Is Trails Through Daybreak 2 the Worst Trails??? | Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- *Thanks to NIS America for providing the review code!
There's been a lot said about Trails through Daybreak 2, since it's been out in Japan for quite some time. Some people have said it's the worst Trails game out there - period. But IS it? Let's dive in and take a look.
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I'm glad to hear this, because I've heard so much negativity about this game and it's really brought my excitement down, which has been unfortunate, because like you, I am a huge Trails fan. I had a friend who knows my tastes in video games better than I do who recommended the series to me... I started playing Zero, and then CS1, and then Azure, and at that point, decided to go back to the beginning. I didn't love the graphics of Sky, so I switched to the Vita EVO versions and that made me appreciate Sky so much more. At that point, I was incredibly hooked, had a ton of merch, and motored right through to Daybreak, which came out just days after I finished Reverie.
It's been the first time I had to wait for a Trails game, but I am glad it is finally coming out and I'll get a Trails fix!
I'm also really happy to see Swin and Nadia back. I'd love to see Ash come back at some point since he's my favorite character in the series, but I know that's likely to never happen.
I mean, I've loved every Trails game, even the ones some people thought weren't great. So I'm confident I'm going to love this too. Sure, the pacing of the story might end up being weird, but like I've seen a couple of people say in the comments here, sometimes it could be a setup chapter for something big. And if they're truly winding down the series soon, then more setup chapters may be necessary so they can stick that landing. I ended up getting caught up on the series (Cold Steel 3 and 4, Reverie, and Daybreak) at the end of 2024 as I got laid off in September and I just tore through them all and loved every minute of all of them. Sucks that I'm back to work in a way because I'll have to take Daybreak 2 slower, haha.
But yeah. Still really excited to play this one.
Machine translations are slop and I'm glad you called them out
Translators that are paid to translate, but remove and add cringe lines are slop
@@kurisu3000 Both of these are slop
@@someguy3263Rather have AI translation than fan fiction.
Actually the reviews are mostly from summaries of the main story from people who understands Japanese and interpreted what they viewed from streams of a Japanese playthrough or what they played themselves like www.youtube.com/@samfarron for example. The MTL part is mostly the NPC conversations so if you only care about the main story then they're not really that far off the mark but if you play for the world building then yes judging bases on the MTL would not be fair. Take Kai for example the MTL only showed up less than 2 weeks ago but most fan opinions were formed 3 months earlier when English speakers who understand it summarized their playthroughs.
enjoy your nisa fanfic
Alert: my comment may contain a little spoiler of the game.
I played this game (Asian Version) 2 years ago.
Daybreak II consists of three main story chapters and three antagonists. If it were sold as three DLCs for Daybreak 1, with a reasonable price, it would easily receive a rating of 9 out of 10.
However, by combining the three chapters and adding some mediocre or/and rough filler contents, then releasing it as a full price game, it is not good enough. It can only earns a 6.5 or 7 out of 10.
Although the main storyline of the game is hindered by these factors , Daybreak II still manages to score above average, demonstrating that it has many outstanding qualities, such as the excellent Connection Event stories, the continuously improving hybrid battle system. (Speaking of which, Kai no Kiseki features an even MUCH better system; it is a masterpiece of hybrid battle systems. I hope it will be released worldwide soon.)
I agree it wouldve worked better as a post game expansion for the first Daybreak game, and wish it was released that way
Your pronounciation of Märchen Garten is top notch in my German opinion. Perhaps a little more emphasis on the ä in Märchen. I'll provide a translation for those interested. Märchen is the german word for fairy tale,and Garten..... Well garden.
First of all, thank you for an earnest and heartfelt review! It’s interesting… one of my favorite things about “Sky FC” was the way the game basically entailed traveling around and solving local problems while looking for signs of a missing loved one, all while the larger narrative slowly built in the background. I also loved (most) of the Doors in “Sky the 3rd” for their episodic quality and the opportunity they gave to check back in on characters whose arcs had mostly resolved within the initial duology. But with “Daybreak”… some chapters were great, some were very good, and others were just the abysmal Chapter 3.
I can thoroughly enjoy a quieter, more episodic “Daybreak 2” so long as it isn’t an entire game of “Daybreak” Chapter 3s strung together, and so long as I am not meant to endure a Dance-Off Battle for the City’s Soul with a straight face after slogging through hours of buildup for which that is the apparent “payoff.” But it’s hard to really pinpoint how this will feel until I experience it for myself, so we’ll see!
Thanks again for the review. :-)
I liked all of Daybreak, including chapter 3. it was a mood change, but it did give us a glimpse of Central Eastern culture and of the importance of the movie industry in Calvard. I liked the mystery f the threatening letters too, not to mention Gerard showing up for the first time. While yers, chapter 3 is the worst of Daybreak, all of Daybreak is the best Trails
If it has more Van and Elaine, thats all I care about
the reason why I like the trails series is because it's very anime-like. if that's why people are complaining, then why are they even playing it?
anime didn't used to be this debased and pathetic
@@sandwichmaker9000 Comments didn't used to be this debased and pathetic
If people doesn't play how the hell the dev suppose to improve the game?????? Huh?? People like you are the reason games are shit.
Daybreak 2 uses the most annoying anime tropes in the last third and even goes against the very morals and themes the game itself setups because of it
@@kg888 This game was rushed though, had it not been we would have gotten story quality similar to Kai and certain themes are repeated in that game
I have not played Daybreak 1 yet, I am indeed a rebel!
"There's a Van Arkride stuffed animal?!", asks the man nearing age 50.
Young at heart ;)
i loved all the unlockables you could get in the reverie corridor, especially the cosmetics - so I hope they went all out on this one too.
Even if this is a "bad" trails game, even the worst trails game is still better than the best game of any other series, so I'm still going to get this on day 1 next Friday. My theory about having to beat Cold Steel 4 twice has always been that Falcom put that in there and they expected players to be able to figure it out on their own, and were surprised when people didn't get it. That's why they had to have Lloyd explain the ending of Cold Steel 4 explicitly one game later, something Trails almost never does.
I am extremely confident that the reviews for this game are going to be really harsh. The people who played a translated version of the game have set the expectations for it, and I there's nothing youtube likes more than piling on. The thing you said is critical: Trails re-contextualizes what you saw in a previous game with a reveal in a subsequent game all the time. Can't wait till next week to play this for myself.
If it has more of the same cast from the 1st game im not worried.
I have been defending this game for a long time. It's true is not a great Trails game, and I can see the issues it has. However, I think those issues have been exaggerated. The expectation of this being the usual sequel game is probably what hurts it the most. This game doesn't work in that regard. However, characterization wise, this game does a lot of it right, specially on the intermission. Gameplay wise is way better than Daybreak 1 as well.
Regarding the localization/machine translation:
Machine translations, compared to a human translation, are bad, but they have also come a long way. It really helps as well if you understand how they usually work so that you detect the usual errors it has, and also have some knowledge of the language being translated as well. It's understandable that this method is not for everyone, but, please don't disregard the knowledge of someone who played the game using machine translation. Even though they can get several things wrong, it's also possible to understand the game completely as well.
The official localization is for the most part really good, but it has a few things that are translated very poorly, sometimes I guess they didn't get the intent of that part, others are changes because they want to give that term a similar significance to what Japanese "feel" and that means changing it, and finally there are times that they just don't know the significance of the term/sentence in future games and the translation even though it worked originally, it became a problem later on.
The issue with the "Chance" and "There" is probably because there are several conditions that trigger those words, and, unless they change how those voice overs are coded, they can't give a better translation without sounding weird on a different situation the voice over is used.
I'm sure this game is great even as a sequel. Playing Tears of the Kingdom as a sequel made me appreciate other sequels more because that game was the worst sequel I ever play.
@Mattjazz47 Actually you're probably pretty close on "Chance" and "There", but there's another nuance. Oftentimes, they have to time it very strictly to the length of the Japanese audio, especially battle action voices, so the gameplay is not delayed or the sound is not cut off by normal play (High-Speed Mode/user skipping excluded). So usually the default way to handle them is to expect "timed" for a whole class of lines and I guess that's how they come out so not everyone's saying "Now". I honestly never noticed they used "Chance" or "There", my gripe personally is "Drive" for casting, starting with CS3. I know what term they translated to get there, it's like the "arts casting" term the series has always used.
Anyway, I respectfully disagree about the actual scale of problems. It's usually more often clerical error type mistakes that took a while to get addressed, since it takes a long time to get the developer to actually implement changes (see Reverie). I think Daybreak and II should be in slightly better shape. There are definitely gripes people have with choices made in the past, but that's inevitable. I think they do a good job accounting for/addressing lore-related stuff, though, if you play through them in context.
@@Mattjazz47 What I meant by sequel is the way Trails presents their second game in an arc. In that regard, Daybreak is not a good game. They do follow a few important points that were left out vague in the previous title, but it's not the usual Trails sequel that rewards you for playing the introduction game as Sky SC, Azure, CS2 and CS4 were like.
Daybreak 2 feels like if the introduction game was chopped in 2, having the most content on the first game, and most of the not so important content on the second game.
It's similar to CS1/2 being Cold Steel's introduction, and CS3/CS4 being the second act of the arc, but the difference is that both acts in Cold Steel worked well as the usual pairs of Introduction/sequel Trails usually does.
@@Natreg44 thats subjective because a lot of people already felt that way with the series as a whole and what you might consider filler in Daybreak 2 could be relevant for other people. I'm an One Piece fan so these arguments are not new to me especially when it comes to arcs.
Can’t wait ! I hear that it’s as good as the first one from Japanese friend
I've already preordered it. I care about the characters, the gameplay, and the story. If the story is loose, but the characters and gameplay are super fun -- I'll still love the game. It won't make the ENTIRE game "shitty" or "bad" as I've seen others talk about. You haven't and gave it a fair shake with this video and I appreciate it.
I think people dismissing the game because of the points you and others have brought up is just a bit unfair, to be honest. Give it a shot. I can't wait to dive back into Calvard, personally.
I burnt out on Trails games after Reverie so I'm super cool with watching reviews lol
Soooo what’s a good Trails game to get me into it? Never heard of them til today
Welcome to the trails games, I'll try to help!
To start off, each game has coming back characters which you can go "Who's that?" if you don't start with the Trails in the Sky games (Liberl arc), but starting anywhere should be fine if you don't mind that, especially with a remake on the way with "Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter" you might want to hold off on the Sky games.
Trails of Cold Steel (Erebonia arc) is what got me into the games and where I personally started, I remember playing 1,2 and 3 before touching Crossbell and Sky. As for my personal recommendation, the Crossbell arc is my favorite arc with the SSS team and Lloyd Bannings as my favorite main character in the series, you can start with "Trails from Zero" for that arc, I love every single characters that you party with and the story for each of them. As for gameplay and style, I don't want to overwhelm you with an essay, check screenshots or videos of the Crossbell arc and Cold steel, it's vastly different in visual styles, it comes down to your taste. I like both style, but not everyone does. Gameplay is not too different per games, I always played them on Nightmare since it's a trophy/achievement requirement, but I learned the hard way how to play the games because of it. Without going too much into it, there is a thing with evasion you can look into, but I don't want to spoil anything for you. Some fights are brutal on nightmare without proper setups, maybe don't play on that difficulty unless you don't mind what I said. Hopefully I helped a little to come to a decision with my perspective!
Trails Time With Just The Gems
I love this series and regardless of any reviews I am going to play Daybreak 2 and decide for myself what I think of it. That said, even if it is a low point for the series, this series as a whole has been so good that A: They were bound to have a game that didn't hit as hard as the others at some point and B: "low point" could very easily still be a very good game given that I consider most of the other ELEVEN GAMES up to now to be great. At the end of the day though, I am also just really hoping for another quick turn around on us getting Kai no Kiseki in the west!
Great point about Trails not throwing things in their games for no reason. I've had to remind myself of this at times. The payoff is there, even if it's further down the road. Great vid as usual!
A Trails game would have to fall off to some pretty major extremes for me to lose my excitement for it. I played the demo and left it with only positive feelings and am obviously stoked for the whole game to release. Different? Maybe. But I’m into that. Our guy comes through once again with a measured approach to a game that has gotten some hate it seems.
Same I played the demo I like it so far
Oh my god, THANK YOU for understanding what phatic expressions are. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
-your friend the loc editor
Haha this was the first DB2 review recommended to me, you seem a bit too harsh on yourself in this video. Hopefully it's more so in the vein of self deprecation humor sort of thing rather than actual self judgement. I can't say for certain cuz its the first time I've watched ya but if it is serious there's no need for it. This was a well made review video have more faith in yourself, you aren't just a "Dumb TH-cam Reviewer" or whatever the wording was. Anyways good video, thanks for making it as someone who just recently finished Kai with MTL I will say MTL is getting better but absolutely official translations are almost always better.
I kept the faith - I patiently watched through review after review, with negative critique after negative critique, all the while telling myself "I'm going to wait and see what my own experience is and not allow myself to have any preconceived notions..." and I also said to myself, "Just the Gems will probably have a much more positive take." I was right!! I have my head held high with excitement and anticipation to play Daybreak 2 next weekend, I'm so ready!! The only thing I'm bummed about is the fact that they'd put in a new lame card game when they already had the best one ever, Vantage Masters.
Oh, by the way, your sneak diss against those who played the garbage translation and felt they could give an accurate assessment as to the quality of the game, that was just _chef's kiss_ superb. Thanks for the review!
You will never hate localisers enough.
Localisers and their trans defence squads are evil, so I'll take the slop of MTL + fan translation.
“Characters talk too much” But yet people still play games by Atlus 💀
Oh damn, combat looks way better than the first
I think you’ve created a false dichotomy in lumping all fan/machine TL efforts in as”low quality slop”. After all, NISA sure thought that Geofront’s translations of Zero and Azure were high quality enough to use them as the basis of their official releases. Also, zerofield’s work(the fan TL group that received a C&D from NISA after completing a spreadsheet for kuro 1) also deserves to be considered.
I think that there’s a tendency in the trails fandom some have where they hear “fan TL” and automatically think “low quality machine slop”.
just wanna say your jazzy new composition at the end is real cool boss
Worth noting that the fan translation for daybreak 2 isn’t machine translated for the main story or side quests (early versions are a different story and i think for stuff like random npc dialogue mtl was used even in recent version, as is Kai which only has a mtl). Still probably less accurate overall than an official translation would be, but it was done by a human
in the second half of the game while still based on the translation provide by sam farron has a dip in quality and is more rough
that being said i don't think a better translation from nisa would only do so much, this is a overglorified dlc for daybreak 1, something which would MILES better if it was a expansion dlc like torna but instead we get a good games but with a second half of the game particulary poorly handled, just fuck garden master plotline this was a waste of time
It's pretty disappointing seeing people stating there were Trails games they didn't like. I've played all the way through from Sky 1 to Reverie, and I have thoroughly enjoyed all of them. Do I have nitpicks? Sure, but Trails is one of the best JRPG franchise of all time as far I'm concerned. I've enjoyed all the characters and most of the environments are pretty fun to explore (Sometimes they can feel a little empty, but I can excuse that since these aren't AAA games. There are budgetary restrictions at play. Plus, Falcom isn't a huge development team). I really look forward to playing Daybreak I and II at some point!
Yeah i dont have a best to worst trails list. Ive never thought about the franchise with thay viewpoint in mind. Ive just enjoyed the games.
does "I'd better start upping my rizz" really feel better than MTL ?
Oh, hey, an even-handed review. Fancy that.
Just to clear this up, it should be noted that Reverie was only developed because Falcom had spent so much time making their own engine that Daybreak was still too early in development when it was supposed to be their new game for that year, so they opted to make Reverie so they could reuse assets for CS3/4 and have it ready in time. In light of that and Kai no Kiseki's ending, the split endings for CS4 were likely foreshadowing for the Calvard arc rather than Reverie, but they had some early payoff in the latter instead.
Also, don't worry about Seven Hearts. Almost no one gets it, and even the ones who do seem to generally agree it's not worth playing. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably trolling.
Man, you are the second trusted reviewer that has been fairly negative on the game. I'm still going to be picking it up, but it sucks to see a franchise you love have a moment like this.
I mean he starts pretty early making it clear that he genuinely likes the game and thinks it’s good, so I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised when you get it!
@@KingBanks18 Oh I definitely agree! Any series that is this long running will have some hiccups along the way. They can't all be the best haha. I'm still super excited to play it!
The game has high highs but low lows. The game was rushed out due to Ys X being delayed and it frankly shows
The characters yelling "Chance!" Irritates me CONSTANTLY and I'm glad I'm not the only one. They say that the vast majority of their turns. Very repetitive, and I have a high tolerance for repeated voice lines (beaten all Xenoblade games for example)
Love your videos and happy to see you growing!
I'm use to not liking some of the trails games. Cold Steel 2 and 4 were awful but im still here.
But 2 & 4 were the best in the Cold Steel arc
While having low expectations I look forward to the NISA fanfic.
In the first game they renamed the sword maiden to beauty's blade for same reason and tried to insert pronouns in Quarte introduction scene when he clearly states he looks like a man and the other characters support him destroying the progressive gender is not sex narrative.
eww shut up
When a character says “chance” or “there” it doesn’t bother me personally. I even like it cause they’re basically hyping them selves up before attacking. Or that’s how I see it anyways
. I'll definitely check it out still. It's already pre-ordered. We'll see if it's truly is a black sheep I don't think it will be
Yet to see a single plot point debated about Kuro 1 or 2 that hasn't met with a huge story inconsistency with players who played in JP, like, not even one.
Brandon! You are the trails guy!! I’m only sky trilogy deep! Giving myself a breather before the cross bell arc! I will get to daybreak one day!
Much love mate! Keep up the great content ❤️
I was able to stand the shit that is reverie corridor, so I can stand anything
Daybreak was my game of 2024! I can't wait to play this, despite the drop off people mention. My biggest fear is the fishing mini-game; I don't think I've ever liked fishing in any game, at best its annoying, often it's the worst part of whatever game its in.
I can agree that machine translation is never preferred, but I think you do your credibility a disservice to not acknowledge that there are bad faith localizers in that industry. It might not have come up in trails, but there are numerous cases of translation knowingly changing the meaning of a scene because they thought their version was better, and recognizing that doesn't automatically make you a conspiracy crazy or a terrible person. The goal of localization should be to convey original intent in a way that resonates with the receiving language. You can't just assume that anyone who is skeptical about localizers must love stilted, awkward literal translations, that's a false dichotomy.
Anyway, thank you for an honest review, I'm buying day 1!
My personal opinion is that it's obviously inferior to Kuro 1 (which I consider one of the best in the series), but of course that's in terms of story (which is admittedly the most important aspect in this franchise).
Mechanically speaking, Kuro II improves pretty much everything over Kuro, the addition of mini-games was much needed, combat felt better (same idea, but more polished, buth action and turn-based) and all of this allowed Kuro II to have something the first didn't which is things that take you away from the typical routine within the game, which is something I did appreciate.
Yeah, story-wise Kuro is better, but I felt Kuro II was nice, maybe except for that final act (which I'm not gonna spoil of course), but it was not bad in the way that ruins stuff for the overarching plot, so I really didn't care too much. And up to the intermission I think it was pretty damn good.
All in all, I think this game is clearly not part of my, say, top 5 Trails games... but I definitely don't consider it the worst either, and I definitely don't consider it a bad game.
Also, we all part of the Vandwagon
Some of my favorite series moments are in this game!
I've heard this is the worst but if it's any better than Cold Steel 4 (which i fucking hate) and reverie which treated its audience like an idiot than I'll very much like it
Gameplay wise it's a 9.5/10
Story wise:
Pre part 3: 8/10
Part 3: 3/10
Final part: 7/10
story wise it's the weakest, feels like it's setting up Kai No Kiseki and the ride it has in store for us.
Damn, the reviews are straight draping on this game. I don’t care just like any long running series, some entries are going to be set up chapters or just not the best of the franchise. Just decent is going to happen sometimes.
Kinda odd for the second entry in the arc to be a setup game. Usually it's just the 1st game of each arc.
@ Happens in media all the time if they are planning a trilogy or farther. I don’t look into the Japanese releases so I don’t know how long the daybreak arc is but if it’s at least 3-4 entries then it makes sense for this to not be TOO hype.
@@ThatGuy-en2nnoh believe me cold steel 2 was still a set up game lmao.
Ive been kiseki pilled and am just ready for the last game cause the space this game series takes up in my brain needs to be used for something else.
Trails is like pizza. Even when it’s meh, it’s still good. I’m halfway through ch 5 in Daybreak I and am not convinced I’ll have time to wrap things up before next Friday. Here’s trying!
I'm skipping this video cause I don't want to have any class of spoiler but I'm still commenting to help the algorithm.
Also I wanna say that I never played any Trails game but I do want to start with the remaster of Trails in the Sky and then if I'm hooked I would continue 2 and 3 in the Steam versions so I don't have to wait that much.
Is this a good idea or should I reconsider my plan?
AH Spoiler Alert on CS4! Hahaha I still haven't started CS3, but I skipped ahead as soon as I heard you say something about fighting the End boss 2x. Guess that's my fault for watching a DB2 Vid without being anywhere near caught up. Been too many awesome games out lately! I haven't finished metaphor because FF7R came out and now KCD2! Too many games!
BTW, I have heard of ReZero and added it to a loose anime list I want to watch sometime, is that one good? I have been soo out of the anime loop for years and years, I got back in a little bit because of Demon Slayer. Its hard to find time, any free time I have goes to gaming but I really do want to watch some good anime again too.
So - video idea - maybe you could do a "sidequest" video on anime! I think that would be fun to watch, maybe a top 10 or something you like. I mean Trails / Anime -- I think the audience is probably overlapping here!
can't be worse than cold steel 1 and 2. if it's worse than those games it might be one of the worst jrpgs ever made(I'm kind of kidding) Also on another note is this a trails or ys game? i am currently on cold steel 4 atm and this doesn't even look like a trails game because all the combat is action lmao
1 & 2 were good
@@toddwilliams374 they aren't bad but they were a downgrade from the previous titles. I was kind of half joking in my comment.
How were cold steel 1 and 2 bad? Storywise I think Daybreak 2 is far worse but gameplaywise its way better
@@BeetleTricks411 cold steel 1 & 2 is good I’ve replay both games over 5 times
@@Dinklr I respect your opinion but ion think it did cold steel 1 started off slow got better from middle to end , cold steel 2 were great all the way through , I haven’t played the Sky trilogy yet because I don’t have pc ik everybody like that one I can’t wait to play it when it drops this year
Yeah seven Hearts is kinda weird. I think the main way to play is getting hit early and getting a lot of cards to win but its very RNG heavy. sometimes the bots just steal your cards right before the game ends and you cant rly do anything against it and is especially annoying when your teammate steals your cards and loses you the game. having the steal cards card is also just an autowin most of the time. I hope they are going to expand upon it in kai.
I played Kai/Kuro 3 that crappy card game really isn't it in at least NOT unless you go to ITS version of the Marchen Garten its not playable in Kai outside of that optional dungeon.
I know people love the never ending dialogue but sometimes they just go on & on for way too long and worse only part will be voice acted. I know you can skip but I don’t want to skip story info so I spend so much time reading endless dialogue. Otherwise the series is great.
I'm still giving the game a try
Thanks for the spoiler time note there - leveraged that since I'm only through Cold Steel IV at this point. And UGHHH Stealth Missions?? That sounds just...awful. I'm also not a huge fan of mini-games either, so...m'eh there. I'm hoping the battle system and story resonate with me, as that's the bread and butter for Trails games
While the game DOES have the high speed mode that mode only makes VAN during the Stealth Missions walk faster the NPCs you have to follow move really SLOWLY during them.
I mean we had stealth missions in the Sky Trilogy and they will probably be back in the remake so -shrug-.
Sky and crossbell still the best arc
Sky has best protag in series ever, deep writing char
Crossbell has fast pacing main story, small cast
Cold steel? Meh, bloated cast
Calvard? Still not end yet
You fool!! But seriously, I so love good localizations. I hate bad localizations to the point where I normally use Japanese voices so at least the audio flows naturally even if the text doesn’t. But I haven’t had to with Trails and it’s SO refreshing.
Now just 10 more games or so until I get to this one…
I'll be getting the game for sure I love the combat system and being able to play as Renne and Shizuna is a treat for sure. I'm not really that invested into the overarching storyline its all about the characters for me in the Trails series and they do well with that in every single game.
I mean i wasnt a Fan of Sky 1. Half the Game was a walking simulator with nothing remarkable happening in terms of Story.
Hopefully the turn based combat is improved. The action combat seemed to have a negative effect in the first one.
Every character always has max cp so many of the characters abilities were useless since you would spam your 100cp attacks. I have always loved Trails gameplay until Daybreak
After going from Reverie's gameplay to Daybreak's gameplay myself, I ended up feeling what could only be described as feeling of whiplash. Many gameplay elements felt downgraded.
@@jamesmetcalf5597 They have to downgrade so they can upgrade when they get later in the series.
@Cynicz13 I do understand that, but the gameplay for Daybreak doesn't feel like it matches up well enough to Cold Steel 1.
Trails ended with Reverie for me. I just feel the games don’t respect my time. I love them but they’re just way too slow and padded.
Playing currently through revierie and seeing we're playing in daybreak 1+2 again as 3&9 gives me already nightmares. Can't get into them, even after reading their book and whatnot. Hope, daybreak 1+2 gives a better angle at both of them.
I am in the middle of the first Daybreak and I’m not really getting into it. I know it’s a slow grind, but manthe dragging dialogue.
I have two complaints in the Trails series. The over heavy dialogue and the over exaggeration of many of the women’s…mammary glands. Other than that, I’m glad to have discovered this series.
ive played ever trails games. i have skipped through all the dialog and skipped ever cut scene i could. I have no idea what is going on in the over arching story.
This is silly.
I drank the trails cool aid and somehow I always complains about the bullshit powercreep and friendship goals.
After 11 or 12 games (6 I platinumed except trails from zero) at this point I am here cause I need to see it finished. For new fans wondering about the series and heard about wonderful worldbuilding and characters.... it dont. The only game with great writing and world building is the sky trilogy. The rest is whatever the writing team writes and most of the time its shit.
Surely it can't get any worse than cold steel 3+4 right?
RIGHT?!
Those games are great though lmfao
@pokekiller787x I disagree. Those were the games that killed the series for me
I agree 4 may not be as strong a conclusion as some hoped it would be, but 3 is generally regarded as the best CS game.
@@MonicaMoraal I mean there's the forced rean harem which leads to complete character assassination for all the women, the absolutely awful writing of Angelica, the complete and total lack of stakes in the story because every single tense moment in the story results with the main characters being saved by other characters jumping in at the last second, the overly saccharine dialogue, the list goes on.
@edsheeran1243 Despite the fact that absolutely zero main characters die in Azure and the only death in SC is Loewe yet everyone sits and praises those games as JRPG masterpieces. The forced harem shtick is definitely an issue that is in all of the cold steel games, but it's more supplementary material than anything that doesn't ruin any of their characters for me. It makes perfect sense why any of them would like Rean. I liked Angelica in Cold Steel 2, but I agree her character just became pervert anime character number 550. I like the dialogue too honestly, and the character writing is still just as great as ever. Especially for new class 7.
all trails games are bad, to be honest, except maybe trails in the sky.
at least its still better than coldsteel whole arc
To me the cold steel series was the worst i didn't like rean as a main character
Never liked the series…Boring, bloating, very repetitive, too much dialogue, awful storytelling. Developers are just not talented like those other companies to create an good storyline and less dialogue and less repetitive…Overrated series 🙄 boring 🥱 fans have bad taste in games 🙄
What about the gameplay. Story and dialogue can always be skipped..
you're talking out your ass, well done.
@@devoiddude You’re clearly delusional if you say this game is ‘’good’’ 😭😅
everything about this is subjective(which is 100% okay) but to say the developers aren’t talented is wrong af
The writing/english translation is really Google translated but the soundtrack looks damn hot because only Singa could make a soundtrack this generic