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

[Briar King]

I knew who they were even before they started talking to each other. Man that was fantastic for Dudley and Machis! Seriously my favorite so far and quite unexpected to be so.

I like these ones when I don't have a battle and can just watch scenes. The Towa one was pretty boring though.

Firing another one up now.....

[Briar King]

The Fallen Prince was some good character building but mannnnn that was super annoying to go through by the 2nd fight let alone the 3rd fight...

I've got 1 more to do and might do so if the guide tells me it's a skit rather than fight. Ambien time is here in little over 30 minutes so don't want to get stuck on much playtime. 

May do a Pom or VM if it's not skit only.

[Briar King]

Went VM and Pom route as even though the next Daydream was skit only it's a 2 parter and I only have 1 atm.

Ash and Alisa are very hard on Pom. I think the AI is cheating cause I was nowhere near the top lvl when I had Ash declared winner on this last match prompting much cursing and leaving to go VM Wazy who was a complete dud. Idk if it was the luck of the draw or if he just socks but I had him done in 3 hands thanks to 2 blaze cards beefing a Kyra Bell up to 9 attack.

Ambien time after that.

[Briar King]

Bleh! Got lucky with Pom for Ash and Alisa. Turned the mission in and had 2 more pop up…now I have 9 more opponents to play…

I hate this game!

[Briar King]

Oh man I had forgotten how ridiculous Magic Gals is. It has been months since I had ep 1.

Trying to decide if I want to engage Tryfng thing or save for tomorrow. I still have to get some Alloy 4 in and I should try and go to bed and hour early tonight.

Oh well as I type I'm leaving the PS5 on to go read and do the litter box/trash. Fixing a cup of Pina Colda coffee. The PS will stay on for an hour and go into rest mode if i don't manage to get back to it. We shall see. I'm still hot I have 9 more Pom battles now..

Later gator

[Briar King]

Oh man I’m slaying with the Knight card in VM. I’ve got 1 more opponent to tackle tomorrow though who knows I might just get back on later on and give it a go. Pom has completely shut me down. I haven’t managed one successful match on any of the next batch of 9 available to play. My eye was twitching after 40 minutes of failure.

Jumped on Tyrfing. That was a janky mess but I guess it was kinda fun for what it was.

I should be good to go onward after that VM match. No way I’m gonna hold off for 9 lucky Pom wins before pressing on..I can always come back thanks to how Act 4 is built compared to the others. That maybe the biggest factor of getting back on later tonight so I have no objective other than to Awaken.

[Eluvianii he/him]

I was not prepared for Tyrfing. I figured, since soldat battles aren't a thing here, maybe that mini game will be a series of soldat challenges or something. And I mean, I guess it was, but I really wasn't expecting it to be like that. 

[aneonfoxtribute]

Yeah the Knight card is powerful. It was my primary card to use whenever I played, until I got cards that were just direct upgrades

[Briar King]

I swear these Pom games are rigged! Not one damn victory in 40 mins yet again....

VM all won in one game.

I'm going to be very disappointed if I can't manage all Pom for the very 1st time. These guys seem supercharged.

[aneonfoxtribute]

Yeah Pom is super hard as ever

Edited February 27, 2025 by aneonfoxtribute

[Briar King]

I can literally feel the spike jumping up and now approaching 45 I just don't have the hand eye coordination when it gets to fast on drops. 

[Briar King]

I'm beyond seriously pissed off at this point. I've been trying to move on since Wednesday on Cs route at the moment I came to corridor from. Right at a mini boss worth 5rp. I've gotten taken apart every day and I've had it! Been stuck in corridor trying to run through for gear to help and it is draining me. Grail lockets would be great but they are beyond my means to afford to craft.

Feeling like I'll be here for sometime.

wtah….

I guess I just needed to rant about it? I moved some gear around and put Möbius on Duvaile in main slot for the aoe and I just managed to hang in there with that beast spawning his helpers.. good thing I had 3 full Attack bars. I would have been lost without them. 4 days trying and as soon as I get done gripping I get passed it!

Edited March 2, 2025 by Briar King

[Briar King]

It's Mardi Gras so my son will have even more PS5 time till Tuesday so likely no progress till after.

Man I started reading some of the comments on guide and these people are saying they had grail lockets. I'm wondering how that's possible.. cause you would have to have millions of $(& there hasn't been much in the way of the stores that do the higher exchange rate) and thousands of U mats to craft them from scratch. 

[aneonfoxtribute]

1 minute ago, Briar King said:

It's Mardi Gras so my son will have even more PS5 time till Tuesday so likely no progress till after.

Man I started reading some of the comments on guide and these people are saying they had grail lockets. I'm wondering how that's possible.. cause you would have to have millions of $(& there hasn't been much in the way of the stores that do the higher exchange rate) and thousands of U mats to craft them from scratch. 

Opening Sealing Stones, would be my best guess.

[Briar King]

Maybe so. I really hope so! I've been unlucky there. It would be around $640000 for 4 of them raw which would get annoying swapping around and then I don't even want to work out how much it would be going raw to the next step up lockets. Just yikes!

Then just for rust and giggles imagine for bragging rights trying to get 1 for all toons...i think I'm at 41 atm and I know there is more..

[Eluvianii he/him]

There's a lot yeah. Soon we'll have enough statted Trails characters to make a Pokemon game.

[Briar King]

Began to push on all 3 arcs at 10 pm today. Not much in the way of C's arc as I'm still on the same floor I was last month but further in about to go to next once I step through next door. Went to L's and engaged a rousing skit for Randy's(I'm so happy it's not Landy again) character building and we are on course to the Moon temple. Jumped to R's arc where I had the most progress of today's session and it was truly redonkulus...! I'm now paused on evening dialog round which I will finish tomorrow before going to the castle of mirrors.

For all my sadness of leaving Western Zemuria behind once I begin Daybreak this theme park is an exception. I ll be happy to move on from it.

[Briar King]

Well that wound up not happening yesterday in regards to R's push. Instead I wound up somehow on L's Act 4 stuff yesterday

and had Estelle and Joshua added(even more accessories to handle) I'm now just waiting on getting Dudley at some point and possibly Garcia and the other Nord spear guy who I'm blanking on atm. I believe that would make the full cast on all the characters I've played in CB/CS. I can see them skipping those last 2 maybe but surely Dudley will get on...

Then earlier today since weather is incoming I expected to go to R's and found myself on C's..but it was worth it. Massive leap and revelation forward. We are getting into Skynet/Matrix territory here according to Ian's exposition/info dump.

What will tomorrow bring? I very seriously doubt I shall be pressing on later tonight but we ll see.

[Briar King]

Hey I'm looking at the PS store checking if Daybreak 2 is on sale and it shows that Sky 1 is just announced and I'm looking at it and it's showing what I'm taking to be a full remake update from scratch. Is this right? Ok well yeah i now see it says it is a full remake in that black txt block. Cool!

Edited March 9, 2025 by Briar King

[aneonfoxtribute]

54 minutes ago, Briar King said:

Hey I'm looking at the PS store checking if Daybreak 2 is on sale and it shows that Sky 1 is just announced and I'm looking at it and it's showing what I'm taking to be a full remake update from scratch. Is this right? Ok well yeah i now see it says it is a full remake in that black txt block. Cool!

Sky the First was announced months ago, it only just got added to the store. And yeah it's a full remake of FC.

[Briar King]

Yeah I knew it was coming i just thought it was going to be like CB1&2 not a full scale rebuild. Took me by surprise. It looks even better than CS/Rev to me.

[Eluvianii he/him]

Took them some time but Falcom games have reached and ideal point graphically speaking imo. Wouldn't mind seeing the end with this style. Tokyo Xanadu 2 while we're on that too.

[Briar King]

Probably be a few years for all 3 Sky. Idk if i ll wait for 3 to be around the corner before grabbing 1&2 or jumping straight to 1.

I'd imagine then that it's inevitable for CB redo..

I've stumbled on a nice place to farm the 5pt attack and ats droplets today on L and R's routes. Ugh I hope don't get carried away by this but I know i likely will spend a few sessions on the ats one. I've got 40+ attack ones waiting from way back in an early C Act 2 farm point just waiting for a mass upgrade when the ending comes.

Ok hit 50 attack 5 droplets. Have 17 ats 5 droplets. Will try and stop at 30 of those. Should be a nice upgrade for a few select characters plus my 1 pt ones. Will get back on tomorrow to try and hit that.

Edited March 10, 2025 by Briar King

[Briar King]

R's Act 4 stuff

 

[aneonfoxtribute]

Trails through Daybreak 2 Fragments

Spoiler

MY CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILD *insert crying emote here*