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Shadowblade Mar 1, 2019 @ 9:39pm
Romance?
I'm a sucker for anything with good story and romance. I heard this has a great story, but are there any romantic options or anything of the sort?
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Originally posted by Oguzhan:
its harem. None of them are deep though, if you want a great love story on top of your great story, play trails in the sky games. They take place before CS and are better.
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Oguzhan Mar 1, 2019 @ 9:47pm 
its harem. None of them are deep though, if you want a great love story on top of your great story, play trails in the sky games. They take place before CS and are better.
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Shadowblade Mar 1, 2019 @ 9:49pm 
Originally posted by Oguzhan:
its harem.

:praisesun: Like, different routes?
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Oguzhan Mar 1, 2019 @ 9:50pm 
Originally posted by Shadowblade:
Originally posted by Oguzhan:
its harem.

:praisesun: Like, different routes?

Persona styled bonding points.
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Shadowblade Mar 1, 2019 @ 9:52pm 
Originally posted by Oguzhan:
its harem. None of them are deep though, if you want a great love story on top of your great story, play trails in the sky games. They take place before CS and are better.

Gotcha, I'll check those out and play these also. Thanks for the help!
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myhr2 Mar 1, 2019 @ 9:54pm 
Yes, different routes. Basically, you can improve your friendship rank with the other characters of the team through events, and it can lead to a couple romantic sequences with one of the girl character at the end of the game. There is kinda one specific romance that is pushed a little more than the others and that, imho, makes more sense (Alisa), but the devs let all the options opened, which leads to an overall much weaker romance than in the Trails in the Sky games. Story is still good though.
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Shadowblade Mar 1, 2019 @ 9:56pm 
Originally posted by myhr2:
Yes, different routes. Basically, you can improve your friendship rank with the other characters of the team through events, and it can lead to a couple romantic sequences with one of the girl character at the end of the game. There is kinda one specific romance that is pushed a little more than the others and that, imho, makes more sense (Alisa), but the devs let all the options opened, which leads to an overall much weaker romance than in the Trails in the Sky games. Story is still good though.

Ah I see, thanks to you too
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rachaellikesblue Mar 2, 2019 @ 10:59am 
Who says it's just the girls? I mean, yeah, okay, they're going to be more obviously romantic with the girls, but you underestimate the power of a shipper. :)
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Val the Moofia Boss Mar 2, 2019 @ 11:06am 
There is no romance in the CS or Crossbell games, only a few teasing scenes.

The 'Sky games have romance.
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OnlyOffensive Mar 2, 2019 @ 11:31am 
well Alisa is romance with more romantic scenes than sky actually. The problem is its alisa only.
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Stabbey Mar 2, 2019 @ 4:05pm 
The game lets you can pick your favorite person at the end, which means the writers won't allow Rean to commit to anyone in particular before that end point, and each next game shares the same structure, so Rean will again not definitely commit to anyone in particular until the end of that game.

Keeping those constraints in mind, Alisa has the strongest romance path and the most mandatory scenes with Rean in Cold Steel 1, and her romance arc through the first two games is (imo) pretty satisfying, if you like Alisa. If you don't, you might resent all the focus she gets.

EDIT in 2024: The Alisa-Rean romance arc in CS 3-4 is very good. The approach the writers took for that one made it stand out in a striking way.

Originally posted by Val the Moofia Boss:
There is no romance in the CS or Crossbell games, only a few teasing scenes.

The 'Sky games have romance.

It seems like you didn't see the Alisa path ending scenes - especially the CS 2 ones.
Last edited by Stabbey; Nov 16, 2024 @ 12:48pm
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CrimsonDX Mar 6, 2019 @ 10:48am 
There are still two more games in the CS series that continue the romance routes started in CS1. I've only seen some rough fan translations of the final bonding events in CS4, but they are quite romantic from what I saw for all of the girls. They might not be has majorly in depth as Sky (which focused on one couple) but they are still more in depth than the ones in Persona 4 and 5 for example. Same with the two Crossbell games.
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Oguzhan Mar 6, 2019 @ 1:01pm 
Originally posted by CrimsonDX:
There are still two more games in the CS series that continue the romance routes started in CS1. I've only seen some rough fan translations of the final bonding events in CS4, but they are quite romantic from what I saw for all of the girls. They might not be has majorly in depth as Sky (which focused on one couple) but they are still more in depth than the ones in Persona 4 and 5 for example. Same with the two Crossbell games.

The ones in crossbell might as well be not there. In Zero it was only Tio and Ellie but for Ao they added 2 more girls out of nowhere to the mix. Honestly I kinda wish there was no romance there or at least stick to Ellie since lets face it she is the cannon one. Loyd's comments about her are quite clear. Also the final scene with Tio is kinda iffy with Loyd's comment.
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CrimsonDX Mar 6, 2019 @ 8:51pm 
Originally posted by Oguzhan:
Originally posted by CrimsonDX:
There are still two more games in the CS series that continue the romance routes started in CS1. I've only seen some rough fan translations of the final bonding events in CS4, but they are quite romantic from what I saw for all of the girls. They might not be has majorly in depth as Sky (which focused on one couple) but they are still more in depth than the ones in Persona 4 and 5 for example. Same with the two Crossbell games.

The ones in crossbell might as well be not there. In Zero it was only Tio and Ellie but for Ao they added 2 more girls out of nowhere to the mix. Honestly I kinda wish there was no romance there or at least stick to Ellie since lets face it she is the cannon one. Loyd's comments about her are quite clear. Also the final scene with Tio is kinda iffy with Loyd's comment.

They aren't "out of nowhere". Both characters where in Zero, just not part of the main party till Ao. And the romance is quite obviously there. It is just not as central to the main plot as the romance in Sky.
Last edited by CrimsonDX; Mar 6, 2019 @ 8:52pm
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Dragon Mar 7, 2019 @ 6:03pm 
Originally posted by Shadowblade:
are there any romantic options or anything of the sort?

Yes, there is some romance, but it's not too deep.

Your main character, Rean, is the AMOG (Alpha Male of the Group), so most of the females want him.

However, he doesn't do much about that. Mostly he just lets them flirt with him and he remains passive about it (which kind of contradicts his status as the AMOG...?!...I guess Falcom writers don't know how to write AMOGs cohesively).
Last edited by Dragon; Mar 7, 2019 @ 6:05pm
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Stabbey Mar 7, 2019 @ 8:29pm 
Originally posted by Dragon:
Yes, there is some romance, but it's not too deep.

Your main character, Rean, is the AMOG (Alpha Male of the Group), so most of the females want him.

However, he doesn't do much about that. Mostly he just lets them flirt with him and he remains passive about it (which kind of contradicts his status as the AMOG...?!...I guess Falcom writers don't know how to write AMOGs cohesively).


That is largely the fault of the "choose your favorite" ending. Because the player can choose who Rean's favorite is, the writers won't allow Rean to commit to anyone until after the player makes the choice.
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