The Trails Iceberg Explained
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails or Kiseki series, made up of Trails in the Sky, Trails from Zero, Trails to Azure, Trails of Cold Steel, Trails Into Reverie and more, is a long-running JRPG series by Nihon Falcom. Beginning 18 years ago and spanning over 12 games and counting, 14 if you count Akatsuki no Kiseki and The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails, there's quite a lot of interesting things to be discovered. So today, let's take a deep dive into the Trails iceberg, and take a look at all the amazing things the world of Zemuria has to offer.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
1:23 Chest Messages
4:06 Black Records
5:33 Turbo Glitches
6:32 Kondo
7:51 Forgotten Kevin
9:08 Cross Dimensional Towa
9:50 Female Student
10:49 Trails in the Database
11:43 Duvalie Introduction
12:37 Returning Home
13:48 The Remote Town of Alster
14:37 Ring of Judgement
16:39 Zane
18:10 Anton and Ricky
19:08 Evolution Versions
20:47 Kai Versions
21:42 Cold Steel 4 Secret Scene
22:49 Meme Grandmaster
23:37 Trails in the Sky OVA
24:50 The Northern War
26:02 Bruh Moment
27:51 Cut CS4 Characters
Layer 2:
29:25 Mission Funds
30:24 Sky Advanced Chapter
31:00 CS3 Vantage Masters Extras
32:30 Series Plan
36:14 DOA5 Collab
36:37 Ys Vs Sora No Kiseki
37:52 Trails Nendoroids
39:00 Akatsuki No Kiseki
42:05 Enforcer Arcana
44:11 Magical Girl Alisa
45:14 Azure Kai CS Characters
46:29 Zero Kai CS Characters
46:53 Kitty-Talk for Dummies
47:51 Debug Maps
48:31 Muse
49:17 Road To The Future
50:00 Unused Marquis Hyarms
51:01 Rare Main Menu Backgrounds
51:41 New Game Plus Vita
53:00 Vita in Sky 3rd
53:59 Lusitania in CS1
54:08 Nayuta
57:03 Cold Steel 2 Sky Outfits
57:31 JP Exclusive CS Costumes
1:00:43 Super Arrange Versions
Layer 3:
1:01:52 Roer Secret Dialogue
1:02:57 Adaptations
1:03:28 Alisa Reinford's Cold Steel Crash Course
1:05:13 Falcom Magazine
1:06:46 2006 Sky Interviews
1:08:31 Sky Bandit Hideout Glitch
1:10:51 Dragon Star Varnir Collab
1:11:21 Bleublanc Debug
1:11:47 Loewe Monogatari
1:13:03 Trails in the Chest
1:14:22 Phantom Thief B's Backstory
1:17:41 Playable R&A
1:19:10 Unused Loewe Scenario
1:22:25 Hologram Projector
1:23:13 Luciola in Azure
1:25:10 Sen III Confidential Materials
1:26:23 McBurn Theory
1:28:33 Crossbell Archive
1:29:20 Sen No Kiseki Magazine
1:29:52 Cold Steel 2 Mirror Endings
1:31:04 Cold Steel 3 Alternate Timeline
1:32:26 Loewe Continue
1:33:42 Hamilton
1:34:52 SC Renne Health
1:35:46 Vantage Master X Sora No Kiseki
1:37:19 Sen No Kiseki Musical
1:39:11 Outro
Further reading materials (Drama CDs, Mangas, etc. mentioned):
Returning Home/Remote Town of Alster
www.trailsofcoldsteel.com/cs2/...
Ring of Judgement
www.esterior.net/2016/08/tran...
Sky Advanced Chapter
eiyuutrans.blogspot.com/2015/1...
Road To The Future
geofront.esterior.net/road/
Loewe Monogatari
/ sora_no_kiseki_gaiden_...
Magical Girl Alisa
magicalalisa.weebly.com/
Video Credits to:
YFStudios, Black Records
• Trails of Cold Steel 2...
Darkstarx, TOCS out of bounds
• Video
Sewer56, Softlock
• Trails of Cold Steel/S...
TheTwitGamer, Female Student
• Trails Of Cold Steel |...
BugFragged, Bruh Moment
• BRUHBLANC - Let's Play...
CB Zero, Grandmaster Scene
• Ouroboros Grandmaster ...
TheOffOne, Jonah Scott Bruh Moment
• Jonah Scott says the R...
Ajira Revani, NG+ Vita
• Trails of Cold Steel 1...
Trails to Infinity, Kanone restored
• Trails in the Sky Seco...
Coded Gaming, Phantasmal Mirror Endings
• The Legend of Heroes T...
Ayane, Roer Escalator
• [PS4] Trails of Cold S...
Further reading materials (interviews, sources, etc):
pastebin.com/GSDpgvwf - Hry
So are we ever getting a part 2 to this? It’s so rare to find quality Trails content like this that isn’t just “Why you should play Trails” or “How to get into Trails” videos.
The forgotten Kevin one hurts cause he’s literally one of my favorite characters in the entire series, I miss him
NGL It’s amazing how Falcom is able to make good quality game at a fast pace
I only wish the game gets localize on time
Yeah once Reverie comes out I honestly think I’m gonna try to play Kuro with the spreadsheet, I just can’t wait anymore 😭
@@HeavenlyM the Ys series is also amazing and their created by Falcom
And if you have a good pc you can use the English patch mod for pc
Admittedly Falcom is not the best at...graphics.
It's still far from bad though, really, and Trails' worldbuilding is solid. And I feel like they've hit the sweet spot in customizing combat options lately.
@@natchu96 For sure, actually there was this one interview I read while researching this that kinda stuck with me. I think it was in the 2006 Sky interviews. One of the devs, maybe Kondo, said something like “we were seeing all these amazing games come out and we were like, damn, we can’t do that, but we knew we could tell a good story, and that’s where we poured our heart into” and I really feel like that holds true. Trails is plenty fun but I know for me it’s the world and the story that really carry it all.
@@natchu96 Graphics is really not a big deal. Maybe it's because I'm just an older gamer when most games didn't have decent graphics by limitation, but subpar graphics is a worthy sacrifice if everything else is high quality.
A passion project I’ve been working on all the way since September, I sincerely hope you enjoy :) Trails has easily become my favorite series ever and I’m glad I got this out before the end of the year
If you want a little director’s commentary, while working on this I thought about my old Persona iceberg a lot. In hindsight, I find it disappointing, I definitely feel like it could’ve been so much more, and with that in mind I went into this one with the goal of completely outdoing myself, and yeah, I’m very happy with the end result, and I hope you are too 😊
As I mention at the very end, if you have any ideas that should be included in the last two layers or should’ve been included here, definitely let me know. I want to make it the best it can possibly be 😎❤️
Corrections:
Ring of Judgement’s last chapter actually came out days before Zero’s release, not the month before
Also as of 9 hours ago The Northern War is also getting a mobile game tie in
Sky outfits are actually on sale for PS3 and Vita in the West, just not for PS4
The subtitles for the Cold Steel musical have been found! Big thanks to Choojermelon for their hard work on these: reddit.com/r/Falcom/comments/zy9gby/trails_of_cold_steel_3d_musical_subtitles/
Also update 9/22/23, YES part 2 is still being worked on!
Haven’t watched yet but you clearly put a lot of work into this because the Trails iceberg is gigantic! Thanks and bookmarked for later
I am playing first sky game right now and already thinking it will be my favourite game series number one istead of witcher)
I haven't had this much fun playing games in a long time. Maybe I am getting old at my 23 y.o.)
What games do you cover on this? I dont want to watch it if it covers something that might spoil me of future content
@@GrumpyFelo Only up to CS4, no spoilers on the unlocalized games
@@HeavenlyM there ARE multiple references for later games but, I guess its not spoilers.
I always wanted to see an Iceberg of the Trails series, thanks for making it, you did a great job
On most media icebergs there’s dark stuff like scandals, abuse allegations - and Trails just sits here like „did you hear about this exclusive outfit???”. I’m so proud of this fandom.
This is only the first 3 layers, we’ll talk about the hell that was localizing these games and more in the last two layers, don’t worry lol
@@HeavenlyM but is that really secret? or is that just dark?
@@ChaosEater39 I’d say more secret than dark overall for part 2, things like being able to skip to the final boss in Zero chapter 3, Morse code hidden in music, Arianrhod boss fight in Sky 3rd, skip to Zeiss at the start of FC, obscure Chinese Trails games, lots of untranslated books, drama CDs, etc
@@HeavenlyM I see. I am also proud that every single one of these I know. Can't wait for part 2!
@@HeavenlyM I hope you will not forget Renne's backstory/star door 15 in part 2, though. And that stuff IS dark.
new heavenly video🙏
on a trails binge myself, finished zero yesterday and started azure already. Can't wait to continue
With the Geofront patch? Good shit! Azure might be my #1 tbh
@@HeavenlyM I coudn't wait for the steam release. just had to continue
The illegible grave in the Crossbell cemetery is something I think worth of being on there. The gravekeeper begins to mention it in Zero and kind of trails off. Supposedly in Azure you find out the grave is Ian's family, but I never managed to get that scene myself. I remember the gravekeeper mentioning he was going to clean the grave very close to the end, but apparently I never saw some other prerequisite scene so I didnt quite get the payoff. Or maybe it's hinted some other way, I dunno. I did full NPC crawls in both Crossbell games, so not sure how I missed it, but I think it'd be worth looking into.
Yeah I believe that whole thing is tied in with the Nielsen quests, I plan to mention Nielsen in the next part and I’ll definitely mention this. It’s like a whole side quest through Azure that if you miss even one part on you miss out on the rest of it, and the whole thing is pretty cool since it ends with the climax you mention, finding the grave and having Lloyd figure out everything with Guy earlier than he would’ve otherwise. And yeah if I wasn’t following a guide I would’ve missed it, at one part you have to talk to someone, talk to someone else, then go back to that first person and then check the grave or something like that, the requirements become VERY precise
@@HeavenlyM Ahhh, so it was Nielsen. Yeah I missed his first quest, and so despite seeing him pretty much every other time he appeared, I wasn't able to do any of his questline lol. Planning to change that with the official release.
The best analogy for this series I’ve ever heard since I got into the series is that it’s the “One Piece of gaming.” I love this statement since the Kiseki series is one of the longest-running gaming series with a consistent timeline, spanning nearly 20 years at this point.
I've been a fan of this series since before Trails SC released in the west, but I learned so many fascinating things from this video. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort in making it!
Man, I just HAVE to say thank you. This is amazing work right there. Gave it a like 20 minutes in, hesitated to subscribe, but when you mentioned you planned more Trails content, I subbed right away. We NEED more quality Trails videos on the internet! The Kiseki nut is amazing already, but with you as well? Man we're covered.
Thanks for making this video! I’m gonna be replaying Kiseki soon so it will be fun trying all these cool Easter eggs out
Excellent video. This is getting me hyped for Reverie. Like you, I beat the first 9 trails games and now I'm starved for content. There were a good number of things in here I wasn't aware of even though i ran through the first 9 games. I'll definitely watch the next video.
29:29 This actually reminds me. In Trails from Zero, I think it was when Lloyd and Noel wanted to buy a gift for Antons Quest for Fran, if you don't have enough money right there, Lloyd says something along the lines of
"Darn it, I don't have enough mira, damn CPD salary" which may be one of the most hilarious hidden lines I could've gotten honestly.
Really cool to see one of these iceberg videos for trails, thanks for making one it was a fun listen and I learned some things I had no idea about 👌
I have to give my thanks for this! Thank you for all of the effort behind this video. I've completed all of the English games (aside Nayuta) and always spoke to every NPC multiple times while completing all sidequests.
Even still, there's a lot of information about the world and the series that I've easily missed. It's great to have a reminder of all of the content the series has out there.
Thank you so much! I love this series so much and it was such a pleasure to make something to share my love of it with all the other fans, its easily my favorite video I've ever done. And this is just the beginning, the second half coming soon will have the real secrets, mark my words. ;)
This is an amazing video, thank you so much for making this. I learned quite a lot from this video. Can't wait for the second half!
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it 😊
I've known quite a few of these, however the scene at the end of Cold Steel 4 is news to me so when you mentioned it I immediately went off and booted up my game and saw that scene, that alone is enough for me to thank you for this video
Seriously great video overall
You’re welcome! Seriously that’s one of the best scenes in the entire series
So great right? I had just beat Reverie, & w/ her on the cover....I'd be damned to not see a scene w/ her, lool. Idk🤔cause I need to run ng+ on nm, + get Aurelia & Mcburn as there more daydreams + trophy ish. Rev is So Huge💯😅🤣
Yo those McBurn and the Grandmaster theories blew my mind haha. Incredible work, there was a lot here I didn't catch before!
Finally a Trails video from you! I just have to watch every video about Trails on youtube lol
Same, there needs to be more Trails! And yeah it took quite a while hahaha 😅
This video was flipping awesome. I would love to see a segment on how music and light motifs are used between games
When I was first playing through the Cold Steel arc, and I reached my first shrine in CS2, “Holy Saint, Holy Spirit” washed over me and I knew I was in love with this series.
This video is pure passion and I'm here for every second of it
A neat detail about the Sen musical that I didn't see mentioned in the comments yet, the actress for Towa is also her japanese VA in the actual games
Thanks for the effort, this was really cool
Oooo that’s actually super cool, didn’t know that!
One of the more interesting things about the Super Arrange versions is that few of them actually play in game. Off the top of my head, Silver Will SAV plays in SC, Atrocious Raid SAV plays in CS4, and a Super Arrange of a track from Zero, retitled as ‘To be continued!’ plays in Azure.
To be continued is the super arrange of the track "Omen"
The Decisive Collision SAV plays in both CS3 and CS4, while Belief SAV plays in CS4 only.
holy saint holy spirit plays in cold steel 4
in the dialogue before the last fight with mcburn in CS4 (and maybe the fight? I don't remember) the SAV version of "Enforcer" plays
I chuckled quite a bit when you mentioned Anton and Ricky. Damn I really loved his adventures and character development ( PS: Anton you damn lucky bastard got a legit waifu for yourself FINALLY after 9 games )
Nice vid, all these cool info is so new to me, I spent more than 1000hrs+ in games with chest message and didn’t even notice there is a chest message update lol.
Honestly really great job dude. This video was such a treat to watch! I came onto the Trails wagon late (really only getting into and completing the series over the Covid quarantine and recently when CS4 was localized) but it’s cemented itself as my all time favorite hard stop.
2 comments for something I found funny, with the Renne health I had no idea. But if I saw it I’d have probably thought (even though we had children escort missions before) that they gave her so much health so we COULDN’T fuck it up and get her killed lol
And in regard to the all the gacha collabs, Rean Rixia Lloyd Juna Swin and Nadia were in a Brave Nine collab a loooong while ago. Pulled for em, got em, single only reason why the game is still on my phone lol I don’t play it either, not that it’s bad I just haven’t gotten into it 😂
About Duvalie introduction, you now first meet her in Azure thanks to the localization being up to date with the rest of the series
I hope you make the follow up to this eventually. I've been looking forward to it for a while
Still in the works, the wait will be worth it :)
Amazing work! Loved watching every minute of it :D Thank you!
❤️ Thank you! 😊
Have been a fan of the The Legend of Heroes series since I played Trails of cold steel. Have completed the Liberl & Erebonia arc. Almost completed Trails from Zero
I always encourage people to play in chronological order, that is starting with sky. But after playing all 3, I have to say that playing cold steel before sky... I can't think there is anything about that that is half as bad as playing zero before sky. I just can't imagine losing the impact of all of Renne's Scenes in Zero without playing sky first. But I can't think of anything in Cold steel that was so heavy for past characters that weren't introduced like Zero does. I did not play cold steel first, but since you have, was there anything you think that was ruined because you didn't play sky first? I mean I know the way it slips in sky's cast would seem weird, or how crossbell is in the game would lose some of its nostalgia points, etc. But do you feel like you missed out on an actual emotionally hard hitting thing because of it?
@@Ghalion666 as someone who can kind of comment on this besides the sky characters appearing in cold steel and being able to walk in crossbell there isn't anything wrong with playing cold steel before sky outside of not knowing the characters because the only main person from the sky arc is Olivert/Olivier.with addition some other side characters and military people, but the only vocal point for me is Olivert and seeing what he did in the sky arc. Because if you just do the connection from the sky games to the first 2 cold steel games the relationship between those games acts in the prequel and sequel aspect like star wars in a way. But with the addition of the Crossbell games it's VERY on the idea that you played the sky arc first to understand what's going on with the sky cast in that game. It's kind of the only critique that I have personally of Zero, personally the game didn't really hit home for me I'm not saying it was a horrible experience just not groundbreaking as everyone reviews it to be and to my own bias to say I thought that since we have at the time 3 different arcs I thought we would have as the player our own time with the cast without anybody from the other games but again this is my own experience with this. I'm waiting on Azure next year to see what happens next, just for a reference I've played the entire cold steel arc, Zero,and am currently still playing sky fc
@@silentpresence6705 ahhh.. playing zero before sky, someone did it! noooo =P
Im glad somebody has finally made a video like this.
Thanks! :)
Fun fact: The lousitania is actually used in cs1, in a smaller scale, you can see it in reinford company showroom on the 1st floor
Cool extra lore! Thanks for your hard work :)
I love trails and persona, so you got yourself a new sub! :) I am also new to the trails series, so this ice berg is a nice info dump.
New subscriber thanks to this video, but also in anticipation of Persona 3 and 4 re-releasing in January. Looking forward to watching your videos and what's to come.
Musse's granduncle Count Ballad being in the prologue for Sky 3rd was the most shocking easter egg to me, not sure if it was on purpose or not. Also, there is more Alisa 4koma comics for post Cold Steel 4 where she and sometimes Juna make comments on the character popularity polls in the post CS book, not sure about pre-Cold Steel 4. There's quite alot of content about character information that was not translated in the Falcom CS book as well. It's where the source for all the characters official ages comes from.
Great video! Looking forward to party 2
I like how at 27:36 Sean immediately understands what line Jonah is talking about and the severity of the situation. Reddit user once reddit user forever.
Thanks for this, been craving content after finishing off CS4
Very nice video! The one thing I would think about adding for the next one is the happiness stone from sky the 3rd. It seems like a strange inclusion but I’m pretty sure it’s been reffrenced in a few of the games after but like I can’t remember exactly when :p
"Cold Steel anime can't be as bad as the Sky OVA" you sweet summer child...
(I know this was recorded before but still)
I actually just finished the last English released game on my list a few weeks ago to where I am caught up to wait for Reverie so this was quite intersting.
Hooh boy finally, a Trails iceberg. I'll have to do a listen to this once I beat the Cold Steel games though. I've only beaten Sky & Crossbell so far lol.
Loved this video! Looking forward to the next.
awesome video and I kinda want to add some level 3 iceberg...okay, I don't know if this counts but this is about Mcburn. There's actually an translation error from Nisa when it comes to Mcburn's true name and it created a failed attempted reference to Kuro no Kiseki would only affect western players.
NISa translated Mcburn's true name as: 'Mera' Cu Baldugh Ruang, but in reality it's actually 'Mare' Cu Baldugh Ruang[Japanese: メア(Mare)=ク(Cu)=バルウド(Baldugh)=ルアウング(Ruang )], in Kuro no Kiseki, the MC got a special AI called Mare that can help him transform to Grendel, the kamen rider monster in kuro, and Mcburn's true name also has Mare inside can be interpreted as a connection between the two towards the world of beyond. But who knows, this could be just a coincidence....but the translation error is true no matter what.
Thanks for making this really informative
I hope you’re doing well man! One of my favorite trails videos on CZcams.
@@lightzthestarz Thank you, hope you’re doing well too :)
Yo this was a great video. I probably spoiled myself like 50 times but it just makes me wanna play these game more lol
16 days until Revarie so im replaying ToCS4, i love the storytelling in this series.
I am forever in your debt for showing me Ice Queen Duvalie
Duvalie is one of my absolute favorite characters, I got you 😉
Great video and I especially loved the McBurn theory as well and could actually be quite plausible. I have a suggestion for a theory or at a starting point of a theory and that would be Campanella’s identity as much isn’t known about other than his affiliation with the society and that apparently he hasn’t aged in the last ten years which could be a foundation for a few theories. Great video nonetheless
Thank you! And yeah Campanella is highly interesting, there are a lot of theories about him out there, especially with his 4th wall break in Sky 3rd. Definitely something I’ll talk about in the next part :)
@@HeavenlyM One thing I know for sure - Campanella is a girl. Also, for some reason, after finishing the Sky arc, it felt like he's(?) nothing but mechanical avatar similar to early Rennes "parents". Especially considering the fact, he's not homunculus.
I just hope, they wont turn him into another Divergent Laws. Hadn't played Reverie yet, so might be missing something.
McBurn theory is bit weird for me since C.Epstein face is known especially to his Disciples so it felt weird
you’re definitely right about SC putting Anton on the forefront. I played through CS1-2 first and always found myself doing NPC crawls so it’s not like I never saw him before but as soon as I met him and saw the achievement everything clicked together and I made it my mission to find him in every subsequent game
If you really think about the Luciloa thing with Schera is that we never really got a closure to both their arc making me think she will come back at some point
Also, a bit of a thing about Towa in Xanadu.. it wasn't for fun. She won a character poll. So that's why she's in there. (At least that is what I remember.)
Fan of the series since i got the limited edition day 1 of Sky FC on PSP right after I got off work! It's the most amazing series in giving you a living, breathing world full of NPCs with relatable issues that you actually care about. Down to the shopkeepers!
When I played a Japanese preview of FC before it released it immediately gave me vibes of series I grew up with such as Lunar. Full of charm and hope, themes that are mature but arent full of misery and dread.
I sincerely hope when Kiseki ends that Falcom (and other companies) continue this trend of building tangible fantasy worlds you feel like you're a part of. Oh, and Team Estelle from day one until the end of time!
This might be the most fun Iceberg I've watched.
Very well done. I appreciate the effort.
This video took me for a wild ride. I had no clue about the JP exclusive CS1+2 outfits since I owned the PS4 Kai versions. Neither did I know that XSEED went back to update Sky 3rd after Kuro came out.
One of the great kiseki videos on youtube
good video really enjoyed it, one piece of triviva i find funny is that they had to change the name of the godess from "edios" to "adios" cause thats the name of the guys who make tomb raider and they didnt want to get in any legal trouble with that. also they changed "ulster" to "alster" for some reason
Damn, I had no idea someone would have made a Trails iceberg! CZcams’s algorithm does the viewer a solid sometime, like recommending me your channel and a chain reaction of videos I’m interested in from your channel!
How did you boil it down to an hour and forty minutes??
This is a nice early Christmas present. Thank you. :)
Kevin being so criminally underused after Sky 3rd makes me sad, 3rd made him my fav character in the series
I want to hope they're just saving him for a future, larger arc when the ouroboros/church arcs start to tie up.... hopefully...
Nice video ! idk if someone mentioned it. In sky 3 evolution hardmode, the martial arts tournament mini game add an unique final boss. You get to fight Casius, Arianhold and lowe (tricky fight btw).
thanks for the great video, i learned a lot of new cool things! :3
Thank YOU for watching, glad you enjoyed :)
There's definitely stuff here I wish I was aware of when going through the games chronologically, so it would be interesting if it could be collated into a full list for newcomers that really want the full story, not just the games themselves.
Keep up the good work!!
I played all the games through CS4, so this was an amazing find. Thanks for the video.
I had a blast watching this!
53:59
yeah so maybe I'm wrong about this but the model of the Lusitania is used in CS1 during the Roer Field Study. It's shrunken down and on display in the Reinford building but when I first saw it I took specific note of it due to the odd amount of detail it had, like trees and such. Honestly I thought it was pulled from 3rd just to be the model but who knows~
41:36 Crow Arm Blast
Not going to fully watch this video as I've yet to get into the Trails series but it's been on my backlog because it always looked like a very interesting series.
Good job mate, bless you
you're not dumb. the way they say marquis in the dub drives me up the wall. for such an incredible localization, i can't believe they went with that pronunciation of the word.
Right? Especially since they say Chevalier the fancier way and not “shev-a-leer” like how some people say it
I don't remember where i read it. Apparently orbal machines stop working after a certain boundary while traveling into the sea beyond Zemuria's edge.
To me the most interesting aspects of the whole franchise are related to anomalies like the salt pale and the desertification that master Yun Ka-fai is sent to investigate.
i haven't touched Kuro or Reverie but it'd be interesting if we could get more info about those situations.
alisa says it in the fight with Mcburn
On the returning home drama CD, at the end of CS1 I believe, Rean says he’s intermediate level in Eight Leaves One Blade, which I found strange because earlier in the game he said he was beginner level. I only found out after doing some research that in the drama CD, he gets a message from Ka-Fai and ranks up
Anton or Ricky being the grandmaster this whole time would be the best possible plot twist Trails could ever come up with.
They’re always going to where the big Ouroboros plans are happening, there has to be more to it 🤔
But in all seriousness, I feel like Yun Kafai ending up being evil or in Ouroboros would be a crazy ass twist
@@HeavenlyM Well, Kafai´s knowlegde of Reans Imprisonment is something that bothers me. How do he know about that when he is on the other Side of the Kontinent and the Letter (in which he mentioned it) appears right after Reans Escape? Also his knowledge that Rean is going to be a Divine Blade that will end the Great Twilight. How did he know about the Curse of the Empire.. i dont think he got his hand on the Black Records.
Great great video for a great great series!!
Out of all these, the one that stings the most is Kevin forgotten as he's one of my favorite characters in anything
1:02:00 Heh i remember this dialoges, and also there was something similar in Liberl escalators too.
As someone who started playing Trails after hearing that there are many references to Ys and viceversa, Nayuta sounds like something I'll play.
You can get CS2 Joshua and Estelle costumes in the original PS3 versions as well. So they did make it to consoles.
The PS4 version did not include them for some reason
At the end of CS2 when you return to the title screen on the roof I believe, the ghost of Crow appears and fades away. It only happens once, right after beating the game.
Actually? That’s super sick, I’ve never heard of that. That’ll definitely go in part 2
I caught that on my first playthrough and i'd have thought I was just seeing this if I didn't record it it passes pretty quickly
Alisa Reinford's Cold Steel Crash Course can be found in the booklet inside the disc cases of the NISA PS4 ports of CS 1 and 2, the pages are at the end of the leaflet. It's was a surprise to me to find a leaflet in this day and age, very few games bothers to that these days.
The screen for 51:29 seems like a FF7 reference, the same angle, the tower, the protagonist on the bottom right corner, showing off how huge is the challenge ahead
Ooo yeah I definitely see what you mean! Good catch
1:17:55 Oh yeah, i remember that i buffed him in speed up to the limit or close to it. So he got enough speed to be the first acting even with "enemy advantage". Combine this with his very high damage and recieve a melee death machine(and you can flee outa every no-scripted non-boss fight). That was kinda OP and fun)
Cant wait for part 2
An addition thing for the nendoroids is that China collector editions of Trails had stuff like Rixia, another Airanhood, Rean, alisia laura etc. I got the Rixia, alternate airanhood, laura and alisa ones so far. I got to get my friend in Beijing to help me import the remaining in time. Apparently Randy is the hardest to find one of them all.
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Yeah, I have all those nendos excepting Randy... That one is literally impossible to find.
@@Tryatlon ive only seen randy non swimsuit version once with Llyod but they wanted 1000+ on ebay x.x i still need to get more of them.
@@Thandronen I saw Randy once on Taobao for $200, but he got sold just when I added him to the cart :(
I think Lloyd is still available there for 80-100.
If you want I can send you a link.
Hi just wondering if youre still making more trails? Loved this video
Small correction. 57:05 Sky outfit add-ons for CS2 are STILL available for purchase on the PSVita and PS3.
Thank you, I’ll add that
LIKED AND SUBBED. Long time fan here.
God I would have loved to meet marquis hyarms during the festival and lean in to the differences, you meet the nice affable noble and then at the end see them interact with Patrick and have that moment of realization
Hey why does the graphics in your CS1 footage look so good? Did you use some mods?
No, it’s just regular PS5 footage
The craziest thing: I thought Trails of Cold Steel was your ordinary, run of the mill JRPG- I played it on PS3 back in 2017 without giving it much thought, and stopped midway because all the references to previous games confused me. I thought it would be resolved by the end of the game, but alas...😅
This kinda upset me because the game was engaging with a great storyline- I just couldn't get into it.
So eventually I went back and beat the game on PS4, because it looked and performed better- this was in 2019 when I played that and CS2. Saw the bit about Crossbell in the divertissement and figured that storyline would be resolved in CS3.
When CS3 took me into Crossbell, I had absolutely no connection to the city and its citizens. So I finally decided to do some research. Huh. Found out about Trails in the Sky and Zero/Azure, which at the time was being fan translated by Geofront. I had to wait.
Played and finished Sky, then got into Zero/Azure in 2021 and... holy shit. Great writing, everything hits you hard in SC/Azure, and when I replayed CS1 and CS2, everything finally clicked. It was perfect. I fell in love. Finished CS3 and played CS4 and the games completely blew me away.
Waiting for Azure on Switch, Reverie in July, and looking forward to the Calvard arcs. This is a truly special series, nothing like it.
I really hate how they did Kevin (and by extension Ries) dirty. He deserved as much as a cameo in Azure/Zero + Cold Steel series I'd say at least as much as Tita and Agate.
Didn't realize the full extent of it to where he was omitted from the Graalsritter image. Oof. I can understand minor plotholes and details forgotten, but a whole character forgotten that an entire game in the series starred him as protagonist?
I’d say his role in Azure is a lot bigger than just a cameo. He does take out one of the Aions after all.
Since you now featured Trails on your channel, will there also be a "What Your Trails Waifu Says About You" video?
Also amazing work and video. Can't wait to see part 2.
Hahaha probably not, if I did though that video would have to be like 3 parts, too many to count 😂
Holy, I never expected my hometown to be the model for the Liberl. 😂
one of my favourite JRPG series, started out with Cold Steel when it localized and since i had to wait for CS 2 i went back starting from Sky and i will recommend this series to anyone looking for JRPG with great story, characters and brilliant OST.
A thing though, the Black Records is about the true and hidden history of Erebonia in CS2. Am not sure about remakes for Sky because the story and characters are already brilliant, remaster perhaps, also Kloe my favorite girl in Sky