Forward Relentlessly | Trails of Cold Steel 1&2 Retrospective

Support me over on: Patreon:   / genmathesamurai   VGen (Art Comms): https://vgen.co/GenmaTheArtist This is my combined retrospective of Trails of Cold Steel 1 & 2. This video was more or less a year in the making across both videos and took a lot of work. The Cold Steel 2 portion in particular taking around 2 months to pull off. While these games are divisive in their own rights, I wanted to view them on their own terms and give my reasons why I like them, especially Cold Steel 2. Cold Steel 2 is one of my favorite games in the series, so I really wanted to give it my all, and I hope you all enjoy :) Chapters: 00:00:00 Welcome Back 00:00:42 The Big One 00:04:12 Radio Trista 00:05:58 Erebonia 00:08:22 Trails of Cold Steel 00:09:48 The Premise 00:11:16 A Divided Structure 00:15:17 Role Call for Class VII 00:18:52 Rean Schwarzer 00:20:27 Returning Home: Cold Steel Drama CD 00:21:34 EVEN MORE CHARACTERS?! 00:22:44 Character Wrap-Up 00:23:11 Story Conclusion 00:25:34 Back In Class They Never Taught Us This 00:27:46 Social Li-I mean Bonding Events 00:29:30 Exploring Erebonia 00:33:55 The Longest Combat Section Ever 00:45:18 CS1 Presentation and Soundtrack 00:54:41 What did we miss? Oh god. 00:59:31 Graduating Thors 01:02:07 CS1 Ending Spoilers 01:14:37 Cold Steel 2 Begins 01:16:53 CS2- Premise 01:18:49 CS2 Plot Structure 01:20:40 CS2 Bonding Events 01:23:15 The Noble Alliance 01:27:22 CS2 Plot Wrap-Up 01:29:25 Exploring Erebonia 01:33:35 The MOST important Character in all of Trails and maybe even fiction itself 01:34:07 CS2 Minor Spoilers (Act 2) 01:37:48 Heed My Call 01:40:50 Arts of War 01:48:08 Presentation & Soundtrack 01:54:31 Completion Madness 01:57:53 Small Reprieve (Misc stuff) 02:00:00 CS2 SPOILERS BEGIN 02:00:54 Act 1 02:03:37 Intermission 02:12:49 Why Act 2 is goated 02:18:25 The Crazy Finale 02:35:37 Wait We're Still Going? 02:51:59 (Spoilers End) CS2 Conclusion 02:53:37 Overall Conclusion #trailsofcoldsteel #trailsintoreverie #falcom #trailsthroughdaybreak #trailsfromzero #trailstoazure #sennokiseki #retrospective #review ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to hang out with me on discord? If so click this link to join my server :D I hang out there all the time, so feel free to pop on in! :)   / discord