So a few things: The newer AI voices come from a website called Fliki. I had to sub for a month, but it does give a lot more voices, and as you heard, some are a bit more realistic than others. It seems CS has a lot more characters than the previous two arcs. So I couldn't do the usual where I cycle the same five voices between all characters. Hopefully this'll help, and y'all seem to like them. The review is in progress. I'm actually working on three at the moment. The first two will probably be done before Cold Steel 1, but it's coming soon. Once again, thank you all for watching!
New voices are indeed great, it's a money well spent. Most notably Machias, Jusis and ESPECIALLY Patrick. It's sad that you haven't included the scene from the start of Ch4 field trip, or his festival scene with Elise.
This was amazing. Please do CS2. Given how unhinged this series is I am looking forward to the escape with Alfin sequence in the mid game. The dialogue of the original was already amazing to begin with.
No, at least not to my knowledge. It comes from a third party. I did intentionally try and give them voices similar to their dubbed voices, but it's not them AFAIK
Wake up Rean, it's time to talk to everyone at Thors academy and help the student council... Also investigate that weird old building full of constructs and monsters.
Technically Toval also did show up in sky kind of, since the Carnelia books in game are a loose retelling of a story that actually happened to him as written by another character in the series
I often abbreviate these games to 1 sentence for the funnies and my abbreviation of Cold Steel 2 is literally "Heed my call, Valimar the Ashen Knight" so say the line Rean was never more accurate
11:10 lines that get funnier the further in the series you go also the "no no no no" "yes yes yes yes" from Rean and Celine at the end really got me LOL
You know what the worst part about you releasing this video is? Now I'm stuck having to wait for Cold Steel 2 in a nutshell!!!! Nooo!!!!! In all seriousness, after finding your channel, I actually went back and started replaying the cold steel series all over again, and found myself falling in love with it all over. Thank you for reigniting the passion, and for the genuinely funny video!
LMAO at Toval holding up the manga that he came from like he carries it in his pocket everywhere. LMAO at Sharon's resume. LMAO every Patrick scene. And whenever ch.1 Machias speaks. He even did the "always has been" meme on him at 16:24 And WOW i forgot about the Bleublanc getting triggered gag. idk how you're so good at this man. Eagerly awaiting the next nutshells (plural)!
i just finished reverie today, seeing these all over again now is just funny af, things really aint that wild back then huh, man this is such a simpler times 😂
This was great I enjoyed all the jokes especially the physics jokes. Also your music references were 100% on point this is a masterwork and I will watch it many more times.
@@weaponsci Don’t worry I’m sure that after you play CS2 you will have plenty of excellent material to work with! Edit: Oh yeah I’ll mention this now when you finish Trails of Cold Steel 2 make sure to look up Cold Steel 2 secret cutscene. It is cannon and in order to unlock it you would need to play through the game twice so yeah NG+ is cannon. I’m pretty sure there were people who played CS3 and when the game referenced this plot point they got really confused. So yeah keep this in mind.
Oh, hey this is here! 13:00 Also, extra fun fact for you: Toval is the protagonist of the 'Carnelia' book series that you collect in Sky First chapter.
Great job! It's nice you gave some attention to Beryl. I can imagine in 20 years time when the last Trails game comes out, its post-credit scene will zoom out to reveal the entire series was a vision in her crystal ball. Then she looks into the camera and winks.
@@giuseppeparry1365 in reverie there’s a quiz minigame hosted by Beryl where at first she asks simple questions about characters and the world. Bu on the higher difficulties she’ll ask stuff like what’s the title of CS1’s ending
NGL this made me want to rewatch the entire series. I also found out some die hard fan made an upscale 4k version it’s not perfect but it’s better than 480p.
The laws of phisics remain undefeated 🤣. I love it! Although, seriously, it would be nice to have more characters like Estelle or Kevin, who are their own person with their own canon relationships instead of leaving it to the whims of the player, making nothing official. I mean, Alisa is obviously the canon option for Rean, we are shown that for the whole 4 games when she gets the most affection, the most romantic events and the only romantic event in CS3.
Great Video, The transition from Isometric to 3D must've been difficult to work around, but this is great!!! Cold Steel 2 is probably my least favorite game in the series, but I can't wait to watch the content!
Man... it just seems that each one of these you do they somehow get better and better! Can't wait for CS2 shenanigans, a lot of people dislike that one the most out of the four, so I'll be very curious to see your various takes on things. I personally liked it a lot more than CS1. Hope you keep enjoying YS as well 😉
@@weaponsci that's very true, it's kinda like Sky the 3rd in terms of how divisive it is among the fandom. I thought it really stepped things up in terms of story and intrigue that CS1 built up and some pretty crazy things happen that I will not spoil. But I do get the criticisms. I just didn't find them as egregiously bad as others.
I liked Cold Steel 2, it wasn't my favorite but I enjoyed it. The Ironblood reveal at the end was really great, in my opinion. Cold Steel 1 and Trails in the Sky FC are my favorites.
7:05: man, the economy in Cold Steel 1 is so bad. Good thing they fix it in the next game. You really outdid yourself this time though. The voices were perfect!
Watching this for the 3rd time and I swear, there are a lot of details I didn't get. For example, Vandyck "least degenerate Erebonian". This video only gets better the more times you watch it 😂
So I've decided to do two more fun facts. One for the Nutshell Video, and one for the actual Review. After that, I don't think I'll do many more as I'm already running out and we haven't even gottem to CSII yet. Alright, GO! Anyway- this is probabaly my favorite bit of Trails trivia that may not be true. But I like to believe that it's true because of how cool it could have been. I mentioned in one of my first Fun Fact Comments that Alisa and Rean may have occupied each other's roles at early drafts of the story. But another belief is something different. Alisa was supposed to be the MC (Either a harem of guys or a lesbian harem, you choose). But the interesting part is Rean. Who, according to some sources, was supposed to occupy *CROW'S* role in the story. Meaning he would have been the person who led the terrorists, shot Osborne, and became the arcs traitor. He even has vaguely blue hair! You can tell it was planned!
I heard the same thing, and since Rean and Alissa were supposed to have a "will they / won't they" relationship as antagonist and protagonist respectively, this also explains the "tension" between Crow and Rean in the canon story.
@@sjstronghold9238 Is it weird that I kinda would have preferred that? Like, it would have been a lot better than the harem shit that we got. Though to be fair I'll take a canon romance like Joshua and Estelle over a harem like in Cold Steel.
@@panpan1287 Harem mechanics largely brought down both Crossbell and Erebonia arcs to me so almost anything would have been better including an actual romance between Rean and Crow, but making Rean still the popular kid but not the protagonist would have avoided pitfalls (Joshua is basically a harem protag but it still worked)
kinda disappointed that the divine knight joke was called a gundam rather than flowing into the joke already made in the game by Selene referencing Mazinger Z, but the rest of this was fantastic
Never understood why people like this game better than 2. Cause 2 to me is superior in every aspect. They say the pacing is off at times but so was the first game. The only issue I have with 2 is around the middle it has some pacing issues but other than that I liked it better than the first one.
So a few things:
The newer AI voices come from a website called Fliki. I had to sub for a month, but it does give a lot more voices, and as you heard, some are a bit more realistic than others. It seems CS has a lot more characters than the previous two arcs. So I couldn't do the usual where I cycle the same five voices between all characters. Hopefully this'll help, and y'all seem to like them.
The review is in progress. I'm actually working on three at the moment. The first two will probably be done before Cold Steel 1, but it's coming soon.
Once again, thank you all for watching!
New voices are indeed great, it's a money well spent. Most notably Machias, Jusis and ESPECIALLY Patrick. It's sad that you haven't included the scene from the start of Ch4 field trip, or his festival scene with Elise.
Yeah i agree. The new voice are great.
This was amazing. Please do CS2. Given how unhinged this series is I am looking forward to the escape with Alfin sequence in the mid game. The dialogue of the original was already amazing to begin with.
Please tell me these new voices are not pulled straight from their VAs...
No, at least not to my knowledge. It comes from a third party. I did intentionally try and give them voices similar to their dubbed voices, but it's not them AFAIK
Fie : "I'm in a commited relationship with my mattress" does sound like something she would say lmao
Perfect sassy gremlin
"Beat it Patrick, the role of a blond tsundere swordsman who belongs to a Great House is already taken" - that's pure gold😆
Gaius talking about the wind, Elliot talking about music, and Laura talking about swords will be the new barrier meme.
Cold Steel 3: what about stig-(shot)
"Stop right there. You are under arrest for saving people's lives."
That line with the text to speech deadpan delivery kills me every time.
Everyone having AI voices but Olivier just having the default TTS voice fucking killed me for some reason
I'm just going to keep anyone with older voices as is for the sake of consistency
@@weaponsciimmersion 100
Wake up Rean, it's time to talk to everyone at Thors academy and help the student council... Also investigate that weird old building full of constructs and monsters.
Technically Toval also did show up in sky kind of, since the Carnelia books in game are a loose retelling of a story that actually happened to him as written by another character in the series
I often abbreviate these games to 1 sentence for the funnies
and my abbreviation of Cold Steel 2 is literally "Heed my call, Valimar the Ashen Knight" so say the line Rean was never more accurate
Crow: "there's only 1 spot for comic relive character in this arc."
A certain green haired mille mirage commander: "and that is my spot."
Ight, this one i actually forgot who
It's probably Musse though
Nah, she is more like the comic relief simp, rather than a pervert.
11:10 lines that get funnier the further in the series you go
also the "no no no no" "yes yes yes yes" from Rean and Celine at the end really got me LOL
Lol.. “I’m lesbian. How does this affect me?” … “ There is 1 exception” 😂😂I love Cold Steel 1
The Megas XLR theme hit me like an S-Craft. This was fantastic from beginning to end.
To be continued in Cold Steel 2...
Me: Ok, I believe you
You know what the worst part about you releasing this video is? Now I'm stuck having to wait for Cold Steel 2 in a nutshell!!!! Nooo!!!!!
In all seriousness, after finding your channel, I actually went back and started replaying the cold steel series all over again, and found myself falling in love with it all over. Thank you for reigniting the passion, and for the genuinely funny video!
I don't know what's better. The fact that Rean's Text-to-Speach sounds exactly like is English VA, or that Scarlet is a valley girl.
I did try and pick voices that at least somewhat sounded like them
@@weaponsciwell, you did one heck of a good job
Equating Machias' hate of nobles to Joseph Joestar's hate of the japanese has some interesting implications about Machias
i broke when millium called gaius completely baked because i shit you not, me and my stoner friends sound exactly like that when we're high
I love that you included Beryll as well as the escalator scene from roer excellent taste
2:15 "get used to hearing about him" boy you have NO idea how real is that
DMC Jokes are genius!!
And now I know that I'm not alone on compare that thing with Devil Trigger lol.
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This is great video, Thank you WeaponsCI.
It's criminal that we never got the bar outfit for Claire, criminal
LMAO at Toval holding up the manga that he came from like he carries it in his pocket everywhere.
LMAO at Sharon's resume.
LMAO every Patrick scene. And whenever ch.1 Machias speaks. He even did the "always has been" meme on him at 16:24
And WOW i forgot about the Bleublanc getting triggered gag. idk how you're so good at this man. Eagerly awaiting the next nutshells (plural)!
I expect you to have Sharon remind us over and over that she is, or no longer is, the Severing Chains in future episodes.
This is the best summary of Cold Steel 1. If you've seen this, you've pretty much played a more enjoyable version of the game
i just finished reverie today, seeing these all over again now is just funny af, things really aint that wild back then huh, man this is such a simpler times 😂
The Cold Steel 4 in a nutshell is going to be 9 hours long
This was great I enjoyed all the jokes especially the physics jokes. Also your music references were 100% on point this is a masterwork and I will watch it many more times.
Now my only fear: how tf am I gonna top this?
@@weaponsci Don’t worry I’m sure that after you play CS2 you will have plenty of excellent material to work with!
Edit: Oh yeah I’ll mention this now when you finish Trails of Cold Steel 2 make sure to look up Cold Steel 2 secret cutscene. It is cannon and in order to unlock it you would need to play through the game twice so yeah NG+ is cannon. I’m pretty sure there were people who played CS3 and when the game referenced this plot point they got really confused. So yeah keep this in mind.
42:24 most hilarous bit
Oh, hey this is here!
13:00 Also, extra fun fact for you: Toval is the protagonist of the 'Carnelia' book series that you collect in Sky First chapter.
Was hesitant of watching this wondering how you would transit from sprites/cut out of Sky/Crossbell.
You sir nailed it perfectly 👌
You've come a long way
I really have. I started Sky FC almost 4 years ago lol
@@weaponsci It's been 4 years? Wtf, it didn't feel that long ago.
@@panpan1287 for some reason, since 2020, time flies a bit too fast it seems
I died at the Mega XLR theme playing
the use of the megas xlr theme was perfect.
Surprised there wasn't a 'Friendly guy you can trust' joke with Rufus
Great job! It's nice you gave some attention to Beryl. I can imagine in 20 years time when the last Trails game comes out, its post-credit scene will zoom out to reveal the entire series was a vision in her crystal ball. Then she looks into the camera and winks.
Well she already broke the fourth wall several times during her quiz minigame so I wouldn’t be surprised
@@hungrytaco6879 Quiz minigame?
@@giuseppeparry1365 in reverie there’s a quiz minigame hosted by Beryl where at first she asks simple questions about characters and the world. Bu on the higher difficulties she’ll ask stuff like what’s the title of CS1’s ending
I half expect Beryl to turn into an Anguis at some point. Arianhord did leave a vacant place after all...
@@adrizero2045 nah man, she’s the grandmaster herself
25:22 Let's fight.
3 stocks. No items. Final Destination.
Missed opportunity to show Elliot the next day being "What did i miss?"
26:40 Budget Weissmann reject 😂😂😂😂
Everytime the script mentions crossbell timeline and how they should not know it lol.
I swear the Patrick voice sounds like Salt Factory to me.
Rean should join the Winds Religion because the Winds moves the Leaves.
Eight Leaves One Blade Wind Style Jutsu!
BANGER ALERT
I can feel you getting better than last one, too.
I wonder if the devs intentionally made Machias and Jusis' hair the color of Zoro and Sanji's or if it's just the coincidence of the century.
that vergil part was spot on 😂
Loving the larger variety of voices.
Of all the things i was expected....Megas XLR was not one of them. Well played sir
The jokes you came up with all hit the point too perfectly
Another great episode of the most epic series in the channel, good work.👍
Looking forward to see how you approached this with the lack of portraits like the 5 previous games
Not sure but I think that may have been your best one yet.
44:30
Theme song for the best Mecha anime.
NGL this made me want to rewatch the entire series. I also found out some die hard fan made an upscale 4k version it’s not perfect but it’s better than 480p.
CBT normally isn't my thing, but I'd let Sharon. 😵💫
I'm surprised there wasn't a barrier joke somewhere in there for a throwback
That's for later games.
@@AAhmounah, that was set on Lloyd's Chapter on CS2
Oh, you said later games, then yes, you're right
There was one.
I keep laughing at all the voices here, but I really like it
The laws of phisics remain undefeated 🤣. I love it!
Although, seriously, it would be nice to have more characters like Estelle or Kevin, who are their own person with their own canon relationships instead of leaving it to the whims of the player, making nothing official. I mean, Alisa is obviously the canon option for Rean, we are shown that for the whole 4 games when she gets the most affection, the most romantic events and the only romantic event in CS3.
This is hilarious. Patrick’s parts are the best for me, crazy funny 😂
Great Video, The transition from Isometric to 3D must've been difficult to work around, but this is great!!!
Cold Steel 2 is probably my least favorite game in the series, but I can't wait to watch the content!
Idk about horse riding, i was enjoying Nord all the way until the end, one of the best locations in game, imo.
Its just very big so a lot of the horseback riding feels tedious as nothing is reañly happening 90% of the time
@@thewindysage1538 i can see where you coming from, but i was just consumed by the shear atmosphere of the place.
tharbad in calvard says hi
This is such a fire video
Let's goooooo 27 more hours❤
Oh, it finally came out! Awesome, let's see how it goes.
Didn't expect to find actual information about Toval
Great video! highly entertaining and looking forward to more.
Can't wait to get there, but I really need to finish Trails to Azure first... Man is this series long...
It's an amazing game. Have fun!
@@BlueGrovyleyepp, It‘s definitely something fresh 😂
"Your a killjoy you know that" yeah that sums up Olivier in CS1 lol
Man... it just seems that each one of these you do they somehow get better and better! Can't wait for CS2 shenanigans, a lot of people dislike that one the most out of the four, so I'll be very curious to see your various takes on things. I personally liked it a lot more than CS1. Hope you keep enjoying YS as well 😉
It seems people either adored CS2 or really disliked it. No in-between it seems
@@weaponsci that's very true, it's kinda like Sky the 3rd in terms of how divisive it is among the fandom. I thought it really stepped things up in terms of story and intrigue that CS1 built up and some pretty crazy things happen that I will not spoil. But I do get the criticisms. I just didn't find them as egregiously bad as others.
I liked Cold Steel 2, it wasn't my favorite but I enjoyed it. The Ironblood reveal at the end was really great, in my opinion. Cold Steel 1 and Trails in the Sky FC are my favorites.
This is art.
7:05: man, the economy in Cold Steel 1 is so bad. Good thing they fix it in the next game. You really outdid yourself this time though. The voices were perfect!
Fr tho, im used to only carries like 1-2k after a chapter, then CS2 happened and i got 7k on the PROLOGUE 😂
Already looking forward to the Kuro 2 nutshell
Ten years from now at the rate I'm going lmao
Cannot wait for your versions of Hajimari and Kuro ;))
I'm glad you made up for missing out on the "escalator" scene the first time around. 😁
Watching this for the 3rd time and I swear, there are a lot of details I didn't get. For example, Vandyck "least degenerate Erebonian". This video only gets better the more times you watch it 😂
So I've decided to do two more fun facts. One for the Nutshell Video, and one for the actual Review.
After that, I don't think I'll do many more as I'm already running out and we haven't even gottem to CSII yet.
Alright, GO!
Anyway- this is probabaly my favorite bit of Trails trivia that may not be true. But I like to believe that it's true because of how cool it could have been.
I mentioned in one of my first Fun Fact Comments that Alisa and Rean may have occupied each other's roles at early drafts of the story. But another belief is something different.
Alisa was supposed to be the MC (Either a harem of guys or a lesbian harem, you choose).
But the interesting part is Rean. Who, according to some sources, was supposed to occupy *CROW'S* role in the story. Meaning he would have been the person who led the terrorists, shot Osborne, and became the arcs traitor.
He even has vaguely blue hair! You can tell it was planned!
I heard the same thing, and since Rean and Alissa were supposed to have a "will they / won't they" relationship as antagonist and protagonist respectively, this also explains the "tension" between Crow and Rean in the canon story.
@@sjstronghold9238 Is it weird that I kinda would have preferred that? Like, it would have been a lot better than the harem shit that we got.
Though to be fair I'll take a canon romance like Joshua and Estelle over a harem like in Cold Steel.
@@panpan1287 Harem mechanics largely brought down both Crossbell and Erebonia arcs to me so almost anything would have been better including an actual romance between Rean and Crow, but making Rean still the popular kid but not the protagonist would have avoided pitfalls (Joshua is basically a harem protag but it still worked)
kinda disappointed that the divine knight joke was called a gundam rather than flowing into the joke already made in the game by Selene referencing Mazinger Z, but the rest of this was fantastic
Tis gonna be good. 😅🍿
Been busy recently, but looking forward to cs2 in a nutshell (btw beryl is the grandmaster)
Me gusto, espero con ansias el segundo juego .
Woo 26 hours to go someone make an update every hour or something idk it would be funny
worth a double like!
Honestly surprised you didn't have a joke about CP Drain trauma.
Oh how I've missed my ouchie ouch.
When are we getting Trails of Cold Steel 2 in Nutshell?
Working on it. Kind of hit a roadblock when it comes to making it funny, however
Haha. The Wind.
Not even rean can fix angelica.
She's a direct competitor
Let's fking GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
*Rean making even lesbians question everything* 😂
MASSIVE nutshell
You'll find out some real timeline works which are crazier and much more chaotic in Daybreak II.
Omg this is a big Nutshell XD
Let’s gooooooo
LETS GO
Titel: in a nutshell
Video is almost an hour long
just in time😂
oh wow!
"Ok, I believe you."
Never understood why people like this game better than 2. Cause 2 to me is superior in every aspect. They say the pacing is off at times but so was the first game. The only issue I have with 2 is around the middle it has some pacing issues but other than that I liked it better than the first one.
In a nutshell.5 increasing ways to screw Rean Schwarzer life and sanity
Oliver and Toval arguing about Trails canon was hilarious 😂 "looks like someone has homework" haha
Lets go!🎉