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Trails of Cold Steel IV hits PS4 fall 2020
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Porting takes time, the game is a PS4 exclusive in Japan. They probably didn't want to make PS4 players wait for the other two versions to be ready.
Release date info is old. The news here is the story trailer.
Because it was originally developed for PS4 by Falcom. NIS America are porting it to Switch and PC, so those versions will take more time.
Because it was originally developed for PS4 by Falcom. NIS America are porting it to Switch and PC, so those versions will take more time.
Nice, I have the first 3 and still haven't evens started them, but will pick this up as well when it comes out!
Fall is usually late September-November in the northern hemisphere.
I don't need to watch any trailers since it's an obvious day 1. Too many good (and long) JRPGs out this year.
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I want to get into this series but the thing that's putting me off is that the 2 cross bell games (whole 2nd arc) never came to the West. Did all the Western fans of the series just emulate them or like, skip them?
Nice, should be getting the PC port around february-march. They did say that the window between PS4 - PC/Switch will be much shorter.
You can buy them from dlsite.com
Recently, a fan translation was released for the first crossbell game, Trails from Zero. It is an extremely high quality translation that rivals XSeed's releases.
Some of the new features: 60/120fps, gamepad support with switch, DS, Xbox prompts, turbo, message log
The second game, Ao no Kiseki, has a fantranslation aswell but it is not as polished as Geofront's release, has gotten some QoL updates to make it a little bit better. There's 60fps support and an updated script to match some of the words/locations/items from Xseed/NISA's translations.
I really want to get into this series one day, I'd even like to start with Trails in the Sky but it just seems so daunting. Any chance they'd ever release a collection one day?
Is playing through the Trails in the Sky subseries mandatory to understand the Cold Steel series and be satisfied?
CS1 and 2? Not really.
CS3 and especially 4? Oh yes.
Not just Sky, the Crossbell arc as well.
You can think Cold Steel as 2 duologies
CS1 + 2 - Fine starting point
CS3 + 4 - The last game is a conclusion of an arc that was set up in Sky, officially began in Crosbell.
Now, some people (i didnt play it yet) say that you CAN play CS4 without the other sub series , you will lose a lot of references and dont know some (a fair bit) of returning characters. But you will be able to follow the overall story. Not the optimal way tough.
Its just that the callbacks and continuous plot points are one of the biggest strenghts of the series. So i dont know if i can reccomend CS4 without the others first.
Why the fuck is Cold Steel 3 still not available in English for PSN Asia is what I want to know.
No.
IMO it's like playing Witcher 3 without having read or played the books / earlier games.
Yes. Anyone telling you to start with CS is wrong. You'll be losing a lot otherwise.
The gatekeeping to this series is ridiculous.
I started with CS and fell in love with it. I went back to the Sky games later on, but it really isn't mandatory to enjoy CS.
You went back to it indeed. But did you do it before or after CS3 ?
Just play the first cold steel game and see if you like it, if you do then there's plenty more to keep playing.
That first cold steel game was made as an introduction point of sorts in the series.
I just finished 2 and made mistake of jumping into Tokyo xanadu first instead of CS 3. Feel like this is gonna just gonna be as long as the trails games...
Yeah no, feel free to start with CS, plenty of people who say start with Sky forget that while the story is indeed great, as a game not so much, it is very slow in all aspects from story to animations and battle. Its not too bad but it can be tough to go through if you are not already invested in the overall story.
Durante's port studio, PH3 Games, is probably handling the PC release. Which Trails of Cold Steel 3 is a top notch port. I think they are also helping the porting studio that's helming the Switch version. So far PH3 Games have put out some ridiculously optimized products with awesome graphical extras as well as some nice quality of life gameplay extras.
I think I played CS3 and Sky SC simultaneously on PS4 / Steam.
I'm not denying that it's cool and occasionally more rewarding to have more background by playing the earlier games (also, Sky SC is just a wonderful game).
It's just that I think you can absolutely enjoy playing only the CS games. That way you always know as much as your main characters.