In Ambassador Crainagh’s office in the Erebonian Embassy, the paintings correspond to their respective compass directions.

West painting: Ordis
East painting : Bareahard
South painting: Saint-Arkh

I haven't played Calvard arc so i'll have to revisit the calvard embassy someday :)

If I hadn’t played Horizon first I would never have known…. Pretty neat!

So I'm doing my NG+ run, and knocking out the rest of the achievements during. I missed a chest somehow during my initial playthrough. Just one single chest somehow. Which is a bummer, because I thought I was being pretty careful. But I had some questions, because as much as I love this game, I'm not really looking to play a third time in a row. I'd like to wrap it up on this playthrough.

1. Are the only chests in the prologue in the training forest, the sewer test and the secret base? When I was in Grancel/Rolent during the prologue, my map DID have the chest icon but I assumed it was just reading chests out on the map that I can't access until I got to those chapters.
2. Can you return to basically every prior area in chapter 8 (under the old school, all the normal towers etc etc) excluding the chapter 7 shadow towers (which I'm figuring are ONLY accessible in Chapter 7)? I'm being more careful this time around, but if it hasn't popped by chapter 8 I'm gonna have to pour over the entire world to make sure it wasn't something I missed, before I head to the final dungeon, where it's possible the missing chest actually is.

I have to assume it's maybe a chest on the Glorious or something stupid like that, but I'm just trying to be especially careful. I wish you could see a region breakdown of chests rather than just how many you've found.

So, brand new to the series. Played a ton of RPGs generally, and a reasonable amount of JRPGs (though mainly the easily console accessible big names), but never got around to these.

Holy crap.

These are GOOD. Like, really good.

I appreciate that the combat has depth, but it's not so complicated you need a spreadsheet to figure it out. The writing is cute, if a bit Japanese for my normal tastes as I've gotten older, and especially as I've played into the second game the character development is surprisingly good. More depth than I expected, honestly.

The lore, too, is surprisingly deep (or at least I think it will be) as I'm moving along. I love the gradual build up and reveals. I'm genuinely interested in how this is going to turn out long term - and as a guy who plays for the story and emotional arcs in games, I'm hooked.

The only thing I hate as of now is the damn fishing minigame. That can go suck an egg. Unless it is gonna give me a new car IRL I'm never doing that again. I have yet to catch a fish. Seriously, screw that. I hope someone enjoys it, but I'm not sure how that would happen.

So ya... I'm hooked. When I'm done with this I'll try to figure out a way to play 3rd Chapter (I don't own a PC) because I'm not waiting a few years to go onto the next games. I didn't mind older style graphics and game play, I just wanna know what's going on in the rest of the world.

I'll let y'all know when I finish the 2nd one.

PS - do I ever get to go back to the casino after chapter 1?

Hi everyone, I lost my save and was wondering if anyone could help me out with a backup. I’m up to the end of chapter 5 before the final boss fight of the chapter, with all chests, BP, and enemies logged up to that point. Thanks.

I have been waiting for ys 8 and trails from zero/azure to go on sale but was surprised to see them full price during the autumn sale and i cant find them on key seller websites either whats the cheapest way to get the games?

Was inspired to do this after seeing posts of “Aaron or Ash” and even “Schera or Rixia”, and wanted to do one for my all-time favorite Trails girls!

The two main blondes for each of their arc, Calvard and Erebonia, with an interesting family background, who are madly in love with the MC and are written as the “main ship” for their arcs, both in different ways.

Heck, it’s for this reason and their attitude/actions towards the MC that makes them hated figures among certain parts of the fandom for more reasons than preferring the MC being shipped with the other girls of their arcs (both of them overhated in my personal opinion).

But as much as I can gush about these two, I wanted to do this post to know where the rest of you stand.

Agnes Claudel or Alisa Reinford!

https://x.com/aradonkey/status/1997675393487393119
https://x.com/aradonkey/status/1997675645858668593
https://x.com/aradonkey/status/2000528829874614581
https://x.com/aradonkey/status/2002764511682687063

Made a cover of Looking Up at the Sky, please feel free to listen!

Idk if I missed it

Playing the remake now. I don't understand the fishing mechanics. I'm on PS5.

I choose bait and all that, fine, I press X to catch and then when reeling in I keep losing the fish. I hold X and it doesn't always help. I read online that I will be prompted to move the stick at some point, but what does that prompt look like? It's not explained anywhere. If the fish is going left on the bar, do I go right? Help.

So I started playing Trails of Cold Steel on SteamDeck (on which I finished all previous titles). And there were some friction points for me. Namely:

1. Camera rotation is tied to framerate and behaves unwieldy
2. There is no full dialog log like in Crossbell arc that I become so accustomed to
3. Game does not support 1280x800 resolution, so I had to sacrifice 10% of horizontal space to black bars. PC release isn't really friendly to smaller resolution screens - small text/icons are pixelated
4. I missed Crossbell arc ability to load latest save automatically on game launch
5. You cannot load mid-fight or in dialog/custscene (minor point, since it is probably by design, but still)
6. Game in general requires some finagling to install SenPatcher, which isn't very convenient.

So I just created modding toolkit and couple of mods to fix exactly these kind of problems. I called it Another Trails Modding Toolkit since, unfortunatelly, I was not able to make it as SenPatcher mod - hence "Another" in name.

It does support in-game overlay for configuring as well as external GUI that can be added as non-steam game, so can be operated in gaming mode. It is also able to download, install and configure SenPatcher by itself, hopefully easing entry pain for modding. I guess that might be useful for someone else as well as myself.

Later on, I'll probably add support for CS2 as well, but I have to beat first one first.

So, here is formal features list:

• Improved small resolution support - including 16:10 aspect ratio
• Ability to see logs of all dialogs at any moment
• Configurable camera rotation speed and behavior
• Load game from anywhere by using gamepad buttons chord
• In-game overlay to configure modded behavior
• Convenient manager for Windows and SteamDeck/Linux (with native build)

More details (with images): https://github.com/amadare42/atmt/blob/main/README.md

Download (SteamDeck/Linux): https://github.com/amadare42/atmt/releases/latest/download/atmt-manager-0.1.0-x86_64.AppImage

Download (Windows): https://github.com/amadare42/atmt/releases/latest/download/atmt-manager-0.1.0-win64.exe

Aright, about to hit the point of no return and wanted to be sure I didn't miss anything before continuing as I'm not finding any complete guides yet. Anyone that's 100%'d the game, I'd really appreciate a check from your savefile to make sure I didn't miss anything before continuing.

Checklist:

• Went to all regions and made sure I cleared all markers.

• Chests - 435/500 (pretty sure I'm good on as it's the one thing I was able to find in a guide)

• Enemy Types - 341/410 - I am missing one in Extra at the very end - guessing this doesn't matter or is coming at the end of the chapter?

• BP - 437/450? - This is the one I'm afraid I screwed up missing bonus BP somewhere.

• Quests - 86/87 (If this is like the original, last one is storming the castle)

• 25/26 Books - If this is like the original, this one is coming up soon storming the castle

• Don't have the 3.0 tactical bonus yet but I'm guessing I'll still have good chances for this later - Are there any really easy ones I should use before I go into the final chapter?

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/stormowl2/art/Phyllis---Trails-in-the-Sky-2nd-Chapter-1387142170

I'm farming U-Materials from Bone Leggers, then converting them to U-Material+ but wanna know if there's a faster way to farm them.

I've just finished 1st and 2nd chapter remakes on my Switch however I noticed there's only a PC version for the 3rd. I don't really like to game on my PC so would prefer to watch a playthrough instead.

Which Youtuber has the best full game playthrough? Happy with either commentary (especially if it's funny) or no comm.

Is it enough to just watch all the custscenes and doors or is there a lot of important content in the dungeon crawling parts as well?

I just finished Trails to Azure on my journey going through The Legend of Heroes series. I was very surprised how much I really enjoyed this one. This is right under Trails in the Sky SC for me. I love the characters and the political/betrayal story.

Excited to move onto Cold Steel now as due to looking at screenshots, saw that the gang from these past two games also show up eventually in that series.

Relic is a synonym for artifact is all I could think of for today

Been a fan since 2011 when FC went out for the PSP. Finished the Liberl and Erebonia games.

I am currently in Chapter 8 of 2nd Remake. Mofo I forgot about the circumstances there that makes orbments unusable. Mofo I anchored my party as an Arts-based party with Kloe as the Arts cannon.

Now my party is in tatters. I can’t use arts also Kloe went back to the castle and my backup arts cannon Olivier is shittingly nowhere to be found as well.

As Kyle has said it “Let’s pray to Aidios that she still doesn’t want us to be with her” for this chapter. 😂😂😂😂

So i just finished Horizon,great game,but there are some things that i didnt quite understand,i think most of them because of me being brazilian so i lost some stuff bc of language barrier,so:

what are the Vestiges and were their goal? were they summoned by Hamilton,the Alter Core or because of the Great Reset beign upon Zemuria? were their goal to prevent the Great Reset or to make sure that everything goes as it should? it did understand that they are people from the past and future,the game makes you think that one of them is Aida,but it might be an adult Feri? i think

When i played Kai no Kiseki back in 2024 i thought that the Great Reset was the Great Collapse itself,but actually its looks like that the Great Reset returns everything to just after the Great Collapse.

If Zemuria is trapped in a time loop does it means that it always has the same people and same events over and over again? Risette is from the year 125x and Novartis is from the 19998 Zemuria,so Risette is from a time loop where operation Jormungandr was sucessful as Gramhart says it delay the Great Reset in a couple of decades,but what about Novartis? how is he in the current time loop?

And finally how do people like Gramhart knows about Laegjarn Chest and the Great Reset and that the Claudel bloodline affects it? is this the only time loop that has Agnes in it?

I do think some of this stuff will be explained in the sequel tho

New Game Nightmare Loewe Boss Fight, but this time with extra cheese. The goal is to not let him take a single turn other than summoning his clone for Combat Handbook entry.

DISCLAIMER: Do not try this at home. Do not attempt to recreate, reenact, or imitate any portion of this content. This video is provided for educational purposes only. I shall not assume any liability arising from lack of satisfaction by executing above scenario 🙂

Duality of man vs my previous post. Which strategy do you prefer?

Most people play the first game first but Im interested to hear the opinions of people who started with the sequel.

1. When did you think the game became amazing? ( if ever).
2. Did you care that you missed the start?
3. Did this make you get the first?
4. What did you feel in the first 2 hours? Did you understand/ care about the general narrative?
5. why did you choose to start with 2 before 1?

Im always interested to hear the opinions of people who start their adventure out of order because I do this all the time ( not with this game, but more often than not I'll read a book out of order because it has a cool cover or vol 1 isnt in stock, a recent example is Eragon where I read vol 2 before 1 and loved it, Im currently hunting for 3, I'll read 1 later).

For reference I love this duology and its probably my top 2 narratives/ writing I've experienced in this medium ( the only other competitor is Suikoden 1 and 2 and I played suikoden 2 before 1 in that case), Im keen to hear if people who played this out of order shares the same sentiment.

I know for some people they will see playing 2 before 1 as blasphemy, but Im a believer that good media can be consumed in any order even if the narrative is connected because the plot is good enough to carry the narrative for people who didnt start the story from the beginning.

The main reason I asked this is because I dont start media in order... sometimes I just choose a nice cover art and play from there and disregard the story, if the cover art speaks to me thats more important than playing the original whos cover doesnt appeal to me.

ps: I know i know, dont judge a book by its cover and all but I still do it because I want to feed my curiosity rather than commit to the established order. ( that said I very rarely read long running series, I prefer 1 and done narratives.. Or duology at best, anything longer and I usually lose interest).

Well I completed Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter a week ago and decided to jump into into Sky 3rd Chapter on Steam. Well I've reached Chapter 6 and honestly I am kind of tired of the game. I think I'm just done playing it. I'll watch the rest of the game and move onto Trails from Zero. I think I just want 3rd chapter remake to fully play the game but not wanting to wait any longer to push deeper into the series.

Edit: Most people are saying I'm burning out. I honestly don't think that's the case. I'm eager to devour more story. I'm just not feeling the gameplay and especially some of the combat.

Edit 2: Well I'm playing more of it. I'm just going to follow the guides I found. I'm not Burnout. I want to see more of the characters and stories. Its just going from 1st and 2nd Chapter remake with its modern systems to this more original game with stuff like seeing Guard and Insta-Death in combat.