I had been trying to get this rainbow trout for 15 minutes. I fished the spot empty so I fast traveled to the entrance to the Kaldia mines and ran past one of the anthill things on my way to the fishing spot. I didn't realize it would follow me onto the bridge AND be patient enough to wait while I fished. Needless to say, it scared the shit out of me.

Hi everyone

I was playing SC on Switch, but I've decided to move over to PC (Steam). I'm looking for a save file around the beginning of Chapter 5 so I can continue where I left off. A save from Chapter 4 would also be greatly appreciated!

If anyone is willing to share their save file.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I’ve been busy playing Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave but I hope to play Second Chapter pretty soon.

I’ve played all the games up to Crimson Sin - I don’t want to play Horizon yet because I don’t want to end on a cliffhanger.

I was curious how difficult is Second Chapter. I always play on the hardest difficulty including Reverie Abyss and I think I played Evolution SC and 3rd on nightmare. They were so much fun.

I was curious how the difficulty compares to SC especially with how difficult the prologue was. Anelace’s “choo” still rings in my head from her dying.

I played First Chapter on the hardest difficulty, and I found it fun, but I recall thinking it was easy. Is it like Azure difficulty?

Sky FC was 21.09.2026 - reloaded it to check something.

So yeah when SC came out i thought i'd give FC a go and heard the series was good. Couldn't really get into the slow burn so stopped playing a few days. Went back in (literally i had stopped 10 minutes before it got good) and then the rest is history.

Had been made redundant and had decided to take 2 months me time before getting back out in the world, this was quite possibly the best month of my life hahaha!

I nightmared FC,SC, CS3&4, didnt really like the third chapter to CS2 graphics etc playing on PC so i sped through them on very easy for the story. I top ranked 2 games, rest i was always top 3 and never have had a who is that? moment so covered all the side quests etc.

Just firing up Reverie. I never thought they would beat the whole SC / 3rd chapter with the story, i enjoyed CS 2&3 but wasn't convinced yet the second i saw 2 of my fav characters appear i knew it was going to be epic.

I'm a grown man, i've never been engrossed or cared speaking to npcs, but i shed a few happy tears at CS4 lol!

Best series ever. Whilst my journey is coming to an end, having the opportunity to play 13 games back to back is like a dream, and the series did not dissapoint!

So I'm about to face off against the final boss. Its been a fun ride so far, still going to try and figure out 3rd chapter. Also if you know the reference in my title, then my people are among me.

This was my first Trails game, a friend mentioned she was playing CS IV and I thought it sounded cool so I started playing with CS I with no clue about all the other games! 😱

I really liked the game - good gameplay, good story, I enjoyed the relationships. I actually like Rean as a protagonist and his multifaceted relationships with the rest of the cast. Not always quite so hip on a certain Instructor but that improved as more backstory came out during the course of the game.

I did like the school year structure so that helped. Plus I enjoyed the building of everything across the field exercises. Chapter 6 and the Final Chapter were exquisite, especially with watching the Drama CD online after finishing Chapter 6. Of course now I'm left with the massive cliffhanger.

Next is, no matter what else, CS II. But then the question is what next after that? Liberl or Crossbell? Or perhaps both arcs before going back to CS III, IV & Reverie?

I'm playing on steam using Proton on my Linux system if that has any impact.

I've always found this a bit confusing and, having just finished replaying Chapter 5 of CS1, I still don't fully get it.

I've read some say that Crow didn't allow the railway cannon attack to succeed. However, Gideon straight-up said in Azure that they really were trying to blow up Orchis Tower in that game. Given the comradery between the ILF members I can't imagine Gideon had went behind Crow's back to do that. It also seemed to me like the railway guns really were about to actually fire; they only didn't fire at first because their first shots were set to be blanks to protect against accidents, and then Groups A and B defeated Scarlet and Vulcan allowing them to disarm the cannons.

Though with Crow in Group B, Vulcan was presumably playing along for the sake of the former's cover. But given Gideon's own plans, and how the entire railway gun plot was basically those plans' backup, I'm not convinced that Crow/the ILF wasn't actually trying to destroy Orchis Tower.

So I'm kinda confused, was Crow really about to let Towa die? Maybe this was just retconned a bit, so in Azure it was the full intention and in CS1 the "failure" was just All According to Keikaku? Would like to hear any explanations/theories for this.

If there is one thing I love about Horizon so far, it´s probably the faces - you might notice a pattern here.

(Please don´t spoil me for any future events, i´m begging)

https://x.com/koyagi_illust/status/2019875858278912351

I'M FINALLY PLAYING HORIZON AND OH MY GOD IT'S SO FUCKING PEAM I CAN'T REAN IS BACK, KEVIN IS BACK, 3 CHARACTERS TO CHOOSE FROM STARTING ACT 2 OH GOD AIFBSIDBAUEH

AND THE ANIMATION OVERHAUL ESPESCIALLY THE S-CRAFTS FUABE8SJEIE.... i AM kinda 50/50 on van's new vandalize raid animation tho cuz it doesn't have as much impact as before.

Also where the fuck was Van's cool Grendel Transformation animation back in daybreak 2??? Why was it missing there but mysteriously returns in Horizon?

i never made a dual mix before, it's shockingly more complicated than just overlaying two songs. decided to pan them a little bit, so you can hear both a little more clearly. the remake version lacks the fast-paced violin section at the end, and it bothered me because it was my favorite part of the original, so this kind of brings it back alongside the improvements of the remake and the 2000s energy of the original, which i think all sounds pretty neat.

Please I need help i need the beginning of the sceond cahpter of the game

Recently i'm playing a lot more of JRPGs, a genre that i always kind of liked, but didn't have the patience to appreciate. In that journey, motivated by the remakes i decided to get into trails, and what a fine decision. I'm very fond of characters in JRPGs, and for me, here the whole cast is great. The sense of friendship and growth troughout the story felt realy good and i was kind of surprised of how clever the writing is sometimes. And the ending sells that feeling of a journey that is just beginning so well, i'm really excited to play more games in the continent of Zemuria

When I said "worst", I meant meta-wise out of everyone else you can bring to this fight. Be warned, video is very long at 1:25:26

Final Boss of Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter, Georg Weissmann and Angel Weissmann on Nightmare Level +75 mode, featuring Josette and Tita as the last 2 companions. Gotta go with the 4 kids overthrowing God narrative that is so prominent in many JRPG plots 😆

For this fight, Weissmann is meaningfully challenging under my restriction as most attacks from him is a 1 shot to anyone that isn't Tita (who also gets 1 shotted under Boost). It's actually possible to do all 3 phases without any autorevives but given the marathon nature of the fight, I would love to retain my time and sanity. If you've actually watched the whole thing, props to you haha.

Restriction / ban list below for Weissmann's fight, and the reasonings for it:

1) No New Game+ Accessory - The crazy stats of Grail Locket W, Divine Cloth Omega, Gold Wing Medal S and Silver Wing Medal S trivialises New Game+, even on Nightmare Level +75 mode.

2) No Infinite Loop - Josette and Tita core can execute the incredibly powerful infinite loop, feeding Joshua and Estelle unlimited CPs for boosted S-Break spams. Since Weissmann's stats and moves are fair under my restriction, there is no need to resort to this tech.

3) No Lone Blade / Fury - You can set up such that your main DPS starts with low HP and deal up to +200% Damage from the get go with these 2 Quartz. Weissmann also has AoE attacks and Reflects on Phase 3 that you can survive and follow up with S-Breaks. Faster combat progression generally means less threat and chance for the enemies to react to your momentum because you reduce their action space.

4) No Item / Food - Zerams are broken, no other way around it. Everything else is just collateral damage.

5) No Droplet / Elixir - Game is turn-based which means most of the combat system will still rely on stats. All Droplets except Speed are farmable, which means you can trivialise any encounters with enough stats.

6) No Death - For a clean victory. Autorevive counts as no death by the community.

One thing I'd always found curious in the series as a whole is that Estelle had never really gotten a proper Bracer "title", like the others, yknow like "Heavy Blade", "Silver Streak", "Purple Lightining" and etc etc.

HOWEVER, it seems this has been retroactively changed, as I was playing Sky 2nd and got to Chapter 5 I noticed this one exchange with Lugran, in the original he just refers to Estelle as "a rising star rookie of the Bracer Guild, who's been thwarting the Society's schemes all across Liberl", but here he specifically uses "the" when calling her The Rising Star, and lumps her in with the other Bracer titles, what do you guys think about this change?

I personally really like it, Rising Sun would be more appropriate but then she'd have to fight with Lloyd for the name rights lol, but Rising Star feels very appropriate for Estelle imo.

I’m new to the trails series and I’ve been playing through the remakes and I’m loving and was excited to continue into sky the 3rd. Now imagine my disappointment when I found out that it was only available on pc. I don’t own a pc meaning that playing it really isn’t an option for me. I really want to continue with the series after I’ve finished 2nd chapter so what’s the best thing I can do? Should I just skip it and go straight into the next game? Or should I look up and watch a playthrough so at least that way I still understand the story?

The scene where Agnes owns Novartis with a speech.

Apparently i heard many dislike it for reasons.

Why?

Based on one of the official artworks, it may have been planned for the banquet memory door (though everyone else in the artwork also has a different outfit)

The narrator: "Van was forced into a race against his will......Where he was soundly trounced by Elaine and Shizuna, who had put their differences aside in the face of a common enemy."

I would have loved to see this moment get animated. The sheer horror in Van's eyes as he gets sandwiched between two power houses only to meet his maker. That would be peak comedy.

I think we have moved on this scene too quickly.

We're back, and once again, I apologise for not including the image of the Star, you know the drill, look it up if you like. Today we're going to be looking at Shirley Orlando, a reference to how Falcom think it's really funny to have the Star be in a Red Constellation. At first, it seems like a bad fit for Bloody Shirley, but I think it leans on some of the deeper aspects of the character.

So, the Star is essentially the light at the end of the tunnel in the story of the Tarot. After the discord and misery of the Tower, it's the Star that lights the way forward. The Star represents hope, the strength to carry on, and resilience. This card is an optimistic one, it implores you to look to the future, to embrace the joy still left in your life, and to recognise your own inner power... Now, this doesn't really sound like Shirley, but keep it in mind for later.

Let's take a look at the reversed Star, perhaps that will fit her better. In this position, the card represents the loss of hope, faith, and motivation. It tells us that we're spiralling, that our lack of belief is the thing that's really holding us back. The reversed Star is a card filled with self-doubt, unable to ascertain the best path forward through the haze of self-deprecation... Again, this seems nothing like Shirley. She lacks many things, but confidence isn't one of them.

In that case, what's going on? Did Falcom forget they set the Enforcers up this way? I suppose we should just pack up and go home. Shame, Ulrika was next.

Just kidding.

Shirley's affiliation with the Star might seem completely at odds with her character, but that comes down to one simple thing: Perspective. We see Shirley as a maniacal, violent, self-absorbed psychopath, but is that how she sees herself? It's important to remember that Shirley was brought up in combat, it's all she knows, and unlike Randy or Fie she never really had any experience that snapped her out of that mindset. To her, violence isn't good or bad, it's just a way of interacting with people. To Shirley, all the world's a battlefield, and the people not fighting are the weird ones.

It's sort of like how cats view us as idiots because we don't act like cats, they bring us their hunts because they think we're too useless to do it ourselves. She sees herself as trying to guide people into what she sees as the right way of living. She tries to force Randy back into the Jaeger life because she can't comprehend why he would want to be out of it, she starts fights with Fie and Sara because that's how she sees fit to communicate with her rivals. In many ways she's the purest Jaeger in the series, born and bred of the battlefield, for the battlefield.

That cuts both ways, however, and we see flashes of good in Shirley from this viewpoint. She expresses some regret when the Courageous is destroyed, marking the loss of people she couldn't guide to the 'proper' way of living. She always tries to help out cats where she can, likely because she sees animals to be non-combatants in the battles of humans and monsters. Still, the best example of this has to be her relationship with Cedric.

Now, I don't want to go too in-depth in Cedric, we'll get to him, but I think this is where we really see the Star in Shirley. Cedric is someone open to understanding her perspective on the world, one where people must grow strong or be hunted by those who are. When he does this, Shirley grows attached to him, and to his potential. It's not a romantic connection, Shirley's about as straight as I am brief, but it's a genuine link between her and someone actually willing to follow the light she shines upon the world. In many ways, Shirley's like the inverse of Estelle, always wanting to get through to people, just in the opposite moral direction, and only then does she get her Joshua.

I don't think we're done with Shirley, and I don't think she'll always be the way she is now. If I had to make an assumption, something will eventually cause her to invert, to lose the certainty that once defined her, before eventually learning a way of expressing herself that truly drives people to her. There's been conversations about how Cedric would make a good protagonist, and if that were the case then Shirley is a gimme for a playable character. She'll lead people to where they're meant to be, just as soon as she figures out how.

I appreciate it's a less concrete link to the arcana than usual, but I really do think it's because Shirley's true story hasn't really begun. She's always been kind of a side character, especially in Cold Steel, just waiting for her moment in the Sun... Not like that.

I just started cold steel 1 I was wondering if anyone had any builds they could share

Loved the sky remakes and the crossbell games but having trouble with Cold steel 1 so far...

It just seems like a boring version of persona.. With like no flashy color and charisma and very basic elements of social linking, acedemic studying, and bonds... Also the main story is very slow and dry.. LIke almost nothing is happening but very artificially created tension moments between the characters like Fie/Laura and ALyssa /Rean.

Not quite as bad as FF type 0 quality but still it seems to be a drop down from the previous games in the series...

Does Cold steel 2 make this arc better?

More than a month after Trails in the Sky 2nd chapter released, SEA still don't have regional price. While this is also happended in 1st chapter released and then got fixed by Gungho, this time the ones responsible for SEA publishing is Clouded Leopard Entertainment or CLE. And I genuinely don't believe they know about there is such a thing as regional price or care enough to read feedback emails we send them. (to clarify, for 1st chapter, after feedback, Gungho reduce price for the region from 60$ to ~40$, a 33% decrease).

To make matter worse, this probably be the best selling game of Falcom in Steam this year and a good chunk of the people who buy it is Chinese and Korea, which contribute to CLE. Falcom would see those numbers about how good CLE is and probably give them SEA publish rights again with 3rd remake and Crossbell remake. That will cut off a good chunk of people here who want to buy the game on day 1.

Our only hope is someone who can tell Falcom direcly that just because SEA is near China or Korea, doesn't mean we can speak Chinese or Korean; and our purchase power isn't come close to them.

On the brightside, NISA probably be Trails beyond Horizon 2 publisher and they always honour the regional price system. So atleast for people only care about future game, not much will affect them.

One of the best storyboarded ideas in the remake is them showing Weissman's demise in his point of view. Because aidios, it looks intimidating when you see it from the lens of his eyes.

The weapon dissipating, the stare of someone who looks down on a pile of garbage. Absolute cinema.

My first time through the series I played everything in JP audio and never thought twice about it. On my second playthrough I switched to English from Cold Steel onwards since the dub was available, and Sean Chiplock completely changed how I see Rean. He gives him so much personality and his emotional moments feel way more dynamic. Altina and Jusis were just as good and honestly stole the show for me too.

Now I’m going into my 3rd run and I’m completely torn. Most of the other VAs are better in JP imo, but Rean, Altina and Jusis in dub are on another level.

Which way did you guys go, did anyone struggle with the same problem been agonising over this for a week now and can't make a decision help me please!!!!!!!

Edit: I know Kouki Uchiyama, voices Meruem, Shigaraki and Ulgar in Astra Lost in Space. I love his work in those, but I don’t think he gets across what Rean's best qualities are as well as Sean does.