Trails in the Sky: Tips and Tricks for Beginners 

I wouldn't call Estelle a tsundere, frankly. Shes more a tomboy than anything else.

Just found this game and feel like I've stumbled upon quite a *gem.*

I finally bought a pc and playing this game for the first time. I’m like 6 hours in and enjoying the characters and talking to everyone. Thank you for the tips! It will make my first play through much better

Literally just started this tonight, Cant wait to play all of them!

I am about 25 hours in my first ever playthrough. Just started chapter 2. I love it and can't wait to play the rest of the Sky trilogy. It really harkens back to the classic JRPG's of my childhood, Lunar, Grandia, Suikoden, Xenogears, Thousand Arms. I feel an overwhelming sense of nostalgia when I play this game and yet it is brand new to me and only my introduction into a larger world. I am very much looking forward to the rest of the Sky trilogy and diving into the Cold Steel series. I hope to eventually play the Crossbell games since I hear they should not be overlooked and are an important part of the overall saga. Hopefully they will be released here in the US soon.

Thanks for your explanation. I miss more videos like this. RPGs generally are more complex than other type of games. So when I decide to play a RPG I search for manuals of combat systems, menu screens explanations, etc, but I mostly find only generic gameplays. This video was a good addition to the manual in PDF of the ghostlight site.

I'll be referencing back to this video pretty often on my playthrough of this game, thank you for this video!

This is seriously so helpful. Thanks!!

I have just picked this game up and it is incredibly hard to find any sort of guide video or anything. This really helped me out mate, fantastic job!

Thanks for the video! Very informative

I remember watching this video 2 years ago when I first started the trails series. I wish I could play it for the first time again.

Thanks for this. I am only in the prologue right now and I will admit the only thing that really confounds me is the turn order...sometimes characters skip to the top again and sometimes they don't and I'm not sure how speed factors into, and I am not sure if I am doing the S-Breaks right, I was unaware you could steal an enemy's turn too and I will have to try it it but overall I am really happy I started the game

Had this game for years on my pc, started playing it today. Seems fun so far, finished second mission. (With the 2 kids.) Ty for the video :)

Thanks for the nice spoiler-free tip summary!

Pretty informational video. I definitely would've benefitted from watching this before playing. The orbments are the hardest part of the Trails games to get your head around. Thankfully they dumbed it down in the Cold Steel games

When you said slow burn you really meant it, I guess. 10 hours in and I'm still on the begining of chapter 1. Granted I've jumped on hardmode blind, and am hellbent on going through all the side quests I can manage to clear by myself. Having a lot of fun so far. BTW, your tip about the quartz was really helpful. Ty.

you deserve more subs, good job dude

Great guide! I've just finished Cold Steel 1 & 2, since I wasn't sure how I'd fare with the older titles at first. Needless to say, I'm hooked, and this guide is a great help for me getting started from the beginning now! (Mainly to do with the quartz lines lol)

What great explanations. I'm an avid RPG player, but this particular battle system confused me at first lol

Thank you for explaining the arts upgrade

Nice! Just picked up the game for my PSP haha

that was the best description of Estelle and Joshua ever

Thanks I started this game yesterday and came to check some guides out. PC steam version. I bought all of them including the Cold Steel series.

I just finished trails in the sky first chapter, so I have to say that’s an Interesting character choice for the thumbnail

These games have become some of my favorite RPGs that ever existed. I'm so glad I found them

Thanks for the tips I really needed that I was getting lost with the combat Thanks for the help

The best in the series. Not a lot of fanservice, good story telling, comedy, romance and whatever the fuck you can think about in my opinion. Haven't played the Crossbell series yet but I don't think it can replace Sky.

On my first playthrough after a mix of curiosity and the trash taste podcast mentioning the series and comparing it to one piece which intrigued me! I was looking for a new jrpg series to get into and wow I’m in for a ride!! Only 4 and a half hours into it and without a doubt the writing is top tier as well as the combat and the music is so good like damn I can’t wait to continue the trilogy and the rest of the trails series

Thanks for the tips.

Great Tips thank you :)

As for talking to people (8:10), you should make a point of finding recurring characters (Anton and Ricky) in each game! They really add a depth of humor to the world that is very enjoyable.

I've been jumping around the series... played Zero first, then CS1, and Azure. I went back to Sky FC, and started it on PC, but at the halfway point, switched to playing Sky FC Evo on a jailbroken Vita for a few reasons: * It's almost fully voiced (in Japanese). * There's a perfect fan translation. * I own the Japanese game (I'm a collector's edition maniac, and the JP Vita Sky Evo games were the best editions I could find). * The art style was much more appealing to me. The game is ever-so-slightly different, but I absolutely loved it, having just finished it less than a week ago. (Now taking a break to play Nayuta, but then I'll move on to Sky SC Evo.) I can't wait to get back to CS, which I was really enjoying, and I am excited for Reverie, which is what got me into the series: a friend of mine who really knows my tastes very well, when Reverie was announced, recommended it to me, so I bought the CE and then retroactively bought all of the collector's editions. The fact that Daybreak was just announced has me super excited. Even though I've spoiled a lot of the series for myself (deliberately... I have ADHD and I can't remember "man's voice" and need to know who the characters are when they appear) and knew most of the character surprises in FC, the end of FC was NOT something I saw coming and still totally yanked out the rug from underneath me in terms of the plot.

Downloading as I'm typing, probably need to re-watch this video a few times to absorb all the info but really looking forward to sinking my teeth into this game!

I never thought Estelle is tsundere, she is more genki\tomboy type, but to think about it, she has this in her too, it just becomes more prominent when she falls in love, as a self defense mechanism. But unlike typical tsundere who is stuck in tsun\dere circle forever, Estelle breaks it later after their confession. Tsundere would never get Joshua back, when they meet in SC she would just turn i-it's not that I like you or anything b-baka. The End. Estelle had to step on her dignity and self-esteem to get Joshua, impossible for tsundere. 💖😂👌

Nice thumbnail, bro. Nice character.

thanks bro

First tip: don't trust professors with glasses that are always smiling.

In Zeiss right now, doing the side quests.

This game has a similar feel to me as Spice and Wolf.

I'm currently playing the STEAM version with an Xbox controller. I love the "Turbo" feature but my finger is getting tired of holding down the trigger. Is there any way to configure the "Turbo" feature to be clicked on and off?

Thank you for this video. I was struggling to start.

hey good video.. i'm about 35 hours into the first one, just rescued Titas grandpa and escaping the fort. Anyway I've gone this far barely understanding the orb/septium/slot stuff.. I'm gonna have to watch that portion of your video a few times to get it but I never read the orbal arts section in the notebook, I feel like an idiot now. Anyway..... is this orbal/septith/arts system work the same in the rest of the series? I'm really enjoying this game and look forward to playing them for a while.. I've been playing this one for about a month at an hour or 2 a night before I go to bed... so relaxing!

Trails into the azure and a few more are being brought over to the west 2022, 23, and 24

Ohhh so side quests can expire. I had no idea. I thought it was time based, but it never disappeared when I fell asleep with game on. So thought they stayed forever. I always do them right away

Waiting for a sale so I can play this on my OLED Deck :D

Estelle isn't a Tsundere at all, closest to her being q tsundere is her dynamic with Olivier

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My favorite game series, it really is wholesome and comfy, it calms my nerves and cures depression. Ship Estelle x Joshua, their story is what made me to buy this trilogy. 💖💕

I am sorry for using save editor. I don't wanna farm sepith :c

Hi, I've played through the first game and I wish to play the second, however idk which platform can I play it on as I don't have a pc or a functional psp Was.tbe second game released on a PS3 Can I emulate the game somehow on an android device or a Mac? The tips u provided r really helpful, especially the one abt using healing spells outside of combat. I never knew the whole.game that u could do that

What u get ultimate weapon for book collection ?? Btw liked and subscribed ♥️

Been playing for a minute I’ve found the story quite interesting though I find myself mashing thru most combat dying retrying over and over again it feels very chancy as opposed to classic grind and prevail or hunt down gear in chest in dungeons and such

When i want dark rpg. I go for dragon age, but for light hearted, this is the best. Hands down. Now im rerunning fc again because of the evolution. It is like a breath of fresh air on a good game already to begin with.

Are you playing in pc? The graphics is so different from the psp's

Glad this series has been picking up steam, played my first with coldsteel in vita and continued with tocs2 now I'm playing the psp games I'm on FC rn. Best thing about this game is there's no gate keeping /keepers... For now

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I thought FF12 will be great after FFX in my older game tour de gameland but somehow FF12 didn't do it and after hours of really trying to like it for now won't work but games deserves another go later. Now after Great Ace Attorney first game I started Trails in the Sky and I think I am going to concentrate on that cause game just click right away. With Japanese voce mod it is just great for now and no reason to change being great. It has something I don't know yet what but quality that tranced time is there no doubt. I want to end Aliens Dark Descent just to play Trails .When super new game that i like and enjoy feels like something keeping me away from that other game I am playing there is definitely something about TITS . And I am not JRPG fan I play JRPG as any genre. Check the game and if it is good it is good so Trails is not just for JRPG audience but very much for generals also. Prospect of being epic with many entries is very interesting .

So overall is the grind a lot I want to play the game as quickly as possible but don't really want to get frustrated by tough bosses too .I have played cold steel one but I saw that cold steel 3talks abouts in the sky's characters

I did not speak to everyone during the prologue. Does it mean that i’ve lost some bracer sidequests? I’ve started the game like 2 days ago at the highest difficulty and I’m already at chapter 1 with all the bracer quests completed, the ones that pop up in the guild quest board at least.please tell me that i haven’t missed any 😢

Would you recommend playing on Normal or Hard?

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This game feels more of a VN than anything. I don't mind reading but damn there's so much lol

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Spam Earth Wall lmao

how to upgrade impede 1 to 2?

PUT HP ON ESTELLE AT THE START!!!!!!

I HATE MYSELF TO OBLIVION FOR STARTING THIS GAME ON NIGHTMARE DIFICULT... godamnt! I read every fucking thing for every lil step of the main story.. now Im on chap 1 having a godamn bad time against monsters and boss enemies..and I dont wanna restart from the fucking beggining so I would have to read ALL again (I literaly talk to every single fucking NPC)

it s so much text, it seems to me more like a story than a game and on top you can just little threw grinding influence how strong you are. One things I hate most about games, is when they start with lot of text instead of playing and then slowly introduce the story bit for bit and also how women are presented in this game is not very friendly, it is not just Estelle, the reporter girl, the women with the cat, the women who trains them from the bracer guild, I forgot her name, just a few examples, a men has very seldom similar traits.

I just hate the idea of 100% this...

you lost 31 seconds in calling estelle a tsundere