SpaceDrake posted:

This isn't the case with Sky SC - Sara tried her god damnedest to make it work, but the save structure between the PSP and PC versions is just too different.

toddy. posted:

I can't believe I'm the only one who remembered these gems

Cake Attack posted:

he is the best for how people play off him. hes acts tough but then all that he gets is estelle calling him cute for it, the professor talking about how he looks like a chicken and accidentally insulting the queen as the very first thing he does when he meets her. estelle is right about him.

Erpy posted:

One of the most telling things about Agate is one of his lines when you first run into him on your way to Ravennue. When Schera says she thought he was in Grancel and asks him if he's in the region to look into the missing airliner, he replies that he's merely here for some "chump errants". If you pay close attention (and have played the game before), you're able to find out just what those "chump errants" were and it pretty much tells you all there is to know about Agate. (it's also pretty d'awwww-worthy)

People are either scared shitless of Agate (the Ravens and the special ops) or they make fun of him. There is very little in-between.

SpaceDrake posted:

XSEED generally tries to be good about currency conversions, yeah. At most they'll round a little to good, even numbers.

I'm not entirely sure what the Euro price will look like, but I suspect they'll try to keep it fair.


Xanadu is a Really Important Videogame, both for Falcom as a company and just historically (it was the first PC game to break 500k sales in Japan, IIRC, in 1985) but sadly it's just gotten no English versions and thus no play at all in the Anglosphere. I do wish someone would do a biopic or something of Falcom's history in the 80s, that poo poo is amazing and has a couple of gaming history's most important inflection points - I still wonder what the gently caress would've happened if Origin Systems published Xanadu in the States in 1985/6 like they'd planned to before that meeting went so sour.

Captain Rufus posted:

Good games are good games who fuckin cares what platform they are on or what nation made them?

SpaceDrake posted:

It's a little hard to nail down the precise influence of the game on everything else - the hothouse of the 80s makes it hard to determine who influenced what, and of course few people will admit "yeah we just totally got inspired by that one thing and riffed on it" - but at the very least, there's long been a strong suspicion that the Zelda games were heavily influenced by Dragon Slayer in general, and Xanadu's side-scrolling dungeon navigation may have had a particular influence on Zelda 2 (although the combat is way different). Xanadu was just sort of generally influential, though, in proving that a game on the Japanese PCs of the time was a viable commercial endeavor - prior to Xanadu, there wasn't a ton of dedicated game development for those early PCs, but in the wake of Xanadu selling so well, a lot of the young game houses of the 80s, like Enix, Compile, HAL Laboratory, and whatnot, began to make serious efforts to produce software for PCs of various kinds in addition to efforts for the ever-selling Famicom. The PC-88 and -98 remained kind of their own unique beasts game-wise due to their hardware architecture, but the MSX saw a lot of cross-pollination with the FC/NES.

Unfortunately, NEC's poor management of their PC line in the 90s, the difficulties Microsoft had breaking in to the market as anything other than a pure business platform, and the advent of the Playstation in 1994 all pretty much doomed the momentum Falcom had kicked off in the 80s - but for a little while there, Xanadu helped to inspire a healthy PC game market in Japan, by dint of being a good dungeon-exploring RPG and selling well.

SpaceDrake posted:

GOG page should go live tomorrow.

Also in a bit of slightly downer news: I somehow missed it at the time, and only learned today, that one of the architects of Trails in the Sky's soundtrack, including and especially "Silver Will", which serves as the overall musical theme for SC in many ways, passed away last year at the age of 39.

He was also the driving force behind Xanadu Next's soundtrack, Vantage Master Japan's OST, the OST for Legend of Heroes 5 ("Song of the Ocean"), and also made contributions to Ys 6 and Zwei!!. I'm sorta bummed that he didn't get to see a whole new audience come to appreciate his work.

So yeah, sappy as it sounds, when you hit that vocal cut of Silver Will in SC, take a moment to appreciate that the guy behind it died way younger than he should have.

SC Bracer posted:

you might want to play the first game first, this is kind of a direct sequel

Cake Attack posted:

I think this is mentioned when he's introduced but he's observing the plan on behalf of the Grandmaster.

Cake Attack posted:

ys vs kiseki is fun although obviously made pretty cheaply

im disappointed it isn't like, ys seven with trails people as party members like i first though way back when though

Koguma posted:

This so much. I want TC, Zero and Ao so bad.

Motto posted:

cptn_dr posted:

Now that SC is out and also I have some spare time, I'm finally playing through FC, which has been sitting in my Steam library unplayed forever.

I'm getting my rear end handed to me in battles more than I want to admit. It's been forever since I played a JRPG, I think I've lost the knack.

Erpy posted:

I'd argue that Estelle's speeches, both at the end of FC and SC weren't really about the power of friendship, but rather about the power of banding together to overcome common obstacles that seem insurmountable to tackle individually. She argued this at the end of FC, pointing out that it wasn't Cassius on his own who ended the war, but the efforts of the entire royal army as well as many more. At the end of SC, she pointed out that one of the main reasons the aureole ruined the very civilisation it was meant to improve was because it isolated people by taking away all reasons to interact with their fellow man. You could argue that this is something that every JRPG throws in there at the end, but both FC and SC give Estelle plenty of examples to back up her point. This is different from the power of friendship since many of both games more effective alliances were between parties who either had little interaction with each other before or were at odds with one another before banding together to fight for a common goal.

Levantine posted:

I've been hurt before.

Lemon Curdistan posted:

Trails FC is back at 50% off on Steam for their winter sale, and all Ys games are 70% off:

FC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/251150/
Chronicles: http://store.steampowered.com/app/223810/
Oath: http://store.steampowered.com/app/207320/
Napishtim: http://store.steampowered.com/app/312540/
Origin: http://store.steampowered.com/app/207350/

Slur posted:

I found the piano sheet music for Shine of Eidos, but does anyone know where I can find a sheet for Etude of the Ruin?

Really Pants posted:

Stabbey_the_Clown posted:

Aina...

Supremezero posted:

For Japan? About 2 years.

For us? 4 years. After already knowing of its existence for 5 years.

Cake Attack posted:

CSII doesn't end on a cliffhanger, that's I. It's still not officially confirmed the next game is even going to be a CS title and not a new arc, I don't think (although it has been strong suggested)

Stabbey_the_Clown posted:

Hmmm... so is it a turn-thing? If you survive for X turns you get a draw? I just tried it again and I think I got the cutscene faster even though no one had died. Can someone explain it clearly?

Supremezero posted:

Weissman Tier
Weissman (gently caress off asshat)

Yes I know he's not an Enforcer, but it had to be said.

Cake Attack posted:

(spoilers that go beyond sc) as far as i can tell the only basis for this theory is that the grandmaster is a women (which itself only comes from supplementary material, not any game), so it's not confirmed or anything. that said im sure it'd be accompanied with some twists as to the nature of the sept-terrions and the goddess and such though that'd explain this

if only leonhart hadn't gotten himself chumped since apparently he'd met the GM

Ojetor posted:

There kinda is one actually, related to the Gambler Jack reward.

When you get to the residential area and find the Data Crystal Z, you can backtrack to the first house and use the "Read Crystal" option on the computer to get a second piece of Zemurian Ore. If you turn in the data crystal to Russell before doing that you can no longer get the second piece.

Levantine posted:

Cold Steel sounds like it's not that far off!

SpaceDrake posted:

If you're playing exclusively at home and don't prefer lounging around the house with a Vita, then yes, on balance the PS3 version is the superior experience. Higher resolution, slightly better load times, et cetera.

And yeah, while a PC version of Cold Steel would be possible on a technical level due to PhyreEngine (we've had a number of Phyre ports on Steam now), if you're interested in the game and/or want to support the franchise, don't hesitate. A PC port will be a while in coming, if it ever does, and I do not know of any plans to port the Cold Steel games.