As a Trails hater, I wholeheartedly disagree with you. I don’t think anyone should ever play these games, except Zero and Azure. Ignore everything else and pretend they don’t exist.
As a Trails hater, I wholeheartedly disagree with you. I don’t think anyone should ever play these games, except Zero and Azure. Ignore everything else and pretend they don’t exist.
slimerancher@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Why do you hate them?
Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
The overarching story is just terrible and makes no sense, but the absolute worst are definitely the villains. You constantly get blue balled, every time you win the fights, but then lose in cutscenes, so you end up pretty much going nowhere.
Cold Steel constantly resets most progression at the start of each game, so you end up just spinning wheels for hours on end, building a relationship with characters that shouldn’t matter, until there’s a tiny bit of story (that contributes to the overarching plot) at the end of the game.
The exception in the series for me were Zero and Azure, which I genuinely liked, because of the much smaller setting and since it has nothing to do with the rest of the series, until the end of Azure, where some connection to the rest of the games is shoehorned in.
Katana314@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Wtf, Azure was the worst of those issues. Crossbell gets attacked by about a dozen villains, and your police squadron never gets to actually “defeat” any of them until the very last chapter.
Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
Imma be honest, I played those games all back-to-back in 2020, Sky SC to CS3, 500 hours of Trails in two months, so I don’t remember a lot about all of these.
It definitely does have some of these terrible moments, which is why I didn’t like it as much as Zero, but I still liked the smaller region more than the other games, along with the rest of the characters.