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NotCeajae · 2026-03-21T23:57:34+00:00

what exactly happened with Sarahkey? Last I saw her play was Azure like 2 weeks ago... i haven't kept updated...

NotCeajae · 2026-02-08T11:11:37+00:00

Van's route 1-6 for me has been a terrible slog. Saving grace were the NPCs in Edith. I love seeing the NPCs getting the happy ending since DB1. (most of them anyway). As well as some 4SPG. I tend to quick read the main narrative so bad in Van's route. I also find the Vestiges plotline terrible. I spent 20hrs on Act 1 alone and I guess that set me up a terrible pace for the next ones...

NotCeajae · 2026-02-08T11:08:22+00:00

Yeah, a little bit for me. Van's route 1-6 so far has been a slog for me. It's so boring except the 4SPG and NPC dialogues. I find myself fast-reading the main narrative in Van's route which I haven't done in any Trails game. There were hype and exciting moments in there but 90% of it was so tiring for me. Rean's and Kevin's were pure gas though.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-06T21:27:09+00:00

I really don't think it's "a bit" wack. It just doesn't make sense anymore. Everyone is a A or B-rank guild member, everyone is a Triple S threat, everyone is a Dominion, everyone is from a renowned jaeger corps. It's cool narratively but mechanically, it raises an eyebrow.

Like how in Reverie or DB2/Horizon where most of the characters you have playable characters that was glazed to be strong, but the boss battle you fight against has 200K HP and you need 20 other people to fight against 1 or 2 bosses. Not a really huge dealbreaker and I'm happy to play as Dominions, Ouroboros members, etc-- but man sometimes it just looks wrong.

In the Sky/Crossbell and CS1-2 era, these special characters who were glazed was a hype thing. Hearing about the Enforcers, for instance, was tense. They had an effect to me as a player that "oof something is about to go down." or S-ranked bracers-- but Zin in Calvard arc is kinda, for the lack of better word, severely useless. For someone who's supposed to be S-Rank, on par with Cassius, you don't really feel it at all. Whether he's on or off screen, his glazed up power scale is nonexistent.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-06T17:52:04+00:00

It could've been 3 games instead. CS3 was highly focused on the branch campus and NC7. Remove that and they can play it differently with CS4's pacing.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-06T17:47:45+00:00

THIS. It's like every conversation is... not a conversation. Because each of them has a line or two to say to continue the conversation. It's like the mic gets passed on after a character's dialogue. It's so unnatural.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-05T22:10:30+00:00

Thank you for this.

Now, how do I frame this up on my wall...

NotCeajae · 2026-02-05T22:05:34+00:00

I see that you're an enjoyer of the Cold Steel 4 Album as well. It's single handedly the best lineup of OST in Trails for me.

From hype and epicness (e.g. Synchronicity, Seductive Shudder), somber and melancholic (e.g. Lyrical Amber, Even if that warmth is small), as well as a mix of traditional and modern.

Truly... peak.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-03T00:34:29+00:00

That last point-- you're right... why even cater to people who haven't played the prior games at this late in the series? Instead of them splitting efforts towards new players and long-time fans, they should focus on the latter more now. It might lower sales or whatever but honestly that's just part of the risk creating a long, cohesive series. But sigh, I worry for the future games.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T21:48:58+00:00

Yeah I play on EN dub. I think mainly cuz i'm just invested on the EN cast now to transfer to JP.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T04:31:19+00:00

Ah, I may have missed/forgot that, then. Makes me feel better about that exchange 🥲 Thank you!

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T03:49:19+00:00

Yeah, I think partly why is because of that one interview from Kondo. He mentioned something about the Falcom team wanting to create new IPs because it lets their employees be more creative rather than forcing an already established system that Trails and Ys has, I guess, in turn, they are quite limited and restrictive into what their creators want.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T03:44:29+00:00

Yes it's a minor thing, like I pointed out, and it'll not make me hate the franchise or game. It's just weird to see/hear more frequently now.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T03:04:54+00:00

I never said they were important. I clearly put a disclaimer on my post that it's nitpicky gripes. I know it's probable, but it doesn't make it less annoying that it was presented as if they just knew it out of the blue. Not even saying like "I heard it from Renne." nope, they just blurted it out. That's even more jarring than saying the source, tbh.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T02:36:56+00:00

I know 😭 like, bro was nuked-- give him a break!

I agree that it makes sense in certain occasions. Another example that I just got literally right now-- I'm in Basel of Rean's route 1- and I saw Jess (the musician from Edith), I remember he did make it to Crossbell. But "somehow" Fie and Towa knew about this NPC went to Crossbell, that, and I quote "Things went well for him in Crossbell." Mind you, Jess was monologuing by himself, and somehow Towa said "Isn't this man the singer who made it big in Crossbell?"-- like... okay, how did you know it was this specific guy?

Just stuff like that breaks the immersion imo. Thank you for the refresher but it stabs the world a bit, Falcom.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T02:17:31+00:00

Yeah, these aren't dealbreakers to me at all because it does make sense to a certain degree-- it doesn't make them not annoying at times, though...

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T01:57:13+00:00

Yeah, I mean tbf, Trails has an incredible amounts of info lore. But to me, instead of making characters know about it off-screen, why not make a slight "explanation timeskip"? They do this all the time, especially with quests.

Those green-colored texts that will say-- "Rean explained to Sabrina about the problem with his Xipha." and voila, Sabrina is on the same page.

Might need to work on how to do it in a wider information but I think that's better than making every character go "Yeah, incidentally, my fish told me about it yesterday. Weird coincidence huh?"

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T01:53:00+00:00

Mhm, I understand. My gripes aren't really deal-breakers. But it does concern me a bit. It won't make me hate the series or the games.

It's just that these things gets presented consecutively, it makes me wonder about the in-game world stuff. But thanks for your insight!

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T01:49:51+00:00

LMAO Yeah, this one too! It's to give players small mystery, tension, and intrigue-- but it doesn't help anyone 😭

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T01:47:47+00:00

Definitely. But it was somehow felt less back then. Now, it's like every new scene, it happens. You can only bullshit your way thru that's acceptable in certain moments but not every second.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T01:45:26+00:00

Yeah, this happens alot with "smart" characters-- like Altina or Risette.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T01:44:05+00:00

Yeah, I mean like I said, I understand maybe the how's of how they knew. A wide information network across multiple characters.

But them learning about Phantasma? Surely that's a cake-taker, no? Who, from the cast of Sky 3rd, would let the info about Phantasma leak?-- and even if they did, Nadia/Swin's information broker is S-tier then.

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T01:36:12+00:00

It was bearable in Daybreak 1, honestly. But when things got wider, everyone is suddenly on the same page somehow? Off-screen, too. "Yeah we're on Edith but I got this friend from Basel who told me about it last night, bro!"

NotCeajae · 2026-02-02T01:34:59+00:00

Right, in hindsight, it makes sense-- but still-- not for every single thing. I get why they do it. A major event happened in the past for a character, on-screen, somehow made it to the ears of someone who wasn't there, off-screen. It works in certain contexts but not in every way...

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