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I like the game with the silent dude and that blonde lady who keeps falling into pits. I'm still working through the first Trails in the Sky so I won't be playing SC for a bit. Still glad it's coming out so soon, so I can stare at it in my steam wishlist. edit: also, bring back Popful Mail
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Friends, in the first Trails in the Sky, if I'm in the final chapter and about to sneak into a villa approx how much longer is the game? tia
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Mar 11, 2016 03:29
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SpaceDrake posted:
Or in my case it's being willing and able to pay 30 for an 80 hour rpg but I already have so many games on my plate that I haven't finished (including the first trails) that it didn't make sense for me to buy it at launch. I'll get it and play it eventually but it might not be for a while. Or I should stop buying so many long RPGs.
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Mar 11, 2016 17:28
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Finally finished Trails in the Sky the first. That's quite the cliffhanger!
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Mar 17, 2016 23:46
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Some Numbers posted:Luckily, you don't have to wait multiple years for the resolution. I'm not going to play part 2 until I finish Cold Steel and Xenoblade X. And Dark Souls 3 and Fire Emblem Fates. so, multiple years
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Mar 18, 2016 00:25
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Fine I just bought SC. I was gonna play cold steel first because I already had it and played the first dungeon.
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Mar 18, 2016 01:07
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Cake Attack posted:i mean do whatever you want, i am just a guy on the internet, but cold steel does spoil some stuff and there's a bunch of references to Sky that i think will come across oddly if you've played FC but not SC compared to if you'd played both or neither. Nah its cool. I was kind of wary of starting cold steel when I saw Olivier in the opening movie. I'm mainly worried about it taking me a year to finish SC since it took me so long to finish the first one and that one is half as long.
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Mar 18, 2016 01:11
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I just checked and I put in 47 hours for FC. I bought it December 23rd, 2014. Though I did stop playing it for a long time because there was a graphics bug that made it all stuttery and it took xseed months to patch it out.
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Mar 18, 2016 01:29
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I like how in the Trails games whenever the characters are doing a thing and I have a question or concern about something a character would usually pipe up with the exact question or concern I had. Even if it's something mundane like hey can they really leave that septium vein reader thing sitting in the middle of a cave? Won't monsters get to it? This series is made entirely of little things that other games ignore.
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Apr 4, 2016 23:06
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In chapter 8 of Trails SC and this game is up and down. I liked the smaller scope of FC a lot more, this whole secret society full of stereotypes is boring. And the encounters range from easy to extremely annoying, especially in the beginning and end where lots of enemies self heal and call in allies. Now I have to deal with every status effect being thrown at me and I only have 1 equip slot to put something in. If a character dies it's hard to res them and get them back to health without them dying again. Multiple bosses in a row with no way to heal or change gear between them is also annoying. I still like the game but FC was more enjoyable.
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Jul 4, 2016 01:12
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MisawaMahoKodomo posted:Is that on Normal Difficulty? It is on normal, and I can't really cheese s-breaks because it's a right chore to get the CP built back up when I'm one shotting all the random mobs on my way around the map. It's really only the bounties and bosses I'm having issue with at the moment. It also took away the two characters I've been building up for story reasons  Right now I'm using Estelle, Joshua, Sherazard, Zane. Art enablers on Estelle and Shera
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Jul 4, 2016 21:26
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Really Pants posted:use Agate I have a grail locket, just one, and estelle is wearing it. I'll try making some sandwiches.
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Jul 4, 2016 22:26
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So I finally finished SC and I started Cold Steel. The slight variations in quartz names and colors is throwing me off. Mind 1 should be blue! I see I can get relationship links with characters by spending time with them but I can also spend time with non-party members like the student council president. Is it worth spending time with regular NPCs or should I prioritize the members I'm gonna use? And are there any characters that are bad and I should ignore? Thanks in advance and god bless.
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Jul 23, 2016 01:03
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thanks for the info. Sara seems fun so I was gonna hang with her.
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Jul 23, 2016 01:30
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I'm at the beginning of Chapter 5 in Cold Steel and so far I don't think I like it as much as Sky. The structure of the game (class day -> free day + school dungeon -> practical exam -> field study -> repeat) makes it feel routine instead of fresh and interesting, and the school setting doesn't feel like it has any meaning, especially the links since you just get a ton of points as part of the story anyway. And the story itself is kind of weird, throwing 2 new characters at me so close to the end of the game (been looking at a quest list so I don't miss anything so I know how many chapters there are) and it just seemed to meander about up until the end of chapter 4. I know Sky FC took a while to get going but even then it got my attention even when nothing was going on. It also feels sluggish in menus and the animation is bad (those after battle fist bumps, yikes). I know Falcom games aren't known for the amazing graphics but I'm no animator and I've done better messing about in source filmmaker. As for combat, it was kind of difficult at first but now I'm going through pretty much every battle by mashing attack. When it's a boss I buff everyone then mash attack. Or use an S-Craft and kill everything at once. Hopefully the battles start to require some strategy soon. The characters themselves aren't as interesting as in Sky either. Some of them like Fie subverted tropes enough that I enjoy them but everyone else is pretty one note with a sad/tragic/bad past and these characters dont get along, now these ones dont, and now these two are in a thing. Rean himself is the worst offender, I mean just look at him  I know it sounds like I'm harping on the game but I still enjoy it, I just don't think it's as good as Sky was.
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Aug 4, 2016 02:23
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I hope so. Are the crossbell games any good? I know they're not getting localized but I wanna know if I'm missing anything or not.
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Aug 4, 2016 02:48
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Endorph posted:rean actually grows as a character and also demonstrates traits that explain why he is the protagonist and the leader. he's got a good head on his shoulders, is diplomatic, knows how to work with the people around him, etc. Rean is generic good hearted everyone likes him leader of the pack mysterious past protagonist. And he looks stupid 
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Aug 4, 2016 03:17
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Zaggitz posted:Dude is sitting here talkin about Estelle sucks because shes in everyone's shadow until she isn't when thats literally her character arc, is stepping out of her father and her brother's shadows and making a name for herself. Oh I forgot, I gave a pass on the Estelle/Joshua thing because Joshua felt more like a foreign exchange student than a brother but this Rean/Elise thing is no good
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Aug 4, 2016 03:21
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We can all agree that Cassius has a dumb mustache.
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Aug 4, 2016 20:20
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I realize this is a big ask but it would be nice if Cold Steel had different scenes after a boss fight depending on how it went. In the practical exam for chapter 6 they played it up big like oh no, gotta challenge Sara, shes so strong, but the battle went BATTLE START Rean -> Use battle scope Laura -> 200cp S-Craft (with her auto str buff and domination orb) BATTLE END and the next scene is everyone going huff puff wow we barely scraped by that one! Yikes! Of course Sara sticks Laura in group B after that The only time I can use my team (Fie, Laura, Elliot, Emma) is in the old schoolhouse. I wanna see how many more bosses I can one shot.On a different note, there are orbs that claim they make enemies seek you out/run from you but I haven't noticed any difference when using them. Are they bugged? If not, what is it supposed to do? And earlier on in the thread I was talking about how the story wasn't doing it for me. Turns out it started getting interesting in these later chapters and I do want to know where it goes but I heard CS1 ends on a cliffhanger so I'm expecting I won't find out until I finish part 2.
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Aug 9, 2016 21:32
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Yeah Rean is mandatory but I usually don't have him in my active party unless Laura is unavailable.
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Aug 9, 2016 22:20
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Whenever I think of rpg battle theme this is always the one that pops into my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jONfsUCAARE
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Aug 10, 2016 00:00
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The last thing I want in an RPG is for the final boss to have an insane amount of HP. The last few bosses in SC were like that, I figured out the strategy and was able to keep myself alive no problem but the fights went on forever and it was a drag. And then there were more forms of the same thing. More HP doesn't equal tough fight.
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Aug 15, 2016 00:37
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Looks like I'm gonna finish Cold Steel 1 and have a couple weeks to cool down before playing 2. I still feel like I'm hot off SC.
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Aug 17, 2016 02:00
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:So can I play Cold Steel without spoiling anything in Sky SC, or do I need to beat both of the Sky games first? I'm playing FC right now. There's like, 1 or 2 spoilers for the Sky series that I can remember. Nothing super huge. Cold Steel is mostly its own thing with characters occasionally referencing things from Sky.
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Aug 17, 2016 02:16
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Did they ever give out a date for Xanadu Next?
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Aug 17, 2016 22:31
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So I just finished Cold Steel and here are my Video Game Thoughts Class VII's concert was terrible. The mics/guitars weren't plugged in and the choreography didn't even match the music. They hyped it up so much too. And the whole Crow/C thing felt contrived as all heck. As soon as they starting going "hey, where's Crow?" and mentioned he was going to see the speech in person I figured out that he shot the airship down but I didn't guess he was C. The first letter of Crows name is C so I guess it all fits. It was an alright story but that ending was kind of sudden. And it does the thing with the villain who just revealed that they were a villain so they start to talk all smarmy when they didn't before. I hate that. Also millium sucks.
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Aug 18, 2016 23:52
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Amppelix posted:This deserves to be unearthed from underneath the spoilers so I can mock it in public. Boo! Booooo! She reminds me of Tiny Tina edit: i hope Becky is a party member in 2. Becky and Super Niece. Overbite fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Aug 19, 2016 |
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Aug 19, 2016 00:03
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I never skipped battles and fought every enemy I came across, except for in the Nord Highlands. I just wanted to be done with it.
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Aug 21, 2016 02:31
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It was kind of messed up that I couldn't afford to buy new armor and weapons for 4 party members without having to spend 10 minutes cooking Warm Egg Soup.
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Aug 22, 2016 20:07
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Does Cold Steel 2 force members on you like in the field studies or can you just pick anyone?
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Sep 6, 2016 01:49
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Zaggitz posted:For those of you like me who absolutely need to ocd over getting all the books and quests/AP. Here's a CS2 guide by the same peeps who did that great CS1 platinum guide. Thanks for this. I don't like how Falcom hides their sidequests so I like knowing where they all are. I used the guide for Cold Steel 1 and it was good.
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Sep 6, 2016 02:52
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I appreciate that CS2 has a full color manual just like CS1 did, even if I'm gonna quickly leaf through it and never look at it again.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:56
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:And done with FC. Already got SC installed... what's the recommended difficulty if I'm generally decent at JRPGs but don't want to grind or have to min/max? I'd start on Normal. SC is weirdly difficult in spots, especially at the beginning where you're gonna go up against enemies that heal themselves, call reinforcements, and explode upon death. And the chapter 3 boss rush sucks.
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Sep 7, 2016 03:33
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Was gonna complain about Fie's outfit but then I noticed Gaius is wearing some denim chaps held up onto his shirt by some ornate clasps, and also he has shoulder belts. Traditional Nord wear.
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Sep 11, 2016 00:14
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I didn't get the bonus AP for the watchtower boss fight and I thought about reloading but that would involve quitting and relaunching the game and then sitting through long, unskippable cutscenes again. If I can miss one book in CS1 then I can deal with this.
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Sep 13, 2016 18:29
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Everything about McBurn is the worst thing. I can't even take him seriously. He has to be an ironic inclusion.
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Sep 16, 2016 22:22
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I'm still plugging away at cs2 also. I just got some fancy ore if that tells how far along I am.
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Sep 30, 2016 02:30
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Any reason to get Fie's evade over 100%? I got it to 110% and thought maybe she's like super-evade and the enemy would hit itself but nope. This is at the expense of her other stats though. She's impossible to hit with physical attacks but her damage output is just ok.
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I gave her Wrath but I think I have tauros on Laura, the one that does more damage at the cost of speed. I threw literally everything DMG related I could on Laura. Attack quartz, waterfall, double damage on first hit, str boosting accessories. My boss strategy so far has been buff Laura's str and then have her use her 200cp s-craft and either one shot it or do a whole lot of damage. If I see a crit spot on the turn list I will skip her turns until I can s-craft on it.
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