Board 8 > Hajimari no Kiseki to be final turn based game in the Trails series

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https://twitter.com/koyushii/status/1298482088836923392?s=20

https://twitter.com/GhostlyOcam/status/1298483656508334082?s=19

Honestly to me adopting a more FF7R type of battle system sounds kind of exciting

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Setting the stage for Trails in the Sky Remake

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Maybe this is the Ys fan talking in me but Falcom has always been better at action combat anyway so to me this is a good move although it helps make it less distinct from their other franchises

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Tales of Cold Steel

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more like

owari no kiseki

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Also I think Leon's got it their new game reveal tomorrow might actually be the trails in the sky remake with this new battle system

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what if this actually means like a Paper Mario type battle system with timed hits

That is certainly "command based"

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People on reddit are saying the combat in the Gagharv trilogy fits this description and that it could be an evolution of that system.

That could be interesting to link it to older legend of heroes games like that

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ninkendo posted...

Honestly to me adopting a more FF7R type of battle system sounds kind of exciting

Is FF7R's better than Ys?
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They're too different to really compare

FF7R fits more this command- based action they're describing while Ys is pure action

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In the end though I'm not really concerned about the battle system I'm pretty sure it will be fun no matter what they come up with

I'm more interested in whatever the new art style is because that's their biggest problem is that the look of thier games have became too homogenized

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Man, I prefer turn based :(

This might end up putting me off the series.

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wow bold of falcom to make calvard a bullet hell game

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ShatteredElysium posted...

Man, I prefer turn based :(

shane15 posted...

This might end up putting me off the series.

These but luckily I have what, ten games to get through first

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But also let's be real here they were due for a change

The cold steel battle system was one of the most unbalanced and easily exploitable combat systems out there

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In fairness, have you tried some of those fights without exploiting the battle system? It seemed like they were well aware that the system was easily breakable and punished you immensely if you didn't

exploitable combat systems are a good thing. like yes there's a few things in CS that are beyond broken but.
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Speaking of changing battle systems Ys IX should be the final one of the current party based battle system and I fully expect Ys X to be the debut of the series 4th battle system

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ninkendo posted...

But also let's be real here they were due for a change

The cold steel battle system was one of the most unbalanced and easily exploitable combat systems out there

lol yeah i played on hard and the whole final boss section of cs3 i didnt get hit once (except the very last boss which was still easy)

delay stuff and some of the orders just op

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ninkendo posted...

But also let's be real here they were due for a change

The cold steel battle system was one of the most unbalanced and easily exploitable combat systems out there

and you know CS fanboys would riot if falcom removed the extraneous nonsense that made that game so broken. sky 3rd showed how much promise that battle system had and they ruined it

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I guess that's the problem when you try and create a game series with this many games. There's only so much you can do with a specific battle system before you run out of ideas or you add too much and break the game.

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I do generally think Cold Steel has had better gameplay than the Sky series, though my order would probably be something like Cold Steel III > Sky The 3rd > the others. I always liked the battles themselves in Cold Steel more (with possible exception to some very well designed boss fights in 3rd) but felt Sky had a way better customization system. Cold Steel III though felt like it gave me just enough tools to mess around with that it made up for the previous issues in customization, and even though the combat is "broken" I think it's fun to discover for yourself the right combinations of quartz, etc that turns you into an unstoppable death machine. Though yes, my Trails gameplay priorities lie exclusively in making the casual experience as enjoyable as possible.

As for the news about the changing battle system for the next arc, I will try and withhold judgment until we actually see what it is and how it works but I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous. Then again I'm in this series for the story anyways so I highly doubt it would be a dealbreaker. Worst case I could just set the difficulty to Easy and do my best to ignore gameplay as much as possible.
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We all know Falcom's priorities these days anyway




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Sad to see the downward spiral strikes again.

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