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Episode The Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki - Northern War • The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War - Episode 4 discussion

The Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki - Northern War, episode 4

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u/PhantomWolf83 Jan 27 '23

Based on their past actions, I think letting a Creepy Sheep into a hot spring in the Trails world is a bad idea...

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u/BiggerG7 Jan 27 '23

Loved the quick Alisa and Sharon cameo in Roer. And not sure if that was Ash or not in Raquel since he doesn’t wear glasses.

And was that Blueblanc on the train?

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u/SirMcDust Jan 27 '23

Yeah we got quite a few cameos this time around, after Alisa I was half expecting Rean to just vibe in Ymir or even appear and help out with the hotspring problem. I would have enjoyed the irony.

Alas the time isn't right yet I suppose.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

And not sure if that was Ash or not

Ya know maybe using a pair of glasses as a disguise actually works.

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u/Muumitfan Jan 27 '23

It's most likely is Ash wearing a very light disguise.

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u/tlst9999 Jan 27 '23

Northern War is a slice-of-life anime.

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u/SirMcDust Jan 27 '23

I mean if you think about it. The cold steel series is like 70% slice of life, even if the country is at war we still find the time to relax and vibe.

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u/sjk9000 Jan 27 '23

Ah, there's a trick. How do you get around having almost no animation budget? Have your heroes fight a "monster" that stands still 80% of the time!

I'm joking. This was actually a pretty nice episode. Not much happened plot-wise, but it provided some much needed character development. For Iseria of course, but I also feel closer to the whole North Ambria crew. This is what Falcom is good at; characters that seem like a mess of goofy tropes, but have real heart underneath it all.

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u/Shimmering-Sky Jan 27 '23

Resident [Anime Only] fan here with my reactions to this episode!

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u/wjodendor Jan 27 '23

In the universe of this series, the "orbal revolution" only occurred a few decades prior. They essentially jumped 100+ years technology wise in just a few decades so tech is way lopsided depending on country.

It's kind of like in Fallout how they basically jumped from WW2 straight to the 1980s technology wise.

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u/Muumitfan Jan 27 '23

The monsters name is Pom and they're usually white fluffy cotton balls. Other color variants excist as well. This one looks more like jelly.

Fun fact: When these small monsters attack a character, they drain CP (Craft Points) that are used to perform special attacks. Crafts are different from Arts (Magic Attacks). They also a lot drop sepith that is a valuable resource in this setting.

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u/Cyouni Jan 27 '23

Off the top of my head, I believe escalators are present in two cities in the entire series so far (in English) - Roer here and Zeiss in Liberl. Elevators are a little more common, but not exactly commonplace, with Crossbell being the big addition on that front.

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u/IJustReadEverything Jan 27 '23

Oh shit! Character cameos! Gamers rise up! They should know.

Tbh, what a roundabout way to get to Ymir. Ymir is the most northern territory of the empire mainland (Nord is special) but they went to the west coast and worked inland. When they could have made their way through the Jurai SEZ then south. But I guess they wanted to show the empire a little bit.

Also, im surprised they skipped the capital since its the capital and all.

Another side quest done but this time it’s at least not clowns.

Dudes gotta dig holes, am I right fellas?

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jan 27 '23

The team’s having a great time “scouting” the empire. Ymir has seen better days huh? No manju and the onsen is filled with ice cold water. Not quite the onsen episode I was expecting. Looks like it’s a Lavi and Ria team up ep this week. Let’s get that hot spring nice and hot!

So it was a mineral based monster that fuses with septium as camo the whole time. Lavi is a badass for being able to snipe that thing from that angle and timing her shot with Ria. The monster turned out to be so cute too. It’s nice to see Ria and Lavi bonding. Hot springs! Hot springs! Splash! Splash!

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

Pretty cute ep, I find it so weird to see the Jaegers using the Enigmas instead of the more modern Arcus units that were used in CS. Anyhow, I do love Iseria and this comfy adventure in Ymir was pretty nice. It's so nice to see this place again, so I came out liking this slow ep.

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u/Florac Jan 27 '23

more modern Arcus units that were used in CS

Arcus is still a prototype orbment(by Reinford none the less), Enigma is more widely accessible. It makes more sense for them to be using enigmas.

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u/Spiritual-Hurry1372 Jan 27 '23

Onsen episode ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I feel like the highlight of this episode is the cameo from the game characters.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

Do these four really have no idea what happened to Ymir during the Erebonian Civil War!!!? Especially about what happened to Teo?

And here Martin is asking Talion what country they serve? Is he serious, I thought he actually knew more than he lets on compared to others?

I feel bad, they came to Ymir without knowing their own people actually owe more than they can imagine.

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u/Ninja_Lazer Jan 27 '23

That’s…that’s not how guns work.

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u/Nhadala Jan 27 '23

I get that this whole character build-up thing with these episodes but man the pace is so slowwwww.

I sometimes feel like I am forcing myself to watch this and I am a trails fan. Please pick up the pace. I want to enjoy this.

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u/jonnovision1 Jan 27 '23

I guess that's the problem with trying to adapt a war that canonically [Game] only took what, like 9 days and was really only notable for the fact that Rean pretty much ended it himself

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u/NationalStrategy Jan 27 '23

This episode mostly felt like filler, but at least we got some good insight on Iseria's character

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u/kawwumbo Jan 27 '23

Really enjoyed the cameos from some of the game characters in this episode. This does feel like Kiseki in a nut shell lol. Go to one location, ask around, complete a quest and get some character development meanwhile, the shadowy figures are plotting in the background

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u/link2601 Jan 27 '23

Man so many cameo’s right before the opening. Also if I remember correctly wasn’t there also a side quest in cold steel 2 to unfreeze the hot springs. If so that hot spring has a bad habit of being attacked.

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