The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC

真的是绕了好大一圈啊...谢谢你，[spoiler]莱维[/spoiler]

Continuation of the last game with a few tweaks but overall same gameplay. Combat is slightly modified with the Orbments being upgradeable now and having to upgrade the slots to be able to use higher tier orbs. Also they added some negative effects to some orbs to balance them out so you can't just stack an attack and defense orb together you'll have to pick one cause they cancel out each other. Combat added combo attacks you can use CP to do an attack with another character but by the endgame I didn't find it worth using. The main change is the party customization. There are a few more companions but this time you can set 2 characters you want at any time outside a few story related bits as they travel with you from chapter to chapter instead of having new companions each chapter. Also fishing sucks. Fishing is like universally terrible in every game stop adding it into every RPG or farming sim. If fishing mini games were a movie, it'd be straight to DVD and star Steven Seagal. To get all the fish you have to go to the correct fishing spot, then use the correct rod, then use the correct bait and then it's RNG after that. You also only get bait from grinding monsters and like 6 chests in the game, and monsters don't give any XP once you are equal or greater level. Speaking of level, the data from the first game carries over so if you finished that one overleveled the game will be a on the easy side until in balances out. Anyway, yeah game is pretty good. Plays like the last one just with a few combat tweaks and annoying fishing crap.

One of the worst game series (If not the worst) I played in my life. This game is almost worse in every aspect than the first entry of the series, which I also hated. But I still decided to give this game a try because I really hoped that the story gonna finally pick up as the fans promised. I played for 15 hours, and literally nothing interesting happened during the game. Although pointless content was also annoying in the first game, here it takes a complete new scale as all the locations in the second game were already in the first game (they literally reused the entire first game in the 2nd one; I am not kidding). The first game was at least a bit interesting because you were discovering a new world, its geopolitics and meeting new characters. In SC, chapters 1-5 (30-40 of playtime out of 60 hours) you literally do the same things and get reintroduced to the same characters. Why do fans who praise the story of sc almost never mention that half of the game is literally a repetition of the previous one? I don't talk about other issues of the game, such as DISGUISTING difficulty balancing (as the easy/normal is no brain and hard is impossibly bad in some instances). All these problems were also in the first part, and they got only worse; there is more grind, more ridiculously unfair boss battles, tedious dungeons, extremely naive and even stupid story and etc. To be fair, there are things to like the game for (such as interesting battle system and amazing detalization), but they disappear in the ocean of boringness and tiredness from the game. I honestly have no clue why ppl recommend this game series to others so fiercely. It is just bad.

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For anyone wanting to play the original FC, SC, and 3rd. Be sure to download the Evolution mod patch. This'll add in the Japanese voice acting since the original game did not have any.

6/10 - I'm somewhere in the middle of loving and hating this game. There's a lot to love about it, but its sooo bloated and way too long for what it is. At 56 hours in the final chapter, having done none of the side quests, I can say they could have cut about 15-20 hours out. The game is also wildly inconsistent in its design... an example would be key items sometimes need to selected to be used, but most of the time just automatically does it. Pick a lane. The difficulty is all over the place as well. No trouble with any of the bosses, but constantly one-shotted by regular enemies who all seem to have max str and spd. The characters are good/great, and I really just wanted to find out what happened to Joshua... but I feel Like the pay off wasn't worth it.

Trails in the sky SC пройден. Спасибо Deadp за копию, а теперь к обзору. Сюжет - начинается утром, сразу после первой части. Джошуа покинул Эстель и отправился мстить сообществу Уробороса - секретной организации, что-то наподобие Фатуев из Геншина. В обзоре на первую часть я не упоминал о финале, так что это необходимо сделать здесь. Джошуа вернули память о его старой жизни, о том как он был убийцей, наёмником Уробороса, о том как он чуть не убил Кассиуса (отца Эстель). После чего Джошуа и покинул всех, ссылаясь на то, что он во всём виноват. И так, по ходу сюжеты мы будем искать Джошуа, чтобы вернуть его домой, и сражаться с исполнителями (+- как предвестники Фатуев) Уробороса. Сюжет в этом обзоре описать тяжело, он идёт слишком последовательно, а не как в первой части. Геймплей - остался в основе тот же, но у персонажей появились новые приёмы и прокачка орбментов (то, с помощью чего используется магия) Музыка - стала ещё прекрасней. Часть музыки взята из первой части (т.к. вторая часть полностью базируется на первой - карта абсолютна та же), но здесь и не мало новой музыки. SC полностью переплюнула FC атмосферой повествования. Если первая игра была чем-то в духе классической фэнтезийной истории, то в случае второй - здесь появляется экшн, анимированные и нарисованные катсцены, сам сюжет становится серьёзнее и запутаннее. Моя любимая глава - шестая. Она была идеальна, используемые треки, сам сюжет и локация были на высоте (да в целом как и вся игра). Мир всё ещё остаётся живым. Каждый npc может сказать что-либо об обстановке. Например, при возвращении в Ролент (родной город гг), то все npc будут приветствовать героев и говорить о том, как они скучали и как гордятся. Дополнительные квесты тоже стали разнообразны, от простого падай-принеси, появились миссии, например, конвоя и расследования. Слишком сильно не буду разглагольствовать, рекомендую пройти самостоятельно. Итог - 9.9/10 (переборщили со сложностью в финале как по мне) Для заключения арки небес мне остаётся пройти финальную, третью часть.

Arguably the best of the 2D Trails games (which is saying a lot, since they are all S Tier), and for me personally, the greatest game I have ever played. However, you absolutely need to play First Chapter, or a lot of the game's heavy scenes won't hit nearly as hard. Also, you might want to play the remakes instead for better combat and graphics, but I find the older style more fun for now, but I have not played the remakes, so I wouldn't know. Anyway, what are you doing here reading this? Go play the game!