/v/ - Video Games

I miss the cake abs. Muh dick

>>13755028

We have to focus on delicious vampire princesses now, anon.

Beat Ark of Napishtim earlier today. Was considerably easier compared to Felghana thanks to the items, but it had some fun moments.

Although despite his awesome theme, Ernst never really felt like a major villain. He really needed to have more screentime to build him up.

Maybe now I can finally get around and play Ys Origins. Had it for years, but never actually got around to playing it.

>>13755087

I played Napishtim on Nightmare Catastrophe on my first run. It was hell but I loved it. Origin is definitely one of the best Ys games.

Lacrimosa is gonna suck, isn't it

>>13755102

I haven't found it yet but the pigeon at the airstrip mentioned a cavern that pours out darkness every 15 minutes. Not sure if it is implying you have to wait around for 15 minutes at the junction or what.

NISa getting shit on so hard truly is marvellous

>>13755706

because they dont look like real nuns

>>13756186

Nun of them are real

>>13755102

That's just the snowboarding game.

>>13755380

That cave is near the blue chest in the mountains. You have to enter it at minute 00, 15, 30 or 45 on the real life clock.

Is Zwei worth pirating? I don't give XSEED money after they stole my memes.

How does Zwei plays?

Kinda interested in it but wary after my disappointment with cold steel and celceta.

>>13757284

>my disappointment with cold steel

dafuq is wrong with you

>>13755706

Someone at falcom probably had a nun fetish.

>>13757284

Sorta like the non-party system/non-bump system Ys games (sure there is technically two characters but it doesn't work like Ys Seven/Celceta/VIII), you don't get experience from killing enemies (you get it from eating food) and it has more dungeon puzzles.

>>13757425

sounds interesting, gonna give it a look

>>13757315

>dafuq is wrong with you

Cold steel 1 is complete shit from the middle of the game forward.

And i already saw that discussion here on these threads at least 3 times, not gonna start another one, look for the archives if you so desire.

>>13757458

You saw the discussions in which the people who complained were answered in full and still chose to throw shit around.

>>13757470

He worded his dislike in the least flammatory way possible. Let him be, not everyone has to like all Falcom games.

>>13757571

Akysys put a lot of their usual "spice" into Tokyo Xanadu instead of getting the team that handled Muramasa Rebirth to localize the game.

It starts out not so bad and then midway through they just gave up actually trying to respect the game or trying to match the tone of certain scenes. I'd wait to see if there will be a fan retranslation unless you can handle going through some pretty cringe inducing lines.

>>13755706

Some things in this world are truly universal.

In every culture everyone wants to fuck nuns/priestesses/shrine maidens.

>>13757622

It's depressing; You can tell when there were people working on certain sections of the game that legitimately wanted to do a good job and then you can see where others just wanted to just get it over with/wanted to have "fun".

I really hope the good Aksys employees eventually leave the company to join someone else, because the rest of the fuckheads are bringing them down.

>>13757788

>ghostlight

i remember that name, but i dont remember where.

>>13757942

Company from UK, they did the Agarest series hatchet jobs.

>>13757942

They use to just handle European localizations for companies with no euro branch. Now they just do shitty/lazy PC ports.

Elminage Original? Cut out the custom icon feature for no good reason.

Mugen Souls? just did a 1:1 port from the shitty censored NISA release because they didn't want to work to uncensor it

Agarest series? Used the censored European versions instead of the uncensored American releases

Lost Dimension? broken launch

Then you got a their other subpar ports with shit like locked framerates

>>13757978

>Agarest series hatchet jobs.

i only remember that they censored the last game and the only way to play it as god intended was to play the PSP version.

>>13758005

you forgot 8-4 and Bandai Namco's in-house teams

>>13757244

>Is it the G Plate treasure? Because you get it from beating that shire chicken sub boss.

Well, there is that one but it's also the area behind that single mushroom.

>>13757788

Ghostlight is just lazy and does shoddy work right they don't actively censor things? Like 8-4 they only censor shit when it's mandatory, like Nintendo releases, then do a poor low quality job cutting every corner possible.

>>13757788

Square and I think bamco started putting out Japanese versions of PC releases. Hopefully this means PC is actually getting traction in Japan which would hopefully cut out on these farmed out garbage ports.

>>13758769

The mushroom footbath place? One of the big mushrooms has an enemy as a hat, do jump attacks to knock it off and kill it. Then on the same area there is one of the same type of enemy that you killed but with a different hat with flowers chilling with a yeti. Kill him and use the claw grip to bring that hat to the mushroom that had the enemy hiding in it. Once the mushroom is wearing the new hat just proceed normally through the level and head to the mud bath and a cut scene will trigger.

>>13758931

No they don't censor things, they'll just do whatever requires them to do the least amount of work.

>>13759083

Nintendo really fucked up by standardizing translation process the way they did. I don't know why it is taking so long to break away from their model since every time we get farther away it is always good for business.

So is there any reward for doing the rank 4 snowboarding game?

Does CS1 end on a decent payoff or what?

I don't know, I'm just not feeling the characters as much as I did Sky, mainly because they were all introduced at once and then built up later.

There's also the obvious tweest that rean's gonna be some super special power or something that's most likely going to destroy anything I liked about him.

Also falcom should really sit the fuck down and think about how to make the gameplay for these games anything more than servicable. It's a mockery how CS1 is the one that plays the best so far because it has a turbo button and nothing else. The link system is alright but it's not exactly a game changer.

>>13757990

>>13757942

took 2 years to localize Devil Survivor for the 3DS for PAL regions, this is 2 years AFTER it was already localized for America

BUT

instead of just ya know making it PAL compatible, they utterly broke the game that it was unplayable for TWO MONTHS till they patched it

>>13762022

Oh no Last Saga is definitely main plot. CS3 ends things on a cliffhanger and events are far from resolved. Rean's power is a bit edgy, but it's source is rather strange and we still don't have the full picture of it yet. It's worth noting that Rean's power isn't the main thing going on in the old schoolhouse either. There's something else at play tied to the main arc narrative.

>>13762032

>they utterly broke the game that it was unplayable

How so? I like Devil Survivor a lot, but it sounds like I wouldn't if I lived in Europistan.

NISA reports that they have rewritten nearly 100 percent of Ys 8’s script.

>>13766223

I'm fairly certain the original translation will actually be better.

>>13766223

>inb4 they make it worse

>>13762483

Iirc it was either save corruption when entering the auction or it freeze in menus

>>13767335

The saddest thing is people are praising them for having to rewrite the entire game they fucked up with. Like, how fucking brain damaged do you have to be to say that that is fine? Fucking parasites, man.

>>13770270

I don't know if that's worse than the people who said there were not any issues with the original translation. Then when you show them the bullshit they just dismiss it as "funny jokes".

>>13770270

I really hate this. You don't give dogs treats when they shit on your couch.

>>13770270

Forgot you were in the age of Participation Trophies, huh?

>>13770798

I guess your post is saying they aren’t people, in which case, you’re right. They’re just lapdogs feeding off of NISA’s nipple of lies, deceit and memery.

>>13766223

Also that they'll likely end up re-recording all voiced dialogue. Pretty much everything that ISN'T battle/action grunts.

They could very well have someone else voice Sean Chiplock's part if he sticks to his words.

>>13770270

>>13770798

There's the twitter comment here and there saying "I didn't notice anything wrong with it" in regards to the news about the localization.

HORSEYYY HORSE!!!!

I plan on playing Xanadu Next this weekend. Previously when I tried to play this game I was having trouble with my controller working right. This time I'm going to probably use keyboard and mouse. Is there any benefit to using either control scheme?

>>13772709

You can play the entire game with just a mouse if you want. I'd really recommend playing it with kb/m because it's pretty much built around it over using a controller.

>>13773346

>I'd really recommend playing it with kb/m because it's pretty much built around it over using a controller.

Especially the movement and menu navigation. While doable with a controller, I played the entire game with one but some of the paths and jumps are way easier with a mouse.

>>13758948

>No they don't censor things

That's a lie.

The NA Aksys version of Agarest 2 was uncensored, the EU Ghostlight version was censored.

>>13772709

>playing Xanadu Next with a controller

Why? it's so much better with a just the mouse.

>>13766223

>Shills will treat this as a good thing rather than a display of how badly they fucked up by their own admission.

I cannot physically empathise nor understand with this mindset.

>>13772709

Personally, I NEVER figured out how to navigate the menu appropriately with controller, so even when playing the action with a controller, I still had to use the mouse for menu-related things.

>>13783432

Don't stop lewding the Towa.

>>13785175

For the most part each game is its own little adventure. There is some continuity, but it isn't the main focus. The main focus is getting Adol and the player to their next adventure.

>>13785175

The only continuity between the games is that Adol is an adventurer and Dogi is his bro.

What's the best endgame dungeon music in falcom vidya?

>>13788027

CS3's is pretty good.

>>13789938

Grrr…. Nope, not gonna listen. It'll be painful, but I'm going to wait.

This especially hurts with my current refusal to buy Ys VIII

I pray to Aidios that it can reach CS1's level of epic. And I'll assume that it's another continuous-play theme whether in dungeon or battle. I fucking loved that in many of Cold Steel's themes.

>>13792685

Yeah, I stopped following that a long time ago. Now I have even less of a reason to look at it.

>>13792685

Endless History is a lot less important now that Trails has a much bigger fanbase. It was really nice for a time because there was no other place to get English trails info, but CS and the steam releases have created a large enough community that we just get the info from a lot of different places these days. So luckily that won't be able to effect much.

>>13793319

It's not just her. I've seen plenty of so called "Falcom fan" tweets that shit on Xseed and saying how people don't really care about Falcom.

Like fuck ya'll. It's BECAUSE I love Ys so much that I want Xseed to continue with it like it should be. They'll treat it with respect. NISA was hated for years. YEARS.

>>13793319

The people who defend NISA are the same people who support the casualization of video games.

Everybody who has actually played Nip games for more than a few months knows that NISA is universally despised for shit translations and somehow introducing bugs into games during (((localization))).

NISA is almost as hated as Treehouse and Treehouse has an excuse to fall back on. Muh NoA kid friendly image, definitely not just removing shit I personally disagree with/am lazy NISA has no excuse, they just don't give a shit and have enough resources to scoop up and fuck up anything they decide is getting too popular for their tastes.

>>13791850

From what I've seen of CS3 (I haven't touched anything related to CS2), Rosine and Mint got to have the most interesting developments of the NPCs. I guess Rosine was pretty obvious even in CS1 with your interactions with her and considering what happened at the end.

>>13793341

> It's BECAUSE I love Ys so much that I want Xseed to continue with it like it should be. They'll treat it with respect.

If Ys and Trails was treated poorly, they would've been largely forgotten like the Gagharv trilogy. The Gagharv trilogy from what I know only suffered from poor translation. Imagine if they had introduced bugs as >>13793492 mentioned?

If Falcom dumped NISA during the shareholder meeting that's coming up soon, I'll buy a couple Ys and Trails keys and post them on here and elsewhere to celebrate.

>>13788027

dunno mate, but do i know which is the best first dungeon music.

>>13794280

also, i got to vent about Celceta OST. It had so much potential but they fucked up somehow.

Look at this, the start is fucking balling, and then 1:04 they fuck up the music badly, and at least half the OST is like that.

Really fucking sad about this.

>>13755276

>those abs

>that ass

hnnnghhh

>>13755276

Holy hell, I actually forgot that her and Bardias never had any voiced lines.

>>13794299

There's only one good Celceta ost and it's this one.

Too bad it's not the final dungeon theme.

>>13795309

Yeah, it would be a sore loss for XSeed's fans if NISA never gets another Falcom game. Cunt.

>>13796213

No you can play Zwei 2 without ever playing Zwei 1. The only thing you'll miss out is a few small references to the first game, nothing major story-wise at all.

>>13757893

>>13757788

I'm not sure how it is bad? There's no way Aksys will let Ghostlight censor the game and Ghostlight's ports are good.

>>13796356

>Ghostlight's ports are good.

Locked frame rates and removal of features aren't good ports

>>13796405

Nothing wrong with locked framerates. And really the real issue with Elminage Gothic was that they didn't port the 3DS version instead so we could had the loli dolls race too. But let's be honest the 3DS is a really shitty console that makes it almost impossible to port its game due to its dumb gimmicks.

>>13796424

Oh, you're just retarded. Got ya.

>>13796424

>Nothing wrong with locked framerates.

For action games it is, especially when they fucking tie the god damn game speed to the framerate

>And really the real issue with Elminage Gothic was that they didn't port the 3DS version instead so we could had the loli dolls race too.

That doesn't change the fact they cut out custom portraits and custom music for no fucking reason.

>But let's be honest the 3DS is a really shitty console that makes it almost impossible to port its game due to its dumb gimmicks.

Not really. An actual competent dev can port a 3ds game to PC with no problems.

Is this is what is gonna happen now? Are we gonna get people shilling bad ports in this thread now that shill NISA's horrible localization didn't work?

>>13796871

The more hack companies that get put on for a Falcom release, the more we’re going to be seeing dipshits going out of their way to defend those companies because they don’t know the shit they pull.

>>13794780

She's alright, but she comes from an installment if Ys With one of the worst endings of the series. Not so much that it was expected regarding Adol himself, but left you intentionally blue balled regarding what happens to all the characters after you beat the final boss. Everyone but you gets left behind to defend everyone as you progress and you never hear from them again. No goodbyes, no small scene of What they'll be doing, nothing. They Kept implying that Freida and Duren will end up together (or others try to get them together), but we'll never know unless a new Ys game brings them back. The ending was not worth dealing with the game's flaws

Then again I'm complaining about Story shortcomings in a Ys game. Gameplaywise, she's only useful for unique actions, as she's the same type of attacker as Adol, so I found little reason to use her in my party

Was Nayuta no Kiseki the game that has a machine translation but has a better fan translation in the works, or was that another falcom game I'm thinking of?

>>13801574

Trails from Zero has the machine translation that leaked, but has a better one coming. Nayuta is also getting a better translation. Both of those game’s original translations were by a faggot by the name of Nightwolve who believes Xseed stole his translations and has become a very sad human being.

>>13801670

Yeah, Floofy, one of the ones working on Zero, went off on people for saying the leaked version was passable but still wanting to play her and her team’s version. Fairly sure she left the team because of it or just took a long break.

>>13801649

how long away is the the new nayuta translation?

>>13801693

Well, there’s only two people working on it part time. They report that it’s 15% complete.

>>13801722

Ah fuck it, I'll just play the shitty translation that's out now and replay it when the good translation is out.

>>13801687

Reminder that floofy was banned from NeoFAG for being a grill that didn't conform to their standards.

>>13801821

Okay?

Just finished Celceta and holy shit that ending is shit.

what's up with falcom not being able to make good endings nowadays, i'm starting to fear for the endings of CS2 and Lacrimosa, but at this point i will not be outraged as before at least.

Going to start Ys VII now, let's see if it's better or worse than celceta.

>>13803173

The endings in the Trails games are better, but that's due to the games being more story-focused than the Ys games. It doesn't excuse Falcom from making that shit ending for Celceta though, as older games at least had a proper ending and not one that just ended abruptly like Celceta did, but I already did a rant on that with a different ID earlier. The graphics they used for their more modern games started with that game, and I think Celceta ended up being a guinea pig for future games, resulting in a lot of the flaws that it suffered from. The graphics and style work for Trails games, but for Ys, I wish they stuck with the sprite work of Origin, Oath, and older Trails games instead of using the same style and engine for all of their games now.

>>13805561

>Alisa making the top three

>No Emma

Fucking Japs and their shit taste. At least best daughteru is second and Towa made the top ten.

>>13805561

Why do they vote for the main character? They did the same thing in the Persona 5 poll.

>>13796871

>Are we gonna get people shilling bad ports in this thread now that shill NISA's horrible localization didn't work?

remember to bully shills

I'm always surprised to see the OP text for Nihon threads encouraging people to buy Xanadu Next and nobody chewing out op calling him a shill. After playing the game I kind of see why especially looking at low sale figures. Though still seems a little boorish to encourage people to buy something. Nonetheless I enjoyed the game.

For me the story ended up being a major highlight. It really didn't make any attempt to distance itself from any standard story cliche it was unique and well executed in regards to story telling. I enjoyed how they told a little about the story and let you explore the memoirs and tabula before giving more information. For the most part all bits of story were delivered in short well thought out exerts that didn't bore me. I didn't however find all memoirs and tabula before finishing the game. I was only missing one of each.

Is there any extra content if you find all the tabula and memoirs before finishing the game?

As for the combat I've only played the game once so I don't know what all the game has to offer. I built my character entirely around available equipment. This lead to me putting little money and stats into spells and having melee/tank build. Combat while being pretty standard ended up being a rather active and engaging experience. The focus on being behind an enemy to nullify enemy dodges, parries and to do extra damage is what kept it interesting. None of the boring just run in, attack and whoever has the best stats wins that is typical of these combat styles in games. However the game ended up not being very challenging because if you fight every room at least once you always seem to ended up a higher level than you need to be. Plus the unrestricted use of health potions and abundance of revive potions made it a breeze. The game does give you a grade at the end incentivizing harder play styles but I would prefer more outright challenges than having to handicap myself to make the difficulty more satisfying.

The box challenges were surprisingly difficult. The first time I encountered them I thought they were a skinner box likely added to increase playtime. By the end there was at least one challenge that had me stuck for half an hour. The puzzles are relevant addition to theme of catacombs designed to impede progress however for some they would be off putting.

I think that maps is where the game has its biggest short coming. Every location is chosen from a list of top 10 cliche fantasy locations. Art design does not fair any better. Maps also have confusing layouts towards the end of the game. Castle strange was convoluted mess. Not having different mini maps for different elevations made it terribly hard to remember which direction I was supposed to be going. The map for Trechier Woods was confusing by design however that didn't make it not frustrating. In my opinion this problem is also heavily present in Ys games I've played so far. Although making a thorough effort to explore the whole map I only uncovered 13% of it according to steam achievements.

Is there any extra content to exploring 100% of the game?

Despite my gripes with this game I've been impressed with it. So much I so I tried looking up the director Takayuki Kusano, to see if he had produced anything similar. Not sure what director of a game entails but looking through his other involvements I doubt he was the creative genius behind Xanadu Next. He did work on Ys: The Oath in Felghana. If anyone knows the primary contributors to this game's remarkable design I would be very appreciative to hear.

Wanting more of the same I looked at Xanadu Tokyo but the translation is off and the I don't have a vita or blood borne machine. A story centred around highschool students is also very off putting to me.

Anyone have games similar to this one?

>>13775865

>>13773346

>>13780791

After experiencing the game myself I see no benefit gameplay wise to playing with a controller played the whole game with KB/M. However right off the bat I changed the key binds as the attack and move keys were to far away from item and skill keys for my liking.

Falcom tweeted out that there’s apparently going to be a save data transfer feature implemented into CS1 PS4 to transfer your clear data from Sen 3 to it. At least, that’s what the broken bing translation gave. You get 300000 Mira and some clothing.

>>13805561

>Fucking Alisa in the top 3.

>Fie got 444

>Laura that low

>No emma or Sara

This is a fucking shit list.

>>13764543

>tfw this will be censored on international release

>>13807243

can't let you change that camera angle goy.

>>13807260

>implying I buy localizations

Nice try EOP

>>13805561

I'm a bit surprised Musse isn't on there.

>Alisa and Altina in the top 3

I guess they love their twintailed tsunderes and lolis. Though I don't mind Altina at all.

I'm surprised Laura is even on there at all. Still, no Emma, Sara, Claire or Aurelia makes me a bit sad.

>>13805561

And japs yet again show how much shit taste they have.

At this point i think it would be wise to hear what japs say and then do the opposite, they seem allergic to good opinions.

>>13807253

I hope this is bait, if not, man, you're a sad existence.

Anyway, started Ys7 and got to the turtle at lv 2 with not equip and got completely destroyed, that's more like a Ys game.

Seeing these diferences between 7 and Celceta makes me worry for Lacrimosa, it will probably be even easier than Celceta if they continue with this trend.

>>13807260

>because it's definitely one shitty dub that caused your emotional outburst and not that NISA cock in every orifice

go back to cuckchan

>buying multiple copies of the same games

As if, barring ys1/2 barely anything even has multiple platforms it can/has been released on, try taking a look at Falcom's list of released games and compare it to the minutia that you actually know of faggot.

>>13807283

The only shit I can find for "yellow snowflake" is some butthurt /leftypol/ entry on UD, if so holy shit you're even more pathetic than I thought. As if that pointless sage wasn't proof enough

>>13807310

>they seem allergic to good opinions

and grown women

Anybody know what the audience was for the poll ? There's at least some chance among most players it's somewhat different and it's just autists that actually cared about the polls, wouldn't be unusual.

Goddammit, why can't I post images? I've been trying to post the full map of Erebonia for a while now.

>>13807476

NOW it worked. I've been trying to post that too.

>>13807476

>Turbo Mode

Oh shit, are they actually using XSEED's PC port for the PS4 version?

>>13807612

>Have you really never heard don't eat the yellow snow? You'd have to be extremely sheltered and dumb as a rock not to get what I was insinuating

Not everyone who speaks english is an americunt.

>>13807612

>You're the only one taking corporate cock, Xseed cuck.

Not a single actual argument, especially when I've never bought any Falcom game twice

>Implying this is true

Assertions aren't arguments retard, maybe try next time.

>Implying even if it was that'd make it okay

This doesn't even make sense, that was the issue you posted, if your issue doesn't exist how is it an issue, even if you believe me to be wrong you stated this against the hypothetical making it complete nonsense.

>Have you really never heard don't eat the yellow snow? You'd have to be extremely sheltered and dumb as a rock not to get what I was insinuating. Nice job trying to rope politics into those for those sweet e-points, though.

What a disingenuous faggot, or are you actually gonna tell me that "special snowflake" has no pseudo-political connotations, argue that i'm sheltered all you want but the fact that "special yellow snowflake" doesn't appear anywhere else bar that UD entry is significant proof, of which you have provided nothing but insults to the contrary, especially when your use of it directly lines up with the definition provided, awful lot of coincidences don't you think ? While I do understand how eating yellow snow can be used why wouldn't you just use something along the lines of "eating shit" as is more common but instead use a deliberately vague and nigh unheard of in your direct usgage unless my above points stand.

Note that you ignore the arguments that call you out as a shill, your first post took issue with

>or not if it's a NISA/Aksys release

The initial thing you took issue with was encouragement not to buy the products of two companies that released shit translations, if by your own inferred admission you detest shit products, Akiba's Beat, and don't like giving companies you detest money, inferred by your mocking of double dipping then you should have had no issue with the discouragement of purchase of NISA/Aksys products. Yet you took issue with it, if you are not a shill could you hence explain your reasoning with arguments not assertions this time. Add to this your immediate issues and assumptions regarding people purchasing Falcom/Xseed products, you provided no reason why they shouldn't, as would be perfectly fair if something was shit.

I'll do a bit of the legwork, here's a list of most of Falcom's games, if as I said you ignore YS1/2 how many are remade, if you remove ports why would anyone complain about greater accessibility the amount resold is marginal at best.

Also,

>So how'd you enjoy buying multiple copies of the same games to fund that sweet Akiba's Beat dub?

My purchase of Gurumin ? not done by Xseed. Or perhaps my purchase of some jap titles after playing fan-translated version ? I'm sure that money magically went it Xseed's pockets, except it didn't.

Still, it's rare to see somebody hate both Falcom and Xseed, I assume you take issue with YS 8 then regardless of NISA and would encourage people NOT to buy it since it's falcomshit right ?

>>13807656

Cheers, helps that it's cleaner

>>13807656

Thanks!

Gameplay and plot wise what would you like to see for the calvard arc? Going back to bracers? Playing an ouroboros enforcer?

Martial Arts students?

Dropping the turn based combat style and attempting to make their own Kingdom Hearts-ish combat system?

>>13807796

Nah, keep the turn based style. I think making it action-based would hurt the orbment customization, which is already being somewhat streamlined.

As for the Calvard arc, I hope to see a lot of focus on terrorism and the instability that's gained when a country takes on tons of refugees. Maybe we play an anti-terrorism squad. I'd also like to see a more eastern Japanese/Chinese influence on things, including fighting styles and whatnot.

>>13807805

I just don't feel good finally finding a martial arts focused game and then having it be turn based.

Besides the current turn base system really needs something. As it is now(or at least up until CS1 because that's where I'm at so far) it's at best serviceable and at worst below average.

>>13807228

I get what you're saying about supporting the games to keep the developers on the right track however the op text says

>Especially Xanadu Next. That masterpiece deserves bigger sales

Seems like it is directly encouraging people to purchase it.

>>13807867

>It still won't be "real" martial arts. It'll be more like the Yakuza series, with a kind of fictional twist to it.

That ain't exactly a bad thing.

>>13807914

It might not, but it downplays a party system (you'll probably have to deal with AI party members, if any). Plus the Orbment customization might have to be realigned to fit that. I like it as it is now.

I think Trails should remain as Trails, and not try to be Ys.

>>13807935

I see your point. I'd dig a stance system too.

>>13807796

>Going back to bracers?

Nope I want to play a Rocksmith agent.

Also they should bring back the ornament line system. Maybe try something new with the link system. (Also separate dating and link level or even better drop dating altogether.)

>>13807829

I’d never trust eBay for a cute Nendo like Estelle. The risk of getting a hot glued figure is too high

>>13808080

Or just a bootleg

>>13808080

If it where unsealed it'll be immediately returned. i have a blacklight as precaution preferably i'd get it elsewhere but its universaly sold out fuck scalpers

>>13807902

Id agree its just that its more subtle and less BUY. Id guess the overall lack of complaint is combo of that and it being a good non-AAA game.

id will have changed phoneposting

>>13808298

It's changed in the better version at least.

>>13808726

I'd love to be doing some secret spy/espionage shit. Add that stance change system and it'd make me harder than Aurelia's abs.

>>13813273

After the Brandish 2: The Planet Buster remake

Two quick questions about the first cold steel.

Crow's gonna turn out to be C, right?

Also should I have played Ao/Zero first?

>>13814564

Yes and you can play CS1 and 2 first. Crossbell contains more CS spoiler than the other way around. You might want to stop after the boss fight in CS2 though, as there is a mayor Ao ending spoiler afterwards.

>>13814634

>yes

Fuck.

Why couldn't it have been a shitty character like Allisa or Angelica?

>>13814690

Because their names don't start with C

>>13814706

Yeah they do. They're both called cunts

>>13814807

At least you actually care that C is Crow. If it was a shitty character, you would not have gave a shit.

>>13814807

Angelica is fine. Just a product of an old man living vicariously through her

>>13815531

She's discount Olivert without being as likable because unlike Olivier no one rags on her.

>CS1's ending

Wow, somehow that hurt more than Sky 1's ending.

Can't say I disliked the mecha fight, but I wish it was deeper. Is it in CS2?

So is crow gonna end up like Loewe(face turn at the end, then dies immediately) or is he gonna live around and earn his redemption in the later games?

>>13820891

Mecha fights are better in 2, more skills/partner effects and enemy types and there's more of them in general. 3 improves further.

Won't spoil crow's plot but you get his backstory and more in 2.

>>13821311

People keep saying how CS3's cliffhanger is much worse…

It honestly just makes me more excited for the game.

>>13817512

Never thought about it that way, but it makes sense. I didn't mind her that much though.

>>13821311

Man, Sara's tits are so deliciously modeled.

>>13821269

>>13821311

I see. Cool.

>>13822743

Are those two who I think they are?

Also is it me or is Fie— the best grill?

>>13823643

Correct on all counts.

Anyone got the NISA image where it catalogues all their fuckups?

>>13822743

All of the Trails games are good games. I love the series dearly, so much so that I plan to get pretty much every release from now on unless Falcom fucks something up Square Enix/Capcom/EA style. I can't wait.

>>13825309

They’re redoing the voicework because the voicework they have they fucked up with half the time. That and they’re rewriting the entire script so you get to hear Laxia speak in memes.

>>13826161

The Euro version is the same as the NA version.

I enjoyed Faxanadu, and I enjoyed Legacy of the Wizard. Both of those games are fucking awesome.

Why is every other game by Falcom that I've ever played so much shit? Were Faxanadu and Legacy of the Wizard accidents?

>>13825187

That image isn't even a quarter of the shit they've fucked up.

Are the Trails PC games Mac OS friendly? I want to get Sky as a gift for a friend, but I don't want to start him down a path he can't finish, or even start.

>>13825329

Trails needs one thing, and one thing only.

More engaging gameplay.

>>13831073

it runs fine in wine besides the opening video, i assume it also works on mac's version of wine.

>>13831738

Yeah, I mean I love the customization but the battle system itself needs a spark. I enjoy it, still, but it is lacking. It seems they're on the right track with CS3, speeding it up with button presses rather than scrolling through menus. But it needs something more, like stance changing we discussed earlier.

Still, though, even if the gameplay never changes I'm really attracted to the orbment customization, the characters, lore, story. I just love the adventure in a world with connected story and characters. Seeing them grow and change over time, like little Tita in Sky is now less little in CS3.

>>13831756

Not to mention the music.

I don't claim that the band is absolutely perfect(in fact I'd say they've been kind of lacking on really stand out battle tracks) but as long as they can pump out really good tracks I'm all for it.

>>13831841

Generally they have a lot of stand-out tracks from their OSTs, but this is something I find in most games that have really good OSTs. There's a lot of it I love, but a fair amount I don't care for.

And there are those that'll grow on me, like track related.

>>13831841

>lacking in really good battle tracks

Personally I love Heated Mind, and felt it fit especially well in the early game when Rean wakes up. Vid related was also amazing to me.

>>13831747

Damn. I feel weird getting him a gift he'd need a third party program to play. It's like getting someone a PSVR gamejust roll with it when they don't have a Headset.

>>13805877

>So much I so I tried looking up the director Takayuki Kusano, to see if he had produced anything similar. Not sure what director of a game entails but looking through his other involvements I doubt he was the creative genius behind Xanadu Next. He did work on Ys: The Oath in Felghana.

Brandish 2 is literally proto-Xanadu Next and Kusano programmed that game.

>>13831841

The band doesn't compose shit, Sound Team jdk does that. Unisuga's battle themes are still great.

Tokyo Xanadu PC will be released in 2 weeks

store.steampowered.com/app/587260/Tokyo_Xanadu_eX/

>>13846962

Got to see if the re-translation that I heard about happened before I drop any money. And no, I will not pirate it because I got other games I could be playing if this remains trash.

>>13847060

You should also wait and see if the port is even good. which is doubtful since Ghostlight got hold of it

>>13823678

>ara

isnt she a christmas cake?

>>13847622

i though the whole ara thing were japanese milfs

>>13847535

She's a widow

>>13840651

Do you think at some point after all the three arcs are done Falcom's gonna make some fan service-y The 3rd kind of game where the party members are all the old folks who are supposed badasses? Cassius, Victor Arseid, Beatrix, Olaf Craig and whatnot in one party.

>>13847825

An ara is an older woman that tends to be sexually teasing. Saying "ara ara" in the process. While often milfs, it can be any older woman. Even an older sister type. They don't have to have sexual experience either. All that's required is the attitude.

I started CS1 not long ago and I'm overwhelmed with the amount of best girls. This is going to be a hard decision.

>>13837364

more like All-I-Shill-You amiright

>>13849933

The actual answer is anyone but Alisa

>>13849986

Even Alisa is growing on me as I play.

>>13850733

At least her twins are growing :&)

>>13831756

Gotta love videogames, girls that were cute when they were 9 are still cute at age 16.

>>13850733

>>13850988

I don't hate Alisa as much as other people do. In fact I quite like her. If they didn't try to shove her down your throat I might've even picked her of my own volition in one of my playthroughs. Though she pretty much pales in comparison to the other girls. Sara, Laura, Fie. I even appreciate Emma a whole lot more.

>>13851342

>lewding Tita

Erika will have some words for you, sir.

>>13850733

She's still the worst girl out of a bunch of a good choices.

>>13851342

Little Tita? Goodness you've grown.

>>13852440

I'll lewd Erika too, fuck it. Then I'll hear what words she'd have.

>>13852440

Alisa was to be expected out of 'first girl' and tsundere who gets into perverted situation with MC. She is very bland though. If they had played up her being some kind of computer whiz and had some more glaring faults other than mommy issues to go along with it, she could have been a very good character.

>>13852782

My biggest problem is her crafts aren't related to shit. She's supposed to be a tech wiz, where's her tech crafts? Why is she using a bow? etc.

>>13853398

In CS3 she gets an orbal gear but only at the very end and you never get to use it in a fight.

>>13852782

She's probably only going to be interesting if she becomes Reinford head. To be honest, I kind of stuck with her since Falcom so hamfistedly forced her onto the player. She's not bad but she's the worst out of all the girls. She even loses out to Crow.

>>13848229

I would love to see a detailed account of Cassius' time in Erebonia. His time there been hinted at since the first Trails game and into CS1 (I haven't played CS2). You can almost guarantee there will be references to it in CS3 and Last Saga. You'll have young Sara (!) and younger people that you mentioned. It'd be cool too since you'd be tossed into the game as a S-rank bracer.

>>13852592

Erika is prime lewding material. What's is there not to love about the one who gave birth to Tita?

>>13854475

I do. God damn I do. I enjoy Alan and Bridget’s arc next to Becky and Hugo’s

>>13854816

You should abandon that train of thought before you are struck by lightning of something.

Even if I don't really read all the dialogue from the NPCs in the Trails games, I would hate to have that feature removed.

>>13855394

I do it for specific npcs. It's a great thing to have

>>13856520

'darvo

>>13856632

>Game deserves more hype

No it doesn't. NISA doesn't deserve any money.

>>13856666

Super Satan, please. You’d burn the moment you’d step into the place.

>>13857523

ToCS can be played without having played TitS first, but I consider CS1 & 2 the weakest games of the franchise, so I would recommend playing TitS first. CS2 theoretically can be played without prior knowledge too, but you won't get a few things that are explained in TitS the 3rd. It also contains Ao spoilers after the boss fight.

>>13857523

You can jump into Cold Steel, but you’ll miss references to the Sky games.

>>13857573

If you ended up liking Cold Steel you were probably going to play the Sky games anyway. Like I did

>>13826296

Ys VI and Oath in Felghana are pretty good, as well as Origin.

Is there a voice patch for Ys Origin? I fucking hate French, and since I have to read subtitles I'd rather have it be in Japanese…

>>13857681

There aren't a lot of escapes exactly, but there's a lot of "I was holding back and you didn't really win" and then someone has to save the party. That doesn't really start until the more serious villains show up though, which doesn't happen in FC. I'm guessing you just finished the prologue. There's not going to be much more of that in that particular game.

>>13857710

No, I played it a lot, I'm at Zeiss and they're still pulling that shit. The villains in each city escape multiple times before the game throws you a bone and lets you catch one. The ones I'm dealing with right now have been escaping repeatedly since Ruan.

>oh we got wrecked in the battle, but you didn't count on our hostage/smoke bomb/airship/secret door/secret monster/bullshit magical powers/etc ha ha you can't catch me.

>>13857729

Oh and I forgot to add, it's always someone else who ends up catching them, you never get the satisfaction of beating the everloving shit out of them, chaining them up, beating them some more, then dragging them to the military and throwing them in a cell before giving them a goodbye beating.

>>13856632

That version better be the Japanese version you nigger.

If you see more Falcom games localized by NISA then you will have no one to blame but yourself.

From all the complaints I have seen for the game, this is the first time someone nitpicked this hard something so small. Literally not an issue.

>>13857747

Nigger, you’re a pair of rookie Bracers going up against a group that have been going for a long ass time and prepare for the worst to happen. You aren’t going to get that power fantasy you want.

>>13857641

It’s a language made up of French and Japanese and you only hear it in the opening of the game.

>>13856757

Anyone notice how hot Aidios is? I'm imagining her descending to Earth and having orgies with all the cute nuns.

>>13854475

In addition of the other NPCs in CS1, Annabelle was a nice one to follow. I lost my shit when I found her again.

>>13858743

I know. It'll be interesting to see how she progresses. Insane fishing lady.

Who is the best Falcom Swordsman?

Adol, Ares, Cassius, Victor, Arios or Loewe?

I don't get it, has sharon defected from the league of assholes or not? The fuck is on leave supposed to mean?

>>13860407

Adol battles Deities and gets all the women.

>>13860636

Adol is such a chad that he leaves waterfalls in girls panties and doesn’t do anything about it. At least Cassius fucked a goddess and had a kid with her

Get ready for an influx of newfags to the series for next thread due to the sales.

>>13860766

Lena is pretty qt, but goddess?

Can I get infinite bond points in CS via cheat engine or somehow?

Also I forgot to bitch about Alise and her shitty opinion of "Final Fantasy I has way more story than Ys I & II"

>>13859187

>TitS

>Zwei II

>ports

>>13861745

Yes you can use cheat engine. Just don't lock the value. Just fill it up and let it empty naturally.

>>13862127

Any chances of this ruining the game, like, am I supposed to be locked to one npc at some point?

>>13862658

You end up choosing who you want to dance with/hang out with at the end of the game. You get a list of the characters you meet the criteria for. Besides, one of the NG+ extras you get is infinite bonding points to see all of the events anyway.

>>13862658

There are two points in the game where the plot doesn't advance until you spend all your points: when studying for midterms and during the festival. You don't really need extra festival tickets anyway and all you need to make sure you do for midterms is that you spend your last point on the last person there. I'm pretty sure there are six study events so just set the amount to six.

What's with the Trails games and incest?

>inb4 they're half siblings

>>13866692

I heard there was some sort of media panic with mother/son incest and the anecdotal evidence from various actual nips who did sexual shit with their mothers in Nipland in the 90s.

It's entirely possible it's just an easy relationship to explain, similar to childhood friend and all that. Can't just have two people meet at random.

>>13866692

You can’t inb4 that, anon. Especially when they aren’t half siblings.

Things to add to the OP for next thread: Ghostlight is handling the Pc port of Tokyo Xanadu eX+ and the PC port is coming December 8th same day as PS4.

It's time for the new thread. Can someone make it?

>>13867825

I bet if it does get made, the vols or Mark will lock it and wait until the current Sky thread slides off.

>>13869246

Probably. I think that Sky is the main reason why there haven't been a new thread. OP probably timed it.

Oh god that thread is cancer. Please make a real thread. One that isn't full of anti-Japan reset era shills.

>>13870094

new bread