Trails into Reverie Review, Recap & Analysis | A New Beginning 

Just beat Reverie not too long ago. It breaks my heart every time Rufus talks about how he is not on par with his father. War crimes aside, he has already surpassed his father in every way, I am glad Lapis was able snap him out of it.

Masterfully done once again. Happy to hear we are not going to get videos that are this long, it's also probably better for the algorithm for you. You're a hidden gem of a RU-vidr

Congrats on your school bro I love these videos

I haven't finished Reverie yet, but I love Erebonia and the Cold Steel games the most out of the others. Cold Steel 1 was one of the first jrpgs I bought 3 years ago, which made me a big fan of jrpgs and Falcom. I then realized I must have missed something when I suddenly got to play as Lloyd and Rixia in the epilogue. That's when I found out I had to play the Liberl/Crossbell games, and I've been on a great journey ever since.

Amazing video as always! I think Reverie is a very good ending for Cold Steel and Crossbell. I myself just graduated as well so I understand the need for a shorter video. While I usually like the longer format video but a shorter would be cool too. I also love your video on the music of this series. I don’t know why I take Trails OST more serious than other series’s. 😂

thanks for the vids my dude, made a couple long days at work very enjoyable

Thank you for this video, I was a bit sick of how stretched out Rean's arc was so I did not play Reverie despite C looking like a a good arc. Great video and format :)

Glad I found this game.

Thank you for providing the spark notes of Reverie! While I love this form of your videos, I think I'd find a more focused analysis of the characters, themes, and narrative more interesting for insights. For example; commenting more on your thoughts around the inability to kill off certain characters (Olivier comes to mind, thinking about the possible narrative developments of Schera, Alfin, and Cedric). The Freudian concept of the super ego was an absolute banger interpretation/analysis and I'd love to see more of that in future videos (if possible, I know life is creeping on you).

my biggest gripe is NOT ENOUGH LLOYD!!

I had so much fun with post-game content here and cannot wait for the Calvard Arc. I'm so tired of Rean and playing the finale to this game made me realise how much a lot of it had dragged. Thank you for pointing it out because I could not figure out why I was so dissatisfied with that section. Still, loved the Rufus stuff, easily one of my favourite Trails characters!

Thanks for the video. Though I don't remember getting the impression that the tower was going to blast the party at the end because its targetting system was re-written to target what is the target of the most hate. I got the impression that something, somewhere on Zemuria just so happens to be hated the most by the people overall, and then after that is blasted, something else will be targeted, and then something else, over and over again until nothing will be left because there will always be a little bit of hate for something or other in everyone's hearts. As for Reverie, I was really hyped about it because I liked the format in sky 3rd too. But i have to say that I just found myself enjoying Reverie's daydreams less than the star and moon doors in 3rd. Something about them just felt a lot less impactful and significant. Also, why is the dungeon music for Tita's daydream so damn awesome, and then they don't use that music for anywhere else?! It's a damn shame lol. I also felt that reverie for like the first portion of the game, like, up until you get to explore the corridor or something (or I guess up to fake mcburn), was significantly more difficult than other cold steel games, and then after fake mcburn, the difficulty just kinda became standard because the player power level goes up quite quickly after that point. It's where you start getting the best accessories, new quartz that are better than old ones, etc. Not to mention you're very limited on master quartz up until that point. But yeah I felt like the game's hard was like other cold steels' nightmares, if not worse...early on only. Later on I kill bosses before they move alot of the time, and that's without even intentionally using cheese strats such as infinite moves, instant cast artes, 1-shot domination s-break/lost artes builds, etc. I do feel like Lapis/C/Nadia/Swin's story was definitely the highlight in this game, and hope we'll see more of them than the SSS or class 7 (though I wouldn't mind seeing Altina later, I always found her to be an interesting character). I rather like the dynamic of Rufus and Lapis of how Lapis is so fond of him and not afraid to show it in the slightest, and how Rufus now has a recently-discovered epiphany that the people who care about him matter more than his old goals of surpassing his 'father'. One thing I wish the game had in terms of gameplay though was.... It has a massive party roster, and you are forced to use some characters on and off, and you probably have to spend an obscene amount of time gearing and building up many characters.... I do wish that the Reverie corridor had large portions where you had to/got to make USE of this multiple party member gear/build investments and do things like the dark dragon dungeon in CS3 so that you could enjoy all the build varieties of many party members. I also rather liked how sky 3rd had random valuable equipment drops from enemies throughout the game, stuff much better than store-bought items for a chapter or two. I find that more exciting than Reverie's gacha thing where most of the gacha stuff is either materials to invest into something big, cosmetics, or OCCASIONALLY, you get a super good endgame quartz/accessory. Plus the fact you get materials for best gear more often than the gear itself kinda lends itself to the whole super-invest in your favourite 4 praty members and neglect the vast party you COULD gear up thing I mentioned earlier. I think, if possible, Reverie could be an amazing game in terms of replay value if someone figures out a way to modify the game so that you could just have Reverie corridor like Ancient cave in Lufia 2, where you start at level 1, and EVERYTHING is gacha based, including starting equipment, and ALL the party members (after a first guaranteed 4 or something) are gacha rewards, not just the 12 or so that are in this game (I forgot hwo many were gacha). It would be so awesome.

Thanks for the vid. The lazy storytelling and terrible character writing of the latter cold steel games almost made me quit the series as a whole. Thankfully this way I can just skip reverie and hope things get better in daybreak.

Great video but I disagree that Rean depression should have ended in cs3 because every ending was a bad ending for Rean until cs4 so if he got over it then that would be fine also I can say I have read stories that handled depression better like Tokyo Ghoul manga and he also got over his depression at the end of the story when he is 23 and when the story began he was 18

amazing trails video as usual, i loved reverie, personally i feel lyold route drags the game down. my top trails games are cs3, sky sc and reverie

First wanna say that I enjoyed and appreciated this video. Just finished the game and I always like to watch recaps to help make sure I understood things. Second I'm gonna guess you play with Japanese audio based on your struggling with some of the pronunciations 😂

Just beat Reverie for the first time. I think I'm finally tapping out on the Trails series. I didn't like the direction Cold Steel was headed and while CS3 was amazing...CS4 was bad. Reverie had the chance to scale things back but instead it quadrupled down on craziness. This game feels like watching Star Wars Episode 9 where suddenly tons of technological advancements happen just to tell whatever story you want. Look how far tech has come in three years game time. The world is a mess where anything can happen and its all explained with technobabble. To be fair...many JRPGs reach this point in the last 30 minutes of their games...getting so high end and high concept that its easy to lose stupid people like me. Trails has reach that point for a little while now and its still got something like 30% of its story to tell yet. Its a shame because I'm a trails fan. There's even stuff in Reverie I loved...the opening prologue and the first act with each group was awesome. Plenty of great character interactions took place throughout the game as well. I actually really grew to like the C route cast of characters a whole lot. But the main story has become a chore to follow and has lost me. I love the start of every Trails arc though....when things are small scale and we learn about the world and characters and cultures. But Calvard games will have to catch up to this stuff and quickly...and given the last 10 games it will have to go well beyond this. Reverie gets a 4/10 from me. There's stuff to like...I started this game at a 9/10....but it just completely lost me over the course of the journey to the point where I forced myself to the end.

Can you do trails daybreak

Just here to say hi, I'm still on cold steel 3 but have 4 and Reverie physical waiting to go

I really liked this installment, just not as much as the prior entries. I felt like they wrapped up the story really well in Cold Steel 4 for that cast, so they really should have put more emphasis on Lloyd and C, because interjecting Rean and crew makes it feel like the Boruto of the trail series

OG class 7 is my favorite as is Rean but I agree we should've gotten more Lloyd

Keep hearing how this series is all about worldbuilding and continuity, so I said fuxk it and bought the entire franchise on Steam with all DLC. Haven't started playing yet but watching all these reviews is hyping me up.. lol