This is both the best RPG I've ever played and the most thought-provoking game I've ever played (been playing since 1987). Especially the second half of the game is just incredibly well written.
@@GrimReaperKazuya i played the sky games before crossbell, I am haven't played the 3rd however, As for cold steel, my pc sucks and I don't own a console so for now I have to wait before I play the later games
@@Azure9577 the sky trilogy was wonderful the third does connect crosbell and liberl arcs so while not mandatory is nice for some awesome world building, highly recommended. im playing cold steel now lul, you should be able to play the games, they have options to reduce the graphics quite a bit, sadly when it comes to cold steel the music and the art is no longer shared...something i totally loved of the first 5 games. gl getting to cold steel tho :) get it on pc, the launcher is friendly for even potato pcs.
Just started this game today just by looking at this opening I'm getting some serious Sky SC vibes in terms of epicness that shit is gonna go down in this game. Alot of people said this is the best in the series so i'm excited to see what it has to offer even though zero was already amazing
Can we all give a round of applause to the Geofront Team for giving us non Japanese-speaking beggars the chance to experience this game with a full, professional localization and so we don’t have to beg NISA or anyone else for it. Also, nothing wrong with Randy saying ‘bruh moment’.
they did really excellent job for it. I love that the translation is more akin to the style of big publisher's localization rather than straight out translate each lines.
The Geofront patch was excellent, but yes there is something wrong with Randy saying "Bruh moment." since it's completely changing the dialogue, though it's on a small scale, that's not a faithful localization and it ages poorly. Just because it's an excellent patch doesn't make it immune to critique.
Whenever I see ANY FALCOM OPENING I'M TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY, no matter how many times I've seen it. This, every Sora no Kiseki opening, almost every Kiseki Evolution opening, every Sen no Kiseki opening, every Ys opening, and of course the Crossbell arc...my G-d. This opening...after knowing what and who it's all referencing, the remarkable way the music fits what's happening onscreen, and the power and magnitude that all the openings possess is just...wow. That really fast and fluid moment that starts from 1:23 and goes until the very last note of the song as it pans to the sky from the core main party of characters is just...unbelievable! This is the kind of magic I believe in! If this is what we are capable of, it's truly encouraging.
For all the people who want to play these Crossbell games, Geofront will be releasing the Ao translation patch this month, May 2021. And if it's the same as what they did with Zero, then lemme tell you, it's going to be good as (or hell even better than anything NISA could do) the official thing could ever be.
I discover it with trails in the Sky. He was in a bundle pack with persona 2 (why?). Didn't care for the game, I just wanted persona 2, but the two games were cheaper than persona 2 alone... Later, I didn't know what to do, so I decide to try Trails in the Sky. He seem to be a generic rpg with generic character but, heh, I was bored. Good gods, what a surprise. I bought thé second one as soon as he was released, and waited for the third. I bought cold Steel 1, then 2, then 3, now I'm waiting for the 4. And I take a elulator PSP just for playing trails of zéro and azure. I fell in love with the série with the first trails in the Sky. Estelle was the best ^^
@@mkarun8688 For me it would be Llyod being the best followed by the rest of your list actually after finishing Cold Steel 3 Rean might be up there for second place, but either way all the protagonists are great
The best game in the entire Trails series. A true masterpiece. A better Trails game still hasn't been made. Maybe Kai No Kiseki can take over the throne of this game, but it will be difficult. The best JRPG I've ever played in my life. I've played nearly a thousand RPGs and I still haven't found anything better than this game. The Crossbell arc is the pinnacle of RPG history.
@@gothard5 It's a bit late but if you still need it. There's a really good guide how to buy Zero for pc on a japanese website. You need to register at first, but it's fairly easy and the game is cheap. The store then gives you two rar files. If you search for "geofront trails to zero" you should find the geofront translation, which is as good as an official translation. Seriously it even adds features like turbo and autosave, it's fantastic. Just download the geofront installer and give it the location of the two rars downloaded from the store and it installs and mods it for you without hassle. Then you can play it without problem. Ao is a bit ... harder. The pc version exists only on a chinese store, which has some heavy drm, but there are certain *cough * *cough* methods were you can find already translated and easily startable versions of the game. Just remember to actually buy it when they eventually translate it.
Just play the original pc translation it's already been out for years now or wait on the geofront version to finish editing up since they're almost done. It's useless waiting for an official release at this point
Nihon Falcom made a big mistake by not releasing any official localization to English of Zero and Ao No Kiseki. This arc could've been a starting point for a player to start playing all the future and past of Legend of Heroes series...
It'd be nice if they actually released AO no Kiseki before Cold STeel 3. It feels like we'd be missing half of the story if we end up blindly going to CS3 after CS2 (since it feels like CS3 will involve the events of Crosbell heavily).
+LeonGun8 i can tell u, the best part when i was playing Sen/CS, was the fact i played Zero/Ao before, and actually i dislike the Ao ending after that... since spoil an important thing
NeDix! I guess then that playing it backwards might actually even be a good thing? Either way, the way most people mention it it still seems a good idea to play both duologies to get the full-picture. Plus The Crosbell games have Estelle and Joshua cameos (I do wonder if they'd show up in CS3 though it may be a bit too much overuse of the characters).
@@Fabio-ql5yf I was more referring to the 3D art. You can tell he's supposed to be the same person but he just looks different because of, I assume (I'm not an artist so I might be wrong about this being a thing, but I feel like it is), the generally less detailed nature of 3D. This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Randy's model specifically, but I remember at some angles the lighting would literally make him look like a little kid, it was really disconcerting, though I remember it happened way more with Randy than with anyone else. As for the 2D art, yeah, it basically looks exactly the same as Ao/Zero, though I would probably say it looks even better in CS3/CS4, since they've had all this time to hone their skills you can even, with modest regularity, see how some proportions in the Ao/Kiseki openings are a bit off. Though I do miss the, I don't know how to say this, hopefully you know what I mean, way the lines were thicker in Ao/Kiseki.
@@Baba-yv6ml Cold Steel 3-4 and the Crossbell Arc have different artists. Though the Crossbell Arc artist has indeed improved, she came back for Kuro.
Certainly amazing story play game cant say I love the game play but the story is simply amazing and all connected too I am looking forward to see Sen no kiseki cold steel 3 translated and ported for PC
i'm really thankful for all the people who worked on the fantranslations for the crossbell series. i hope we will get official ones soon on all the major platforms. this is a series that deserves so much more attention
@@MoranonLP Honestly they should just pay geofront to buy their translation off of them, make them translate the new bits from the ps4 version and call it a day. That version is already perfectly translated.
that green guy should be the villain of the decade, he is always in all kiseki opening except sora's 1st opening and boy until now that green guy is a mystery its been more than 10yrs lol, he is starting to get old hahahah
Just finished both Cold Steel 2 and Azure, and not gonna lie, the Crossbell duology made the Cold Steel game much more better if you played CS after Crossbell, since you understand (understand, not know) exactly what happened at the start of the game and it will make you want to know more about the latter plot. I love the worldbuilding of Trails so much, too bad that Cold Steel's writing somehow ruined it, making Crossbell still a better arc
Between Sky and Zero/Azure, the writing there is superb. For some reason, it could be NIS involvement. I would not know, CSI and II is not as good until you get somewhere in the middle of part three, where everything starts to come together.
Forget localization Zero's translation by Geofront is out already and is as good as any localization And Ao's fan translation is really great I didn't feel like something was wrong (except with formatting on rare occasions) The point is Don't wait they are really great and you'll be really glad you played them before playing any of the Sen games
I love geofront translation lol not only it give us non Japanese speaker a chance to play the amazing game but how they slip a movie or cartoon joke inside their translation too like when randy and sss team training in that village he said " the spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised" that was from Futurama snu snU MOMENT lol I spit my tea so hard when I saw that pop out
@@demonololog7326 lmaoo truthfully i don't hate the anime ops, but imho those won't age well. i've seen sora no kiseki ops, they still look great even after more than 10 years
the only thing i dissapoint about this series just relation between tio and her parents that untouchable, after she saying she had prob with them. they still her biological parents, i hope in future series.
@@SpecialSupportSection I love the fact that your username is Lloyd Bannings but your pfp is Akashi Junko eating a pizza. Lloyd Bannings would definitely be a good Sensei for S.C.H.A.L.E. Rean Schwarzer too for that matter.
@@NeDixTV omg that's so cool! It kinda shows how nations themselves arnt evil. Just the people who run them. Or just the means they use to justify the ends
I think with Sen 4 concluding the Erebonia arc, we will see a return of the Crossbell characters and also the Original Kiseki Characters with regards to Orboros. Maybe one day we will get a game with Cassius Bright as a playable character, probably a Prologue of the entire universe as a Young Cassius?
there's that international incident in Calvard that Cassius once solved, right?, before Sora no Kiseki. so maybe there's a chance. but I think it'll need to have a connection with the series lore-wise, otherwise I don't think it'll be very interesting
I love zwei and ys series but I never play this series before. this opening is quite good as I compared to the zwei 2 which I played more than 5 times.
Really a difference between playing action rpg and turn based rpg. Personally I more comfortable with turn base as I'm easily distractible but I love Ys and its exploration aspect.
damn, i started with trails of cold steel (currently IV), i had no idea trails in th sky and trails to azure are in the same world. (will not hurt me to play them later)
LMFAO that's like saying starting Attack on Titan with Season 4 and watching seasons 1-3 for the first time after won't hurt. You're just making your experience of CS4 worse by not having the proper emotional investment or knowing who the characters are. Jesus, I can't imagine how meaningless CS4's prologue in Orchis Tower with Estelle, Lloyd, etc must have been for you when for someone who's played the previous games, it was absolutely amazing.
I can't seem to find the video that had all the trails opening from Sky to the End of Saga in one video. It had a picture of all the main characters such as Lyloid, Rean, and one other that I can't remember. Does anyone know where I can find it
I KNOW RIGHT?! From that moment at 1:23, craziness meter can't keep up with the level it's at. So many chills... Falcom, you're openings and games are too freaking good!!!!
Uh, so, I was just wondering, does KeA's powers (that one ability, you know what i mean) also affected Cold Steel? I am still in CS 1, but I'm kinda curious about this.
Ye millium is missing in cs 1 opening but present in the actual game Spoilers ahead Which means technically in cs3 if vii never met millium the ending wouldve been different
Yes, I recently downloaded it here nblog.org/pc-games/the-legend-of-heroes-ao-no-kiseki-english-patched-pc/. Reached the 4th chapter and it has been well so far. Only had one minor issue. But it is a really good game! I hope you enjoy it!
Just finished Zero, and I'm confused as all hell how to get this, english patch it, and use voice mod on it! I want my completion before CS4 launches on PC!
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm original fucking plot actual loorreee each game os connected masterfully this series can kill FF for you and Persona also Shin megami tensei some of the best music in JRPGs
Is Crossbell more technologically advanced than other nations in the Trails/Kiseki universe? I’m still playing SC and this seems *way* beyond the tech level seen in the first two games. Legit question since I’m just getting into this series.
yes and no, Orbal revolution is insane fast though (yeah kinda unreal but whatever is a game), but crossbell technology is because how crossbell interact with the world and the industry, u will see that ingame story. If we could go back to liberl in future games, probably we will see similar advanced tech on liberl too, since thats how Orbal industry works *cough Epstein Foundation
Crossbell is a center of trade and finance so while technological research (outside medical research) isn't as focused as in Liberl or Erobonia, it effectively becomes a testing ground for a lot of new developing technologies, bolstered by massive financial backing and the fact it is 'neutral territory'. A lot of Epstein's development on things like the Orbal network are funded by the IBC in Crossbell, being the largest financial institution on the continent.
The English title would be something like Trails to Azure if it had one, but it doesn't. The game only exists in Japanese and Chinese. The fan translation for the FIRST part of the Crossbell duology, Trails to Zero, will probably be out some time this year, but the second part will take probably quite a bit longer.
I mean Sen no Kiseki 2 already to some extent a continuation of the Crossbell arc, given the Epilogue. And Sen no Kiseki 3 takes place a couple of years later, so right now Sen no Kiseki is the latest point in the Legend of Heroes universe.
