LogFAQs > #947961493

alright CS4 beated

I honestly have no idea how to compare it to other games in the series since it's so all over the place. There was a lot of good stuff, a lot of stuff that hit me really hard (I cried like... three separate times in the ending sequence), but also a lot of really, really questionable plot points and character scenes. I feel like it's a game that benefits a lot from the established world and characters and makes it easy to get invested in them... though at the same time I'm more than ready for a new arc to start so that we can get a reasonable-sized cast again. Gameplay was kind of an utter joke by the end but that's sort of par for the course for Erebonia (although the last rivalry with Ishmelga was actually kind of tense).

I'm gonna tentatively say 3 > 4 > 1 > 2 for the Cold Steel games, but aside from 3 being clearly the best they're all close and CS4 might fall on a replay like CS2 did. I watched a playthrough of CS4 and expected it to be at the bottom of my overall Kiseki ranking (I'd still put CS2 over Zero/3rd/FC), so in that sense it was a welcome surprise.

Sara is probably still my favorite Class VII character, though Altina certainly gives her a run for it if only because I didn't do her first special moment. Aurelia might be best overall though "Weak." pretty much destroyed the entire Salt Pale section.

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