ANGEL OF SLAUGHTER - The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - 26

[@NicoB]

Why the hell does the little girl get a giant robot on top of having a giant scythe?? Weissman clearly playing favorites.

[@Talisguy]

I can totally see him giving a child her own giant mech just because he thought it would be funny.

[@LuccaRPG]

To be fair, Falcom totally plays favorites with Renne -- with good reason!

[@LuccaRPG]

@@hhaammzzaattaarraaff3313 Haha, I know. Keeping mum on that part in case Nico wants to play the rest of the series.

[@ericmoll1530]

@@hhaammzzaattaarraaff3313 I love the whole series but god I cannot wait for Nico to make it to Zero/Azure.

[@Official_RetroMania]

​@@hhaammzzaattaarraaff3313 Her whole character arc is certainly a rollercoaster of emotions and I am ALL in for it! 😢💔🥰❤️

[@LordBlackshark]

Estelle, Joshua, Tita and Agate hobble into the infirmary, bloodied and half petrified. Kevin: Sooo... What did we learn? Estelle weakly hands Kevin the Gladiator Belt: I will never take you and your Grail Sphere for granted EVER again. Kevin: That's what I thought. Now just sit tight while I go get the gauze and curia balms ready. Joshua coughing up petrified bits of his severed spleen: Please... Hurry.

[@Naticus105]

Are we sure that wasn't the chest's spleen? Wait, if so, why was it in his mouth?!

[@WhiteFangofWar]

'Angel of Slaughter' replaced Renne's previous nickname, 'Miss Marlboro'.

[@dragonmaster1500]

You know, it's nice to see a JRPG where the country's military is actually moderately competent when fighting the bad guys.

[@tuvillo]

I think they kinda had to do it, to at least compare to the first game where Cassius wasn't with them. Otherwise it'd feel like even more of a shame that Cassius shackled himself like this

[@uchytjes10]

​@@tuvillo To be fair, the military there was also very competent when they weren't being misled on purpose.

[@revolvingworld2676]

The military in these games have always been surprisingly competent. And the one game that wasn’t true even had an explanation for it.

[@SuperSupersoda]

THAT is why the Society spent the entire first half of the game testing the Gospels. They had to create perfect replicas for their plan to succeed, and to improve the gospels they created, they had to test how much of the Shinning Ring's power was being pushed through the terminals. Only when that level was perfect would the Gospels be able to work on the towers and undo the second seal and bring the Shinning Ring back from its confinement. In Trails, every detail matters.

[@analysissel]

for not catching the Monty Python reference, we demand you build us... A shrubbery!

[@daleharden1749]

He must cut down the tallest tree in the forest wiiiiiiiiith... a HERRING!

[@PhantomShadow224]

And precisely on the count of three, not two, or four but precisely three. You will pull the pin and throw the holy hand grenade of Antioch

[@crowtrobot17]

Come see the ultra-violence inherent in the system!

[@PhantomShadow224]

@ Help! Help! I’m being oppressed! Get your hands off me 😂

[@IsaacgotWestcooked]

Renne: Ready or not here I- Kevin: -hold in my hand the chalice of heaven- Renne: Hey that's cheating!!

[@Koyasama]

I keep seeing people suggest this. I have never been able to get Kevin's S-Craft off in that battle before Renne's Turn 1 massacre.

[@gor4292]

@@Koyasama I think difficulty changes whether she takes a normal turn where she S-Crafts or rather the fight always starts on hide and seek

[@blackdragoncyrus]

Renne's S-Craft is Falcom's politest way of telling you to put on deathblow-prevention accessories.

[@LiamGers-cx1kn]

“Politest” in quotation marks, cause I think I saw a bit of sarcasm there.

[@elgronequequeriabailar]

Certain npc bracer from azure teach me this very well

[@doorto6152]

That or to bring Kevin

[@pokemonmaster6016]

You learn very quickly in this series that if the game gives you a status-resisting accessory, you better equip it immediately

[@SuperSupersoda]

Also, telling you to bring a 200 CP Kevin Graham and to punch his Grailsphere early in the fight.

[@Kenzisa1Blazestone]

So fun fact about Renne's English VA, Sandy Fox! Her voice is naturally high pitched like that! I got to see her and a couple other VAs (Chermi Leigh and Laura Landa) at a Sailor Moon panel! She once told a story that when she was answering a call, the person on the other end thought she was a child and wanted to speak to an adult. So she lowered her voice and pretended to be the "mother!" Also another fun fact is that in Sailor Moon, she's the voice of Chibi-Usa/Sailor Chibi-Moon. Which makes it even funnier that Estelle's VA, Stephanie Sheh is the voice of Usagi/Sailor Moon!

[@Ayarane]

I remember playing Tales of the Abyss and my cats would be all over my 3DS whenever I used Mieu’s field actions. Sandy Fox being that high-pitched and voicing a character whose name is pronounced like “Mew” = my cats think there are kittens inside my 3DS I had to start wearing headphones to get anything done. XD also: ohgod, that part about being mistaken for a child over the phone is a MOOD. I’ve had that several times while doing phone interviews and other things related to renewing my disability benefits, because they thought I was a kid translating for their non-English-speaking parents. I’m 40 years old. @_@

[@fictionfan3699]

That's kind of cool All we need is Johnny Young Bosh voicing Mamoru instead of Artemis and the parallels would be complete

[@bwobkjobrien2508]

Fair warning for the coming chapter: there are a couple of important unique missables from talking to NPCs that were not included in the spoiler free guide I used when I played this game (I found them by happenstance because I tried to see all the NPC dialogue in the game). The first of these missables is available the entire chapter but moves around as you complete the main quest. At the start of the chapter the character who gives you it is near the entrance of the nearest the village to where you start the chapter. The second missable is gotten by talking to the owner of the nearest weapon store after clearing one of the side quests in the chapter. (This reward is afaik the only missable purely from seeing NPC dialogue that affects what is carried over into Sky the Third)

[@SuperSupersoda]

There is another missable, If I'm not mistaken. It's a rare quartz, that is utterly useless for a normal difficulty playthrough of the game. That quartz is there specifically for new game+. On Nightmare difficulty in new gaem+, that rare quartz is an absolute lifesaver and it makes some of the hardest new game+ boss fights actually doable. For anything less than the absolutely most brutal new game+ boss fights, equipping it will hurt your ability to fight. I've never seen another trails game give you something like that. I couldn't figure out what it was for when I first got it.

[@bwobkjobrien2508]

@SuperSupersoda That was the first missable I listed I'm pretty sure

[@SuperSupersoda]

@@bwobkjobrien2508 My mistake, apologize, didn't realize that. I always pick it up at the first spot you mentioned so I wasn't aware that it moves around. It's one of the most diabolic things though, a quartz that doesn't make any sense to equip and that you might even forget you have, but if you miss out on it, you will be screwed if you try the game on Nightmare mode. It's there specifically for new game+ on higher difficulty levels.

[@bwobkjobrien2508]

@SuperSupersoda not even just ng+, I did my first playthrough on nightmare and may not have finished the game without it

[@caramelkalin6696]

Ah yes, the classic Frame 1 Renne S craft with a Critical. Everyone has gone through that experience Nico, you're not alone.

[@salara2748]

This fight started my absolute love and completely dependence on Kevin

[@SpanishFly120]

@@salara2748 Yeah, the Enforcer fights are about the time people realize "you know, I probably SHOULD have Kevin in the party for his S-Break", lol.

[@Apolleh]

That experience burned me so hard that on my 2nd attempt i mashed the s craft interrupt button and beat her to it then followed with everyone elses max CP s crafts and whoops renne died before she could even pop it

[@fauzanzzfulful]

Would've been a perfect experience had everyone got FTK'd from the deathblow. Damn it!

[@GreyVictory1510]

The fight that really REALLY teaches you to listen to what the chests give you before a bossfight and put 2 and 2 together. xD I got Deathblowed to hell and back by her.

[@Erpy80]

In that last scene Loewe and Weissmann essentially summarized what the first 5 chapters of this game were all about. The Aureole, a semi-sentient supercomputer capable of manifesting miracles, was sealed away in another dimension that was generated by the devices atop the four towers. Those devices were way, way too complicated for even the Society's tech to control, so Ouroboros had to come with another plan, have the Aureole hack into these four devices and pick the locks of its own cell from inside this prison dimension. And the keys to this were the devices Weissmann's plan was named after; the Gospels. In an earlier cutscene, Professor Russell already mentioned that Gospels themselves weren't really complex enough to supercharge other things like hologram projectors like they did. In truth, Gospels, when not siphoning orbal power to the Aureole's dimension, were essentially nothing more than fantasy Bluetooth dongles that could connect to the Aureole and have it work its magic on whatever they were attached to, the way computers can perform complex calculations by borrowing computing power from servers in the cloud. That was what chapter 1, 2, 4 and 5 of this game were all about. Presumably, Gospels were an actual thing 1200 years ago, since Ragnard immediately recognized one. But there are no more functioning Gospels around at present, probably at most a few relics that stopped working loooong ago and that Weissmann, as an archeologist, came across. So the Society had to recreate these fantasy dongles from scratch, with trial and error, until they were advanced enough to interface with the Aureole with a minimum of data loss. If the connection was too unstable, after all, the Aureole wouldn't be able to properly hack those tower devices. Bleublanc started with a dongle that could interface with basic machinery. Walter's prototype was about connecting more advanced equipment to the Aureole. Luciola's version was an even more advanced gospel that could connect the minds of sentient beings to the Aureole. And the dongle that Weissmann and Loewe stuck on Ragnard was able to hook the mind of a super-evolved sentient being into the Shining Ring and the data loss was minimal enough for it to keep that mind under control. At that point, they figured that if the connection was stable enough to control an Ancient Dragon, it was stable enough to control the Tower devices. Renne's experiment in chapter 3 wasn't really about advancing the Gospels, but about testing countermeasures against its orbal shutdown effect. (Amalthea's tank could continue functioning despite the Gospel doing its power draining thing) That's why the Glorious isn't falling from the sky in that last cutscene, they took the technology that Renne tested and reinforced the Crimson Ark with it.

[@themaskedfacade9939]

To answer your question, Nico, yes, we did know that the ringmaster of Schera's troupe died. Schera mentioned it when talking to her soon after Luciola was revealed as an Ouroboros member.

[@jmporkbob]

I'm not sure if your spoiler-free guide mentions this, because I don't think it's related to BP, but in the next chapter I would recommend for you to travel counter-clockwise. Not because of difficulty, but because once you do everything there will be a very important missable event in the Rolent church, and this will be the easiest way to see it without going way out of your way. This won't make much sense to you now, but it will soon. Just keep it in mind.

[@4rthChairmode]

well he need to seet it first to get one of gambler Jacks books

[@Erpy80]

Eh, that event takes place after you clear the hidden side mission in that region and since you probably report it in afterwards anyway, it's only a few steps away from the church. Personally I'd recommend doing the clockwise route, simply due to the hidden quest in that region being more difficult combat-wise.

[@garupakyojin1361]

Getting annihilated by an 11-year-old girl in just a few turns is pretty much a ritual to everyone who reached this boss for the first time LMAO. I tried commenting on your last video about this boss and why you should equip accessories that prevents deathblow and petrify, but later took it down after getting some replies telling me I shouldn't tell you because it would take out the fun as viewers. And I'm glad I did before you had the chance to read the comments.

[@riofernando9414]

Yeah being destroyed by renne is the ritual for every SC player 😂

[@lawler97tl]

52:15 Dogi the wall crusher is a reference to a recurring character in Ys, another Falcolm game series

[@LazySamurai1354]

ah yes, the infamous Renne fight always beginning with a huge middle finger right in your face.

[@blackdragoncyrus]

Walter is also voiced by Keith Silverstein. Thinking about it, we never see Kevin and Walter in the same place at the same time!

[@Doctorrr_]

Oh that's pretty cool!

[@sheridanmovieguy]

And he's actually still Keith Silverstein in Calvard, which is cool. Though that means they'll probably recast Kevin in...whatever they're gonna call Kai in English.

[@Scytherman]

The lights going out across the entire country is such a cool big "oh shit" moment.

[@Doctorrr_]

I love Walter's S-Craft. Just the beginning stutter drum beats and his cigarette fading out in the darkness before sparking back. The way he just smoothly slides around to, lol.

[@Koyasama]

"Damn kids today..."

[@Erpy80]

That S-Craft was conveniently the exact same move he used to lay your party out at the end of Chapter 2 back when you first met him.

[@thelightningking8772]

The cutscene at the end of this chapter is one of my favorites in the entire series. From the music to the visuals to the sound effects. It’s so damn good. All of that plus the buildup with us hearing about the Aureole in the first game and most of this one only to get this epic reveal hit like a flash. I remember seeing a comment about this scene a long time ago that mentioned something along the lines of “Sky SC is one of the most JRPGing JRPGs to ever JRPG” and I couldn’t agree more. PUT THE JRPG DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS, FALCOM!

[@passwordswordfish4836]

I *love* that ending scene where the Aureole is revealed at last. Everything about it from start to end just feels perfect - the initial lightning flash that becomes a literal crack in the sky, the bright shape emerging from that crack, then the light fading to reveal masses of strands unwrapping themselves from around the Aureole as it unfurls its wings and fully shows itself in Zemuria. And then after that, as the very first display of power it makes, it launches a total orbal shutdown that covers the *entire country* (and even beyond it, if you remember the border lines on the map). All the lights go out one after another, except for one - the Aureole itself, shining all alone. It really is just a fantastic display, so much so that it makes you forget all this was done *in 2006.*

[@connorherron8607]

52:14 So this is a reference to Falcom (the makers of Trails)'s other flagship series, the Ys action RPG games. Dogi is the sidekick to redheaded swordsman protag Adol, with a nickname of "the Wallcrusher", because he will bust down a wall at some point in every game, usually to get Adol out of some predicament or into a new location.

[@FlameOfUdun96]

Tbh, the robot is there for emotional support, Renne doesn’t really need it lol

[@Talisguy]

It's her service bot. Her heavily armed service bot.

[@MegaKazuki]

The sad thing is that first part isn’t a joke…

[@Xenaximus]

Dogi is a bit of a legend around these parts. Rumor has it he is still in the company of the red-haired swordsmen, off in search of more adventure.. and walls.

[@4rthChairmode]

One important thing at start of next chapter DONT do any main ojectives first since once you do all of them next destenation will lock you in it and you might miss few thing or huntdown some monsters you dont need visit guild to make them appear . unlike monsters sidequest start only after main area onjective complete also make sure to get recepie in bar in rolent it appear only after church scene. Last thing at start if chaptper climb on near st tower and get orb on top of it after talk with Npc in ravenue vallage

[@SuperSupersoda]

Also, for next chapter: you do not need to visit the guild branches to take on missions. The missions are all available, and you can go and do them without reading the posting for them on the guild board. It is to your advantage to put off visiting the guild branches as long as possible and finishing everything else before you do.

[@Apolleh]

Around this point I would HIGHLY suggest swapping out your party frequently, as you've already seen they can get caught up very quickly so there is no reason not to. No not all of them will be mandatory in future fights, but as we're really getting into the endgame theres gonna be a LOT of battles and quite frankly its better to juggle the entire party to keep it from getting tedious. Yes Agate is a beast and Kloe is a great healer, but plenty of party members can easily fill their roles for both DPS and support. Kevin can be a great tanky healer while schera is great with offensive arts. hell, nothing is stopping Estelle and Joshua from also being able to use both offensive and support arts if you set your orbments right considering neither is hampered in the magic department

[@lexaeterna8893]

Kevin saved my cat from drowning

[@SuperSupersoda]

This is good advice, for anything below Nightmare difficulty, the problem is that Nightmare difficulty, Sky SC and Trails to Azure have the hardest Nightmare Difficulty boss fights in trails. Azure is not too bad, as it's only 3 really brutal fights in that whole game, but Sky SC has so many boss fights that can take half an hour to get through. The Nightmare mode bosses all hit like a truck, so you can't really afford to take an extra DPS with you, you really need Kloe, Olivier and Kevin, you need to fight with defense and with arts for attack to win these fights. If you bench a healer in favor of a DPS, you won't be able to stay in the fight long enough to win. Sky SC Nightmare mode was tuned to be brutal on new game+, no other trails game is nearly that hard.

[@forestdragonslayer3172]

Chest: "You must build me.... a shrubbery!" Estelle: "Joshua, we gotta get a shrubbery for this chest! Here, get on this horse and let's go!" Joshua: "Estelle, you just handed me two halves of a coconut. Where'd you even get these anyway?" Estelle: "A swallow flew them over!" Joshua: "A 5 ounce bird cannot carry a one pound coconut." Estelle: "....what if it was an African swallow?" Joshua: "......what's Africa?" Sasaki Kojiro from Fate: "Hey, I heard something about swallows? I've got this really cool sword technique for them." Estelle and Joshua: "Not now Kojiro!"

[@TobiasStratus]

26:16 Ended off the fight perfectly by having Zin pull out the eastern influence as he finishes off Walter with a rider kick, what a goat

[@leonnarem7227]

Once upon a time, the shiny poms were an abundant sight in these lands, the peaceful fluffs frolicking in the fields. But one day, a fierce predator arrived and all but scoured them from existance...

[@Koyasama]

If it wasn't apparent before now--Renne's counterpart/rival isn't Tita. It's _Estelle._ One more great touch for her character, and, as is often the case with Trails, a unique twist on the expected formula--the enemy our MC slots in against with a personal stake isn't the big bad, or even the deadliest subordinate. It's the child soldier. And from now on, Estelle will move heaven and earth to save Renne from herself.

[@hakuamper365]

Thats a good point, though i like to think Tita is still a counterpart to a lesser extent. The way i see it, some enforcers have two counterparts, like this: Bleublanc - Olivier & Kloe Walter - Zin Renne - Estelle & Tita Luciola - Schera Loewe - Joshua & Agate

[@blackdragoncyrus]

"Out of all Enforcers, I don't get why you would work with Weissmann." Joshua with every Enforcer.

[@AigisVibes720]

To be fair, Weissmann is really the biggest dickhead thus far.

[@sheridanmovieguy]

In fairness all the other Anguis feel that way too.

[@Doctorrr_]

FUCK YEAAHHHH WE GOT THE CUTSCENE FELLAS. My jaw literally dropped when it happened holy shit. It was beautiful.

[@Erpy80]

"I'm the happiest girl in the world. I got my happy ending. If you deny that, you're my worst enemy." Very chilling line from a very chilling scene. Well, this is why I mentioned that accessories found in the dungeon were meant as hints to the boss at the top. That anti deathblow/petrification accessory was basically a warning sign. (if the scythe = death JRPG principle wasn't already enough) But hey, at least you saved the game before jumping into the boss teleporter, which means we can laugh at the sight of the party getting destroyed without even getting a turn. I once watched an LP of this game and the player got a little overconfident and jumped into the Renne battle without saving. Because the teleporters throughout the Amberl space don't count as screen transitions, his last save auto-save was at the very start of the dungeon. Needless to say, he was pissed. He had no choice though. With Renne's S-Craft having a 50% deathblow chance and her normal crafts also having 10% deathblow odds, combined with that legion of robots spamming petrify beams, RNG usually isn't enough to survive the onslaught for very long. The Cloak quartz wasn't a bracer reward in the last game, it was simply in a chest in the Grancel sewers just before you opened the castle gate and have Estelle's team face Loewe. The reason they gave you Cloak at this point is because you're about to revisit countryside screens filled with monsters whose levels haven't changed from earlier chapters and they didn't want to waste the player's time avoiding random encounters that give no XP reward. Enjoy being short on sepith for the rest of the game. In addition to the sepith needed for even more slot upgrades, it's also possible to synthesize that level 5 quartz at a few points in the final chapter, but it costs 1000 sepith of a particular color per "gem". Needless to say, it's a good idea to give each character at least 2 or 3 slot upgrades so they can equip some top-tier quartz, rather than blow it all on one character.

[@silentherox700]

Ah yes. The Renne one-hit-one-turn kill. Happens to everyone. And top of that, if you still somehow survive that; the archaisms will finish you off.

[@HappyPotat]

2:50 Haha, yeah...could you imagine if Trails did that? Introduced a character as early as this trilogy, made them extremely likable and then proceeded to never have them show up again outside of brief mentions in passing? Could you imagine? If they did that? Hahahaha haha... ... sigh

[@PhantomVizor777]

That Renne fight is very infamous for how it starts. If you're not properly equipped, it's pretty much game over in a matter of seconds.

[@wheelotime2581]

Prof. Russell: I can make the Capel read these data crystals later, no need to try deciphering them yourself Estelle: wtftaveufofognemrogrnenmarbsbjajjfjfjrjrjjrrfnffnftwuduudufjfbdbdbdb (Nico is doing this but I bet a million mira that Estelle did the same)

[@Doctorrr_]

Number one suggestion for Renne boss fight: Kevin 💀

[@ronny_innor]

grail locket Kloe saves the day for me

[@strelitziamystery21]

This is why we don't give children giant scythes and giant robots, let alone turning them into mastermind murderers.

[@OtakuD50]

26:00 Walter about to get folded like he's the Elite Four Bruno of the Ouroboros Enforcers.

[@SpanishFly120]

Oh man, this is an awesome surprise. I wasn't expecting you to finish the rest of Chapter 7 tonight Nico, but I'm so hyped you did. The one-two punch of Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 happening back to back is just such an awesome stretch. And hey, don't worry, we ALL had that wake up moment with the Renne boss fight and a lot of us went like "Kevin? S-Break please!".

[@JoaderR]

I love the music that plays at the end. Especially when the voices chant: "PRAISE. TO. THE. AUREOLE!" So epic. I love this game a normal amount, I promise

[@uchytjes10]

The aureole beong brought into the world is probably my favorite dungeon reveal scene of all time. It truly feels like a new god is being brought into existence, especially with the shot of the entire country's lights going out at the same time.

[@junazuranoob6192]

Walter: Simply amazing, Zin. Zin: Walter… Walter: You really do remember me this time. *I’M SO FLATTERED* Zin start to feel Walter’s aura Walter: But you’re too late!!! Zin draw out two gourds from his right and left hand. Walter: Two?! Estelle/Joshua/Kloe: What in Aidio is going on… Roxas/Lea: Is that how people see us in our epic fight… Xion: Let them cook

[@FuHua2002-n8e]

Hahaha! Don't worry Nico. We know how that feels, getting Deathblowed by an 11 year old girl! And now we're in for some treat at the end of the chapter! Best of luck in the next episode Nico!

[@ApsuP]

So happy you went through all remaining towers at once. I've been waiting for that Renne fight opening for so long. Good thing you saw the humor in it too.

[@117os]

I honestly expected Nico to go without a video because of thanksgiving. The female voices are not as bad as yesterday's Metaphor video, but it is clearly not completely fine either. Nico's mature woman voices are still rather rough. His young girl voices are back to normal. His teenage girl voices start out fine, but partway through the video his voice cracked while voicing Estelle and his teenage voices slowly died until it was just as rough as his mature voices.

[@scotsoulgem]

Tita: *gets a new s craft that hits a large area Joshua: *s craft leaves all the poms super low* Nico: "Nothing that can be done but reload my save and increase Joshua's damage!"

[@dragonmaster1500]

I'm fairly certain that you want to at least collect all the data crystals and give them to the professor. All will be revealed in time.

[@ZenoKnightShade]

Estuans interius, ira vehementi Estuans interius, ira vehementi Renne-roth!

[@elgronequequeriabailar]

Me: am i gonna fight a 11 year old girl for real? I dont feel very good about this * renne proceed to one-shot my team in turn one * Me: ...i suppose i dont have to fight her after all

[@Talisguy]

"I feel conflicted about fighting a young girl." ... "I AM OVER MY CONFLICTED FEELINGS."

[@SuperSupersoda]

Demanding a Shrubbery is a reference to Monte Python and the Holy Grail

[@fitken5909]

1:36:27 Also if you see the light at the north and northeast, apparently not only Liberl is getting the orbment shutdown phenomenal, but some town in Erebonia (north) and some town in Calvard (northeast) too.

[@Official_RetroMania]

Direwolf: Man was that fight against my rival so exciting! Blueblanc: You love to do this don't you? Direwolf: I don't know what you mean? (Smug face Direwolf Walter) Blueblanc: I will get my revenge! Direwolf wakes up next morning: Where am I? And why do I wear a princess costume? What is this a letter? Direwolf: Reads a riddle, signed by Phantom Thieve B. Direwolf: INTERNALLY SCREAMS IN PAIN!

[@mastermindmonokuma]

Nah walter would own that shit, and then hunt down Bleublanc buck naked..........suffice to say Bleublanc would be dead meat

[@HenryZ20]

Yeah, that S Craft is why I associate fateful confrontation with Renne. Now that we are starting to get into Renne's backstory, let me just say you are just getting to the tip of the iceberg of it.

[@aethix1986]

So fun fact, there's a Japan-exclusive remake of the Sky Trilogy and the Crossbell Duology for the PS Vita that rebalances a lot of the fights, among other things. One of the rebalances is that none of the enforcers use their S-Crafts in this chapter, which means anyone who plays that version is spared the BS turn-1 Rennede.

[@jamestatsumi7095]

It's locked away in another dimension. A THIRD dimension beyond the X and Y axis.

[@blueblue930]

18:06 Pretty sure that's a reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail ! With the Knights who say NI !!

[@Kimo-Cyrus]

for the renne fight... HA get renned nerd! sorry i was just really waiting for that insta kill, glad you caught on to what you had to do. In terms of world altering story events in jrpg, the next chapter is my favorite in any jrpg

[@jvts8916]

By the way, later games *do* have an "open every chest" achievement

[@blackdragoncyrus]

Walter: "Aim for the bushes."

[@spacethegamer6426]

Btw Nico the OST that plays during the boss fights with the Enforcers is called "Maybe it was fated" and they've also made a really KICKASS version of that song with Vocals as well and I really reccomend you listen to that version as well cus it's really great

[@ethermelt4780]

that moment when you realize that Renne is an Evangelion pilot. Not necessarily a bad thing this time though, after all, who wouldn't want a giant robot as their surrogate mother/father?

[@twiliking1462]

47:06 Hopefully, your guide mentions this, but in the next chapter, there actually is a place where you can buy sepith! You have to check one of the previously locked doors in Grancel.

[@Just_An_AverageJoe]

Estelle: "THIS LITTLE GIRL NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON" Joshua:"Wait Estelle we can't underestimate her we gotta equip status protect- *estelle charges in* everyone dies to renne s craft deathblows and petrify bots Agate in his last breath: "you goddamn idiot...estelle"

[@Fastollis]

“Walter wasn’t too bad.” That’s cause you still had to fight Renne yet

[@UchaNekome]

17:57 It comes from Montie Python and the Holy Grail.

[@mastermindmonokuma]

Nico every chapter: Ok these bosses havent been too bad I can handle it yeah *Renne and her giant scythe and mommy daddy mechabot 9000* exist

[@TheMehMonkey]

Renne's Boss Battle Starts... Renne: "Vibe Check!" Nico: "Nani?" Proceeds to instantly die to Poison, Petrification and Instant Death.

[@LuccaRPG]

The only thing I do not like about the Legend of Heroes series: You win a battle, but the game acts like you lost. ALL THE TIME. It gets to ridicious levels sometimes. Party: We won! Ouroboros: No! You lost! You lost to the sneaky snake cultists! Boooo! Party: Oh, we did! Wait? We did?

[@liamminnihan9021]

They kind of fixed it in more recent games. Where you inly have to get the bosses down to a certain hp percentage. However, they still do this far too often

[@Talisguy]

There's more than one thing I don't like about this series, but that's the most _annoying_ problem. The villain should at least seem slightly injured if you won a balls-hard optional victory against them, not act winded for a bit and then immediately reset to full health because they were only using 5% of their power.

[@dajungle4010]

It's a bit of a mixed bag for me, it can get a bit ridiculous but at the same time I really love having recurring villains that actually get their own stories and development that the main characters actually frequently interact with. To fix the problem i feel like either we would have to fight them way less so that by the second or third time we actually beat them but we only rarely get to interact with and have battles with them, or we fight them as much as we do beat them for real and then the game would have to come up with even more ridiculous excuses for why keep letting them go after beating them, Or we beat them, they are legitimately taken out and instead of having a handful of really compelling recurring villains we get a menagerie of one off villains that we can't really get attached to. So all in all while it can get a bit annoying I'll take it over the other options.

[@Gdg195]

especially the coldsteel series the writing is straight up garbage

[@FirstLast-mn4re]

I don't mind losing in the cutscene, I get more annoyed when another character comes out of nowhere to bail you out. Which isn't that bad in the Sky games, but it gets a lot more frequent in the later games. Its one thing if there's at least some foreshadowing, like with Dorothy in Ch1 of this game, but most of the time it just comes out of nowhere.

[@manuelfuica-martineau4940]

Fight starts BOOOOM Instant death

[@FieryAnubis]

Ah yes, good old insta-delete Renne fight. Sure taught me to put deathblow prevention on me before every boss just in case.

[@Achiever579]

You keep mentioning Shining Poms when trying to catch characters up, so I figured I'd mention it, regardless of whether you see it or not, Falcom has a pretty generous catch-up mechanic. If there is a character who's behind on levels, regardless of the type of enemies you face, they get an inflated EXP gain, to the point of after a few regular fights, they'll likely be on level for the location.

[@EternalFireLynx]

While they don't specify exactly what happened to Renne, the implications alone are disturbing (especially for someone so young). These games can get rather dark when they want to.

[@Jason-wt2rx]

Just note that Pater-Mater is basically Father-Mother. That archaism is her replacement to her real parents. 👍

[@NinjaPopeXue]

Trails devs: we don't have a LOT of budget, but when we decide to flex it we make damn sure it's put to good use.

[@hourensoma9456]

Nico uses Chain Crafts better than I was ever able to use them... It's satisfying to see.

[@ddddirge]

Wait, wait, wait Blackout??? Since the devices are all ORBS, doesn't that mean you can use ORBMENTS anymore since they're powered by the same thing??? 😮😮😮 Next chapter is totally need to adapt for battle style 🤔🤔🤔

[@ronny_innor]

throw them cookies 😂

[@Beny763]

I don´t remember if you have to manually deliver the data crystal´s to professor Russell, but you can check the data on the computer on the Arseille and they get gradually analyzed. So just check back near the end of the game and you should be able to read all of them.

[@TylerThatSometimesComments]

Renne's backstory is best summarized in two words- fucked up.

[@astamanista9447]

"I wish I can buy sepith" Ahahahahahaha well, about that...

[@KaiserMazoku]

Renne just built different.

[@Easelgames]

So.. you know how little kids put their personal identities and sense of self worth or comfort into stuffed animals? Pater-Mater is that for Renne. Because she had to .. in order to deal with what you’re thinking..

[@VesaKo]

*Entire party dies as soon as the fight begins* Renne: I am the Angel of Slaughter, after all. First comes the angel, then comes the slaughter. Teehee~ Estelle: Then comes the instant death immunity... Renne: Huh? That's not how that goes. Wait, WAIT-! Estelle: THEN COME THE SPANKINGS!

[@JackDout]

wait... no it couldn't be. could it!? The secret of the Aureole, it really is just like that? No impossible, this can't possibly be a giant *Tales Of* reference!

[@curtiskay-lassels1633]

the fight against walter was a cinematic finish. nothing at all like my playthrough lmao nightmare is brutal but awesome

[@soulsq2]

Indeed this was so unique renne fight an I like I was not ready today. So i am glad brought to Kevin to be ready for epicnesss.

[@QuarantinedSen]

Olivier is a fan favorite so don’t worry he’s sticking around in the series for a while

[@jeaddhist]

Fun fact: Walter has the same VA as Kevin Also Luciola has the same VA as Nanako and Aigis (Karen Strassman)

[@TitaRussellTrails]

Welcome to the hardest boss fight in the game if you don't have protection against instant death and petrify. And even then its still a pain in the rear.

[@frankieyuen9363]

Finally we get to fight the Angel of cheap shots wft renne

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

18:16 monty python reference

[@ridewild1956]

the implications of something like the auriol implies a great many thing, the goddess is real, she was a figure that interacted with the people of zemuria's past, and the fact that there are 6 other treasures of power equal to this thing and Ouroboros is after them for some reason

[@zhaoluyue1995]

Nico has used a lot of the chain attacks in this game... but I'm not sure if it is really worth it. It takes 20+30+40+50 CP totaling 140 away, and push back everyone's time back, so it's like 4 characters normal attacks and each spent a round, but you lost 140 additional CP...

[@dajungle4010]

It depends on the situation, getting it all in on a critical like he did to end the Walter fight was a very good use of it. it's also useful to take out big groups of tightly clumped weaker enemies before they get their turns. but yeah just using it on a normal turn against a single enemy is generally a waste.

[@Erpy80]

The 30, 40 and 50 CP come with a 10, 20 and 30% attack bonus attached to it. So if you're on a critical of 50% attack turn bonus, which is applied to everyone participating in the chain, that stuff stacks up. Making use of turn bonusses is pretty much the biggest draw of chain attacks.

[@JDraks]

I can't wait for the part in 3rd with THAT door

[@LiamGers-cx1kn]

36:15 why is there another Kloe down in the corner!?

[@raydespoir]

1:19:37 - I don't know about you, but this is what I'm here for.

[@BlueCrimson10]

1:06:35 OW GOD I CAN FEEL THE HEARTACHE FROM HERE

[@alathea]

😂 Forgot that there were actually so many "barrier" mentions in SC

[@Erpy80]

Almost makes you wish Weapons had played the series out of order.

[@Zodia195]

Is it just me or is Renne like a combo of Monaca and Kotoko from Ultra Despair Girls . . . . . . .