NIHON FALCOM THREAD: Trails of Rean's Despair Edition

For CS, customize characters against their type. Turn Laura into a mage, turn Emma into an attacker, etc.

I don't know how well that'll work though.

Fuck it, i'll do it
after playing through SC on nightmare, never attempt it first time through like I did, everything seems easy in comparison

Also, does anybody know an good glues for nendos, my Estelle is too loose thank god it's not Renne, I can imagine the memes to properly pose/use.

I pray CS3/4 will breed some kiseki scales and not just nedos, everything I love is denied proper figmas, or at least ones I want

I saw a decent Rixia garage kit, but the color was just off enough to trigger my tism.

I've just completed the first chapter of Trails in the Sky.
Shit was better than I ever thought it would be, and I don't even like turnbased games.
Now I'm off to the second chapter, also, cannon loli the best.

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Tita grows up even better.

I'm at the first phase of the final boss in TitS FC and I can't not get my shit pushed in. I haven't been able to beat this phase.

What am I doing something wrong?
Here's my orbment setups at the moment.
All my characters are just a bit over 30, level-wise. They all have the best gear from the Grancel Weapon Shop afaik (can't really speak for Khloe, but I know Zin/Joshua/Estelle do) In fact, Joshua and Zin have those weapons from the Sewers too.

I want to protect Tita

I had trouble with him at level 39 and all the epic gear you get in the Aureole.
Get back and farm nigga.

do you have at least some weapons from the last dungeon?

Also i was lv 35/36 when i finished so i can't say for sure if you will be able to do it with lv 30.

you can do it user i hope you enjoy the ending

Unless something changed, why do you have both defense and attack on Zin? As I remember they pretty much cancel each other out.
I also find that speed is king. Be it through action and/or cast.

It been a bit too long since I played FC and SC so now I feel like replaying them.

nah they don't.
Attack will reduce your Defense, but Defense doesn't reduce Attack. Still, may be unnecessary though. The defense specifically is cancelling out the LOWERED Defense that the Attack Quartz brings. But the Attack boost is still there. Especially since he's worthless when it comes to arts. He's a good damage soaker though but the final boss and his goonies are Resistant to Taunt.

WEW. I haven't had to farm for shit except when it came to getting some Sepith for slots.

looks like I just need to farm then I guess.

Huh. I mis-remembered since I looked at my save and I had a similar setup to your Zin for Agate. Cut me some slack since it has been 3 to 4 years.

I'm not trying to be harsh, just explaining friend.
However, i've spent the last 3 or so hours going back through the ruins and looting every chest I've come across, killing the enemies that ambush you in those chests, etc.

Right now my setup is Estelle/Josh/Tita/Khloe.
Mainly swapping Tita over Zin just to see if her basic attack will be worth having since it has an Area (M) effect. Plus she can actually do some damage with arts. Wound up totally overhauling everyone's orbments for the most part.

You need all characters with Action 3, use speed buffs and 2 characters that could easily set up heals and Earth Wall. Easy peasy.

Holy hell, I just finished FC.
I need to let that soak in.

Yeah that's actually what I wound up doing Action 2s/Action 3s/Cast 2s/etc. I didn't even bother using stuff like Earth Wall or Earth Guard. Swapping Tita out for Zin was a good move thanks to her range, made the first phase ez-pz. The other two phases weren't bad either, didn't have to even retry the fight. That is all of course after spending 3 or 4 hours grinding characters/sepith and looting the final dungeon for all the good gear.

FUCK TRAILS WHENS YS
I WANT TO KNOW IF 8 WAS THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN OR NOT

Did you had fun with the ending

nobody had fun in that scenario except for maybe that certain sneaky motherfucker that i always had a funny feeling about since meeting him in Amberl Tower

The final two phases of the boss were fun though

How can you say it's not fun when your reactions are so cute

Now start up SC and tells how it goes.

tfw seeing someone new getting into the series

y-you too

but seriously, I was suspicious of that motherfucker as soon as I saved his ass in the tower. But I don't know if the game MEANT for me to be, or if that was all ME being suspicious. I don't recall Joshua saying/thinking anything in-game about being suspicious of him.

Will-do. I'll start it tomorrow sometime before work probably. Or i'll take a few days break from it before returning. Haven't decided.

that is to say about that one particular character i didn't have a clue as to the depth of his involvement, nor would I have even remotely guessed things would be the way the are. When I first saved him, he just kinda seemed distrustful; that weird feeling you get in your gut

Joshua started feeling sick, the first time you saw him.

That's done in purpose to make you suspect him but because you have NOTHING to remotely think that there's more to it, you don't know what to think. There are also 0 reasons to think he sin't a good guy, plus the game doesn't name him at all in the last hours so by the ending you compeltely forgot about him.

That was a great foreshading.

I also believe that there is a VERY brief moment where he opens his eyes in his portrait and gives a sinister look before going back to normal.

To make company to the other user.
i'm in chapter 8 in SC, are the hidden quests worth or should i rush to the story?

Depends, do you want a gladiator belt/headband at the start of The 3rd?

if posible, then yes.

Then get your ass in gear, bracer.
Or don't because the 3rd is stupidly easy after you get Tita and Miltary Uniform Fetish Man. You'll know why when you play it.

So are we going to hear anything about a CS3 English release this year? Falcom is letting the days go by.

I really hope so. I understand waiting until it's fully released to START localizing it, but XSeed feels like they take way too long to start anyway.

JRPG rule 101: do not trust members of the cloth

I don't know were this series is going but I'm still expecting the Church to have dark secrets.

Sadly I'm beginning to suspect Falcom is waiting for CS4 to come out and then will handle both games with a single deal, like what happened with CS1 and 2.

While they do some sketchy stuff, The Church has been portrayed as mostly heroic in the entire series, a rarity for JRPGs. Kevin is actually a cool and interesting character, though it takes a while for that to become apparent.

ah right so that's what it was

this as well. He kinda reminds me of Hazama from BlazBlue before he was observed by Noel and became Terumi again

Funny you should mention Noel Vermillion. This is Noel Seeker from Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure. Pretty sure the Trails one was basically a send up.

Just went through my Senior Notebook and HOLY HELL YES.
and….i can also use food to attack enemies now?

Nice! Makes me wonder if she has anything at all to do with Professor Alba
why must we suffer like this
now I'm gonna have to just jump straight into Cold Steel after finishing TitS the 3rd

the ft of zero may be finished by the first half of this year. pray to Aidios

I don't know what SC is doing to me, I feel genuinely happy interacting with the people I met in FC.

How is Tokyo Xanadu? I hear people describe it as Falcom basically going 'Fuck it, we're making a Persona game'.

That's the beauty of these games. That's why I never got the bitching about the school in CS1. I lived going back to Trista every chapter to see what the townspeople and students were up to.

CS3 is even better about this, because Teacher!Rean has more reason to be attached to his students and the fact that they're all kind of these underdog troublemakers of the Empire that Rean helps just fosters that much more love for the setting.

ALL the games are like that. When you play the second or third game in each series they bring back old characters and there's genuine joy to be interacting with them.

I can't wait for CS3.

It's basically an action RPG with Cold Steel bonding events. I don't know much more than that. I heard it was "alright" but the translation is closer to NISA-tier.

I believe you can cook bad food to use as attack items.

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Burn it

we better pray harder

that's pretty interesting.

Oh boy, I might not boycott this like Ys VIII, but damn, I'll wait until it gets a huge price cut.
FUCKLEDUCKS

No memes are a selling point they're supposed to make you buy the game and do it immediately. Since you are so excited to see what new maymays your favorite localizers like.

Including memes is more of a side effect of a bigger problem that has more to do with the laziness of (((localizers))) than it has to do with memes.
If it wasn't memes they do equally retarded shit like replacing original dialogue entirely with ellipses Treehouse or rewriting lines entirely without memes yes, I know they already do that.
Using memes is still a massive
but a lot of (((localizers))) and in some cases retards like the writer(s) of BL2 and equally shit games don't seem to realize or don't care how translating shit as the current "dank" memes rapidly artificially ages a game.
Try playing through Borderlands 2 now.
Notice how it's still a shit game?
Except now it's a shit game WITH memes so old they could be in a museum.
And it was only released in 2012.
And they want to localize games in a way that disrespects the source material and gives them an active shelf life of less than six months?
Fuck (((localization))).
Let the market burn so it can crash and restart.

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I maintain that localization (as it's supposed to be) isn't a bad thing, it's just the word was stolen by people who do way more than what it is supposed to entail. Localization is supposed to mean taking raw, rough translation (which is often a bit of a mess due to the incompatibilities between English and Japanese) and making sound like a phrase that makes sense in English, with the main goal to give the English listener/reader as close to the same experience as a Japanese listener/reader as possible, starting with emotional tone first and working down from there. Example: some jokes/idioms might be senseless in English. So you need to find the closest equivalent. An example of where emotional tone and accuracy differ is the names of Ace Attorney characters. The names are supposed to be goofy puns, but if you don't speak Japanese you won't get that. So the decision was made to change the names to English versions of the puns because it was felt tone was more important than direct translation. Now while I do that agree with every AA decision, I consider that particular choice to be an example of a good localization decision. The problem is a lot of people take it too far.

That's literally just translation.
(((Localization))) has always been about minimal effort and shit releases.
It was never about the games, they were interested in shekels and control.

Localisation is about making games palatable for the mainstream audience.
And then there's the whole ironic weeb crowd.

At least most Japanese games now have dual audio.

The game's name is literally tits
heh

Not true. It was a legitimate word that was stolen by the memester and SJWeeb crowd. They took the word to justify their raping. Just like the word "problematic" used to be an actual word about something that was an actual problem, rather than something that hurt someone's feefees. These types of people always ruin words.

I found this to be a pretty good simile.

why does Ys VII have such fun combat, its so simple and stupid yet enjoyable ??? and is Ys VIII better or worse than VII??

and is Falcom bound by some contract to only use the most generic and dull looking character models and anime style? like seriously, why can't they hire some decent artists who have original styles?

I thought the art for Zero/Ao were amazing because they were done by one of my favourite artists. He also did the art for Baccano! and Ys VII

I like it more than the Cold Steel art. I thought the original Sky art was okay too.

Although I really like VIII's art too. I personally think it's pretty.

You sweet summer child.

That's right, kiddo!

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Hot damn, where the fuck did they found those localizers? The tool shed?

For example Xanadu and trails characters look generic cookie cutter….like they were copied from "anime 101: stereotypes"

The designs aren't really meant to be out there. They're supposed to represent normal everyday people swept up in something bigger.

When you meet people like McBurn in Cold Steel he looks drastically different because he fundamentally is.

That's nice to claim but it's also bullshit.
NoA had people on the NES with content guidelines for (((localized))) titles. archive.fo/CaE09#selection-177.0-245.4
Far before the current SJWs would have even been in school getting their indoctrination training.
(((Localization))) had always been about buttfucking source material.to control what actually gets released in the West.
The only change between 1994 and 2017 is that the excuse has changed from
to any number of
They're all excuses that boil down to

Anyone ever hear the interview with the guy who did like Lunar and stuff. He was furious at Sony for not letting him insert all the sexual inuendo jokes he wanted into Alundra I think. He said without his horrible jokes that the game would never be good, which admits that he thinks the actual game is boring.

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COLD

STEEL

3

W H E N

Where do you fuckers find these Falcom lewds? Pixiv?

better

Yes. And Twitter.

Hopefully not on February 9th.

I've been playing Cold Steel PC again after a bit of a break to play other things. And goddamn, I feel so ashamed of myself. One of my favorite themes in CS2 came from something in CS1, and I never realized it until getting to CS1 Chapter 4 for the second time. The "serious" airship theme and the climax of Phantasmal Blaze. Both were variants of Heimdallr's theme.

Which have their roots in The Final Choice from 3rd, a song heavily tied to Olivier.

Dammit, I really need to play through SC and get to 3rd.

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Someone need to connect up all the music together. It should open up some eyes.

There's a catharsis in permanently locking Vulcan in place with Fie and Rean that feels so good in CS1. Big bad motherfucker waiting with his big gun only to never be able to get a single shot off throughout the entire fight.

This game is a bit tougher than I thought.

That's the lowest I've managed to get her health bar so far after a good 7 or 8 attempts. Am I missing something like maybe a new axe or something? Or is this just a case of gitgud?

Just gotta learn her pattern. Once ya do that she’s ez pz.

I recommend using a guide just to check if you got all the available items from the last area.

ah, finally got it. This game requires me to be a bit more methodical then I thought at first, until now I'd just sort of been running in head-first and smashing everything in the way.

the only thing I missed was an Emerald, which hasn't helped really. I finally gotgud, I think gaining that one additional level helped some though, put my HP to 120 so I had a little more breathing room.

Any news on Ys 8's pc?

None.

I hope Falcom is fuming.

Never ever, user. I assume the incompetent hacks at NISA will give information on Feb 9th during their presentation. Just praying they don’t have any other Falcom games to announce that they’ll be butchering.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Japanese games are very Japanese. But a lot of gamers don't know or care about Japanese culture or history. I mean if all your JRPGs are westernised and you've only listened to dubs (fuck Juri Lowenthal) you're drinking Starbucks. Not Renne's wonderful tea.

Kids nowadays don't appreciate ZnK/Ao 90s looking art style.

Just look at modern anime. That's what people want now.

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Man I fucking love Emma and Laura so much. If Sara wasn't available I'd be all over them. And then Aurelia too… but I hear she's not in the Reanbowl in CS3

Here we go!!

She isn't, but there's always CS4. Given the game split all the romances in CS3 are very half done.

I really hope they botch this one up too.

But it's likely it'll just be passable and things will be quiet.

Didn't they project that it wouldn't release until months later? So we have them bumping up the release of the PC version and the patch, they have an event happening on the 9th, and there are rumors, read rumors, of them being gutted and restructured into NIS International. I feel like they're trying to rush out whatever they have now to get ready for the restructuring.

Yeah, they're rushing it out. Initial screens seems to say that the re-translation looks "okay", but they're just initial screens.

God I fucking hate the games industry. A beta for a single player JRPG?!

And you bet the game will still need 6 months of patches.

Has there been any word on Sen 3 releases for the rest of Asia, specifically the chink version? Because I don't know japanese, and know that they'll probably come out sooner than any english version.

I'm not hopeful.

Day one pirate

is it even worth a pirate with such an awful translation?

Yes, plus its probably getting a fan patch down the line

We aren't sure what the re-translation will be yet. It might be fine because NiSA are just scared and just want everyone off their back. Or they could be vindictive shits for getting called out and be stuffed with memes and "editorializing".

Turn on japanese text and audio then play via google translate. That will be somehow more accurate than NISA's work.

now we're talking, if nothing else at least we'll have that to look forward to

probably would be

not counting on it, personally.

This must be your first rodeo.

They can do it though can't they? They have some shit that was fine don't they. Like Stranger in Sword City or something.

It's everyone's first no company has ever re-localized a game because they fucked up.

It depends on how close they are to running out of funds.
They have a cycle, they'll shit out one decent game every few years to get the schmucks buying their shit for a year or so after that.
This allows them to cuck releases at a rate of 20:1 or even 30:1 on a budget. If they were expecting more money from Ys8 they might actually have to retranslate to get closer to the target.

user, it doesn’t change the fact they are fuck ups. They can hit the retry button all they want but every single attempt they make will end badly.

wtf was the point of this

Happiness stones show up in every arc…

We do not fully know yet, but a wishing stone appears in CS2.

It's in Zero too.

Guys… I just beat Origin with Hugo. My steam account shows that was my first play through.

Why did I remember most of the game on my first play through? Particularly some bosses. Did they just recycle one of the older ones I played and switch some minor things up?

Since I was ~11 I've played through these in the following order:
Ys - The Vanished Omens [SMS]
Ys - Books I&II [TG16-CD]
Ys III - Wanderers From Ys [TG16-CD]
Ys IV - The Dawn of Ys [TG16-CD] (j2e patch)
Ys VI - The Ark of Napishtim [PSP]
Ys Seven [PSP]
Ys - The Oath in Felghana [PC]
and finally
Ys Origin [PC]

I have Epilepsy and I'm worried I played through Origin once before, had a seizure in my sleep and lost the part memory of having played it already…

halp

What the fuck is this post?

Ys 8 is coming to the Switch.

I-I'm so glad we have NISA from now on for newer falcom games I really am looking forward to Sen 3 on the Switch h-haha

It's to be expected user.

Ys 8 on switch
by NISA

The future of Falcom's games in the west is looking bleaker by the day.

At this point I’ve just gone numb. Do you think the Switch port is them going “BUT FALCOM LOOK! I know we fucked you on the PC promise, but we ported it to the Switch!”

So should I just not start the Sen games at this point? I've already bought them but I don't want to start them only to get NISA'd half way through the series.

IT'S OVER

nippon1.jp/news/new_title_interview/

no. No. NO
NO
FUCK IT ALL IT’S TIME TO LEARN JAP

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I told you most Falcom fans were cocksuckers and would buy Ys8, I warned you, I told you this would happen, I told you not to buy this shit, not even second hand.

Well at least all my favorite games from them got localized by everyone else.

What if NISA is sincere about fixing their shit?

They were "sincere" about "releasing Ys 8 to the expected fan standard" before release and look what happened.

Fuck off NISAshill.

Stopped reading right there

If we pretend they actually want to make a good job, they have a lot to make up for.

They were the same image, but the point still stands.

Here's a more up-to-date version of it.

You think it's going to get any better by learning Jap and ignoring localized versions? You think this bullshit will not go beyond western borders and start to infect the games directly during development? Nintendo and square enix have already proven that they are willing to make changes to their games during development based on what they are told by localization companies and/or what they believe what the "west" (screaming banshees and betamales that don't give 2 shits about gaming and want attention) wants. Other companies will soon follow if left unchecked and our enemies unopposed.

In order to stop this, you have to hit them where it hurts: profits. Don't buy any of their games (even via import), remind them with evidence what these scumbag companies are doing to their games and how the actual fans oppose it, inform others interested in these games how bad things are and get them to demand a better product. This sends a stronger message to the devs while hurting localization companies more than just importing than just importing the unpozzed version, as a lot of Japanese devs are really liking the sales they're making from the west and our enemies are taking advantage of that. Stop adding fuel to the demise and you'll be amazed what companies will do to get their real fans back (that or they double down and go bankrupt, which any company deserves if they treat their customers and fans like shit and/or not listen to them)

Yeah that's cool but Falcom is extremely conservative and their main market will always be Japan. They aren't going to change the contents of a game just to cater to a amrket that represents only 15% of their total profits.

May be true now, but I'm seeing this as a slippery slope that other Japanese companies have fallen down on. They could change their practices if they start to see and/or are told by those companies they trust if they believe they will make a better profit than sticking to their guns. It seems less likely that they will change due to how Japanese culture is when it comes to traditions, but if Capcom, Nintendo, Namco/bandai, and Square Enix are any indication, they will make sacrifices to traditions (to varying degrees) if they think they will get more money out of it, all the while not caring about how good or bad the product is until they start making significantly less money.

That entire chart should include some variation of
rather than a single article at the end of them admitting they add "flavor" to translations.
Some retards would incorrectly say flavor is ok, they liken it to "personality" equally shit practice but of course you want your characters to have personality don't you, goy?. Those same retards might be less ok knowing that serious scenes have been seasoned to the equivalent of

Nintendo's and technically Squenix main market is also Japan but they have caved to this sort of shit too.
Nintendo is worth 16 billion dollars 1.469 trillion yen and has a decently sized portion of hardware sales worldwide. Do you really think that this won't hit smaller devs just trying to release on those consoles or using a publisher?
Even if it's just "voluntary" "content guidelines" similar to ESRB ratings which will then definitely not be used to censor shit, because all those AO games that are allowed to exist?
They won't be releasing two versions of a game. It'll just fuck everybody in the long run.
Hardware makers and publishers have some sort of retarded obsession with being as uncontroversial as possible to the detriment of the medium. So unless all the smaller devs start releasing on PC or go full Image Comics and form their own publishing firm with group bargaining eventually even having to make their own hardware if it gets much worse it will affect them far sooner than you'd think.

Those companies are an entirely different issue to me.
They were almost in the first wave of big JP publishers to start coming to PC which sort of encouraged smaller publishers/devs but they did so in a way that preserved the same issues with console gaming and brought their horrid practices with them.

It's a fucking question you niggerlover. Why the fuck did I remember most shit in Origin on my very first play through? Was it a rehash of one those older ones that I played? or did i play it, had another seizure, and forgot that i played it?

You played the game before.

shit

Ys Origin takes place in the Darm Tower from Ys I. Some bosses are from Ys I, too.

You guys don't really know how Falcom operates, right? They still don't let other companies to work on their games until those get released on Japan.

For Falcom the West comes third.

Japan>China/Asia>English

Don't even blame them, most of their sales are not in English speaking territories. Its telling that the Chinese publisher for Cold Steel 3 is faster and more competent in pushing out these titles.

Zwei 1 confirmed to release on Jan 24th for 20 bucks.

Ys 8 pc on 30 january 20198
Better be good.

We know. The loc won’t be. Just pirate it.

This doesn't necessarily mean anything. This is just taking a port that already exists and trying to squeeze more money out of what was already a boondoggle followed by some generic pr speak at the end.

The previews already proved it isn't

Optimism is telling me that this is just a "oh we would like to work with Falcom more" statement and not a definitive "we will be working together"

Started the 3rd on new year's day, currently through chapter 7…
Holy shit what a ride
P.S. Tita's mom is a goddamn cunt

She's probably popping blood vessels in CS3

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That just muddles everything up to an insane degree.

It does. But it's already kind of muddied (NISA publishes for XSeed in Europe, for example)

I know that much, but that scenario Guan pulled out of his ass is taking it to a completely different degree.

Wouldn't they be publishing for Marvelous in Europe since XSEED has been Marvelous USA since 2013 and a subsidiary since 2007?
I thought NISA had been pushing for them (Marvelous) in the EU region previously but had not since around 2009~.
Is it possible XSEED or possibly Marvelous as their parent could disallow the usage of their translation for NISA's port? and hopefully they do so
Can a game really be (((localized))) twice?
Is it possible that the NIS President is speaking optimistically and Falcom wants to do away with them entirely?

We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.

I'm conflicted with Ys Origins.

It was kind of fun at first and I like the aesthetic of the tower and the character art, but it's become more frustrating than anything to play mostly due to the 2.75D style. But a part of me still wants to also try to press on, though I'm certain all that awaits me is just more frustration.

I wouldn't get too worried guys NiSA are the guys who published YSVIII in the west it makes sense for them to also be doing the switch version. Hell they're probably doing it as a make good for all the fuck ups. Now don't forget this is NiSA making a thing they are most likely going to fuck it up and delay it a bunch. Not to mention it being really buggy on release if not melt a couple of switches. Don't lose hope unless Cold Steel 3 is announced by NiSA in February. Hell who knows maybe the Japanese president of NiSA needing to apologize realized what became of NiSA and cleaned house.

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Yeah I know but I'm an optimist I can't help it.

nisa isn't one of those companies you can be optimistic about, they have a proven track record of being utter dogshit

That doesn't explain why your Steam account shows that it was your first playing, unless you played a different version of Origins before.

Doesn't matter it's too late. They've gotten far more then second chances and still continued to fuck up, they don't deserve much more.

I just want XSeed to announce it already. I'm tired of this suspense.

Study Japanese while you're waiting

Same, it'll put most of my fears to rest.

Your right they already MAYBE censored SNK's cute girls fighter.

Guess what game is coming to PC again.

XSeed please. You can take as long as you want. Just don't let NISA get it.

What? I thought it would have a pc release too.

what are those two on either side of Asuka/Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal?

An otome game and fucking Celceta.

Probably a mistake.

blegh
oh so Celceta for PC then. Neato.

This doesn't bode well for CS3 though, unless they're waiting for CS4 as well like an user suggested previously. god Falcom please never give anything to NISA again

There is precedent for waiting for both games to be out. That's how CS1 and 2 were handled. Then again, that deal was made back when Trails was virtually unknown in the west and the only game out over here was FC. So honestly…I have nothing concrete.

Any Falcom community is going to be a dumpster fire if it is ever confirmed that NISA got Cold Steel. I don't look forward to that.

Sadly yes. In addition to ruining the game, all places of discussion would fill with trolls and Nishills in no time flat.

let's hope that's the case and it's not that NISA is already butchering CS3

That's just the trailers. I assume they had to show a "family friendly" one because of Nintendo of America. On the English site of the game all the costumes are still intact. I'm pretty sure they're going to fuck something up really bad, since it's NISA. It's their signature; so I'm just waiting on something concrete.

That'll make me both incredibly angry and sad. As well as new people coming in who never played the previous games because of asinine rules like "dual audio is everything even if the localization is shit"

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I had a feeling someone was going to post this autistic faggot here at some point. Imagine doing that. Imagine going into paint to make your waifu agree with you. Imagine being that autistic.

Isn't mombot just superbus?

This person hasn't been bullied enough in high school.

I'm excited, I replayed the vita version right after I beat the jap version of Ys VIII and it made me realize how much better the bosses and combat was in Celceta.

It is, the game was originally made for PC in japan and xseed already confirmed a PC release for it when it was first announced. It's most likely a mistake.

and if you scroll far enough back into his timeline he defends NISA and actually bought Ys VIII

Was that supposed to be a joke?

No, he just drew Estelle just to espouse his opinion.

Outside of charged attacks being an always on thing I didn't really get this vibe at all.

Sure it is pretty bad now but there's still a bit of hope. Once that is gone…

It won't happen but if it did you could see me posting "smug Renne" from 500 lightyears away.

It won't happen but if it did you could see me posting "raped Renne" from 500 lightyears away.

And just finished the 3rd, had a bit of problems with the final boss but after a couple of deaths I've been able to beat it…
I-I didn't cry at the departure of Renne from Phantasma, I swear

Did you open the doors? A lot of them depict pasts of the characters including Renne's.

Yeah I've opened all the doors, but now that I think about it I've only made the normal arena and completely forgot to revisit it for the higher difficulties…Hope I didn't lost anything storywise.

Nothing story wise. Just gameplay wise. If you beat the nightmare arena with Anelace then jinou powers up and becomes the best weapon in the game.

I see… maybe if 'll ever decide to replay the trilogy I'll go for it.
Now I guess I'll wait for Zero/Ao to get fantranslated, even if there are the two Cold Steel I'd prefer to go by release date.

Zero has a fairly "alright" translation out. It still seems as if most of it is from a machine translation but it's readable/understandable. I played it and enjoyed it.

Ao's current translation gives me a headache, however.

No it isn't. You would know if it was machine translation. Someone tried that with Ao and it was completely unintelligible most of the things me, when it wasn't hilarious (pic related). If I had to make a comparison for what the current Zero translation is like, it's like 90s-early 2000 anime fan subs. They sound retarded to read, but you can at least understand them. By all accounts this is what the Ao translation that's almost done will be like too until Zerker starts editing that too once he's done with Zero.

I know it isn't a machine translation, but to me it seemed close to one. Your comparison is better though.

I did learn a new word from it. "Hardscrabble":.

Wait, let me get this straight, even after the garbage fire that was NISA work in YS8, there is a possibility that Falcom will give more games for them to fuck again?
How stupid Falcom needs to be to do that? or how corrupt they've become?

So is nippon ichi going to ruin the japanese switch release of ys 8 too?

Hard to say right now. I can't imagine the Ys VII fuckup endeared them to Falcom. And from a business perspective since the Ys VIII port already exists, putting a version out in the massively successful Switch makes sense and costs almost nothing. So I wouldn't necessarily say it means anything yet. It's not like Kondo is going to come out and say he's mad. That makes no sense for him to do. He's going to smile and nod and hope people buy Ys VIII and try to make the best out of a bad situation.

When Renne turns into a cake she'll probably be the best one next to Aurelia

I would just call zero terribly wooden, but very understandable and I would say you probably don't lose too much from just diving straight in and playing the currently released version.

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Ah fuck, I know it happened, but for some reason it still slips my mind.

Cake technically just refers to unmarried women. They don't necessarily have to be virgins.

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Yeah, Blade II is kinda better I guess. And Vantage Masters is an actual game.

Love those card designs in CS3.

Blade is frustrating at times when you draw a really shitty hand.

Good thing Blade doesn't even matter.

It's fun. I like little minigames like that. One of the reasons why I like Yakuza so much

I'm not saying otherwise. I can laugh at both my victories and my defeats, because neither outcome makes a difference, my goal was to bond with a classmate.
The R/C Slot Car racing in Yakuza 0 gave me so much nostalgia

It was good; not great, and I can easily say I like Oath and Seven RIP Dogi better.

Fan TL was done by ESL, likely Asians. English is piss easy to learn but a bitch to master.

The ZnK translation pisses off people who's FIRST language is English I find. As a Europoor English is not sacred or special to me. I don't play Japanese games for the Western localisation or Xseeds literary skills. Now Ao no kiseki is Google translate.

PeTio is cute.

Origins has slightly better gameplay but Oath has better practically everything else.

I'll take Altina, please. If she wears her plugsuit

Haven't seen a daki of that, sadly.

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Fishing is pretty nice in this, but is there an easier way to acquire bait besides just fighting mosnters? I like that you can use certain other fish as bait though.

Also, are fish caught (that can't be used as bait) good for anything besides selling?

Fishing doesn't start becoming an important side activity until Zero, but every game from then on highly encourages it. In SC it's only important for one or two quests.

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Roido is ready to go to jail for her.

oh I see

Anyone of you have a strategy for beating Dark Fact?First time ever playing a Falcom game, I can get him down to low health but by that time the bullets chip me away.

Okay nevermind, I just had to stick to the edge and hit him as he was coming by.

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Jesus, that boss turned into a joke. Delay is too strong.

Has anyone actually gotten one of those Ys 8 beta invites yet?

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This is an advanced form of autism, user. Like you replying to a five day old post.

I've just started Chapter 2 in TitS SC, and I've realized that in Ruan, there was a cat-related piece of gear that seemed pretty lame so I didn't buy it. But now I'm in Zeiss and there's another part of it?

Is there just an entire kitty set to be bought and have by the end of the game? Am I / Will I be missing out on something here? Whether it be some sort of bonus side event or something bigger?

Nah, it’s just joke equipment.

There's nothing special with the set, but by equipping all the items your character can turn into the usual "too strong at X but terrible at Y". I think it exchanges defense in favor of speed, which is interesting because speed is important in the game.

oh okay, phew
I'm a little sad but also relieved. I began to think maybe there was maybe some sort of little side event of having a character in the full gear or something. I want a scene of Anelace, Estelle, and Tita all in kitty outfits tbh

ah I see. But i'm not actually missing much of anything then. I always worry I am maybe missing something like that, but at the same time I hate using a guide unless i'm just completely dead in the water, which has only happened a few times across TitS and TitS SC both so far.

Where are you taking that stuff about Ys VIII from? Also, I fucking called that they weren’t even done with it if true.

Does the Ys 7 pc port run at 60 fps? I'm considering replaying the game again since I can't remember anything about it when I emulated.

Of course, it's not a NISA port

Mint

lame

*shirt

Unless Crossbell has the death penalty for that…

I wanna take her hat and rustle her hair

You monster. Calling the FBI and Interpol.

Knowing Falcom and Sen IV, I bet Estelle and Joshua will reappear on 3D. How excited are you for the return of the retard?

She's 21 around CS3.

She's smarter than she acts.

Brittany/Hatsuu is on vacation in England (for some reason). But the fact she's on vacation just hints to me that they're not working on CS3 and it makes me really sad, irritated and scared at the same time.

Why are you stalking her user?

I just follow her on twatter. She tweets everything.

She's said multiple times she's working on a project that's not Trails-related, and apparently it's hard, whatever it is. twitter.com/Hatsuu/status/930556353541582849

steamcommunity.com/games/579180/announcements/detail/1647623139647481008

What that means is they're most likely pushing it behind the Switch release to try to get the last second console shekels before the PC port comes out and doesn't look like shit.
All companies that are "moving" to PC have been doing this for years to get double shekels from retards who buy shit "just to support the port".

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You can't fuck up a PC port if you just never release it.

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How do these retards even figure out how to turn on a computer?

Well see, you know how Doctors and Lawyers in the bottom 20% of their class still graduate but end up being state provided attorneys and chain hospitals?
Comp Sci majors in the bottom 90% of their class get jobs in cubicleland software farms and (((localization))) companies.

NISA really is garbage.

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And Falcom's president is STILL content with working with these shitbags?

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Reminder that it was the NIS head that said he WOULD LIKE to continue their work together. Besides, behind closed doors Kondo is most likely furious.

It does answer why all of their ports have been shit.

how can one company be so fucking incompetent? My sides are fucking splitting.

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Damn right they are.

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S-source on the panda?

As if things couldn't get any worse in the UK, turns out Theresa May supports NISA.

Didn't they hire Durante for this shit? HOW DO YOU FUCK UP THAT HARD?

What does mombot have to do with any of this?

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Durante went to NISA? I certainly hope he doesn't stick with them.

What a fucking joke.

And they're not even going to fix it themselves!

Not really. Durante only had time to look at Ys 8 for a few days, slightly improved the port and gave NISA some advice about how to do shit.

Of course, NISA was claiming that Durante was behind the port for the easy PR.

NISA probably told him to help port the game without touching the programming too. So he probably had to follow their directions.

I also think he's working on CS2's port.

That person claimed mombot was harassing his friend and then mombot called him out on it. He couldn’t provide proof of said harassment so he went into his cryhole and made that.

Yep, he’s working on CS2 PC. Made it so you can load your most recent save directly from the steam menu, bypassing the game’s opening menus completely. The man is magic.

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I remember seeing that. That was fucking magical as hell.

That's how you do a port. I assume he did that by "touching the game's programming", the thing that NISA refused to do.

This is probably why all of NISA's console-to-PC ports are trash.

Mombot (I think) also posted an image of some fag with a Rean avatar. Why are Trails fans cucks?

It’s just the retarded leftists, as usual.

Once any group becomes large enough some of them are bound to be cucks. Just be happy Trails is still niche enough that they're a minority.

Should I finish the last chapter and a half of the shitty Zero translation? I've been wanting to play more Trails recently. Cold Steel 2 PC when? I want phantasmal mirror mods.

Durante also went to go help xseed with one of their SK ports however after a month or so the port was fixed and they learned and are now much better at making PC ports. NiSA still doesn't even know what is happening.

Did you enjoy the shitty Zero translation? If you were having fun, then why not continue?

I was getting annoyed with how all the characters sounded retarded and was going to wait for the proper translation later this year. Also I was emulating the PSP version and wanted to switch to the PC version.

I want to play this game gimme gime

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I am going to be upset if Sakuna's PC version got cancelled.

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin? Bro, Edelweiss developed the game for PC originally. There is no fucking way they would cancel the PC version when that was lead development platform.

fine
nhentai.net/g/211085/

who's this Durante guy? I've never heard of him

He worked on the Cold Steel port and is working on the Cold Steel 2 port.

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HOLY SHIT THIS IS BEAUTIFUL
HOT DAMN

He made the unofficial patch for Dark Souls, that made it possible to change the resolution and rendering quality and to get more then 60fps.

he did that too? he's a fuckin hero.

he's also an sjw apparently

i don't care as long as he doesn't try to impose that bullshit in games he works on. If he's professional enough to keep his politics out of his work, that's just fine by me.

Yeah, agreed.

We'll need a new bread soon.

Freshly baked bread