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.
