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Posted on: February 27, 2022
varmaa
Verified ownerGames: 561 Reviews: 8
Lack of auto-saving + crashing = waste
It's a good game overall, but it crashes after epic 40-minute long battles, forcing you to restore your game to do it all over again and hope it doesn't crash, so I can't really recommend it.
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Posted on: August 22, 2020
Schlaumayr
Verified ownerGames: 1351 Reviews: 44
Big Waste of Time
I stopped playing after 40 hours... forty hours!! Why? The whole game was just plain boring. It felt like a big waste of time. Friends kept saying, it's very slow, but it'll be worth it. I cannot say, that I don't like the characters. It's just, that I don't have that much time for nothing...
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Posted on: September 16, 2018
LittleCritter
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 89
A shallow, mediocre Persona wannabe
If you want a high-school anime JRPG, stick with Persona. If you want a spritual successor to Trails in the sky... I am so sorry. Any comparisons to Trails in the Sky are meaningless. Yes it takes place in the same universe, even some of the old characters show up, yes even the battle system is more or less the same. But in essence it is an entirely different game. Gone are the Bracers, now you have to deal with a bunch of high school student drama. Riveting. Take any run of the mill anime and you have the characters of ToCST. From the clueless personality lacking protagonist to the petulant blond tsundere, the whole gang's here. One of the earliest scenes has the main guy accidently land on the blond girl's boobs for, ahem, "comedic" effect. As scene so infamously cliche to bad anime that even people who never watch anime make fun of it. And it is played with no irony or self-awareness in ToCS. This is how unabashedly lame the writing is. The dialogue itself is uninvolving and meandering. I don't know if this is a localization issue or if everyone talks like a robot in the original as well, but it is painful to sit through lines and lines of text that ultimately could have been summed up in a single sentence. The most positive feature by far is the turbo button to speed up the game, because don't think for a second that you can easily skip these cutscenes. Oh you will listen to Machias and Jusus bitch at each other for the millionth time whether you like it or not. The plot itself is such a wasted oppurtunity. The premise of nobles VS commoners could have been really interesting. A story about class war? Sure, sign me up. But it is dealt with in the most shallow of ways. Every conflict boils down to nobles being snooty a-holes and commoners being spineless doormats. AND WHAT IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE'S BOOBS?? Clothes do not work that way!!
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Posted on: August 4, 2017
Shenaldrac
Games: 59 Reviews: 1
An unwelcome change to the series
I want to write this review to let people know what they're in for, because for me Trails of Cold Steel was a huge letdown, and if you're like me then you'd prefer to not spend the money finding it out just how much of a different type of game this is from the original Trails In The Sky. The main critique I have with the game is that it is, in essence, a high school anime. Your characters are students at a prestigious military academy in Erebonia, which just so happens to be like every Japanese High School ever. This is such a bizarre decision to my mind. But it's not the fact that it takes place in a high school that makes me dislike it, it's that it becomes a high school anime game. It is watered down Persona, without the interesting look into psychology and sociology. We are treated to the kind of tropes high school anime makes you familiar with: Guy does something totally innocent that happens to put him on top of a girl, girl acts like he just molested her. Yeah, and it never goes away, it's something that lasts for the rest of the game when it happens in the first act. You've got the whole maid character who you are somehow supposed to be amazed by and is somehow crazy powerful and one step ahead of everything character, you have the obnoxious teacher who doesn't know what they're doing and drinks, and many, many more. And yet all of that wouldn't matter as much but for the fact that the main caste, the playable characters, are all a bit simple, a bit shallow. And part of this comes from being typical high school anime stereotypes, but more than anything is comes from how many of them there are. There's something like 12 total, which means there's just not enough time or creative talent to give each of them a good, deep personality and to explore that in the game. It also makes it frustrating to play the game when your party keeps rotating out people with only the MC as standard. If you like this sort of thing, you will like this game. If not, reconsider.
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Posted on: December 31, 2018
MisterSpanky
Games: 213 Reviews: 25
Trails of Cold Boredom
Bland, stereotypical, slow and boring expression of the sad state of actual JRPG. PROS: - Visuals (on high settings) - Textures (aside from terrain) - Combat CONS: - Story (military settings is just a setup for boring school chores and fetch-quests) - Story progress (same fetch quest loop multiplied on different towns) - Character stereotypes (especially female misrepresentation) - Dialogues - Dungeon and landscape design (almost as bad as Tales of Berseria) The game doesnt get the lowest score as it doesnt have frustrating mechanics, game breaking bugs or difficulty spikes but it remains an expensive bland and not worthwhile JRPG that is cut short on the finale, asking for more money to continue the chore in the next title. Not worth on sale. Not worth your time.
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