Very solid list Crimson, Happy Birthday! Seeing CS2 so high up would make Genma happy, lol. I see you've also started incorporating various green screen effects too, they might not seem like much, but they do help add to the charm of a video. Keep up the great work on the road to 700! 😎
@@Cyrus_Bright thanks a million cyrus! And finally learning gow to incorporate them made me super excited for more videos in the future! Here’s hoping we reach 700 soon
@@Crimsonrosso it opens up a whole new world, which is exciting. I've spent hours just going through all kinds of random effects on YT and other sites XD
CS1 - Oooh, I don't know why it this low, cause while it could be seen as an slowburn like FC, cs has more advantage cause we're finally seeing the empire side, we're realizing that azure happening, and that cliffhanger was chef kiss, plus this game did interesting the bonding system, which everyone would love doing. Plus with how cs3/4 were, it REALLY nice seeing old class 7 being good again Sky FC - Yeah I can see this low, it really an slowburn and make u wonder if the series worth continuing but that ending, leads to the best trails game ever still. Also like cs1, the very first game is Really fond looking back on seeing what changed or knowing what happen know CS4 - also yeah, an shame cause there so many who love cs4. The no consquences really put an sour taste CS3 - Don't know why cs4/1 are lower than this one, I think I did an good reasoning why it lowest to me Reverie - Right in the middle huh. I think reverie was super good and help me be hype to continue the series despite marathoning/playing the whole trails series the last year, on chp 4 in daybreak Sky the 3rd - Who knew this game would have so much plot to it, for me it lower cause we only get kevin in this one, despite how interesting his character is, and this game TECHINALLY brought back dead characters. But it nice how reverie took inseperation from it, too bad they don't have the memories and it not as dark like renne ones CS2 - it was rough the first half but after the intermission you're hooked, was hype, the later game does sour the ending alot Zero at three? I feel like this game did an amazing job subverting stuff, thinking how small the playable cast or how small the area is but they made it the strongest in the series still, plus it did an great job wrapping estelle/joshua story as well - still kinda...confused in daybreak, if u know u know - Azure higher than zero, I don't know. I really need to see/play the game again to wonder why I don't like it that high - despite it deserving it, IK - Sky SC - 100000% yes, still the best game ever, the best scenes like estelle mother or joshua reunite, it the most emotional to this day. Weissman still one of the best along with ouroborus being their best as well
Happy Belated Birthday my dude! If I had to rank them 1: Trails Through Daybreak 2: Trails To Azure 3: Trails Through Reverie 4: Trails In The Sky SC 5: Trails Of Cold Steel II 6: Trails In The Sky 3rd 7: Trails From Zero 8: Trails Of Cold Steel IV 9: Trails Of Cold Steel III 10: Trails In The Sky FC 11: Trails Of Cold Steel 1
Great list! I made my own ranking a few months ago if you are interested, but our top five are more or less the same. I always love seeing Sky the 3rd near the top of people's lists because it really is one of the best and it pains me when people say it is "filler" or "skipable." Oh, and Happy Birthday!
Just started watching, CS 1 at the worst place….GOODBYE SIR!!! I played that game 5 times already :D Aaaah you literally put my favorite games on the worst places. My heart. My personal ranking would be: 1. CS3 2. CS1 3. CS4 4. CS2 5. Reverie 6. Zero 7. Ao 8. Sky FC 9. Sky SC 10. 3rd And Happy Birthday!!!
In regards to Trails of Cold Steel 2, I'd say the flaws with it were its weaknesses were Trails of Cold Steel 1's greatest strengths. In #1, character development of the minor characters was amazing, but in #2 having actual open world hindered the character growth we'd see every time we'd return to the academy. Likewise, the towns successfully told their stories in the brief time we were there. Then there are things like Elliot not being relevant in his sister's story, which Machias also suffered from despite his dad being a hostage. Gaius, who was the best character in #1 was relegated to being a stereotype of himself. Then there is the combat system, which was less busted than #1's, but as a result, it felt less satisfying as breaking the game with attack delay+speed felt like an accomplishment. That said, #2 added the mech and the magic equivalent to domination so there were still a lot of one shot gimmicks to abuse. That said, everything #1 lacked (open world), #2 improved upon.
@@simplysolus8916 thats…actually a very interesting way to look at it actually! I guess because i like to explore this world so 2 not being as restrictive as one was with exploration made it more accessible. And I agree both are fantastic games, i think 2 appeals more to me then one. Plus 2 has duvalie and who doesn’t love that
I think CS2 gets way too much hate, this game was absolutely fantastic! What a huge jump in narrative quality over 1. I think Cold Steel 2 absolutely respects your time, I didn't felt like 1 minute was wasted, is also probably with Reverie and Sky SC one of the most "linear" games, yeah there is a open world but the narrative is very straight forward and every main quests felt important and interesting! I absolutely agree with your take here!
My Rankings WORST TO BEST (so far, I'll adjust when I play the rest): From Zero Cold Steel 3 Sky FC Cold Steel 1 To Azure Reverie Cold Steel 4 Nayuta (Its really good and should be judged individually regardless) Daybreak Cold Steel 2
@@Crimsonrosso Yeah I loved the hell out of it despite it having two of my least favorite genres (ARPG and Platformer). It needs to be studied how they pulled that off.
Yeah I agree CS1 was also my least favorite game in the whole franchise. It is very slow, the best moments only happen near the end and the school setting didn't really fit the Trails series it felt like Falcom wanted a piece of that school JRPG setting cake because these games would usually do very well. I also think the main quests and side quests felt like side quests, just helping out the town like a Bracer but even in Sky FC I felt like there were more interesting things happening even before the final but I agree that both Sky FC and CS1 suffer from slow burn slow start syndrome but one advantage Sky FC also has is that the game is around 30-40 hours long (unless you try to see EVERYTHING) while CS1 is around 60-80 hours long.
@@Crimsonrosso That's also true, CS1 felt like a checklist check-in all the boxes, okay Ream was together with this and this character in his last field studies, in the next month we will send Rean with this and this character so that we can interact with everyone. The game was stretched out to 60-80 so that you can understand every character and get attached to them, I think a smaller cast would have helped and the game could have been around 40 hours similar to Sky FC.
I feel Sky FC is so important to SC it’s odd how low people rank it when they’re basically one game. Imo FC+SC is peak of franchise. I agree CS4 is prob one of weakest but its still great.
@@statesminds thats fair, tbh i love FC but i just am not much a fan of revisiting it since a good portion of it is focused on introducing characters and a world I already heard of and that doesn’t interest me as much as SC does.
i have to be so honest this was really frustrating to watch because you don't seem to understand that slow pacing doesn't mean bad pacing. you might not like slow pacing and thats fine but slow pacing isn't an issue. sure cold steel 1 doesn't do it that well but sky fc does it extremely well. sky fc might be hard to re-visit for some because its there to set up the entire series which is fine. but please learn the difference between slow pacing and bad pacing, cs4 has bad pacing in alot of places just like basically all cs games with the exception of cs3. now to my list cs2, the whole story didn't really resonate with me at all until the Osborne reveal and then after that the epilogue was just frustrating as it was basically just the cs1 finale boss cs1, class VII is just my least faivorite casts as almost none of them get any character development in this game, the only once that get it are Machias and Jusis. the start where it just puts you at the half way point of the story is something that i hate most of the time as it feels cheap and makes me less interested in the story going forward sky 3rd, now i hate the dungeon crawling part of this game but the story is pretty good, easily my favorite cast of all of trails. star door 15. cs4, bad pacing but overall a really good wrap up to the cs story line, chapter 4 is probably one of the best chapters in all of trails as we get to see Bestelle again. reverie, i like the dungeon crawl of this game, this is an amazing wrap up to the first act of the story, while i think the pacing could be better as for me the switching between charaters feels a bit clunky but over all a really good game. and Rean finally gets character development zero, what can i say, personally my 3rd favorite cast, the end to the Renne character arc is one of the best parts of any game ever, i do have some issues like Estelle and Joshua at the end of the game are as strong as the SSS when they absolutely should be so much stronger, but the open at the finale dungeon is actually really cool because of the azure reveal. some of the best music in any video game sky sc, pacing issues with the towers, the finale dungeon is way too long, crafts are unusable, but god damn the cast carries this game so hard, i love the story, i love the cast, i love the art style, i absolutely love the music, its just one of the best games ever to be made cs3, this game has something that i love in video games a 2 hour cutscene no im not kidding the cut-scene in i think chapter 5 at the church is one of my favorite parts of any game ever. the combat got a massive boost in quality in this one with the brake system. the again suffers from the opening though. new class 7 and rean as and instructor is really good and the entire group is always fun to listen to daybreak, this would be the best but the finale is not fun for the most of it, you just do the same thing 6 times over with the same exact dialog. this has my second favorite cast and my second favorite protagonist. i just really loved this game azure, just a really strong game in all aspects with the only real complaint is that it has fishing. this is also the last game that has any kind of difficulty at all which gives it a boost. sky fc, now im gonna be really honest here its my favorite mostly because it was my first trails game and because it has my favorite cast. its the first time we see Bestelle which is just enough for it to be the best. now it can be hard to replay because of the slow pacing but its just so relaxing. the cliffhanging has not been topped in any sort of media ever. this is just the best introduction to the wonderful world of trails
Happy birthday and very solid list in general.
And yeah Sky SC is fantastic
@@madkaiser4887 thxs kaiser!
And yea SC is still the pinnacle of trails for me!
Yo dude, happy birthday! Great video too, keep it going man! 🎉
thanks nimbus!
Very solid list Crimson, Happy Birthday! Seeing CS2 so high up would make Genma happy, lol. I see you've also started incorporating various green screen effects too, they might not seem like much, but they do help add to the charm of a video. Keep up the great work on the road to 700! 😎
@@Cyrus_Bright thanks a million cyrus! And finally learning gow to incorporate them made me super excited for more videos in the future! Here’s hoping we reach 700 soon
@@Crimsonrosso it opens up a whole new world, which is exciting. I've spent hours just going through all kinds of random effects on YT and other sites XD
Happy birthday again🎉
@@dispelsa THANKS L!!!
CS1 - Oooh, I don't know why it this low, cause while it could be seen as an slowburn like FC, cs has more advantage cause we're finally seeing the empire side, we're realizing that azure happening, and that cliffhanger was chef kiss, plus this game did interesting the bonding system, which everyone would love doing. Plus with how cs3/4 were, it REALLY nice seeing old class 7 being good again
Sky FC - Yeah I can see this low, it really an slowburn and make u wonder if the series worth continuing but that ending, leads to the best trails game ever still. Also like cs1, the very first game is Really fond looking back on seeing what changed or knowing what happen know
CS4 - also yeah, an shame cause there so many who love cs4. The no consquences really put an sour taste
CS3 - Don't know why cs4/1 are lower than this one, I think I did an good reasoning why it lowest to me
Reverie - Right in the middle huh. I think reverie was super good and help me be hype to continue the series despite marathoning/playing the whole trails series the last year, on chp 4 in daybreak
Sky the 3rd - Who knew this game would have so much plot to it, for me it lower cause we only get kevin in this one, despite how interesting his character is, and this game TECHINALLY brought back dead characters. But it nice how reverie took inseperation from it, too bad they don't have the memories and it not as dark like renne ones
CS2 - it was rough the first half but after the intermission you're hooked, was hype, the later game does sour the ending alot
Zero at three? I feel like this game did an amazing job subverting stuff, thinking how small the playable cast or how small the area is but they made it the strongest in the series still, plus it did an great job wrapping estelle/joshua story as well - still kinda...confused in daybreak, if u know u know -
Azure higher than zero, I don't know. I really need to see/play the game again to wonder why I don't like it that high - despite it deserving it, IK -
Sky SC - 100000% yes, still the best game ever, the best scenes like estelle mother or joshua reunite, it the most emotional to this day. Weissman still one of the best along with ouroborus being their best as well
Happy birthday 🎂🎈😊🎉
@@Official_RetroMania thxs retro!
@@Crimsonrosso no problem 😁
Happy Belated Birthday my dude! If I had to rank them
1: Trails Through Daybreak
2: Trails To Azure
3: Trails Through Reverie
4: Trails In The Sky SC
5: Trails Of Cold Steel II
6: Trails In The Sky 3rd
7: Trails From Zero
8: Trails Of Cold Steel IV
9: Trails Of Cold Steel III
10: Trails In The Sky FC
11: Trails Of Cold Steel 1
@@KeyToAeris2024 thanks joey!! And awesome list! Even if id personally put zero higher lol
Happy birthday and great video my order is very different from you though!
Thank colin! And whats your order? Im curious
@@Crimsonrosso Rev is my number one the rest I'll reveal in a video of my own :)
@@ColinLack OOOOOOOOH
@@Crimsonrosso yeah you inspired me to do a video!
@@ColinLack gald i could inspire:)
Great list! I made my own ranking a few months ago if you are interested, but our top five are more or less the same. I always love seeing Sky the 3rd near the top of people's lists because it really is one of the best and it pains me when people say it is "filler" or "skipable." Oh, and Happy Birthday!
@@kevinstreetgaming ngl i never really liked the sky 3d is filler shit either. Always felt super disrespectful to my boy kevin!
Just started watching, CS 1 at the worst place….GOODBYE SIR!!! I played that game 5 times already :D
Aaaah you literally put my favorite games on the worst places. My heart.
My personal ranking would be:
1. CS3
2. CS1
3. CS4
4. CS2
5. Reverie
6. Zero
7. Ao
8. Sky FC
9. Sky SC
10. 3rd
And Happy Birthday!!!
@@Ratorss LMFAO!!! And solid list! Thanks for watchin
@@Crimsonrosso heh I'm kinda biased, but aren't we all? :D
@@Ratorss if you dobt have a bias, then can you really call yourself a fan
Switch CS 3 and 3rd and your list would be reasonable. CS 3 is such ass and not the good kind.
@OneManCast Yes, pls tell me what my favourite game is.
In regards to Trails of Cold Steel 2, I'd say the flaws with it were its weaknesses were Trails of Cold Steel 1's greatest strengths.
In #1, character development of the minor characters was amazing, but in #2 having actual open world hindered the character growth we'd see every time we'd return to the academy. Likewise, the towns successfully told their stories in the brief time we were there. Then there are things like Elliot not being relevant in his sister's story, which Machias also suffered from despite his dad being a hostage. Gaius, who was the best character in #1 was relegated to being a stereotype of himself.
Then there is the combat system, which was less busted than #1's, but as a result, it felt less satisfying as breaking the game with attack delay+speed felt like an accomplishment. That said, #2 added the mech and the magic equivalent to domination so there were still a lot of one shot gimmicks to abuse.
That said, everything #1 lacked (open world), #2 improved upon.
@@simplysolus8916 thats…actually a very interesting way to look at it actually! I guess because i like to explore this world so 2 not being as restrictive as one was with exploration made it more accessible.
And I agree both are fantastic games, i think 2 appeals more to me then one. Plus 2 has duvalie and who doesn’t love that
I would give sky fc a 9/10. But hey, to each their own
Fair, i had my issues but i still really enjoyed the game.
Honestly i don’t think there’s truly q bad trails game. I just like some more then others
Damn, I should not have watched this video when I have only played CS1 😂
@@GalaxyJakeYT LMAOOO
I think CS2 gets way too much hate, this game was absolutely fantastic! What a huge jump in narrative quality over 1. I think Cold Steel 2 absolutely respects your time, I didn't felt like 1 minute was wasted, is also probably with Reverie and Sky SC one of the most "linear" games, yeah there is a open world but the narrative is very straight forward and every main quests felt important and interesting!
I absolutely agree with your take here!
My Rankings WORST TO BEST (so far, I'll adjust when I play the rest):
From Zero
Cold Steel 3
Sky FC
Cold Steel 1
To Azure
Reverie
Cold Steel 4
Nayuta (Its really good and should be judged individually regardless)
Daybreak
Cold Steel 2
def wanna get ot a nayuta review at some point cause it was pretty damn fun.
@@Crimsonrosso Yeah I loved the hell out of it despite it having two of my least favorite genres (ARPG and Platformer). It needs to be studied how they pulled that off.
Yeah I agree CS1 was also my least favorite game in the whole franchise. It is very slow, the best moments only happen near the end and the school setting didn't really fit the Trails series it felt like Falcom wanted a piece of that school JRPG setting cake because these games would usually do very well. I also think the main quests and side quests felt like side quests, just helping out the town like a Bracer but even in Sky FC I felt like there were more interesting things happening even before the final but I agree that both Sky FC and CS1 suffer from slow burn slow start syndrome but one advantage Sky FC also has is that the game is around 30-40 hours long (unless you try to see EVERYTHING) while CS1 is around 60-80 hours long.
It also helps that fc focuses on far leas characters so you have more room to breathe.
@@Crimsonrosso That's also true, CS1 felt like a checklist check-in all the boxes, okay Ream was together with this and this character in his last field studies, in the next month we will send Rean with this and this character so that we can interact with everyone. The game was stretched out to 60-80 so that you can understand every character and get attached to them, I think a smaller cast would have helped and the game could have been around 40 hours similar to Sky FC.
I’m really surprised you liked Azure that much especially cause of your reactions on stream to actually playing the game.
@@KeyToAeris2024 the bosses pissed me off from time to time but the games narative, character moments, and basically everything else is a 10/10.
My azure review goes more into detail about what i loved and hated. I
I feel Sky FC is so important to SC it’s odd how low people rank it when they’re basically one game. Imo FC+SC is peak of franchise. I agree CS4 is prob one of weakest but its still great.
@@statesminds thats fair, tbh i love FC but i just am not much a fan of revisiting it since a good portion of it is focused on introducing characters and a world I already heard of and that doesn’t interest me as much as SC does.
If by "builds everything from Zero" you mean "Breaks every bit of Crossbell Lore that From Zero established on its knee."
Then sure.
i have to be so honest this was really frustrating to watch because you don't seem to understand that slow pacing doesn't mean bad pacing. you might not like slow pacing and thats fine but slow pacing isn't an issue. sure cold steel 1 doesn't do it that well but sky fc does it extremely well. sky fc might be hard to re-visit for some because its there to set up the entire series which is fine. but please learn the difference between slow pacing and bad pacing, cs4 has bad pacing in alot of places just like basically all cs games with the exception of cs3. now to my list
cs2, the whole story didn't really resonate with me at all until the Osborne reveal and then after that the epilogue was just frustrating as it was basically just the cs1 finale boss
cs1, class VII is just my least faivorite casts as almost none of them get any character development in this game, the only once that get it are Machias and Jusis. the start where it just puts you at the half way point of the story is something that i hate most of the time as it feels cheap and makes me less interested in the story going forward
sky 3rd, now i hate the dungeon crawling part of this game but the story is pretty good, easily my favorite cast of all of trails. star door 15.
cs4, bad pacing but overall a really good wrap up to the cs story line, chapter 4 is probably one of the best chapters in all of trails as we get to see Bestelle again.
reverie, i like the dungeon crawl of this game, this is an amazing wrap up to the first act of the story, while i think the pacing could be better as for me the switching between charaters feels a bit clunky but over all a really good game. and Rean finally gets character development
zero, what can i say, personally my 3rd favorite cast, the end to the Renne character arc is one of the best parts of any game ever, i do have some issues like Estelle and Joshua at the end of the game are as strong as the SSS when they absolutely should be so much stronger, but the open at the finale dungeon is actually really cool because of the azure reveal. some of the best music in any video game
sky sc, pacing issues with the towers, the finale dungeon is way too long, crafts are unusable, but god damn the cast carries this game so hard, i love the story, i love the cast, i love the art style, i absolutely love the music, its just one of the best games ever to be made
cs3, this game has something that i love in video games a 2 hour cutscene no im not kidding the cut-scene in i think chapter 5 at the church is one of my favorite parts of any game ever. the combat got a massive boost in quality in this one with the brake system. the again suffers from the opening though. new class 7 and rean as and instructor is really good and the entire group is always fun to listen to
daybreak, this would be the best but the finale is not fun for the most of it, you just do the same thing 6 times over with the same exact dialog. this has my second favorite cast and my second favorite protagonist. i just really loved this game
azure, just a really strong game in all aspects with the only real complaint is that it has fishing. this is also the last game that has any kind of difficulty at all which gives it a boost.
sky fc, now im gonna be really honest here its my favorite mostly because it was my first trails game and because it has my favorite cast. its the first time we see Bestelle which is just enough for it to be the best. now it can be hard to replay because of the slow pacing but its just so relaxing. the cliffhanging has not been topped in any sort of media ever. this is just the best introduction to the wonderful world of trails
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