Hiku said:
outlawauron said:
Correct. Trails in the Sky is set chronologically before Cold Steel, so you see older version of characters in Cold Steel that were main characters in Trails in the Sky. In the third Cold Steel game, you have the main characters from Trails in the Sky and the two Crossbell games (Ao no Kiseki and Zero no Kiseki) as major and important characters in the overall plot.
It's easier to think of the mini-series as the story of individual nations in the world. Cold Steel is all about Erebonia. Trails in the Sky is about Liberl. Zero/Ao no Kiseki is about Crossbell. They're all neighboring nations.
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That sounds a bit like Suikoden, or the Atelier series. Which reminds me, someone told me a certain game series had mechanics from Suikoden, but I forgot what game they were talking about exactly. But I think it was either Trails in the Sky or Trails of Cold Steel.
I do like that sort of world building. And if I like the game, I'll look into the previous games one way or another. Whether I play them or look up the story online.
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World and character building is fantastic in the series. So much depth and you can just keep pulling back the layers. The starting points I recommend in Trails in the Sky FC and then Trails in Cold Steel 1. Sky FC is a better starting point story wise, but it's quite old at this point and most people struggle with playing a 15 year old PSP game. So, Cold Steel is a great second option.