So I played TRAILS FROM ZERO For The First Time...

[@writer747]

Even if Kea is kind of just relegated to a cheerleader a lot of the time, I will always love and respect Lloyd for the moment when he finds her trapped in a box, doesn't understand what's going on and is like "this kid is in major danger and needs my help. I'm GOING to save her" and just books it with her as fast as he can. Like, major top tier good guy points.

[@kenmorrow86]

Yeah and blowing his cover in the process. Pretty ballsy. I feel like he truly found his purpose when he opened that box.

[@carter2electricbogaloo652]

Lloyd straight up goes YOINK MY CHILD NOW, and formally adopts her as of CS3

Trails games are peak JRPG now. People need to start investing into this

[@a.alphonso6193]

just bought thank u

[@xbon1]

Yeh got into kuro no kiseki 1&2 and it really is peak gameplay and story

[@TheOneGreat]

Certainly better than Final Fantasy XVI.

[@CCKaraoke]

I love the Crossbell duology. Especially Azure, how every single story beat including the side quests felt important. Incredibly satisfying. Easily one of my favorite games.

[@andrewstencel]

Yeah, this series is just amazing. I am currently playing CS3 as well, and it was absolutely worth it, dare I say essential, to play every previous game before, in order. Not only for better understanding the overall story and context, but for the pure joy that is seeing all those characters you knew and cared about, meeting each other and being once again relevant.

[@TyandOnGoing]

Zero and Azure imo is peak trails imo glad you're enjoying your experience. The story telling, the cast of characters, and the world building is so stellar.

[@timidalchemist8475]

Have you played Kuro?

[@NosferatuZoddsOnlyFans]

Damn must be peak if your going to use imo twice lol.

[@derrickrose5933]

Better then cold steel 3 and 4???

[@PsychologyOK]

@@derrickrose5933 the entire cold steel series doesn’t measure up to the Crossbell games. CS3 is easily my least fav trails game though so I suppose it’s all a matter if opinion.

[@DevDinish]

@@timidalchemist8475 Kuro is amazing

[@Cyrus_Bright]

As much as I love the Sky Trilogy, the Crossbell games just hit different. The storytelling is fantastic and the character moments hit so hard. Plus I don't think I've ever grown to love a fictional city much like Crossbell, which also helped me love a certain character from Cold Steel 3 that much more. She embodied my feelings perfectly lmao.

[@Walamonga1313]

Juna I presume? Lol

[@whydoistillusethissite8626]

while it's kinda sad that the most impactful moment in Zero doesn't even focus on the Zero characters, I still love the game for giving such a heartfelt redemption to the character that needed it the most. Seeing where Renne has come from, the stuff she had to do, the people she surrounded herself with to getting the loving family she always wanted is genuinely heartwarming. Because at the end of the day she's just a lost, confused child that wants people to love her like anyone else would. It's probably the first time I've teared up to fiction in a REALLY long time.

[@Yoids]

I was not prepared to cry with the "I caught you". When Renne starts to cry out loud, I was crying as well. Stupid game.

[@whydoistillusethissite8626]

@@Yoids i like to think that Estelle saying "Caught you" is a reference to the game of tag they had in SC, where Renne took her all over Grancel. Estelle finally ended the game by catching Renne for real this time

[@Yoids]

@@whydoistillusethissite8626 If you remember Zero, Renne sends Estelle a message through the SSS team, she asks them to tell them "she is not ready to get caught yet", which is a nice reference as you say. Not only to playing tag, but in Sky series being so annoyed by Estelle's constant tries to get her, to save her. Then in Zero she tells them she is not ready yet, but she is opening the door. And finally she says she is ready, but Estelle says she has already been caught. THE TEARS!

[@CaptainAmerica2k7]

But Renne's story is related to the fate of the SSS. If Renne did not show up to give them a hand, they never would have defeated the final boss. Also she was the one that gave them a means of entry to the auction house and rescue Kea to begin with. So in that sense, her redemption arc is intertwined with the SSS.

[@ichigo9171]

I have been waiting for this video all summer. crossbell is by far one of the most at home settings in a game I've ever played. i still remember the NPCs around town. Kuro's Edith has gotten close tho.

[@hinotama.ryuuka]

The scene where Renne hides in the closet and hears her parents speak the truth really hit me hard. When I completed Star Door 15 in Sky 3rd, I had the assumption that Renne's parents are terrible people. Renne truly is very unfortunate to have parents like that (on top of the Paradise tragedy). But, in Zero, when I hear them speak the truth about how they actually lost Renne, a big wave of relief washed over me. It turns out Renne's parents are actually good people, and she was truly loved. This is one of the very few good things that happen to her. Renne, who is hiding in the closet, also gets to hear the truth. She might already know it and choose to ignore it, but now hearing those words directly from her parents makes it impossible for her to run away from it anymore. I also feel very relieved and happy for Renne. Then Renne comes out of the closet, in tears. Saying that one of the reason she came to Crossbell is now gone (probably to get rid of her parents). This scene made my eyes tear up too, there are so many emotions here. There's happiness because Renne learns that her parents didn't abandon her so she don't have to take revenge on them, and sadness because Renne knows she can't easily return to her parents even if she wants to due to her current position. And also, her crying face and voice is just too heartbreaking for me. Whoever directed this scene deserves all my respect. They had to think of a way for Renne to learn the truth, but if Joshua/Estelle, or the SSS told her, it wouldn't be as impactful as hearing it directly from her parents. Hence, the "hides in closet" scene. Beautifully directed, hands down. Sorry for my very long and probably grammatically awkward wall of text. The scene made a huge impact on me, so I couldn't resist sharing my thoughts on it! Also, thanks for the video!

[@CaptainAmerica2k7]

Don't forget when she had to step in to save her brother Colin from a pack of wolves. That was another heartbreaking moment for me.

[@DeadP47]

Thank you for talking about the series, it's awesome

[@PeteOliva]

The Trails series has become my favorite JRPG series of the modern era. Right up alongside FF and DQ. Simply unparalleled narrative connectivity and writing. The gameplay and battles never get old either. So addicting.

[@Walamonga1313]

Don't forget the amazing OSTs

[@Kryptick_88]

I started the Trails series through Zero and just finished Azure last week. Though admittedly there are some story context fly over my head sometimes but I don't regret starting from Zero. I fell in love with the city of Crossbell and it's people, and it felt so bittersweet how Azure ended but all together satisfying. The SSS had to do it for the sake of a loved one. You can't burden one person for the sake a whole city on my opinion. Going through Cold Steel now so far Erebonia is very interesting.

[@zackeryparkerson]

Thanks for sharing this comment. I really want to start with Zero. It looks the most interesting to me, and Sky isn’t on Switch or PS4 anyway. Good to know you can still love it if you start there.

[@Revanxbone]

The zero & azure OSTs especially are sooo full of bangers 😤

[@Zakemaster]

In terms of Combo Crafts: Technically, the beginning of that system was created in Sky SC, but they weren’t that special because they were generic combos that were similar no matter who used them. And I think that’s key to why they haven’t come back. Since Crossbell focuses on a much smaller team of heroes, it’s much easier to design unique combo attacks for the pairs. But if they were to do unique combo attacks in CS, for instance… just for Class 7 alone, even just the *starting* members of class 7, you’d have to design 36 unique combo attacks for them. Yeah, it just isn’t feasible. That’s part of why the link system exists in CS. They’re just generic combo attacks. It’s just a more involved version of the SC system, in a sense.

[@ninototo1]

They could easily have gone the Suikoden way where characters with a special relationship get a combo craft. Off the top of my head from CS1: Laura and Fie, Machias and Jusis. This is really not a good reason.

[@kentstopme]

@@ninototo1 But other chars will get overshadowed thus players will only use said chars that has a combo craft is what your saying?

[@ninototo1]

@@kentstopme No because combo crafts aren't a must at all. They're mainly just cool cause they show the teamwork of 2 persons. For example it was an absolute waste to combo with Tio for me cause her arts were more powerful. Also you only get a combo if you build your team around including both members, so it's an investment, especially if those team members aren't as good as some others that lack a combo.

[@kentstopme]

@@ninototo1 Hmm fair, also forgot it costs for both partners 100cp

[@Zakemaster]

@@ninototo1 the reason Unite attacks work in Suikoden is because the cast is so exceptionally large that they don’t care at all about balancing all of the characters. Unite Attacks inherently make certain characters more valuable, especially if they pair with another strong unit. Even though Class 7 is a large group, there aren’t so many that they want clear and obvious favorites. If Fie and Laura, already two of the best party members, had a unique team attack together, it would be harder to justify not taking both of them at all possible times, since you’re just objectively making them worse by pairing them with anyone else. Having only certain pairs get unique combos removes flexibility of party composition unless you’re fine just being weaker than you could be. In addition, some characters would struggle to justify having special pairs with each other, since many Class 7 characters don’t have strong relationships with other members of the group in CS1. I imagine every character would probably have a pair attack with Rean, otherwise it would greatly overvalue the few characters that did. If we remove Rean from the equation and just focus on the other members, Alisa doesn’t really have any obvious links. Elliot and Gaius would technically work, since they are the first characters that are just chill and hang with Rean, but they don’t really have a super well-defined and interesting relationship with each other, and I don’t think are close enough with anyone else to justify a combo attack. Obviously Fie and Laura would be a given, and Machias and Jusis (as much as they would disagree). Emma, especially in CS1, would really only sorta have Machias, in regards to his one-sided competition with her in grades, but that would then give Machias 2 link attacks, objectively unbalancing him in comparison to the others. If we add in Crow and Millium, Crow wouldn’t have anyone except Rean, and Millium could have Jusis, but that only inflates Jusis’ numbers too, still leaving Emma and Alisa left to try and pair with each other, even though they have no special relationship. I like the idea of making the special pairs have unique benefits, but CS1’s cast pretty infamously revolves almost entirely around Rean, so I just don’t think it would work there.

[@countryboyred]

I can’t believe I slept on this series for so long. These games are right up there with final fantasy and dragon quest as kings of the JRPG genre. I blazed through Zero, Azure, and now I’m on cold steel 1 and totally addicted. Haven’t felt this way about a jrpg series since the golden days of the ps1 and snes.

[@feynevan]

Beside Renne and Star Door 15 and how they’re closely connected to Zero, the one character whose name starts from L also caught me by surprise on the first time I played Zero. You know, the guy from Moon Door 3 and Star Door 8 😁

[@cranesalvation8391]

This is what I’ve been waiting for. Insane how you’re already on CS3

[@ShockStormRPG]

Trails from Zero is awesome. I played through the fan translation a few years back. Really excited to play it through again when it officially releases. Btw for those with multiple platforms such as PS4 and Switch make sure to buy Trails from Zero on Switch the PS4 version has worse graphics and is missing features compared to Switch version. PC version is great too. Hopefully with Trails to Azure the PS4 version is updated with same features as other versions of the game. Whatever version you play of the game though it's still a great RPG! I agree with Retro Rebound this game does a great job of doing world building while keeping the plot moving and stuff happening.

[@supersaiyaman11589]

that is the reason why games need to be available for outer platforms.i myself buy most of my games off of steam.i will be getting aps5 for final fantasy 7 rebirth.

[@Synthpopper]

I used to watch you talk about Fallout a decade ago, and now I'm watching you talk about one of my favorite niche JRPGs. It's a funny old Universe

[@ausreir]

Trails has a very grounded approach to storytelling. It really examines how fantasy elements impact society. Traditional fantasy RPG: evil dragon kills people, here's your sword (give name), here's your armour (give name).....kill the dragon. Trails: damn it, that dragon is really hurting our province's tax revenue. Could you do something about it? Oh the local mining company will give you Sepith if you do it quickly.

[@McCaroni_Sup]

Yeah, no other game series I've seen where the main reason for people being worried about One Winged Angel type shit happening is because of the economic and political impact. Giant island floating in the sky? Oh no! All that lost revenue from the blackout! We need to fix this ASAP or Liberl's GDP is screwed! Dude makes ingestible that can make people demons? Oh no, he plunges the state into chaos and gives it's suzeraints pretext to station their forces within the autonomous state's borders! Man uses the infinite power of a veritable God to further his aims? Oh no, he plans to use it to improve the political situation of the state and continent but in doing so puts the state under an oppressive regime! I'd been wanting a series that seriously considered these things in a fantasy setting.

[@holyX]

Also the Dragon isn't exactly evil and has his own valid reasoning for dragonning things

[@antonioscendrategattico2302]

@@holyX Unless it's the final boss, in which case the dragon is literally a human trafficker and you will get a lot of context about how horrible his crimes is so that beating it into a pulp is all the more cathartic.

[@statesminds]

I'm not watching this yet but stoked on this game. I have played all the legend of heroes games up till here (sky, and even pc engine dragon slayer ones psp gagharv trilogy) plus cold steel 1 and 2. Been waiting forever for these so I can do crossbell duology and finally play Cold Steel 3 and 4

[@thenonexistinghero]

Yeah, don't watch this until playing through the game. I'm only about halfway through watching and it's already spoiled like half of the major things in the game. I generally don't watch reviews and other videos and whatnot once I do start playing a game, since it'll give context to the stuff that's happening and may spoil some major things... but in this video, even that aside, it just outright spoils quite a few major things. And not just from this game, from Sky the Third as well.

[@nazirulramli956]

Loewe and Joshua that raid the facility call Paradise 14:23. That why Renne respect both of them

[@pliniocastrofeijo5797]

I remember the first time Renne showed up in this game and I was screaming at the screen "GET AWAY FROM HER, SHE'S GONNA KILL YOU ALL" Good times =)

[@miguelgonzalez6495]

Then she’s in a wardrobe hearing her parents talk about her and she learns the truth…….cri evri time…

[@CRedd9830]

Demonic Drive, Schwarz Auction, Temptation of Wisdom, Inevitable Struggle & Get over the Barrier! (Also the roaring version that plays during one of the most epic parts) are my favorite songs from the soundtrack.

[@Walamonga1313]

No Formidable Enemy? That's my fav by far, though I enjoy the ones you mentioned too. I used to not like Roaring version as much when just listening to the OST, but when I heard it in game during the chase it was peak. I think that's the best moment in the game.

[@IronJoeHorn]

playing through it after all the sky and cold steel games.... it might actually be my favorite of the series im kind of surprised by how great it is. I kind of wish it had english voice acting though

[@alasdepegaso0782]

Bruh... i love trails from zero. One day i wanna be as chill as chief Sergei

[@jonathancapps1103]

There are detective sequences with dialog choices in Sky and CS. Not many, but they do exist. I remember a breaking/robbery case in Ruan in Sky SC, and investigating a guard tower attack in CS1, for example. They're featured more in Crossbell because Lloyd's a detective, so solving cases is his thing.

[@oOPrettywinxOo]

There is also that side quest in CSII where you have to figure out which Class 7 member is an impostor, that was Among Us before Among Us was a thing...kinda. lol but it was actually not easy to figure out.

[@CaptainAmerica2k7]

Robbery case in Ruan? You meant the assault case during the mayoral election campaign. Or were you referring to the robbery case in Rolent in Sky FC?

[@matthewbarrios1028]

I will also say that Falcom has been my favorite a long time because the Ys games are my favorite action RPGs made

[@laytonc1]

I played zero last year and it's my favorite JRPG of all time. Great characters, great team chemistry, seeing how the NPC's evolve in crossbell. Gold standard of RPGs for me. Yes I like it more than azure

[@Walamonga1313]

You like it more than Azure?

[@buttertoast1146]

If it wasnt for the pandemic I never would've found this LEGENDary series :)). Btw kuro 2 crimson sin has brought back combo crafts.

[@KisekiFan]

If am correct the original Trails from Zero was only released for the PSP and PC hence why the PS4 version didnt get the same treatment. tbh i started the trails series with Cold Steel, there were alot of things that flew over my head because there were mentions of the past events. Since CS2 hasn't been localized yet at that time i had the time to visit Sky and then Zero and Azure with the Geofront patch mods and honestly absolutely no regret at all. The experience with the story and characters *muah* French kiss. The Pros of this new Zero, voiced dialogues, Turbo mode and FPS setting. Con and the biggest one for me, no auto dialogue advance.

[@mikeress1784]

Now I can’t wait for his Azure video 😂!!!! Amazing Stuff Matty!

[@giver6153]

I found it the same as fallout and other serial games like these,u can start pretty much anywhere coz it was a region base story arcs,u get different experience when playing like this,the example is Fallout NV's Enclave remnants,u wanna know about them and just by that reason u definitely engaged to play the previous games in the series

[@XTORD1]

I finished legend of heroes zero last year and azure. Yes, i should also have finished trails in the sky 3rd, started it tough. Oh yeah comparing the special attacks was very cool. I really liked the twist at the end dungeon you mention and azure is arguably one of my all time fav/best games ever. I used probably 60 ish hrs on this. Doing the rounds, talking to everyone , doing every side quest almost. I felt like you said a detective, it has one of my favourte setings and the city is great. This is arguably my favourite series ever. This one of the few if not the only series were i could list almost 10 great or more moment on each game. After going to the hospital alot in this game i almost got teary. Azure is one of only 3 games that has managed to get a tear out of my eye. I really like the games story, characters, music. The main theme, the hospital theme and more. I really hope this series manages to ignore some of the biggest tropes by the end of it tough. PS: Gg review or analyze:)

[@JohnRambo1947-July-6th]

When you know what Renne has been through. It is so horrible 😞

[@ninototo1]

But she got a super brain thanks to it so its cool

[@billclintonsmagicbeefarm]

@@ninototo1 Orbal supercomputer brained mf

[@yakitatejapan8]

Same here man. I really love her and her family backstory. I almost cried.

[@acidwizard6528]

Even though I played the crap out of Zero and Azure a couple years ago, I will be purchasing the official releases to support the series and hopefully the localization of other neglected JRPGs that never got a chance in the West. I played them before the Geofront had finished their translation so I'm sure there's a ton I missed out on since the version I played was rough to say the least, with many spelling and grammatical errors. I wish Falcom and XSeed had been able to maintain their relationship because the job they did on the "Sky" trilogy was unbelievable. Estelle Bright is so well characterized in those games compared with later entries done by NIS and even what I've seen from the Geofront's Crossbell project.

[@spironan]

i think another reason to what makes zero even better is that after finishing the duology and coming back, you'll gain so much more ! i'm so excited for my replaythrough

[@Walamonga1313]

I really enjoyed my speedrun of the game when replaying it (did it right after beating it the first time)

[@Choom89]

I wish the FF6 remake was done by these folks, the sprites are nearly perfect!

[@Rivander]

The Crossbell duology is the peakest of fictions

[@manulopez4697]

Renne crying on the closet break my heart 😭

[@celestialsylveon6453]

I agree combo crafts need to come back, it's probably not that hard to rebalance them but keep them fun!

[@CRedd9830]

One of my favorite games of all time. My third favorite Trails game behind Azure & SC.

[@tmerchead1]

I'd argue the real reason combo crafts aren't a thing pass this duology is that it would be too time consuming since the later Trails games have a larger roster of playable characters .

[@ninototo1]

Bad argument since you don't have to design combo crafts for everyone, just for a couple characters where it would make sense for them to have one

[@Walamonga1313]

Why would they ignore characters, people would complain

[@plebugen9659]

2:05 pedantic trails fan here I just wanted to point out that the geofront guys only did the pc clean up of the old chinese pc port and the surrent nis pc/switch port has been done by Durante. The guy who has been porting all the CS and Ys games to pc for Nis as of late

[@Nemisish]

The Trails in the sky Trilogy needs to be remastered for modern platforms. It is mindblowing that it has not happened. This whole ''where to start'' thing would be less of a problem if the sky trilogy was available on switch and PS with some QOL improvements. Yes i know it is available on PC but it could honestly use some QOL improvements. At least similar to the improvements that the crossbell duology got for the switch. So mindblowing that only the switch and PC versions of Zero and Azure got the improvements.

[@Mintcar923]

I didn’t even think he knew about this series tbh Turns out he knows more than me! Wow he’s all evidently all knowing😂

[@Koyasama]

One thing I will note for the choice of which version of this game to get: Clear data from Zero is used when you start Azure, and clear data from both Azure and Cold Steel IV are used when starting the upcoming Trails into Reverie. So if, like me, you grabbed Cold Steel IV when it first came out--when it was a PS4 exclusive--you're going to want the PS4 versions of the Crossbell games, even without the extra bells and whistles and shiny polish. Either that, or you'll want to double-dip and get Cold Steel III and IV for Switch or PC, then play through them again. Your choice.

[@0daadaadaa0]

4:54 Hell... f*cking... YES! When I finally saw why, holy sheeeeeeeeeeet!

[@kev8202]

This was my first Trails game because i was very interested in the detective setting and oh boy i got invested, not even 2 months later and im almost finishing Cold steel 4 and after I'll play the Sky trilogy, is it ideal? Def not, because many characters im just like "who are you" and i def know they are from Sky but that's why im even more intrigued to go back and see their story from the start and hopefully wait for the next main game next year

[@shadmannoor5878]

Interested to know how that felt like, playing sky trilogy last. Please do share your experience if you have completed them

[@LaudeMonk]

KZbin Comments: "He didn't see Star Door 15..." Matty: "YOU FELL FOR IT, FOOL!"

[@spencertaylor5945]

So excited to play this I am waiting for my copy to come in! I am planning on writing a collage paper about this game the themes and messages are so close to reality it’s amazing. There is enough stuff in these games I can come up with something special for sure. Real world events have happened that remind me of this game. Like that Russia War. Or what I am going to be writing about January 6th 2021 and our political system because I can’t help but notice how these games have good points about our life

[@matthewbarrios1028]

I've had this Pre-ordered on Amazon for my switch for quite a while now. I'm super stoked about it.

[@DaRaginLombax]

I'm on the final stretch of this game and it's been incredible, I can't wait for Azure to come out in march!

[@brunohenriqueazevedoborges5490]

6:56 They are not pawns to Liberl. They are pawns to Calvard, the home country of Zin.

[@SunnyDLux]

It makes me happy seeing someone enjoy the kiseki games

[@aitamasanada72]

Trust me zero and azure is blast! I'm shocked at how good the STORY is when I first try the games!! Absolutely recommend to new player but I guess after u got hooked maybe try sky trilogy and cold steel to to understand the series

[@crowzur6055]

Loved this game. But for me this is just Trails of Azure 0.5. Azure is my favourite in the whole Trails series. Though Zero and Azure are tied for me in soundtracks

[@KCannaQueen]

Any trails is gonna have you hooked tbh

[@supersaiyaman11589]

i double diped wene it came to final fantasy 7 remake that is to say some games are just so good they are worth having wene they come to pc

[@derrickrose5933]

YES I WAS GONNA RECOMMEND THIS TO YOU!!

[@realtayo42]

OMG A ZERO VIDEO. I'm really excited for everyone that's going to be able to play crossbell for the first time. I've put over a thousand hours into the trails series and I'm planning on doing a full replay soon when azure comes out in prep for reverie. Also I really love your coverage of older jrpgs on this channel, I never had any interest in ff12 but I'm gonna check out after seeing your video!

[@countryboyred]

12 is amazing. The “last great final fantasy” in my opinion. Once you get the gambit system down the game is a blast.

[@manulopez4697]

Prepare yourself for azure is the best closure to the arc of crossbell and I can't wait to play Reviere

[@mosesdouglas4325]

Planning on picking this up but still need to finish Trails 4.

[@thunderdragon8341]

since the release of zero i started playing the series by starting with sky

[@DreamcastTrash]

I'm actually hype for this, I'd been playing the fan translation

[@CaptainAmerica2k7]

If you guys have not already, check out the drama cd for sky trilogy all the way to cold steel. The stories fill in the gaps. I do not believe there is anything like that for Cold Steel 3 and beyond. Some are quite hilarious too.

[@BlowBow2]

You kinda messed up when you said that Crossbell is a pawn to Liberl. They are pawns to republic and empire. 2 biggest nations in zemuria. Liberl does share a border with Crossbell but they don't have enough power to control Crossbell even if they wanted to

[@rogerharper3628]

No Azure video?

[@PsychologyOK]

Wow, can't believe you're on CS3 already!

[@AnonymusAxolotl]

Just a clarification: Geofront (which I'm a part of) was not involved with the development of either the PC or Switch versions you're receiving right now. The PS4 version was outsourced by Falcom themselves to Studio ArtDink back in 2020. It uses Vita textures, actually, and not PSP. We're getting that basic port for PS4. NISA commissioned PH3 to make a port for Switch and PC, and they are the ones responsible for the enhancements in said version.

[@justind7382]

Matty, you gotta play Kuro 1 on PC if you can find the overlay for the English subs (probably gonna be two more years for an english release). It is my favorite in the series. The main character is a breath of fresh air, not as cheesy or goody goody as Lloyd and Rean are. Van reminds me more of Kevin, and he is far and away the best protag in the series so far. More a bad boy who skirts the law, but deep down had a good heart

[@yuuotosaka2834]

22:28 maybe beacuse in cs 3 and 4 you can see that there are so so many character they will probbably have a hard time makinh every single one unique combo craft

[@ninototo1]

No cause you could just make a couple for some pairings

[@jangiurg5295]

I had a chance to play Zero thanks to Geofront and its hands down my favorite arc. I can not wait to revisit Crosbell.

[@bhoqeem1975]

I'm playing the Evo version on my PS Vita (with english patch) and it's GLORIOUS! Much better than the PSP version. I'm playing it in tandem with Trails in the Sky SC Evolution, after completing the FC Evo, a week prior. I am able to stream the Vita to my computer monitor, so it's been even more a blast to play. I started from Cold Steel 1 and 2, but now I hate those. I love the Sky and Crossbell series.

[@DevDinish]

Currently playing Kuro No Kiseki and it's so awesome. I'm gonna play Trails from Zero after for a replay

[@manulopez4697]

I dont know how people play kuro games twice, like I can't wait to know what is next in the story 😂

[@DevDinish]

@@manulopez4697 I feel you ! But I gotta wait for the English patch no Kiseki 2 lol

[@emincash6931]

How are people playing Kuro with the zerofield spreadsheets gone?

[@DevDinish]

@@emincash6931 I downloaded the English patch before it got wiped of the servers I'm playing on PC

[@FrozenAXL]

It took time, felt bored through the prologue and chapter 1, but come chapter 2 and it finally clicked and I loved the chapter. Starting 3 and this game is so chill, the characters are starting to connect with each other and fun stuff happens. I thank you for introducing me to Sky, the continues story is really charming and I'm enjoying everything. I kinda fear what will happen when I make the jump to cold steel, the low quality graphics seem to damage the experience visually at least.

[@ninototo1]

Cold Steel is the worst story + characters too and the worst balanced battle system (waaay too easy)

[@Walamonga1313]

@@ninototo1 Easy=bad 🤡 🤡 🤡

[@Walamonga1313]

Don't worry about CS. It's got the best gameplay, soundtrack and QOL. They're simply the best turn based games around. I'd say Crossbell has a better story but everything else is an improvement

[@ninototo1]

@@Walamonga1313 Yes easy is bad.

[@Ghalion666]

I have yet to hear any persona music that as good as your bog average kiseki track.

[@ninototo1]

Agreed, I love Persona but Trails I prefer

[@gondor150]

Congratulations you just entered a masterpiece in asia

[@DewaHuang]

Music theme when festival chapter and final dungeon the best , you just want it play it slow and enjoy it

[@sol9231]

Love the soundtrack of this game

[@MO-bo2du]

Awesome video!!

[@PsychologyOK]

Where's your Trails to Azure review?

[@MkayIndianaJones]

Just finished the game, after it had been sitting on my shelf since this new release, and now I could finally watch this video; I have to say that it doesn't reach the highs of SC and Sky 3rd; still a great game nevertheless. :) One thing I don't get though: How the hell are you finishing the game in 40hrs? There is so much more world building from just talking to the npcs and such that you can easily wrap up 70-80hrs in this game, 40hrs just sounds like rushing through a lot. Well I got many hours (FC 80h, SC 102, 3rd 67h, Zero 116h, CS1 122h, CS2 119h, CS3 143h and CS4 174h (I got into the series with the release of CS1 on PS4)) in every game so far, because I try to absorb every piece of information and never use Turbo mode or fast travel via map (Bus, Airship is okay). After a short break to finish some on hold games, I'm excited to see how Azure turns out. :D

[@stark8363]

I think Crossbell took what was laid out during 3rd chapter with all the doors and made a good ass game. The whole Renne stuff, Lechter and Killilka and all that I think it was better then SC with what it did

[@FranzBinder20]

Correction 6:50 It's between Erebonia and Calvard, I think. Not Liberl

[@Keviel1]

One gem on psp that finally come to america awesome

[@tembakaugunung6139]

I Massively am a huge One Piece fan. (Manga only thou) ... and i m very very confident to say that Trail francise is The One Piece of JRPG. specialy, The World building part of it. Everything is connected to something.

[@Revanxbone]

In CS i always think support turns exist, just because it makes so much sense, but then there's nothing 😭

[@LilT2o00]

No combo crafts going forward made sense due to the sheer number of characters you get. Imagine trying to do that in cold steel IV, for example

[@ninototo1]

You could just make them for some pairings

[@kennethfelipe823]

I can’t wait to get it. I am currently playing persona three on my Vita.

[@MrDiomedes1977]

So......Lloyd being like confused on where he is at the very beggining of the game is because of what is revealed in Azure about Kea intervention ? Colour me impressed.

[@Walamonga1313]

I was gonna watch this video when he uploaded but then he said it'd have spoilers. I already watched summaries of Zero and Azure but it was years ago so didn't really remember. I had to play Zero for myself to experience everything. Now that I did playthrough on Hard and speedrun on Easy, I can safely watch this lol. As for the game itself, I like it much more than Sky 1 and 2. Not sure if I like it more than any CS game tho, maybe it's above CS2. So far I think the best game of each arc is Sky 3, CS3 and I really liked Zero but I'm hoping Azure is even better

[@grammarwuot5427]

Oh you're in for one hell of a ride in Azure 😂

[@banyarling]

I did some research on "how to start" with Legends/Trails and Ys. This after a months-long Xenoblade run (without X). At long last, I came to the conclusion that order doesn't matter in any RPG franchise. Oh no, I'm playing a prequel? Wow, cool. Any blog claiming that you have to play X before Y is pure clickbait.

[@Kennosuke88]

I'm waiting for this game to unlock on steam for my deck. I'll own nearly the full series then on steam 👍

[@yuuotosaka2834]

if you like zero your gonna have a blast with azure

[@MJ-oi6ul]

Links in cold steel are basically combo crafts here, but yea they removed assist from backup party members. I thought cause in cold steel there is 9 students but you are never all together so not sure why they removed that

[@lotorsempire90]

I'm still getting PS4 version because trophies

[@carpetfresh9278]

The fact that the Switch version is superior and Switch JRPG's are highly collectable tells me this game will be very expensive in the future so if you own a Switch you have to get this version

[@ryanperrault8174]

I still have to start with Trails FC...no way I'm not playing them in order...How much better are they on PC vs the Vita version of FC and SC? I'd rather play handheld, because my PC is kind of crap right now. I will be picking this game up on the 27th, but honestly probably won't get around to playing it until sometime in 2023. I need to take breaks into between RPGs otherwise I get burnt out and hit a wall and it's not fair to the next game. If I can finish Trails FC & maybe SC this year, I can start next year with 3rd, and then Zero. That will shorten the wait for Azure and the other two games as well. This is such an exciting time to get into the series. My only experience is with Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion on PSP which is one of my favorite games of all time and these are supposed to be 10x better than those.

[@deadspacemasseffect]

if you got a modded vita, you can get the sky trilogy on there with the evolution versions(comes with voice acting)

[@ryanperrault8174]

@@deadspacemasseffect no mod just normal

[@darks820]

By Vita you mean the PSP versions running on Vita? The PC versions have turbo mode which really improves the experience when going back and forth through places and in fights, cause battle animations are slow and can become a bit of a drag after too many fights. The Sky games run in pretty much any PC. Also, Sky the 3rd is only available on PC.

[@deadspacemasseffect]

@@darks820 modded vita's can play the sky Trilogy with evolution versions(comes with voice acting and all that)

[@ryanperrault8174]

@@darks820 Yea the turbo mode is the one main reason I'm leaning towards the PC and just dealing with it...graphics enhancements help too. I can play on PC with a 360 PC controller right?

[@OneManCast]

You detected Guenter because of the phone call with Dudley. I detected Guenter when he brought up a drug and cult that was not pre-established beforehand. We are not the same. *Adjusts tie*

[@daysofhalcyon]

Just rolled credits on this great game. I don’t think I’ll be doing nightmare first playthrough for Azure

[@drowningin]

I beat sky 3rd months ago. I've been waiting since then to continue. I hope the wait for Azure isn't as long. Edit: full spoilers. So