#Kiseki series

[littleforeignaffairs]

Dangerous Criminal?

No.

Tiny bby

[blacktornny]

[loveisonlyforthebrave8]

kiseki + the moment chen yi chooses ai di.

[zhaozi]

chen yi...

[morgenstern16]

funniest alignment choice i've seen in a video game

[nyankocatnyan]

Congrats on 20th anniv to kiseki series!

[keepontalking]

Want to get Ai Di's Style?

Catcase sweater

Pink and white ripped sweater

Tiger sweater

Paint splatter sweater

Blue plaid stitch sweater (or here)

Best rainbow sweater (or here)

Acne Studios Klinac Fur Print Knit (OR here if you're broke)

Black and white splotches sweater

[thaumana]

Steel Maiden Arianrhod

(work in progress)

[cocosnowlo-drawings]

Some of my favorite Van + family scenes so far 😂

[ship-garbage-pile]

Estelle's Olivier-Centric homophobia always makes me laugh

[syffets]

[inkedmyths]

Shoutout to all of us Kiseki/Trails series enjoyers on Tumblr. There's like 10 of us and the brainrot is terminal

[masky-arts]

Kevin Graham

[loveisonlyforthebrave8]

kiseki + the moment that tear hits his face chen yi knows

[fostersffff]

Seeing rounds of people respond to NISA saying Trails through Daybreak is a great place to jump into the franchise with "NOOO! IT'S BY NO MEANS A GREAT PLACE TO START!!! WHAT ARE YOU SAAAYING!?!?! IT'S THE 11TH GAME IN A SERIES WITH A CONTINUOUS STORY!!!"

Listen: I understood when it was laughing at how Trails of Cold Steel III was advertised by NISA as "a great place to start", but everyone needs fuckin' relax here. If someone who has never played a Trails game sees Trails through Daybreak and thinks "wow, that's cool!", they are statistically unlikely to go "but before I check out this brand new thing I've never seen before, I will play 10 other RPGs first to make sure I have complete context, including a game that is literally older now than the first Dragon Quest was at the time of its original release". And if people keep saying "NO NO THESE GAMES CAN'T BE PLAYED WITHOUT THE FULL CONTEXT TO APPRECIATE EVER MINUTE DETAIL YOU NEED THOSE 10 OTHER RPGS!!!" they're much more likely to go "oh, nevermind then".

Like, as someone who played Cold Steel I and II before circling back to Sky and proceeding straight through from there, there were moments where I surely missed the impact of some characters showing up, or was a little confused about the why or how other things were happening. Not knowing that the weapon that deleted Garrelia Fortress was one of three giant robots didn't make that game unintelligable; if anything, it made the sudden appearance of the Panzer Soldats at the very end even more surprising. Yeah, I had no idea in what context Lloyd and Rixia showed up at the end of Cold Steel II, but the game just tells you "hey here's who these characters are" and I went "well, ok".

It is so much easier to entice people to get into a thing if they try the new hotness, and then go "woah, there's even more stuff in this series I can check out!?"

Or maybe they don't and just go forward from there, and that's fine too. Just don't actively tell people they gotta do like 800 hours of what will feel like homework to them before doing the thing they actually want to do.

[morgenstern16]

sidequests in most trails game: you are basically a do-gooder for hire. doing these requests is how you put bread on your table and how you move up in the world

sidequests in cold steel: the cute student council president asked you very nicely if you could help her with some stuff and you are incapable of saying no to anyone