An Underrated Followup | Trails of Cold Steel II Retrospective

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DISCLAIMER:
This is the first retrospective with heavy spoilers, and is not recommended to watch without playing Cold Steel 1, and features a spoiler section where I talk about this game and bits of the rest of the series too. Watch at your own risk.

After 7 months (off and on) of work and planning (and some things planned since this series started) it's finally here.

This is one of my personal favorite Trails games. And it's one that is very disliked by large portions of the community. So here's my experiences with the game, hope you enjoy as I provide the best defense I can.

Hope you all enjoy :)

Big thanks to @Snivey , @infielderseth , @Cyrus_Bright , @KingdomAce , and others for helping me out with this video. Whether it be direct editing or feedback, it really helped a lot.

In particular big thanks to Snive for editing the GMV intro as always, and for a few of the joke suggestions (You can thank him for the Forces joke lol.) You're the best dude.

Also thanks to Go! Light up! for their cover of "Only thing I know for real.

Check out their cover here:    • The Only Thing I Know For Real | Metal Gea...  

Anyway on to the show.


Timestamps:
00:00:00 Welcome Back
00:00:47 Cold Steel 1 Spoilers
00:13:17 Cold Steel 2 Begins
00:15:32 Premise
00:17:29 Plot Structure
00:19:19 Bonding Events
00:21:55 The Noble Alliance
00:26:02 Plot Wrap-Up
00:28:05 Exploring Erebonia
00:32:15 The MOST important Character in all of Trails and maybe even fiction itself
00:32:47 Minor Spoilers (Act 2)
00:36:10 Heed My Call
00:39:30 Arts of War
00:46:49 Presentation & Soundtrack
00:53:52 Completion Madness
00:57:14 Small Reprieve (Misc stuff)
00:59:21 SPOILER SECTION BEGINS
01:00:15 Act 1
01:03:04 Intermission
01:12:10 Why Act 2 is goated
01:17:46 The Crazy Finale
01:34:58 Wait We're Still Going?
01:51:20 (Spoilers End) CS2 Conclusion
01:52:58 Overall Conclusion

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