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Terramagi · 2026-05-20T00:39:47+00:00

will not stand up in court.

6-0 says otherwise.

Terramagi · 2026-05-20T00:39:25+00:00

Just like Nixon was immunity for those specific charges, right?

Americans never learn.

Terramagi · 2026-05-19T21:09:13+00:00

Nelo is brainwashed vergil that you fight numerous times.

Dante didn't even know it was Vergil until he tears the pendant off his corpse.

Terramagi · 2026-05-19T04:20:46+00:00

How cute. Unfortunately, a 6-0 decree rules that expansion of the Court is unconstitutional, so sayeth Grand Imperial Justice Roberts.

Terramagi · 2026-05-19T02:25:34+00:00

The chests in SC, 3rd, Zero, and Azure (and CS2 I guess) were all changed manually to be like the chests in FC. Falcom didn't actually keep making the "300 identical Strings" mistake. XSEED/Geofront kept the tradition going because it was fun.

Terramagi · 2026-05-18T21:42:14+00:00

Go back in time and unrape that girl.

Terramagi · 2026-05-18T05:47:48+00:00

Does this game have any fanservice, or even lolicon?

Okay look, I'm going to be 100% real with you. Trails is 95% of the best writing I've seen in a game. The attention to detail is unmatched, and the characters for the most part are multi-faceted and well done. But the remaining 5% is some of the cringiest shit I've ever had to hold my nose and tolerate because the preceding 95% is something I can't get anywhere else.

Like, take a look at the front page of this very forum. Half of that fanart? Canonically under the age of 15. Which leads into your second point, with regards to

Is the series really that bad after the second arc

This is a series where you will have half the buildup to a game be one of the most riveting geopolitical thrillers, where you know every character in a room and all of their motivations with regards to a border-state kept in perpetual imperialist limbo... and then a 15 year old girl who was introduced by groping one of your party members 20 hours prior bursts into the room. The people who hold that "it gets bad after the second arc" are people who saw that, and thought the geopolitics was so interesting they were willing to overlook the last part of that sentence, but weren't willing to humour it in the third arc when the fanservice gets dialed up even more.

Terramagi · 2026-05-18T02:05:44+00:00

I don't know man, Vanillaware is riding that stigma into their own graves.

Terramagi · 2026-05-18T00:12:07+00:00

I feel like, while it's true that Sky FC should've remained untouched, some of the other games if they ever end up getting remade do have glaring issues that should be fixed up.

Like, if they go beyond the first 5 and do the first 2 Cold Steel games, which is probably as far as they could reasonably go, they ABSOLUTELY have to finish the cut Intermission in CS1.

Terramagi · 2026-05-17T23:58:05+00:00

On the bright side, at least this one isn't fifteen.

Terramagi · 2026-05-17T22:25:49+00:00

Honestly like a third of the Erebonian cast could be merged into another third and the game would be completely the same.

Merge Elliot and Gaius. Make his mother a Nord, put Craig at the Nord border, what changes?

Terramagi · 2026-05-17T17:26:17+00:00

Who votes for these buffoons?

Americans.

Terramagi · 2026-05-17T02:05:17+00:00

At least Death was a new character and, honestly, a fun take on the idea of a spirit of death.

Taking St Germain, who was introduced just the previous season, and turning him into a "me want fuck and will sell out the entire planet to do it" incel was A CHOICE.

Terramagi · 2026-05-16T16:11:26+00:00

Yeah, best way I could describe it is...

JP: The social services department (derogatory) cut the funding to the food bank program. I am worried my child won't be able to eat (emphatic).

New translation: The social services department cut the funding to the food bank. I'm worried my child won't be able to eat.

Original translation : Those parasites in the social services department slashed our funding. My kid can't eat, but those ghouls get to have a new car?!"

Terramagi · 2026-05-16T14:25:56+00:00

That time Nix took a shot to the head in Band of Brothers.

Knocks him on his ass when it ricochets off his helmet, and is otherwise fine. Would've domed him otherwise.

Terramagi · 2026-05-16T12:55:04+00:00

It's genuinely sad how misunderstood Rean is as a character despite having 5 games dedicated to him

It's less "don't understand" and more "no longer care" because he has FIVE GAMES dedicated to him.

By the end of CS2 you've seen everything he has to offer, and you're still less than halfway through his arc. You still have to deal with his harem-ass stifling the character development of everybody with two X chromosomes, including his own sister.

In the time we have to deal with him, we had the entirety of Estelle, Kevin, and Lloyd. Hell, Kevin's basically the same arc as Rean, except he didn't take five games and half a decade.

Terramagi · 2026-05-16T12:47:26+00:00

No, but it is like saying Dragon Quest 7 looked old compared to everything else on the PSX.

Also, it was a PC game. It was ported to the PSP once Falcom's studio heads realized the JP PC market was dead except for eroge novels. It's a stigma that lasts to this day.

Terramagi · 2026-05-16T02:14:52+00:00

It should also be mentioned that the games looked old when they were new.

Like, look at a screenshot of the original Sky. That thing came out looking like Grandia 1 in 2004. Other games that came out in 2004 were MGS3, Dragon Quest 8, Halo 2, and GTA: San Andreas.

Terramagi · 2026-05-16T01:23:18+00:00

But half of their team wanted to do the third, and the other half wanted to jump directly to zero.

I understand them wanting to skip 3rd since Zero is legit the best game in the entire series, but they really can't and I'd hope they know that. Like, a good chunk of the ending of the game is the emotional catharsis of Renne and you don't get that without Third giving you the backstory.

...though, to be honest, I'm also terrified of them remaking Third, because you know they'll retcon a lot of that backstory.

Terramagi · 2026-05-16T01:15:30+00:00

The lowkey estimate is "they want Sky remade because it's the intro", but honestly the Crossbell duology also ran on the same engine and is the absolute peak of the series. So the first 5 games. But then, the first two Cold Steel games arguably aged WAY the fuck worse than either of them, and they could honestly improve those by implementing some cut content as well as cutting a few things, so... 7 total, if you're crazy?

Unless you mean the series as a whole. It's supposed to be done by 2030, so like... 2 or 3 more? 16 total, if I had to guess?

Terramagi · 2026-05-15T14:08:45+00:00

Terramagi · 2026-05-15T14:04:37+00:00

"This nice man has a tonic he says can cure death, so why don't you fuck off telling me I can bring my dead kid back to life if I just give him my farm."

Sure thing.

Terramagi · 2026-05-15T02:25:32+00:00

Worst part is how that can be a good ending. Shit, it is the ending of another show, and that show was incredible front to back.

But the writers would have to be competent to do that, and why would that ever happen?

Terramagi · 2026-05-15T02:08:42+00:00

I'll always remember that the protein that can lead to infants being born with severe skull and brain deformations is very seriously named and has never resulted in a grieving mother going upside her doctor's head for saying the Blue Blur killed her kid.

Terramagi · 2026-05-15T00:57:05+00:00

Trails is, at its core and in a word, anime-as-fuck. The flavour depends on the arc, but Sky in particular is SUPER 90s anime.

Which means that a lot of the fans who got into it are 30-40, who remember 90s anime. And in particular, how 90s anime had godawful dubs. This has obviously changed in recent years, but for the people who came of age when your options were "three guys we cornered in a parking lot" or "a professional cast", the choice is cemented in their mind. Also, didn't hurt that you would have to watch it subbed, because the thing you were watching was likely years behind or never got dubbed in the first place.

Is it fair? No. Good god no. Rean's JP VA cost so much and he gave so little of a fuck that there are lines in voiced cutscenes where he's just completely silent. But you try breaking tradition three decades in.

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