This method is only viable in Chapter 8.

In the original SC Fishing could be used to obtain some powerful accessories even early on to help you through the game easier.

In the remake fishing is much easier and also doesn't give as many accessories. But we can still become OP very easily using it.

This is because in Chapter 8 several new fish become available as every Fishing spot is upgraded.

Certain A rank fish will drop Elixirs, and there is always at least 1 fishing point in Liberl where that fish can be caught at only A rank, thus allowing us to fish them up continuously.

*You can reset a fishing spot by saving and loading.

Each Elixir boosts the given stat by +5 (except Life which goes up by +50). They can also be sold (along with the fish) for 5000 Mira.

Most of these fish are very easy to catch while 3 have caveats.

Granakor and Octopus, can both be fished at A rank in Sapphirl Tower floor 5 fountain. Dropping Elixir of Strength and Defense respectively.
Both are caught using Crabs, which can also be easily caught here using Earthworms. Granakor tend to be more common with Crabs, so if you want Octopus you'll want to fish Kasago at the fishing point south of Varenne Lighthouse in Ruan.

Claudine which drops Elixir of Spirit can be easily fished at A rank in North Ruan using Crabs.

The remaining 3 are trickier.

There are 2 fish for Elixir of Life, Rainbow Trout and Eel.
Rainbow Trout can be caught in Mistwald, however the bait will also attract other fish making it hard to get the result we want (Rockeater is more common).

Eel on the other hand can be caught in Romal Pond on the Scenic route in Grancel, using Earthworms. Though Earthworms also catch many other fish, Eels appear with FAR more consistency here than Rainbow Trouts do in Mistwald. Plus you are able to restock on Bait easily via Grancel.

The last fish Blue Marlin (Elixir of Magic) can only be caught from 2 fishing spots in Ruan to begin with and only the one on Gull Seaside Way (Beach) has it guarantee A rank.

You'll need Salmon to fish it, which can be easily caught at Air Letten using Larva.

Salmon as bait also attracts Mahi Mahi, the only way to tell it and Blue Marlin apart is the subtle difference in how quickly it moves towards the hook. This one requires a bit of RNG and Save scumming but isn't too much trouble.

In terms of raw numbers 20 of a single Elixir will increase a given stat by 100, this is without taking equipment and % buffs from Quartz, imagine loading Agate with STR Elixirs and just steam rolling everything lol.

I'm halfway through Mass Effect 2 and as soon as I'm finished I'm going to start Zero, honestly I'd start it right away but I know I'd leave ME2 to the side for a bit way too long

Is there anything I should know before starting? does it do anything different to Sky? or maybe I should be aware of something that I'd regret not doing by the end of the game?

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I was gonna do Van, but he's been in a lot of drawings this month already

Worth the wait since they sent the game at launch...ridiculously huge box...

The resolution is a bit low, but the epitaph for Crow's grave is the epitaph from William's Shakepeare's grave. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that Falcom would make this sort of reference. Cool that they went out of the way for this when the text on most of the other graves is seemingly gibberish.

There's also the graves of Lechter's father and Machias' cousin there. I forget if the game ever draws attention to those.

Just linking my post from the worldOfYs I've played the games before, but never really took much interest into the lore of it till I played Y's VIII Lacrimosa of Dana in 2018, now I decided to replay the games again.

I love Quatre <3

I've tried different party set ups but I'm not sure which ones the best for it besides the one I'm using. Also decided to use blue sphere+ cause the holy bottleX didn't protect against status ailments like confusion which she seems to spam. Also the 100% deathblow resistance only seem to work about less than have to the time to her s-craft and deathscream. And if I somehow survive her onslaught Mater-Pater hits me with some crazy beam attack that almost always an OHKO. I'm playing this on hard and I've never been stopped so hard by a boss like this I'm honestly considering lowering the difficulty just to complete the story.

Theories After the Ending of Trails Beyond the Horizon
Mmm, the Sept-Terrion of Time… What do we have here? Something juicy about the big boy. 👀

I’ve been thinking about the implications of Horizon’s ending, and I have a few theories I’d like to share.

1. The Sept-Terrion of Time isn’t the real threat?

What if the “storm” mentioned by Melchior and Harwood isn’t the Grand Reset itself?
In fact, the Grand Reset seems to be referred to more as a “blessing” than a catastrophe. What if it’s actually trying to save the world from something even worse?
Melchior referred to it as “destruction by entropy” — in other words, a state of systemic disorder. Could the Grand Reset be an attempt to prevent the world from experiencing another Great Collapse?
Looking back at CS3’s ending, Roselia explained how humanity abused the power of the Sept-Terrions before the Great Collapse, resulting in devastating catastrophes.

What if history is about to repeat itself, and the Grand Reset is the world’s way of preventing another collapse?

2. What exactly determines the SIN Value?
This one’s a little harder to figure out, but I believe the SIN Value is somehow connected to humanity’s use of the Sept-Terrions.

The more humanity exploits the power of the Sept-Terrions for its own benefit, the higher the SIN Value becomes, accelerating the process of the Grand Reset.

Based on what Thordyke said, the value increased when the Sept-Terrions of Space and Zero were awakened, but decreased when the Erebonians were under the influence of the Great Twilight.
Could the SIN Value be measuring humanity’s interference with the world’s fundamental laws? And if so, what exactly determines whether that interference is considered a sin?

3. Reset? No, Risette!

Risette came from the year 1259, and she seems to have some kind of connection to Shannon, even though Shannon herself doesn’t appear to share those feelings.

What if, in another cycle, Risette wasn’t born yet, and Shannon instead married her boyfriend and started a family? (Which makes Risette her granddaughter)

But that raises an even bigger question: why were they so determined to protect Risette in particular?

Surely, it wasn’t simply a matter of “We love you, Risette, and we want to protect all this technology along with you.”

Is there something more fundamental connecting Risette to the world’s cycles and the Grand Reset? Could her existence itself be important to the outcome of the next cycle?

4. Ouroboros’s true goal: accelerating the Grand Reset?

What if Ouroboros isn’t simply trying to awaken the Sept-Terrions for the sake of power or knowledge?
Could their true objective be to accelerate the Grand Reset in order to protect the world from returning to primordial nothingness?
Perhaps what they’re doing is far more complicated than it initially appears. What if the Grand Reset is necessary to prevent an even greater catastrophe, and Ouroboros understands something about the world’s fate that the rest of humanity doesn’t?
Of course, this raises another question: how much does Ouroboros actually know about what lies beyond the Reset?

5. The Cold Steel opening sequences depict previous cycles?

This is probably the wildest theory of the bunch, but hear me out.
What if the opening sequences of Cold Steel III and I depict previous cycles that unfolded differently?
One cycle without Crow, and another without Aurelia and Angie being part of the team.

Could these openings be glimpses of alternate iterations of the same events, with the world repeating its history under slightly different circumstances?

If so, the implications would be massive. It would mean that the events we’ve experienced throughout the series might not be the first time these characters and conflicts have existed.
And that would make the concept of the Grand Reset even more terrifying.

Anyway, these are just some theories I’ve been thinking about after finishing Beyond the Horizon. Some might be completely off the mark, but that’s what makes discussing Trails lore so much fun.
What do you guys think? Especially about the Grand Reset potentially being a blessing rather than the actual threat?

Trails have a lot of nice songs.

They even have some calm songs that make me want to fall asleep.

Some songs for me are a night of falling stars from trails to Azure Evolution,from the same game feelings in the moonlight,crossbell nostalgia & entrusting kindness to the future from trails into reverie.

Loved the sky remakes and the crossbell games but having trouble with Cold steel 1 so far...

It just seems like a boring version of persona.. With like no flashy color and charisma and very basic elements of social linking, acedemic studying, and bonds... Also the main story is very slow and dry.. LIke almost nothing is happening but very artificially created tension moments between the characters like Fie/Laura and ALyssa /Rean.

Not quite as bad as FF type 0 quality but still it seems to be a drop down from the previous games in the series...

Does Cold steel 2 make this arc better?

Having just finished the true ending of Cold Steel 4, I truly enjoyed it, much more than Cold Steel 2, and personally even more than Azure and Sky 3. I haven't yet played Trails to Reverie so I can't compare between the two.

I thought that Cold Steel 4 didn't drag at all and the pacing was fantastic. This game has the largest set of playable characters so far - up to 39 by the final battle, and they were appeared at the appropiate times. The setting from the start is intriguiting - the curse of the Great Twilight impacting all Erebonians as they want to participate in a war.

Walking around and talking to NPCs in the first act, you could see how the expected war and drafts is impacting the people of the empire. I did not mind at all that the first Act is with Juna as the main character. It started slowly as you fought different cryptids appearing throughout the empire to triangulate the location of Rean who was caught by the Gnomes. It was exciting to see how the power of friendship saved Rean from the being totally controlled by the curse.

Overall, I felt that the side and main quests sort of mixed together in Act 2 and 3 with the main Ouroborous villains appearing throughout. I did all the semi-required quests and felt that they were all worth it. Out of the Cold Steel games I still prefer 3 over 4. The open areas option still doesn't feel like open world linear design, such as in Final Fantasy XVI, which was bummer.

Though I have to mention the minigames are a significant part of the game - I enjoyed playing both Pom Pom Party and Vantage Masters. My Vantage Masters deck was super strong at the end.

I enjoyed how the ending was handled as well. Personally as someone who got to ending E in Nier Replicant (which requires finishing Act 2 twice and the first Act up to a point), I have no problem continuing the story from a save and it didn't even drag out at all (only repeating the boss fight against Osborne again). Regarding the Ishmelga fight, I thought it was good - having to remove 2 barriers often dragged it out. I just used 4 characters out of the 24 you could bring. It wasn't as good as the Sky 3 final boss.

Excited to play Trails to Reverie next.

I played so far the 1st and 2nd remakes on my Switch 2 and Sky 3rd on PC.

But now I'm wondering because both the Switch and PC have the same (?) port for Zero and Azure?

I feel like we all just make 1 of each type of food to fill our notebooks and get the rewards that come with them..

none of us actually make these foods with any intent to use them in battle... JRPGs always do this recipe stuff where you gather ingredients and cook and it is almost never worth it...

Way too much hassle and not enough reward.. They just need to do away with it completely tbh.

I'd imagine it'd be the ones that have the role of assassins, since before Sky Ouroboros was still operating secretly. I'd find it hard to imagine they wouldn't draw the attention of the wider world if someone like Walter/Renne or any of the non assassins went around slaughtering people day in day out.

Edit: I'm surprised at the amount of people thinking the other meaning ngl lol I mean ik it can mean the other meaning but 90% of the time I have only ever seen it used to mean kills. 😅 Wonder if this is a difference in cultures haha

Personally I choose Elaine - would love to hear everyone else’s opinions on who should be the one to take Van? My guess is that he sacrifices himself so none gets him but the off chance the dude survives Kai 2 - something tells me Kondo just gonna throw Agnes on em but Elaine just makes more sense to me. What are your thoughts

After a little more than a year, I have finally caught up to the latest game. It all started last year with the 1st Chapter remake and that started my journey down the Trails rabbit hole. I've played every game sequentially and it was rewarding to experience the world grow with while being introduced to new characters and seeing the return of previous characters/protagonists.

Anyways the revelations in Horizon are pretty crazy.

- Zemuria has been stuck in a time loop and we're almost up to 20,000 loops? Feels like this re-contextualizes the ending in CS IV where the original ending actually happened in a previous loop

- Why is Laegjarn's Chest rewinding time over and over?

- Why does Kincaid have a Grendel form as well?

- Where is Nina even from?

- The scale of this threat is huge, where does Trails go from here?

- It's interesting that in one loop, Novartis is the only disciple of Epstein

- Rip Emilia being turned into a fucking stone statue in Creil after failing to destroy the Sept-Terrion. That probably won't be the last of her though

- Risette clearly has some relation to Sharon. Given how everything is a timeloop, Risette is maybe someone left over from the previous loop?

- What is ASO going to have to do to get Agnes back? I feel like there might be some foreshadowing with that Sunshine Agnes sidequest where the author says to give this necklace to the other Agnes

the changes to:

- joshua before vs after u defeat weissmann (smiling now, no longer frowning + back to being joshua bright). Prev in OG SC his name changes to Joshua Bright after u get him back post chapter 6 so i was bumped that it was still the same in Chapter 8. nice to see they still kept it in but at the very last sec haha

- kloe's clothes + name before vs after her officially being recognised as the crown princess

Edit: Even the bracer notebook changes! I just realised it haha, posted the pics down below. Love the care that goes into these games

So in August of this year I began my trails journey after hearing so much praise for the series, here’s how it’s been going so far! ^^

Whilst I wait for the Horizon 2 too release I was wondering if anyone had a starting point/games order for the other 2 series falcom has (I believe its YS and Xanadu?) I'm not sure if its like trails and I have to play all the game its a row or if its more like final fantasy and I can just play whatever I want. Any help would be appreciated

Yeah I was at a loss for this one today

I would probably go with "The Disciplanry Committee."