The Enforcer's Guide to Fighting the Protagonist: 1. Wait at the end of an area to make your dramatic reveal 2. Monologue to the protagonists about how much stronger you are compared to them 3. Allow time for protagonists to return monologue about how you won't stand in their way 4. Snap your fingers to summon 2+ archaisms, not that you need them of course 5. Start the fight 6. Lose 7. Stand back up in a cutscene because you didn't _really_ lose 8. Repeat step 2 to a tired group of protagonists 9. Get stopped from delivering the final blow from 10. Snap your fingers and teleport away
Lmao. It was tolerable when they kept repeating it in Sky SC, a bit less so when they repeated it for the next seven games in the series. I've given up hope of ever being able to take these games completely seriously anymore, still love them though.
TBF, they did a farily good job of making the Arianrhod fight and to a lesser the McBurn legitimately feel like you are out of your depth. Though that could just be because I play on hard. Also, fuck the second phase of True Zoro-Agruga.
@@golfer435 I can't remember it being this bad, besides in Trails of Cold Steel. While even characters escape after you beat them in trails in the sky you still beat them up.
I’m not gonna lie Altinas “instructor... instructor please.... my gumball” was the cutest and at the same time saddest thing I ever heard ever. I really felt sorry for her.
To be fair it just plays very well off Rein having a mental breakdown from her unintentionally triggering his PTSD flashbacks... Like you know he will of course gladly buy her even 10 gumballs on any other day... But he is damaged goods by this point who sometimes just does NOT function or react to common stuff like you would've expected which is as hilarious as it is sad.
Tho I'm semi blind now on the series as I'm on the first hour of the second game 😅 , I'm assuming this is basically what altinas is like in 3? If so that's adorable lol
@@thejonbrownshow8470 Altina is basically like an empty shell that slowly becomes a cute adorable, expressive girl you must protect at all costs...whereas Millium is pretty much the same outside of who she's attached to each game.
@@WiseIdiot9 you'll understand more nuance about the first three if you play them, but you can still jump in CS4 if you just want a summary of the first three.
The fact that both the Princess and one of your students encourage them to fall for each other while the rest of the entire cast knows what is going on and just doesn't care, makes me worried about the decadent state in which Erebonia is heading.
It's not "bad" (I would argue that no one can tell you who to love. I hate how much control we still try to put on individual choices, emotions, relationships, and well everything), but scientifically if you are in the relationship and have... sex with the intent to make children then that's going to suck for the kids that are born (but I mean birth kinda sucks in general; you have no choice in being born and are forced to live in a pretty messed up world; like if you asked me to choose between never existing and living on this shitty earth with so many problems and horrible people, I'd have picked the former (though I guess I couldn't AND not exist; I'm getting off topic)). Ultimately we're just trying to 1) control morals and behavior through social control because we think it's gross (and somehow even if we're not involved or even know the people engaging in it, it just completely destroys our entire worlds) and 2) prevent inbreeding (because if done on a wide or large scale it does decrease our gene pool and makes us more susceptible to other health problems). The former is just humans being the worst and the latter is a legitimately good reason. That said we do forcibly Inbreed and selectively breed other animals for our entertainment, enjoyment, experiments, and gambling problems. Dog breeds are LITERALLY just inbred dogs (which is dog frequently and is getting REALLY REALLY BAD). So I just completely have no remorse on that reason. I'd say if we're gonna do it to that extent and that frequently and FORCIBLY on other species; we lose the right to complain when consenting adults do it in our own. My stance is that if it's consenting adults I don't give a shit what they get up to and I don't understand why anyone else does. Generally speaking it's not going to worsen any of our lives and it only can if overnight every single brother and sister wanted to have kids together. I see it the same as polygamy or homosexual relationships. It's two consenting intelligent communicating adults; who are we to tell them: "no you can't love X because ew" and then move on and never check up on that person again. You largely can't even decide who you love. That's just not how emotions work.
"Your secret society isn't very secret if every person we meet is in it" pretty accurately sums up one my main complaints about Orobouros in this series compared to Trails in the Sky
@@zckaiser Lol wut there were like 3: McBurn who didn't even hide the fact that he was Ouroboros, Sharon who might as well have not even been considered part of Ouroboros when you meet her, and Vita who was so alluring and mysterious that you weren't even surprised that she was Ouroboros. Every other member was already an established character who are all in Erebonia because their entire plan is currently happening there lol In Sky you meet almost 10 members: Blueblanc, Loewe, Weissman, Joshua, Renne, Walter, Luciola, Campanella, and I guess by extension Gilbert. Crossbell's not much better by revealing 3 Anguis, the Stahlritter, Shirley and Red Constellation, and the Doll Studio as one of Ouroboros's factories. The only other "Thirteen Factory" we've seen is the Gnomes who split from Ouroboros for Osbourne until Ouroboros started helping again in CS3...
@@SpanishFly120 I think Machias only rates a little bit higher than Jusis or Gaius... and maybe Ash too, such a late character and he is missing from your party near the end of 3 as well. But on that note, Gaius is pretty weak for pretty much all of 3 that you get to play with him, and those chapters already have tons of great guest characters.
@@michaelmiller7465 Part of Gaius being weak in 3 is that you don't get access to his busted S-Craft until really late in the game. Then it gets buffed in 4, lol.
The fact that they got the actual voice actors makes this video even better. And I almost died laughing when Jello said: "LOOK HOW STRONG THEIR CARD MUSCLES ARE! THEIR MUSCLES ARE *SNAKES*! EVERYONE IN THE WORLD IS A SECRET SNAKE CULTIST!!!" He sounded like he was either going to lose his mind or was trying desperately not to laugh when delivering those lines.
One of my favorite quirks of the series is how utterly clunky and expositional the villain dilogue is. when two villains meet they inevitably have an exchange to the effect of: "Is that not so, [name]? Or should I say, [nickname], weilder of the [weapon]" "*devious snicker* well met yourself. It's an honor to speak to [name], the [nickname]" And I'm, like... you guys are co-workers in the same government office. You see each other every day. Doesn't this get old? Trails games feature writing that is simultaneously some of the best and most silly I've ever seen.
@@TurtleSauceGaming in CS1, a certain seagul tricks Rean into giving him 50 Mira to show him a magic trick. Even though hegets the right answer, the other party never gives hi his money back. Hook. Line. Sinker.
Twist Ending: "Cold Steel" is actually a meta commentary that refers to how coldly you'll have to steel yourself waiting for the next JelloApocalypse video.
I am currently in my senior year of high school, so I haven't got around to cold steel 4 yet. My parents are meeting family for thanksgiving, and leaving me behind t take care of the dog. Translation: Pour 6-7 pounds of kibble into a bucket, fill a bucket with water, leave the backdoor cracked so he can get in and out, then marathon cold steel 4 for 4 days straight. Maybe I'll livestream it and see if I can make it 96 straight hours. Replay to me and I'll see if I can do it with PlayStation share play. that would be fun as hell.
@@elijahcubilo535 dam son you are extremely behind. I suggest you buy the first three games called Trails in the Sky 1st chapter, 2nd chapter 3rd chapter.. The best thing this franchise has done even after Cold Steel 4, is there's no racism or hate speech directed at certain characters of ethnic backgrounds.
@@elijahcubilo535 dam so much time on your hands lucky duck. Zero no kiseki i played through a popular enulator, Ao No kiseki no luck with English patch since it was sloppy failed English emulation. We better hope we get them on steam.
I mean Atleast he's in a game that doesn't drag out the plot for 3 extra seasons that have nothing to do with the story besides character development Oh wait *THAT'S EVERY FUCKING GAME AND TV SHOW EVER*
Twist ending: The leader of Ouroboros is an actual snake, wearing a human suit. The society's evil plan is to use a series of super powerful relics to turn the entire content into a spaceship so she can go to the moon, which is made of cheese and therefore covered in mice. The final artifact is a stone fish, and only Rean, with his random fishing powers, can catch it before they can. The entire last dungeon of the Trails series is one long fishing mini-game. Also Alisha dies, but comes back 15 minutes later wearing a mask as if everyone doesn't know who she is. The game ends with Rean living the rest of his life single.
@@boltinabottle6307 You know what? I felt the Weissman reveal was handled much, much better than the Crow reveal. I had my suspicions about Professor Alba from the start: how Joshua is always uncomfortable around him, how you find him hiding behind that pillar one time, and how you hear him in conversation with someone else when you enter Amberl tower the first time. There were hints in Sky FC that he was not what he seemed, not that he was evil (until the end) but at least that he was a lot more than what he seemed. Crow caught me completely be surprise.
I like how both the “So This is Basically” videos Jello has released this year are sponsored by the game he’s covering, because of two reasons: 1. MORE MONEY FOR EPITHET ERASED! JELLO CAN GET OUT OF DEBT! SEASON 2! 2. It’s just really funny how these companies pay him to just absolutely talk relentless shit about their games, like he does not hold back, he just relentlessly insults them, and these sponsors are just cool with it. That’s just really funny to me.
Ikr! You'd expect these kinds of sponsor videos to be a bit more sanded down but they don't give a fuck! He's only genuinely complimented a series during the actual bit once on STIB and that was 4 years ago
Me after watching this: “This series makes no sense, I love it I’ll give it a try.” Me returning after playing the first 2 games: “This makes too much sense, I don’t know if I should cry or laugh.”
b4 you drop into 3 rd cold steel i would advice going back and play through sky and Crosbell. or further events will make no sense (Like Divertisment part of CS2 lol )
My ridiculous twist ending for a Trails game that does not yet exist is this: At the end of the game, you find out it was actually the ending of the Trails franchise as a whole, there will not be another 10 games, someone important to the plot actually dies, Rean doesn't give a speech about friendship, and after the end credits there's an ad revealing that the Crossbell arc will eventually be officially localized. Not a single fan would ever see it coming.
Twist ending: It turns out that every government official is actually a giant bee disguised as a human, and they've been pulling the plot strings in a highly convoluted way this entire time for the sole purpose of producing more honey, somehow;
So how important will Armorica village be to it? Is it the headquarters of the conspiracy group? a rival organization as another honey producing city? or something else?
Twist Ending: the whole Cold Steel series is a prolonged way of hanging out with the fluffiest and most adorable creature on the face of the planet aka President Towa
It's funny that's the bit that made me realize "Oh right, I forgot Laura and Fie spend the first third/half of CS1 not liking each other at all", considering how close they are from CS2 onward, and how good of a battle duo they are for Linking, lol.
Twist Ending: The actual Trails of Cold Series ended after 2, and 3 - 4 is just Rean trying a pyramid scheme by making/releasing 3 and 4 to pay off his obscenely large student loans after realizing that being a teacher doesn't pay enough.
As I'm on the next to last chapter on my now semi blind playthrough of CS 1, I'm surprised with all the talk of politics and stuff, they never mentioned the tuition costs of being at thor's lol (like no one in class vll is broke all like that, but still)
2:09 Never played this game before but the line delivery of “oops, looks like you walked 2 feet to the left. You have missed 45 QUESTS!!!!” Is pure gold and it makes me laugh every time.
Twist Ending: While Class 7 is attempting to overthrow the government, it is revealed the Goofy actually never died, and the entire thing was a setup for a ProZD video.
Twist ending: the game’s actual name is Trains and everyone is a train. The whole cast of characters does the classic cartoon unzip to reveal just what kind of steam locomotives they are and will constantly re-remind you even if you haven’t forgotten.
Twist: Everyone is bloodied, but won the final battle. Elliot and Gaius died, but no one cries because they forgot who they are just like I did when CS3 came out. Kevin is also there, but the everyone forgot him just like the devs. There's a clapping and suddenly Cassius walks out from the shadows. "Good job, this was all according to plan as surely established in Sky FC" Anton's body is found in the monster. It turns out his thirstiness to get a girl resulted in him monsterising and inheriting the Sept-Terrion of desperation. "Poor sap" Then Estelle wakes up in bed because it turns out the sleepy pills in FC were a bit stronger than expected.
Cause first 2 games were localized by another company (XSEED), And NISA who did 3 and 4 not gonna pay for promotion of games they have no way of profiting from.
Its funnier when you know that the companies who own the rights to the first two games and the later 3 are completely separate. This was a tactical dunk
Rean, stop digging for hidden layers and just be impressed. I'm a bird. I-I'm just trying to figure out why they would do this. Why anyone would do this.
I know right? What kind of contract did he sign that let him spoil huge parts of the series, bully it, say that two of the games are pointless, and still get paid?
Everyone! If you planning to play this game, dont watch this video, cus it's major spoliers. PS: really recommended to play through Trails in the sky first, but if not, I guess you could start with Cold Steel 1 But never ever start straight away from Cold Steel 3!
@@psycholuigiman probably since its a promo for Cold steel 4, and it doesn't spoil anything from that game, thats the most likely reason. Also probably the reason why he was able to get the Actual Voices of Rean, Altina (Oh, I mean Millium Alt Skin),AND and Machias in the video.
Is it really bullying if the gaming company as far as I know in Japan is by no means a "indie" compan? Like I'm sure despite the satirical and negative stuff he highlighted, I got the impression like with most stuff he does he just likes it, but maybe that's just me lol
@@thejonbrownshow8470 Oh yeah man. I hear ya. I can't speak for the OP, but I'm just using "bullying" in a playful tone. You know, like how this very video says Rean gets "bullied" by his classmates and students.
@@davidtimmer596 Ouroboros ain’t a secret society anymore if they keep introducing themselves as Enforcers/Anguis. And I won’t be surprised if they made a second Discord server without Machias. Unless you count Astral Code as the means to make a secret comms app.
@@MrDalisclock And the character who is the worst offender in the horny crime department is Angelica Rogner. She’s the Yuri version of Brock from the Pokemon anime.
People have to understand, porting Trails in the Sky already almost caused an entire suicide incident for the localization team, and the games just kept getting LONGER AND LONGER WITH MORE TEXT. The entire franchise is like rereading The Lord of the Rings thrice over, three times.
Plot Twist: The Empire of Wilbonia is not actually an empire, but in fact, an elaborate pyramid scheme, creating pretend schools and pretend wars in order to scam a bunch of teenagers into killing their leaders personal enemies, afterwords the stepsister dies do to a golden spear created of the power of rumors, causing the "empires" leader to reset the universe to one where she's the protagonist. The ramifications of the previous twist are ignored because in his next appearance he's dying. He'll also trap the original MC in hell for no reason.
Rewatching this I've realized something. Making this video would require that the player love it enough to hyper-analyze the game to the point of deconstructing it to such a degree. Truly a labor of love.
Seems more like a work of mild distain from the viewpoint of someone who can't seperate ironic criticism for the sake of a joke from legitimate criticism
@@chefofthetrash see, I'd think so if he didnt recommend skipping sky 3rd, a game that's plot is VITAL to contextualising the rest of the first half (up to reverie)
Imagine if the ending all the mecha, gods and whatnot comes together and then estelle just shows up and beats everyone with a stick and win from the power of *friendship*
@@alumlovescake I have played one game to completion and, considering the contest (that ended before I made a submission) required a dumb plot twist, I thought screw it.
Twist Ending: The devs thought they were hiring someone else when they sponsored Brendan and just had to watch in terror as this mad man roast the shit out of their series
@WolfgangLMclain >the people who play these games have flexible standards Haha... if "flexible" means .1-.2 percent tolerability... because trails of coldsteel, featuring REAN SCHWARZER from the LEGEND OF HEROES franchise, is literally the best JRPG series ever created... haha...
@@PenguinTM They really need to revist the crossover game and make a sequel for it much like how Square Enix did Final Fantasy Dissidia. World work great if it's on PS4 and PS5 with cross platform play.
Your video is what finally pushed me over the edge to play this whole series and honestly, the most surprising part is that there actually is a miny boss called "Scary Dinosaur"
I actually never read the names of the monsters until some point after I fought that dinosaur, it's hilarious just thinking in-universe, some scientist was just like "this is too scary for me"
Twist Ending - Machias is just playing dumb, He's secretly the REAL grandmaster of Ouroboros and the admin of that discord server on his alternative account. Thinking in layers people
Twist ending: Dorothee, the girl from the Literature Club, was actually the Grandmaster of Ouroboros all along, and reveals that the reason absolutely nothing happened in Cold Steel 1 and 2 was to put the focus of the fans (Ouroboros is aware of them, as they exist in a parallel universe, because by this point parallel universes have already been a thing in Trails for at least 6 games) towards shipping the characters with each other. Fandoms being fandoms, the vast majority of the shippings are non-heterosexual, and as Dorothee's power thrives on gay shipping, it has increased exponentially due to Cold Steel 1 and 2. As such, she is now able to alter reality so that all of the gay shippings are now canon: Jusis and Machias kiss, Olivert gets with Bleublanc, Angelica gets literally every girl in Cold Steel and Crow gets revived (he's died again in Trails of Cold Steel XXIV) so that he can be together with Rean. The only pairing that is able to resist the gay shipping is Estelle and Joshua, as the fandom unequivocally agrees that they are the One True Pairing. Grandmaster Dorothee curses them, and the final final FINAL Trails game is about Estelle and Joshua finding a way to defeat Dorothee and convincing every other character to stop making out for a moment so they can help, ultimately cementing Estelle as the best JRPG protagonist known to man.
Twist Ending: So there’s this side character but he has a cousin who has a younger brother. That younger brother is also another side character but only on Tuesdays. It turns out he used something stupid probably to overthrow someone in power? Then he dies but he’s actually just lying on the floor maybe kind of dead(no). Turns out he was some orphan that sneaked in through the back door though none of this information was in the game these events took place.
The best part of a sponsored "So This is Basically..." video is how the complete 180 shift between making fun of the game in detail to a serious advertisement about the game itself. It's like, the very next thing you do after exposing it, is asking people if they want it. Also, Altina asking about the gumball machine is effing adorable.
Well, the TL;DR is that there is a series called "The Legend of Heroes" and Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel are 2 sub-series in each, they are both amazing, Sky comes first and is split into 3 games (each well over 100 hours), Cold Steel comes second and is on its fourth game - You don't need to have played Sky to understand Cold Steel, but Sky sets-up the events of Cold Steel.
@@Acier25997 Ummm do not forget about the Crossbell arc too which comes in between Sky and Cold steel. which not only does it includes characters from sky but it also heavily helps to setup stuff for cold steel while also being the best arc and games in the franchise. Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure do not have official english translations but they do have fan translations with both being legally available to buy and with easy ways to patch it with english Trails to Azure is genuinely the best game in the Trails series and it is sad that people skip it or only play Cold steel.
Just play Trails of the sky 1-3, then Zero no Esieki 1-2 then Trails of cold steel 1-3. It'll all make sense. And spend 600-500 hours doing so. Sky is around 50h * 3, trails is 100h * 3 minus some and zero no eskei and the other one is 50-100 I think.
Oh god it got in my nerves by the end of iv though. The whole ‘thank you so much if there is ever any way to thank you’, ‘we will beat this with class 7 new and old’. 😓😓😓
Plot twist: Rean's events and adventures so far were just a dream, his head hit the ground hard when he "saved" Alisa from her fall in the very first Class VII test in Trails of Cold Steel. In Trails of Cold Steel XIX, he finally wakes up, finding that he has spent more than 10 years in a coma, that he's married to a certain Valimar, and that he has a snake named Ouroboros as his pet.
Twist ending: they lose the final fight, all hope is lost- and it was all a dream by a small child, AND it’s been 1,000 years, AND the heros somehow win the fight because they had their McGuffin pins on their shirts backwards. Edit: to be clear, all of these twists are true simultaneously
take a shot every time a character in trails says or does the following: humble reply to any sort of compliment "I still got so much to learn" female character showing their love/affection for a completely oblivious main character ("Huh, what are you guys even talking about?") *character walks away with raised hand waving goodbye* corny speech about the power of friendship Somebody yelling "SHARON?!" a dead character showing up again in the sequel a boss fight happens where characters fight that literally have zero reason to fight except ("My pride as a member of XY forces me to do this despite totally agreeing with you guys!") an ouroboros enforcer tracks you down, fights you, and then just loses interest and walks away or teleports away with nothing having been accomplished
- two characters see each other in combat for the first time, one identified the other’s weapon and says it’s neat, the other deflects saying other person’s weapon is also neat. -a female character grossly and enthusiastically sexually assaults another female character, but no... they’re both girls, so that means it’s funny, actually. -No matter what you do or how you do it, it turns out that everything is going just according to keikaku for the conspiracy, to the extent things might have been better if you’d just stayed home.
Twist ending: the main character sacrifices himself to save the world and believes he’s going to die but instead wakes up to find himself starting right where the first game begins and realizes he’s stuck in a time loop and must do everything all over again and falls down to a fetal position and starts sobbing uncontrollably.
the snake cultists aren’t just worshipping a snake, they’re instead fueling the massive Space Train of which this reality is but a single carriage with their rampant horny snake faith to drive it down the space-tracks into a black hole which will then hatch into a mega snake that’s also a loli the final level is a rythm game as you take control of the mega train to swap tracks and dodge armageddon, all while also hitting the right pickups to romance all of the characters simultaneously, which is vital for the world’s survival
Twist: turns out all those gumballs you were feeding everyone were actually slowly turning everyone into birds. You realize too late and you eventually have to deal with everyone birdifying (for “some reason” guys go straight into birds and girls turn into harpies first). The game ends after you finally defeat the last bird and you look down and realize you were already a bird the whole time and it was all for naught. People then ship bird you and seagull guy for the foreseeable future.
Twist: You're actually just collecting a harem of classmates/students who are all too shy or stupid to confess. The ending is a battle royals for your hand in marriage. What? It's a JRPG after all.
The real twist is the game forgetting all your other relationships and forcing you with the main girl at the end while acting like nothing ever happened.
Twist ending: Rean and Elise are actually blood related and all the robots can't actually talk. Rean just makes that robot voice to fool others and himself that Valimar actually exists.
Only months after watching it the first time did I realize that the "ingredients" for the plot sandwich are actualy in-game ingredient items. The detail, man.
"Then, at the last moment... the game will pop out the wildest, sauciest, saltiest twist you've ever seen and trick you into playing another 80 hour rpg just to see what happens next!" As someone who's just seen the additional post-credits scene in Cold Steel 4, and is now eagerly awaiting Reverie's localisation, this is SO accurate! 😂
I'm here after getting the plat in Trails into Reverie. I have two alternatives: read Nietzsche or wait for 3 games to be localized to find out what's going on.
Twist ending : all of the characters are toys, Rean and all of His other classmates and friends are just anime figures and Valimar is just a gundam model and Ouroboros are just the company that sells the toys and snakes for some reason?, there never was a Crossbell , Liberl and Erebonia, this is just anime toy story
As tradition dictates in Trails games, anyone with glasses is potentially an evil mastermind so the TRUE villain in the Cold Steel series is....still Dorothy from trails in the sky. I tell you she is the Grandmaster and she is COMING FOR YOU!!!
@@melvint-p9500 yes, and agate was 24, making him double her age at the time. I can’t believe people actually defend this ship because of cultural differences. It’s just weird
@@chrom4141 Especially since I honestly never see any sort of interest from Agate. Like having the high school girls crushing on the badass hero dudes who saved their lives is totally reasonable. It being reciprocated - and *encouraged* by literally every other character - is weird as hell. I honestly really liked the "people from broken or dysfunctional families developing a wholesome sibling dynamic"-style relationships of Agate and Tita as well as Jusis and Millium. And then they start hinting at actual romance between them and it just gets gross. Or literally every character ever going "ooooooh are you gonna kiiiiiss?" because that isn't either juvenile or creepy pedo-enabling. Not to mention harassment of the people who have made it very clear it makes them uncomfortable, but if I've learned one thing from this series it's that sexual harassment is apparently funny. This sort of bullshit (Rean all but buying Elise an orbal washer she might accidentally get stuck in, the harem bullshit, etc) would likely have had me drop the series if I wasn't so goddamn invested after seven or so games. By Cold Steel 3 and 4 some of the pairings the actual game pushes or at least hints at with zero subtlety are just *nasty.* One can make a beautiful rainbow of all kinds of cultures, sexual and romantic orientations without giving the stage over to pedophilia. I have some hopes for Kuro, thinking that once the series leaves high school drama behind we can maybe get something that I as a grown-ass man can play without feeling like I'm gonna end up on some sort of watchlist, but maybe it's just time for me to accept that these aren't the days of Chrono Trigger or FF6 anymore. :(
The fact that there are many small nuggets from the series in this video shows your dedication to nailing the intricacies of Cold Steel. Absolutely loved it and it is 100% accurate. No wonder you're one of my favorite RUclipsrs.
I honestly just want to thank you for introducing me to the Kiseki/Trails series specifically the cold steel arc as I just started the Cold Steel arc on 12/19/2020 and finish it on 5/3/2021. After playing through all 4 games, I became a huge fan of the Trails series and eagerly await the next entry, also I now understand just how accurate this video is and find myself appreciating on a new level.
@@strwrbttlfrnt I watched ladyvirgilia detailed summary of the Crossbell arc back when I reached the Divertissement chapter of Cold Steel 2 and I watched the detailed summary of the Liberl arc after I beat Cold Steel 2 so I already know what happen, both the major and minor events of the games so I’m all caught up.
@@windknight4747 you should really play them even if you know what happens in them, the games are great and the character incredible, I don't think you will enjoy Reverie as much as you could if you don't play the liberl and crossbell arc. At least play zero and Azure if you don't want to play the sky games, there are some of the best scene in these of all the trails game, or even of all games that I have played, including Xenoblade chronicles 3 (maybe not better than the "execution" scene but that one is something else)
Plot twist: turns out the final game will reveal that the Trails games and Tales games have been all set in a single shared universe and result in crossovers that make every JRPG fan go insane as they keep mixing up Trails games and Tales games.
That's it, the video that launched me into the trails universe. I knew nothing before and now i've played/watched every game. If I had known that this simple video would result in me spending so much of my time, well i would still watch it because it was worth it.
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"They turned me into a bird, Rean!"
"I don't get it, that sounds exclusively beneficial-"
*"I'm a seagull!!!"*
The second trashiest bird on the planet, behind only the ibis
Rats of the sky and sea
Not the first time So this is basically had a character that turns into a bird
@@KomaJordan but at least a crow is a cool bird....
Basically RWBY lmao
Same line aswell
The Enforcer's Guide to Fighting the Protagonist:
1. Wait at the end of an area to make your dramatic reveal
2. Monologue to the protagonists about how much stronger you are compared to them
3. Allow time for protagonists to return monologue about how you won't stand in their way
4. Snap your fingers to summon 2+ archaisms, not that you need them of course
5. Start the fight
6. Lose
7. Stand back up in a cutscene because you didn't _really_ lose
8. Repeat step 2 to a tired group of protagonists
9. Get stopped from delivering the final blow from
10. Snap your fingers and teleport away
Lmao. It was tolerable when they kept repeating it in Sky SC, a bit less so when they repeated it for the next seven games in the series. I've given up hope of ever being able to take these games completely seriously anymore, still love them though.
I wish that I had that cool Enforcer Snap SFX they use in these games on hand
Oh god that reminded me of trails 2. Damn that was annoying
TBF, they did a farily good job of making the Arianrhod fight and to a lesser the McBurn legitimately feel like you are out of your depth. Though that could just be because I play on hard. Also, fuck the second phase of True Zoro-Agruga.
@@golfer435 I can't remember it being this bad, besides in Trails of Cold Steel. While even characters escape after you beat them in trails in the sky you still beat them up.
I’m not gonna lie Altinas “instructor... instructor please.... my gumball” was the cutest and at the same time saddest thing I ever heard ever. I really felt sorry for her.
To be fair it just plays very well off Rein having a mental breakdown from her unintentionally triggering his PTSD flashbacks...
Like you know he will of course gladly buy her even 10 gumballs on any other day... But he is damaged goods by this point who sometimes just does NOT function or react to common stuff like you would've expected which is as hilarious as it is sad.
Thats what happens when Xanthe voice acts in anything. They suddenly become the most sympathetic character you've ever seen! Lol
@@ianlawvoiceover1056 your not wrong there I felt like “no don’t worry altina here’s 100,000 Mira buy all the gum balls you want”
Tho I'm semi blind now on the series as I'm on the first hour of the second game 😅 , I'm assuming this is basically what altinas is like in 3? If so that's adorable lol
@@thejonbrownshow8470 Altina is basically like an empty shell that slowly becomes a cute adorable, expressive girl you must protect at all costs...whereas Millium is pretty much the same outside of who she's attached to each game.
Jello: Roast the shit out of the franchise.
Also Jello: Get sponsored by said franchise.
*Chad Energy Rising*
Yeah...I'm confused. So they say that 1 - 3 are completely pointless, but play 4 it's way better?
@@WiseIdiot9 you'll understand more nuance about the first three if you play them, but you can still jump in CS4 if you just want a summary of the first three.
@@WiseIdiot9 He said that 1-2 are pointless. He indicated that 3 was better, but still flawed.
@@WiseIdiot9 1-2 is is pointless in a sense it serve only as prologue
@@forstuffwow7145 literally. just finishe cs2 and I feel like the journey has just begun
When you miss the sidequest that is literally only available between beating a boss and walking to the bus stop.
and then you learn the quest is beat the final boss first or sumthin' (i dont know i havent actually played)
Worst thing is, I wish you were joking, but pretty sure there is at least one like this per game in the franchise
@@AthmosTheGreat note to self: never play any trials of cold steel
@@nerosoul2506 Nah, you can play them, just not with a completionist mindset. xD
@@renookami4651 ill probably be annoyed but i can try and get something to play em on
Plot twist at the end of the game the “big bad” reveals YOU are actually the villain because romancing your sister is bad actually
"Step Sister"
"sad Alabama noises"
The fact that both the Princess and one of your students encourage them to fall for each other while the rest of the entire cast knows what is going on and just doesn't care, makes me worried about the decadent state in which Erebonia is heading.
It's not "bad" (I would argue that no one can tell you who to love. I hate how much control we still try to put on individual choices, emotions, relationships, and well everything), but scientifically if you are in the relationship and have... sex with the intent to make children then that's going to suck for the kids that are born (but I mean birth kinda sucks in general; you have no choice in being born and are forced to live in a pretty messed up world; like if you asked me to choose between never existing and living on this shitty earth with so many problems and horrible people, I'd have picked the former (though I guess I couldn't AND not exist; I'm getting off topic)). Ultimately we're just trying to 1) control morals and behavior through social control because we think it's gross (and somehow even if we're not involved or even know the people engaging in it, it just completely destroys our entire worlds) and 2) prevent inbreeding (because if done on a wide or large scale it does decrease our gene pool and makes us more susceptible to other health problems). The former is just humans being the worst and the latter is a legitimately good reason. That said we do forcibly Inbreed and selectively breed other animals for our entertainment, enjoyment, experiments, and gambling problems. Dog breeds are LITERALLY just inbred dogs (which is dog frequently and is getting REALLY REALLY BAD). So I just completely have no remorse on that reason. I'd say if we're gonna do it to that extent and that frequently and FORCIBLY on other species; we lose the right to complain when consenting adults do it in our own. My stance is that if it's consenting adults I don't give a shit what they get up to and I don't understand why anyone else does. Generally speaking it's not going to worsen any of our lives and it only can if overnight every single brother and sister wanted to have kids together. I see it the same as polygamy or homosexual relationships. It's two consenting intelligent communicating adults; who are we to tell them: "no you can't love X because ew" and then move on and never check up on that person again. You largely can't even decide who you love. That's just not how emotions work.
Pretty sure Princess Alfin is Evil. I bet this damn war was her idea. Oh shit, plot twist.
“Did you start a second Discord server without me?” may be the most Machias line in the entire game
"Your secret society isn't very secret if every person we meet is in it" pretty accurately sums up one my main complaints about Orobouros in this series compared to Trails in the Sky
@@zckaiser Lol wut there were like 3: McBurn who didn't even hide the fact that he was Ouroboros, Sharon who might as well have not even been considered part of Ouroboros when you meet her, and Vita who was so alluring and mysterious that you weren't even surprised that she was Ouroboros. Every other member was already an established character who are all in Erebonia because their entire plan is currently happening there lol
In Sky you meet almost 10 members: Blueblanc, Loewe, Weissman, Joshua, Renne, Walter, Luciola, Campanella, and I guess by extension Gilbert.
Crossbell's not much better by revealing 3 Anguis, the Stahlritter, Shirley and Red Constellation, and the Doll Studio as one of Ouroboros's factories. The only other "Thirteen Factory" we've seen is the Gnomes who split from Ouroboros for Osbourne until Ouroboros started helping again in CS3...
Machias doesn't get very many lines through the series for me. Of course...I never bring him with me or use him unless I have to, but hey, lol.
@@SpanishFly120 I think Machias only rates a little bit higher than Jusis or Gaius... and maybe Ash too, such a late character and he is missing from your party near the end of 3 as well. But on that note, Gaius is pretty weak for pretty much all of 3 that you get to play with him, and those chapters already have tons of great guest characters.
@@michaelmiller7465 Part of Gaius being weak in 3 is that you don't get access to his busted S-Craft until really late in the game. Then it gets buffed in 4, lol.
The fact that they got the actual voice actors makes this video even better. And I almost died laughing when Jello said: "LOOK HOW STRONG THEIR CARD MUSCLES ARE! THEIR MUSCLES ARE *SNAKES*! EVERYONE IN THE WORLD IS A SECRET SNAKE CULTIST!!!" He sounded like he was either going to lose his mind or was trying desperately not to laugh when delivering those lines.
Yes
Everyone in the world actually is a snake cultist and I hate it, I just want them to LOSE.
Snecret
Your secret society isn't secret if everyone we meet is in it, guys.
One of my favorite quirks of the series is how utterly clunky and expositional the villain dilogue is. when two villains meet they inevitably have an exchange to the effect of:
"Is that not so, [name]? Or should I say, [nickname], weilder of the [weapon]"
"*devious snicker* well met yourself. It's an honor to speak to [name], the [nickname]"
And I'm, like... you guys are co-workers in the same government office. You see each other every day. Doesn't this get old?
Trails games feature writing that is simultaneously some of the best and most silly I've ever seen.
"It’s truly an honor to be able to fight the legendary [color] [noun]”
True😂
@@BroccoliBeat Blue Hedgehog
Well, when you reach the mark of 200+ character a refresher can be useful
"I will not back down from fighting the [Color] [Noun]. I'll show you the power of [family name] school"
Twist Ending: Crow is secretly Qrow's long-lost cousin, and no one knew yet because neither series can get around to actually having plot happen
They can turn into a bird. Funniest shit I’ve ever played
Lmao
Plot Twist, the real treasure was the friends you made along the way.
LITERALLY
THEIR ORGANS WILL FETCH A FORTUNE ON THE BLACK MARKET
congrats for being the funniest person in this comment section
Slow down there rimworld
that turned out dark
Rean's world collapsing at the mere mention of 50 mira is fucking gold.
Can someone explain it?
@@TurtleSauceGaming in CS1, a certain seagul tricks Rean into giving him 50 Mira to show him a magic trick. Even though hegets the right answer, the other party never gives hi his money back. Hook. Line. Sinker.
Truly so hilarious lol. I even reloaded a save to save my 50 mira lmao
Twist ending: The real panned cake..... was friendship.
I read that as Percy
But what was the real Gummed Ball?
Twist Ending: "Cold Steel" is actually a meta commentary that refers to how coldly you'll have to steel yourself waiting for the next JelloApocalypse video.
Plot twist: the steel was never cold, it has always been warm
this one the best imo
nice one weeb
Lukewarm
Trails of room temperature steel)
As an avid fan of the trails series, this was... shockingly accurate.
I am currently in my senior year of high school, so I haven't got around to cold steel 4 yet. My parents are meeting family for thanksgiving, and leaving me behind t take care of the dog. Translation: Pour 6-7 pounds of kibble into a bucket, fill a bucket with water, leave the backdoor cracked so he can get in and out, then marathon cold steel 4 for 4 days straight. Maybe I'll livestream it and see if I can make it 96 straight hours. Replay to me and I'll see if I can do it with PlayStation share play. that would be fun as hell.
@@elijahcubilo535 dam son you are extremely behind. I suggest you buy the first three games called Trails in the Sky 1st chapter, 2nd chapter 3rd chapter.. The best thing this franchise has done even after Cold Steel 4, is there's no racism or hate speech directed at certain characters of ethnic backgrounds.
Well if you played the first 3 games some people do die.
@@lordvasileLive Already beat the trails in the sky trilogy, and trying to find a pc version of the crossbell trilogy.
@@elijahcubilo535 dam so much time on your hands lucky duck. Zero no kiseki i played through a popular enulator, Ao No kiseki no luck with English patch since it was sloppy failed English emulation. We better hope we get them on steam.
"They turned me into a BIRD, Rean! Im a SEAGULL!"
Ah yes lmao more people becoming (noncursed) birds
Him and Qrow from RWBY would be best friends.
At least they didn't spell his name with a 'Q'
He can turn into a BIIIIIRD
I mean
Atleast he's in a game that doesn't drag out the plot for 3 extra seasons that have nothing to do with the story besides character development
Oh wait
*THAT'S EVERY FUCKING GAME AND TV SHOW EVER*
instructor? instructor, please... my gumball...
Twist ending: The leader of Ouroboros is an actual snake, wearing a human suit. The society's evil plan is to use a series of super powerful relics to turn the entire content into a spaceship so she can go to the moon, which is made of cheese and therefore covered in mice. The final artifact is a stone fish, and only Rean, with his random fishing powers, can catch it before they can. The entire last dungeon of the Trails series is one long fishing mini-game. Also Alisha dies, but comes back 15 minutes later wearing a mask as if everyone doesn't know who she is. The game ends with Rean living the rest of his life single.
HEED MY CALL, VALIMAR! THE ASHEN FISHERMAN!
@@Namingway248 altina : Headpat me instructor ! gumball please
Lol
@@Namingway248 I can’t unsee this now 😆
Twist ending: It wasn't actually a Snake but a penguin the whole time!
"Trick you into playing another 80 hour RPG"
Only 80 hours huh. No wonder you didn't get all the recipes, etc.
i mean i plat cold steel 2 and possibly 1 if they dont have the 100 hrs achievement and got all recipes books and NG+ stuff at around 60-70 hrs
Didn't one of the Crossbell games straight up have a cheevo where you needed to play like 100 hours to unlock it? lmao
@@Vassilinia Trails in the couch !
Plot twist, the entire series was just Schera and Olivier drunkenly planning their wedding.
I can comfirm this as a super fan of the series even though Olivier was most likely pretending to dilly dallying for 90% of it.
Olivier? OLIVIER TWIST?? What twisted fate is this?
@@TheBeardedFrogSage probably the biggest twist of trails in the sky lol
@@nicogalax No that would be Weissman reveal.
@@boltinabottle6307 You know what? I felt the Weissman reveal was handled much, much better than the Crow reveal. I had my suspicions about Professor Alba from the start: how Joshua is always uncomfortable around him, how you find him hiding behind that pillar one time, and how you hear him in conversation with someone else when you enter Amberl tower the first time. There were hints in Sky FC that he was not what he seemed, not that he was evil (until the end) but at least that he was a lot more than what he seemed.
Crow caught me completely be surprise.
I like how both the “So This is Basically” videos Jello has released this year are sponsored by the game he’s covering, because of two reasons:
1. MORE MONEY FOR EPITHET ERASED! JELLO CAN GET OUT OF DEBT! SEASON 2!
2. It’s just really funny how these companies pay him to just absolutely talk relentless shit about their games, like he does not hold back, he just relentlessly insults them, and these sponsors are just cool with it. That’s just really funny to me.
Ikr! You'd expect these kinds of sponsor videos to be a bit more sanded down but they don't give a fuck! He's only genuinely complimented a series during the actual bit once on STIB and that was 4 years ago
It is more like a roast in good fun. He roasted p5 but it's a great game.
Its called being able to take a joke, which is something most people can’t do nowadays
@@TheAustronaut03 because everyone is offended by everything
To be fair, The RWBY one did make me check that out just to see if it was really that bad. So this may work in favor of the game either way.
Twist ending: the real protagonist was Adol Christof the whole time.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all...
There was a crossover between Ys and Trails in the Sky, so...
Twist:the real protagonist was Adolf Hitler the whole time!
@@insertnameornoun6637 why would you go there...
@@julianrobertson1869 idk I just felt I had too🤣
Plot twist:
The real enemy was the friends we made along the way...
This is almost painfully accurate.
It’s an enemy stand!!!
Wow, that actually makes sense
Judging by the video and comments, I don't think that's a twist tho xD
Me after watching this:
“This series makes no sense, I love it I’ll give it a try.”
Me returning after playing the first 2 games:
“This makes too much sense, I don’t know if I should cry or laugh.”
b4 you drop into 3 rd cold steel i would advice going back and play through sky and Crosbell. or further events will make no sense (Like Divertisment part of CS2 lol )
Yup, play trails in the sky for the real beginning
don’t make the same mistake I did lmao
So I have a copy of 3 and 1 and no copy of 2
Should I go straight to 3
Play 1 and then 3
Or buy 2 anyway??
@@arnaldoenriquez6191 Play Trails in the Sky FC, then SC, then 3rd, then Zero, then Azure, *then* Cold Steel 1-4
My ridiculous twist ending for a Trails game that does not yet exist is this:
At the end of the game, you find out it was actually the ending of the Trails franchise as a whole, there will not be another 10 games, someone important to the plot actually dies, Rean doesn't give a speech about friendship, and after the end credits there's an ad revealing that the Crossbell arc will eventually be officially localized. Not a single fan would ever see it coming.
The plots not what would be unforeseen by the fans, no, it’s the localization of the Crossbell arc that would get them
@@regrahc7720 wait that’s illegal
Who here gets the feeling trails of coldsteal is basically a simulation like star ocean
Guess what? The Crossbell games are getting LOCALIZED!
@@Abbaschand
So I have heard. I never thought this twist ending would become canon but here we are.
Twist ending: It turns out that every government official is actually a giant bee disguised as a human, and they've been pulling the plot strings in a highly convoluted way this entire time for the sole purpose of producing more honey, somehow;
All part of Beezelbub’s plan.
Tubbo would be in his government as their president lmaoo
So how important will Armorica village be to it? Is it the headquarters of the conspiracy group? a rival organization as another honey producing city? or something else?
Should've said spider....so the plot strings couldve been a pun....
Bees bees light friendship bees heart bees _KEYBLADE!_ Also bees.
Twist Ending: the whole Cold Steel series is a prolonged way of hanging out with the fluffiest and most adorable creature on the face of the planet aka President Towa
Ah, I see you are a man of true culture...
If this is true i wouldnt even be mad
"From being bullied by his Classmates to being bullied by his students." Yep kind of sums up Rean. 😂
Yep. Pretty much.
It's funny that's the bit that made me realize "Oh right, I forgot Laura and Fie spend the first third/half of CS1 not liking each other at all", considering how close they are from CS2 onward, and how good of a battle duo they are for Linking, lol.
So Rean is just Byleth but sad?
@@davidtimmer596 more or less.
@@GilroyIronheart byleth if byleth isnt instantly a qualified teacher
Plot twist: The entire series is actually Mishima’s palace
Plot twist: This series was a Mishima fanfic all along
god no, this is what happens if you stop his confidant quest right after he becomes corrupted and never go back to finish off his character storyline
Hahaha
@@ClearmindArtist that's our Mishima!
@@UnlimitedMrX Indeed. This story is something he would make.
Twist ending: Cassius Bright's mustache is actually fake.
Twist: The fake mustache is the Ouroboros leader all along.
My god, what shock!
Now that's a surprise I didn't see coming!
Twist Ending: The actual Trails of Cold Series ended after 2, and 3 - 4 is just Rean trying a pyramid scheme by making/releasing 3 and 4 to pay off his obscenely large student loans after realizing that being a teacher doesn't pay enough.
Bro he said "twist" ending, not "canon" ending
Too real
As I'm on the next to last chapter on my now semi blind playthrough of CS 1, I'm surprised with all the talk of politics and stuff, they never mentioned the tuition costs of being at thor's lol (like no one in class vll is broke all like that, but still)
Nah that's the Magical Girl one.
It was all a Radio Trista play the whole time (directed by Munk, of course)
2:09
Never played this game before but the line delivery of “oops, looks like you walked 2 feet to the left. You have missed 45 QUESTS!!!!” Is pure gold and it makes me laugh every time.
Twist Ending: While Class 7 is attempting to overthrow the government, it is revealed the Goofy actually never died, and the entire thing was a setup for a ProZD video.
I never played these games, but golly I sure would like to.
I know about his "death" in I think kh 2 just from what I heard and saw, but never heard of prozd I'm pretty sure lol
Twist ending: the game’s actual name is Trains and everyone is a train. The whole cast of characters does the classic cartoon unzip to reveal just what kind of steam locomotives they are and will constantly re-remind you even if you haven’t forgotten.
So this is a rip off Thomas The Dank Engine?
_Aight_
That would be nice, if _Maitetsu_ wasn't a thing...
pablo tried to tell us all
Does that mean that players don't have to grind levels with characters, because they train themselves? :P
Pablo is delighted by this ending
Twist:
Everyone is bloodied, but won the final battle. Elliot and Gaius died, but no one cries because they forgot who they are just like I did when CS3 came out. Kevin is also there, but the everyone forgot him just like the devs. There's a clapping and suddenly Cassius walks out from the shadows.
"Good job, this was all according to plan as surely established in Sky FC"
Anton's body is found in the monster. It turns out his thirstiness to get a girl resulted in him monsterising and inheriting the Sept-Terrion of desperation.
"Poor sap"
Then Estelle wakes up in bed because it turns out the sleepy pills in FC were a bit stronger than expected.
“Jesus Joshua, what the hell did you put in these?”
This is the best one by far
"Sponsored by Cold Steel IV"
"The first two games were a giant waste of time!"
Scorched earth.
Cause first 2 games were localized by another company (XSEED), And NISA who did 3 and 4 not gonna pay for promotion of games they have no way of profiting from.
Well basically Nisa just care about 3 and 4 tho 😅
Its funnier when you know that the companies who own the rights to the first two games and the later 3 are completely separate. This was a tactical dunk
@@Istalior Actually, NIS America did publish CS 1 and 2... in Europe only, and only for PS3
“They turned me into a bird, Rean!”
*hear Qrow flipping out in the background *
Oh god it took me 6 months to connect "A seagull" to the masked dude's name 🤣
Rean, stop digging for hidden layers and just be impressed. I'm a bird.
I-I'm just trying to figure out why they would do this. Why anyone would do this.
Hmmmm RWBY
Jello: bullies the Trails of Cold Steel franchise for 5 minutes
Also Jello: gets sponsored by Trails of Cold Steel IV
I know right? What kind of contract did he sign that let him spoil huge parts of the series, bully it, say that two of the games are pointless, and still get paid?
Everyone! If you planning to play this game, dont watch this video, cus it's major spoliers.
PS: really recommended to play through Trails in the sky first, but if not, I guess you could start with Cold Steel 1
But never ever start straight away from Cold Steel 3!
@@psycholuigiman probably since its a promo for Cold steel 4, and it doesn't spoil anything from that game, thats the most likely reason.
Also probably the reason why he was able to get the Actual Voices of Rean, Altina (Oh, I mean Millium Alt Skin),AND and Machias in the video.
Is it really bullying if the gaming company as far as I know in Japan is by no means a "indie" compan? Like I'm sure despite the satirical and negative stuff he highlighted, I got the impression like with most stuff he does he just likes it, but maybe that's just me lol
@@thejonbrownshow8470 Oh yeah man. I hear ya. I can't speak for the OP, but I'm just using "bullying" in a playful tone. You know, like how this very video says Rean gets "bullied" by his classmates and students.
“No! Look how strong their card muscles are!!”
Pure. Gold.
Their muscles are snakes! Everyone in the WORLD is a secret snake CULTIST!
@@davidtimmer596
Ouroboros ain’t a secret society anymore if they keep introducing themselves as Enforcers/Anguis.
And I won’t be surprised if they made a second Discord server without Machias.
Unless you count Astral Code as the means to make a secret comms app.
I like how he simply describes Laura S. Arseid as "Sword"
it is so accurate, Laura's whole character is based on her swordsmanship.
Twist Ending: it’s revealed everyone in the game is Rean’s long lost [NOUN]
Plot twist: Crow actually spells his name with a Q, and doesn’t question that fact the whole time
I'm confused then. Wouldn't he be comrade Q if he spelled it with a Q and not comrade C?
"Can't arrest the Wilbonians for war crimes when they're too busy being arrested for horny crimes" -JelloApocalypse, 2020
Even side characters in this game get shipped hard. Mint spent the whole first game trying to get her uncle laid and I was as invested as she was.
Their called the WHAT will-bone-ians wow how creative when are we getting the finna-fuck-ios
I never realized horny crimes could sound worse the war crimes but I know better now
@@MrDalisclock
And the character who is the worst offender in the horny crime department is Angelica Rogner.
She’s the Yuri version of Brock from the Pokemon anime.
@@mystery8820 Or Sanji from One Piece.
*ALL I HAVE TO SAY IF YOUR PLANING TO PLAY THIS GAME PREPARE TO READ A LOT*
I think that's most jrpgs, lad
@@thejonbrownshow8470 the game mainly focus on his dialogue than other jrpg you spend up lots of minutes just trying to finish one cutscenes
But laugh a Lot too, the games can be hilarious
People have to understand, porting Trails in the Sky already almost caused an entire suicide incident for the localization team, and the games just kept getting LONGER AND LONGER WITH MORE TEXT. The entire franchise is like rereading The Lord of the Rings thrice over, three times.
@@curiouslymirroring Oh my god, really?
Jello: The whole series is trash.
Also Jello: *tHiS vIdEo Is SpOnSoReD bY tHe NeXt InSaLlMeNt Of ThE sErIes!
Well, maybe the next one will be good
The series is definitely not trash, I can guarantee you that.
@@Ed-1749 Kingdom Hearts says "hi"
Those aren’t really flaws though. Everything he “made fun of” is what us fans like about the series. It’s actually quite funny how spot on he is lol.
@@Drewsefer89 Exactly, facts.
Holy shit another "So This is Basically" I love these
No u
me too
Correct but plz don't swear
@@Gethin1412 wait why
@@baobhe you said S.H.I.T word
Plot Twist: The Empire of Wilbonia is not actually an empire, but in fact, an elaborate pyramid scheme, creating pretend schools and pretend wars in order to scam a bunch of teenagers into killing their leaders personal enemies, afterwords the stepsister dies do to a golden spear created of the power of rumors, causing the "empires" leader to reset the universe to one where she's the protagonist. The ramifications of the previous twist are ignored because in his next appearance he's dying. He'll also trap the original MC in hell for no reason.
Rewatching this I've realized something. Making this video would require that the player love it enough to hyper-analyze the game to the point of deconstructing it to such a degree. Truly a labor of love.
Seems more like a work of mild distain from the viewpoint of someone who can't seperate ironic criticism for the sake of a joke from legitimate criticism
Most good parodies tend to be made with some degree of affection. See: Weird Al.
@@HellaGust I think Chuck Jones once said "parody what you love" or something to that effect.
@@KyunaCookiesall the split second details and references in the video tell me that he is a clear fan
@@chefofthetrash see, I'd think so if he didnt recommend skipping sky 3rd, a game that's plot is VITAL to contextualising the rest of the first half (up to reverie)
Twist Ending: Rean talks a lot about friendship, but those he call his friends are really all step siblings which Rean can romance.
Fire Emblem Fates, is that you?
I wouldn't be surprised
Rean and alfin are technically related?
Ah yes, the Japan only "Trails of Cold Steel: What Are You Doing, Step Bro?"
Whoever voiced altina was fantastic.
Edit: I realized at the end of the video it was the real voice actors
Imagine if the ending all the mecha, gods and whatnot comes together and then estelle just shows up and beats everyone with a stick and win from the power of *friendship*
UL-TRA-VI-O-LENCE
That sounds like the power of U L T R A V I O L E N C E, tbh.
Estelle coming in and punching Rean in the face for being a stupid sadboy is literally the ideal outcome.
“If you surrender I promise not to break your legs~!!”
Plot Twist: The protagonist is actually the leader of the enemy faction and has been giving his orders during the days that are skipped over.
I can just tell you have no clue what a cold steel is lol either that or its part of your twist ending
@@alumlovescake I have played one game to completion and, considering the contest (that ended before I made a submission) required a dumb plot twist, I thought screw it.
@@JayGaredian funnily enough I did a similar thing just I played more then 1 game
so Mildene, basically
Twist Ending: The devs thought they were hiring someone else when they sponsored Brendan and just had to watch in terror as this mad man roast the shit out of their series
@WolfgangLMclain >the people who play these games have flexible standards
Haha... if "flexible" means .1-.2 percent tolerability... because trails of coldsteel, featuring REAN SCHWARZER from the LEGEND OF HEROES franchise, is literally the best JRPG series ever created... haha...
The whole franchise is Adol Christin's high school fan fiction.
the Trails subseries, yes
I swear if there is a trails game where Adol shows up in I might actually die cause than I need to play all 37 Ys games
Are you telling me that Adol is a masochist?
@@gearhead417 There's a crossover PSP fighting game, but that's about it. And that game was Japan only and has a very minimal fan translation rn.
@@PenguinTM They really need to revist the crossover game and make a sequel for it much like how Square Enix did Final Fantasy Dissidia.
World work great if it's on PS4 and PS5 with cross platform play.
Twists Ending: everything makes sense in less than an hour.
Your video is what finally pushed me over the edge to play this whole series and honestly, the most surprising part is that there actually is a miny boss called "Scary Dinosaur"
I actually never read the names of the monsters until some point after I fought that dinosaur, it's hilarious just thinking in-universe, some scientist was just like "this is too scary for me"
its in cold steel 1
Twist Ending - Machias is just playing dumb, He's secretly the REAL grandmaster of Ouroboros and the admin of that discord server on his alternative account.
Thinking in layers people
Twist ending: Dorothee, the girl from the Literature Club, was actually the Grandmaster of Ouroboros all along, and reveals that the reason absolutely nothing happened in Cold Steel 1 and 2 was to put the focus of the fans (Ouroboros is aware of them, as they exist in a parallel universe, because by this point parallel universes have already been a thing in Trails for at least 6 games) towards shipping the characters with each other. Fandoms being fandoms, the vast majority of the shippings are non-heterosexual, and as Dorothee's power thrives on gay shipping, it has increased exponentially due to Cold Steel 1 and 2.
As such, she is now able to alter reality so that all of the gay shippings are now canon: Jusis and Machias kiss, Olivert gets with Bleublanc, Angelica gets literally every girl in Cold Steel and Crow gets revived (he's died again in Trails of Cold Steel XXIV) so that he can be together with Rean. The only pairing that is able to resist the gay shipping is Estelle and Joshua, as the fandom unequivocally agrees that they are the One True Pairing. Grandmaster Dorothee curses them, and the final final FINAL Trails game is about Estelle and Joshua finding a way to defeat Dorothee and convincing every other character to stop making out for a moment so they can help, ultimately cementing Estelle as the best JRPG protagonist known to man.
I was going to put a twist ending lol but after reading this I hope you win lol 😂
This guy deserves every copy of Cold Steel III&IV being given away. That twist ending is amazing.
This is it. This is the one. Nothing else can come close. You win.
@@SeaFR right? Like Ash and Tatiana are a part of the branch campus reading club so maybeeee... maybe they reading some boy love too lol
This has to win for real 😂😆
Twist Ending: So there’s this side character but he has a cousin who has a younger brother. That younger brother is also another side character but only on Tuesdays. It turns out he used something stupid probably to overthrow someone in power? Then he dies but he’s actually just lying on the floor maybe kind of dead(no). Turns out he was some orphan that sneaked in through the back door though none of this information was in the game these events took place.
Never played cold of steel, but sounds about right
The man actually got the VAs from the game to voice the characters in the video, props to you
The best part of a sponsored "So This is Basically..." video is how the complete 180 shift between making fun of the game in detail to a serious advertisement about the game itself. It's like, the very next thing you do after exposing it, is asking people if they want it.
Also, Altina asking about the gumball machine is effing adorable.
You act like he hasn't done that before.
it's her actress, so...
Gotta make epithet erased season 2 somehow
@@GiordanDiodato They actually got her VA for this? No wonder it sounded so perfect. I was just about to comment about this.
For someone like me who was just planning to get into the "Trails of" series, this makes me even more confused than I originally was.
why do i see you everywhere?
Well, the TL;DR is that there is a series called "The Legend of Heroes" and Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel are 2 sub-series in each, they are both amazing, Sky comes first and is split into 3 games (each well over 100 hours), Cold Steel comes second
and is on its fourth game - You don't need to have played Sky to understand Cold Steel, but Sky sets-up the events of Cold Steel.
@@Acier25997 Ummm do not forget about the Crossbell arc too which comes in between Sky and Cold steel. which not only does it includes characters from sky but it also heavily helps to setup stuff for cold steel while also being the best arc and games in the franchise.
Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure do not have official english translations but they do have fan translations with both being legally available to buy and with easy ways to patch it with english
Trails to Azure is genuinely the best game in the Trails series and it is sad that people skip it or only play Cold steel.
Just play Trails of the sky 1-3, then Zero no Esieki 1-2 then Trails of cold steel 1-3. It'll all make sense. And spend 600-500 hours doing so. Sky is around 50h * 3, trails is 100h * 3 minus some and zero no eskei and the other one is 50-100 I think.
@@Acier25997 you forget zero no kiseki and ao no kiseki
As cheesy as it is and as much eye rolling at "friendship is our power" speeches they pull.....i keep coming back and i love the series so much.
that game did something to me, man...
Oh god it got in my nerves by the end of iv though.
The whole ‘thank you so much if there is ever any way to thank you’, ‘we will beat this with class 7 new and old’.
😓😓😓
They literally call Rean out on it *in-universe*
The fact he understands how to use fie with those orbments that make her impossible to touch 100% evasive means he's cultured
the only way to play Fie😂😂
@@LibrocreatesL2 I always put Fie at the tip of my formation that looks like a pe-
I mean... a reverse Y.
Plot twist: Rean's events and adventures so far were just a dream, his head hit the ground hard when he "saved" Alisa from her fall in the very first Class VII test in Trails of Cold Steel.
In Trails of Cold Steel XIX, he finally wakes up, finding that he has spent more than 10 years in a coma, that he's married to a certain Valimar, and that he has a snake named Ouroboros as his pet.
is this true it seems real
And that could really be true too ! xD
No is it the story of the game
Twist ending: they lose the final fight, all hope is lost- and it was all a dream by a small child, AND it’s been 1,000 years, AND the heros somehow win the fight because they had their McGuffin pins on their shirts backwards.
Edit: to be clear, all of these twists are true simultaneously
So this is basically me being fast
So this is basically *bonk*
Yes.
Ill allow this.
So this is basically a reply
wow u so early
take a shot every time a character in trails says or does the following:
humble reply to any sort of compliment "I still got so much to learn"
female character showing their love/affection for a completely oblivious main character ("Huh, what are you guys even talking about?")
*character walks away with raised hand waving goodbye*
corny speech about the power of friendship
Somebody yelling "SHARON?!"
a dead character showing up again in the sequel
a boss fight happens where characters fight that literally have zero reason to fight except ("My pride as a member of XY forces me to do this despite totally agreeing with you guys!")
an ouroboros enforcer tracks you down, fights you, and then just loses interest and walks away or teleports away with nothing having been accomplished
- two characters see each other in combat for the first time, one identified the other’s weapon and says it’s neat, the other deflects saying other person’s weapon is also neat.
-a female character grossly and enthusiastically sexually assaults another female character, but no... they’re both girls, so that means it’s funny, actually.
-No matter what you do or how you do it, it turns out that everything is going just according to keikaku for the conspiracy, to the extent things might have been better if you’d just stayed home.
-Two characters pass cringey nicknames back and forth
The characters eat food and then talk about how good it was (roughly 20% of the dialogue in Trails 1 chapter 3)
@@beastalchemistVA _*ahem_ the orbal net. Imagine not playing the crossbell arcs.
The "That won`t be necessary" line every time the MC does anything.
Twist ending: the main character sacrifices himself to save the world and believes he’s going to die but instead wakes up to find himself starting right where the first game begins and realizes he’s stuck in a time loop and must do everything all over again and falls down to a fetal position and starts sobbing uncontrollably.
So fire emblem awakening?
Blazblue?
Re:Zero but it's a game
_wait_
Ain't that the plot of FFF-class trashero ?
@@damiennixel925 Yes, that indeed is, except the crying part.
Twist Ending: The hole academy is a giant, human eating, shapeshifting jelly monster, who came out of the sewer.
I mean... Wouldn't be too unheard of for CS
the snake cultists aren’t just worshipping a snake, they’re instead fueling the massive Space Train of which this reality is but a single carriage with their rampant horny snake faith to drive it down the space-tracks into a black hole which will then hatch into a mega snake that’s also a loli
the final level is a rythm game as you take control of the mega train to swap tracks and dodge armageddon, all while also hitting the right pickups to romance all of the characters simultaneously, which is vital for the world’s survival
wat?
ah of course it all makes sense now
oh so Zelda Spirit Tracks again?
final...level...rythm...game
*DRAKEGNARD FLASHBACKS INTENSIFY*
Say sike right now. PLEASE.
I would like to point out that this video has Sean Chiplock and Xanthe Huynh in it, which is more than you can say about the Northern War dub.
twist ending: Everyone is cake. Nothing else.
creative and unique
loving the creativity of youtube comments as always
Nice one
You cut into an actual cake... it is made of styrofoam!
You peer closely... the styrofoam is also made of cake.
Not even gonna bother. This one wins
*Now we know what’s real and what’s cake*
Twist: turns out all those gumballs you were feeding everyone were actually slowly turning everyone into birds. You realize too late and you eventually have to deal with everyone birdifying (for “some reason” guys go straight into birds and girls turn into harpies first). The game ends after you finally defeat the last bird and you look down and realize you were already a bird the whole time and it was all for naught. People then ship bird you and seagull guy for the foreseeable future.
The twist of the twist is the game then turns into Hatofu Boyfriend.
I can't believe one of my favorite franchises is getting recognized like this lol
I know, right? Cue fangasim.
To bad he makes it sound mostly negative...
@@zeldanime to be fair they are promoting the game at the end
@@zeldanime It's just jokes. All of these videos are like this.
Voice actress: "Instructor Rean"
My brain, every time: "Instructorine"
That's Xanthe Huynh. She's the actual voice of Altina.
Twist: You're actually just collecting a harem of classmates/students who are all too shy or stupid to confess. The ending is a battle royals for your hand in marriage.
What? It's a JRPG after all.
The real twist is the game forgetting all your other relationships and forcing you with the main girl at the end while acting like nothing ever happened.
You actually got the voice actors which means this is all canon
Uh oh
Twist ending: Rean and Elise are actually blood related and all the robots can't actually talk. Rean just makes that robot voice to fool others and himself that Valimar actually exists.
Possibly minor spoiler for CS4
What about Ordine then? Or does Crow also make the robot voice himself? ...Actually, I wouldn't put it past him.
@@Aoskar95 Crow has the same disorder. So does all awakeners.
@@Aoskar95 If we're getting into that territory the same goes for all of the other divine k's
Only months after watching it the first time did I realize that the "ingredients" for the plot sandwich are actualy in-game ingredient items. The detail, man.
Twist ending: you were the “Trails of Cold Steel 4” ALL ALONG!!!!!
The real "Trails of Cold Steel IV" were the friends we made along the way
The real "Trails of Cold Steel 4" were the friends we made along the way.
This is so stupid but so funny. Enjoy the like.
Twist Ending: Anton and Ricky are actually different parts of the same person: Ouroboros' Grandmaster
Now that's clever
Twist ending: you beat the boss by calling out “uno” before him and having your entire team slam him with skips and plus fours
"Then, at the last moment... the game will pop out the wildest, sauciest, saltiest twist you've ever seen and trick you into playing another 80 hour rpg just to see what happens next!"
As someone who's just seen the additional post-credits scene in Cold Steel 4, and is now eagerly awaiting Reverie's localisation, this is SO accurate! 😂
ugh I just finished CSIII that ending didnt have to go that hard man lmao
The fact yall telling me shit gets crazier even after the first one cause in on part two and that first twist was wild
@@princemwamba5230 that’s only the tip of the iceberg and CS1’s twist was crazy
I'm here after getting the plat in Trails into Reverie. I have two alternatives: read Nietzsche or wait for 3 games to be localized to find out what's going on.
Twist ending : all of the characters are toys, Rean and all of His other classmates and friends are just anime figures and Valimar is just a gundam model and Ouroboros are just the company that sells the toys and snakes for some reason?, there never was a Crossbell , Liberl and Erebonia, this is just anime toy story
That’s The Power Of The Eight Leaves 🍁
@@kittytoedxd it’s nice to see you here dude
@@magatsuzer0853 Hehe yeah!
You might be joking, but iirc there was a legit theory that the entire zemuria world is actually just a simulation.
As tradition dictates in Trails games, anyone with glasses is potentially an evil mastermind so the TRUE villain in the Cold Steel series is....still Dorothy from trails in the sky. I tell you she is the Grandmaster and she is COMING FOR YOU!!!
The orbal camera doesn't lie!
Why could Dorothy use her camera during the Orbal Shutdown phenomenon?
WHY COULD DOROTHY USE HER CAMERA DURING THE ORBAL SHUTDOWN PHENOMENON?
NEVER! TRUST! THE! WANDERING! PROFESSOR!
Hang on, doesn't Rean wear glasses in the beginning of Trails of Cold Steel III?
.........
IS THE PROTAGONIST EVIL?!?!?!?!?
@@thesuperMasterSword So Sus
"my gumball..." melts my heart idk why
must protect that smi-.... wait, what do you protect when smol thing doesn't smile? O_o
@@thegeneralmitch
Doesn’t Altina smile eventually, though?
@@mystery8820 where did you hear such heresy?! ;D
“Stop shipping me with Tita!”
Okay that got me lmao
You won’t believe how many characters are shipping Agate with Tita. Also the age difference between them is 12.
@@mystery8820 exactly lol, like stahppp
@@mystery8820 Isn't Tita literally 12 when they meet?
@@melvint-p9500 yes, and agate was 24, making him double her age at the time. I can’t believe people actually defend this ship because of cultural differences. It’s just weird
@@chrom4141 Especially since I honestly never see any sort of interest from Agate. Like having the high school girls crushing on the badass hero dudes who saved their lives is totally reasonable. It being reciprocated - and *encouraged* by literally every other character - is weird as hell. I honestly really liked the "people from broken or dysfunctional families developing a wholesome sibling dynamic"-style relationships of Agate and Tita as well as Jusis and Millium. And then they start hinting at actual romance between them and it just gets gross. Or literally every character ever going "ooooooh are you gonna kiiiiiss?" because that isn't either juvenile or creepy pedo-enabling. Not to mention harassment of the people who have made it very clear it makes them uncomfortable, but if I've learned one thing from this series it's that sexual harassment is apparently funny.
This sort of bullshit (Rean all but buying Elise an orbal washer she might accidentally get stuck in, the harem bullshit, etc) would likely have had me drop the series if I wasn't so goddamn invested after seven or so games. By Cold Steel 3 and 4 some of the pairings the actual game pushes or at least hints at with zero subtlety are just *nasty.* One can make a beautiful rainbow of all kinds of cultures, sexual and romantic orientations without giving the stage over to pedophilia.
I have some hopes for Kuro, thinking that once the series leaves high school drama behind we can maybe get something that I as a grown-ass man can play without feeling like I'm gonna end up on some sort of watchlist, but maybe it's just time for me to accept that these aren't the days of Chrono Trigger or FF6 anymore. :(
The fact that there are many small nuggets from the series in this video shows your dedication to nailing the intricacies of Cold Steel. Absolutely loved it and it is 100% accurate. No wonder you're one of my favorite RUclipsrs.
Twist ending: You were the only one hiding anything. Every other revealed "secret" was the result of crippling short term memory loss.
The fact that some voice actors from the game are in this vid just made me feel so happy inside 😂 "did you guys make a discord server without me!?"
I honestly just want to thank you for introducing me to the Kiseki/Trails series specifically the cold steel arc as I just started the Cold Steel arc on 12/19/2020 and finish it on 5/3/2021. After playing through all 4 games, I became a huge fan of the Trails series and eagerly await the next entry, also I now understand just how accurate this video is and find myself appreciating on a new level.
If you played only through "All 4" you not yet a kiseki fan. Play Trails in the sky and Crosbell games first XD
I do recommend getting into the sky and cross elk arcs as well because they hint at things that happen in cold steel 4 and onward
@@strwrbttlfrnt I watched ladyvirgilia detailed summary of the Crossbell arc back when I reached the Divertissement chapter of Cold Steel 2 and I watched the detailed summary of the Liberl arc after I beat Cold Steel 2 so I already know what happen, both the major and minor events of the games so I’m all caught up.
@@windknight4747 you should really play them even if you know what happens in them, the games are great and the character incredible, I don't think you will enjoy Reverie as much as you could if you don't play the liberl and crossbell arc. At least play zero and Azure if you don't want to play the sky games, there are some of the best scene in these of all the trails game, or even of all games that I have played, including Xenoblade chronicles 3 (maybe not better than the "execution" scene but that one is something else)
The real twist Ending: Things wrap up neatly without an over-the-top cliffhanger.
Twist: REAN was the student all along, and the entire cast was teaching HIM
The *real* trail of cold steel was the friends we made along the way
"they turn me into A SEAGULL REAN"
wtf
Him and Qrow from RWBY would be best friends.
Funniest shit I've ever seen
Yeah, Sieg.
Its a reference to a joke he did in the RWBY video. Both characters are pronouced the same way, "Crow" and "Qrow"
The turned me into BIRD Ruby... I mean Rean.
I love Altina so much, the fact she didn't get that gumball makes me sad
I bet Millium will get her some with lammy's and sammy's help
@@dmsephiroth why do you have to make me cry like this?
How dare Rean deny Altina a gumball
The voice of ALTINAAAAA!!!!!!! I love her so much.
Let Rean have his speeches they're literally all he has
Nonsense, he also has being a literal tool to every single other persons machinations.
The Rean speech is basically a patent at this point.
Plot twist: turns out the final game will reveal that the Trails games and Tales games have been all set in a single shared universe and result in crossovers that make every JRPG fan go insane as they keep mixing up Trails games and Tales games.
The Legend Of Heroes: YS vs Tales
I don't know how I'd feel about that tbh.
That's it, the video that launched me into the trails universe. I knew nothing before and now i've played/watched every game. If I had known that this simple video would result in me spending so much of my time, well i would still watch it because it was worth it.