Board 8 > I've always seen the Trails games as a "b8" thing, ya know

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pyresword
10/07/20 3:33:19 PM
#51:


Mobilezoid posted...
The very beginning of Cold Steel had that accidental groping and was one of the worst things about the game but the rest of it was fine in terms of fanservice junk.

I actually forgot about this scene but this is probably as bad as it ever gets, at least in Cold Steel 1 through 3 since I haven't actually played the later ones yet.

I guess there's also Angelica and Musse, which never bothered me but I could see them bothering other people.
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Mac Arrowny
10/07/20 3:34:19 PM
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Musse's definitely obnoxious with it...
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shane15
10/07/20 4:25:31 PM
#53:


You're missing out on a fantastic series if you refuse to play these because you're crying about a bit of fanservice that's not even that bad.

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colliding
10/07/20 4:28:44 PM
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Let's not downplay the harem aspects of Cold Steel. Cold Steel 3 in particular makes it clear that nearly every female character likes Rean, from the original class 7 to the new one, including former instructors, current headmasters, and antagonists. It's never super pervy, but it's just annoying and maybe the only part of the series you could call "bad writing." It does it on purpose to mimic Persona, but the relationship/social/fanservice stuff isn't as good.

Everything else about the series make it worth a playthrough.
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Mobilezoid
10/07/20 4:33:33 PM
#55:


To be fair, have you seen Rean?

And who else are those girls going to go for? Machias? Elliot?

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NFUN
10/07/20 4:38:12 PM
#56:


Mobilezoid posted...
To be fair, have you seen Rean?

And who else are those girls going to go for? Machias? Elliot?
Machias is taken, but Gaius exists. The wind is more interesting than Rean, at least

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colliding
10/07/20 4:39:12 PM
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To be fair - I kind of hate Rean. If he were female, chuds online would burn her at the Mary Sue stake.
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Mac Arrowny
10/07/20 4:44:09 PM
#58:


Mobilezoid posted...
To be fair, have you seen Rean?

And who else are those girls going to go for? Machias? Elliot?


A better game would write other love interests for the other girls or just have them not involved in any romance.
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shane15
10/07/20 4:46:41 PM
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colliding posted...
Let's not downplay the harem aspects of Cold Steel. Cold Steel 3 in particular makes it clear that nearly every female character likes Rean, from the original class 7 to the new one, including former instructors, current headmasters, and antagonists. It's never super pervy, but it's just annoying and maybe the only part of the series you could call "bad writing." It does it on purpose to mimic Persona, but the relationship/social/fanservice stuff isn't as good.

Everything else about the series make it worth a playthrough.


I agree. They should've dropped the harem stuff after CS2 and just focused on Alisa and Rean tbh. I get that people like to pick a favourite girl but just give us a canon route and stick to it. I hate Estelle but at least they made her and Joshua canon.

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Janus5k
10/07/20 4:47:57 PM
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colliding posted...
current headmasters
god I wish that part was actually true

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swordz9
10/07/20 4:48:48 PM
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It might be fan service, but I dont mind when games go this route because the main girl is usually the worst character in most of them anyways >_>
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KamikazePotato
10/07/20 4:50:49 PM
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So what this topic is telling me, as someone with increasingly less patience for these kinds of tropes, is to play In The Sky and avoid Cold Steel

Understood

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Hbthebattle
10/07/20 4:52:13 PM
#63:


Janus5k posted...
god I wish that part was actually true
Vandyck x Rean confirmed

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colliding
10/07/20 4:53:39 PM
#64:


Janus5k posted...
god I wish that part was actually true

I may be misremembering. I thought there were at least a couple thirsty comments but I could definitely be wrong.
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Mobilezoid
10/07/20 4:56:09 PM
#65:


shane15 posted...
I agree. They should've dropped the harem stuff after CS2 and just focused on Alisa and Rean tbh. I get that people like to pick a favourite girl but just give us a canon route and stick to it. I hate Estelle but at least they made her and Joshua canon.
Taking away Sara is literally the worst thing the games could do for me (okay, not really, but she's the best and Alisa was the worst option).

I still haven't played CS3 though, no idea what happens in there

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NFUN
10/07/20 5:05:46 PM
#66:


KamikazePotato posted...
So what this topic is telling me, as someone with increasingly less patience for these kinds of tropes, is to play In The Sky and avoid Cold Steel

Understood
yes

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colliding
10/07/20 5:10:54 PM
#67:


KamikazePotato posted...
So what this topic is telling me, as someone with increasingly less patience for these kinds of tropes, is to play In The Sky and avoid Cold Steel

Understood

even with the tropes they're better jrpgs than anything else released in the last decade that isn't Persona 5 or Berseria
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Arti
10/07/20 5:14:54 PM
#68:


Hbthebattle posted...
Vandyck x Rean confirmed

I would definitely play this if possible

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Mac Arrowny
10/07/20 5:26:53 PM
#69:


KamikazePotato posted...
So what this topic is telling me, as someone with increasingly less patience for these kinds of tropes, is to play In The Sky and avoid Cold Steel

Understood


Did the bond stuff in Xenoblade bother you too?
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Leonhart4
10/07/20 5:31:42 PM
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shane15 posted...
I hate Estelle

what


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Leonhart4
10/07/20 5:34:32 PM
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But if you just hate anime tropes because they're anime tropes I don't really know what to tell you

The worst stuff in Cold Steel just warrants an eye roll and then you move on

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pyresword
10/07/20 5:43:08 PM
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I like the Sky games much better than the Cold Steel games, yes. The Cold Steel games are still really good though imo.
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Heroic Bigpun
10/07/20 6:19:28 PM
#73:


What happened here

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Mobilezoid
10/07/20 6:20:40 PM
#74:


Waifus happened

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Leonhart4
10/07/20 6:38:53 PM
#75:


Heroic Bigpun posted...
What happened here

In a World Ablaze with War. Heroes Must Unite.

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NFUN
10/07/20 6:43:10 PM
#76:


let's take this damn fairytale to it's conclusion... haha...


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iiicon
10/07/20 9:45:34 PM
#77:


KamikazePotato posted...
So what this topic is telling me, as someone with increasingly less patience for these kinds of tropes, is to play In The Sky and avoid Cold Steel
play the Crossbell games too

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Tom Bombadil
10/07/20 9:59:06 PM
#78:


shane15 posted...
I hate Estelle

Leonhart4 posted...
what


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Mac Arrowny
10/08/20 12:36:25 AM
#79:


iiicon posted...

play the Crossbell games too


I mean, Crossbell's where the romance silliness started. CS just continues it.
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NFUN
10/08/20 12:53:22 AM
#80:


it's a few dozen orders of magnitude less bad in Zero than it is in even Cold Steel 1 & 2, and you'd need to use arrow notation to describe how benign it is compared to what I've seen of CS4 and Haji

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pyresword
10/08/20 1:11:54 AM
#81:


I felt Azure was notably worse than Zero in that regard for what it's worth. Still not as far in that direction as Cold Steel but yeah.
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xp1337
10/08/20 1:24:53 AM
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FWIW, while Trails has certainly drifted in that direction over time it's still, through CS3, below the level of Persona 3-5 or FE Awakening/Fates IMO. I know that's been said in bits and pieces over the topic but just to reiterate it all in one place.

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ninkendo
10/08/20 1:28:47 AM
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10/08/20 1:29:46 AM
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Mac Arrowny
10/08/20 10:02:26 AM
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Yeah Crow's the worst.

xp1337 posted...
FWIW, while Trails has certainly drifted in that direction over time it's still, through CS3, below the level of Persona 3-5 or FE Awakening/Fates IMO. I know that's been said in bits and pieces over the topic but just to reiterate it all in one place.


Eh, it's scaled down in the bonds themselves in Trails, but outside of the bonds its a lot more omnipresent than it is in those games I think.
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Hbthebattle
10/08/20 10:31:47 AM
#86:


Mac Arrowny posted...
Yeah Crow's the worst.
counterargument: no


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ShatteredElysium
10/08/20 10:36:54 AM
#87:


Crow is the best!
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Mac Arrowny
10/08/20 10:57:34 AM
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Guess I shouldn't be surprised to see members of the Trails fanbase supporting an incel like Crow.
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Hbthebattle
10/08/20 11:05:59 AM
#89:


Mac Arrowny posted...
Guess I shouldn't be surprised to see members of the Trails fanbase supporting an incel like Crow.
If that's your complaint against Crow, Angie is literally right there committing sexual assault every time she appears onscreen
Also, incel != pervert

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Leonhart4
10/08/20 11:10:18 AM
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Not a fan of Angie. Crow is fine but he's mid-tier for Cold Steel characters.

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Sceptilesolar
10/08/20 11:52:18 AM
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Crow's one of my favorites, alongside Fie. A bunch of funny white haired badasses.

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swordz9
10/08/20 12:03:59 PM
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I like Angie even if a lot of her dialogue is her hitting on other characters. Crows decent too despite that. Honestly with Machias around almost anyone can look good
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Leonhart4
10/08/20 12:16:33 PM
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colliding
10/08/20 12:35:15 PM
#94:


Machias is truly the worst, this we can all agree on.

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Leonhart4
10/08/20 12:41:17 PM
#95:


colliding posted...
Machias is truly the worst, this we can all agree on.

Except his move quotes in CS3 kinda redeem him a bit!

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Janus5k
10/08/20 12:50:56 PM
#96:


honestly compared to some of the other guys in Class VII I appreciate Machias a lot - dude is at least more interesting than Elliot or Gaius

also yes YOU'VE FAILED YOUR INSPECTION bumps him up a few spots

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colliding
10/08/20 12:55:45 PM
#97:


Janus5k posted...
honestly compared to some of the other guys in Class VII I appreciate Machias a lot - dude is at least more interesting than Elliot or Gaius


there's something off about this post's wind

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Leonhart4
10/08/20 1:06:00 PM
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I've always wanted to like Gaius a lot because his personality is super chill, but it feels like they forget he exists half the time.

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SythaWarrior
10/08/20 3:31:27 PM
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I feel like Crow>Jusis>Elliot>Machias>Gaius is how I feel I think after playing CS1-3. First two are set in stone for sure and are likely two of the best Cold Steel characters period.

I want to say Cold Steel would benefit from a smaller cast maybe. But I know the first cut characters would be Laura, Elliot and Gaius and they are arguably the 3 that need the most help.

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Leonhart4
10/08/20 4:17:37 PM
#100:


SythaWarrior posted...
I want to say Cold Steel would benefit from a smaller cast maybe. But I know the first cut characters would be Laura, Elliot and Gaius and they are arguably the 3 that need the most help.

Only a monster would cut Laura, she don't need no help

Best Cold Steel girl don't @ me

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