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Just cleared Trails 3rd today. I didn’t enjoy it as much as FC/SC but I understand why people would love 3rd as much as they do. I think not enjoying it 100% is partly l was running low on stamina and took some long breaks while playing. But still happy I found the time to put in like 160 hours into the series so far. Can’t wait to try Cold Steel.
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My only issue with 3rd is I played it immediately after SC.
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Aug 30, 2018 16:07
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Logicblade posted:As an aside, can I vote to change the Phantasmal Blaze plan to the Spicy Ghost plan, sounds much more ominous that way. "Phantasmal Blaze" sounds like some sort of weed product.
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Aug 30, 2018 23:03
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Ytlaya posted:"Phantasmal Blaze" sounds like some sort of weed product. Azure Siegfried Vermillion Apocalypse Happiness Stone 
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Aug 31, 2018 00:33
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Really Pants posted:Azure Siegfried The first and last sound like nicknames for sex toys.
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Aug 31, 2018 02:37
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BrightWing posted:My only issue with 3rd is I played it immediately after SC. Hey I remember from your avatar you were playing through the Sky trilogy around the same time I started. I ended up giving myself some breathing room of about 6 months between games. Did you finish CS 1 and 2 yet? I've got CS1 ready to go on PC but I think I'm gonna work on some stuff before I dive in.
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Aug 31, 2018 04:06
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Pegnose Pete posted:Hey I remember from your avatar you were playing through the Sky trilogy around the same time I started. I did finish CS2. Count me in the "CS3 when" crew. CS2 probably would be my favorite if I hadn't started it right after finishing CS1.
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Aug 31, 2018 05:07
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BrightWing posted:I did finish CS2. Count me in the "CS3 when" crew. Nice. Yeah I think having a breather in between games doesn't hurt. It's kind of discouraging there hasn't even been so much as "maybe" for the English localization so far. Better learn to read Japanese better I guess.
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Aug 31, 2018 05:42
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Pegnose Pete posted:Nice. Yeah I think having a breather in between games doesn't hurt. It's kind of discouraging there hasn't even been so much as "maybe" for the English localization so far. Better learn to read Japanese better I guess. Eh, Falcom themselves have said that one of the reasons they're taking a break after CS4 (out in the next month) before starting Calvard arc is to get the remainder of Cold Steel out in the west. So they're almost certainly coming, with Falcom's full support, but haven't been announced yet for whatever reason.
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Aug 31, 2018 05:49
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Lord Koth posted:Eh, Falcom themselves have said that one of the reasons they're taking a break after CS4 (out in the next month) before starting Calvard arc is to get the remainder of Cold Steel out in the west. So they're almost certainly coming, with Falcom's full support, but haven't been announced yet for whatever reason. It's not really complicated. CS3 and CS4 are almost one game, and getting CS3 without CS4 would be rather terrible. They're waiting til they can announce both at the same time.
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Aug 31, 2018 13:45
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Ytlaya posted:The first and last sound like nicknames for sex toys. maybe but Purple Lightning is def weed as gently caress
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Sep 1, 2018 03:47
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I love Trails style names. They're supposed to be ultra edgy legendary callsigns/titles that are more memorable than the real names, and they never get laughed at in-game somehow Also they remind me a lot of they way it was done in Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Water Margin series and that is great P.S. this post was brought to you by the Sidesaddle Cavalry
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Sep 1, 2018 07:17
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Trails has a lot of wuxia in it and those are a mixture of Courtesy names and something like Greek epithets.
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Sep 1, 2018 07:20
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plus trails is generally shonen anime as hell
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Sep 1, 2018 07:38
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If you live in Zemuria and have a personal title you've probably earned it.
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Sep 1, 2018 07:41
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Listen if I could call myself a "Divine Blade" and get away with it without getting awkward stares I absolutely would. Don't tell me any of you wouldn't.
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Sep 1, 2018 07:45
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Eight Leaves One Blaze 
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Sep 1, 2018 11:32
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Supremezero posted:It's not really complicated. CS3 and CS4 are almost one game, and getting CS3 without CS4 would be rather terrible. They're waiting til they can announce both at the same time. And if XSEED is involved (hopefully) they don't like to announce until a project is nearing completion.
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Sep 1, 2018 16:03
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Is there anything interesting after the big epilogue boss in II? It really doesn't make me want to fight a boss when it says right before that there is no point to doing it at all, especially when the boss is basically a palette swap.
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Sep 1, 2018 22:01
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you're at the end
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Sep 1, 2018 22:05
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That whole dungeon and boss always struck me as something that should have been an optional, post-game thing.
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Sep 1, 2018 22:21
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in a way, all game content is optional makes u think
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Sep 1, 2018 22:31
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I started playing Trails in the Sky 3rd and learned that Nial, the grizzled old writer who's seen it all and is getting too old for this poo poo, just turned 30
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Sep 2, 2018 09:41
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You learn that he's younger than he looks the moment he's introduced in FC, where Estelle calls him a rude old man and he protests that he's still in his twenties. It might be the smokes and alcohol that are to blame, since he still looked the exact same way 5 years before the events of the first game.
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Sep 2, 2018 09:46
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The series is pretty good about that usually (it does feature a lot of actual parents which guarantees people being over 30 years of age) but it does fall for it sometimes. I still dislike the "12-year old child is somehow 100x better at fighting than trained soldiers" which is all over the series but at least that's usually just attributed to magic being involved somehow.
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Sep 2, 2018 09:48
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Erpy posted:You learn that he's younger than he looks the moment he's introduced in FC, where Estelle calls him a rude old man and he protests that he's still in his twenties. It might be the smokes and alcohol that are to blame, since he still looked the exact same way 5 years before the events of the first game. Yeah but I played the start of FC like six months ago
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Sep 2, 2018 10:04
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Amppelix posted:The series is pretty good about that usually (it does feature a lot of actual parents which guarantees people being over 30 years of age) but it does fall for it sometimes. To be fair in the Sky series there is a progression to getting stronger and their are limits to how strong they are. The later series kind of chuck that in the bin but that’s just how shonen go.
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Sep 2, 2018 11:24
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Even Sky has Joshua, master assassin at 10. Which, I admit, is more believable than many of the other unbelievable feats people get up to as it doesn't really require much physical prowess.
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Sep 2, 2018 14:24
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Small children are better at sneaking through air vents.
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Sep 2, 2018 14:28
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Or dressing up as innocent little girls before they slit your throat. From what I've heard (the games themselves don't acknowledge it), one of the reasons Josh was such a convincing crossdresser in FC was because dressing up as a little girl was one of his preferred methods of getting close to his victims before snuffing them out.
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Sep 2, 2018 16:32
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Charlie Bobson posted:plus trails is generally shonen anime as hell The thing I like about Lloyd in Zero/Ao more than Rean in CS is that, while he is definitely a shounen protagonist, all the other characters recognize it and dunk on him constantly for it. CS plays it straight with Rean, which doesn't work nearly as well.
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Sep 2, 2018 17:45
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Lloyd is way more proactive than Joshua in Sky 1 or Rean in....most of cold steel. That's why I like him more, which is kinda cheating since he's the only working adult.
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Tae posted:Lloyd is way more proactive than Joshua in Sky 1 or Rean in....most of cold steel. That's why I like him more, which is kinda cheating since he's the only working adult. The issue with this comparison is that the protagonist of Sky 1 is very clearly Estelle and she's definitely way more proactive than Joshua...which tends to get her in trouble.
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Sep 2, 2018 17:49
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Estelle is the best. "I stopped collecting bugs!" "Please explain all the beetles in the hallway." "Shush you."
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Sep 2, 2018 17:51
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iospace posted:Estelle is the best. 
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Sep 2, 2018 17:55
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I would be lying if I said half my screenshots that aren't chest messages aren't Estelle and her -_- face.
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Sep 2, 2018 18:34
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I gave it another try and then he vanished a third of my party in one move and then abducted the last one for the game over. I'll just look up whatever's after.
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Sep 2, 2018 20:46
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vanish lasting 7 games now is shocking. it's terrible in every fight
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Some Numbers posted:The issue with this comparison is that the protagonist of Sky 1 is very clearly Estelle and she's definitely way more proactive than Joshua...which tends to get her in trouble. Even then once the actual plot starts both Joshua and Estelle are pretty proactive. Once the conflict begins they imitate it and keep pushing it forward
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Justin_Brett posted:I gave it another try and then he vanished a third of my party in one move and then abducted the last one for the game over. I'll just look up whatever's after. You should by now have at least 3 to 4 pieces of gear to protect against Vanish; either a grail locket, a Wing Master Quartz, a black pendulum, black emblem or abyss shadow.
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