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Oh how I long for the day of cold steel 3 and 4 go be released. Been learning moonrune so I can finally stop dealing with these shitty localization dates. I pray every day that xseed will have the translation and not those other fuckers. I might kill myself if nisa gets it actually.

>>14818402

4 isn't even released in Japan yet.

I'm hoping XSeed announces 3 at E3 at least, and not waiting on both of them to be released just to START.

>>14818140

You monster

>>14818442

Yeah I'm aware of 4 but it still stands that I don't want to deal with these bullshit localization times anymore. I also admit I'm slightly sad they went the PS4 route. I understand optimization and additional work that goes into it hence slowing down release here, but man I really had a comfy time playing them on Vita even with the shit loading and fps drops.

>>14818140

I'm somewhat okay with lewding characters like Sara and Aurelia. They need more… especially with Aurelia's abs

>>14818548

Really crossing my fingers. I think XSeed could learn a thing or two when it comes to marketing. They just mostly so silent when it comes to big releases.

I seem to remember there being a Mega link where Ao and Zero was located.

Anyone got that? I'm soon finished with CS2 so I'm going to play the crossbell games next.

>>14821936

Nevermind, I'm fucking blind.

>>14822039

Didn't mean to spoiler that but oh well.

>>14822039

He had many opportunities, but he preferred adventure more.

>>14822250

Well you better get interested on a fan translation because you aren't going to see an official translation any time soon. Besides, CS4 is delivering on plotlines Ao set up, so I'm not sure why you're so meh on it.

>>14822250

those look like small legs

>>14822298

Shouldn't your logic be the other way around? Why be excited for CS4 when you don't even know the Ao plotlines yet. Also, I am getting nervous if the fan translation ever gets released at this point.

>>14822399

>when you don't even know the Ao plotlines yet

But I do…

>>14828201

My god, imagine if the poor fuck's girlfriend was only with him to get early translations and updates

Anyways this fag should be kept on close watch and communications should be held with the other members in case of retardation. Emotionally unstable/wracked people tend to do stupid things, especially autists like fan translators.

https://twitter.com/nihonurafalcom/status/998761379623452673/photo/1

Pretty cool.

Is it wrong if i feel sexually attracted to Renne?

>>14830740

Only if it is CS4 Renne, and only if you do not live in the US.

>>14830980

So, the twin tailed silhouette turned out to be Kea? No estelle confirmed then?

>>14830980

>KeA

Fine, I'll accept this

>>14831323

Just keep making more booty shorts, Falcom.

Bah

>>14831904

Anon, none of those were a PS4/PC RPG, which the leaked E3 list shows XSeed is showing. Don't despair yet.

>>14831963

They're probably announcing stuff now that they couldn't show at E3, keep stuff like CS3 for that.

>>14831963

>>14831983

Getting my hopes up again.

Don't want them to be dashed like they were when Ys VIII was taken by NISA

>>14833651

Anon, it specifically said "rpg" in the brief. 2hus are smups.

>>14833713

Scarlet Curiosity's an ARPG that plays like Ys. Did you even watch the video?

>>14833747

I'd still say that's pushing it, anon.

>>14833769

maybe

>>14834388

Good olde Engrish.

Where is it from anyway?

>>14834388

I would be in her kitchen making her food. Ries eating makes me happy

>>14834417

Google translated character descriptions. Or if NISA got hold of the Trails series

>>14834421

>Google translated character descriptions.

I see.

>Or if NISA got hold of the Trails series

How terrifying.

>>14821936

Where was it? I'm fucking blind as well.

>>14834601

I assume he found it in the pastebin, but here you go: https://mega.nz/#F!WVVkERRJ!zP1AZjSJMZgFsNtHDWt5AQ

Holy shit the first time he's mentioned Nayuta in months. https://twitter.com/smittywheat/status/999085341674999808

-Renne a shit character.

-Agate the best powerhouse in the first 2 trails games.

-Cassius a weak fuck for nearly dying to a 12 year old Joshua.

-Scherazard best woman

-Bleu Blanc blazing homo faggot

>>14835286

I still wonder what Weissman's anti-Cassius contingency plan was.

Should I wait for the localization of Zero before trying Cold Steel?

>>14834914

I liked all the characters in Trials, except for Josette. Kloe is extremely relate able to me, the whole "Everyone thinks she's weird" thing in her moon door hit close to home

>>14834914

>Renne a shit character

I can see where you're coming from here.

>Agate best powerhouse

Disagree here. He was good but Zin outclassed him in my opinion, especially because of Earth wall being natural on him.

>Cassius a weak fuck

Power levels are really fucking weird in this game but its pretty clear that Cassius isn't a weak fuck and it wasn't even close, he just likes to ham everyone up and make himself look humble when he can. It wasn't even close.

>Scherazard best woman

Disagree here. Teenage Schera maybe had a chance if we're talking design but she was too much of a brat then. Best woman is Anelace, though maybe she counts as a girl

>Bleu Blanc blazing homo faggot

No arguments here. Maybe include Olivier as well :^)

>>14835335

>Disagree here. He was good but Zin outclassed him in my opinion, especially because of Earth wall being natural on him.

Why would you have the big guy use defense buffs that need to be refreshed almost every turn? His time is much better spent buffing himself and then punching things.

>Power levels are really fucking weird in this game but its pretty clear that Cassius isn't a weak fuck and it wasn't even close, he just likes to ham everyone up and make himself look humble when he can. It wasn't even close.

Powerlevels and the idea that by just being "stronger" than another person you're practically invincible to them are both stupid and horrible storytelling. Joshua's supposed to be a sneaky assassin type, so it can be assumed that he tried to attack from stealth or deceit. Cassius somehow avoided this, probably by using his magical shonen genre six sense to tell that someone was behind him (just like how fucking everyone in CS magically is able to "sense" people in hiding) and then thwacking Joshua half to death. Speaking of shitty storytelling, CS has such a major focus on the military, yet its idea of clever tank warfare is to roll up to a few meters from your opponent with the commander standing defenseless on top of the tank, chat with their commander and then blast away at each other. If they're REALLY fancy the tanks move back and forth to dodge shots while they're being shouted orders at by a person standing on top of the tank and with seemingly no radio equipment; I guess war doesn't make much sound. CS wants to take its drama seriously, yet it does stupid and incredibly childish shit like this and it really hurts it.

Charizard was only pretty when she was young and her decent older look was ruined when she cut her hair. Bleublanc isn't a blazing homo faggot, he's a blazing flamboyant faggot. Olivier is a blazing homo faggot. Bleublanc actually wants that sweet teenager princess pussy.

>>14835401

>almost every turn

But that's not true at all. Single target spells, charge-up times, at-delays, interrupts and speed buffs make earth wall increasingly more valuable. It was pretty much necessary for me for the final bosses of FC.

>His time is much better spent buffing himself and then punching things.

Yes. I did this often with him, he kicked ass and dealt truckloads of damage.

>Powerlevels and the idea that by just being "stronger" than another person you're practically invincible to them are both stupid and horrible storytelling. Joshua's supposed to be a sneaky assassin type, so it can be assumed that he tried to attack from stealth or deceit. Cassius somehow avoided this, probably by using his magical shonen genre six sense to tell that someone was behind him (just like how fucking everyone in CS magically is able to "sense" people in hiding) and then thwacking Joshua half to death.

I'm not going to deny this. I had a lot of problems with Joshua's writing.

Cassius I feel was sort of a special exception when it came to anything power-related. He was sort of on a level of his own and praised as a legend/demigod/deity-in-human-form by literally everyone in every goddamn region. It was sort of hilarious.

Can't address anything about CS since I have yet to play it so I didn't read it aside from a very brief skim sorry

>>14835460

CS takes the shonen and anime aspect and increases these by a good amount. While it means that there are more cliche moments, it doesn't take away from the good parts.

I think that Kevin steals the show compared to Joshua when it comes to both tragedy and character development. I look forward to seeing if Kevin returns in Calvard.

>>14835304

No, just play it.

>>14835304

There is one part in CS2 that would have felt more impactful if I had played the Ao and Zero beforehand.

But other than that, it probably doesn't matter.

>>14835645

Kevin was such a great character.

>>14835645

>>14836989

I thought he was just another gud boi in SC until the ending and suddenly my interest in him shot up as a character.

He feels way less… sasuke-like than Joshua, though I think I've pointed that out numerous times in the past few threads already.

Maybe its the fact that you have far fewer interactions with him, he gives off very few mary sue traits, and he, on first glance, feels more likable and mature as a character (along with being a lot better at hiding his emotions, compared to Joshua where its like teenager-tier hiding. which is to say it might as well be written on his sleeve).

Walking in on him with him reciting a novel by heart to the orphans was also too sweet of a memory, its like how can you even dislike this guy?

aside from his silly hair and earring, which I somehow eventually grew fond of

>>14837109

though I will throw Joshua a bone and repeat what I have said before, that his interactions with Hans in FC are, aside from his much much later appearances in SC, his best moments in terms of character writing, which is really friggin' frustrating because of how brief of a period of time it is. I was really liking Joshua as a character, he was acting like a human being, arguably even a bro and then it all just kinda evaporates afterwards and he goes back to his bland mary sue barely concealed edgelord self not long afterwards. Maybe it was because of the fact that he was a teenager that he was acting like such an annoying retard, maybe he's supposed to be outright unlikable but I wish the writers weren't so intent on having his dick sucked by pretty much everyone. He's like a harem protagonist that never quite "earns" it in my opinion.

>>14837134

In a way it is understandable. Teenagers aren't very likable in general, and he is also emotionally scarred, increasing his angst levels. It might also just be a Japan thing where teenage girls are attracted to handsome mysterious edgy boys.

>>14837109

Of course he comes across as charming and likable at first glance, he spent most of his life keeping his emotions away from people, and when you're playing as Estelle, you'd have little reason to suspect he's anything more then that, especially when the game all but tells you when someone like Joshua, Olivier, or Renne are more than meets the eye early when you meet them, having someone you spent an entire game with suddenly murder someone with no warning is somewhat jarring.

>>14837243

Yes

I just finished Tokyo Xanadu, and I am wondering what the hell happened to the translation on it. Did one fucker just decide to meme it up and it was a small enough project that it got through? Did the Japanese text include lines about cthulu, "I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those stupid kids", fucklducks, damn son, and H.E. double tooth picks?

Also, I think that Gorou is fucking retarded from the way he tried to ambush that greed that was a kin of the one from the original earthquake. He had all the time in the world, but he didn't explain what he was doing to the main party who shared a common goal and didn't even bother making a solid ambush. He had a set spawn location, and what did he do? He surrounded it with soldats at close range after making a nice circle formation where stray rounds would hit allies. The soldats give up firing power and defense for mobility. Rufus in cold steel 2 acknowledged that. Mobility should have been the last priority in that situation; the only thing that really would have counted was firepower. To top it all off he even decided that it was a good idea to give the thing a fucking mech. Then, once he completely failed his job, he sent a bunch of high schoolers to clean his mess up. It probably would have been even easier to kill the kin if it wasn't given that mech and a chance to evolve into a giant beast.

I think that the limited items thing they added for harder difficulties should have been implemented differently. You should have been given a chance to select 3-5 items you wanted to bring into the dungeon, and then you should have been limited to those for the entire labyrinth + boss fight instead of the timer. It was way more fun to run the dungeons when I was broke and couldn't afford to just use revive 1s whenever I felt like it. Also, I kind of regret going for s ranks in every labyrinth. I feel like I killed the pacing going for all the boxes and wasting time exploiting ele weaknesses when I didn't need to. The sepith system from trails was also a lot better than the ingredients system they used in xanadu. It was kind of annoying to have every upgrade hard locked behind a specific map, and it was a real hassle to look up both which mats were needed and where they dropped. They should definitely have focused more on quality than quantity for the labyrinths too. Some of the levels felt really good, I'm thinking about the school turned into the misty castle in particular, but I couldn't even remember half of them by the time I reached the epilogue. I would also have liked it if they had made some more levels that took place in the actual world instead of inside a gate. It was a fun enough game, and I'm happy I gave it a try. However, I don't think I am going to be going for new game+.

>>14835460

>But that's not true at all. Single target spells, charge-up times, at-delays, interrupts and speed buffs make earth wall increasingly more valuable. It was pretty much necessary for me for the final bosses of FC.

Then don't put it on one of the slowest people around. A healer makes much better use of it since they're faster and don't have as much to do when the wall prevents most damage they would need to heal anyway. Zin already needs to deal with his own buff which cuts down on the time he can punch shit. Even when you build him purely for offense, he's pretty much the tankiest character in Sky.

>>14836989

I would have liked him more if he had actually stayed a cold asshole. I've seen the whole "distant person learns becomes happy because of the power of love and friendship" thing so many times that I'm just sick of it, and I didn't like how it was handled in Kevin's case anyway.

>>14837243

Beryl is one of the many good NPC girls in CS, almost all of which are better than the Alicia that gets shoved down your throat. They even retcon your choice from the ending in CS1 to her during the flashback in CS2.

>>14837373

Beryl is top tier and would have been a better Emma.

>I would have liked him more if he…

Wrong genre, so that would never happen. His description is also more like: Person who doesn't think he deserves happiness, which negatively affects his surroundings, has to learn to man up and accept his shortcomings and mistakes and move on. There was no power of love/friendship in there.

>>14837373

>Beryl is one of the many good NPC girls in CS, almost all of which are better than the Alicia that gets shoved down your throat. They even retcon your choice from the ending in CS1 to her during the flashback in CS2.

You've gotta go down the Alicia route to get to Sharon.

>>14837429

Emma and Machias were some of my least favorite characters. Emma was pretty shallow and secretive and Machias was unlikeable in general and way to eager to cry about class oppression at every chance he got.

>>14837558

Hang them.

>>14837603

Why?

>>14837373

>then don't put it on one of the slowest people around

His speed doesn't matter too much in the wake of all that, earth wall just fits on him naturally and his bulk makes him fine to tank pretty much anything. Plus I didn't notice the speed difference being enough to carry it on a healer and they're better off casting healing and offense as it is.

>>14837109

The 3rd has undoubtedly the most fun intro to any JRPG I've recently played that completely hooked me. Sometimes I dream of an game where you would just go on cool missions like that and sprinkle in some heartwarming community service like looking after orphans or something. Could even take the opportunity to show more of the church and its politics, especially considering the pagans to the east.

>>14837727

I bet the final arc is going to take place in Alteria and the church will be brought to the forefront.

>>14837656

>use earth wall or whatever it was called

>assuming enemy doesn't go first because he's so slow, get it off just in time for enemy to hit you

>now have to cast it again

Instead he should just be punching shit. There are characters much better suited for using these buffs. Healers in particular already benefit from defense quartz and want to stack speed and are a much better choice. Especially in 3rd thanks to the time gem. Characters like Kevin are shit at attacking on hard and above because if you aren't completely specialized into STR or ATS, you won't be doing shit for damage. Instead you just stack speed and support arts like stone wall on them.

>and they're better off casting healing

Yeah, because Zin is too slow to make good use of earth wall to protect the party, and has better things to do anyway.

>>14834914

-Renne's okay sometimes and shit others. I really like her arc in Zero.

-Agate's pretty strong.

-Joshua snuck up on Cassius and tried to stab him in the back like a little bitch but Joshua still says later on that he didn't stand a chance.

-Schera's a slut.

-Bleublanc is riddlesexual.

>>14818090

>Trails of Cold Steel I & II is now on PC through Steam and GOG with gameplay enhancements and newly voiced lines of dialogue.

Does CS II's PC version have an option for Japanese interface like the first one did? And do I have to mod Nip voices in? Might even get the PS4 versions since turbo speed in turn based RPGs makes me moist, and bonuses with CS III, but I want to try the PC version of the first one at least; CS has gotten so much shit I want to be sure I'll actually like it first. I'm only a casual Kiseki fan, only played TiTS a couple years ago (and am starting the EVO versions because the thought of playing the English versions of TiTS and the Japanese versions of everything else triggers my autism).

I should spoiler my posts more, I would hate to be a newfag in the middle of one of these games and being fucked over by these posts.

>>14837816

The original post was referring to SC and FC, not 3rd where pretty much everyone is viable somehow.

>Healers in particular already benefit from defense quartz and want to stack speed and are a much better choice.

Problem is Kloe is really fucking limited in her quartz slots as it is if you're referring to her, it was sort of awkward to fit in earth wall on her without giving up something else I would usually want on her.

I rarely used Olivier in general.

I used Estelle as an all-purpose character who did a lot of healing because it just kinda stuck out of habit from the beginning of FC.

>Instead he should just be punching shit.

He was doing plenty of that shit, especially with my loadouts for him. iirc I had CP-regen/increasing shit on him in FC and SC, but its kinda hard to remember. An occasional cast of earth wall from him is fine and didn't affect things all that much. I would more often than not require a heal from a healer than an earth wall at any given point in time. Having him cast earth wall and having the healer… heal is what worked best for me in the wake of enemy volleys. I really generally only used it for big shit like arts and crafts that seemed big, and that shit is generally casted slowly enough for even Zin to get it off while I can have all these other characters doing plenty of other useful shit. A healer is decently fast but not as fast as 2 separate people casting, unless I've already sacrificed a quartz slot for them to have that speed in which case, their spell variety is lowered anyways.

>>14837727

Anything involving the Septian is really badass and refreshing, especially with how common of a trope it is for the church to harbor or be baddies. 3rd was, on reflection, a breath of fresh air. (though I will admit to being annoyed at the ratio of dungeon crawling to doors, there should've been more doors like Kloe's freakishly long one in the game, I want that meaty story content).

>embed

I tended to remember the action-y and epic soundtracks more than the peaceful ones

>>14837218

Aye. The way he did the murder too, so suddenly and without remorse or care, the change in demeanor and everything definitely contributed to that. Shatters the only image you had of the guy.

>>14837373

>I would have liked him more if he had actually stayed a cold asshole

I understand this. He was a badass when he turned cold. The expression and dialogue he uses would send a chill down my spine if I ever had to talk with the dude. It was also kinda gratifying to see someone actually not take shit and get as angry and murderous as he did, considering how nice and easygoing everyone was in the wake of all this horrible shit. Its almost cathartic in a way. The game really needed a… I don't know if I can call him an anti-hero, but he was just a very satisfying character.

However I still personally loved how he redeemed himself. The slow, tragic climb up Gehenna, the confrontation with Weissman, and the (slightly cheesy but idgaf) activation of the other part of his stigma with the Spears of Heaven, combined with Overdosing Heavenly Bliss blasting in the background was too much for me not to love that moment.

>>14838242

PC version had turbo before the PS4 versions. However, imo PS4 has the better turbo mode because it doesn't automatically skip animations in combat.

>do I have to mod Nip voices in?

Yeah, but it's just a drag and drop.

>Does CS II's PC version have an option for Japanese interface like the first one did?

yes

>and bonuses with CS III

There are none; the Kai editions came out after Sen III.

>am starting the EVO versions because the thought of playing the English versions of TiTS and the Japanese versions of everything else triggers my autism

Fuck the Evo versions, the new art and music are garbage.

>>14838242

I don't think the Sen Kai PS4 versions have turbo mode. Only the PC version does. Yes you have to mod the voices in, but it's literally right there in the OP. It's the easiest fucking thing to do in the world. Not sure if JO text is in there, but if it was in CS1 not sure why it wouldn't be in CS2.

>>14838325

>I don't think the Sen Kai PS4 versions have turbo mode.

They do.

>>14838328

Shows you what I know. I figured they'd be really lazy ports.

>>14838323

>There are none; the Kai editions came out after Sen III.

Thought I read about new costumes and stuff and some bonuses like 300,000 Mira if you have a Sen III save. Wouldn't be useful for a first playthrough though since I'll obviously be playing them in order.

>Fuck the Evo versions, the new art and music are garbage.

Yeah I'm only still in the prologue, but that is bugging me. Still thinking about just modding the Japanese text into the English PC versions, I know I've heard that it can be done.

>>14838361

Oh whoops, I missed this post.

>>14838242

I'd like to go off these anons questions since I'm about to wrap up cs2 on vita today, is there an import save feature for cs3 for any anona who have played it or just know in general? I'm aware its not out for us poor westerners but I've been super curious if there was any import save feature. Not that it matters probably since they don't have any love for us Vita users. I swear I've never played a more comfy game on my vita than this.

>>14839248

Sen 3 was the first game Falcom developed exclusively on the PS4. They wanted to figure out a save import system between 2 and 3, but couldn't

>>14839248

> is there an import save feature for cs3

no

>>14818090

Is there any news of if or when the remaster for Trails of Cold Steel 1+2 is coming to PC/PS4? I know it got released in Japan in March or so but I can’t find anything about when it’s going to be released worldwide.

>>14839516

Like everything else Trails related, Xseed hasn't said anything.

>>14839516

You answered your own question. If you haven't seen news on them that means there is no news on them. If they were coming over they wouldn't put them on PC.

>>14839516

>Is there any news of if or when the remaster for Trails of Cold Steel 1+2 is coming to PC/PS4?

>PC

isn't the only new shit added in the remasters are stuff xseed added into the PC port?

>>14839572

the ps4 version has slightly better textures iirc

>>14840022

Is there such a thing?

I hate her fucking tiny twintails. Why do they exist?

>>14840022

worst girl continues to be shoved down our throats

>>14840037

same

>>14839276

Ah good to hear, feel less attached that way. Working through the last part of the game after the finale. Truly hoping there's an announcement soon for cs3

Well I wrapped up cs2 anons. That ending was…pretty awful in all honesty. Kinda wish they ended it earlier on but what's done is done. Anyone else dislike this ending?

>>14841387

The game's story ends before the divertissement happens. Class VII's story ends at the real ending. I thought it was fine in that we get to see Rean become a puppet and essentially go back to where he started but now he's without the people he calls family trapped in a situation he can't get himself out of easily. Why didn't you like it, anon?

>>14841421

I'm just thinking back to various scenes still and trying to fully absorb what I've just seen. I never touched tits so I'm thinking I will now go play those while I await news of the third and fourth games. I will say that this has been a truly enjoyable experience either way, these games are some fucking amazing artworks

>>14841779

Should they? Isn't that Nisa's job? The PC port was done by them. Falcom hasn't been involved in PC development in years.

On another note: KeA is flat! FLAT she survived the terrible Crossbell curse.

>>14842154

Falcom usually promotes ports of their games done by other companies on their own twitter. Up to and including Aksys' port of Tokyo Xanadu.

>>14841387

Yeah, kinda. Doesn't help that the final dungeon is so lazily put together.

I just realized who Kevin reminded me of so strongly. I knew when I was playing as him in 3rd that he seemed like another character I once knew but couldn't really remember. It's Vash the Stampede.

>>14845235

Oh shit, you are right. Even their personalities are fairly similar.

>>14845235

Kevin keeps getting better and better.

Why is the PSP Port of Oath of Felghana considered bad? All I got is a shitty toaster laptop and I'm going to save up this summer for a good graphics card and PC build. Until then however I got to work with my Vita. I plan on building it by the end of July so should I just wait until then? If so then is TitS good to start on the Vita?

>>14852711

>Why is the PSP Port of Oath of Felghana considered bad?

Low frame rate and the overdrive can be double charged, which then heals Adol when activated, making the game more casual.

Both Oath in Felghana and TitS have very low system requirement and should run on any toaster.

>>14853528

You never know. Falcom and Xseed are generally very good about QA on whatever platforms they put the games out for, and right now the Switch is a money making machine with a loooot of potential for growth that everyone is looking at. Plus the people who bought it are desperate for games so they will lap up whatever they can get.

The Switch will ruin handheld gayman though, assuming they don't come out with an actual handheld themselves.

I hope there ends up being some more goddamn competition in the handheld market but that's wistful thinking at this point.

>>14853651

>XSEED

Which currently isn't handling anything important from Falcom, so their good track record is a moot point.

>>14853722

Its a foregone conclusion that they're gonna get CS3.

You have a point though

>>14853821

I hope you're right, anon.

>>14853821

>>14853872

on a related note is the switch going to replace the vita for all the niche japanese games? Or will they just release it on the ps4 rather than the ps4 and vita like they used to?

>>14853883

Vita will probably survive for some time. But when it loses all support it will very likely be is a mixture between PS4 only and PS4+Switch, with a few special deals being Switch only.

>>14852711

On top of what the other anon said the English VA in the PSP version is awful. You could probably find an undub or mute the voices though.

>>14841387

Does CS2 ever end? I thought I beat it twice already but it keeps going.

I climbed that huge ass castle, beat 5 boss battles at the top, thinking that was the end. Then I'm in a geofront with a cop and some insanely hot chick and I'm fighting Rean and best loli. Next thing you know I'm back at the school and ANOTHER final dungeon comes up. Is this the end? Why did they pad out the finale so much? This game was already crazy long.

>>14854828

yes, that's the final dungeon (for real this time i swear)

>>14854828

Reverie Corridor feels more like a bonus dungeon to me than a final dungeon to me. You're given unique quartz from chests, as well as the ability to purchase mirrors to play as characters you don't have access to

Though storywise it's more of a final romp for Class VII in the old schoolhouse.

>>14854929

I feel the same way, this last dungeon feels more like something you'd play in new game + or DLC. It just seems out of place after the spectacle of the infernal castle. The crossbell part was kinda neat though.

>>14854929

I wish you could have mirrors for the full game in ng+ with scaling equipment. At least you get to have Altina for most of the game in 3.

Jesus Christ I can't believe it's almost June and the Ao translation still isn't out.

I just finished CS2.

Pretty good overall, with a nice little bittersweet ending.

>>14858234

About how long does it take for a translation to release once editing is done?

>>14854929

>Reverie Corridor feels more like a bonus dungeon to me than a final dungeon to me.

That was one of the problems with TitS 3rd. The entire game feels like one big bonus dungeon where you're just walking around on floating paths in another dimension with a few reused locations scattered around. Reverie Corridor felt like a less drawn out version of the entirety of 3rd, with the main difference being that RC was a bonus to a proper game while 3rd felt like a very padded bonus dungeon and epilogue. It added very little to the story from TitS1/2, and was almost entirely about a character that was mostly irrelevant for all of 2 except for the scene right at the end, and his girlfriend that didn't even exist before 3rd. It's like if Rean became a side character in CS3 and the main character role got taken over by some semi-important NPC.

By the way, please be considerate even when using spoilered text. If you're spoiling something from particularly the games that haven't been translated yet, try to indicate it. There are lots of situations where people talk about one game in spoilers (>>14854828, >>14854929, >>14854980) and then someone

drops a spoilers (minor or not) for a later one that hasn't been released in English yet (>>14855501). Context would lead anyone to believe it was still going to be about CS2, not 3.

>>14859099

I took 3rd as more or less a bridge to the other series as well as an additional "What happened to certain characters before" alongside "what are they doing now".

Initially I didn't like the structure of the game (just one big giant dungeon with a hub) but eventually I came to love it. Probably not my favourite out of Sky though.

>>14853528

Falcom could get 60fps on the switch if they fucking actually handled the porting themselves or actually hired someone that actually knows how to program for the system.

CS2 spoiler question: Why did everyone but Rean leave Thors after one year? I can't seem to remember any particular reason being used as to why only the students of class 7 would graduate after only one year, when everyone else graduates after 2.

>>14859632

At the end They decided to fast-forward their studies and cut short their time at Thors so that they could go on to pursue what they want/need. Alisa wants to show up her mom and be prepared to take over Reinford. Elliot wants to study music, Gaius wants to protect his homeland, Laura wants to train more in the way of the sword, Machias wants to get into politics. Emma wants to learn more about her duty, Valimar, etc so she could better help Rean. Fie decides she wants to be a Bracer alongside Sara, who rejoins Toval in the guild because things start to kick up in the Empire and around it. Jusis has to return to his province to look after it since his brother is appointed to look after Crossbell, and his father is imprisoned

>>14859152

Well maybe, Switch suffers from the same problem as the PS3 did. Too weird and too much work to get it to the same performance as the competition.

>>14859667

I know of their own personal goals, it just felt odd that they decided to drop out.

Still, thanks for the answer.

>>14859745

It's mostly because of their initial goals and how they've changed over the course of CS1 and 2. Most of the characters entered Thors as a way of getting away from certain things, or having to compromise, or pursuing things they thought they wanted to pursue

>>14859745

It's worth noting that with Osborne back in power Class VII was done anyway. Sara was more or less forced to leave and Thors itself began changing a lot, to the point where by CS3 it's not even really the same school anymore. You can get a small hint of those changes by talking to a few npcs during the epilogue. Things were never going to be the same either way, so C7 got an early start on their life goals and some, like Jusis, left because they had to.

>>14859745

There is also the fact that Crow died in front of them. A scene during the epilogue shows it fairly well that the atmosphere in the class isn't all that great. Especially since they practically spend the entirety of the game talking about bringing back Crow.

>>14859096

Guren said they're not going to do testing once it's done so it'll be pretty quick. If the translation even exists.

So how do I turn off the auto text in the PC version of Zero no Kiseki?

>>14860386

I don't know, so I just use windowed mode and click outside the game window, which causes the game to pause.

>>14860509

>auto text is on by default.

I was told shit was not be this 👎

>>14864258

They aren't even the biggest knockers in the series. But she has probably the best ass.

>>14842397

>Look at how much Alfin grew in one year

Are you telling me they ruined her wonderfully petite body?

>>14870686

I'm also stunned at how Elise looks, really.

I dunno if I'd be able to turn down a threesome if I were Rean, honestly

Does the Ys 7 PC port add anything like 60 fps or extra content or is it just a port and I shouldn't bother if I've already played it on PSP?

What's the deal with Ys 8 now? Are they just going to leave it with a shitty port and translation forever?

>>14878904

It has 60fps.

>What about Ys VIII?

It's NISA so it's probably going to stay that way and get swept under the rug.

>>14878904

Ys SEVEN runs and looks way better than it did on PSP. As for Ys VIII, it's just fucked forever like the anon above me said.

>>14870686

She looks so generic now. Perhaps this is actually a good thing, since in CS2 you find out that she's a rotten fujohag that ships Rean and his male classmates. What an instant fall from top to low tier.

>She is definitely no Towa or Tio.

I'm now even happier to have stayed faithful to best waifu Towa. Small breasts and wide hips is a wonderful combination, even more so on such a kind girl.

>>14879117

In what way does she look generic? She's still angelic as hell. I do agree the fujoshit side of her brings her down a bit, but that royal puss would most likely feel too amazing for any sane person to care what she flicks her bean to. Plus she'd be up for MFF threesomes.

>>14879350

Something about her makes her look like a generic Cold Steel teenager now to me. Maybe it's that she used to be incredibly slender, even compared to the rest of the cast, so she stood out more.

>Plus she'd be up for MFF threesomes.

Knowing her, it would be MMF threesomes. Or she would force you into having MMF ones after the MFF one. And chances are you wouldn't be double teaming her (not that sharing your waifu with another man is appealing in the first place), but rather you being the subject of the other "point of attention".

>>14879051

It´s playable for now, they fixed a lot of stuff. Still I won´t buy it because NISA and it has a GOG version so why would I?

>>14881922

>Steam

I strongly suggest GoG, physical copies, or even piracy over Steam.

>>14881940

Nah, its just that Steam is shit and getting shittier every day

Were you not around for the huge VN censorship scare recently?

>>14881922

>>14881940

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_I4tUMF9ySY4kElMC-5gpbBz6GZzVyKr

>>14880775

>If you have bad RNG he can attack 3 times in a row killing either of your units.

>He can heal for twice the amount you deal in damage.

>Instant cast magic attacks which deal half your health.

Don't remind me. I probably spend 2 hours on that fight. It did feel good when I finally beat him.

>>14834609

So this Ao translation how much does it cover?The full main story?

It seems to not be the machine translation from what i´m seeing.

>>14883022

Critical path has an extremely rough and often quite bad translation. Sidequests and NPCs are all machine translated and unintelligible.

>>14883022

there is a leak of human translated stuff out there but it is not edited. It covers just about everything.

>>14884364

wait never mind I am thinking of Zero

>Bugs can be patched, no dual audio is forever

Support NISA, never.

>>14884709

Let´s not pretend Dual Audio patches doesn´t exist. I play my 3ds games with jap voices.

>>14884709

>I don't know what undubs are: the post

You need to go back

>>14885054

Really hope XSeed isn't faffing about when it comes to this series. They claim it's a series they love dearly.

>>14885242

>Not making a functioning release to begin with and introducing bugs that weren't present in the original release isn't being a lazy incompetent dev

>>14885246

He is referring to xseed not having access to Japanese audio rights. So even if NISA fucked up the game, it still had dual audio, and the fucked up state can be retroactively fixed.

>>14885242

>lazy incompetent devs

I think its more because Xseed has no Japanese offices and isn't a Japanese company. If you'd like I can show you a over a thousand nips shitting on NIS/A for how badly they fucked this port up, along with several asking for Xseed back. NISA is irredeemable cancer, good luck waiting for a serviceable fan-translation and presumably numerous mods and patches purely because they got a hold of a single one of Falcom's games.

>>14885756

>Xseed has no Japanese offices and isn't a Japanese company

Xseed is a subsidiary of Marvelous who are literally headquartered in Toyko. They're also called "Marvelous USA, Inc." and are designed to be Marvelous' US branch.

I somehow doubt it would be that much more difficult for them to go through Marvelous when licensing shit for their localized releases. They just don't want to go through the effort.

>>14885054

>They just don't want to go through the effort.

Or they don't have the money for it. XSeed acts mostly independently of Marvelous until the parent company wants them to localize something. Games like Trails are done because XSeed wants to do it, not because Marvelous does.

In most cases it's easier and cheaper to pay peanuts to English VA than pay excessive amounts of money to Japanese Jew VA agencies for their audio.

>>14885954

>Or they don't have the money for it.

>In most cases it's easier and cheaper to pay peanuts to English VA than pay excessive amounts of money to Japanese Jew VA agencies for their audio.

Good point, but if that was the case with all of their releases how is it that other localization outfits have been able to license JP audio without going broke?

You could say that XSeed is smallish but are they really so small they can't afford to license voices for anything at all?

>>14886042

>Good point, but if that was the case with all of their releases how is it that other localization outfits have been able to license JP audio without going broke?

Other localization outfits are usually bigger or have stronger ties to their Japanese counterparts. NISA has a stronger tie with NIS than XSeed does to Marvelous Japan. They're "Marvelous USA" in name as far as they localize Marvelous products.

SEGA Japan is huge and apparently has ties to actual yakuza. ATLUS is also pretty large and acts independently, but is also owned by SEGA.

One of the reasons Ys VIII was given to NISA and not XSeed was because NISA outbid them (offering more money for localization rights). They have more money from milking their cash cows, and can also fall back on NIS in case of money

This is if XSeed is localizing a Trails game they go independently and talk to Falcom, there's no contract or talks with Marvelous Japan as a middleman.

XSeed themselves have to front the cost of acquiring the localization rights, pay their own workers, pay for VA, as well as pay for any other thing (such as people who port if they would like to port a game to another system). They also have to be careful not to spend too much money otherwise they'll make a loss if the games don't sell well enough to recuperate how much they spent, so cutting out something as expensive as acquiring JP voices reduces the risk. Since Marvelous Japan isn't involved, they don't take any risk either.

AFAIK XSeed is a tiny company, probably consisting of much less people than most other localization outfits. They have to balance their act by quickly localizing and releasing smaller games in between larger ones to keep themselves afloat (which is why you see them announcing a lot of small or quick games or projects such as Sakuna).

Personally speaking this does kind of irritate me when they announce a bunch of stuff. It feels like they're biting off more than they can chew properly, so they take extra long.

Japan is fairly draconian and jewish when it comes to audio rights. To the point where it's a nightmare to acquire licensed music tracks if any are used in the game. Even SEGA has trouble with this when it comes to the Yakuza series (the licensed tracks are usually taken out and replaced with a different music track done by the devs) because it's expensive and a headache to get through the legal issues.

Falcom probably lessens this by having their own band and singers and whatnot (though I assume to keep them in the localization some more money has to be paid), but VAs are a different story. The ones Falcom uses are fairly high-profile.

VAs in Japan are managed by agencies. These agencies promote and advertise them. When a VA has to do work for a game, the agency usually acts as the middle man, doing up the contracts, organizing schedules, etc. These contracts usually don't have anything involving localization within them, possibly so that the agency can, as you can guess, wring money out of localization companies later on by forming new contracts with them.

When Kondo said that it's up to the localization company if they want the dual audio or not, people just think "Oh well XSeed can just ASK Falcom for the Japanese audio", without thinking that XSeed also has to jump through some legal hoops while shelling out cash in order to do so.

I wish they could get dual audio, I honestly do. I wish they could get bigger to afford it (but this is partially their own fault, because they like to localize games that no one buys. eg Akiba's Beat which also had a shitty translation).

But English only is not make/break for me. In any game I'd rather a crappy english VA but good translation and less bugs/performance issues than dual audio but shitty translation and a truckload of technical issues.

They've mostly done right by Trails when it comes to localization. That and Ys are really the only things I want from them, save for a scant few other games I might have an interest in.

>>14886293

Oh, this also reminds me:

NISA likes to cut corners to make their localization a bit cheaper. Fast translation and crappy editing combined with shoddy, quick ports with lack of testing and QA..

>>14888762

Why did you play CS before TitS?

>>14889068

I played CS before TitS because there was no indication of there being 5 prequels. Also, CS1 and 2 are games that can be played without TitS.

>>14889101

There are a few references to The 3rd in CS2. You should replay CS2 as New Game+ after you have finished the TitS trilogy.

>>14889068

I honestly didn't know they were related and I saw the PS3 versions in a bargain bin at a small local game shop. I picked them up because they looked pretty decent even though I didn't really know anything about them. I had a lot of fun with them because they reminded me of a battle harem anime, which is funny because that sort of stuff seems to be what most people hated about these games.

>>14889237

Will do.

>>14889647

>You will never go out with an eternal vampire witch loli.

why even live?

>>14892804

I guess that after what happened in CS2 and CS3 they couldn't go back to happy go lucky smug Crow.

>>14894259

I hope he has more purpose than to add some riddle sidequests.

>>14894259

I would be more surprised if he wasn't back.

>>14894259

Just realized that he might be the one saving Olivert

>>14894292

What's wrong anon, don't you find his riddles to be beautiful?

What are the differences between the Vita and PC versions of Cold Steel 1 and 2?

And is it worth starting CS any time soon if I've already finished TitS? I don't like starting series that aren't finished, CS4 is the last one for Cold Steel right?

>>14897624

>differences

Other than the obvious things like higher resolution/framerate/better graphical quality/ability to mod or insert Japanese VA. I believe they added a feature where you could instantly load your saved game as soon as you started the game. No going through main menus. Not sure if it was there for CS1 but I remember it being demonstrated for CS2.

>CS4 is the last one for Cold Steel

Yes, or at least that's the intention. They'll move on to another "Trails" subseries afterwards.

>>14895787

Celceta isn't bad it's performance just gets crippled by the vita and it doesn't really bring anything new to the table compared to the other games in the series.

>>14897624

If it makes you happier, CS4 isn't out in Japan yet.

Or you could start the crossbell games and hope that Xseed announce that they will localize CS3 and 4 at E3.

>>14897713

aren't the crossbell games still being translated?

in fact isn't the first crossbell game still not finished in its translation?

>If it makes you happier, CS4 isn't out in Japan yet.

but this doesn't make me happier at all…

>>14897688

How much voice acting is there in CS? I'm guessing significantly more than there was in TitS?

And is it not possible to play an undub for CS on the Vita?

Those are some notable differences though, especially the frame rate. Do either of the two have turbo mode?

>>14897760

There is a lot of voice acting in CS. The dub has a bit more than the jap version, but the dub also has some horrible choices like making Laura incredibly butch when her voice is barely deeper than the other girls' originally. Girls like Alisa have typical anime girl dub voices, meaning they aren't good but they at least weren't stand-out awful. Thankfully I didn't get far enough to have cute girls like Towa or Millium ruined before I got the undub. Millium got Burched, by the way.

>>14897844

*Marisha Ray not Monica Rial

Either way, that's not what butch means.

>>14897760

I'm playing through Zero right now, and it's serviceable.

It's really janky which will hopefully be fixed when this man >>14893792 finishes the editing.

If you are a person that can't wait (like me) you'll just have to suffer the broken english and fucked icons.

>>14897760

Here's the beginning for CS1 in English https://hooktube.com/watch?v=cdjMRGrsIsY

Here's the Japanese version of the same part https://hooktube.com/watch?v=K0GKiRscsU4

Pretty much every character gets a line so you can make you choice over which on you prefer.

I'd say go for nip either way because hearing Millium in English actually makes me nauseous.

>>14897844

Whatever you call it, it's far too deep for her and especially when you consider that her voice is barely deeper than the other girls' voices in the original voice acting. It's obvious that the dubbers saw that she was a stronk woman and gave her a ridiculously deep voice because of that. Doesn't match her character either, because despite what she thinks herself, everything about her looks is clearly feminine.

>>14897934

She's not supposed to sound "masculine" or "stronk", she's supposed to sound refined and regal in a way that sounds serious and is slightly intimidating (so not the princess-y type like Alfin, yet not haughty and condescending like a queen). Her character arc is her trying to be not only more feminine, but "normal", and down to earth like the other characters.

>>14898077

>She's not supposed to sound "masculine" or "stronk"

And that is why it was stupid idea to give he a horribly deep voice in the dub. Have you even heard the jap voice acting? We can agree that they should keep voice acting roughly equivalent for each character between the versions, right? They didn't with Laura, and that's why whatever supposed character building you're attributing to her deep dub voice wasn't even present in the original version.

>>14898758

You are making it sound way worse than it actually is, though. She doesn't sound nearly as butch or manly as you claim. The idea of her character is consistent across both languages. This isn't a Fates thing where they took a girly character and made her into a but I stereotype. This is just people in the west not all having extremely high voices.

>>14899882

Do you think going after a giant's crotch would make the most sense militarily? On one hand, it makes sense since it's likely one of their weakest points if they follow human biology. On the other, I'd think attacking the feet would be prioritized since them stepping on civilians would be the most immediate danger.

All in all I think attacking the feet would be the soundest choice. That or attacking the inner organs, but I don't know how feasible that would be to accomplish.

>>14900163

wouldn't the clit be a giant glowing weak spot?

>>14897688

>insert Japanese VA.

You can do that on Vita tbh.

>>14897760

>And is it not possible to play an undub for CS on the Vita?

It is if your Vita's hacked.

>>14899882

The smell of anus would permeate miles and miles.

>>14886301

>with shoddy, quick ports with lack of testing and QA..

You know your post would make senses if the final part of it wasn't a blatant lie. One thing you can't say about NISA is that all their PC ports are bad. But you clearly don't game on PC since you are basing this statement on Ys 8 which was really their only really bad PC port recently.

>>14901881

I meant poor QA in general (such as bug they INTRODUCED in Witch and the Hundred Knights PS3, which caused the game to crash back to the home screen) so not just PC. Also even Disgaea on PC had problems when it first came out, quick and shoddy port.

So no, there's no "blatant lies" there.

>you clearly don't game on PC

I don't buy NISA shit, if that's what you mean. But I'm well aware of people who do having problems with them.

>>14901881

>being a NISA apologist

your kind isn't welcome here.

>t-they only screwed up one game really badly recently

>never mind that it was a huge fucking contract and pull for them

>never mind that the screw-up was so utterly vast in scope (they usually lowered the performance of the original ports Falcom gave them to work with, and screwed over and basically shat on all the changes for the better Durante added) and over time (the delays they took allowed Xseed to localize 4 or so Falcom games between it getting released) that it wasn't monumental

>implying that this was their only bad one

>implying that its not the most relevant to this thread

>implying it didn't prove they weren't worth a fucking damn because of everyone fucking worried about this shit

>implying that after numerous patches there aren't still massive fucking problems and people who still can't fucking play the game

This doesn't add in the fact that NISA's president had to apologize and even the fucking nips are angry about this. They so utterly screwed the fucking pooch on something that they were expected to at least try to put their efforts in.

Oh and I forgot to mention they ended up handing it over to some other two-bit company to port it after wasting a significant amount of time dicking around and leaving shit untranslated or doing it poorly since apparently coding/programming is too fucking difficult for them

is Ys celceta worth getting on the vita if mine is hacked and able to overclock (since I heard the game's biggest issue is its performance?) Or is it worth waiting for the PC port? or not getting it at all

>>14909224

please respond

>>14909224

The most you're getting out of the PC port is improved performance and it looking better. It's honestly just up to you. Whether you prefer to play these games on your Vita or your PC.

>>14910944

my cursor was hovered over it when the cap took ya dumbo, that's why its green

>>14913350

Where would we be without bullying Duvalie?

>>14913936

Part of me doesn't want that because it's just an opportunity for more hacks to step foot into the localization industry.

Like the big fracas with Persona 5's release was about a bunch of "localizers" (ie unemployed translators) who disregarded previous failed localizations (and current ones such as Ys VIII) who basically raised a stink about P5's grammatical errors because they want to get themselves employed in the industry (and gatekeep Japanese games while "localizing" them the same way NISA and Treehouse do)

>>14913936

>legendary heroes

there might still be a surprise coming

>>14913936

It ain't over until Ren sings.

>>14913936

They might show a trailer or something just to say they're working on it rather than have a demo present.

>>14913936

If they were making a big CS3 reveal, they wouldn't spoil it ahead of time. There is still some hope left to be crushed. Also we're lucky that Xseed got their hands on the Trails series as they're pretty much the lesser evil out of the possible localization companies. Can you imagine how many SJWs would flood them if Falcom opened their own branch?

>>14914295

anon…

>>14818090

I pirate all the games not published by NISA.

Get fucked, Xseed cuck. ;^)

>>14915588

Way to go pal, you sure showed us. Just be sure to use the NISA store to show support for NISA and some 5% discount codes ;^)

>>14914287

This. There isn't going to be a demo because the game likely wouldn't be coming out for at least another year.

>>14915588

if your objective was to make me spite-buy from Xseed's store directly you have succeeded

>>14916718

I'm thinking a teaser video would be all we get under any circumstances. As you've stated, the game doesn't need much marketing. The audience for these games is fairly small and anyone interested is set on buying it since they're already invested in the series by now. Simply letting us know if it's happening is really all they need to do.

>>14917058

Mama Trails said her project wasn't in the lineup on twitter and she's also been posting about how stressful/big a job it is. I like to think she's talking about CS3 but who knows.

>>14917838

It's English Mystery Detective, an Otome

>>14917850

Isn't that announced? Why would she be avoiding saying its name?

>>14913936

Damn, I'm pretty bummed out. Was trying not to get my hopes up too much but after finishing 1 and 2 not that long ago I was pretty excited.

>>14917850

Don't lie to me.

>>14917952

There's no official announcement but we all know it's that game.

>>14917031

Chinese dresses get my blood pumping.

>6 games at E3

>no Trails

rip

>>14919559

If Falcom is stupid enough to give NISA another title they'll be dead to me. It just sends a message that they don't give a fuck about the west in the slightest so there would be no reason to support them.

>>14919639

God bless the drawfags for these Squilliams.

>>14919559

I'm almost positive at this point they have it.

>>14922909

Why? Because they say they have surprises? That can mean literally anything. Every fucking time NISA says they have an announcement people come out of the woodwork to claim this and every time they're wrong. I don't see any reason to believe NISA has it, when there's plenty of evidence their Ys VIII fuckup has not gone unnoticed. I mean, there still isn't even a Chinese or Korean release for CS3 yet.

>>14923126

Wasn't their last "surprise" them getting Ys8?

There's plenty of evidence that most Nip devs don't give a shit about the West as long as they can make money off the localization.

What are the odds the NISA release DIDN'T make them money even with the negative reviews? Because those are still purchases.

>>14926135

Nisa's last update for the game was 3 weeks ago, it still crashes at regular intervals.

>>14926135

>Wasn't their last "surprise" them getting Ys8?

No. It was random bullshit. And from what I recall Ys VIII wasn't even teased before. They just announced it. And yes, there's evidence Falcom is pissed. Not tweeting about it, for one, like they have with every other release. NISA reniging on their promise to Falcom which did impact them financially. Also the hilarious point of Kondo at a board meeting weeks before Ys VIII PC came out saying all the Steam reviews of their games were positive, only for Ys VIII to come and tank that.

Any changes needed to the op?

>>14927737

>Leaderboards for boss rush and individual boss memories

>No framerate cap

>SSAA

>Full mouse and keyboard support, advanced options in and outside of game

>Digital artbook

twitch.tv/videos/270977764

Celceta looks really good.

>>14928151

>Leaderboards for boss rush and individual boss memories

nice

No one suggested any changes so the op was copied as-is.

New Bread

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