Current Events > New Trails release in a month, what do I do until then? Good short games pls

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Dont wanna get stuck into anything long like another yakuza game just yet since I wanna play trails into reverie when it releases soon

whats some good short games to play while waiting

I just finished triangle strategy and am about to beat hifi rush

How short?

Anyways, Against the Storm.

There is no game: Wrong Dimension

You can probably beat it in a day

you've already played reverie tho, because all it does is follow the trails formula

the same tired, one-dimensional anime tropes repeated over and over

ellis123 posted...

How short?

Anyways, Against the Storm.

One I can play through in a couple of weekends

Ive bought against the storm but I dont wanna start playing it until its at 1.0

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I completly forgot about that.

I still have to finish cold steel IV, but I really can't stand Rean or half of the new class XIV.

Karovorak posted...

I completly forgot about that.

I still have to finish cold steel IV, but I really can't stand Rean or half of the new class XIV.

Rean is Rean, but honestly I vastly prefer new class 7 (except Kurt). They got far more character development than anyone in old class 7. the smaller class was vastly to their benefit over the giant OG class

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Rean is Rean, but honestly I vastly prefer new class 7 (except Kurt). They got far more character development than anyone in old class 7. the smaller class was vastly to their benefit over the giant OG class

My problem with the new class is that they are more typical trope heavy than the old class VII, and that especially Ash and Musse are more or less powerleveling the cast with their background.

Ash is the special special mary sue who somehow gets involved with the plot more than the average guy from the street should, and Musse is the most noble of the nobles, the smartest of the smartest, and a genius beyond the geniuses, playing 4D chess with everyone including the blood and iron chancellor as soon as she left kindergarden.

Okay, I correcty my statement.

I hate Rean and Musse. A LOT.

Get a Pit Bull, there CE's favourite animal

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Karovorak posted...

My problem with the new class is that they are more typical trope heavy than the old class VII, and that especially Ash and Musse are more or less powerleveling the cast with their background.

Ash is the special special mary sue who somehow gets involved with the plot more than the average guy from the street should, and Musse is the most noble of the nobles, the smartest of the smartest, and a genius beyond the geniuses, playing 4D chess with everyone including the blood and iron chancellor as soon as she left kindergarden.

Okay, I correcty my statement.

I hate Rean and Musse. A LOT.

yeah but then you have characters like alisa who had that face-breast scene in cs1 and then no real development in any of the next games. And Laura who is generic swordwoman. And really the others dont have any personality. The only two good characters from OG class 7 was Emma and Fie. New class 7 had more depth even if they were a bit more tropey

Citizen sleeper. I am playing this while waiting for reverie. Mostly visual novel/narrative game that has great premise and characters

Kloe_Rinz posted...

yeah but then you have characters like alisa who had that face-breast scene in cs1 and then no real development in any of the next games. And Laura who is generic swordwoman. And really the others dont have any personality. The only two good characters from OG class 7 was Emma and Fie. New class 7 had more depth even if they were a bit more tropey

I honestly prefer characters with some smaller edges over the tropey ones.

Alisa is much smarter than her trope should allow, and she had some normal conflict with her mother. It only became shit with the conflict of her father and Sharon with CS III.

All of them felt like real characters in a real world, because it felt like they were just average guys in their environment.

Warhero and general marries some sweet music teacher and the result is Eliot, an average boy who likes music in a military academy. They felt more refreshing than most other characters in gaming, they just had the problem of not enough screentime or arcs because the cast was so big.

Gaius is a great example: I think he was pretty interesting too if you ask me, and his whole culture clash could have lead to much more than this one dialog in CS I where he goes like "Why are nobles so special?" but for some reason he seems to have taken an oath to say the word "wind" in every single sentence after CS II, because that's the only thing he says later on.
He even got his power up development after CS II, but it just doesn't matter at all.

Meanwhile, new class VII felt like filling the trope gaps.

"Wait, we don't have a 'punch first, ask questions later' blockhead and genki girl" <wush, insert Juna> "Now we have" (To be fair, Juna is the better part of new class VII).

"Wtf, how could we create a whole class of high school students, but no delinquent one (inb4 you cant be more delinquent than a fucking terrorist leader)? Lets just add Ash, and let him go tropy with no breaks at all".

And then we have the whole stuff of the new class VII kicking everyones ass after 2 months of high school, with the old class VII, heroes of the civil war, sitting on the sidelines as their equals.

Hell, at the start of CS IV I was expecting the old class VII to kick the newbees asses, and not turn everyone of them into a depressive mob who needs a kick from Juna. The old ones are the veterans who went through multiple crisises.

Karovorak posted...

"Wtf, how could we create a whole
And then we have the whole stuff of the new class VII kicking everyones ass after 2 months of high school, with the old class VII, heroes of the civil war, sitting on the sidelines as their equals.

Hell, at the start of CS IV I was expecting the old class VII to kick the newbees asses, and not turn everyone of them into a depressive mob who needs a kick from Juna. The old ones are the veterans who went through multiple crisises.

Yeah, I thought the story pacing really dropped off after CS2. I still had fun with 3 and 4, but I legitimately had to log on and ask if I had skipped a game between 2 and 3 because of how the did it.

Then, they started introducing new characters from all the other arcs. I knew who everyone was except for the Crossbell people, but I really thought it was too much at one time and they should have slowly introduced the cast of the Liberl games going back to CS1. Im glad I finished the series and Ill definitely play through again, but pacing is my main issue with CS 3 and 4 (I actually thought the gameplay got more fun).

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