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

[Eluvianii he/him]

I think it's at one of the shop thingies next to the gacha, the one where you craft equipment. Just remember you need 3 of a kind. 

[Briar King]

Reverie ending stuff

 

I didn't think Juno was actually destroyed..I was sure it was an illusion but they never did show it again in story after R Tower wrap up so I guess it actually did get nuked indeed..?

Ugh these stupid shards! I keep getting them and they are black in my menu list and nada at any current station! I don't get it.. I have 3 for Rean now.

Ahhhhhhh way at the bottom of list. Got it now!

Edited April 11, 2025 by Briar King

[Briar King]

Holy rusting Aidios on crack....they are pushing the grind on here... this game adds 2 extra(so far) weapon upgrades past the ultimate zemurian ore forged ones. The stat boost are insane. This feels so wrong being done with game yet not done with the game. I'm going to be here in this stupid corridor forever before I start Daybreak 1.. 

Speaking of Daybreak I've been a little surprised that 2 still hasn't gotten a discount at the 2 month mark. Oh well I have even more time to wait as it seems I'm not getting to 1 anytime soon....

[Briar King]

Holy hell I haven't even gotten to the 5th Stratum yet...they are throwing mini missions at me left and right and I'm compelled to do them not only for the 3 Z ores but the little clips are addictive. I'm sure they will start repeating at some point but I've got about 14 so far...

[Eluvianii he/him]

There's a lot of those and I love them dearly. It is true that it isn't hard to get them all and they do start repeating but there were more than I expected.

[Briar King]

Also noticed quartz popping up in the curio bin that are unfamiliar and so far not craftable. I was able to buy it thankfully. Was a fire Lion Fish. Hopefully all have one. This is an insane power up session... I only thought I was getting jacked up by dropping 20-40 +5 droplets on a select few characters..... there's like a 900 point attack increase from the 1st Z ore (use to be ultimate weapon) weapon to the upgraded SECOND Z ore weapon....

This is blowing my mind....

[Eluvianii he/him]

So apparently FC's remake is getting a new localization, which I'm ok with, actually quite hopeful about it. But apparently they also changed the entire cast except for Olivier and Zin. Now that's really weird, I thought seiyuus usually married their roles. I've seen actors voicing characters from the 70s that they obviously can't pull off anymore and that don't sound very good, simply because it's tradition. It's such an odd choice that they decided to change so many people here.

[Briar King]

On 7th Stratum.

Getting some Daydreams knocked out. Emma's was nice. As well as the Bright's. I enjoyed the Mary/Macarov one but it was also kinda strange at the same time. 

Then came the Ash one...it was great character building but it was brutally long with no ability to save! It gave me CS1 festival vibes that I got so antsy on way back in the day if yall recall. If my son wasn't here it wouldn't have made me so antsy as I could have just thrown in rest mode but he could have very well closed the game to play gta 5 once I go outside. So I had to finish it. No clue why there was no menu control to save. Ugh. I was on my laptop for this without power cord in my dad's living room and I burned from 96% to 43%. Took close to 2 hrs with all the interruptions with the dog. Not cool.

My last gold sphere gave me

Mc Burn and rust he is a beast! He was a match stat wise at 150 then Lloyd at 171 so he was jacked after I gave him Lloyds accessories.

[aneonfoxtribute]

Ash has one of the best doors, it's so good.

McBurn is the strongest party member in the series, hands down

[Briar King]

Wow ok Daydream stuff

here i was expecting the normal long haul on the final(?) one that deals with Ouroboros. It was short and sweet though. A 2.5 yr truce with Calvard. Interesting that Gramheart butted in there.

I can taste Daybreak 1 coming.

[aneonfoxtribute]

4 minutes ago, Briar King said:

Wow ok Daydream stuff

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here i was expecting the normal long haul on the final(?) one that deals with Ouroboros. It was short and sweet though. A 2.5 yr truce with Calvard. Interesting that Gramheart butted in there.

 

I can taste Daybreak 1 coming.

That's not even the Daybreak setup Daydream lmao. It certainly sets it up, but there's others that more directly set it up

[Briar King]

Very good then.

Speaking of Calvard since that one was so short and sweet I decided to move on to Moonless Morn binge read. Only done with 2 so far but I must say I haven't been so engaged with one of these books in the same way since Red Moon Rose in CS1! Very interesting opening so far. Matagi. Kinda is reminding me of a Nord equivalent thus far.

[Briar King]

That didn't work out like usual. I had to break it up over 3 nights but I got done last night. That was a fun story. Definitely reminded me Nord in a sense and the main antagonist was very McBurnish but with Earth powers.

Hmm wonder if I ll see or hear more about this place/characters when I finally get to Daybreak...

[Briar King]

I really dislike bad match ups on trials. I only thought that one from before was bad... this one with Josha/Duvaile v Campnella is about to push me into saying the hell with this mess much like with Pom and sadly VM(love this game) and just push on the Stratum. Both of their orders suck and i sure don't feel like swapping out quartz at this stage. Camps multi cast skill thingy is a terror even at 100 eva..

[Briar King]

Got all trials and full 700 BP. I've been ready for a week now to engage the top floor of 0th Stratum but my newly graduated son has been here hogging my ps5 the entire time. I think he ll go back to his mom's Friday maybe and then it's time to wrap up Western Zemuria.

[Briar King]

8/2/24-6/2/25 

345 hrs 30 mins.

I was not a fan of the 3 txt Daydreams. I don't know if I ever saw the Calvard setup one mentioned but all 3 of those were in there.

I'm a bit burnt out at present so starting Daybreak wouldn't be a great idea. Death Stranding 2 hits 6/26 so I'm thinking about just messing around till then. Give myself a few months to recharge.

[aneonfoxtribute]

28 minutes ago, Briar King said:

8/2/24-6/2/25 

345 hrs 30 mins.

I was not a fan of the 3 txt Daydreams. I don't know if I ever saw the Calvard setup one mentioned but all 3 of those were in there.

I'm a bit burnt out at present so starting Daybreak wouldn't be a great idea. Death Stranding 2 hits 6/26 so I'm thinking about just messing around till then. Give myself a few months to recharge.

Those three are the Calvard setup ones. That's why they're different, cuz they're all in Calvard.

[Briar King]

Ok didn't know if I missed any. For some reason the next goal it had for me was to view 31 Daydreams and I've been sitting at 26 for quite awhile.. those 3 didn't add to the goal so I have no clue what they want...

[aneonfoxtribute]

22 minutes ago, Briar King said:

Ok didn't know if I missed any. For some reason the next goal it had for me was to view 31 Daydreams and I've been sitting at 26 for quite awhile.. those 3 didn't add to the goal so I have no clue what they want...

You sometimes have to redo a floor to get all of the orbs. Check the teleport map thing, it should tell you if you have more to get 

[Briar King]

Oh yeah I had everything on other colors. I did just go back on to see if more white ones popped up but it didn't even have them listed on chart. I just found it highly strange that 3 Daydreams didn't count at all. Its baffling.

It really feels Hella weird being done with the West today. I'm going to use my now open gaming time to read SLA 5 more. So ready to be done with it....

[aneonfoxtribute]

2 hours ago, Briar King said:

Oh yeah I had everything on other colors. I did just go back on to see if more white ones popped up but it didn't even have them listed on chart. I just found it highly strange that 3 Daydreams didn't count at all. Its baffling.

It really feels Hella weird being done with the West today. I'm going to use my now open gaming time to read SLA 5 more. So ready to be done with it....

I feel like you probably did miss some of the Daydreams. Check a list online, see if you don't have any of them

[Briar King]

I line up with guides 23 listed plus the 2 Mishlem vacays. Maybe the mini game completions add to total? Even with that though there would only be 30..

Baffled.

[aneonfoxtribute]

Strange 

[Eluvianii he/him]

The quiz daydream and the bullet hell daydream had 3 parts each iirc. Didn't you mention you were gonna skip those past part 1? Maybe each part counted individually. 

[Briar King]

Skipped Pom, VM :(, Miranaire and the cool but Hella broken Trfyin X.

Its the only thing that makes sense. Maybe in lue of MQs there is skits?