what is with the class room thing

[wei270]

why is cold steel so obsessed with class room setting it was so!!!! i like the class in cs1 but boy was i glad school is over with sc2, and now they tell me i am back to class again for cs3
COME ON

[Val the Moofia Boss]

In CS1 and CS2, Olivier was trying to assemble a pseudo-Bracer organization that would be backed by the Royal family and their associates. However, Osborne had secretly installed the his supporters on the board of directors, who used the Class as the lynchpin of their operation to take down the NA and build up a national hero. Reinford was also using Class VI and VII to field test their experimental ARCUS units.

Light CS3 spoilers the school of this game is being used by Osborne as containment for his enemies who are too useful to eliminate.

[wei270]

still does it have to be in a high school setting? no

[Wauxx_]

10% school - 10% Main City ("The CS3 Trista") - 10% Train - 70% Various locations from Erebonia.


In CS3 the "school setting" is not really that bad compared to CS1.


Edit: Idk if this is a spoiler... I hope not :S

[Chizu]

Remember that between cold steel games Falcom also released Tokyo Xanadu, a game set at school... I think they must have been going through a phase.
Hopefully when we get our game set in Calvard we have something new, We've had Bracers, Police and Students, maybe its time to play as a team of Lawyers.

Trails of Legal Documents.

[Meredius]

Martial Arts School? :)

[xHardcore CKYx]

That or its more likely to revolve around the Rocksmith agency.
So intelligence division.

[Jeffer'son Airship]

Originally posted by Chizu:

Remember that between cold steel games Falcom also released Tokyo Xanadu, a game set at school... I think they must have been going through a phase.

A phase of being inspired by Persona and trying to tap into that market.

And Japan loves high school settings for kind of depressing reasons: it's the last time many Japanese folks felt free because from post secondary education onwards their lives almost complete revolve around their careers.

Well that and most Japanese games are also aimed at the same high school crowd because they have the most time to play them.

[DAVOS CENSORSHIP 2030 FTW!!!]

It's a Jrpg Trope.

[Dragon]

I think they do it because it's easier to perform lazing writing that way. I.e. they don't have to think of creative ways to put many different characters in the same place at once, because they have the default excuse "they are in the same class."

But I agree with the OP, they shouldn't have done it again in CS3. CS1 & CS2 more than covered that subject as much as it ever needs to be.

[Jeffer'son Airship]

CS3 honestly feels almost like a full sequel to the first two. It's practically starting a new story arc with Rean moving up to being a teacher for new students.

[ByTheNumbers]

Originally posted by wei270:

still does it have to be in a high school setting? no

Do you still have to buy the game? No.

[spectre199]

Why not have a game at a school, plus I could be wrong but I don't think the school you go to is a high school more like a military school

Also there is another game series that takes place in a high school, Persona 3,4,5 and probably Persona 6 when or if it comes out and I don't know about Persona 1, 2 since I didn't play them

[Kuro]

The school shenanigans in CS3 are way more tolerable (and better) than any jrpg, period. The new classes are actually much better than the upper, lower and Class VII from Cold Steel 1 and 2. CS 3 for that matter, is considered to be the best Erebonian arc Trails game.

You are also playing as a teacher than a student this time around which technically is somewhat of a rare premise for a JRPG protagonist to be in. I personally prefer the majority of cast of CS3's school compared to the previous. There's the least amount of "growing up phase" these students have to go through in CS3 because it's more about the secrets tied to their backgrounds instead. CS3 students are way more mature than CS1/2 students - except for Angelica, Friedel, Loggin.

[ドラザラー]

I actually have Persona 2. The main character starts out as an editor to a teenage magazine. She decides to investigate a serial killer that is targeting girls in a high school called the Seven Sisters high school.

[Kai]

Originally posted by wei270:

why is cold steel so obsessed with class room setting it was so!!!! i like the class in cs1 but boy was i glad school is over with sc2, and now they tell me i am back to class again for cs3
COME ON

In CS3, your 'class' is essentially a special forces class.

If you were to use the 'maturity' of education...
CS 1-2 was like High School.
CS 3 is like College.