@@EdgyEmoLoliconBoy I was on Team Emma till CS2....but since CS3 I have been leaning more towards Laura, but the first bonding event in CS4 sealed the deal, Laura best girl.
She's always been one of my favorites. Funny thing is, I have a different 'best' ranking for all of them. Alisa: Best romantic chemistry with Rean Laura: Best character Fie: Best character arc (honestly, she's my favorite, but I don't think she's a good romantic partner for Rean) Emma: Best relevance to the main plot
@@cadmusravenstag4403 Things happen. Can't get a lot done when you're the center of a country-wide curse and a glorified national hero that is actually stuck as a puppet for the living reincarnation of Drechels the mother fuckin' Lionheart.
Just reached this part and Laura’s first special bonding event hit me most. I’ve been a Laurean since CS1 but their first event in CS4 just show how strong their bond and her feelings are to Rean. Unlike other girls who love Rean for being Rean, Laura also see him more than that, she sees him as a fellow sword practitioner, which became a part of their life. And for people who’s practicing towards greatness in their swordplay, they both feel powerless when their loved ones died and their friends struggle. Basically Laura’s understand the swordsman aspect of Rean, while no other waifu could.
When I saw Laura back in CS1, the fact that she could notice something was amiss within Rean just from seeing his swordsmanship alone, I knew she was the one
@@MrSasukeSusanoo agree but you cannot overlook Emma all the sacrifice and lengths she went for Rean as well. Tbh I feel that Laura and Emma would have been ideal partners for Rean.
@@hongluong3427 I agree, in fact I believe Emma had the most potential to be main heroine and not Alisa, because of what you say and because Emma is directly related to Rean's predicament becoming a divine knight and his dark powers. Laura is still my go to waifu but I think Emma had the most potential and she's in my top 3
@@MrSasukeSusanoo play through 1 - Laura and Rean Play through 2 (well save spot) - Emma and Rean. Tbh I have nothing against Alisa but she hasn't got as much in common with Rean compared to Laura and Emma
@@hongluong3427 I think I put emma in my third or fifth playthrough, but that's because I alternate between one waifu and one best bro each time. And I think the same about the other point, I feel that making Alisa's father an associate with Rean's biological father at the end of the saga was just a desperate move to make Alisa closer to Rean in a sense, but it's just not enough. Oh and btw who's the best bro for you?, for me the top are Crow and Jusis, and yes, they having some canonical developement with Rean aside from the social events helped in my choice
Saw it ingame today for first time and heard bad things about it being "rapey", but its total bs. That Event gave so much insight into both Laura and Rean, its insane.
Her voice is a little deeper so I noticed it, but I haven’t heard an impersonation this good since Lauren Landa replicated Michelle Ruff’s take of Robin.
I was sold to a Laura-ship permanently due to the bonding event in CS1 where she made lunch. That was just too adorable. I did find it disappointing we couldn't walk around and talk to everyone after the final battle in CS4.
Honestly I feel like her father will be overjoyed. Rean's a master swordsman, he's honorable, has a strong sense of justice and has shown himself to be worthy of being called a hero. He couldn't have asked for a better son-in-law to help Laura carry on the family legacy. Laura's possessive fan club is what Rean really should be worrying about.
Nah, he'll be chill about it. He mentioned back in CS1 he hopes Laura finds a boyfriend. Now, Laura's fanclub on the other hand. They will certainly attempt to kill Rean for this.
@@davidtimmer596 I mean, to be fair, Alisa only gets to kiss Rean once this game. Though if you count all the games, she is at 3 total. Still, nice to see this here
@@thewerdna Actually Alisa got 4 kisses. In CS2 she actually got two, once during her final bond event and the other during the romanced epilogue event in the dorms.
Low key disappointed the voice actress changed, because a lot of appeal for me with Laura was how sexy her first voice actress's voice was. But it sounds like the new actress nails it too. It'll just take getting used to.
@@davidtimmer596 in the japanese version I think Laura tells Rean that she wants to tie him up and have him to herself...I've seen it in a video years ago, of the first event
Same. The passion they share works for me. I never liked Alisa, she was always annoying and her voice actress is even more so. Hell ill pick Juna over Alisa
@@johnle1535 Cold Steel 1 Alisa, especially. Now admittedly, she mellows out later on, but Cold Steel 1 Alisa definitely rubs me the wrong way. Laura and Emma felt more natural. Especially since Rean never deserved that slap in the old schoolhouse when she ended up on top of him with her boobs on his face. It's an annoying trope that needs to die. And introducing your main characters in that manner is never a good sign, it's a cheap attempt at making teenage awkwardness funny or charming. But I wouldn't go as far as saying the voice actress is annoying, I think that's stretching it a little. Let's keep it to the character please.
I just started Trails of Cold Steel and absolutely love it. I'm so invested in this series now. I'm currently in chapter 6 of CS1 so I'll be started CS2 soon. I was curious about Laura and Rean and found myself here. I've gotta say, I'm not a fan of the new voice actress for Laura. Ugh! Oh well. At any rate I'm sure Laura will remain my choice for Rean's love interest throughout the series.
Its because Rean's Japanese voice actor is actually one of the more famous, and thus expensive to hire, voice actors. And unlike XSeed, NiSA didn't fix this when they localized the game.
Nothing’s been said but I’m guessing it was a scheduling conflict with other projects that left her unable to voice Laura, like with Max Mittleman who voiced Lechter and McBurn who said on his Twitter that the reason he couldn’t voice them was because of a scheduling conflict where he was voicing in another big project. They also replaced the voice actors for Osborne, Leonidas (the dreadlocks guy from Zephyr), General Craig and the Red Constellation sniper (the last two were voiced by Sean Schemmel).
@@Saiyef96 that's very unfortunate, her old voice was perfect in my opinion same with Max as Mcburn and Lechter, I am not far in the game yet but when I met Laura for the first time I knew something felt off :D but thanks for the clarification
My guess would be since Marisha Ray is the creative director of all of Critical Role's other projects, she was probably too busy with that due to the pandemic to come back to voice act. From what I've heard that has been a nightmare.
So I'm about to start the cold steel series and is this part of the series super strict on time management like Persona 3-5 is? Since i remember killscottkill mentioned in a youtube vid about trails that steel mimics persona to some parts but better.
I mean you would miss out on side quest if you progress past a certain point in the chapter. In CS1 and 2 there are hidden quest but in 3 and 4 they removed the hidden quest. Plus the game will tell you if you progress past this point certain stuff will be gone
I wouldn't say it's as much as a focus : you're not forced to choose between leveling up or bonding with other characters for example. You can't increase the relationship with everyone at the same time but i think that's about it.
Nah. Doesn't have a calendar management system like the Persona games do. But it is important to be as through as possible when looking around for quests, loot and other things. And whatever you do, try not to rush from one boss fight to the next. As you might need to do a few more monster fights then you'd probably want to in order to maintain your level rates between your party members.
It gets tiring how all she talks about with Rean is the fact that she has feelings she hasn't shown anyone and that they're both swordfighters. It just doesn't seem like real chemistry to me.
Well they also talked about food and had an event in a technology shop back in cs2. Oh and Laura also begun showing interest in cooking, she gave Rean a bento once. Also I don't see the problem with talking about swords when both are swordsmen, it's a main topic of their lives, and the thikg about feelings, I see it as someone who isn't good at expressing herself and just wants to have more confidence and boldness, like in the cave, and in that society it's true that she behaves more like a gentleman than a lady, ir may not seem important to us because we live in a different world, but if she's worried about losing to other girls, it's perfectly understandable in her context, even her father Victor was worried because of the same reason and he hoped his daugther didn't have a difficult time finding a partner because of it
BEST GIRL SINCE THE FIRST GAME!
All of them are but
Im a Laura kind of dude
@@EdgyEmoLoliconBoy I was on Team Emma till CS2....but since CS3 I have been leaning more towards Laura, but the first bonding event in CS4 sealed the deal, Laura best girl.
For me I like sara laura and altina I just cant choose which one
@@EdgyEmoLoliconBoy Laura, a beautiful swordswoman whose blade can pierce the hearts of many.
She's always been one of my favorites. Funny thing is, I have a different 'best' ranking for all of them.
Alisa: Best romantic chemistry with Rean
Laura: Best character
Fie: Best character arc (honestly, she's my favorite, but I don't think she's a good romantic partner for Rean)
Emma: Best relevance to the main plot
"Can a vision do this"
That was so smooth.
I don't know, 5 years, 4 games, and all he managed was another kiss. lol
@@cadmusravenstag4403 well it not Eroge. 😅
@@cadmusravenstag4403 Things happen. Can't get a lot done when you're the center of a country-wide curse and a glorified national hero that is actually stuck as a puppet for the living reincarnation of Drechels the mother fuckin' Lionheart.
@@cadmusravenstag4403 and that's just enough, at least in Laura's route, it's more than enough
Laura: "J-just how many times have you done this before??
Me with a few savedata with differents dates: haha...
Rean: I'm 4 parallel universes ahead of you
Some machine in Riviere : Wtf
Even those who walk the path of the sword, can find true hapiness.
Just reached this part and Laura’s first special bonding event hit me most. I’ve been a Laurean since CS1 but their first event in CS4 just show how strong their bond and her feelings are to Rean. Unlike other girls who love Rean for being Rean, Laura also see him more than that, she sees him as a fellow sword practitioner, which became a part of their life. And for people who’s practicing towards greatness in their swordplay, they both feel powerless when their loved ones died and their friends struggle. Basically Laura’s understand the swordsman aspect of Rean, while no other waifu could.
When I saw Laura back in CS1, the fact that she could notice something was amiss within Rean just from seeing his swordsmanship alone, I knew she was the one
@@MrSasukeSusanoo agree but you cannot overlook Emma all the sacrifice and lengths she went for Rean as well.
Tbh I feel that Laura and Emma would have been ideal partners for Rean.
@@hongluong3427 I agree, in fact I believe Emma had the most potential to be main heroine and not Alisa, because of what you say and because Emma is directly related to Rean's predicament becoming a divine knight and his dark powers. Laura is still my go to waifu but I think Emma had the most potential and she's in my top 3
@@MrSasukeSusanoo play through 1 - Laura and Rean
Play through 2 (well save spot) - Emma and Rean.
Tbh I have nothing against Alisa but she hasn't got as much in common with Rean compared to Laura and Emma
@@hongluong3427 I think I put emma in my third or fifth playthrough, but that's because I alternate between one waifu and one best bro each time. And I think the same about the other point, I feel that making Alisa's father an associate with Rean's biological father at the end of the saga was just a desperate move to make Alisa closer to Rean in a sense, but it's just not enough. Oh and btw who's the best bro for you?, for me the top are Crow and Jusis, and yes, they having some canonical developement with Rean aside from the social events helped in my choice
I wish our save data carried over across all 4 games so our choices had more weight and we wouldn't need to get 4 different confessions.
Heh, I think we need computer or console at the level of Azure tree.
@@zbigbozbboy5245 Nah, Mass Effect 1-3 already did it without any problem
First bonding event is maybe best bonding event in whole series.
I'd give it "Most shocking" and Top 10 in Cold Steel series.
Saw it ingame today for first time and heard bad things about it being "rapey", but its total bs. That Event gave so much insight into both Laura and Rean, its insane.
The New VA nailed the part when Laura pushed Rean to the wall.
Love it.
I honestly thought its still the same voice actor since cs 1
@@KilterNazkre09 I mean, Rean's still voiced by Sean Chiplock, and he sounds very different from the last three games.
Had I not been informed ahead of time, I might not have suspected a change for a long time. That's how close she got to Marisha.
Her voice is a little deeper so I noticed it, but I haven’t heard an impersonation this good since Lauren Landa replicated Michelle Ruff’s take of Robin.
That's an assault you know 😅
I was sold to a Laura-ship permanently due to the bonding event in CS1 where she made lunch. That was just too adorable. I did find it disappointing we couldn't walk around and talk to everyone after the final battle in CS4.
they gonna have the most broken offspring if they teach their son/daughter the sword. bloodline alpha
Eight Radiant Leaves One BladeMaster
@@MrSasukeSusanoo next level of 8 leaves is divine blade, so my guess s/he should be called Divine Blade of Radiant
I'm planning on going the Alisa route so just checking out laura's, and I got to say the first 2 min feels like a ova to anime lol
Now comes Reans ultimate challenge.
Getting Lura’s father approval
Honestly I feel like her father will be overjoyed. Rean's a master swordsman, he's honorable, has a strong sense of justice and has shown himself to be worthy of being called a hero. He couldn't have asked for a better son-in-law to help Laura carry on the family legacy. Laura's possessive fan club is what Rean really should be worrying about.
@@FSAPOJake Yep. Laura's fangirls are the real issue at play here. Plus, I wouldn't mind them opening their own dojo for Arseid and 8 Leaves lessons.
Nah, he'll be chill about it. He mentioned back in CS1 he hopes Laura finds a boyfriend.
Now, Laura's fanclub on the other hand. They will certainly attempt to kill Rean for this.
Out of all the LI's parental figures in this game? He'd probably be the easiest to get one's approval from.
Her father would call it fate. Descendant of Lianne Sandlot and the child of Dreichel's reincarnation together.
So happy they kiss... twice...
@Noct Lucis But of course, Alisa favoritism.
@@davidtimmer596 I mean, to be fair, Alisa only gets to kiss Rean once this game. Though if you count all the games, she is at 3 total. Still, nice to see this here
@@thewerdna Actually Alisa got 4 kisses. In CS2 she actually got two, once during her final bond event and the other during the romanced epilogue event in the dorms.
@@cipher-one I was unaware of the 2ed kiss in CS2 then
@@thewerdna actually 4 twice in cold steel 2 and was already answered 😅
Low key disappointed the voice actress changed, because a lot of appeal for me with Laura was how sexy her first voice actress's voice was. But it sounds like the new actress nails it too. It'll just take getting used to.
I mean it sounds pretty close, whoever it is they put effort into it unlike alot of VA replacements
Yeah, Marisha Ray really sold Laura's dignified and proper noblewoman presence.
The new one is quite talented then, since i didn't realize it😅
God I love that bonding event for so many different reasons.
Best girl my favorite game heroine of the series
Laura performed Kabe-don
Laura kabe-don Rean.
way to go laura. 👏
I'm kind of imagining Laura having a hidden dominant side.
@@davidtimmer596 in the japanese version I think Laura tells Rean that she wants to tie him up and have him to herself...I've seen it in a video years ago, of the first event
@@MrSasukeSusanoo God I was that could be me 😳
Ma best gurl since the first game, and always will be 0w0
Agreed.
Nah.
Same. The passion they share works for me. I never liked Alisa, she was always annoying and her voice actress is even more so. Hell ill pick Juna over Alisa
@@johnle1535 And what "passion" did Laura share with Rean? And how is Alisa annoying?
@@johnle1535 Cold Steel 1 Alisa, especially. Now admittedly, she mellows out later on, but Cold Steel 1 Alisa definitely rubs me the wrong way. Laura and Emma felt more natural. Especially since Rean never deserved that slap in the old schoolhouse when she ended up on top of him with her boobs on his face. It's an annoying trope that needs to die. And introducing your main characters in that manner is never a good sign, it's a cheap attempt at making teenage awkwardness funny or charming. But I wouldn't go as far as saying the voice actress is annoying, I think that's stretching it a little. Let's keep it to the character please.
Only thing that takes away from this is that they changed the voice actress. Then again, as a fan of Marisha Ray I might be biased
I guess I can consider this my first crackship.
''bold as ever'' :D
I just started Trails of Cold Steel and absolutely love it. I'm so invested in this series now. I'm currently in chapter 6 of CS1 so I'll be started CS2 soon. I was curious about Laura and Rean and found myself here. I've gotta say, I'm not a fan of the new voice actress for Laura. Ugh! Oh well. At any rate I'm sure Laura will remain my choice for Rean's love interest throughout the series.
True best girl
YYYEEEEEESSSS
Rean's still not voiced in the final bonding events..? That's a tiny bit disappointing
I think it's because this is ultimately a player moment more than a Rean moment.
@@HappyPotat no it's because of budget
Its because Rean's Japanese voice actor is actually one of the more famous, and thus expensive to hire, voice actors. And unlike XSeed, NiSA didn't fix this when they localized the game.
@@thewerdna
It took a PC rerelease for that to get fixed remember. Don't just blame NISA.
@@ES21007 It also got fixed on the PS4 as well.
of all the characters to get a voice change it had to be Laura.
wonder why?
Sucks that they changed her VA. Marisha Ray was better imo
Agreed even her husband still voicing oliver and goerge
I want the old Luara Voice Actor.. old VA of laura has a very sexy voice...so give it back you damn english falcom...
My favorite
What happened to the old voice actress?
Nothing’s been said but I’m guessing it was a scheduling conflict with other projects that left her unable to voice Laura, like with Max Mittleman who voiced Lechter and McBurn who said on his Twitter that the reason he couldn’t voice them was because of a scheduling conflict where he was voicing in another big project. They also replaced the voice actors for Osborne, Leonidas (the dreadlocks guy from Zephyr), General Craig and the Red Constellation sniper (the last two were voiced by Sean Schemmel).
@@Saiyef96 that's very unfortunate, her old voice was perfect in my opinion same with Max as Mcburn and Lechter, I am not far in the game yet but when I met Laura for the first time I knew something felt off :D but thanks for the clarification
My guess would be since Marisha Ray is the creative director of all of Critical Role's other projects, she was probably too busy with that due to the pandemic to come back to voice act. From what I've heard that has been a nightmare.
@@thewerdna that makes sense, at least we got the majority of the old cast and staying safe in this current time is everything that matters
@Noct Lucis Reminds me of how Kagome had a different voice actor in the final season of Inuyasha, but she sounded so similar you could barely tell.
The best
Radiant Phoenix Kiss.
lol out of all the women here in this game laura was the only one to assault rean in that cave😂 no one had the balls to do that😂😂
Anyone knows what is OST starting at 3:28?
The Night Sky On That Day from Trails of Cold Steel: th-cam.com/video/YDby9c3hnGM/w-d-xo.html
Anohi ni Mita Yozora (from Cold Steel 1)
Best girl!
So I'm about to start the cold steel series and is this part of the series super strict on time management like Persona 3-5 is? Since i remember killscottkill mentioned in a youtube vid about trails that steel mimics persona to some parts but better.
I mean you would miss out on side quest if you progress past a certain point in the chapter. In CS1 and 2 there are hidden quest but in 3 and 4 they removed the hidden quest. Plus the game will tell you if you progress past this point certain stuff will be gone
I wouldn't say it's as much as a focus : you're not forced to choose between leveling up or bonding with other characters for example. You can't increase the relationship with everyone at the same time but i think that's about it.
@@Harakengard I'm prioritising the waifus lol (The guys you get if you take the solo route after all)
Nah. Doesn't have a calendar management system like the Persona games do. But it is important to be as through as possible when looking around for quests, loot and other things.
And whatever you do, try not to rush from one boss fight to the next. As you might need to do a few more monster fights then you'd probably want to in order to maintain your level rates between your party members.
Back when Laura sexually assaulted rean in a cave.
they changed marsha ray? but why?
We have no idea. Likely scheduling conflict
@@thewerdna And the pandemic also played a part.
It gets tiring how all she talks about with Rean is the fact that she has feelings she hasn't shown anyone and that they're both swordfighters. It just doesn't seem like real chemistry to me.
Well they also talked about food and had an event in a technology shop back in cs2. Oh and Laura also begun showing interest in cooking, she gave Rean a bento once. Also I don't see the problem with talking about swords when both are swordsmen, it's a main topic of their lives, and the thikg about feelings, I see it as someone who isn't good at expressing herself and just wants to have more confidence and boldness, like in the cave, and in that society it's true that she behaves more like a gentleman than a lady, ir may not seem important to us because we live in a different world, but if she's worried about losing to other girls, it's perfectly understandable in her context, even her father Victor was worried because of the same reason and he hoped his daugther didn't have a difficult time finding a partner because of it
FOIST
Ey
Eh. Not really a fan of her personality.