Posted on: December 8, 2024

EverNightX

Games: 234 Reviews: 30

Great game. But weakest of the series.

This is a potential starting point for new people. It teaches about the world and characters without you having to have played prior entries. If you like it you can go back and play the older ones. It's exciting by the end but its a slow relaxing pace leading up to it. It ends on a cliff hanger requiring you to play Cold Steel 2. The cast is too large to do them all justice. But even the weakest Trails game is still great. I recommend looking up the SenPatcher online to add some quality of life improvements and fixes to the game. There is also an HD texture pack you can apply that is worth it.

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Posted on: June 9, 2025

Magnuzgramm

Games: 3 Reviews: 1

At last after years.

I became a Trails series fan few years ago with Trails in the Skies FC and SC, and after playing Crossbell duology, I was enchanted by trails' world buiding indeed. It is time to play cold steel games at once.

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Posted on: April 14, 2018

DieRotEule

Verified owner

Games: 72 Reviews: 5

Highly recommend for fans of the JRPG.

So, the "Cold Steel" games have been released across several platforms, the pc release however is superior to its previous incarnations in a few "aesthetically" noticeable ways. The most noticeable improvement, like with most multi platform games, is the fps. This game is capable of running at a consistent 60 fps, and in comparison to the original ps3 release, one can notice the difference between 30 and 60 fps while playing. Graphically, the textures in the game appear smoother as well, that is, while running the game on its maximum video settings. Beyond aesthetics, the game stays true to the roots of the JRPG genre; a turned based battle system, with a few extra twists included, which keeps the game play diverse enough, that you don't feel as if your playing just another "snes" styled rpg. Another thing worthy of noting, is unlike many other modern JRPGS, this one allows you to go inside an abundance buildings. Others from this decade kept the ability to enter a building's interior to a bare minimum. Beyond that, there's not much else to add, I heard a lot of good things about this series, so I gave it a try and I like what I've played thus far.

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Posted on: July 20, 2021

li3710

Verified owner

Games: 50 Reviews: 6

A game of the Century for me.

Trails Of Cold Steel Is The masterpiece Of the 40 years of Falcom's game craftsmanship business. From the killer introduction to the city of Trista. It truly does a great job introducing you to the highly complex people you'll be spending time with over the cause of many hours. It's a very much visceral close and personal. I've certainly grown to some of the many personally I had the of meeting and about in. After You've played the most flexible, fast-paced focused and yet tried and true critically-acclaimed combat for hours upon hours you find yourself experience the Most Epic Boss battle that left in tears. It's battle of a life time. I might be overselling it's praises in terms of writing compared to something like Trails in the Sky, of Trails from Zero, But I really mean it when I say this stand-alone video game holds up well. If you want something even better Trails from Zero (provided You played all of Trails in the Sky before hand) it's just a great game.

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Posted on: January 27, 2020

Hakuso3

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Games: 1149 Reviews: 21

Great game, but a little too generic.

This may be a bit heavy on the anime tropes as far as characters go, but it's a good game with a good story, even if you will probably see the twist coming a mile away. Plays well, with all the settings cranked up to 11, on a four year old laptop. While it's not the Trails in the Sky level of "It'll play on a potato, and not even a very fresh one at that" this game will probably run fine for you on just about anything you would even consider gaming on. The relationship/bonding system is a bit weak, which is sad considering it has some pretty interesting characters that you want to get to know a little better but the personal stories seem like they take a back seat to the MC and his general infalable likability. That is actually where it loses a star, the bonding scenes you have a limited number of chances to experience are what flesh out the game, and needing to choose a set number on each "free day" takes away from the game in my opinion. Honestly, I like Trails in the Sky (and some if the Ys series, better than ToCS1&2, but they're both still great games and totally worth it despite not being the strongest entry in a long running well written series. From playing the whole series it kinda feels like this was an attempt to make a more generic story, have it be more relatable to the general public rather than having a few big fans and a others wondering why we love it so much, but it kinda feels like they couldn't quite pull it off without sacrificing the character development that made the other games so great. Here's to hoping NIS does as good a job (seeing Durante's name is a good sign though) with their port of ToCS3 as XSEED did here, from what I've seen (while trying to avoid spoilers) it seems like the story has really been improved in the newest entry and I'm really looking forward to playing it.

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