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If you’re reading this, odds are you’ve already made your decision on purchasing this game after playing the previous Cold Steel games and wanna see if Cold Steel IV is good. Almost all the heavy hitters from the Trails games are here, and even with the hours of fan service to be had, Cold Steel IV never strays away from what makes the series fantastic in the first place. Except unlike the MCU, you’re really better off starting from the very beginning. This game is to the Trails series as what Avengers: Endgame was to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Every major plot point that players saw through as Estelle in the Kingdom of Liberl, Lloyd in Crossbell State, and Rean in the Erebonian Empire has all led up to this. So why is all this important? It’s all connected.
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The game is chock full of callbacks from the previous games that fans of the series should appreciate.
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Made available on the PC, Vita, PS3, and PS4 (while Cold Steel III and IV will also be on the Switch), this saga tells us the story of Rean Schwarzer, the do-good leader of Class VII from Erebonia’s Thors Military Academy who would eventually become the instructor for a New Class VII in the last game. The Crossbell dualogy followed Lloyd Bannings, head of the Crossbell Police’s Special Support Section (SSS), as the team fought to maintain the peace and independence of Crossbell State, an independent region sitting in between the Erebonian Empire and the Calvard Republic, the two powers constantly at each other’s throats in the hopes of obtaining Crossbell.įinally, that brings us to Trails of Cold Steel.
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The Trails in the Sky trilogy was followed up by the Crossbell dualogy, Zero no Kiseki ( Trails from Zero) and Ao no Kiseki ( Trails to Azure) on both the PC and PSP, but as popular as they are with fans of the series, neither of the Crossbell games were released stateside and while they’ve received PS4 remakes in Japan, it remains to be seen whether they’ll make their way here. Based in the Zemurian Kingdom of Liberl, those games told the stories of Estelle Bright in her journey as a member of the Bracer Guild as she dealt with issues seemingly beyond her control as the evil group Ouroboros sought out artifacts to take over the world, and to make matters worse, the neighboring Empire of Erebonia had seemingly been planting seeds for war with neighboring countries.
While good games in their own right, The Legend of Heroes didn’t really catch fire until the franchise’s sixth installment– Trails in the Sky(on PC and PSP) which launched a trilogy in what’s now arguably the most impressive world-building in the JRPG genre and perhaps even gaming in general. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV is the final game in the Trails of Cold Steel saga, a sub-series in The Legend of Heroes franchise that got its start on the PC in 1992 with Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes.
Social distancing included.Ī little more than a year after Trails of Cold Steel III‘s release on the PS4, North American fans are finally being treated to the conclusion of the war epic that began in 2013 on the PS3, and it delivers in so many ways.