The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2 Part 59. Confusing plot elements. (Hard New Game Blind)
0Welcome to my The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2 let's play. My name is digidv85 but please call me dig for short. This is a blind let's play. It will feature a new game on hard difficulty to completion. Side and optional quests will be done, but given the obscure nature of discovering many of them, not all will be shown. Gameplay shown on PS4.
About Game: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II is a role-playing video game developed by Nihon Falcom. The game is an entry in the Trails series, itself a part of the larger The Legend of Heroes franchise, and serves as a direct sequel to The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel. It was published by the company for PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3 in Japan in 2014, and was later localized into English and published by Xseed Games in North America in 2016. A port by Xseed for Microsoft Windows was released in February 2018, while a remastered version for the PlayStation 4 was released in Japan in April 2018 and worldwide in June 2019. A port for Nintendo Switch is set to release in Japan in 2021. A sequel, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, was released in late 2017.
Gameplay: The game plays very similarly to the original Trails of Cold Steel game, playing as a traditional JRPG with turn-based battles. The game is not, however, tied to the school schedule structure of the original, with the game now centered around traveling the world rather than attending classes. If the player has a completed game save file from completing the prior game, it has an effect on the game of Cold Steel II, with certain events and dialogues playing out different based on choices and relationships built in the prior game.
Plot: The game is a direct sequel to the original Trails of Cold Steel, and begins one month after its ending. Rean Schwarzer has escaped alongside his Divine Knight, Valimar. He makes it to his hometown of Ymir with the assistance of bracer Toval, but Rean quickly finds him and his loved ones caught in the crossfire of the Erebonian civil war. Rean's opponents are the Noble Alliance, which has partnered with the Imperial Liberation Front from the previous game, as well as Ouroboros - a recurring group of antagonists in the Trails series. Students from Thors Military Academy, including those from Class VII, had been scattered across the country, so Rean attempts to get everyone back together again to put an end to the civil war and save those he cares about.
Development: Cold Steel II uses the PhyreEngine game engine, and was released in Japan on September 25, 2014. The game was localized into English by Xseed Games. Work on translating the game began on February 2015, containing around 1.45 million characters to be translated. Translating alone took around a year, with it being about 95% complete in January 2016. Xseed also added approximately 11,000 lines of English dialogue for its English release. The game was released in North America on September 6, 2016, and in Europe on November 11, 2016. A port for Microsoft Windows was released on February 14, 2018, and features various enhancements from the original version, such as support for 4k resolution, various other graphical enhancements, and additional English voice acting. A remastered version for the PlayStation 4, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II: Kai, was released in Japan on April 26, 2018, and in North America and Europe in June 2019. A port for Nintendo Switch is set to release in Japan in 2021.
Reception: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. Famitsu gave the PS3 and PS Vita versions of the game a score of 31/40. Chris Shrive of Hardcore Gamer strongly praised the game for being "a modern JRPG masterpiece" with "the perfect blend of the classic JRPG formula mixed with contemporary features" concluding that "the emphasis on story telling and immense cast of memorable characters make the large time commitment worthwhile". Kimberly Wallace of Game Informer was similarly positive about the game's story and characters, but complained of the game's dull dungeons design. Despite the shortcomings, she still felt that the game "takes the cast and story in such interesting directions and provides so much to do that it’s hard to put down...[the game] makes me care so much about the characters and the world that it becomes easier to look past its flaws". Darren McPhail of RPGSite was similarly positive about the game stating "For fans of the previous Legend of Heroes games and especially the first Trails of Cold Steel, picking up Trails of Cold Steel 2 is a no-brainer easy recommendation. While this sequel is unevenly paced and lacks shocking plot twists until the conclusion, the Trails of Cold Steel games are some of the best of the genre and well worth a look for most hardcore RPG fans".
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