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[Mitsurux]

About 40 hours in now, just got off "the vacation" island... and wow some funny moments. Twists and turns.. in the story. Having a really great time with this one. Combat system is really good as well (additions have been cool).

 

[mèx]

Just finished Act 2 (A and B sides). The game keeps being great and the character interactions are top.

Spoiler: Act 2A 2B

That Shizuna + Gaolang vs the gang + Kasim cutscene was dope as hell. If only Falcom had more time and budget to do more of these scenes, damn. And immediately after that Shizuna joins you, and that's so Shizuna.
The ending of 2A was pretty cool, I had to repeat that fight a couple of times. During the last try Lucrezia came in clutch by pinning down Gaolang in a corner, lol.
I wonder if we will see the consequences of Cao's actions in this game or in Kai.

I also liked 2B, going around the school with Nadia and Swim was fun, they are so cute together. Lots of gruesome scenes with the bombing and a terrorist shooting students in the head too. Thanks to the Genesis gimmick we get to see a lot of scenarios that Falcom would never write and that's cool.
Now we know that Lapis was "stolen" and converted into Altera, but for which reason is still unclear.

Also playable Renne, hell yeah!

I unlocked some dual element arts now, they seem to be pretty useful.

 

[mèx]

You can stunlock enemies on the field by using Quick Arts repeatedly apparently. That uses a lot of EP but it's still fun to do that on some tough enemies.

 

[JayK47]

Wait. Turn based is gone from Trails as well?

 

[jshackles]

Wait. Turn based is gone from Trails as well?

Starting with Daybreak (the game before this one), there are action battles in the field - but you can press a button to go into the traditional turn-based battle system. Active / action battles usually aren't sustainable and are just a way to quickly clear enemies that you're vastly superior to. What mèx posted above is an example where they were able to stunlock the enemy in the field, so they could keep doing active / action battle without getting damaged, and thus able to beat the monster in a very nontraditional way.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Wait. Turn based is gone from Trails as well?

No.

 

[mèx]

Just started Fragments.

Spoiler: Heavy GIF

Falcom gonna Falcom.

 

[mèx]

High resolution art for one of the achievements.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

High resolution art for one of the achievements.

How you liking the game?

 

[mèx]

How you liking the game?

I'm midway through Fragments (~50 hours in) and loving it so far. What I really like is that the pacing is more similar to Reverie than the "standard" Trails game. Character interactions are excellent as usual, the Connect Events that become available during Fragments are pretty good too.

Feels like the game is focused on wrapping up the loose ends of Daybreak 1 more than moving the overarching plot forward, which is fine by me since I know Kai no Kiseki (and its no-yet-announced sequel) will get the job done with respect to the overall plot.

Reviewers said that Act 3 (the one after Fragments) is not so good, so we will see about that.

 

[Shouta]

Ch 3 is really condensed and a bit sloppy but it's pretty enjoyable if you can accept the premise and the fact they drop all the plot armor the cast usually has.