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5/31/2025, 6:22:41 AM
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Trails of Cold Steel 2, followed by 1 and Reverie.
1 got me thoroughly invested in the characters and Erebonia, and 2 was very atmospheric starting with Rean alone in the mountains and then hiking down Toval and going cross country in occupied territory. Reuniting with characters was emotional. The mech duels were climatic. The enemy raiding Ymir and taking Rean hostage felt high pressure. Talking to the enemies humanized them, and then you had the cool and high pressure escape sequence. There was some Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 coziness as you got an airship and were let loose to go do some adventuring. Vulcan's suicide was sad. Schmidt was an interesting character, though you get better exposed to him in CS3. The duel with Crow atop the Infernal Castle was climatic, and then you had the final battle in which a hero actually died. Then you had the impactful twist that it was all for nothing, everyone was conned. Evil won. But now the cold war has escalated into a hot one and Rean has to fight for a man he hates in order to protect his people from being destroyed and impoverished by the archenemy. So you have this bittersweet ending where evil won but life goes on and the people adjust. You get a melancholic feeling in the final last outting episode as your friends have graduated ahead of you and moving on with their lives, living an angry Rean behind.
I enjoyed the setting, characters, mechs, combat and character building, and the mechs.
1/2
Trails of Cold Steel 2, followed by 1 and Reverie.
1 got me thoroughly invested in the characters and Erebonia, and 2 was very atmospheric starting with Rean alone in the mountains and then hiking down Toval and going cross country in occupied territory. Reuniting with characters was emotional. The mech duels were climatic. The enemy raiding Ymir and taking Rean hostage felt high pressure. Talking to the enemies humanized them, and then you had the cool and high pressure escape sequence. There was some Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 coziness as you got an airship and were let loose to go do some adventuring. Vulcan's suicide was sad. Schmidt was an interesting character, though you get better exposed to him in CS3. The duel with Crow atop the Infernal Castle was climatic, and then you had the final battle in which a hero actually died. Then you had the impactful twist that it was all for nothing, everyone was conned. Evil won. But now the cold war has escalated into a hot one and Rean has to fight for a man he hates in order to protect his people from being destroyed and impoverished by the archenemy. So you have this bittersweet ending where evil won but life goes on and the people adjust. You get a melancholic feeling in the final last outting episode as your friends have graduated ahead of you and moving on with their lives, living an angry Rean behind.
I enjoyed the setting, characters, mechs, combat and character building, and the mechs.
1/2
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