While you'll miss the content and characters of Trails in the Sky, that's something you'll have to deal with through the wiki or recap videos. Trails of Zero is one of the three main sagas and is essential to understand many of the characters from Cold Steel 3 that are thrown at you, as well as clarify events from Trails of Cold Steel from another perspective. Personal recommendation: Play Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2 to test the waters and see if you want to invest yourself into the series, and then play the Trails of Zero saga. Obviously 2 sagas worth of events will be a complete mystery but that's easily resolved through inference, in game history books, or the wiki. This is the bare minimum in my opinion as the game tries pretty strongly to setup the lore and is sorta modern from the get go despite dated graphics. Play Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2 before reaching 3. This is obviously the most rewarding but also the most grueling as you'll be working your way up with old game mechanics and outdated consoles/or using emulators until Cold Steel. Play every game from the first saga Trails in the Sky that covers the Liberl Arc, and then play the Trails of Zero series that covers the Crossbell arc, and then finally get to Trails of Cold Steel. Obviously still playable, just super hard to keep up with and understand unless you constantly keep the wiki open.īut if someone is curious about getting into this daunting as fuck series, you have three options.

You'll have an far less enjoyable time driving head first into this game as it'll be referencing past events like every three seconds as well as gathering up former main characters and side characters like the Avengers. Pretty unique series because of that, meaning a lot of its player base are extremely dedicated to the story and its characters and its world in general.

This game in particular, is an insanely elaborate game and to be honest pretty hard to get into as a random player mainly because it's essentially the Infinity War version of the Trails franchise which spans three different arcs, in three different countries, in 7 different games, each with their own casts all interconnected due to it being a shared continent. Just a heads up for any people who don't really know the trails series.

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