese voices, all you gotta do is go too falcom's discord server and look in the community section. you will find a mega link that has the files you need to mod the game and it is very easy to do so. you WILL have to have a dicord account to do this however and I don't know if the links were posted outside of the discord. back to the game, it's fantastic and you will really enjoy it. these games apparently take place in the trials of sky series but the games do a good job a straying away from that main plot of the whole series so you do not need to play older entries in the series before you play this unless you really, REALLY love the lore. fie is best girl. review over.

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Posted on: August 12, 2017

danseg

Games: 110 Reviews: 1

Taking HUUUGE steps backwards

TBH there are many things that make this game the WORSE Trails/Kiseki game and a weak JRPG. So let's list them: - Cast of protagonists seems to be taken out from a Light Novel, the generic protagonist with black long hair, the richest "tsundere" blond girl, the smart mystique girl with glasses and big boobs, the loli assassin with grey short hair, etc. If you have seen a popular harem anime or anything similar then you'll get it. -But since it's a Falcom game then they give characters tridimensionality, by exaggerating or by adding 0.5cm of depth. Stories such as "I had a tragedy so I am like this", or " that's how I was raised" are common among the protagonist and some of them are just there for a filler. -So choose wisely your favorite team because you won't have time to know them after since the game is divided in 7 chapters and through chap 1-6 you will do the SAME thing, there's a formula and you will repeat over and over again. As you expect in chap 7 they change the formula and "the true Trails of Cold Steel starts here" -Which shows that the storytelling is awful. Those BASIC rules of conventional story structure you saw in school are ditched(exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, and denouement). You know the ones that Trails in the Sky FC USED! I know i was too hard but as an underdog fan of Trails games back in 2011 and a player I can't stand how they ruined their 10yo franchise and put waifus, anime troopes and bad writing just to sell, specially with a game series that praises itself for being so heavy storied and epic. The game had it's good moments such as boss fights or dungeon exploration but as soon the moment finishes you return to earth. As a fan I give it a 1/10, as a player 5/10, just like a Neptunia game; great concept, POOR execution. The 2 stars are for the ADHOC Ys-ish music and the effort put into porting the game from PS3 to PC.

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Posted on: December 30, 2022

sonsergej

Verified owner

Games: 130 Reviews: 1

Suprisingly good

So after playing Persona 4 and 5 I've been looking for some similar games. And after some research I did on the internet, this game was my choice. Let me start with the negative aspects of the game: The story and the pacing are way too boring and slow. While there might be some interesting events, it just takes to long to unfold. The combat system is nothing special too. It's your typical turn-based-jrpg-combat-system, however it has its own flair. Now the strongest aspect of the game: The cast! I instantly fell in love with the characters. They are simply great. Each of them is distinguishable and that is the strongest aspect of the game. All those characters and their stories is what kept me engaged and what makes me want to buy the sequel!

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Posted on: August 24, 2024

DontWantAName

Verified owner

Games: 89 Reviews: 1

Words, words, words

The game's all right, but it would be even better with about half as much text. Falcom has a pathological more-is-more attitude when it comes to dialog. The Gagharv Trilogy (Legend of Heroes III-V) was much better in this respect. I certainly wouldn't call those games laconic, but they didn't just pad for the sake of padding. The writers went totally off the rails with Trails SC, and never found their way back.

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Posted on: December 1, 2024

RedBourbon_

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Games: 11 Reviews: 1

Slowburn but good story

Slowburn but good story if you let it grow. The ability to speed up combat is a great improvement from the original verision to console.

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