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Trails of Cold Steel III - The Bonds Between Us - Story Trailer
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Great trailer
First 20 seconds has major Cold Steel 2 spoilers for people who care/still catching up.
First 20 seconds has major Cold Steel 2 spoilers for people who care/still catching up.
Well, the first "unlocalized" game will receive a fan edit patch in a few weeks (they at 90% edited, but they need to review the entire script), so you can always buy the PC version legally and patch it.
If you want to wait for the official localization, it will be a long wait, as the games may be ported to modern hardware and localized, but this will take at least a few years.
the two unlocalized games are Trails of Zero and Trails of Ao which make up the Crossbell arc. They actually released before CS1 and 2, but the events of Crossbell and the events of CS1 and 2 are happening at the same time.
CS3 from everything I've gathered is as much of a sequel to CS2 as it is a sequel to Ao and there are also returning characters from Sky and a continuation of story stuff from Sky. CS3/CS4 basically answers questions from all 3 arcs.
Looking forward to getting to this in 2021 (seriously). I've beaten or nearly beaten Sky FC/Sky SC/ToCS I basically in the past year. I think I'm going to play no more of the games this year so that I don't burn out. I plan to play Sky TC/Zero/TocS II next year.
Hopefully a better translation for Ao comes out by 2021...
Hopefully a better translation for Ao comes out by 2021...
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That's what I'm hoping for as well, but you never know with this company.
Yep - hopefully I'll have Ao/CS3/CS4 for 2021. Between the Kiseki series and Yakuza series and the amount of entries I have yet to play in each series, I'm probably set for games for the next couple of years haha.
Me too.
I will have to find time to play on ps4 at night almost.
Trails unportable is a mistake given its low end grapichs.
The voice of Claude announced he's in the game today or recently and I swear he did the opening lines there haha.
Eh
They should port the other games first if they want to try that.
It's not like with Ys where you can kinda just start wherever.
Having a nice Port of Trails in the Sky on Switch would be really nice, especially if you could choose between the Vita and PC art and music. (I would prefer the older art either way)
Or just port the Cold Steel games if thats too much.
But I guess there we have the problem that Xseed did the translation and NISA is the one with the money for a Switch port, cause Falcom is still so weirdly apprehensive about doing or funding Switch ports themselves.
I thought that Falcom owns the translation, in fact NISA uses all the same localization decisions (which makes sense), and it wouldn't surprise me that the recaps of CS I chapters on the NISA CS III website were taken from CS II directly.
I just assume XSeed would still have some say in that because they are also the ones that handled the PS4 versions CS1 and 2 even after Falcom started having those deals with NISA, but maybe I'm wrong.
Yeah that makes sense. Who knows, maybe it was a "consolation prize" from Falcom after losing both Ys and Kiseki. Or NISA was busy with CS III and the best for both parties was to release CS I and II before III.
For whatever reason the more I see of the game the more my interest wanes. I'm sure I'll still enjoy the game but most of the trailers they've released so far have done nothing for me.
I would love to see Trails in the Sky: The 3rd come to home consoles as well. 2nd Chapter is one of my favorite games of all time but I don't have a means by which to play 3.
I might just say screw it and buy Cold Steel 1-3.
I might just say screw it and buy Cold Steel 1-3.
The graphics look bad but the game is great. one of the best jrpg series in the last ten years. I just wish the graphics didn't look like a launch ps3 game.
I feel like if you aren't already a fan of this series then these trailers aren't likely to interest you. It's kinda unfortunate they don't have a way to package these games to outsiders.
XSEED has no say in any of it. DotEmu did the console ports of Ys Origin and used XSEED's localization without their input at all because all of the scripts belong to Falcom.
I want to pick this up on PS4 so bad but the PC fan in me is screaming at me to wait.
I still need to play Zero and Ao too so.....hrmm.
I still need to play Zero and Ao too so.....hrmm.
Is Trails in the Sky the best selling one? It's been on sale a million times by now so I'd have to imagine that it is. This would be my dream scenario though. Have them build up from the start of the series on Switch. If it catches on and gets a following, great. If not then it wasn't meant to be. Good thing about that is that it can potentially have all the nice new features that the Steam version got patched in over the years.
It's going to suck having Cold Steel 3 sit on my shelf. I watched the Japanese version of this trailer for years now and Juna's quote about crossbell just does it for me. It's full of so much despair and anger.
I was super excited to play this after playing ToCS 1&2 on Vita, but after hearing that 3 relates on the Crossbell games and wouldn't make sense without playing those, has killed any interest I have in the series now. Not impressed with this bad direction decision. I they were going to do this, they should have released the Crossbell games on PS4 along with ToCS 1&2
CS3 will make sense, it'll just spoil pretty much everything about the Crossbell games.
Interesting. I've heard it was pointless to bother playing without the background of the other games.
It's a good rule to never trust super fans of a series about how essential it is to experience everything in it.
Without having played at least through Cold Steel 1+2, you'd be lost in this. But without the Crossbell games, you're just spoiling what happened in them. There's already spoilers for Azure in Cold Steel 2, as it is. I don't play on PC, so I'm basically stuck on not being able to get the Crossbell games until they get localized in some official form on either PS4 or so on.