The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
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| Developer(s) | Nihon Falcom |
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| Series | The Legend of Heroes |
| Platform(s) | Trails of Cold Steel I/II PlayStation 3 PlayStation Vita Trails of Cold Steel III PlayStation 4 |
| Release date(s) |
Trails of Cold Steel
Trails of Cold Steel II
Trails of Cold Steel III
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Metacritic | 86% |
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| Publication | Score |
| Destructoid | 7/10 |
| Famitsu | 34/40 |
| Game Informer | 8.5/10 |
| Hardcore Gamer |   |
| 8.8/10 | |
| PlayStation LifeStyle | 9.5/10 |
| RPGamer | 4.5/5 |
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| Publication | Award |
| PlayStation LifeStyle Awards 2015 | Editor's Choice |
| Game Informer's Best of 2015 | Best of 2015 |
| Metacritic | Best PS3 Game of 2015 |
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 Eiyū Densetsu: Sen no Kiseki?) is a 2013 role-playingvideo game for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, released on September 26, 2013. The game was developed by Nihon Falcom as a part of their long running The Legend of Heroes series of video games. A sequel titled Trails of Cold Steel II was released on September 25, 2014 for the PS3 and PS Vita. Another sequel titled Trails of Cold Steel III was officially announced on December 16, 2015 and later confirmed for PlayStation 4. On June 5, 2015, Marvelous USA announced they would be localizing the first two titles, and the first was released in North America on December 22, 2015.
The basic gameplay is nearly identical to the previous "Kiseki" series entries with a few changes. The biggest change to the battle system and also counting as a brand new feature is the "Tactical Link System". The "Tactical Link" allow players follow up with three different kinds of link attacks, dealing additional damage and providing various other benefits. "Tactical Link" becomes a more useful asset to the player as the story progress and characters level up their "Link Levels" with other characters. As the link levels increase, you will obtain new link abilities such as healing the link partner or increase the CP gain of the partner. Another change is the Orbment system. Sen no Kiseki inherits the "Master Quartz" system from Ao no Kiseki. However, the Quartz system has been revamped. Sen no Kiseki does away with the sepith count associated with quartzes, which means orbal arts no longer depend on the overall sepith count on a single line but is instead based on the quartz you equip (EG: Equipping the Fire Bolt quartz allows your character to use the art Fire Bolt. Equipping HP1 only increases your HP and does not give you any arts because the sepith system is not in place). This game is also the first game in the series that was developed for the PS3. The game features 360 degree camera control, fully 3D character models, and voice conversations between characters on the overworld map, all of which are brand new features to the Kiseki series. Players can transfer save data between the PlayStation 3 and Vita versions using the cross-save function.
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