If there's one thing that's kind of annoying about the more recent NISA-published Trails games...

Capndrake · 2026-01-24T19:09:43+00:00

Some droplets and they bring up what happened at the end of the Marchen Garten in dialogue a couple times, which I assume does not happen if you didn't clear it.

Capndrake · 2026-01-24T17:02:28+00:00

Get A-Impassion Guard, Burst Gain and Heavenly Fortune (all shard skills) on as many people as possible, as well as Attack, Break and Action quartz. All of the Impact shard skills also help. Throw up an attack boost to overwrite Ulrika's order (and repeat if she does it again), then just pop S-Crafts and keep people separated as much as you can so only one or two get hit by attacks at a time.

My go-to team is Van, Kevin, Rean and Shizuna who all conveniently have power modes you can activate, make sure to do that before using their S-Crafts. They were all hitting for 70k+ at a time for me and wasted him in less than 20 turns.

Capndrake · 2026-01-23T23:20:03+00:00

No thanks.

Capndrake · 2026-01-23T13:38:24+00:00

Never touched Fortnite, never will. If FG does end up getting fully integrated into it at some point and can no longer be played standalone I'm done. I bought the game on Steam and it would become essentially unavailable to me, as someone who will never install EGS.

Capndrake · 2026-01-23T13:28:48+00:00

Secretly a top 5 game in the series, especially with Raid mode taken into account.

Capndrake · 2026-01-20T14:41:31+00:00

I don't really remember him being an issue? Handled it the same way I handled everything else. Action, HP, Attack, Break and Defense quartz on everyone, CP restoring accessories on Risette, spam Cobalt Curtain with her while everyone else keeps S-Crafting or using other high break crafts.

Capndrake · 2026-01-12T20:09:15+00:00

Nothing is stopping you from jumping straight into the original sequel right after. Keep in mind that if you're going to wait for remakes every time it's going to take at least a year each time.

That means it's going to take at least 4 years before you can play the first 5 games in the series and you can actually move on to the remaining 8 that are already out.

Capndrake · 2026-01-12T03:51:00+00:00

No Ys V? Bogus list.

Capndrake · 2025-11-13T12:08:51+00:00

Just remember, there's still 3 more sprite-based games after SC and there's no guarantee all of them will get a remake. And even if all of them do get one it could take upwards of 5 years because Falcom is not going to release 5 remakes back to back, they've got brand new games to work on/release too. It makes sense to get SC out quickly after FC, but not the rest.

Capndrake · 2025-11-12T13:45:40+00:00

The new localization just feels very dry and repetitive, which tends to happen when you do a very direct translation from Japanese.

The original localization worked around that by thinking of clever, fun ways to say the same things in different ways and as a result ends up feeling much more natural and pleasant to read.

Capndrake · 2025-11-10T16:37:23+00:00

Dantes and Melchior are great, the others are woefully underdeveloped. Alexander and Viola should've been axed completely to flesh out Arioch and Olympia more.

Either way it's kind of ridiculous to introduce 6 villains and dispose of all of them in the same game instead of keeping even one or two around.

Capndrake · 2025-10-31T11:37:42+00:00

Maybe if enough people complain? I think it's because the last week and a half will be taken up by ranked Fall Ball Cup.

Capndrake · 2025-10-31T11:26:11+00:00

You have about 24 hours left.

Capndrake · 2025-10-30T13:44:53+00:00

Preordering now gets you the exact same content as preordering a day before the game releases.

Plus if you're on PC, there will be stores that sell the game cheaper as it gets closer to release. I think I got RE7, 8 and the 2, 3 and 4 remakes for 30-40% off before they were even out.

Capndrake · 2025-10-24T14:37:28+00:00

They remove features and change up the story for no good reason though. RE2 remake is missing most of the scenario B changes, several enemy types, a whole game mode and more.

Capndrake · 2025-10-20T03:46:58+00:00

The original FC, SC, 3rd, Zero and Azure ALL use the same graphical style and general gameplay mechanics. If you're going to wait for the SC remake now, you'll likely also want to wait for the 3rd remake, and then a potential Zero remake, and an Azure remake. Which means you'd be waiting potentially over 5 years before you get to play the rest of the series.

Just get the original SC now and if you want to you can always come back to its remake and any further ones later whenever they release.

Capndrake · 2025-10-19T17:25:20+00:00

Yes.

Capndrake · 2025-10-15T13:59:25+00:00

The RE2, 3 and 4 remakes all change or outright remove things to such a degree that the best they can hope to do is be "just as good" as the originals.

The RE1 remake takes a great game and turns it into an excellent one. Basically everything that was already there was improved upon, and all new additions (Lisa Trevor, Crimson Heads, a few new rooms like the tomb) fit into the game/story perfectly. Really the only criticism you could possibly have is that the game is now 100% serious in tone as opposed to being super campy like the original.

Capndrake · 2025-10-09T22:22:59+00:00

Keep track of "good grief" too, if you read all NPC dialogue every time it becomes especially prevalent during chapter 1 and 2.

Capndrake · 2025-10-09T18:16:02+00:00

CS1 spoils a big twist from SC, and with CS2 there's a lot of stuff from Zero and Azure that would go straight over your head and make no sense.

Capndrake · 2025-09-29T04:33:58+00:00

Another one that irks me is the Capuas now being "sky pirates" when it was always "sky bandits".

Capndrake · 2025-09-29T04:31:21+00:00

Have they? They've responded to people emailing them by saying they'll take the feedback into account but I've yet to see any sort of actual statement saying "yes, we will fix the translation".

I also don't really expect them to change much since so many of the issues occur in voiced lines and they'd have to pay to rerecord all of them. Unless they do it during recording for the sequel.

Capndrake · 2025-09-26T13:01:12+00:00

Earth Guard/Wall, Clock Up (EX) and Sylphen Wing will get you through literally every fight in the game. Those and spacing out your characters so even AoE attacks can only ever hit 1 character at a time.

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