Is it true about cs3 romance options?

[Richard]

Is it really only alisa,laura, and emma? why no love for fie? :(

[Oguzhan]

Originally posted by oguz.gungor96:

In AO you

It's not called AO, it's called Ao. It's a word not an acronym; in this case, ao means azure. [/quote]

Waoh.....just waoh....

[Richard]

Originally posted by Nanachi:

Originally posted by Richard:

hmm?


toma?


didn't think sky did and crossbell have choices but dont matter? that sounds stupid.

Called Towa Toma for some reason, always stuck with me

ah thought so. but why toma? lol

Originally posted by oguz.gungor96:

Sky didn't have the relationship choices but instead had its own cannon relationships that took their time and fleurished. It wasn't always love but friendship and sibling bond as well (though that sibling bond might turn into actual love in the future since they are still vague about it from what I have heard ). Olivier X Schera , Kevin X Ries ,Joshua X Estelle and Agate X Tita were the more prominent ones. But we also had Joshua's friendship with Hans , Kloe and Lechter (this one we don't know where its gonna go yet) , Jill and pretty much everyone in the party etc etc (look that series had a lot of interactions between the characters the list goes on).


Crossbell games have the bonding event system but its a bit different. In the first game throught the game you have these points where you make a choice of who to focus on in your party members (a total of 3 times I believe) and the one with 3 points get a final event+ a better double attack which can be carried over to the next game.

In AO you have A LOT of moments (some in side quests) for you to get more intimate with them. Everytime you do they get like a point I believe and every character have their own quota for them to be available for the final event. For those who are not in your party but you had a great bond with well they give you really good accessories. There are also A LOT of optional events in AO no Kiseki. Sky games had them and zero no kiseki had a lot of them too but in AO , I found myself spending like 15 minutes at the start of each day just to get all the extra events. It is insane.

ahh cool.

Originally posted by Cold_Steel_IV:

OP, if you haven't already, make sure you play the previous games in the series, too. CS III and IV expect the player to have played all other games in the series.

Regarding bonding: They aren't romantic options. Not most of the time anyway in most of the games. You can choose to have a final bonding event with any bondable character, but that doesn't mean it's romantic. I'm pretty sure if you picked Machias for your final bonding event it wouldn't be romantic in the slightest. xD

That goes for all the CS games, I'm pretty sure. The only characters that had romantic hints or romantic scenes that I can think of in CS I and II were Alisa (who clearly is the canon and intended love interest and has the most romantic scenes), Laura, and Emma. And from what I remember, you can still choose Fie for a final bonding event in CS III, it's just that the other 3 have romantic ones. To my knowledge this isn't really all that different than in the first 2 games.

Also there really haven't been anything in CS III, to my knowledge, that rules out your choices from any of the past games. I think CS III just assumes you've seen them all and allows you to just rechoose stuff for that game. The only real change, in my opinion, is that you can't just directly carry over your save and choices directly, and the reason it needed to be this was was because they couldn't make it so you could carry over the data from I and II, which were on PS3 and PS VITA, and III, which is on PS4, despite them wanting to. We also know thet you can carry over your Save Data from CS III to IV, as an aside.

Honestly you should probably wait until you actually play the games before deciding if it sounds like it was handled fine or not. There is a time skip between II and III anyway, so it's not like III would pick up right after II or have the relationships be exactly the same regardless.

Originally posted by oguz.gungor96:

In AO you

It's not called AO, it's called Ao. It's a word not an acronym; in this case, ao means azure.

that be dumb if you HAVE to play other games for 3 and 4. and i don't mean 1 and 2 ofc. i mean the girls ones seem romantic in a way from what i seen. and ya those 3 do seems the biggest. but is stupid that they dont have romanctic options except those 3 in 3. what the point of the system if they gonna reduce it? and what you mean rechoose in 3? and i can understand carrying a save from 2 to 3. i do want to play them all if they come to pc in english. i like how it handle from what i seen in 1. havent gotten to 2 yet cause i want to do all sidequests cause i read npc acts diff in 2 to u if u do them. which seems cool to me. and didnt know there a time skip. is it a big time skip?

[Ellipsis]

Originally posted by Richard:

that be dumb if you HAVE to play other games for 3 and 4.

Not really. One of the biggest selling points of the Trails series is how interconnected the world is. Multiple characters are present in more than one arc (Sky/Crossbell/CS), and the games cross-reference each other. Given the fact that everything is connected, you'd need to know the events of all the prior games in question for CS3 to be able to achieve what Falcom wants it to.

Plus, if you really enjoy the games, there's no reason not to go back and play the previous entries in the series if you are able to.

[Richard]

Originally posted by Ellipsis:

Originally posted by Richard:

that be dumb if you HAVE to play other games for 3 and 4.

Not really. One of the biggest selling points of the Trails series is how interconnected the world is. Multiple characters are present in more than one arc (Sky/Crossbell/CS), and the games cross-reference each other. Given the fact that everything is connected, you'd need to know the events of all the prior games in question for CS3 to be able to achieve what Falcom wants it to.

Plus, if you really enjoy the games, there's no reason not to go back and play the previous entries in the series if you are able to.

i don't agree. i feel like it more for lore and for the feel if you see a character from the games before. and i would think you would only need to play cs 1 and 2 for 3. and from what i seen each game's arc plays diffencely. each their own i guess.

[alonkishon]

What so dump about that you have to play all the other installment? You don't see "Games of Thorne seson 7" before seaon 6 and so on. You don't read (or see) Lord of the Ring: Return of the King" without read "The Followship". All (or most) Trails game are connected to each other. The other games not only expand the lore but also give important information about other games.

Here some stuff that you know if you play other installment which may contion spolier , I just picked a few but I pretty sure there is more.

If you play Trails of the Sky SC, you already know abot Osburne. If you play Trails of the Sky 3rd, you know about North Ambria or about why there is not Bracer in Erebonia. But the most importment is what is the phatseml blaze plan, and why is phase 2 or phase 2 of what.

If you don't want to play the other game don't play, you can learn all this by asking pepole or see it in youtube, but dumb is not.

[IndigoAK]

Do not listen to these people. You don't need to have played Sky and Crossbell to understand the plot of Sen III and IV. Will you miss out on some context? Yes. But Sen III is very much understandable with having only played Sen I and II. I have never played Crossbell and I never finished Trails in the Sky FC and I made it through Sen III just fine, and never once did I feel like I was missing information I needed to process the narrative.

[Richard]

Originally posted by alonkishon:

What so dump about that you have to play all the other installment? You don't see "Games of Thorne seson 7" before seaon 6 and so on. You don't read (or see) Lord of the Ring: Return of the King" without read "The Followship". All (or most) Trails game are connected to each other. The other games not only expand the lore but also give important information about other games.

Here some stuff that you know if you play other installment which may contion spolier , I just picked a few but I pretty sure there is more.

If you play Trails of the Sky SC, you already know abot Osburne. If you play Trails of the Sky 3rd, you know about North Ambria or about why there is not Bracer in Erebonia. But the most importment is what is the phatseml blaze plan, and why is phase 2 or phase 2 of what.

If you don't want to play the other game don't play, you can learn all this by asking pepole or see it in youtube, but dumb is not.

it not dumb. and those are movies and shows. that like you have to see hobbit before or after lotr. but you don't. it just for extra lore if you want. and can't remember fully. but they do explain ♥♥♥♥ that in other games like why there aren't any bracers guilds in it. and idc about lore and i understood the cs story so far just fine.

Originally posted by IndigoAK:

Do not listen to these people. You don't need to have played Sky and Crossbell to understand the plot of Sen III and IV. Will you miss out on some context? Yes. But Sen III is very much understandable with having only played Sen I and II. I have never played Crossbell and I never finished Trails in the Sky FC and I made it through Sen III just fine, and never once did I feel like I was missing information I needed to process the narrative.

i would think so. like the extra lore is just that. just extra stuff for if you want to know. and 3 isn't out yet. is it? how did you play?

[IndigoAK]

Sen III has been out in Japan for just over a year. The PS4 is not region locked and there are translation guides available, so it's relatively simple to import.

[Janzu~]

Also, that twist from sen1 won't be much of a twist if you played sky.

[Richard]

Originally posted by IndigoAK:

Sen III has been out in Japan for just over a year. The PS4 is not region locked and there are translation guides available, so it's relatively simple to import.

hmm?

Originally posted by Janzu~:

Also, that twist from sen1 won't be much of a twist if you played sky.

hmm? why that?

[Devil Hunter]

I saw some of the bonding events for Cold Steel IV and while I could not understand a single word of what they were saying, this problem seems to have been fixed for the most important characters at least. Fie had a kiss at the end of her support, as did Sara and Towa. So at the very least all of the main girls that we've had as potential romances in the first game are still counted as potential romances in the final game. Things get a bit more open to interpretation when we consider characters that were added to the harem in game 2 and on though. Elise and Alfin didn't get a kiss at the end of their supports for example from what I can tell, and characters like Claire may also be out of the running but personally I never cared too much for those additions to the harem anyway. Being able to romance Alfin would have been fun, but I only really wanted that because I found the idea of Rean being Olivert's future brother-in-law hilarious.

[Tamikuz Tami]

Originally posted by bossmanham:

Originally posted by Richard:

Is it really only alisa,laura, and emma? why no love for fie? :(

No that's not exactly true. I think it is true that there's no confession option for Fie, but in fairness her story with Zephyr and her "dad" really isn't done either. You do get a tender moment with her where Rean says he needs to meet her dad and hopes he isn't mad about his relationship with the Zephyr princess.

It's entirely possible you get an ultimate payoff at the end of CS4. But we'll see. It'd be pretty disappointing to a lot of fans to not get a FIe romance option.

do you know what happens when you *romance* the 3 and carry over the save data to Cold Steel 4 ?

[Stabbey]

I heard that Cold Steel 3 dials the romance element back, yes, but I also heard that Cold Steel 4 dials it way up, to the point where in a normal bonding event, Laura either kisses you or makes a confession regardless of whether or not you've been pursuing her. BUT I've only heard about that, so I'm not quite sure how accurate it is.

If it is that bad, I might, for the first time, actively skip out on bonding events with girls other than the one I prefer as Rean's love interest. I would rather leave those points unspent.

Originally posted by Cold_Steel_IV:

OP, if you haven't already, make sure you play the previous games in the series, too. CS III and IV expect the player to have played all other games in the series.

Regarding bonding: They aren't romantic options. Not most of the time anyway in most of the games. You can choose to have a final bonding event with any bondable character, but that doesn't mean it's romantic. I'm pretty sure if you picked Machias for your final bonding event it wouldn't be romantic in the slightest. xD

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[bossmanham]

Originally posted by Tamikuz:

Originally posted by bossmanham:

No that's not exactly true. I think it is true that there's no confession option for Fie, but in fairness her story with Zephyr and her "dad" really isn't done either. You do get a tender moment with her where Rean says he needs to meet her dad and hopes he isn't mad about his relationship with the Zephyr princess.

It's entirely possible you get an ultimate payoff at the end of CS4. But we'll see. It'd be pretty disappointing to a lot of fans to not get a FIe romance option.

do you know what happens when you *romance* the 3 and carry over the save data to Cold Steel 4 ?

I'm not sure that's possible. And I don't want to know. Still playing 3.

[Dr. Gori]

Originally posted by Tamikuz:

Originally posted by bossmanham:

No that's not exactly true. I think it is true that there's no confession option for Fie, but in fairness her story with Zephyr and her "dad" really isn't done either. You do get a tender moment with her where Rean says he needs to meet her dad and hopes he isn't mad about his relationship with the Zephyr princess.

It's entirely possible you get an ultimate payoff at the end of CS4. But we'll see. It'd be pretty disappointing to a lot of fans to not get a FIe romance option.

do you know what happens when you *romance* the 3 and carry over the save data to Cold Steel 4 ?

The only one I know about is Alisa's, in which you get like one line of dialogue different. Just like CS1 to CS2, nothing really mattered in the first game.