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Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

-A Faint Glitter of Light-



The epilogue installment of Falcom's Trails in the Sky JRPGs is finally out in English. Trails in the Sky the 3rd does away with some major conventions from the first two games: Estelle and Joshua Bright are no longer the main characters. Instead of roaming more-or-less freely around the regions of the Liberl Kingdom, The 3rd takes place in a huge linear dungeon much like the Altered Spaces from SC's Chapter 7. There are far fewer surprisingly-intricate backstories for random faceless townsfolk. Sidequests are a thing of the past, and you only ever have one goal: to fight your way through the dungeon and escape.

That must sound like a recipe for disaster, but I'd say The 3rd is the best yet--a wonderful send-off for the Trails in the Sky series and all the characters I've gotten to know and love.

I'm going to assume that anyone reading is already familiar with Trails in the Sky FC and SC, because...well, you kind of need to be if you want to have any bearing on what's going on.





I sure wish every job I had was this easy.
Meetings ordained by the Goddess always come suddenly and unannounced.
Don't go getting your hopes up. Nothing of interest's gonna happen.
Behold! The most powerful force in the universe!
So the time to begin is finally upon us.



Well, this is foreboding.
To hell with it! Not like we got any better options!
You're a knight. Do your job.
There'll come a day when I get used to all these funky talking objects, I'm sure...
Moon Door 1: Orbal Gear Project Part 1 - First Day
Moon Door 1: Orbal Gear Project Part 1 - Second Day
Just how long does this place go on for?
We have enemies in this place...and it's not just the fiends.



!☆⯅?⭗¥#$⯁?!
What happened to the capital while I was away?!
Star Door 1: Julia's Day Off
I fear I may have underestimated just how bizarre a situation this is.
Sun Door 1: Capua's Delivery Service
Now look what you've done.
So one of the stars of the show makes his grand appearance.
Star Door 2: The Salt Pale
That was a truly delightful spectacle.



How have I managed to survive being twisted around your fingers for so long?
Star Door 3: The Banquet
All we can do is keep looking for answers.
See you guys on the other side.
It seems our enemies have quite literally opened the gates of Gehenna.



When are you going to stop acting?
Star Door 4: Journey's End
Here comes trouble.
Sun Door 3: The Arena - Normal
Moon Door 3: Descended Wings - Part 1
Moon Door 3: Descended Wings - Part 2
Moon Door 3: Descended Wings - Part 3
Moon Door 3: Descended Wings - Part 4
Put me in, coach!
Star Door 5: Swordsmanship
I wouldn't be a good big sister if I didn't look out for my little sis, now, would I?
Moon Door 2: Client - Part 1
Moon Door 2: Client - Part 2
I'm in. Let's get to work.
Star Door 6: Training, Agate-Style
Moon Door 1: Orbal Gear Project Part 2 - The Meeting
Moon Door 1: Orbal Gear Project Part 2 - The Testing
Man, this is the best reunion party ever...



It's time to seriously focus on getting out of this place and back to the real world.
Sun Door 2: Legendary Angler Estelle
Moon Door 4: Departure - Part 1
Moon Door 4: Departure - Part 2
I can't help but feel my being here is a mistake of some kind.
Star Door 7: The Epstein Foundation
You must REALLY want to end up splattered all over the floor.
Sun Door 4: The Casino -Gambler Jack-
Let's get nasty!



And here I thought we were finally going to get an answer.
Star Door 8: Return to the Empire
So our friend's left us a message, huh?
I guess this is just fate or somethin'?
Star Door 9: Like a Mother
I can only hope that I don't disappoint.
Trails in the Chest
Moon Door 5: The Happiness Stone - Part 1
Moon Door 5: The Happiness Stone - Part 2
Are we even going to be able to go home...?
I wasn't expecting to end up fighting you here again...
Ordinarily, this is where I'd pitch in and help out...
Star Door 10: Gordias-Class Experiment Report
What a cruel twist of fate that we should meet again like this.
Star Door 11: Phantom Thief B Report
Sun Door 3: The Arena - Hard
Now, right down to business, Kevin.
Whoever we end up facing, we'll find a way to win.
Don't count yourselves out just yet.
I hope you're ready for this!
Don't hold back! Show me what you've got!
Star Door 12: I Accept Your Request
Defeat me. That is all.
I'd appreciate it if you would all lend me your strength.
This place really has been full of memorable experiences.
Let's get this over with so these guys can move on!
Star Door 13: Assault on the Imperial Guilds
Let the hunt begin.
Sun Door 5: Campanella's Quiz Game
Very well, then--do as you will! Defeat me, and break this mask!
Fate truly is a funny thing.
I knew it.



Once we step through that door, there'll be no going back.
This is practically another day for me now.
Well, I suppose that's enough exposition for now.



It's time to truly bring an end to what was started half a year ago.
I wonder if this is a coincidence, or maybe even the will of the Goddess?
Unbelievable... How did that end up being recreated in Phantasma?
Star Door 15: Paradise
Sun Door 3: The Arena - Nightmare
Star Door 14: Phantasmal Blaze
From now on, I will be the star of this show!
See you at the top!
That Lord of Phantasma really does know how to shake things up.
What was that?!
It couldn't be...
I think we've reached our destination.
How do you expect to defeat me?
Shall we?
This is the last thing I'll ever ask you to do.
I guess this is it.
In the thousand years the Gralsritter has existed, that's not something that has happened often.

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Sep 23, 2017

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Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Jun 9, 2017

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Endorph posted:

maybe link the LPs of the first two games in the op?

Tallgeese posted:

If possible, could you show enemy descriptions please? I like those little bits of info.

Done, and done.

I meant to have those and I totally forgot, thanks for the reminders.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jun 9, 2017

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

tithin posted:

How do the Trails of Cold Steel games tie into Trails in the Sky?

They tie a lot more closely into the two currently-untranslated Crossbell games. Whenever someone in Cold Steel mentions things going down in Crossbell, it's an oblique reference to one of those.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jun 9, 2017

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Please don't spoil anything that's not in the previous Sky games.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005


Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jun 9, 2017

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

That's just hurtful, man.

Luckily Zemuria is a more idealistic world for the most part, so there's no such thing as Minions or Facebook.

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 16:45 on May 30, 2017

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005


Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jun 9, 2017

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Xander77 posted:

Oh. So you were serious about the entire game being one big dungeon?

I was exaggerating a bit there. The 3rd has all the stuff that makes a Trails game a Trails game, but it's structured in a very different way from FC/SC.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Epsilon Moonshade posted:

... it's coming out in English for the PC, right? :ohdear:

Sometime this summer, I think, with 5,000 extra voiced lines. :pcgaming:

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005


Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Jun 9, 2017

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

vdate posted:

After the first two LPs and the general mention of 3rd as sort of an afterthought (and I mean after the finale of 2nd I agreed, because that story seemed done and dusted), I didn't expect this game to actually get released in the West, much less get an LP.

That said, Really Pants, while I'm terribly grateful to you for doing this, the gif-heavy updates are making my browser on my home computer(and the terminals on campus) halt and catch fire every time there's more than one on a page. Is there much likelihood of you using the test poster for updates or using .webm files instead of animated gifs or something?

I can give it a shot.

To hell with it! Not like we got any better options!

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

vdate posted:

And Ms. Argent brings up a valid question that I can't recall if it got answered in Trails 1 or 2 - how the hell did Kevin make Graalsritter? His piety is indeed questionable.

I'm sure Aidios, in Her infinite grace, will forgive a minor trespass. Or three.

Kevin didn't exist in FC, and SC never touched on the subject, but it'll be answered here.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Mirage on the center slot.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Alard posted:

Come on Kevin, open up that copy of Isthmian Tales. I want to see just what gets a book banned by the church.

Two words: Pom porn. It genuinely is unspeakable.

You're a knight. Do your job.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

How about if I used a screenshot instead of plain text for the links?

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

most modern translators agree that 'Zin' is most accurately translated as 'Punch Rockgroin'

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Dude.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

MOOOOOON DOOOOOOOR *aaaaaaaa* *noodly synth*

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

if you feel you have taken an unsafe amount of Erika, do not attempt to operate heavy machinery or torture your child's friends

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

All except for the shattering quartz. That's just a dick move.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of "Orbal Gears"

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Omobono posted:

What's the proper tense for an event that has already happened but we viewers haven't seen yet?

will have had as soon as we reach that point in the past

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Erika acts like a psycho spaz but I think her whole deal makes at least a little sense if you read it as her feeling horrified & ashamed at how her decision to leave Tita behind for her safety backfired so completely, and projecting all those feelings onto the people who were there for her daughter when she couldn't be.

The constant Tom & Jerry fighting with her dad is just kinda dumb, I don't know what else to say about that.

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jun 6, 2017

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

The Doomhammer posted:

Y'know, I wonder If Kevin and Ries secretly get real salty that nobody else's quartz gets randomly smashed once they're brought out of their crystal.

They can just steal everyone's new quartz willy-nilly so I doubt it.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

AradoBalanga posted:

I am curious as to why Fresh Water is a recipe one can make and not a consumable item. That just feels weird.

It's 'water.'

Remember this when we get to Moon Door 2.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

you can't see it but young Kevin has a rat-tail

Ries cut that poo poo off the first chance she got and he still hasn't completely forgiven her

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Jun 9, 2017

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Speaking of which...

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Jun 10, 2017

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Jun 23, 2017

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Nobody. The Vander family doesn't actually serve the Arnor family like that. That whole story was Olivier's first prank. Everybody wants to see how long he can keep it going.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Rabbi Raccoon posted:

I made the same joke about old habits. High five!

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

ssmagus posted:

I find it's far easier to beat Muller if you use Juila's cp on the attack craft she has instead of S-crafting.

I just tried this and it worked well--I was able to Mirageberg both S-Crafts, even--but it wound up about the same in the end.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

There are some Star Doors that have infodumps about the game setting instead of character stories. Those are shorter.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

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