BIG SISTER - The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - 19

[@NicoB]

Estelle's family tree Schera - Big Sis Joshua - Not Brother Tita - Lil Sis Olivier - Creepy Uncle

[@QuantumB00]

Agate - Not Tita’s Brother but really is

[@QuizMasterEntertainment]

More like douchey cousin

[@mastermindmonokuma]

This is funny for many reasons

[@ACey96]

​@@lionofash7700 yeah it's pretty fucked

[@biblemaneverett6528]

Kloe-favorite cousin Zin- that one extended family member that you see in family reunions.

[@PJSam1998]

Fun fact, if you brought Olivier last chapter and he went to dreamland he is noticeably pissed off when he wakes up. Telling Luciola, "Dreams are... not a toy for you to abuse, pawn of Ouroboros."

[@QuarantinedSen]

As someone that’s played the entire series up to Kai at this point…I understand why he said this and it’s so cool lol

[@siragon756]

Damn... he probably had a dream very similar to Estelle's now that I think about it. Poor Olivier.

[@StarBornMichael]

We need to keep telling Nico ahead of time to keep these interactions idea in mind.

[@silverfiregaming5106]

This is made better by his interaction on the airship where his face becomes uncharacteristically serious for a moment when asked about the dream he had.

[@PWLfr]

Full series spoiler line ---‐- So what was his dream ?

[@Thebrawlbro]

So, each party member has a unique conversation on the airship that can only be seen if you brought them to the final battle of last chapter. Since you brought Agate and Kloe, I've included below a transcript of the remaining ones (thanks to Shy Monkeys for collecting these for me) First Tita's, Estelle: Oh, yeah, Tita, I was wondering. Did you dream at all when we were put to sleep? Tita: Yeah, I did! It was a dream where Mom and Dad came home. And Mom and Grandpa got into a loving fistfight for the first time in forever... Estelle: Um, I... I seeeee... That still sounds like a really nice dream. Tita: Heehee... Yeah. You showed up, of course, Estelle. Estelle: Wait, I did? Tita: Uh-huh! After Mom and Dad came home... You and Joshua and Agate all came by to visit! Then Grandpa suggested we all take a trip to the hot springs in Elmo! Estelle: Haha! That really does sound like a fun dream. And now we've got to make that dream come true. Second, Zin's, Estelle: Oh, that reminds me. Zin, you were put to sleepwith the rest of us. Did you see a dream of some sort when that happened? Zin: Mmm, yes. It was a dream of my days at the dojo. Made me realize that Kilika hasn't changed much over the years, to start with. Even in the dream, I had to laugh at that. Estelle: Huh! So Kilika's always been... um, like that? Zin: Yes, 'like that' is a good way to put it. I always thought it was unbelievable that she and Walter, of all people, had gotten toge-- Estelle: Wha?! Zin: ...That was a slip of the mouth. Sorry, but forget that. Please. Estelle: Y-Yeah, sure. Lastly, Olivier's, Estelle: Oh, yeah. Olivier, you were put to sleep there, too. Did you dream like I did? Olivier: Ah... I suppose I did. Yes... I... Estelle: Huh? Is something wrong, Olivier? Olivier: Well, I was simply thinking that it was a shame. For you see, in my dreams I was in the company of peerless, beautiful maidens! Betwixt shapes verily blessed by Aidios! If you had not awoken me, Estelle, I could have done this and that and... Perhaps fate has willfully stirred me at your arrival. Well? Would you care to discover that which can only be conceived in dreams? Estelle: Remember what I said about my stick? I can always put you to sleep with it. Forever. Oliver: Err no, no, I'm sorry! Estelle: For the love of... (Still... Olivier's eyes were so... sad for a moment....What did he dream of...?) Olivier: Ah... You needn't make such a face, my sweet. Estelle: Huh? Olivier: In truth, it was nothing special. Simply a memory of my boyhood. Dear Mueller showed up in it, for example. Estelle: I see... Then why the heck couldn't you just mention that from the start, you perv? Olivier: Now, now! Anger unbecomes you, Lady Estelle. So yeah, as you can see, some interesting stuff in these easily missable dialouges.

[@Averi0]

quatre gaming?? nice pfp change also aidios blessings be upon ye for getting all this

[@Joshua_Cartus]

Aww he dreamt about his mom.

[@cuac232]

Insta comment of the day. I had forgotten where the bit about Walter and Kilika was first mentioned.

[@SupriceSupplies]

I don't think I've ever taken Olivier to the final fight in chapter 4. But reading that bit.... oof. That certain stings with added context.

[@jacksquatch9764]

You've misremembered bits of Gambler Jack slightly. Jack wasn't forced to kill King directly, King was killed by a crime syndicate who had bet on him in the match. And Halle is King's daughter, not just his protege.

[@wheelotime2581]

If you chose the wrong dialogue option in the Felicity quest, Agate will manually drag her ass back instead This moment is extra funny with the voice patch installed lol

[@arvanion195]

Felicity was one of the students who spotted the ghost of Bleublanc and freaked out about it (and apparently jumped into Reina's bed to hide, which she was embarrassed about).

[@sheridanmovieguy]

She kind of sort of implied something happened between them after that too.

[@RakkiXIII]

Interesting point, In FC, when Dunan reveals plans for Princess Klaudia's arranged marriage. Joshua's response is to say that "unless we've severely regressed, it's much too early for marriage", but here we Felicity, in a meeting for an arranged marriage. When I first saw this I thought it was a neat display of the /cultural/ differences between Liberl and Erebonia, as well as Joshua's commentary on the matter.

[@vlonewolfv]

Some of the fans I think overhyped Anton, but understandably so. He is kind of the personification of one of the main aspects that make the Trails series great. Anton is almost completely unimportant to the plot or any key aspect of the series. But he still has a complete arc, personality, and full storylines as a way of showing that every character in this series is more than just an average NPC. Every character matters to this series. And while the writing team can't always show that for everyone (even though they try), it's personified within Anton. So the fandom LOVES Anton. Cuz he is just a dude. A real dude. In a videogame. I am 8 games later in the series, and I still love Anton and wonder what he is up to. And that is amazing.

[@adybli36]

Do people actually like him, or he’s just a meme? He just seems like a thirsty guy with no rizz. He’s more like a butt of a joke.

[@SuperSupersoda]

To simplify it, the reason trails fans love Anton so much is that his quest, dialogue, development, story, and character arc is way better and more complete than the actual protagonists of most other video games. I can only think of a handful of games I've ever played that wrote such a complete story for protag-kun, and in trails, an NPC has a story arc that good. That's crazy.

[@Gdg195]

yeah the fandom overhype the most plain npc and glorified him as "having personality etc etc" when in reality they just made things up just to brag trails world building

[@siragon756]

Omg, the foreshadowing for Trails in the Chest is incredible

[@Jason-wt2rx]

When Nico says how slow the burn is for this game, the more I look forward to when he reaches the point in the story that the consecutive story-packed events happen. I foresee 2 hour episodes again when he reaches them. 😁

[@Amberle38]

Yeah, same. Not long to wait now!

[@kentstopme]

yeah it goes from 0 to 100 for a long time and it keeps that momentum until the end, not saying the slow burn is bad but for SC i think they did good keeping it fair on the ratio between the slow burn and the hype stuff.

[@Shy_Monkeys]

So, fun thing in FC for Felicity and Reina is that they were always around each other and there were hints that Felicity was of some type of Erebonian noble lineage (at one point saying she didn't want to play the role of a commoner in the school play. Erebonia, as mentioned in Chapter 3, is much more hung up on social class being a big deal than Liberl) and that Reina was her underling. But specifically in their relationship you can see that Felicity was always a bit reluctant to finish tasks, and then Reina would use specific verbal language to egg her on to buckle down and do it all whenever she complained and seemed to be on the verge of quitting. You get the sense Reina's trying to make Felicity take her duties as a noble seriously using harsher words to encourage her, even if Felicity resents it. Although, there's a few times where, if you talk to Reina a second time, you do learn she secretly does *love* being a bit mean to her. Another cute thing is if you head to the guard post before starting the side quest, you can talk to Felicity, Estelle has a conversation with her, and when she asks why she's there she makes up the excuse that she's just studying the place for a holiday assignment. The only party member who'll notice something's off is Kloe, who mutters that she doesn't remember an assignment like that. And yes, there's special dialog when Reina hears Estelle saw her earlier, she's flabbergasted. And yeah, if you fail to convince Felicity to come with you, Agate forcefully drags her off under Article 2 of the Bracer code, and then the party has to intervene and convince the military to not shoot him when Felicity starts screaming she's being kidnapped.

[@Erpy80]

That initial conversation with Felicity (if you talk to her before starting her quest) is also the first place in the series where the name of Erebonia's capital is brought up, although it's misspelled as Heimdall rather than Heimdallr.

[@RaifSeverence]

​@@Erpy80probably because it's translating the japanese katakana, rather than taking the official spelling that came out with cold steels release.

[@joaocbcneto]

​@@RaifSeverence yeah I believe XSEED have been the types to update and correct that sort of stuff, they fixed the gender of a lore character mentioned in 3rd for example but this just seems a bit too small to fix I'm guessing.

[@Easelgames]

@@joaocbcneto xseed wont touch trails anymore so their games just aren’t gonna get patched. As modern os’ tend to break older games more bugs will just get more common.

[@joaocbcneto]

@@Easelgames That stuff was after they split I'm pretty sure. The fix was: Changing the pronouns for Hamilton.

[@Some_Random_Guy]

I never connected the fact that all the Eastern characters refer to Aidios as "She who Dwells above" going as far back as the Sky games. It never even stood out to me until I played Daybreak that characters from different regions of the continent have different names that they refer to the Goddess by. that's a cool detail

[@florac1995]

"She Who Dwells Above" is just a general alternative way characters reffer to Aidios, doesn't really relate to their region of origin.

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

@@florac1995 it was established in Daybreak some people in Calvard refers to Aidios as different names so it could be alluding to that

[@florac1995]

@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE It's not. Both Olivier and Kevin say the same this game

[@Some_Random_Guy]

@@florac1995 Daybreak makes it pretty overt that Easterners and Central Easterners have very specific alternative names for Aidios. I've been keeping pretty close tabs on it since Zin showed up in the first game in Nico's playthrough, and yes, EVERY character of Eastern descent has used that exact phrase when referring to Aidios. so I very much believe that to be intentional. And even if there was a moment when Olivier or Kevin uttered those exact words, it doesn't necessarily disprove my initial statement

[@joaocbcneto]

​@@Some_Random_Guy Falcom really is crazy with this stuff.

[@QuizMasterEntertainment]

Nico will literally take any chance to scream with this game... Apollo would be proud.

[@jorntumrongwit9056]

There it is. The large stick quote. The most popular quote from Estelle, I think.

[@BlueCrimson10]

2nd most popular. You know the other one.

[@jorntumrongwit9056]

@@BlueCrimson10 oh Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Yeah can't wait for that one as well

[@dirtybirdperson4020]

⏰️4️⃣ sum🗡

[@silentherox700]

Something I found out about Shiny Poms is that you can gain a lot of Sepith if you use something like Aerial, Estelle's S-Breaks, or stuff that can multi-hit an opponent during a Sepith Up turn. While the former won't damage them, it would still give you a lot of Sepith.

[@dirtybirdperson4020]

The real canon reason poor Agate doesn't want to return to his hometown cause he never got into SOILDER

[@AndrewStorm]

Estelle: I'll REMIND YOU THAT I HAVE A VERY LARGE STICK! Olivier: Oh my... I didn't know you were a boy. *Moments later after arriving Bose, Olivier's body was never found.*

[@lionofash7700]

ESTELLE: THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT Olivier: Oh, I see! Wow, your kind is very rare! Ah, that explains Joshua in that dress you like to- ESTELLE: RAPIDLY APPROACHING YOUR LOCATION!

[@sabbathb6548]

Reports say something was sent flying from the ship to Bose. Flying off to parts unknown. Some witnesses saying they heard screaming from the flying object.

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

Honestly Trails in general mostly flows at a slow pace, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Hell, my favorite scenes in the series aren't even big plot twists or action sequences, its generally the character interactions that boil down to my favorite scenes. Not saying that twists and action sequences don't exist of course. But those generally aren't why I love these games

[@SpanishFly120]

It lets things marinate and build up properly. It's like how with things like a really good chili or lasagna, or other things, if you slow cook them and let the ingredients get that extra time to come together, it tastes all the better in the end.

[@syke2b]

I'd say it's a sky thing zero and cold steel don't feel as slow

[@KatsuImagitian]

​@@syke2b Nah FC, Zero, and CS1 are definitely slow burns but it's a necessary slog in order to setup the world building for the big playoffs. Classic Trails lots of setup big payoffs when it's ready.

[@SJK9000]

If you want to refresh your memory, the last time you met Felicity and Reina was in episode 6 of this playthrough, about 1 hour and 6 minutes in. You and Kloe are walking around interviewing students about the white shadow and run into them having an argument.

[@aneonfoxtribute]

So fun fact, Kondo actually told us the powerscaling of Cassius and Loewe. Cassius with a sword is stronger than Loewe, but Cassius with a staff is weaker.

[@SJK9000]

So much for "Unity of purpose."

[@karasu433]

I mean. A sword is better than a staff

[@Koyasama]

One thing I've found myself doing with the Trails games is working out a "patrol" of sorts--just a quick, efficient route around each town, to touch base with all the NPCs after each major event. It not only ensures that I won't miss any optional side quests, it also ensures that I can keep up with all the ongoing storylines that Falcom set up for these characters who you don't even have to talk to, most of the time. The sheer scale of the worldbuilding in this series is insane, and the payoffs are magnificent.

[@asdmfgh]

Been doing this for CS1(first time playing it), I'm not on even on nightmare mode and by CH6 I've put around 80 hours into the game just because I talk to everyone every single time

[@Anayoth]

It seems I’m one of the crazy fucks who actually talks to *every* single npc TWICE. Sometimes a third to make sure.

[@colt1903]

Doing the rounds will always be time consuming, but exceptionally rewarding all the same.

[@sheroloxantiqua]

Playing any Trails game for 70 plus hours, talking to every NPC twice and STILL missing stuff has gotta be one of the worst feelings I have experienced... Missing stuff, I mean. The games are excellent.

[@MrFutago87]

I just noticed something. Why does Estelle still have Attack 1 equipped? You can make way higher tiered Quartz at this point.

[@Koyasama]

One thing about the Shining Poms and Dark Matter--ATS matters. A LOT. Estelle and especially Tita aren't going to do much of anything. The people you want casting are Olivier, Kloe, and Schera--they can generally get a kill in a few casts, particularly with Mind quartz boosting their stats. (Other arts can also do damage, as long they're Time, Space, or Mirage--the Shining Pom is only invulnerable to the other four elements--but Dark Matter generally has the best damage-to-EP ratio.)

[@Mathamus1]

Dark matter has such a good damage to ep ratio that they doubled it in ep cost in the next game and it still wasn't bad.

[@couver73]

I'm calling it now. Estelle will slowly start remembering the things that were forgotten, maybe even remember Weissman in his false persona. Akin to a strong will that, no matter how hard you try to be forgotten, she'll always remember you somehow. Might be jumping to conclusions, but I imagine it would be a cool moment for her to resist Weissman's attempts to erase her memories.

[@SpanishFly120]

I will always smile and laugh at Estelle's "I'll REMIND YOU THAT I HAVE A VERY LARGE STICK!" line. It's probably my second favourite Estelle line, lol.

[@leonnarem7227]

I think the neat thing with the NPC's is that if you re-play (or watch an LP) you get the chance to see how far back certain plot lines are set up. It really makes a lot of the sidequests more interesting because characters don't just exist for that one quest.

[@chefkochkawasaki4127]

Yup, especially the stuff in the books. I‘m currently playing through Daybreak and its insane how someone like Enrique is already mentioned in Sky SC

[@akuda226]

so really cool detail about the dream talk, it depends on who is in your party at the time, they will mention what they dreamed about during that time (Schera and Estelle will always be in the party) i had Kloe and Zin, and he had a mention about his dream, really cool detail that makes replays really fun

[@Just_An_AverageJoe]

1:07:29 I highly HIGHLY recommend going back and picking the wrong option here. You get a pretty funny scene thats worth going back to the save and checking on.

[@Blarglesnarfe]

I love this series. I know it's still slow for now, but I'm so excited for Nico to see stuff happen.

[@Zephhi]

The "slow" literally ends once you go to Ravennue lol, the rest of the game is pretty much meaty story

[@Mathamus1]

you don't have to talk to all the birds, just 3 specific birds. 2 of which are already missed at this point. The best part of the Rinon, grandman kitty story. Is that the grandma seems to have succeeded purely by accident. she had given up before meeting Kitty who was stranded in Rolent on her way to Bose by chance. and offered for her to stay at their place. Kitty decided to help out Rinon on her own will and stay in Rolent after the fog lifted because she liked helping there.

[@Apolleh]

Let's be honest at this point If you don't bring Tita along with Agate here you're either on your 10th playthrough or you hate Tita. And according to my calculations, the number of people in the latter group is 0. *Grabs Orbal cannon* And I'm not afraid to do some extra subtraction if needed.

[@nahxdas2898]

What if you don't hate Tita, but just enjoy the other characters more? 🤔 If I were playing this game I would probably always try to take Agate, Olivier, and Zin, whether it's viable or not lol. I'd switch out Zin for Kevin if he were available though.

[@Darkfry]

>Zin learned True Distend CONGRATULATIONS! Zin is now completely and absolutely broken

[@Erpy80]

No, that's when he gets the new craft he learns in this game.

[@Darkfry]

@Erpy80 That's when he becomes arguably the most broken party member in the whole series lol

[@hectorandrade8729]

That's the swordsman in the third game, Zin is pretty good tho.

[@Barooth100]

@@hectorandrade8729 yeah, i doubt anyone breaks HIS record from 3rd (at least for me) even if certain characters from later arcs can be on a similar level they don't reach Mach 5

[@patrickbarnett121]

​​@@Barooth100I think a case can be made for Cold Steel and Reverie characters. In early late game and sometimes even midgame, some characters can just one shot many bosses with the right equipment. Sure, they need more investment to reach their potencial, but I would say one shoting the final boss is stronger than what Mr swordsman can do

[@jamestatsumi7095]

Kloe and Olivier are the best 4th member for fluff dialogue since they have connections to so many regions and characters, Zin has very little to say outside Zeiss and Grancel.

[@Christian_Kim]

Just a friendly tip for Shiny Poms, a pretty good strategy are actually the Explosive Cookies and other damage dealing items since they will deal fixed damage, which is really good against them!

[@blackdragoncyrus]

Agate: "Right, Estelle, time for me to be the forced party member this chapter." Estelle: "Oh? Okay, why's that?" Agate: "Well, when I was a teenager, I had a pen pal who happened to be this huge ancient dragon, you see..."

[@fen6300]

For Shining Poms, it's not Dark Matter, it's Shadow Spear, since it has a 20% chance insta-kill. It works in Sky FC at least, but imo you're better off using S-Crafts

[@PJSam1998]

You didn't really need the Shinny Pom to get the others caught up. Due to the way exp works the people with the lower levels get more, allowing them to catch up rather quickly.

[@srswriter1165]

For better or worse, the Bose theme is the Trails in the Sky song I most remember and is the one track that still gets caught in my head.

[@tinkerlin8235]

The game series does something very well which i feel many other series botch, which is, with its slow burn, is that it shows you what could be lost if you fail to save the world so much better than any other game series. And its not just these little NPC stories, but also the slow day to day moments with the main characters. Estelle wants to get back joshua so bad, and we empathise with that because we say them hang out for a whole game. If joshua had left earlier to speed up the plot, the significance of his dissapearance would have been muted. The game is slow, extremely slow, and somewhat repetitive, but it never really feels purposeless, or that the writers want to waste your time asking you to farm random stuff. Its like the creators are making deal with us, its slow now, you're gonna have to put in some effort to keep at it, and in turn we will writer some of the best character interactions you will ever see in one of the most alive worlds you'll ever read. And when it all adds up together at the end you get an experience like no other game series you have ever played.

[@tebeakim3670]

I love the extra scenes/dialogue with your party members, because it shows some more backstories and thoughts of them (especially thoptional ones on the airships and in the events). ^^ The sidequests are interesting, too, because in some of them, there is more informations/story-events for some NPCs that are returning later and to learn more of them, too.

[@TheBigHaloFreak]

This might be a good moment to mention: In the JP text and dub of the Sky games, there is a cute thing about the way Estelle adresses Scherazard. Cause she always calls her "Schera ane", which just means Sister Schera/ Schera Sis.

[@enteikarino6921]

I think Nico is liking these chests because it’s exactly the kind of jokes Nico makes.

[@oOPrettywinxOo]

Without spoiling too much...this series will never have a cocaine tree like Xenoblade. But it will have something that works in a similar way for some of the games in the future, and assuming you will get to that point, you are gonna love that shit.

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

Just as long as he uses the unlimited bonding point mod if he's playing the PC version and wanting to 100% it. Or else he's going to have the savescum like I did

[@BlueCrimson10]

I think maybe the Dark Matter thing has to do with its suction effect instead. If you have a whole bunch of Shining Poms, you could use Dark Matter to group them all together in the center of the spell, then S-craft the entire lot of them at once. Or at least a handful of them.

[@Erpy80]

Nah, that's Dark Matter Ex. (which can't be used in SC) Dark Matter in this game is just a tier 1 elemental art that's only special due to it being the strongest tier 1 elemental art you get. (it has a higher base damage than Soul Blur, but also costs more) Because of its high base damage, it was a viable art to use against the Shining Poms in the prologue and Chapter 1 because its base damage was high enough to at least partially penetrate the poms' insane arts defense, it being an art meant the poms couldn't dodge it and time/space/mirage elemental affinity not being a thing in this game meant that unlike most other attack arts, the poms' complete elemental immunity was unable to negate it. Higher level poms' ADF and HP stats are simply too high for Dark matter to circumvent sufficiently, so the best way to get rid of higher level poms is still a buffed 200-CP fueled S-craft or spamming Death Scream (or Shadow Spear on a single pom) and hope the 20% Deathblow effect procs.

[@Official_RetroMania]

Scherazard is absolutely Estelle's big sister! Love their family relationship. ❤️🥰

[@TheBrightwing]

I always loved how low level characters get extra exp so you can catch them up quick. Leads to wonderful moments of characters getting stupid amounts of levels sometimes, its great

[@zhaoluyue1995]

Yeah, the variety of NPC goes explode once Falcom decided to stop using dot-like characters after Ao.

[@agunkorea2995]

At the end of sky series. Nico will post video chest dialogue compilation and named it Trails in the chest 😂

[@Doctorrr_]

I love your constant pursual of Anton and Ricky, lol. I also liked the Felicity side quest a lot more than I thought I would. Guuhhh I love Agate and Tita so much. I just love Agate in general, lol. I'm so glad we got more of him this game. Also, rip me (spoilers maybe???) I totally did not pick up on the hints for Mischa until last minute lolol. I think I was too busy fawning over Agate, ha ha.

[@gloomsi]

"He just seems like a stupid little idiot." I mean...does there HAVE to be more? LOL. Antons memeyness is his entire appeal for me, personally. Though im sure its probably funnier if you come across it organically. maybe everyone constantly reminding you to go check up on anton is whats making it seem "meh" to you. edit: and for the record i never finished SC so i don’t know if his quests actually amount to anything more. but i nonetheless see the appeal and love him lol

[@tcaz]

Yeah its basically just Anton is very memey and shows up a lot across the series. Plus he tends to have pretty memorable quests when he's involved in them.

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

Yeah that's basically he's whole appeal. And the eventually ending he'll get is really good too

[@Erpy80]

Anton's back in Grancel after the events of the previous episode and this game doesn't really do much more with him aside from his usual mopey schtick.

[@PhantomVizor777]

I'm really enjoying these sidequest heavy episodes.

[@TiduLimar]

I scrolled down quite a bit and didnt see anyone else mentioning this: One Shining Pom to catch Tita and Zin up normal in the series, although especially noticable in the Sky games. as EXP gained scales quite heavily with the level differences to enemies low level party members up is easy in general as they'll get a massive multiplier to the exp. With the shiny pom, on top of that base exp was also high, so they got a real ton more exp than the rest :D

[@FieryAnubis]

I just used S-Crafts for Shiny Poms. It's like the safest bet really.

[@SuperSupersoda]

Relationships like the one between Felicity and Reina are something we'll see over and over again in Erebonia. Servants often aren't considered to be workers in the empire, servants are as much a part of the house as the full-blooded nobility and often have positions of immense influence. There are so many servants who are treated in a way completely indistinguishable from fathers, brothers, mothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and trusted best friends. There are so many powerful nobles who were, essentially, raised by the butler or the maid and therefore always look to that butler or maid as a parental figure. There are many servants who are so loyal to the house they serve that if the nobles are in any kind of trouble, their servants will do whatever is required to help, and that feeling goes both ways. You might wonder: why in the world did Felicity's house pay for Reina to also attend Jenis Royal Academy alongside Felicity? They could have just sent her there as Felicity's maid, they didn't need to also pay to enroll her in the academy. The bond between Felicity and Reina is so tight; you can see how much Felicity feels betrayed by Reina's action, and you can also see how much Reina cares about Felicity's best interest and what is best for her family. In an Erebonian noble house, it's not so much that they paid for Reina to attend Jenis alongside Felicity as a gesture of good will, rather it is that, in Erebonia, it never would have occurred to anyone to NOT pay for Reina to attend Jenis alongside Felicity.

[@joaocbcneto]

Yeah, it's pretty obvious once you get to the arc (Cold steel arc spoilers) Sharon and Celestin immediately come to mind with their treatment for Alisa and Patrick with the same going the other way. The Vanders are also literally a noble house of servants to the Royal family, I noticed it with a few characters but in hindsight I never noticed it might be a cultural thing.

[@SuperSupersoda]

@@joaocbcneto It absolutely is a cultural thing. Spoilers below: When Marquis Hyrams and Count Egret get taken hostage as Bugbear hijacks an airliner and attempts to hold it for ransom, who mounts the rescue operation? Celestine (the butler to house Hyrams) and Setsuna (maid to house Egret and another Erebonian super-maid) are the ones who gather the intelligence, formulate a plan, request back-up from Class 7 and spearhead the rescue operation. If anything threatens house hyrams or house Egret, Celestine and Setsuna will deal with it and woe be to those who get between those two and their goals. Whose opinion does Jusis care more about: his own father, Duke Albarea or Arnold (think that's his name) the butler of the house? In Cold Steel 2, it's obvious Jusis cares more about what the butler thinks. It's really important to him that Arnold approve of the path Jusis has decided to take to go with his friends during the civil war. When Jusis asks Arnold to return the horses to the stable, Arnold immediately figures out what Jusis is really asking for: Arnold's blessing to go with his friends, which Arnold gives. The butler of house Arseid is also the second in command of the Arseid school and is the head of the school when the viscount is unavailable. He raised Laura and taught her most of what she knows about swordsmanship. She always defers to him not as a servant, but as a second father. Then there's Vincent and Ferris Florald, who have their maid with them at Thor's and who defer to their maid as an older sibling for all practical purposes. If Ferris and Vincent are in a pickle (Vince and Margarita), it's the maid who comes and bails them out. When Class 7 fights to retake Thor's in Cold Steel 2, they fight battles against members of class 1 and 2, but also the servants of class 1 and 2. When Ferris takes over Riveria Court and employs some of the servants of house Florald there, the deep mutual respect is on full display. The servants of house Florald aren't good at running a business, and Ferris recognizes this isn't fair to them and does everything she can to lift their spirits and encourage them. They, in turn, give it everything they have; the new situation is not comfortable for them, but they give full effort because of their loyalty and love for Ferris and for house Florald. There are many other examples (Annabelle, that one little girl whose traveling Erebonia with her family and who is being raised by the maid, etc.), this is just the ones that immediately occurred to me. I left out Sharon and the Reinford family and Oliver and Mueller because that's obvious to everyone. This absolutely is an Erebonian cultural thing. We do see it in Liberl as well (Hilda and Queen Alicia / Phillip and Duke Dunan / Mayor Maybelle and her maid) but Liberl doesn't really have a hereditary aristocracy, so it's not that prevalent. It's also not a thing in Crossbell (the butler to house McDowell is a very important figure, but nowhere near what it is in Erebonia) or Calvard (where people consider hereditary aristocrats kind of icky).

[@junazuranoob6192]

Estelle: I need an adult… Scherazard: I am an adult Estelle: An adult that doesn’t drink Oliver: What about me?? I am a fine adu- Estelle: You a complete idiot

[@EmjiAmsdaughter]

I like Agate a lot! He was an asshole in the last game, but he's turned out to be a really good guy! He's surprisingly kind and thoughtful.

[@cuac232]

M.T. Chester= Empty chest?

[@calebjacobson3139]

1:02:30 Personally I pronounce it "Wahn" like the Korean currency, just considering he's got background with the eastern quarter.

[@ShinyMew888]

Nico really elevates smug Estelle, something I did not think possible before these lps

[@fen6300]

This dialogue with Agate can be totally skipped if you don't take him with you. On the same note, you might have missed some different dialogue with Olivier, which probably is a different bit of lore. This is why I love this series so much, but it can also be a bit infuriating sometimes.

[@Anayoth]

I’ve played this game for 80+ hours, played it TWICE for another 100+ hours, and I can guarantee that I still see things in here that I missed. Falcom is the fucking Al Capone of storytelling.

[@smtdds668]

Tio from Perzel farm had like a generic NPC model in this game, but in one of the screenshots for the remake, Tio has a unique character model. So I'm expecting a lot, like a lot of the npcs will have unique character models. The 3d trails games did that quite a lot.

[@zhaoluyue1995]

Speaking of the town music, the town music in these two games are mainly made by two person. Rolent and Bose by Sonoda, the veteran game maker and music leader. He is very solid and efficient in music producing, but mediocore and rarely produce fan favorites. Ruan, Zeiss, and Grancel by Ishibashi, although very young, his music is very comforting, but he left Falcom shortly after the release of FC and passed away in 2014 (at the age of 39). Falcom is known for the high quality of their music, and at least this will continue for the next 9 games or so.

[@colt1903]

Alan not being a pervy little shit for a whole conversation? WHAT IS THIS HERESY?!

[@TitaRussellTrails]

surprisingly there's very few dragons actually in the trails series to the point that you could count it on one hand that lost a finger in a tragic workplace accident

[@sapphire3084]

Oh Anton..... I want to blab so much, but, just enjoy the ride Nico. :)

[@SuperSupersoda]

NicoB wondering if Anton will ever get lucky, or whether he'll just wind up with Ricky at some point. Those of us who have played all the games know the truth: there was only ever one woman for Anton, and his quest in life is to become the kind of man that she can love. He'll get there, someday. I believe in Anton.

[@BlueCrimson10]

1:01:19 tell me I'm not the only one whose mind instantly went to the Star Wars cantina song.

[@Galax94cz]

Plot twist, it is actually Ricky who dies which leads to Anton becoming the ultimate villain of the series from grief of loosing his only real friend, then everyone will come to defeat him at the end of Kai no Kiseki... Oh s*** was that a spoiler? My bad

[@aneonfoxtribute]

Dark Matter is a way to kill the Shining Poms. The problem is that your team when you tried to do that was terrible for magic. Agate, Tita, and Zin have garbage magic stats, and Estelle's isn't much better. Dark Matter works a lot better if you're using Olivier, Kloe, or Schera, the people who actually have a good magic stat.

[@4LeafedDragon]

Agate was a slum kid, he probably wasn't given a complete education like most people, but even than he seems more educated than Estelle more often than not. Comparison being that Agate probably didn't have a formal education until his young adult years, and Estelle has been able to live in within a warm family and community that would make it easy for her to get a formal education at a young age, but Agate is the one that can understand complex matters quickly, while Estelle is like; "What does 2 to the power of 2 mean!?!?"

[@namevod5872]

I think you meant Schera ..Agate got a formal education like the other kids in Ravennue village. He even said to Estelle that the priest that came to teach in his village was a wierdo too , when Estelle coments on Kevin

[@EasilyBoredGamer]

@@namevod5872 I mean that means he probably only got like... a class a week or so depending on if a traveling priest was around. That's pretty low.

[@namevod5872]

@@EasilyBoredGamer To be fair that applies to most kids in Liberl , not everyone can go to the Academy and they only have the Sunday school.I guess some kids are more lucky to have a church in town and dont have to wait for a wandering priest.

[@EasilyBoredGamer]

@@namevod5872 Sunday school is just a name so that we understand that the church runs it. It does take place most days, the academy is like going to college.

[@namevod5872]

@@EasilyBoredGamer My bad with this one you are right I don't know why though it was only a day a week... I mean we see someone in a later game go more days a week. Still Agate must have got atlest a basic level of education before he joined the Ravens .

[@Chausies7]

I very much recommend bringing Olivier for this section, I think. Since he's mysterious, and you want to know more about him. (And he's just a fucking hoot always :3). Also just consider prioritizing bringing olivier in general (he's the best arts caster slightly behind Kloe). Also, for example, for that Felicity quest, you should've obviously taken along Kloe (a fellow St Astria student) and Olivier (an Erebonian) to get more relevant/interesting dialogue. For the rest of this game, bringing on the right people is somewhat important to get the best experience (which is unfortunate, but you gotta deal with it).

[@Ayarane]

16:27 just going to timestamp the Very Large Stick line for Reasons. Very memeable reasons. :}}}

[@matiasrivas1692]

That's the thing about Zin: his base strength isn't the greatest in the game, but distend let's him casually slap the soul out of people. And he's yet to peak...

[@Oldladies_o7]

Oh no! I'm finally all caught up with the series! Whatever will I do??? This never happens!?

[@ericmoll1530]

59:39 lets be honest, this chest was made for Nico.

[@seanlocke2228]

Best chest place of all time!

[@hakuamper365]

45:45 not sure you realized it, but that was a phonetic pun.

[@Mathamus1]

Ironic how you took Kloe out of the party right before the side quest that would be relevant for her. Anyway, If you talked to Reina and felicity. you could have learned that they tricked Felicity to go to Bose for an arranged marriage meeting when she thought it was just a vacation. You could have also learned how Felicity hated how Reina treated her as someone above herself even when they weren't in Erebonia and both classmates. It was kinda sad tbh, Felicity sounded genuinly excited about hanging out with Reina in Bose during that time. While Reina was plotting this.

[@WhiteFangofWar]

59:12 #RememberErik

[@soulsq2]

Well I still love Agate and enjoying this character. 😊 Anton I hope comes back soon.

[@Soul_Devour]

So Dark Matter *is* the best method to kill Shiny Poms outside of S-Crafts but how effective Dark Matter will be is highly dependent on your ATS. Someone like Kloe or Olivier who have high innate ATS and have been given equipment and quartz to further boost their ATS will see Dark Matter do far more damage than someone like Agate or Zin who favor STR instead (and whose S-Crafts would be optimal for fighting Shiny Poms). I remember when I played waaay back in the day I'd very willingly give up defense stats on casters for more ATS whenever possible and just throw them far in the back where they'd hopefully be safe from danger.

[@Soul_Devour]

Also Tita and Zin were SUPER under leveled for that first shiny pom encounter lol.

[@ookamibr1918]

Shining Pom tip: Time arts are better that mirage arts to hit them, all of the time arts. Hells gate and Death scream are great to farm Shining poms, but Dark spear have that KO chance and it's cheaper. All and all walk with fully charged S crafts is the optimal way tbh

[@Impulse001]

Hey Nico, I guess you picked an interesting time to start this series as the devs have mentioned that the next arc will probably be the last one in this universe.

[@jackjohnson8305]

People are crazy about Anton for a reason, you won't get closure on bro's story till the 9th game so yeah you better strap in nico.

[@SoloRogueStudios]

The Trails series has the best NPCs, even better than Xenoblade. I've honestly been spoiled by how good the NPCs are in Trails because now I lament the fact that other JRPGs don't have NPCs as good.

[@Mr_Cinos]

You say Zin is strong even compared to Agate at 58:40 but you're also looking at Zin with STR buff. STR buff adds A LOT, so Agate with Morale/STR buff will also be doing crazy amount of damage.

[@Fiduciariesonio]

Imagine if Olivea had a Skyview Window? I wonder for where the Wind wouldve taken Olivies Blood Vomit..? Meanwhile at a Kids Birthday Party Parent: Make a Wish Billy Billy and his Cake gets Covered in Blood Mid Wish Parents: OH MY GOD BILLY IS THE ANTICHRIST, KIIIIL HIIIIIM, SACRIFICE HIM TO THE ELDERGODS And thats how Billy ended up Chopped Up and his Giblits displayed all over the Walls of the Church the end

[@parkourboio1062]

45:42 Secret pun!

[@Easelgames]

It’s worth noting i didn’t become hooked with Trails till Ch5 here.. see how it grabs you.

[@pucelle3950]

You see it With Zin and his 'True Distend' skill but you have to keep in mind Nico that those stat increases do have a huge impact to the fight depending on how they are used. That buff is great, but one thing I liked to do is use Kloe's debuff skills to decrease an enemies Defense, feed Agate the biggest STR boosting food item I have, have him 200 CP S-Break for massive damage, and then Wild Rage to get full CP leading to another S-Break while still under the buff's duration. You can layer on some insane amount of damage that way by getting a max enhanced S-Break on the character with the beefest STR stat. True Distend is though easily the strongest buff skill in the game, layer that with a S-Break for Zin and you can lay down the hurt as well. Also keep in mind that physical characters (Agate, Zin, Tita, etc) tend to have very low ATS. That's why your magic against the Shining Pom did 0 damage, because it was so long the Shining Pom could laugh it off. If you used a magical focused character (Kloe, Oliver) you would have likely done a lot more damage to it. Its better to specialize characters to do either the highest amount of physical damage (buff STR to the Max) or the highest amount of magical damage (buff ATS to the max). As for magic I prefer getting stuff like heals, buffs, and Earth Guard on them because those magics are the same regardless of how high their ATS is. Or don't. JRPG and their numbers can drive a gamer crazy.

[@charlessegale6493]

All hail the glory that is Smug Estelle!

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

You looked at the wrong weapon shop if you want better weapons there is the shop in the south part of the city.

[@cranesalvation8391]

Estelle looks cursed on the thumbnail

[@nonexplicitname]

Why does little Estelle look stoned in this thumbnail

[@paladincomics]

6 ads in less than 15 minutes, wtf is going on with YT

[@nicolefz92]

😊🏆🏆🏆

[@4rthChairmode]

Laundry pole+ is rare drops from rare panda enemy next to jenis academy it pretty strong and usefull if you manage get it early death scream is pretty usefull to kill shining pom if you manage cast it in time and there is sep cap you get from enemies

[@cius2112]

Yeah so the actual end of the Anton saga is kinda contrived and lame, but i guess if you really identify with being terrible with women i guess its cool. lol