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Since for some reason my thread was autosaged on /v/ I thought I'd ask you guys here: I just finished the second game in the Trails in the Sky series and this is probably my favorite videogame romance I've ever seen. Are there any other games that actually develop a main couple this well? Some FF games like FFIX come to mind but still in most other JRPGs the couple either isn't given enough time to develop as a couple or one or both are autistic. Western RPGs and new JRPGs are obsessed with the "pick your waifu" thing so those are always tangential at best to the story. I'm yet to finish the 3rd and Zero/Ao so if those are on the same level do tell me, and if this isn't the ideal general to ask point me towards one. From the epilogue of CS2 Rixia and Lloyd didn't look like a couple.
Brandon Brooks
I'm going to put Crossbell behind a door that doesn't show up on the map!
Chase Lewis
Is a bigger slut and a really shitty villain.
Leo Moore
My understanding is that Zero and Ao is similar to CS in the way it handles "romance" with the protag. You get to pick, but they seem to push Elie on you.
I cant think of any other game that told a romance as well as Sky either
Asher Perry
post more duvalie lewd
Cameron Lewis
There's a bunch of ship teasing between characters in most games, aside from the main cast of girls from now on, some others do get some. Otherwise, the romance is more subtle in the next games. Main Girl for Crossbell is Elie, she's the only one who can win.
Zero and Ao don't really have a proper patch out yet, Zero's current one is serviceable since you can make sense out of it, but Ao doesn't really have a patch yet.
Zachary Turner
Actually, every other event with the girls doesn't end up in romance, aside from Elie's. You could probably could Noel's though, since she confesses, but Lloyd withholds on an answer until it's over, without even being all that shocked, while with Elie he makes a really heartfelt confession and kisses her.
Camden Anderson
I noticed that people were talking about CS2 delay mechanics. From what I understood, every source of delay you have is rolled individually and if 1 succeeds, all sources of delay succeeds. I believe the part that speed also affects success rate, but I still don't really understand how
Andrew Stewart
friendly reminder >New CS players We don't give a shit about them.
Matthew Ward
Why do people hate CS2 graphics
Nathan Evans
Which is why people stress getting Sharons unique item I suppose. That would be a max of 5 rolls instead of 4
Blake Murphy
No need to think hard about it, just stack impede or speed quartz and it should work.
Christopher Allen
I do.
Benjamin Ross
Because everyone must have every console in the world.
David Ward
The current director of the Trails franchise called Joshua and Estelle's romance "Embarrassing".
We're never getting another good romance. Falcom sold their soul to the Persona gods in a hope at getting more money. Instead the sales are just as ass as ever and the characters stutter and gawk their way around romance. We'll never get a scene like Estelle shouting that she loves Joshua on top of the castle, no beach scene where they finally reunite, no scene in the palace gardens where Joshua tells Kloe there's no way he'd ever fall in love with her because he's full-on the Estelle train.
Because all of those wonderful moments are embarrassing.
Xavier Garcia
I rate this 6/10.
Jaxson Murphy
Kevin and Ries come pretty close IMO. Nothing is set in stone but there are hints and by the end of the game they're pretty much never leaving each other's side.
You should definitely play 3rd soon. Not only does it have Kevin and Ries like I mentioned, but it also continues to make Estelle and Joshua's relationship more and more based.
Luke Miller
Since Zero, the romance is just "pick your waifu" thing like you mentioned. I rarely play JRPGs for romance though so I dunno what to recommend for you.
I'm going to marry Laura and have 4 little sword autists in Legram.
Easton Thompson
I DON'T NEED CROSSBELL WHEN I HAVE DADDY OSBORNE
Andrew Long
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James Brown
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Tyler Butler
Osbone doesn't even love his own son, let alone a foriegn girl from a captured country.
Chase Gray
>Villain set up for the first half of the story straight up goes "I'm gonna go die in another game now by guys" and walks off-screen Bravo Falcom.
Jack Green
If he didn't love his son he wouldn't have left him with a noble family like the Schwarzer.
Angel Campbell
I thought he's the one spared by SSS.
Landon Jackson
Nope, the one who survived is a random grunt, the leader gets gunned down.
Christian Moore
Considering that Persona 5 sold more than all the Trails games combined, he has a point.
Matthew Wilson
The comparisons to Persona are pretty tiring. People who dont care about JRPGs can rightly dismiss them as the same shit, but other than anime high school aspects, and turn based combat, they're going for completly different things. Its not like Persona invented the cliches and setting
Alexander Ross
But the turn based combat is completely different.
Jose Powell
People who hate turn based combat wont notice, or care
I'd say that's really more about a combination of superior art direction, not trying to sell a single myth arc for decades and actually trying to sell the product to more mainstream JRPG consumers. Persona didn't take off until they reinvented it, and it still took years to build up awareness.
Alexander King
I love my big sister and weird uncle!
Benjamin Myers
u wat m8?
Nathan Clark
Is there a problem?
Michael Edwards
>user too poor to eat fish and chips C'mon m8. Work a little harder because only food and video games give joy in life.
Carson Morales
Now he's sneering at him and calling him worthless because he won't be part of his military machine.
Gabriel Hughes
What seems to be the problem?
Jose Robinson
Whats ths point really of making u have a harem when they are gonna force the main girl?Also is wazy backstory stuck In bond events?
William Wright
He didnt say It is Embarrassing. He said it could be done better. Stop doing this "nasu cant write shit" meme. and I do agree with what he said. their romance in FC wasnt that good but a lot was fixed in SC, 3rd and beyond.(zero,ao)
Logan Sullivan
Pre-order her game and give her back her Crossbell.
Jacob Gomez
Yes
Liam Harris
I genuinely did not enjoy using Estelle in any of the Sky games. Stats-wise, she's supposed to be a jill-of-all-trades, but the divide is too close to the middle, leaving not enough substance on either side. I found her lacking whether I used her to attack physically or with Arts. In FC, I intended to use Estelle mainly for physical, but still used Arts when it got serious, given how good it was in that game. In SC, she usually did nearly zero damage with Arts since I never gave her the ATS-boosting accessory, with only doing just barely enough damage with STR up buffs. I benched her completely in TC except where forced. Every other character has more bias toward one side such that they're actually good at what they're doing, with the other side there as backup.
Her crafts are good for clearing trash mobs though.
Easton Lopez
Ah. Guess I will work on him in my first playthough. Thanks user
Hunter King
>fish and chips sitting in front of hotdogs... wut
Julian Edwards
Reminds me of jelly donuts.
Charles Adams
Estelle was pretty unremarkable in combat, but she made up for it with her can-do atittude.
Ethan Reed
I only use her as a buff bot and item spammer.
Josiah Smith
They should have named it Legend of Heroes: Trails of Homosexuality instead of Zero.
Robert Flores
Tears of Vermillion is Legend of Homos.
Easton Green
Look at the middle of the table, numbskull.
Owen Hughes
Julius in Coldsteel is Estelle done right.
Leo Flores
>Julius Who?
Xavier Ortiz
Jusis.
Brayden Campbell
>He doesn't read Madrigal of the White Magnolia.
Aaron Lopez
Zero is low-key. Most of the yaoi/yuribait was in Ao
Andrew Lee
Thor or Chevalier?
Isaiah White
It's not at all unusual for a chippy to sell other foods in addition to fish and chips.
Lincoln Jenkins
They're both kinda crap, so it doesn't really matter. You get the other one later anyways.
Evan Kelly
Yeah, but it's like meat pies and other fried bits. Not that i'm surprised a jappo company doesn't know what a chippy's menu is like.
Ethan Howard
I don't get it
Kevin Powell
Ne'er been to the ol' chippy mate?
Alexander Ward
Twitter. Though it's some artist's work
Dominic Williams
You can also get things like burgers and sausages, depending on the shop. The one where I used to live did those. They were pretty dire.
Christopher Russell
Oh no. Tiosuke is breaking down.
Kayden Reyes
Who else day 1 buy Ricotta's game on Steam?
Jayden Evans
I'm going to permanently eject her (male) from the active party.
Aiden Stewart
Ejaculate? Please don't be so lewd.
Nathaniel Nguyen
Kondo didn't even direct Cold Steel
Jack Reed
Thors. The HP and EP healing properties is useful.
You mean in a second playthrough, right? Can't get both unless you carry one over for NG+.
Christian Barnes
What would Jesus do?
Cameron Lopez
>16:40 >the site is still not updated What do they mean by this?
Easton Diaz
N-new trailer?
Evan Ortiz
>not a mishy portrait That's just giving the mystery away.
Julian Adams
And Laura just destroyed an entire department store full of orbal appliances by being retarded.
I love her.
Jackson Bell
Falcom is a business. They are not Vincent van Gogh doing it for art.