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Topic	SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Endgame Edition [SELF]
xp1337 06/10/19 3:54:33 PM #183:	LeonhartFour posted... Cold Steel III: September 24, 2019 Big last few days for gaming news aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa That's like... 2+ months earlier than I had expected. Thought I'd get a CS1+2 marathon replay in before it came out but uh, damn, by the time I finish PoE2 I still need to actually play CS2 PS4 and when all that's said and done it's (probably) too close for a replay. It's me though so nothing is off the table, I once played P4 twice in a row back-to-back... though I regretted it like halfway through the second playthrough. >_> LeonhartFour posted... All right, finished up with Act 1 - Part 1 with 32 AP and a grade of A. I felt like the entire time that I must have missed something, and I guess I did. Think I know what happened. Was actually going to mention it earlier but realized I was inadvertendly mentioning that Part 1 was almost over... which probably wasn't something you'd care about, but it got me to back off. All of the "end bosses" for the Act 1 - Part # chapters have a hidden AP requirement that the game just doesn't tell you. So for Leo/Xeno what you had to do was knock one of them down to 30% HP or lower within 40 turns. If you do, you get the bonus AP message after the fight. For Part 2 the requirement is to win the fight within 40 turns. I imagine you'll know the fight when you see it. LeonhartFour posted... apparently there's this NG+ quest in CS2 that's important to CS3 or something I keep seeing this YouTube video pop up on my recommendations about it Yes, there is. Don't worry about it for now, you can watch the video/I'll give you a link after you beat the game. It's definitely important though. The Mana Sword posted... How do the Cold Steel games compare to TiTs? 3rd > SC > CS2 > CS1 > FC, IMO. It depends on what about FC was middling to you. If it was how slow it was, I think you'd find CS1 an improvement there. It's still mostly a game of build-up, but the build-up is... more directly engaging, I guess. Unlike FC where a lot of the early stuff is really simple stuff and the pieces don't really all start fitting together until much later, the stakes and importance of things in CS1 is much more apparent early on. Battle system/gameplay is mostly the same but Cold Steel has the benefit of QoL enhancements over time. LordoftheMorons posted... How much would I be missing if I played the ToCS games without TitS? Some, but mostly references/connection to past lore like others are mentioning. It's certainly not impenetrable or anything, Falcom intended Cold Steel to be an acceptable entry point for newcomers and I think they succeeded. You won't have the benefit/reaction of "Oh hey, that's [character]! Neat." or "Oh, I've heard about [place/thing], cool to see it now." but it's nothing super critical. I'm told that begins to change in CS3 but I can't speak to that, and also apparently it applies to unlocalized games too so most of us would be in a similar boat to some extent. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? <cite>xp1337 posted [p:923071759] in SaveEstell... [t:77730840]...</cite> <quote><cite>LeonhartFour posted...</cite> <quote>Cold Steel III: September 24, 2019 Big last few days for gaming news</quote> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa That's like... 2+ months earlier than I had expected. Thought I'd get a CS1+2 marathon replay in before it came out but uh, damn, by the time I finish PoE2 I still need to actually play CS2 PS4 and when all that's said and done it's (probably) too close for a replay. It's me though so nothing is off the table, I once played P4 twice in a row back-to-back... though I regretted it like halfway through the second playthrough. >_> <cite>LeonhartFour posted...</cite> <quote>All right, finished up with Act 1 - Part 1 with 32 AP and a grade of A. I felt like the entire time that I must have missed something, and I guess I did.</quote> Think I know what happened. Was actually going to mention it earlier but realized I was inadvertendly mentioning that Part 1 was almost over... which probably wasn't something you'd care about, but it got me to back off. All of the "end bosses" for the Act 1 - Part # chapters have a hidden AP requirement that the game just doesn't tell you. So for Leo/Xeno what you had to do was knock one of them down to 30% HP or lower within 40 turns. If you do, you get the bonus AP message after the fight. For Part 2 the requirement is to win the fight within 40 turns. I imagine you'll know the fight when you see it. <cite>LeonhartFour posted...</cite> <quote>apparently there's this NG+ quest in CS2 that's important to CS3 or something I keep seeing this YouTube video pop up on my recommendations about it</quote> Yes, there is. Don't worry about it for now, you can watch the video/I'll give you a link after you beat the game. It's definitely important though. <cite>The Mana Sword posted...</cite> <quote>How do the Cold Steel games compare to TiTs?</quote> 3rd > SC > CS2 > CS1 > FC, IMO. It depends on what about FC was middling to you. If it was how slow it was, I think you'd find CS1 an improvement there. It's still mostly a game of build-up, but the build-up is... more directly engaging, I guess. Unlike FC where a lot of the early stuff is really simple stuff and the pieces don't really all start fitting together until much later, the stakes and importance of things in CS1 is much more apparent early on. Battle system/gameplay is mostly the same but Cold Steel has the benefit of QoL enhancements over time. <cite>LordoftheMorons posted...</cite> <quote>How much would I be missing if I played the ToCS games without TitS?</quote> Some, but mostly references/connection to past lore like others are mentioning. It's certainly not impenetrable or anything, Falcom intended Cold Steel to be an acceptable entry point for newcomers and I think they succeeded. You won't have the benefit/reaction of "Oh hey, that's [character]! Neat." or "Oh, I've heard about [place/thing], cool to see it now." but it's nothing super critical. I'm told that begins to change in CS3 but I can't speak to that, and also apparently it applies to unlocalized games too so most of us would be in a similar boat to some extent. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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