Trails of Cold Steel (and the Kiseki series in general)

[aneonfoxtribute]

I've gone beyond trusting ambitious Japanese authors with estimates about when their series is going to end. I've learned too much from Oda saying One Piece will end in five years for the past five years. I don't trust Kondo whatsoever.

[Briar King]

I just want to see the entire continent before it ends. I’m wildly attached to this land now. I almost didn’t even click on this thread way back when..

[Eluvianii he/him]

Same. Although it's a given not every country will be visited. If Kondo really goes "Actually, this will require another arc. Also, two games is too short for grand finale, have four" on us, I'm thinking Calvard, Arteria, and one other. I know nothing of the east tho so I have no guesses. 

[Briar King]

I had much better rng fishing last night than this morning. Was hoping to catch more noble carp to see what they give but only got one so far. I’ve caught 20 fish now and idk if I even qualify yet to take on any Imp fishers.

I miss droplets.

[Briar King]

Dropped 50k on Scepter late last night dropping me pretty low on Mira. Back up to 42K and Tio fully done on enigma so I it seems like it will more than make up for the $tag really fast.. went around and just zapped enemies on map for their Mira. I also have Septum Vein slotted on same person. It’s a noticeable increase zapping on map with this person vs others.

Lol I arrested the old counterfeit gal again. She has issues. Raymond is the thinnest glass ever..

Only Ursula and Amorica left in dialogue round. Will be playing late into the night as I wait for my daughter to get back from TPM 20 yrs screening before I take my ambien. Really hoping it’s not 2+am till I can.

[Briar King]

Margaret verbally cracked the whip and we got it as an audio effect lmao

[Briar King]

2 Cryptids down. Peloma grass in hand. Looks like I ll be in store for a game of where’s Wald o. Oh cool a quest from Capua.

[Briar King]

Not done much last 2 days but fishing and Pom grinding for Mira.

I did just do a hell of a long side quest though CB2 ch 3 day 2 stuff

funny I mentioned Capua last entry or so. I just had a *chefs kiss of world building/planning. I very much hope this is OG stuff..I just uncovered the same dude that stole Leeves and was about to do the same to Amorica.. please be OG! That was fantastic. I knew exactly what Grim was talking about as he walked through an old situation in Erebonia. 

 

I still have a hell of alot left in this dialogue round left. Will probably get back to it tomorrow. 
 

Defeated 2 Imp fishers.

[Eluvianii he/him]

I'm pretty sure that was in the original. It was a pretty cool progression actually. You meet the Capuas as bandits and there's this slow progression where you find out they were nobles, then you find about all the scams that were going on, then you find out the Capuas were victims. And only later you find that Leeves was the town in question. 

[Briar King]

Oh goody! *chefs kiss indeed 

 

[Briar King]

Finally finished Ch 3…that took me a bit too long. Was some good stuff in there yet I was bored and mehed at the same time.

Ch 4 here I come.

[Briar King]

Oh my…

that was intense.

What drama..

Guide tells me I’m fixing to be in for the games probable toughest battle and I need to prepare myself. Idk if I actually can without going back. I’m only on lvl 74 and some of the items people are mentioning come from the high level chest. Not to keen on going back to before the wetlands and trying to tackle them and redoing all this stuff. Sure would have been nice if a note was included way back there to keep option in mind. I’m now thinking about it to much and pausing todays progress. Way to much to focus on in my present head space.

[Eluvianii he/him]

While it's true that the hardest battle of the game is there, that's only if you want an achievement of sorts. Otherwise, it will still be hard, but not that much above anything else. 

[Briar King]

I’m right on the money DP wise so far..I accept that this will likely be my 1st no full bonus pts. If I can get 3 of 5 I ll probably be happy with it but I’m definitely going to need to be in the zone to face him and I for sure was not on todays session.

Still it will bug the hell out of me if don’t bag all points for the 1st time since CS3-CB1.

[Eluvianii he/him]

Oh, if you're going for full DP then yeah. That would require a pretty detailed strat and a good amount of minmaxing I think. This is the era when Falcom was still doing beatable unbeatable fights.

[Briar King]

I’m just pretty pissed off looking at the comment section mentioning all these bells I should have and don’t…I would need to go back so much to try and collect and redo all those story points. The only bell I have is the 1st bell Zoelius bothered to mention getting on the way to a story point. I just wish there was some mention of it would be a good idea to get such and such for this coming thing since you are really blocked for a large multiple points ahead timeframe. I would have to go back before entering Wetlands. Just ugh 

[Briar King]

We ll see what happens tomorrow. I spent today moving accessories around, cooking and swapping out quartz. I put Möbius on Randy with some ep+cut. I ll use him as an item healer/stat booster. We ll see if I can take him out in the 5 min window for the 5+ DP.

[aneonfoxtribute]

New trailer for Farewell O Zemuria. That was perfect. They condensed everything I ever wanted into less than a minute and I could not be happier. Unfortunately nobody here can watch it. I watched it because I decided that I don't think anything in Kai will hurt much of my experience with Kuro 2, and that is a risk I'm willing to take to have hype injected directly into my veins. 

[Eluvianii he/him]

I'll gladly watch this trailer in like August next year. 

[Briar King]

Engaging shortly 

wtf I got smoked 42 seconds in full 4 ko one shot.

omg this is some full on BS. I don’t believe for a second these people in guide are telling the truth about beating this guy. Especially on nightmare. I’m doing nothing to this guy and I can’t stop his 4 shot wipe less than a minute in

holy hell im getting pissed off. I’m going to get no points. I’m not going back to before wetlands just to get the stuff that should have been mentioned prior to entering that massive freedom lock out. This is just insane 

umm ok I somehow managed to tank the guy with luck from the order of turns. Tio was finally freed up for me to cast a full 200cp Zero Field letting me breathe for two full turns of his S craft. That made all the difference right there..

Taking a break after that frustrating hell.

Edited May 23, 2024 by Briar King

[Briar King]

Ofcourse now the guide tells me to start trying to collect the monster chest.

Doing dialogue round now. Grr some asshat spoiled a person I ll be fighting last page in comments and I only just now read it when I didn’t even need to anymore. I just decided to scroll down further to see more people’s reactions to the last slugfest and boom. Urg. 
 

It better be a training session battle rather than a battle…

[aneonfoxtribute]

6 hours ago, Briar King said:

Engaging shortly 

wtf I got smoked 42 seconds in full 4 ko one shot.

omg this is some full on BS. I don’t believe for a second these people in guide are telling the truth about beating this guy. Especially on nightmare. I’m doing nothing to this guy and I can’t stop his 4 shot wipe less than a minute in

holy hell im getting pissed off. I’m going to get no points. I’m not going back to before wetlands just to get the stuff that should have been mentioned prior to entering that massive freedom lock out. This is just insane 

umm ok I somehow managed to tank the guy with luck from the order of turns. Tio was finally freed up for me to cast a full 200cp Zero Field letting me breathe for two full turns of his S craft. That made all the difference right there..

Taking a break after that frustrating hell.

Is that the Sigmund fight? 

[Briar King]

Ogre

[Briar King]

Holy rust I just figured out one enemy equals one exp for MQ. No wonder it feels like it’s an eternity to lvl up.

[Briar King]

Ugh if you pull off a group attack you appear to not get credit towards MQ. I’ve wasted alot of time the last 2 days performing them.

Finished fishing today. Haven’t had lots of free time this week between getting roped into working at my siblings moms house ugh and having son’s brace appointment and getting his drivers permit. 
 

Tomorrow maybe I’ll have the time to enter the annoying Geofront in the Harbor district..

Tonight in handheld mode I may try a few of these monster chest before ambien. Maybe even after ambien to if this weather keeps me from burning my stump in 3 hours time.