1:40 "LGBT Characters" 🌈 😂

warehousedave7937 Triggered much?

warehousedave7937 I’ll never understand you people, why are you so troubled by other people’s relationships? I assume you’re straight like me, I couldn’t care less if two dudes or two chicks out there want to marry, like why should I care? But some people like you just can’t let them be and I truly can’t understand why?

​@@juancarlosalonso5664the whole concept of marvel comic book super hero characters: "NOW AVAILABLE IN HOMOSEXUAL!" I always thought wolverine was cool, but even better now that I can have a wolverine who has sex with Cyclops!

@@juancarlosalonso5664I don’t quite understand it either when people say they are going to boycott, or not buy a game because it has even a hint of diversity. It doesn’t bother me and I’ll play or watch anything as long as it’s well written. I think what people have an issue with isnt diversity itself, but how abundant it is in all of media at the moment, and how forced it feels. Now, some people really are that hateful, but I like to believe it’s a small vocal minority. People have more of an issue with poor writing that just feels like they’re checking off a DEI list, or writing self inserts instead of complex characters. You have to admit, Disney has been the worst offender of this, and 10 years from now we’ll all look back at this time in media that every movie, show, and game just wrote LGTBQ characters to attempt to earn points with a small audience that will never be happy, and doesn’t really exist. I know people who say hateful crap suck, but we just need to move on and ignore them, not give them any oxygen. I have faith in people, and think most are well meaning, they just don’t know how to express their thoughts in a constructive way. At least, I hope so, or else we’re fucked as a society.

@@ak47dragunov ur slow

A LOT of people sleep on this series.

I did the same exact thing last summer, and I’m just finishing up Reverie right now actually. I’m blown away by just how much work Falcom has put into making the world of the Trails series actually seem like a real world. Geopolitical and socioeconomic struggles, and all. What’s more mindblowing is, as far as I can tell, there hasn’t even been a single retcon. 10 games, 3 casts of characters, like 7 nations with different cultures and political structures, crazy cloak and dagger secret societies, and inter dimensional simulation simulacrum shenanigans all interwoven and impacting eachother in various ways and it all fits together. It’s fucking bonkers.

Dude, I randomly saw a tweet from you about Trails and then started watching your videos last week! Small world! ❤

Oh hey i follow you on twitter lol

Sorry to break it to you but daybreak 2 stinks.

Damn you having a GOAT'd year gaming wise 👍🏿

If only Rebirth came out on PC this year :(

Two of the characters seem like weirdos (Aaron and Quatre) but i suppose there is enough characters that i can just bench them and never use them.

Daybreak has the best combat ive played in years, its even better than Rebirth. I can see myself replaying this game for combat alone.

Haha oh no and just when a remake for Trails of Sky has been announced!

Lol I'm with you there man but its worth it. One day youll finish it, just go at your pace, don't rush. I'm right now at cold steel 3, it took me 4 years playing thru the previous. I'm also playing zero at the same time, i play two games at the same time from different arcs to somewhat make progress. But it's one of those memorable journey that will live on in me forever. When I'm old and can't play games anymore, I'll be looking back at this series, story,characters with a smile. Ps there's alot of videos with refreshers if u forget some stuff when you're in the latest ones too. Good luck on your journey!

please don't feel the need to rush, the games are best consumed at your own pace. the story will do push you forward and before you know it, you're at the end wanting for more. TLDR: You can only play through the series the first time once, enjoy it!

Take your time man, these games can only be experienced once. Play at your own pace and don't feel the need to rush, the games will still be there when you get to them ^^

Same! I'm 30 hours into the first game and I feel like I'm not even half way through and I started around January , how do people actually get through these games 😮‍💨

From what i've seen Aaron is the Wazy of this game...which means i won't be using him.

@zackfair6791 While you can find some similarities between them, they are different. Aaron has a strong, direct vulgar personality. He is more like Ash than Wazy. I suspect people will either like him or hate because of it.

@@FrozenAXL I think i agree with you on Judith. From what i've seen she looks cool. I hope Elaine Auclair from the demo eventually joins up as a full party member but i am guessing she doesn't.

@@FrozenAXL I generally hated Aaron for the most part, whereas I never had as much dislike for Ash. Ash was brash, but he also wasn't actively an asshole to everyone around him all the time like Aaron seems to be. I get that Aaron is older - and clearly has different issues going on than Ash did - but he is straight up *mean* to everyone else in the party at pretty much all times, and seems to be especially aggressive towards Feri, which I find really off-putting. I would get it if he were always throwing jabs at Van, and even Judith, but the way he talks to - and about - Feri, Agnes and Quatre makes him extremely off-putting, in my opinion. But, at least it didn't really feel like much of a loss not having him in the party, since having Van and three arts users always seemed to be more effective than having any physical attackers anyway, so he spent the majority of the time on the bench.

Falcom is as old as square but unlike square the owners wanted to stay a manageable size for a core main team and not lose vision that's why even though it's been about 40 years since Falcom been founded it's the same company

Not only that, Falcom develops games for a single platform, all other ports are handled by other companies, at said companies expense with Falcom getting a small percentage kickback for licensing. From 2009 on, Falcom has been an exclusive Sony developer. All other ports were Done by other companies. Only the Japanese Kai ports are done by falcomthe switch ports for their more recent games are handled by NIS. The pc ports for the Cold Steel games, zero, azure, daybreak, nayuta, reverie ys celceta, 8, 9 Were all done by PH3. Another reason why a small studio like falcom is still able to succeed. They don't chase graphical superiority, and just visually pleasant. Also they're a self publishing developer in Japan, allowing them to keep most of the profits their games make

@@RaifSeverencewasn’t Falcom mostly PC?

Kuro 2 is not that good storywise, gameplay is the best in the series though.

@ashmitchowdhury15 Kuro 2 is the most misunderstood story and is super relevant to the metaplot of Trails, but I don't think that's what people expected the middle game to be in this trilogy. I will defend Kuro 2 though to anyone and yes that includes the narrative

@@HDREconomistdont get me wrong im pretty much in love with all trails game even kuro 2 but there one thing i cant stand in kuro 2 story telling which are some of the deaths van suffered from is outright stupid…like falcom nerfed his IQ during those scenarios or something :v

@pirisel1137 that's a fair critique

@@HDREconomist The main issue with Kuro 2 is its CH 3 with how the mind control tries to juggle both non-existent conflicts with existing conflicts resulting in a convoluted and annoying story. The erebonia curse would have worked better given want the story seems to have been going for in regards to the theme of "sin"

My goat Wecon!!!!

THE GOAT IS HERE?!

Same here. Matty preaching the gospel and introducing me to a top 3 series of all time imo 🙏

This is the lowest it gets, the new artists hired for music bounce it back to great in Daybreak II and for what it seems Kai no Kiseki too.

Man I was not expecting to like Van so much!!!

Peak fiction.

It worked, sort by newest lol

Then get a life...

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In Sky there is romance and it’s quite integral to the plot. In the crossbell arc this isn’t any romance if I remember correctly and in the cold steel arc this is a persona esque romance system. Daybreak does not have any romance whatsoever.

No PS5? Ff7 rebirth is my favourite JRPG since the literal glory days of JRPG's, most fun I've had since my OG playthrough of FF9. Couldn't recommend more strongly, I played Rebirth from the day it came out til about 2 weeks ago when I started prepping for Shadow of the Erdtree, well over 300 hours of playtime and I'm STILL. NOT. DONE. It just gives and gives and gives. So insanely cool.

The Ys Games are more focused on the gameplay and combat than story compared to Trails games. It's not super important to play Ys games chronologically, but there may be slight allusions to the main character, Adol, and his previous adventures.

I'd highly recommend Ys 8. That game is fantastic.

@@zackfair6791 True, Ys 8 was fantastic. Fighting a giant dinosaur as an ant was fun.

Demo looks like it is on Switch and PS4. No ps5 or PC demo though the game will on PC and PS5 too. I don't know how the ps5 works but cant you just install the ps4 demo or does it not work like that?

It doesn't lol it's a generic anime jrpg with a bunch of teenage edges lords...

@@gamerelated8985 Tell me you’ve never played these games without telling me you’ve never played these games. Like seriously? Generic JRPG with edgelords? The protagonist of the first arc is literally the opposite of that LOL.

Is there a ps5 version? I can only see the PS4 version.

No bro he didn’t play it. It’s a KZfaq sponsorship. He is payed to say whatever they tell him to say lol.

Probably won't get enough views to justify putting it on the main channel. A single bad video can really mess up your place in the algorithm.

As with all things on KZfaq the algorithm dictates all. Pathetic.

Honestly the thing Trails completely excels at is the way the magic and supernatural mixes with the political intrigue. I have never seen a series mix both elements so well and so expertly natural feeling. You can see quite clearly how supernatural stuff influences the politics of the world, but also how politics can just as easily bend the supernatural to its whims and use it as a political tool. Usually when magic and empires/nations mix its usually surface level "magic is outlawed or a tool for enslavement." But here, it's so well done and it has to do with how the magic can so easily switch from technology to supernatural, then easily blended together.

I mean, unfortunately Trails as a series is just super niche. Not many people are willing to invest into a multi-hundred hour long JRPG story.

@@msaag5490 It's a Game Awards show, it's not suppose to be a popularity contest. Some bullcrap happened in the best fighting game category too because of popularity, there was no reason King of Fighters XV should have lost best fighting game to Multiversus a game that was in beta and just now officially released this year. By the way they do spend hundreds of hours in these western RPG's and Monster Hunter and FFXIV two games that show up multiple years due to expansions.

@@ChrisMS0815 Look, I love Trails as much as the next fan, but the reality is that decently good and also popular games will be chosen over truly great games but are relatively niche. There's also the fact the Game Awards are biased towards western/western aesthetic games. I personally have never cared about the Game Awards because it is partially a popularity contest.

Daybreak is mostly standalone but will spoil Cold Steel. Daybreak 2 you will have to have completed Cold Steel+Reverie. Judging from the Daybreak 3 trailers, it looks a lot like a sequel to the Cold Steel games. I would just play the Cold Steel games first, otherwise you'll lose motivation to play Daybreak 2.

If you can't wait, you can start with Daybreak. It spoils next to nothing about previous games and characters compared to previous first arc entries, and the story is pretty much self-contained for the first game and doesn't touch on the overarching plot of the series until Daybreak 2. Sky is going to be either remade or remastered sometime soon according to Falcom's 20th anniversary message, though, so if you'd rather wait for those and start from the very beginning there's that

@@saintfayde4438 thank you so much for the help, is Zero a good place to start, it’s on sale on the Eshop right now?

@@nathanm1174 Dont go with Zero.

Yeah I would either start with Zero, Cold Steel, or Daybreak. Zero is one of the best, its sequel is top tier also, but Daybreak is new so it might be best to start there then go back to those and realize just how great Falcom truly is.

I made it about 5 hours in un-installed it the writing is terrible generic anime character edgelords.

@@brooks9184 Well as someone who has actually played all of the games up to Cold Steel 4, I say give it a shot. If you like it, try the older games. I don’t recommend listening to the person above me since they’ve barely touched the surface of this series and have made no valid criticism to warrant what they’re saying.

@@gamerelated8985 The prologue made me drop the game at first too. It didn't really make a great first impression. I gave it another shot about a year later, since I felt like I didn't really give it a fair chance. Long story short, by the time I got to chapter 3...I couldn't put the game down. By the time I was done with the first two Cold Steel games, I just had to go back to play the older entries, and Cold Steel ended up being the start of a new obsession with this series. The game has a weak opener, but it gets so much better after that.