Trails franchise (Trails In The Sky, Trails Of Cold Steel etc)

I googled it and the CPU came in 2011. The absolute min system requirements is an Intel integrated gfx from 2012 and beyond as it needs to support Shader Model 5.

You would at minimum need to buy a cheap video card like a Geforce 400 or above, googling its $40 ish.

edited 20th Sep '17 11:54:58 PM by Memers

So after messing around with stuff lookie what I got [1]

edited 21st Sep '17 1:17:20 AM by Memers

...why does Rean looks like he's going to a baseball game?

It’s a Lawson uniform, Lawson is a chain of convenience stores in Japan. They did a promotion with Cold Steel back when the game was released, it did not get released in the West however it’s still in the game files itself. Laura looks absolutely fantastic in it.

The other unreleased in the west outfits are the Jenis academy uniform from Sky, a Mishy inspired pink uniform, a black palette swap, and a purple palette swap.

There is also 1 outfit that was never available to players as well.

EDIT: CS 3 Japanese has leaked and people are streaming it, watch out for spoilers....

edited 21st Sep '17 6:39:26 AM by Memers

Update on voice recording for Cold Steel 2 PC port.

Those are a lot of previously unvoiced characters. Helmut is the one most needed out of everyone so thank goodness.

edited 21st Sep '17 6:08:45 PM by Memers

Ya know, I'm impressed with the way the game's handling Joshua and Estelle. I know that they apparently have some kind of romance thing going on later (although, from what I've heard, it might be a bit one-sided on Estelle's part but I guess I'll find out) but there hasn't really been any hints to such a development so far Usually, in games like this, it's pretty obvious that at least one party likes the other in that way but not here. It certainly is an interesting change of pace.

Coincidentally, just as I was having those thoughts, I caught what was arguably the first semi-romantic moment between the two (them feeding each other). I'm positive that I've fed my own sister and vice versa plenty of times so it makes sense— to me, at least— that family would do it but this is fiction and it's always romantic in fiction. This notion was only strengthened by Joshua being embarrassed and Estelle being oddly eager to be feeding Joshua.

It's another instance where I think it has to do with Estelle being the viewpoint character. The tone and themes would be much darker if Joshua had his thoughts shown more than they do. Liberl's the nicest and most dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssdssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssdas

Estelle right now is thinking mostly family and Joshua however is thinking romance. It makes the scene hilariously awkward and really cute at the same time.

Estelle being the view point character really sells it with Joshua, at least right now as things are building.

keyboard get stuck?

edited 21st Sep '17 11:07:22 PM by Memers

Yeah. Even this early on, I can tell that Joshua's seen some serious shit before Cassius found him. I'm willing to bet that he thought Cassius was going to kill him or torture him or something at first. Given his recent comment about the military not being nice outside of Liberl, the book he was reading before, and his general attitude; I'm going to take a stab and say that he was a Child Soldier for that country to the north and possibly fought in the 100 Days War. Chances are also fair that he saw something he shouldn't have and was left for dead or was going to be executed before Cassius rescued him.

I'm also genuinely curious to see what the major turning point is that makes Estelle start looking at Joshua romantically. Even if she has her moments, she's still a blockhead so it has to be something pretty big. Clearly, as things stand, she doesn't see him that way given how often she teases him about not having a girlfriend or having fallen for this character or that.

edited 21st Sep '17 11:23:19 PM by Zelenal

So you are in Ruan right now, correct? Man, always hated that part, but at least it gives us the introduction to my favorite Goldfish Poop Gang.

Also, make sure you have a guide at your side at all times, there is more hidden sidequests in this chapter than anywhere else on the game.

Oh, and just out of curiosity, which version of the game are you playing?

Why do you hate Ruan? It has two of the best scenes in the entire franchise and Jenis is just plain great.

PSP version via certain methods.

Frankly, I just can't bring myself to like Kloe. She's just too vanilla for me.

I mean, she gets better by the time of the Third, but until then, she's just meh.

Also, the Arc Villain of this part is, in my humble opinion, the least interesting of FC. And then there's goddamn Gilbert!

It's a good thing the plot picks up considerably after this chapter is over, really.

Safety spoiler tags since we have someone in that chapter.

I really liked Kloe especially in that chapter where she has the best friend but actually a jealous rival thing going on.

The Arc Villain is ok, not the greatest but more interesting than the Sky Pirates at least in their respective chapters. Also Gilbert wasn't Flanderization by that point and was ok. I would not call him The Scrappy in any entry, Laughably Evil The Chew Toy to the point where the player can get some absurd reactions out of him sure.

edited 22nd Sep '17 6:30:08 AM by Memers

Well this is interesting. Apparently in NG+ of CS you can glitch out Trista at the start and leave the map into a version of Trista from the end of the game, half of which you cant even access in game.

You can glitch your way through to the areas you can normally access and proceed normally through the game up to the final boss, however you dont see the ending.... it just kicks you back to the start screen.

Here is a vid but it gets spoilery 4:15 into the video through so watch at your own risk.

edited 22nd Sep '17 8:33:42 AM by Memers

Ah Aidios, I fell asleep on my own keyboard. Guess I'm the most like Fie than anyone, minus the cool flips and speed.

Hopefully minus the depression and disinterest in everything.

This right here? This is why I love the TV Tropes Fora

Okay, back to SC! Left off in misty Rolent. Current party is Estelle, Schera, Agate and Olivier. Will admit that I'm missing Kloe at the moment because I don't have enough slots for Olivier to have all the healing arts plus the offensive arts I actually want him for.

Oh, I upgraded all of Estelle's slots since I realized I could really stand her to have the extra casting potential. I think I've popped open most people's final slots, minus Agate and Zin since they hardly need it. Really need a lot of Water sepith, go through that faster than any other kind.

Is there a Trails in the Sky spoiler free 100% walkthrough?

It's a pretty tall order, but I don't think I can enjoy playing it knowing that there's a whole bunch of things I'll be missing out on (I had a minor meltdown finding out that my quest to repair streetlights expired).

this one is a spoiler free 100% walkthrough however its a bit wordy

1 line descriptions to get a 100% run through.

These will get you a 'perfect save file' to carry over into SC however it wont get you absolutely every achievement.

this one is basically a checklist of EVERYTHING missable It includes chapter titles which might be spoilers. It includes things like all weapons for the buy every weapon and armor achievement and such. This should get you every achievement and completely 100% the game if you do it on Nightmare. (not recommended to do Nightmare on your first run through.)

edited 24th Sep '17 3:25:22 AM by Memers

Thank you, that's very helpful.

I don't think I'd want a blind max-difficulty run. I did that with Persona 5, and that was... quite the experience. I'll probably save that for a replay.

Trails in the Sky on nightmare without NG+ is probably the hardest RPG I have ever played. Several end game fights in FC and damn near every boss in SC are just downright insane.

I have yet to attempt it in 3rd.

edited 24th Sep '17 4:04:22 AM by Memers

Josette in FC's prologue and the Jaeger in SC's are horrible on Nightmare. They both love to heal, their damage and healing output is ridiculous to put a dent into, your S-Breaks have to be full at 200 to even have a chance, and in the latter, if you don't have a ton of Surprise Cookies. you're screwed. Makes it really obvious difficulty in Trails games are rarely tested, and when it is, it's usually just a enemy stat boost. At least the Ys games give you altered boss attack patterns.