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Nothing fucking happens, also cool civil war where literally one person dies
Can be seen in my review of the balld of buster scruggs
this game would be a fat 6 if not the for the ending LMAOOOO
it's good
My least favorite game in the series. Weak pacing and story telling relative to the rest of the games. Had a great ending however.
Just finished Cold Steel 2. I can barely see the screen as my vision is mostly obscured by the fresh tears of finishing what is now, without a doubt, my favorite completed work of fiction across all mediums. I am shaking and slamming my head on the nearest table trying to comprehend how a story this masterful can exist.
It's, uh... more Cold Steel, I guess. The music is absolutely fantastic, though.
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It's weird to write a review about this because if you're interested in this game, you need to start with Cold Steel 1 because the two games are pretty much two halves of one enormous RPG. If you played Cold Steel 1 and don't already feel the need to play Cold Steel 2, then I'm not sure what I would say to convince you otherwise. I rate it somewhat lower than CS1 because it lacks some of the novelty and variety in 1 but still found it to be a very enjoyable experience all the same. If you don't know and love at least some of the class already, then this game won't have much for you. Everything you loved or hated about CS1 remains true in CS2. Again, the PS4 version (and PC version i'm told) gets a lot of credit for features that smooth out the tedious parts of the experience. And just like Cold Steel 1, it shows you ever more of the larger world. If I wasn't burnt out on this form of gameplay at the moment (150 hours between CS1 and CS2 back to back) then I'd be starting the Sky trilogy right away. The game expands your scope of the larger world. I can't say that I'm always thinking that what I'm playing is the greatest thing ever, but I am never not interested in what comes next. Good game. Once I'm not exhausted by the mere sight of a attack menu, I'll be back to the series to play Skys and then those other two ones that haven't been localized yet.
I hate this game
Kind of a decent game. The battle mechanics are really enjoyable and Falcom really hammered the parts that were odd in the first part, but instead they added several postgame and extra parts that didn't feel compelling and felt more like grinding. Story is find, with some great and some great meme moments but also really boring bits where I had to press X because to me it felt like they weren't telling me anything attractive. The ending is a nice climax, but sadly the extra bits are more compelling mechanically than narrative-wise. In general, the game is a mess, but a fun mess with some very nice bits that at least made you feel tense and engaged. It's a shame the whole was more bland than it pretended to, but I applaud how ambitious they were and even how well they managed to convey some bits that were very animeish even to my taste (and I'm a hardcore anime fan, so...).
Not quite as enjoyable as the original Trails of Cold Steel for me. However it takes everything the original does and ramps it up to 11. Great characters, fascinating world and a really fun battle system.
eugh
CS2 GOAT nothing more to say
Uhhh, nice to snowboard you?
While I find the games plot slightly better than Cold Steel 1. The game pretty much has the same problems I had with the first one. The biggest issue I have with these games is that I failed to connect to the characters as most feel generic or boring.
it's only better than the first on the merit that things actually happen
This review contains spoilers
civil war where no one dies sums up this game nicely. class 7 is still extremely boring. most skippable kiseki game by far. at least the music is really good.
A bloated mess that tries its hardest to hook you back in its last two hours.
Towa with a hat
This game gave me diabetes
Cowabunga... Cow-a-FUCKIN' PIECE OF DOGSHIT! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick! This game is as appealing as a fuckin' ooze-infested dirty fuckin' sewer rat shit! I've had more fun playing with dog turds! Shredder's my ass and Splinter's my balls, this game is an inside-out asshole regurgitated putrid anal fecal matter! I'd rather fuckin' yank all the hairs out of my scrotum! I'd rather drink diarrhea vomited out of a buffalo's anus! It suckin' fucks, it fuckin' sucks, IT FUCKIN' BLOWS, IT'S A PIECE OF SHIT... and I don't like it.
Greatest of all time. Zenith of the medium. Hallmark of media. Gold standard of storytelling. Apogee of creativity. Vertex of invention. Crest of ingenuity. Acme of imagination. Pinnacle of innovation. Epic of epics. Legend among legends. Peak fiction. CS2 banged my wife and they had my consent, because i knew i could never compare.
pico ficção pico ficção pico ficção pico ficção tesão gozão melhor dos melhores ápice da narrativa 10 dos /10s
If you haven't played the first Cold Steel yet you should probably stop reading this review and go do that now.
All Trails games are amazing and Cold Steel II is no different. The gameplay was improved with some fun new battle mechanics, the story was an emotional juggernaut and witnessing the culmination of all the world building the first game set up was just so incredibly beautiful. Plus there were plenty of great twists to keep me interested in what will come among the future installments as well.
Spending over 140 hours between the first 2 Cold Steel games over the course of 2 weeks in May of 2020 are still some of my fondest memories from that year and really got me so attached to the entire cast of characters, maybe because I played both games directly back to back I felt an even stronger connection to it, but seeing this chapter come to a close in the story was just so emotional for me. Before that I hadn't really cried at a game in awhile...Cold Steel II made that happen on 3 separate occasions.
And on that note, much like the first game I really can't recommend this one enough as well. Together the two form an absolutely incredible story arc rife with exciting twists and turns at every new event and a cast of truly unforgettable characters.
All Trails games are amazing and Cold Steel II is no different. The gameplay was improved with some fun new battle mechanics, the story was an emotional juggernaut and witnessing the culmination of all the world building the first game set up was just so incredibly beautiful. Plus there were plenty of great twists to keep me interested in what will come among the future installments as well.
Spending over 140 hours between the first 2 Cold Steel games over the course of 2 weeks in May of 2020 are still some of my fondest memories from that year and really got me so attached to the entire cast of characters, maybe because I played both games directly back to back I felt an even stronger connection to it, but seeing this chapter come to a close in the story was just so emotional for me. Before that I hadn't really cried at a game in awhile...Cold Steel II made that happen on 3 separate occasions.
And on that note, much like the first game I really can't recommend this one enough as well. Together the two form an absolutely incredible story arc rife with exciting twists and turns at every new event and a cast of truly unforgettable characters.
Trails of Cold Steel II…. where to start.. Well I think the game is just Bad. Literally it’s beyond saving me, but since Trails fans won’t probably like that, let’s start with the development of Cold Steel II and why the game was beyond saving from the beginning.
We are back in back 2013 and Cold Steel I was in development, stuff wasn’t going well, Falcom struggling with working on PS3 and PS vita hardware at the same time, Cold Steel clearly wouldn’t be finish for September, so what they can do? Well they can completely remove the final chapter of it and transform it as a whole game later. So Cold Steel 1 release, the game have many problems on launch etc, but non-relevant for the review. Then you arrive at the moment that would be the climax pre final chapter like in Ao and the… the game end here ? So this is where Cold Steel II start, a final chapter in Ao no Kiseki scale transformed into a whole game, what could have go wrong…. Everything.
Between the game trying to feel for stuff that clearly need more character developments before, whole character development lock behind bonding events, stuff that was cut from CS1 because of the same reasons as cold steel becoming relevant to the story and just confuse people who didn’t read the material outside of the games, strange love interest stuff that shouldn’t happen in a series with a supposed one canon (Ao have the same problem, I’m not Crossbell is perfect mode dw) a broken battle system clearly not intended to have characters at this level at the end etc.
Even without talking about the systems and development, I think too the main story have so many flaws everywhere, like it’s literally impossible feel anything about the noble alliance because of how much they were showed as cartoon villains, why I should care for that dude death ? Because they gave us a backstory about Osborne being bad guy toward him like 2-3 hours before ? nah this won’t make me feel anything toward him or anyone else in the noble alliance. Timeline being completely broken and don’t make any sense at some points because of the calendar system and the game happening at the same moment as Ao, like Duvalie going constantly between Erebonia and Crossbell like this ??? Oh yeah about the villains, the game turn way too much around a structured repeated system that all the villains are always in mode “I’m holding back lol” because apparently each act part in act 1 needed a “ouroboros” members at the end with the same schema. I think too the game should have end at the finale and the divertissement probably being the intro of CS3 and plan more some stuff to have avoid shit like black record in NG+ or the whole last section with an ass dungeon with the most useless boss in the whole series.
I could probably keep going on I guess, but I already expect that review to be memed on by some big cold steel defenders and probably use it as a reason to on Crossbell because a of Crossbell fan attacked some cold steel game, don’t worry I won’t review CS4, I’m not using my energy for that game lol.
We are back in back 2013 and Cold Steel I was in development, stuff wasn’t going well, Falcom struggling with working on PS3 and PS vita hardware at the same time, Cold Steel clearly wouldn’t be finish for September, so what they can do? Well they can completely remove the final chapter of it and transform it as a whole game later. So Cold Steel 1 release, the game have many problems on launch etc, but non-relevant for the review. Then you arrive at the moment that would be the climax pre final chapter like in Ao and the… the game end here ? So this is where Cold Steel II start, a final chapter in Ao no Kiseki scale transformed into a whole game, what could have go wrong…. Everything.
Between the game trying to feel for stuff that clearly need more character developments before, whole character development lock behind bonding events, stuff that was cut from CS1 because of the same reasons as cold steel becoming relevant to the story and just confuse people who didn’t read the material outside of the games, strange love interest stuff that shouldn’t happen in a series with a supposed one canon (Ao have the same problem, I’m not Crossbell is perfect mode dw) a broken battle system clearly not intended to have characters at this level at the end etc.
Even without talking about the systems and development, I think too the main story have so many flaws everywhere, like it’s literally impossible feel anything about the noble alliance because of how much they were showed as cartoon villains, why I should care for that dude death ? Because they gave us a backstory about Osborne being bad guy toward him like 2-3 hours before ? nah this won’t make me feel anything toward him or anyone else in the noble alliance. Timeline being completely broken and don’t make any sense at some points because of the calendar system and the game happening at the same moment as Ao, like Duvalie going constantly between Erebonia and Crossbell like this ??? Oh yeah about the villains, the game turn way too much around a structured repeated system that all the villains are always in mode “I’m holding back lol” because apparently each act part in act 1 needed a “ouroboros” members at the end with the same schema. I think too the game should have end at the finale and the divertissement probably being the intro of CS3 and plan more some stuff to have avoid shit like black record in NG+ or the whole last section with an ass dungeon with the most useless boss in the whole series.
I could probably keep going on I guess, but I already expect that review to be memed on by some big cold steel defenders and probably use it as a reason to on Crossbell because a of Crossbell fan attacked some cold steel game, don’t worry I won’t review CS4, I’m not using my energy for that game lol.
this game takes 80 hours to get good
Crow Armbrust II
haha..........