Current Events > Trails of Cold Steel vs. Trails of the Sky

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I'm almost done with the first Trails of the Sky, but I've heard Cold Steel is really different.
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Cold steel is like 5,000 better. After playing those, I can barely make it through Trails in the Sky. Parts of it are outright tedious and many people hate the third game in the series.
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Trails in the Sky blew me the fuck away with how good it was

Trails of Cold Steel was a mega disappointment'n I dropped it after a few hours'n just looked up some story stuff

I remember likin' the Cold Steel battle system but hating the cast

Cold Steel 1 is good and 3 is great.
2 and 4 are absolute low points of the Trails series.

Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2 are great games, but they are a step down from Trails in the Sky. I haven't played Trails of Cold Steel 3 or 4.

It's "Trails in the Sky", not "of the Sky". Anyway, you need to play the first two Sky games before playing anything else. The second one literally picks up the next day after the first one. Essentially, they are one long game that had to be split into two because no one game can be that long. The third Sky game is a dungeon crawler that rewards you with extra information and some insight into the Church.

Cold Steel is a step down from Sky in every way. I mean it looks nicer, and maybe you'll like the newer battle system better, but that's about it. Spoilers abound, so you will need to finish the Sky trilogy first if you are serious about the series.