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

[Briar King]

Big day all told without a big whammy of must type stuff L,R and C's Act 4 stuff

We almost got Ilya's mask off after battle, had a conference call afterwards and came up with a plan for a three pronged attack on CB and carried it out. I had to call it a day at the save point before Rufus and Ilya team up battle so I can get some reading time in for the trash SLA 5 session

[aneonfoxtribute]

btw just wanted to say, even if I haven't responded much, I'm still following your Reverie playthrough

[Briar King]

Never doubted

 

Gah!!!!!!! These 2 keep landing on HP 10-30's!!!!!!

[Briar King]

Got that wrapped up and blasted with so much stuff! The end is nigh yet there is soooooo much to do! I've got the 4th Stratum and all of CB to trek across so I know the dialog round is going to be insane also felt it was probably important to take a pic of this dude.

[aneonfoxtribute]

Good old Gramhart

[Briar King]

Just felt important to get a pic of him for some reason.

I'm starting a late dialog round in Orchis Tower while watching the SpaceX 10 crew docking. Will likely go to Garden afterwards.

This is going to take alot of time for being the end...

[Briar King]

Oh my word there is even higher class quartz in here!!!! Why are you doing this to me at this end stage?! They want me to stay in Western Zemuria.....

[Eluvianii he/him]

Heh. 

[Briar King]

Omg is there any other way to get out of a Gormenghast possession besides killing your teammate? That was a brutal formidable for fight! I had to kill Rean twice.

[Briar King]

Starting CB dialogue round. I can’t go any further in the Garden anyway and I’m not yet feeling VM or Daydreams. Speaking of VM for some reason C’s challenge prompts extra dialogue which makes me think he is a probably a hard player..

This is going to be a huge ass dialogue round but it’s much smaller than that CS4 beast wrap up.

Any thing on Gormenghast possession reversal???

[Eluvianii he/him]

I think C is the final boss for VM. Possibly. Not entirely sure, I never beat him. 

[Briar King]

Becky and Hugo! Wow it is great to see those two again!

[Briar King]

How many Moonless Morn books is there? I’m saving up like I usually do for a big endgame power read.

[aneonfoxtribute]

I'm not sure, I don't think I actually read that one

[Eluvianii he/him]

17, it's a long one. I actually might have skipped that one due to the length, since I wanted to see the ending. Hope it's a good one, last long book we got. 

[Briar King]

Ok I have 17 of them. This guide is saying something about Marksman of the Moonless Morn though so is that like a separate ending book to Moonless Morn?

Jeez this dialog round is still not as heavy as CS4 but it's still NO JOKE.. i just want to be done with it already!!!

Still sooooo much else to do too. I've fought 2 random Cryptids that were honestly just jokes for said beast. Used and got more +5 droplets as those areas are fully open to explore again and i just can't help myself from wanting to turn my toons into little godlings.

[Briar King]

Gah I'm kinda miffed right now..Act 4 Daydream stuff

remember when I said I'd wait for the 2nd part of Titas Orbal 4 before doing part 1? Well i kicked it off tonight and I was so happy with it! 30 minutes of skit only and I was totally expecting the same for part 2. Nope I'm now making my way through Einhel.. while it's cool to be back in Levees this inclusion of multiple boss battles has taken away the cinematic exp it started with and I had already done some fishing and Cryptid battles before starting part 1 and it's late with weather coming so I had to turn PS5 off mid Daydream. Just totally killed the mood! That was a fun opening skit to. Ugh

[Briar King]

That was highly annoying but this did help. 

[Eluvianii he/him]

Erika might not be the most beloved character, but she's fun and I like her.

[Briar King]

Oh I think she is great. The fighting and boss battles were the annoying part. I like the skit v playable Daydreams much more.

[Briar King]

Good god these battle Daydreams can be brutal.....! I just did the Unlimited Blade one with 4 battles. That lasted close to 1 1/2 hrs between dialog and the depowered battles.

Yeah I'm finding myself not a big fan of action Daydreams. The skits are so much better...

[Eluvianii he/him]

I agree in a way, spending 30 minutes just watching characters hanging out is great. But these daydreams, or the doors from 3rd for that matter, were also introduced as a way to fight characters you normally would have no reason to. I think that's what that daydream was about, it's for people that wanted to fight the OP characters. 

[aneonfoxtribute]

2 hours ago, Eluvianii said:

I agree in a way, spending 30 minutes just watching characters hanging out is great. But these daydreams, or the doors from 3rd for that matter, were also introduced as a way to fight characters you normally would have no reason to. I think that's what that daydream was about, it's for people that wanted to fight the OP characters. 

The Doors from 3rd didn't have that many fights, generally. It was the main story of 3rd that gave you fights with characters you normally wouldn't, not the Doors

[Eluvianii he/him]

1 hour ago, aneonfoxtribute said:

The Doors from 3rd didn't have that many fights, generally. It was the main story of 3rd that gave you fights with characters you normally wouldn't, not the Doors

Wasn't there like a Cassius door and a tournament door tho? Or were those main story too? 

[aneonfoxtribute]

9 hours ago, Eluvianii said:

Wasn't there like a Cassius door and a tournament door tho? Or were those main story too? 

There was a tournament door, but the only major characters you fight in that door you also fight in the main story. There is no Cassius door, you fight him in the main story (though he is also in the nightmare arena)