Crossbell Arc in 11 Minutes (Trails from Zero/Trails of Azure)

A quick summary of the general events that happened during the Crossbell Arc (Trails from Zero and Trails of Azure). This video is a little bit different from the other two summaries in that I tried to give a little bit more detail in what happened since the game isn't readily available in the west. The points mention will be broad events that I consider important to understanding the context from which the story takes place. As such, I will be excluding a lot of characters and also excluding a lot of details with the characters I do cover. The game has deep narratives that just can't be covered in a summary video. Since it's a short video I also tried to keep the video under 10 minutes with 5 minutes allocated to explain each game but failed.
Trails from Zero Summary - 0:04
Trails of Azure Summary - 5:13
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[@iryu7288]

The plot twist in this arc is really well done, one of the best JRPG I've play, cant wait for Trails of Beginning.

[@JRPGFanatic]

Me too! But before that CS4 this Fall lol.

[@timidalchemist8475]

Hisayoshi Takeiri (head writer of Falcom) should honestly be recognized more. The guy clearly knows storytelling and world-building.

[@agidyne9676]

I started the series with Cold Steel(it was on sale) I just finished the second game and was wondering what was up with the huge tree. I remember thinking, ‘I bet there’s another game going on all the way over there.’ Lo and behold! The Crossbell arc.

[@seveneyes77]

I finished the the second game today and didn't even know the whole series was connected until I started playing as lloyd out of nowhere lol

[@nogisonoko5409]

@@seveneyes77 The epilogue is really random hahaha, but i did find it fun fighting with Rixia and Lloyd

[@_cyberviber_1564]

Yeah I had a similar experience. Thought Lloyd looked important and looked up the other games on PS and saw her had his own 2 games, lmao.

[@Calm.101]

I'm watching these to avoid playing them, but now I just want to play them out of pure interest after watching this XD

[@Silverstreak3984]

So it. Just prepay for 1200 hours of game play.

[@bigpun4780]

They should make these story arcs into movies...

[@GudziGudzi]

I'm so glad i started from trails in the sky, thanks to that every next game was even more amazing and had more depth

[@TheCayDawg]

it's so cool how these games take place concurrently alongside the first 2 Cold Steel games!

[@Raaami001]

Just started playing steel. Thank you for making these recaps. I haven't played these in a couple of years and didn't want to have to replay them just to remember everything.

[@paulcruz1530]

just finished the game today. thumbs up for this crossbell arc. one of the best trails game for me. the storytelling itself will satisfy you and want even more.

[@haidweng7948]

Thats the game when i play as kids,its really good

[@abrahamwijaya6631]

I just finished the duology yesterday and to me the sequel is hardcore especially some bosses example, you must defeat this boss in 5 minutes real time! Yes they give you timer to defeat this boss and this boss is bulk and broken (but you can just chip damage and time out it but the bonus though). Or the last boss who can reset time if you let the mob around him absorbed and then second phase if you chip damage to like 20% hp left it's just nuke the game and game over and you have to fight it again when it's health is bulky and tanky! But... The game is worth it, i enjoy the ride and i wish find a game in other emulator like PS1 and PSP...

[@CBZero]

Arios rivaling Cassius is an overstatement.

[@stonalisa3729]

I doubt he's stronger

[@agentc7020]

They are of comparable skill rn but Cassius was probably stronger back when he used a sword.

[@johnywartooth4048]

Oh so that's what that blue tree was about

[@ivansolodyankin6820]

I hope you played those games by now, blue tree is the least surprising twist there.

[@TheMrMeerkat]

Oooh, now I understand what was up with that giant ass tree.

[@nuhuthur]

I figured with some of the off-hand mentions of fairly important things happening/resolving off-screen in the Cold Steel series that some of it would tie into these games.

[@BLAZER_VA]

NGL Trails of Azure when the antagonist are reveal my mind had to process it

[@ArtesMatt]

holy shit? They uses "GNOSE" on the script... such deep

[@reign0ffire88]

awesome we're getting them all coming to PS4 !!!

[@svenseike4496]

Trails Zero was surprisingly deep 💪

[@zackcena54]

I started this series with Cold Steel. Now it all makes sense after watching this

[@kurisu3000]

Lol, thats why you play the titles in order

[@zackcena54]

@@kurisu3000 Yes, and now I know. I am new to the series where I only read some reviews that I can start from CS1.. Guess the lore, story, and characters involved run much deeper than that.

[@JackDicaprio]

Omg So many things tie in with Cold Steel wow!!!

[@robertdeffenbaugh9004]

I think Azure is coming out next year. Zero is coming this year in September.

[@yy-hj4br]

With cold steel 3 and 4 localized, how come this isn't? In my opinion this is the best premise in the series.

[@danieldang5366]

the two games are on Steam but no English support yet.

[@yy-hj4br]

@@danieldang5366 dude. Thank you. I was going nuts trying to figure out the steps to buying Azure. I'm sure Geofront will adapt their patches to these versions.

[@ztune3945]

FINALLY we're getting the Crossbell Duology localized thanks to the Geofront partnering with NISA.

[@blackyraypatrick9041]

In the past they had to decide which game would be more important to get localized next. And between crossbell ark and cold steel 1&2 they decided to localize cold steel. Since cold steel was technically more modern, I would say it was a good decision to get a bigger audience and now they are localizing all of the older games....

[@blackyraypatrick9041]

@@yy-hj4br zero will officially release in a new optimized Kai Version localized multiplattform the same day. Azure will come beginning of next year.

[@kurisu3000]

Im so glad I played them in order. The story for the Kiseki series MUST be played in chronological order if you want to get the full experience.

[@QuanLovesGaming]

Not really. You can start at Cold Steel and be fine.

[@lloydb5571]

@@slicksquids he said the full experience tho .i play from trails in the sky and when i play azure or coldsteel seeing another hero being mentioned the experience is great

[@Joe.Elston-Gardner]

You could happily start with game one on any trails but for the full xp it is better to start from sky, so many characters references, the games have a lot of interlinks

[@k.o.gpeople1594]

Nah you can start in any order and get full xp the sama

[@Dota3340]

I want to to continue trails story but start from cold steel, since i dropped trails to azure mid game months ago. But man what a twist, i thought the twist stop from joachim and the story start focus to erebonian empire. I cant believe arius and ian is the villain. Sorry for bad english

[@deusvlad2.083]

which order do you play them in Trails from Zero then Trails to Azure then Trails to Reverie?

[@JRPGFanatic]

Sky (1-3) -> Zero -> Azure -> Cold Steel (1-4) -> Reverie

[@deusvlad2.083]

@@JRPGFanatic Thanks I already played cold steel 1 and 2 before the others lol

[@Rotostorm331]

I just got trails of Zero for the Switch last week with my birthday money/Gamestop card. My first one of the series too. Since Sky isn't available for me, since I don't have Steam, Zero it is!

[@JRPGFanatic]

I really recommend playing through or watching the sky games somehow before playing Azure (the next game), if you can form attachments to the characters through that. There's a resolution to one of the character arcs that I thought was done very well and it probably won't have the same effect if you start with the Crossbell Arc.

[@Rotostorm331]

@@JRPGFanatic Thank goodness for youtube! I have been watching a lot of the recent Trails games CS 3 and 4, Revivre, and Kuro. I'll try to check out the sky games, but I have looked up most of the characters through the Kiseki Wiki.

[@DuwangKaizer]

Interesting fact about the game's European release on modern hardware: The game, despite getting a CERO B (12+) Rating in Japan and an ESRB Teen Rating in North America, is rated PEGI 18 due to the Gambling Minigames.

[@Rescu3Cat]

I'm new to this series but why is the ending of this one so sad compared to the others. Like wtf, they went through all that and still got annexed into Erebonia.

[@syahrinsyazwan3]

The story never actually end yet for all of zemuria, gotta wait until the final game to know. Trails into Sky until Into Reverie is only just the beginning like they say, the end of the beginning. Starting from Kuro no Kiseki, it is known as the beginning of the end. I guess it will be another 10 or 20 yrs until the whole story finish

[@vorpal22]

Good video but a couple pronunciation things: Heiyue is Chinese, so it's :"Hey-you-eh." Zemuria doesn't have an n in it (not Zenmuria).

[@JamesBantz]

I just got into this Series I am in the middle of SC and I'm not sure if I should try and figure out how to find these games or watch a video like this before playing Cold Steel.

[@rafaelrodriguez8922]

I beat trails of cold steel 1 and 2 then watched these overview started playing cold steel 3 and don't feel lost

[@iryu7288]

The three mainline game, Sky/SC, Ao/Zero and the three CS, can be play and enjoy as separate game, with the exception of CS 4 which seem to be the Infinity War/Endgame of the Trail series.

[@Joe.Elston-Gardner]

I would play them it's not hat hard and they're great.

[@stonalisa3729]

Everything with an official western port is on steam. These two games only have fan translations.

[@stonalisa3729]

@@iryu7288 It's like the Marine Ford of Trails tbh

[@elplayclown257]

Tio plato (uncle plate?) Why?

[@angelsascha84]

But it’s coming to ps4 right ? Zero and the second…. Azure? But the realese date is what ? End of 2022 or in 2023😳😱 I was looking for the Japanese version of this two games … I bought the first the games trials in the sky and want to play them ( but I am still at the first steel and playing since 124 hours 🤣 and not finished ) But do you know if the Japanese version in English too? Or only Chinese and Japanese ? 😕 I mean I could order zero and azure Japanese but I am not sure about the language

[@abrahamwijaya6631]

I just finished the duology yesterday and to me the sequel is hardcore especially some bosses example, you must defeat this boss in 5 minutes real time! Yes they give you timer to defeat this boss and this boss is bulk and broken (but you can just chip damage and time out it but the bonus though). Or the last boss who can reset time if you let the mob around him absorbed and then second phase if you chip damage to like 20% hp left it's just nuke the game and game over and you have to fight it again when it's health is bulky and tanky! But... The game is worth it, i enjoy the ride and i wish find a game in other emulator like PS1 and PSP...

[@DriftingCloud_23]

The fact that 5 min boss can and will spam its s-craft on you too and higher difficulty will wipe your party xD

[@abrahamwijaya6631]

@@DriftingCloud_23 it wasn't problem with Llyod Eva tank

[@DriftingCloud_23]

@@abrahamwijaya6631 Evasion tanks are too broken in this series. (Fie can approve this message)

[@abrahamwijaya6631]

@@DriftingCloud_23 yup, but not the final boss case. But luckly i used golden bass money grinder glitch and savestates well done cooking supplying method to cheese it!

[@carlosdecaires]

so they basically destroy the organisation who defended the country and get invaded from another country just to save Kea ? XD

[@kdotono]

in the end it didn’t even matter 😂 whole cross bell fucked up

[@victorparedes2319]

Soooo What was te point of the Crossbell part ?? What were ouroboros trying to get in Crossbell ?? Just to retrieve on of the Bells , to awake the Nameless one in erebonia ?? That's what I understand , because the bell tolls are the cause of the gral of erebos and the awakening of the earth beast . What about the azure tree ?

[@JRPGFanatic]

The Crois family wanted to recreate the Sept-Terrion of Mirage (which was originally under their control) after the original killed itself, and so they created KeA to become that entity. She becomes even more powerful than the original, and is given the title Sept-Terrion of Zero. The Azure Tree is an extension of KeA. Ouroboros' goal was to help the Crois in Crossbell in order to awaken the Sept-Terrions in Erebonia as part of the phantasmal blaze plan, which is step two of the orpheus plan (largely unknown what the purpose/goal is). I don't remember all the details of the plans but have been meaning to go back and look at it... eventually.

[@victorparedes2319]

@@JRPGFanatic yep I remember that an enforcer said " use the hollow phantasm to awaken the blaze " . The part that I didn't understand is what exactly was ouroboros trying to achieve / retrieve . If what you said ( I have readed that in some forums as well) , then it means that the Azure tree was necessary to awaken Argres ? But how are those 2 things related ? That's why I came to the conclusion ( within myself and guided by my understanding) , that ouroboros wanted any of the Bells , because when mariabelle channelled the power of the Bells inside KeA, we can see in 3 out of the 4 bells, so those are maybe part of their interests , specially the stargazers tower's Bell. So the cooperative plan between the Crois and ouroboros was something like this : Ouroboros will be helping them in their goal to summon the Azure tree , and the demiourgos, in exchange on gaining access to the stargazers tower's Bell, now "charged" with enough power thanks to KeA. But when Osbourne took their phantasmal blaze plan , he invaded Crossbell and took that Bell to Erebonia, that same Bell will be then used in the final chapter of CS3, with all the Argres issue . Hehe I would love to read your further comments, and thanks a lot for replying. Also, I apologize if my English isn't that good, I'm from latin america .

[@shaddy9883]

Remove Lawyer Ian in this conspiracy and nothing will be changed

[@doodoo7207]

All this year, why i dont find your channel? KZbin always recomending shit stuff

[@josweet3715]

Lol at you calling it liberal instead of Liberl

[@ZioName]

Man... I appreciate the intent, but... This really isn't good enough. You gloss over too much stuff. Really important stuff. I know summarizing Kiseki is hard, but you should have at least mentioned Rixia, what Ourobouros was REALLY doing in Crossbell (Azure-Zero Project) and you should have definitely mentioned the whole Timeline thing. Because it WILL be important. Hajimari is pretty much pivoting on that.

[@JRPGFanatic]

Yeah, I understand where you're coming from but the purpose was just to give an overview of what happened in Crossbell so players have a background when they get into CS3/CS4, not Hajimari. I know nothing about Hajimari except that it exists and want to keep it that way until I can actually play it. Ouroboros was excluded because it was excluded in the CS1/CS2 recap I did which is also connected to this. It's too much to explain for a video I wanted to keep under 10 minutes. Their roles were more in the shadows anyway. Their Phantasmal Blaze Plan would be better explained in a separate video just focusing on that since it involves both Crossbell and Erebonia. Rixia was also excluded because removing her didn't affect the understanding of the events in Crossbell that lead up to its annexation.

[@ZioName]

@@JRPGFanatic I see, and while I disagree with your reasoning (not all of it), I respect it. Although, regarding Rixia, maybe you should have at least acknowledged her existence, mostly because after Hajimari we're going to Calvard and I bet my underwear that she's definitely going to have a role given her (technically past) relationship with Heiyue

[@infernosdante4557]

@@ZioName imagine living your life dictating others decisions. You are a prime example of a toolbag.

[@syahminazuhan]

@@ZioName get off your high horse, tool.

[@simonstrane]

FF6 all over again.

[@josweet3715]

It’s ADIOS, not ados. There were other mispronounced words but it’s just driving me crazy.