The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel

If Alisa has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Alisa has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Alisa has only one fan then that is me. If Alisa has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Alisa, then I am against the world.

game 6/13 playing daybreak as of writing. To start this off, I absolutely hated the parts where this game tries to be persona with the free time bs and how interactions are limited per day. Absolutely hate that and glad they don't do it as much after this game. I get persona 4 was the popular jrpg when this game came out but damn man chill out lmao. This system was as if you made persona but made it extra tedious. Onto my actual thoughts, slow start to an arc but has great character moments, nice setups for future games and a diabolical cliffhanger ending. I'd say overall Erebonia lived up to the hype coming from how the other games described this country. The cast was a bit too big for my taste at first especially since they drop all of them at once but I overall ended up liking it since they give you different groups per main part of the story anyways. (It gets worse in 4). The Trails politics was done very well and is remained strong coming from azure. The only downside id say is since this takes place during the events of Azure, you do kinda know whats coming in some events. Other than that, honestly I liked this game alot more than I was expecting. I saw a bunch of people dooming this game as one of the worst in trails but if I'm being honest i liked this as a starting chapter even more than sky fc. Gameplay is an amazing update coming from crossbell arc. Its nice you can freely swap in benchwarmers now mid battle. Unfortunately the game is quite broken with how much they overtuned the MC's delay crafts in CS1 and 2 so I feel sometimes theres no use in building other characters properly in this one other than Rean. Graphics wise, personally I think they should've stuck with the sky/crossbell arc artstyle where they mix 2d and 3d for cs1 and 2.I know these games came out for psvita originally but man are the models ugly. They should've saved the full 3d models for when the hardware could take it (cs3 and 4). They kinda blew the budget on these 3d models and had alot of scenes unvoiced. This is the game where the missing voiced lines issues start popping up. It was jarring as hell at first but it got worse and worse all the way to where im at in calvard arc rn. Very unfortunate but it is what it is since these games dont sell alot.

Great Game. I liked the school house vibes like Personsa.