About The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is a 2013 role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom and published by XSEED Games, part of the The Legend of Heroes series. It released on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows), holding a 8.2 / 10 aggregate score.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is the sixth installment in the main Trails series, serving as the beginning to the Erebonia arc. The game follows Rean Schwarzer and his fellow students of "Class VII" at Thors Military Academy, a newly formed class at the academy which is the only one not segregated by social class, composing of both Erebonian nobility and commoners.
The basic gameplay is nearly identical to the previous 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.
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Story
Among the nations on the Zemurian continent, the mighty Erebonian Empire has been quick to outwardly stake its claim militarily; yet politically, ugly bouts of internal conflict between the upper class and commoners attempting to rise to power have been steadily intensifying day by day. The Noble and Reformist Factions have been none too kind to one another over the years, and tensions between the two only stand to worsen if compromises aren’t made in the very near future.
Rean Schwarzer, like any other citizen of the Imperial Nation, is no stranger to these rising conflicts: the class system has been deeply embedded into the hearts of every Erebonian since the days of old. As a seventeen-year-old student preparing for his new life at Thors Military Academy, however, he notices that his crimson uniform differs from the standard ones issued to his peers—typically green for commoners, and white for nobles.
Enter, Class VII of Thors Military Academy. For the first time in the prestigious academy’s history, rank means nothing and skill means everything. With nine hand-picked students of various backgrounds and abilities, Rean included, Class VII readies itself to dive deep into the political quagmire that threatens not only them, but the Empire as a whole.
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Cast & Credits
- Takayuki KusanoDirector
- Toshihiro KondoProducer
- Hayato SonodaMusic and Sounds / Sound Team jdk
- Takahiro UnisugaMusic and Sounds / Sound Team jdk
- Saki MomiyamaMusic and Sounds / Sound Team jdk
- Yukihiro JindoMusic and Sounds / Sound Team jdk
- Toshiharu OkajimaMusic and Sounds / Sound Team jdk
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- Noriyuki KamikuraMusic and Sounds / Sound Team jdk
Release Date
| PlayStation 3 | Sep 26, 2013 |
| PlayStation Vita | Sep 26, 2013 |
| PlayStation Vita | Jun 24, 2014 |
| PlayStation 3 | Jun 24, 2014 |
| PlayStation Vita | Dec 22, 2015 |
| PlayStation 3 | Dec 22, 2015 |
| PlayStation 3 | Jan 29, 2016 |
| PlayStation Vita | Jan 29, 2016 |
| PC (Microsoft Windows) | Q3 2017 |
| PlayStation 4 | Mar 08, 2018 |
| PlayStation 4 | Mar 26, 2019 |
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