NIHON FALCOM THREAD, "Gralsritter" edition

What did NISA do this time? Fucking hate NISA

PC version of Ys8 has been delayed.
Indefenitely.

I love to sing-a about the moon-a and the Juna and the spring-a

Laxia, the blacksmith and the other black-hairedgirl are the best.

Green hair gives me a dyke vibe. Dana is cute, though.

tieba.baidu.com/p/5322783538

Cold Steel magazine scans.

Wew. Alisa's plot has gotten bigger.

It has. Though I think Emma's is still bigger.

Full map of the Erebonian Empire

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archive.is/tLBPz

Vantage Masters card game and more interactive fishing.

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I don't think anyone got really surprised NISA fucked everything yet again.
It's part of their job at this point to fuck everything up.
Though i'm still confused as to why they manage to keep afloat while releasing the garbage they keep releasing.

But didn't you know user? CS2 fixes everything so it's okay for the game to be shit!

Cold Steel is a good game. Cold Steel 2 builds on it.

Starting in early aren't ya?

CS1 and CS2 most likely coming to PS4.

archive.is/L5B4m

Smart move but Japan only like what happened with TitS on PS3?

Please report to the nearest reeducation centre you antisocial element and get with the programme.

I wonder what older Renne would be like. She'd be 15 by the time of CS3.

Reminder that Renee a shit and Tita is arguably superior.

The PS3 ports oft Trails could not be released in America, because they are PSP Remasters. That's PSP games run on an emulator that is integrated into the PS3 with better assets. Since Sony of America requires achievements and PSP Remasters don't support them the game couldn't be released. This can't happen with Trails as the PS4 versions have to be real ports.

Isn't that what cost Sony Monster Hunter for like a decade? How did Sony of America not just get completely shut down for fucking up that hard?

Because Sony isn't just games. They pumped money from other sectors into their gaming division.

Four things;

The main reason is Danganronpafags tho, if those faggots didn't eat up that garbage NIS/NISA would have been either dead or downsized to the point where they wouldn't be able to handle many projects outside their own games

But user, what if I like both?

Yeah, but I mean, if the fucking foreign localization branch fucked up so hard it hurt the home branch, I would be firing people left and right for that kind of shit.

Then you like mechs

god damnit why

That's interesting user, I learned something today. Thanks! I guess I'll double dip on Cold Steel.

I liked Danganronpa 1 and 2 but I pirated it so no € for Nisa.

The series is dead to me now though, too much sub par milking like Nasuverse.

So they made their own Hearthstone? Meh.

Bigger, translated map.

I fact checked you and 1 claim appears to be complete bullshit, with most being very hard to prove to the point they appear to be theories that make no sense, too.

This probably wasn't doing too well as every search I did proves it's mostly gone now. Their last title released is more than a year old if their own site can be believed. I might be wrong on this one (why would they not update their own site then?), but it doesn't really seem very successful to me now. If you used past tense and said "raked", that would make it more likely to be correct. Admittedly, I could be the wrong one here.

Likely correct, though also as likely to be exaggerated.

It makes little sense, it seems more like a way to reduce losses. That's because I doubt NIS has money to give NISA in the first place from how poorly their stuff seems and seemed to be doing. I am absolutely certain that NISA makes way more money because a statement says they've come to expect the western sales to be superior and similar statements or comparisons were made before, and a publisher has less expenses than someone who makes the games like NIS, too. They've also implied they're working on Disgaea 6. While that's uncertain, it'd make perfect sense to capitalise on the market with a multiplatform Disgaea title. NIS would be taking money NISA gained at this point. I'm doubtful if the meagre sales NIS has in Japan would even pay for the expenses required for D6 if they want it done well with decent voice-acting, let alone allow them to give anything to NISA.

Think, non-disgaea sales numbers seem so typically, but they rarely release expectations - exceptions are Yomawari that beat them, that and some others. Even after removing the employees as NIS did 2+ years ago, you won't have money out of nowhere to give to someone after failed projects, you won't have the money to begin with as it's gone with the projects. As a company, you just got rid of some monthly expenses, but that won't make money appear out of thin air until you regain it with a success.

This is the most bullshit claim, which seems to be pulled out of your ass and the reason why I except heavy exaggerations from you up there. It got more than 100k total if NIS statement are to be believed. Some sites reported 100k, other 110k, the other 150k preorders in the west and 5k to 20k in Japan, and if I'm reading correctly, it did get 170k on PS4 overall. If NIS didn't fuck up by releasing it in Japan on the same day as BOTW and Bomberman, it'd likely be at 200k+ on Switch and beat PS4, but even then it'd still be a completely incorrect statement.

Disgaea 1 alone got 150k on PC (Steamspy is often incorrect, of course, but there is no better data). While the game's price is much lower, it's far from the first time it was released.
web.archive.org/web/20080410044129/http://www.us.playstation.com:80/News/PressReleases/127
To be a PS2 Greatest Hit, a PS2 title needs to have gotten 400k sold units. Disgaea HoD ultimately became a PS2 Greatest Hit, so it sold 400k+ units. Whatever you've meant, this statement is verifiably false. You're right that it's doing well on the Switch in the west, but the rest is not so.

Don't pose your theories as facts when you won't bother to check anything out. I bet some will repeat them because most anons do not fact check. As long as it's even remotely believable, they won't bother to think it makes no sense, they'll just say it over and over again, consider it true and be surprised when it's wrong. Like previous thread, where anons were too slow to realise NISA delaying Ys 8 on PC means simultaneous release mustn't have been a priority to Falcom, as otherwise it'd be out no matter how bad the port is.

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Opel confirmed for cheating with their NOx emissions, too.

Why the hell does Laxia say "criminy", NISA?

Yeah but the question is: will Rean motorboat them thicker plotlines?

FUCK.
I swear on Aidios's name, XSEED better find a point in time where Becky can suitably get a voiced line.

To be fair i'm just shitting with you people cause it's fun to see the fanboys getting riled up, after the main plot got spoiled to me i made my peace with it being pants in head retarded and it's quite possible that in expecting nothing i could even enjoy the story of the rest of the series, as i said, i really like the gameplay of the game, so i will keep playing for the gameplay and disregard the story.
I can even say that it's exactly because you guys hype the trails series so much that i got dissapointed like that, after all i expected a masterpiece and got a basic anime plot with autismal levels of lore detail.
Anyway, let me stop here before the CSDF comes and derail the thread into a flame war.

Fucking disgusting.
When you finally think that nintendo will go the way of the cuckoo and stop fucking everything up, the tasteless bastards go and fuck the industry some more by giving them more money.
Fucking useless society.

Most of these are bullshit

Great post

They're certainly not saints, but I'd say Microsoft has done far more damage to the industry than Nintendo ever did.

Disgaea 5 Complete sold 100K by August but it sold like shit on the PS4 last year and was released in March on the Switch, Complete is the Switch only version.

By comparison Disgaea 4 sold 80K in a week.
Stop believing random people on the internet who don't give you a source
4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20110302065/

you're probably right, still makes my blood moil seeing people feeding the bad pratices that nintendo made this generation, i was a very big nintendo fanboy in the past, but holy shit, i can't believe how people can get beaten this much and still support them.

Then we need to go back to my question again, what the hell is keeping NISA afloat if all they do is fuck shit up?
is it just weebs not having any type of self respect and buying the shit they put out because of the tits?
maybe they aren't being kept afloat and are on the verge of breaking down and are just keeping very tight-lipped about it?
I can't understand how they are still alive when 90% of everything they release is crap.
Are they being kept alive by the jews so they can keep destroying the games we love?

NISA is a North Korean front to bypass UN sanctions.

No doubt, Micro$haft was cancer as a whole from pushing for consolization of PC games on their platform in 6th gen to online and western focus with kike monetization like DLC and paid maps.
Sony doesn't inspire confidence as well though, and they've been only a step back from Microshits bullshit, besides their cancerous US department pushing for awful games and the killing of Sega with blatant marketing kikery.

I feel you there - I still own a 3DS and will likely buy whatever the sequel machine to it is because third party games I want will definitely be on it, but the way they've treated their first party franchises over the decades is just awful, to the point where the only Nintendo first party titles I can ever have any hope for are mainline Kirby of the Stars titles.

Them and the entire "localization" industry as a whole.

Too believable

More or less, there are no heroes left in man at this point.

We have a Granblue thread up right now thats being defended by the vols from any dissent and an obvious NISA shill in this thread user.
What do you think?
And NISA might still be afloat, but they're much smaller than they were before thanks to all the licenses removed from them over the years.
IF, Gust, Vanilaware

They still keep going because NIS has publishing deals in Japan with games that might be published by other companies here and NISA themselves have started publishing many more games indies and doujin alike.

NISA stays afloat because clearly they are undercutting the competition and/or jap devs still being too stupid to have their own local translation branch.

Anybody got a download for Zero no Kiseki PC?

If you can't find a decent public tracker by now you're an irredemeable idiot.

Wait a second do the VA's in The 3rd change depending on difficulty setting, or did Kevin's VA change to the original one when you're past the prologue?
Or did I temporarily go deaf and misheard Kevin's VA?

Did you know? A character from Ys 8 is a reference to a Trails character but NISA fucked up

They called him "Viceman"

Falcom's Engrish called this character

Waisman

What the FUCK NISA

Similar way of spelling the name, not that big of a deal truth be told.
Big hole on the other hand

Viceman?

That's actually hilarious…

The playthroughs of Ys 8 being uploaded to YouTube are painful. None of them seem to get attack types and attack enemies weak to strike with Adol, for example. How are people this fucking dumb?

bravo

American weebs yes. They keep Nisa afloat.

Kondo on CS3's length and content.

>nothing was spoiled other than osborne being alive

Sure, user. Whatever you say.

YES, no forced Alisa !

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considering what Kondo said prior regarding the size it seems like this choice may be in part due to the games size making replaying less viable than CS1/2, so no longer any need to choose and a ridiculously sized game, thank you Kondo.

I'll probably be playing it twice, anyway. I tend to give all the Trails games at least two times to shine.

I really wonder how long it is, in hours, though. 100? More?

Pretty much this - you see all kinds of really vicious reactions when you tell any of them to just play the original Japanese because they somehow think that learning a language to pursue their biggest hobby is beneath them.

Just checked and I was wrong. I am the problem.

Why is Nisa publishing Cold Steel in Europe? Amazon is FUCKING shit here and importing a physical copy from anyone else is an extra €20 and 2 weeks of delivery time.

Is there an undub for Trails in the Sky?

Yes.

However you'll only set yourself up for disappointment when Kea will be voiced by an American nigger bitch and Tio by Burch.

I like Xseed but by god can we please drop the English dub?

Folks are working on a re-edit. Isn't this James dude a reviewer?

IIRC he is, and he has posted here before.

I'm not paying for Zwei after this shit. They announced it for summer and then went completely silent until it was clear it wasn't coming out in summer.

Nigger don't fucking making excuses if you're going to pirate anyway.

Since Ys VIII is fucked and I just beat Ys Seven's PC port; Should I try out Ys IV and V?

That costs money. And Xseed has no money.

Xseed would have money if they actually hired a fucking marketer. Seriously, 95% of their problems boils down to them being shit at marketing.

Depends on what you're referring to.
Ys IV only exists outside of Japan as Memories of Celceta on the PSVITA; and is the second game to use the playstyle made for Ys Seven; I thought it was pretty fun. Original Ys IV I believe was another bump attack, also had Lilia return, but Celceta retconned her for a new character.

Ys V, I have no idea what it is. It's the only point in the chronology to not see the light of day outside of Japan, as far as I'm aware.

I'm talking about these ones;
romhacking.net/translations/2060/
romhacking.net/translations/498/
romhacking.net/translations/1752/

Honestly, I don't care if they're not as good as the rest of the series. As long as they aren't as bad as Ys III SNES

Okay, sorry. That's a little bit out of my scope.

Leeza appears in all three Ys IV games. She's kinda meh in all three of them.

All three of them are fun, with MotS being the weakest one. Ys III is a good fun, provided you don't play the shitty SNES port and understand it was designed for PC-88 computers.

Guess I'll play MotS first then to get it out of the way.
Oh I know that; my introduction to the Ys series was the shitty SNES III port. The cart still sitting on my self unbeaten.

How many months?

And folks wonder why Falcom prefers catering to Japanese otaku.

Is the Ys 7 port worth replaying the game or does it not come with any extra content?

There is no extra content, only 60fps.
They couldn't even get the better textures Joyland used. I guess Falcom threw them away. There is an unofficial patch though.

I missed some early quests in Cold Steel II and got 28 AP instead of 35 AP on my first report. Am I permanently locked out of anything important?

I believe you just miss out on one of the best accessories in the game.

Actually, I just read the game gives you wiggle room to get max rank A0 of 14 points. Is the accessory tied to earning the rank, or getting maximum AP?

I think just rank

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But will she have her support craft untouched?

I still haven't finished Trails 3. It was such a huge disappointment, I thought it would be an actual sequel and finale to the trilogy but it's like some spin-off with the least interesting characters as mains.

The finale to Sky's story was 2nd chapter.

3rd chapter is a bridge between Sky and Crossbell/Cold Steel.

All of the characters return as party members (including Estelle and Joshua) and get doors that expand on certain stories and such.

But yeah, I disliked the structure of it being one big sequence of dungeons with a hub. I came to like it because of the connections with future games (most notably Olivert/Giliath) and Renne's story (which carries over to Crossbell's games), but overall it's my least favourite of the entire Trails series.

yeah, I know how it works, I died on that boss that appears in the bracer training camp mountain from 2nd chapter's epilogue, and just didn't feel like trying again yet. I've also looked at the Cold Steel games but the graphics are such a turnoff for me I doubt I'll ever play.

You forgot best girl.

You know Danganronpa 1 and 2 aren't published by NISA on Steam right? Or did you pirate the Vita versions?

I was wondering about that, as well. Steam is listing Spike Chunsoft as publisher for all things Danganronpa and 999.

You do know they still get money since Spike Chunsoft don't hold the rights to the localization script right? They do this with all of their games so they have some leverage when they lose IPs; Koei Tecmo had to buy the script off the them for the Atelier Arland vita ports and it's also why Idea Factory International didn't recycle any of the scripts for the Nep remakes.

Same goes for all those English Asian releases or International re-releases japan sometimes gets like Demon Gaze; if they use NISA's english script at all then NISA gets money.

Well shit.

I want to send KeA to paradise, if you catch my drift.

Problem is they lost all their money with Akiba Beat.

Spike Chunsoft are the ones who put their games on Steam. Their PC ports are generally really good too.

I don't think they do. Spike Chunsoft probably just bought the TL right for the Steam version, it'd be dumb to give a % of sales like that, that'd be the same as having NISA publish the game itself.

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So it probably won't be worth it to start over? I'm playing hard mode, and I really doubt I'll replay on nightmare for a story focused game.

Just keep playing. There is some extra content in new game+ though, so you could replay the game at a later time.

I really doubt it will be worth it. Especially when not everything is skippable.

This confirms that Falcom should just translate their games themselves. They'd do a better job than NISA.

Not to be a contrarian but,

archive.is/AY7ZU
Here, I found a walkthrough which refers to the location as Big Hole, even making an archive of it.
To be honest, from the second picture in it doesn't look a crevice. Crevice is meant to be way more narrow, this is wide and seemingly round, though the image can be misleading. Hole definitely was a bad choice of word, however. Something like "Abyss of the Archeozoic Era" or "Archeozoic Abyss" would've been perfect.

archive.is/sUNvC
one is an official screenshot of the dungeon the other is what I assume is the cutscene when the area is introduced. I highly doubt they are referring to different places

The point is they had the name right there in front of them through the whole time they were "translating" and still decided to call it a big hole.

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Sadly I have to disagree.

Even in France there's usually that one guy that can do English. But nobody at Falcom can into English. Big hole sounds like shit but still beats Google translate.

Falcom cannot into English, and location name changes are common. Xseed changed pic related in Celceta into Beast Plains, and also Misty Summit into Misty Peak, etc. The names were there, but changed anyway, so that's not really the point. In hole's case the picture doesn't show a crevice so if it is in game like it's implied in the image a change is okay, but to something cool sounding like Abyss, not hole which sounds like shit. Even if it's more accurate than before, it sounds worse, and walkthrough says it's in the final chapter, so it should be exciting.That's why they should've called it "Abyss". It's the best of both worlds, cool sounding and more accurate.

What? NISA pretty much just machine translated here. The last two kanji literally mean "big hole"

To be fair google translate works fine for 1-2 words most of the time.

my bad if this is a frequently asked question but a buddy of mine got me a handful of the ys games on a steam sale and i don't know whats considered a starting point with these games. what's my best bet

Start with Felgana or Origin. Origin is easier for newcomers, but contains Ys 1 spoilers. The story is not that important though.

Damn you are a dense motherfucker.

twitter.com/XSEEDGames/status/909756190011179008
What did they mean by this

europe tend to not have weebshit publishers
Hell many many moons ago even ubisoft use to handle weebshit

But back to my point NISA europe tends to distribute a lot of weebshit from atlus and xseed and many other names
Unless localisation is done by NISA dont feel bad for buying from NISA Europe since they just doing distribution and tend to handle it far far better than some other PAL publishers have like Ghostlight

I've sort of lost faith. I doubt it's going to be anything new. And if it IS something new, it's probably going to be Akiba's Beat tier.

TRAILS IN THE SKY FOR THE PS4 BAYBEH

thanks, boss. I have both of those so I'll install em now

Every fucking day more and more fuck ups get found
archive.is/keWIZ

Oh fuck off with that bullshit excuse; you'd still be giving money to fucking NISA to fuck over games. The only justifiable reason to buy a nisa game is if you get it used.

Are these people contacting NISA support to point out those issues though? It'd be nice to have them fixed after all as those are much more likely to be fixed than having NISA completely retranslate the game.

Cmon NISA friends, defend that one.

Wonder where that Nisashill is

Doesnt the katakana said "BAHA" and not "Baja" (which would be written as バジャ actually） like the jap-english title is implying

NISA completely omitted the "leaning" kanji tho.

I'm not even sure why he's posting this image when there are apparently items description put on the wrong items.

Play Xanadu Next btw.
Just do it.

This is why nobody take people like you seriously.
Bad ports: Disgaea 1 pc (fixed), Birthdays the beginning, Ys 8 (delayed)
Good ports: Disgaea 2 pc, Firefly Diary, Phantom Brave, Yomawari, Operation Abyss, Operation Babel, Stranger of Sword City.
They're no different from the usual publishers.

Except with shit translations NISA shill.

I get the feeling they kinda machine translated the game in order to rush it out and look good to Falcom.

Fuck off back to Holla Forums.

I think that is why they are still around. They do things really fast and cheap compared to others quality be damned.

Here he is

Pointing out retarded crap makes you a "shill" now?

ITT Xseed fanboys at it again. We may as well rename this general "Xseed general".

Every time.

I like how he ID hops to pretend like hes someone else and push his rethoric.

Whilst I would agree it's a bit ironic to say that while making yourself a (1) response.

Might have to start filtering at this rate if they're even starting with the Holla Forums baiting

To be fair, there is no such thing as a good translation.

Got a quick question about The 3rd. What's the deal with Richard? He seems to have some insane speed on him and just putting clock up ex+solar/lunar seal on him makes nearly every boss a cakewake. Is this a bug or is this Richard's gimmick?

Honestly this seems like geniune nitpicking. The post above you shows an actual terrible change, instead you seem to be sperging out over any and every tiny change.

Can you guys not shitpost?

It's his gimmick but its also overpowered as he can basically get in 3 crafts before the enemy gets to act. Equip him with CP regen items and you got yourself a stupid strong character.

Is there a source anywhere where I can get the scripts for the TitS games? I kind of want to know the text for various shit like The 3rd's Chapter 6 and Silver The Edgehog's in the final parts of SC.

>My dick when Sister Nia takes off her nun hood and rips part of her robe, showing her great legs

In Cold Steel II NG+, can you skip the masive amounts of cutscenes? Since the game makes you press X to move dialogue forward, you can't even walk away while they're playing. I even can't consider replaying this game on NG+ if I have to sit and mash X through dozens of long wordy cutscenes that maybe have minor differences if I took different characters with me.

Hold circle.

That seems to be fast forward, which is better, but still not ideal.

How's the Zwei game they're trying to get on Steam?

Not even console bricking bugs will get them off their fat lazy asses.

Except the fact when they're localizing a game; something always breaks except when someone watches over their shit like a hawk. I've never heard of any company coming close to their level of fuckups when it comes to working on an already finished game.

Website was launched yesterday, but still no release date.

It apparently got delayed until Fall…so like a month?

Is there any reward for collecting all the enemy data, bosses included, other than a worthless trophy?

Why is Becky not on this?

No, seriously, WHY IS BECKY NOT ON THIS???

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WILL YOU FUCKERS JUST GIVE A DATE ALREADY
ALSO THE BLOOM THING

YS8 PC WHEN
FUCK YOU NISA
It's gonna have denuvo isn't it?

Nisa wouldn't need Denuvo; it'd be too broken to play.

PC's gonna be Cuckistan only, don't bother unless you're pirating and can change it back to the correct text.

Pretty sure there's no reward in CS1 for enemy data, there is in CS2 though.

They can't put Denuvo into the gog version.

You get a master quartz. You don't need to 100% the enemy data though.

Fuck.

Renne must be protected

Two questions about the 3rd since I just finished it

The Phantasmal Blaze plan has nothing to do with the things that happen in The 3rd.

5 days til CS3 Japanese release.

It was her pleasure

Was it?
Does she show up in CS? I know she does in the crossbell games.

Baja is pronounced baha. They're idiots who just took the katakana literally, instead of using the word it's supposed to represent. Since it was already in English, there is no excuse.

As opposed to NISA shills who everyone takes seriously right?

She doesn't show up in the CS games out now since they take place during Crossbell Dunno if she'll pop up in CS3 though

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she's a big part of Ao, but use just see her on the side on Zero, she does nothing then.

so i've been playing origins and liking it so far, is this the kind of game where i should really clutch on to the ores and health boosters i find or nah?

Shocking. A pro-denuvo faggot doesn't know what he's talking about.

You're fucked, it's the best game. Everything else has to live up to it in your mind from now on.

Just started Zero, and I have one question: is Randy going to continue to be best boy? Because he's staying on the permanent roster regardless of whether he gets outclassed if so.

Also is there any way to fix this screen tearing holy shit

Yes. getting better gear pretty much makes caring for levels pointless in these games.

Also I'm with the other user that you started off with the best game. At most you'll find Felghana's more difficult bosses more appealing to your taste but otherwise the bump system games and the recent Celceta and Seven will fall really short. Dunno about lacrimosa yet.

Having started with Origin myself and gone through Ys1 and 2 along with going through Celceta so far, I can say that I agree with the Celceta part, but I still enjoyed 1 and 2 for what they were (1's final boss was one of the toughest and most rewarding bosses to beat for me. Only after beating it did I realize that, due to my game settings for the PC, it actually hindered me even further, making the fact that I beat it with said hindrance even more satisfying.)

While Celceta can be fun, it's hard to stay as motivated to progress in it with other games in my backlog I need to work on. Probably not a good sign when I get a chance to import 8 or wait for the fandub.

I quit celceta around the final dungeon because it just never seemed to end, and at that time I really started to realize how much I hated the new gameplay style when it's so barely developed.

Ys stops using the bump system? That sounds fucking awful

Postes revenite!

The new system ain't so bad, especially with how good the bosses are.
The new-new system kind of is, especially with how lame the bosses are.

When does it change? I've only played the first two, but I know Wanderers played like a side scroller in the way Zelda changed for Adventure of Link, but I assumed for 4 it would go back to normal.

link?

I hope we get more of Emma with a wand come CS3.
or just more of her in general, falcom don't you screw me over a third time

3 days till release,I wonder how many are gonna abandon the general till an english release comes ?

[autistic hollering]
gonna spend all fucking day back tracking now trying to find that last emerald.

Why haven't you been upgrading your gear?

i was saving my SP cuz i didn't know how many uses i would get

CONGRATULATIONS, YUNICA.

should i do runs with the other characters or harder modes? or take a break

Well the third character is the canon version of the story, so you might want to replay as him. Play on a higher difficulty if you want to.

Forgot to mention, only the third character gets to fight the real endboss.

thanks boss. I'll check it out but maybe not tonight

I'll admit, I'm a bit let down. Oh well. At least there's still Laura and Sara.

They could've taken advantage of being one of the very few games that give you multiple cake options to waifu that are actually good characters, but I guess even Falcom's not ready to take the plunge on that market yet. This also gives more evidence that Claire will end up with Michael Irving.

Good taste.

And I was so sure she would be in after CS2

Hurts me physically.

Emma, Sara and Laura are still there, thankfully. I would like to see what Musse's about.

I'm happy that Elise gets friendzoned again, but at the same time we can't get with the Princess.

Basically
>New system: Nephatism, Felghana, Origin. Top down hack n slash. Pretty fast gameplay, lots of great music and the bosses will fuck you up good and rely solely on your skill because you can't heal midboss and gear is about the only thing that ties to how good you'll be fighting enemies(also it had this really cool idea of cutting down on grind, basically trash mobs give you lots of buffs like strength/defense/health up buffs so that you don't need to run back and forth between a save point and moreover getting a combo up gives you an xp multiplier. Levels don't really matter in these games because you'll be leveling up just by normally plowing through these mobs) keep in mind you should always be playing on Nightmare or whatever the hardest difficulty is. Also has jumping.
My biggest issue with the new new system is that nothing feels as tight and well made as the new system. The dodge button(there's a dodge button) is insulting mainly because it's pretty much the main way of movement and the block button(there's a block button) is overpowered with the concept that you can completely 100% block an attack with no consequence if you time it right to flash guard, with no mana or consequence like the earth spells in the new system. This combined with how fucking stupid the bosses are just makes for a shit experience that feels like it lasts an eternity. Not to mention your ultimate weapons are limited craftables(like anyone's going to be playing NG+ when it adds jack shit)
Oh and Ys Seven drops the biggest fuck you possible in the final boss regarding the party system if you aren't one who rotates their party constantly.
I don't know about lacrimosa since it still has the skill, dodge and guard systems from the new new system, but it has jumping.
Also this is more a personal thing but Celceta's music mostly sucked

Also for the bump system, Dawn of Ys(4) is pretty fucking good. I wish they'd remake in the style of Chronicles.

Also also about 4, Celceta isn't even the same really cool storyline as Dawn of Ys', which is part of why I really hated Celceta.

OWO
whats this?

What.

Zero editing has reached 40%. Some screenshots were posted.

Durante got the source code to do his magic.

And the rest.

He gets even better in terms of damage and character as time goes on, especially in Ao. He's a bro.

Got a stupid question.
What note is Whereabouts of Light(the harmonica version) played in?

This game is already going great places.

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Post Sara or fuckoff

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C minor

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What a slut

No Aurelia final bond just gets worse and worse.

anyone got undub files for the pc version of tits sc?

OP

Gonna need some kind of machinery to excavate that. In b4 my dick

Truly things only possible with the power of the PS4.

Whoa, this is a Christian imageboard.

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Who let this bimbo back in?

Josette a cute, but she really needs some decent crafts or a new orbment setup.

Well hopefully we won't have to use her in combat.

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Am i the only one who thinks Laura should have been the main girl instead of Alisa?

Fucking hell what's with the sameface on everything?

PAINFUL

Disgusting.

Most of the girls could've been the main character. A lot of them have more in common with Rean and/or actually ties into his story.

Plenty of reasons why Laura could be best girl.
But this is the first I've seen someone suggesting she should've been main girl. And if you've been around these topics long enough, you've probably seen the arguments on how Emma should've been main girl, yet somehow gets treated as the least important.

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No. She has the sole purpose of getting stronger to fight stronger people. More railroaded than CS1.

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So am I the only one who thinks Musse and Sharon look kinda similar?

Sharon did say she was recruited with someone else…

They all look similar, the artist is unable to draw more than one face.

Man Falcom is bringing their a-game for fanservice.

HOLY FUCK

I guess the Angelica Autist can celebrate because it looks like she's fucking dead.

It was fucking GEORGE!

That fat fuck is a traitor!

I want off Kondo's wild ride.

Juna sure has a sunny personality.

The first thing I thought when I saw image 2, was that reans coat looked pretty bitchin. Then I noticed butt.

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Just how different is CS from Sky?
Besides the hotsprings I don't recall anything remotely similar to this.

Wait, so Tita is a student?

Yep! And Renne goes to Jenis.

Renne looks very… shapely. I thought Tita would've been some kind of scholarship student who didn't actually have to attend classes, but I guess this makes sense since george and such still did.

No one man should have all these cakes!

what is going on here

Angie digs up Crow's grave. The body is a fake. George sees that she knows and shoots her.

Welp. Confirmed.

No
Nononononono

Not like this! NOT LIKE THIS! IT ENDS IN ANOTHER FUCKING CLIFFHANGER TOO! WORSE THAN SEN 1'S.

Oh geez, are you fucking kidding me? What happened to "final chapter" of this arc?

Osbro and Alisa's dad are the villains. The black workshop is run by gnomes and support them. George is a gnome. Looks like Angie might not be dead. Milium dies to save c7 and Rean goes nuclear. Rips open the corrupted divine beast which taints the world with darkness making everyone more violent. Erebonia goes to war with Calvard when Osbro using Ash frames them for Eugent's assassination. Osbro institutes global conscription. Cedric is his lackey. George plants explosives on the Courageous, seemingly blowing up and killing Victor and Olivert. Everyone is fucked.

>Olivier
>Dying
Yeah fucking right.

You see him on the Courageous and you see it blow up, but you're right. I think he's using Osbro's own trick against him.

Is it safe in here? The retards on 4chan are literally spamming every thread with untagged spoilers for days

Doing my best to use spoiler tags, though I feel like I'm the only one posting. Everything is chaos right now.

Maybe everyone else is being smart and staying away so there's no chance of spoilers. I should probably do the same.

Stop going to fucking cuckchan

Okay, so without spoilers, for those who played cs3, which sept-terrion(s) did it end up being? I'm assuming we see them in thius game, right?

It's fire (which everyone called) and earth (which no one did).

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So apparently the game was split in July of this year because the Chinese localization company complained it was too long. Expect the second part next year.

They're now posting majorly spoilertastic images right in the OP for everyone to see right in the catalog. What a bunch of faggots.

Christ this is easily the darkest Kiseki. Hearing Jusis cryout for Millium actually hurt. And goddamn, Olivert's last words: "I'm so sorry, Schera." That's not how I wanted to find out, Kondo!

At least there's still Aurelia in a swimsuit.

Does anybody have any pics of the new mechs?

If this is real then I missed out on absolutely nothing shame about those delicious cakes, though

It id literally the most plot dense game in the series and it's only half over.

reans edgy mode makes me cringe

Reans speeches make me cringe.

Shoulda been Alyssa.

Sadly she gets plot relevance in the 11th hour. It's finally clear why she's the "main heroine." Its just way too late.

Go >>>/back/ there you fucking faggot

Go >>>/back/ there you fucking faggot

Laxia is super fucking cute. Her personality is fun too.

Where can I pirate a version of Trails in the Sky JP version only? Can be EVO version or not.

Whats the status of Ao no Kiseki boys?

Last I checked 56% translated.

Once again only Alishit gets a kissu. Laura and Emma get romantic options though (because you can do multiple events the romances have a special dialogue choice). Sadly Fie and Sara don't. Laura's scene is very cute. Emma feels like she gets shafted, sadly. Zero physical contact. Laura gets hand holding and a hug.

Really fucking hoping that is right about the two part split cos if so then hopefully the main "romance" segments should be in that part hopefully making them better and fuller FOR ALL FUCKING MAIN CHARACTERS than the shit we seem to have gotten here.
The bloody reunion scenes in CS2 seem to have had about the same/more emotion/contact, heck the pics posted earlier of what I assume to be Laura's reunion in CS3 seems to have the same content more or less as her final bonding.

Fuck Alisa and fuck the jap's shit taste.

archive.fo/FopbZ#selection-1391.1-1391.615

Fucking Falcom

how pathetic, why even give us a choice if you gonna be like this? fuck Falcom and Alisafags.

The game is definitely split. So hopefully Final Saga will have better romances.

Remember seeing this, any other sources to back it up ?
Its definitely not the only reason, but I could see it being a contributing factor, seems likely enough.

Doesn't even make sense considering it'd take just as much if not less time to animate a kiss/hug compared to random one off animations that appear throughout. Millium's animations in CS1/2 come to mind, and i'd imagine there's similar in CS3 They don't have any bloody excuse, while I don't like it making Alisa the main focus is fair enough, but deliberately shafting other girls is just shitting on your fans.

So there's still hope for Claire/Aurelia/Duvalie
I think this is what battered wife syndrome feels like at this point

Yeah I choose to hope. There's still one last game. Also Agate not really working to subvert people's expectations here.

I don't have any other sources, sorry. That's all I got.

I want it, but I doubt.

What else can you expect from a characters whose gimmick was to gain CP ?

It's good to see my girl again!

best girl

That's a big phone

Excellent post.

A jrpg party roster where I can't see a single character under 18.
How many years has it been since I have seen something so glorious.

Did you not see Tita?

Reminder to
SPOILER THE SPOILERS

And if you can't do that, then fuck off to 4chan where everyone spoils everything because fuck you

Shit missed her behind Olivier's arm, well mostly 18+

Fyi my computer died, so making an OP from my phone would be very hard. I'd appreciate it if someone could take over for a while.

If I've already missed character notes in Cold Steel II, is there any reason to continue collecting them all on my first playthrough? Won't I just have to do it all over again on my second unless I waste a point on preserve the notebook?

Some character notes are behind bonding events. You can't get all character notes on the first playthrough.

I don't know if you can collect all on your first playthrough or at least with out doing it a singular specific way
If you've already missed one assuming you want 100% and/or platinum and don't wanna reload then there's definitely no point.
Personally I just went for whoever I wanted first playthrough then went for perfect chara notes on 2nd.

Some are behind bonding events, but there's always enough bonding points get them all, usually with one extra.

Well I did mis something. You need 50% character note completion to get the medal of love from Alfin.

Actually, no. I did have enough.

Agreed it was a big disappointment to hear the bare bones OST in a series with such amazing tracks as Ys.

Also, why is Hugo from origin such a emo? played as Yunica and now started playing as Hugo, i'm finishing guilty fire and he is fucking insufferable, demon girl want his D hard and he just keeps talking about how his brother is better than him.
I know i shouldn't expect much from a mage, but damn, at least respect your elders, guy disrespects everyone.

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So much stuff happens in Chapter 1 that I actually thought I had finished Chapter 2 at first when it actually ended. The amount of ground they cover in a few days in this game is crazy.

Best chapter 1 in series history. Chapter 2 is a little less happening but still very good. Then chapter 3 is insane and it keeps building from there. Remember when chapter 1 of FC was looking for a lost airship? Or in Zero when were investigating some wolves? Or in CS when you were looking for some vandals and stolen property? CS3 just turns up the heat from word go.

yeah there were several events in chapter 1 alone that could have been the end of a chapter in FC or Zero. Also, there's a ton less time skipping. If you see the calendar, chances are you're only going to skip ahead to the next day or something. April 22nd-24th had so much stuff happening, for example.

Wait, when Kondo said we were 60% done he was referring to the "sen no kiseki arc", i.e. he's including CS4 or CS3 part 2 whatever they call it
Assuming that it's of similar length and density to CS3 that means the plot is now much bigger than expected, or at least it's gonna last longer, i.e. if the Erebonia arc is bigger but still within the 60% boundary, the Calvard arc must be bigger than expected also.
I'm guessing here but i'd assume something along the lines of
Liberl - 10%
Crossbell - 20%
Erebonia - 35%
Calvard - 30%
Finale - 5%
Going by Kondo's comments regarding each game's plot significance and contribution to the overall story Liberl kinda fucks things up due to TiTS1 not being too plot relevant but adding to length though
due to overlap it's hard to fairly judge but for speculative purposes regarding Calvard it does
CS1/2 are both around 80+ hour games, for most players at least and for a single play though, with CS3, both parts, i'd assume 200 hours, hence Calvard should be 300+ at least, significantly more than earlier assumptions based on CS3's initial assumed length.
apologies if this is incoherent I've had too much to drink

Finally they've fixed one of the big issues many have, maybe next time they'll figure out how to properly size a game in advance :^)

Someone please make a new OP.

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