the overall situation for this song isnt exactly great with the games version of WW1 having just started and your characters making it through a pretty creapy fortress but the game is undertitled End of Saga so after 4 games you are now here and you will not be stopped especially when you get the help of basicly every charachter playble before including protagonists of the previous arcs so there is no way you can possibly fail now
I missed this haha, this is my request xD. I'm just happy to see you get to enjoy one of my songs :P. This song was such a trip for me. It was the culmination of a series that i've truly fallen in love with. Oh and you definitely got the feel of the song right. It's the finale of a very long journey, and it was triumphant in the end. And the reason it's Final Boss theme THREE plays in to why it's hopeful as you said. There's a lot you have to do to get to that final boss. Hope you enjoy the rest of my requests!
i've been waiting for your falcom or trails series reaction for so long.. i started knowing this channel by your reaction on azure arbitrator and know i really looking forward to another trails music reaction in the future.. because this series has so many good soundtrack yet it so underrated and hopefully by your reaction people will notice that this game has a potential to be recognize by their good music and plot story wise
I'm planning on replaying the entire Trails series starting this weekend to coincide with Trails into Reverie coming out in July, and you just have to go and review this? My guy, you're just getting me more hyped to start
The main theme and concept is "Future". It's not the final chapter of the Kiseki series as a whole, but the final chapter of one of the arcs. The Trails series is very lengthy as as chronicle. If you played from the oldest title to the newest, you watch as civilization gets more and more advanced, and cultures mingle... Sorta like a reflection of our real world; with faith, science, conspiracies, and hope. The "Heroes" in the title, represent the individual in the collection of people, who helped changed the fate of the world so to speak. It's not one special person who berated a boss and therein ends the quest... But a persistent movement of Heroes, organizations, and figures who inspires humanity to keep doing good. In this series, no one truly actually "kills" a main character unless it's very vital to the plot, no one is truly good or evil. You even team up with antagonists.
"Heroic", "Ambitious", and "Emotional Rollercoaster". Yep. The culmination of SO much, with a cast of characters that constantly grew over the course of 9 100-ish hour games. I think it's not so much of "we did it", but more of "we WILL do it, and NOTHING will stop us".
@@siberian4097 what's bad about being THE WIND? Gaius is good, because he's static, he don't need to grow or change, he's there to support his friends and help them to be able to win. Not every character should be as dramatic, as Tio, Rande, Rean, Joshua or Renne. I bet you don't like Elie as well, while she's probably the most important character in SSS. And Elliot did developed, he's development just not as flashy as the other ones, nothing bad about it. Machias though, yeah, they kinda didn't knew what to do with him, he's nice, but he's just like Dudely in Azure.
To help with the kiseki title stuff for you Sora no kiseki (trails in the sky) Zero no kiseki (trails from zero) Ao no kiseki (trails to azure) Sen no kiseki (trails of cold steel) You also have Hajimari no kiseki (trails into reverie) coming to the west this year and Kuro no kiseki which as of yet does not have a working English title. Hope that helps a bit 👍
*Spoilers below for the Trails series* As a final dungeon theme this one is extremely nice to listen to on loop, which helps when the final dungeon section can take a couple hours lol The culmination of 8 previous games worth of story, worldbuilding, and characters all coming together for one final showdown against the big bad (of Cold Steel, literally the most powerful man in the Empire, the "Blood and Iron Chancellor") and his hand picked lackeys (aptly named the "Ironbloods") to stop what is basically World War 1 from happening You end up going through multiple different dungeons simultaneously with various strike teams consisting of most of the characters from all the games, plus a few new ones. This allows the main group to break past the barrier of the final dungeon and truly begin the final operation. All while this theme plays in the background. Giving the full context for the events leading to this part would be impossible without writing about 5 novels worth of information lmao so I'll just give you some barebones info about the main antagonist: "Giliath Osborne. The leading figure in the movement to reform the Erebonian Empire's feudal power structure. Once a general in the Imperial army, it was thanks to his actions in hunting down those responsible for the Hamel Incident and brokering a ceasefire agreement between Erebonia and Liberl that resulted in the Hundred Days War coming to a close. As a reward for his actions, Emperor Eugent III granted him his now-current title as High Chancellor of Erebonia, becoming the first commoner in history to ever achieve the title." Basically think of Erebonia as 18th Century England with Kings, Nobles, Parliament, provincial armies, and more fun social stuff from back then except they have even funner stuff like trains, airships, devices that are basically cell phones but that can also harness the planets energy (easiest comparison would be FF7 and the Lifestream... kinda) to essentially use what is basically magic. Oh yea and they have giant robots too which are basically just bipedal easily maneuverable tanks. The Hamel incident was your classic power hungry nobles favorite pastime, seeking more power! Gasp... no way! Bad jokes aside basically some nobles wanted to conquer the southern country of Liberl, dressed some dudes up in Liberl soldier uniforms and slaughtered a small town in the Empire near the border of Liberl, and used it as an excuse to invade them. Osborne lived in the Capital at the time and his residence was also attacked in which he lost his wife and his son was critically injured. Upon rushing back once he heard of the attack he found his son with a large piece of debris pierced through his chest and barely alive. He cried out in grief to the Goddess, to anyone, to save his son. A shadowy entity appeared before him and promised to heal his son. The price? His soul. Truly a "deal with the devil". The only path before him was one now covered in darkness, now bound to do the entities bidding until the bitter end. The war only lasted 100 days (hence the title "Hundred Days War") until the truth was discovered and the peace treaty was signed. Osborne gathered up the nobles responsible and had them all executed. Hamel was then wiped from all maps and the incident was swept under the rug with the public never knowing the truth with the official story being it was destroyed "in a landslide". Fun fact, the son of one of the nobles ends up joining the Intelligence Division (basically CIA) and Osborne takes him under his wing as an "Ironblood". At the end of Cold Steel 2 Osborne reveals that Rean (the MC of the Cold Steel series) is his biological son, and that he's taking over the other antagonist group of the series "grand" plan. That being the secret "Society" only known as Ouroboros who we (the player) fight quite often in the Sky and Crossbell games. Which basically amounted to fulfilling an ancient prophecy and igniting the entire continent in the flames of war. I hope I didn't write too much, or that this wasn't too much of an info dump I've never actually tried explaining things from this series before. Needless to say this series has some of the best worldbuilding and characters in any source of media I've consumed in my almost 30 years of life. Which is saying something since I only found out this series existed a little more than 2 years ago. Anyway I've rambled enough, if you happened to read this message, skim through it, or skip to the end just wanted to say thanks for checking out another Trails song. Look forward to more, stay safe and keep rockin' 🤘😎
@@yi_hou3092 whoops you're right, the attack on his residence took place at around the same time if I remember correctly. I think I accidentally substituted my CS3 theory with the info we got from CS4. Thanks for correcting me 👍
Light & Darkness from Yakuza Like a Dragon ten days ago, and now this. Two of my favorite game music ever this truly proves that even without getting your request there's still something for you here ^^
Trails is pretty unique in games in that its an ongoing story thats been happening since Trails in the Sky came out on PSP in 2004. There are multiple "arcs" that are meant as jumping on points for new players but they also continue the overall narrative of the games and are generally contained in a region of the world the games are set. Trails in the Sky focused on Liberl an independent nation bordering next two rival superpowers, Trails from Zero/Azure focus on Crossbell an independent trade city (think Hong Kong) that is right between the rival superpowers and Cold Steel set in Erebonia the most powerful nation in the world at that time but with tons of internal strife and conflict thanks to "reformist" and "traditionalist" factions butting heads. Trails of Cold Steel IV / Sen no Kiseki IV was basically the culmination of the story up to that point, basically the Avengers: Endgame of that story. It was 8 games in the making, and each of those are basically 60-100 hour JRPGs. It brought back tons of characters and wrapped up a lot of hanging threads. That said, it is also a very messy game. But I love it, and the series, for the scope of what they try to do. And the music is also pretty good.
Hopeful/jubilant final boss theme makes me /immediately/ think Hopes and Dreams from Undertale. But, yeah, final bosses usually go for dark and dangerous rather than "You've got this!", lol.
Just an FYI, the western/English name of this game is The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 4. There's a whole lot of Trails games - the music from the Sky games is much much better than the music from the Cold Steel games IMO.
Falcom JDK Band is sorta a shell of its former selves, their band members are just contractors so the only composers are notable. The 2016 band is really really good compared to 2022. This was the Era of the PS2, PS2 and PSP/Vita. Nihon Falcom developed games exclusively for Sony mainly, but the YS series was multiplatform.
in the game version is actually pretty underwhelming because after all the build up and epic music like this, let just say the place you charging is pretty "empty" lol considering this is like... if you put this in anime centric, this is like the scene where the mc and his gang charge to the "place" and during it all character from previous series is coming and helping you its basically the super smash "everyone is here" moment
There's too many Cold Steel requests, I'm not familiar with these tracks so I'm not watching these reactions. I've only played the Sky games, Zero and got about halfway through CS1. I'm going to go through Azure releasing a few months from now first before giving CS1 another go (and even then I probably won't be able to get through Azure + all 4 CS games before the end of this year).
@@guruthosamarthruin4459 I doubt that. Nothing I heard from the CS games so far (most tracks from CS1 and a few from the other games) comes close to most of whats in in the Sky games and Zero. Although I personally also think the music in more modern Falcom games for most part is not on the same level as what they used to make in the 2000's to 2010 era. Of course, I could be surprised. But I'm not expecting it going mainly by my experience with what I heard from the CS games so far.
@@guruthosamarthruin4459 Not gonna say that you're wrong since music is subjective but hard disagree. To me Cold Steel ost is actually the weakest one with Sky and Crossbell competing for the first place. (Azure Arbitrator definitely takes the first place though.)
Personally I've got like 10+ requests in so far, mostly Sky 3rd, Zero, and Azure. Since I know other people have Cold Steel covered I'll probably submit a few from Hajimari as well at some point down the line. Feels like a step up from Cold Steel from the overworld themes to the dungeon themes to the battle themes. Cold Steel music is great, but the older stuff is just... on another level xD Hajimari isn't there, but it's a lot closer than Cold Steel. And I added quite a large number of songs from Hajimari to my favorites Playlist on my phone, which is mostly Sky and Crossbell Era songs with a few Cold Steel osts peppered in lol
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the overall situation for this song isnt exactly great with the games version of WW1 having just started and your characters making it through a pretty creapy fortress but the game is undertitled End of Saga so after 4 games you are now here and you will not be stopped especially when you get the help of basicly every charachter playble before including protagonists of the previous arcs so there is no way you can possibly fail now
I missed this haha, this is my request xD. I'm just happy to see you get to enjoy one of my songs :P. This song was such a trip for me. It was the culmination of a series that i've truly fallen in love with.
Oh and you definitely got the feel of the song right. It's the finale of a very long journey, and it was triumphant in the end. And the reason it's Final Boss theme THREE plays in to why it's hopeful as you said. There's a lot you have to do to get to that final boss.
Hope you enjoy the rest of my requests!
i've been waiting for your falcom or trails series reaction for so long.. i started knowing this channel by your reaction on azure arbitrator and know i really looking forward to another trails music reaction in the future.. because this series has so many good soundtrack yet it so underrated and hopefully by your reaction people will notice that this game has a potential to be recognize by their good music and plot story wise
I'm planning on replaying the entire Trails series starting this weekend to coincide with Trails into Reverie coming out in July, and you just have to go and review this? My guy, you're just getting me more hyped to start
He randomly pulled my request out of a hat and I couldn't be happier xP.
The main theme and concept is "Future".
It's not the final chapter of the Kiseki series as a whole, but the final chapter of one of the arcs.
The Trails series is very lengthy as as chronicle. If you played from the oldest title to the newest, you watch as civilization gets more and more advanced, and cultures mingle... Sorta like a reflection of our real world; with faith, science, conspiracies, and hope.
The "Heroes" in the title, represent the individual in the collection of people, who helped changed the fate of the world so to speak.
It's not one special person who berated a boss and therein ends the quest... But a persistent movement of Heroes, organizations, and figures who inspires humanity to keep doing good.
In this series, no one truly actually "kills" a main character unless it's very vital to the plot, no one is truly good or evil.
You even team up with antagonists.
"Heroic", "Ambitious", and "Emotional Rollercoaster". Yep. The culmination of SO much, with a cast of characters that constantly grew over the course of 9 100-ish hour games. I think it's not so much of "we did it", but more of "we WILL do it, and NOTHING will stop us".
@@siberian4097 what's bad about being THE WIND?
Gaius is good, because he's static, he don't need to grow or change, he's there to support his friends and help them to be able to win.
Not every character should be as dramatic, as Tio, Rande, Rean, Joshua or Renne.
I bet you don't like Elie as well, while she's probably the most important character in SSS.
And Elliot did developed, he's development just not as flashy as the other ones, nothing bad about it.
Machias though, yeah, they kinda didn't knew what to do with him, he's nice, but he's just like Dudely in Azure.
To help with the kiseki title stuff for you
Sora no kiseki (trails in the sky)
Zero no kiseki (trails from zero)
Ao no kiseki (trails to azure)
Sen no kiseki (trails of cold steel)
You also have Hajimari no kiseki (trails into reverie) coming to the west this year and Kuro no kiseki which as of yet does not have a working English title.
Hope that helps a bit 👍
:)
@@JessesAuditorium Yeah definitely can recommend Kuro no Kiseki OST - some songs are just pure bangers.
@@JessesAuditorium Kuro no Kiseki is called ''Trails Through Daybreak'' btw
One thing about Trails games is that the final dungeon music always rocks. Then again, many of the songs on the OSTs are notable
Man I never realized the contrast between this and the final boss theme of Hajimari lol. Both great tracks just in different ways.
I originally just came to listen to the FFXIV reactions but since then this series has introduced me to some excellent new music and video games.
That's great :D
Love your content Jesse. Thank you for all that you do 😊
*Spoilers below for the Trails series*
As a final dungeon theme this one is extremely nice to listen to on loop, which helps when the final dungeon section can take a couple hours lol
The culmination of 8 previous games worth of story, worldbuilding, and characters all coming together for one final showdown against the big bad (of Cold Steel, literally the most powerful man in the Empire, the "Blood and Iron Chancellor") and his hand picked lackeys (aptly named the "Ironbloods") to stop what is basically World War 1 from happening
You end up going through multiple different dungeons simultaneously with various strike teams consisting of most of the characters from all the games, plus a few new ones. This allows the main group to break past the barrier of the final dungeon and truly begin the final operation. All while this theme plays in the background.
Giving the full context for the events leading to this part would be impossible without writing about 5 novels worth of information lmao so I'll just give you some barebones info about the main antagonist:
"Giliath Osborne. The leading figure in the movement to reform the Erebonian Empire's feudal power structure. Once a general in the Imperial army, it was thanks to his actions in hunting down those responsible for the Hamel Incident and brokering a ceasefire agreement between Erebonia and Liberl that resulted in the Hundred Days War coming to a close. As a reward for his actions, Emperor Eugent III granted him his now-current title as High Chancellor of Erebonia, becoming the first commoner in history to ever achieve the title."
Basically think of Erebonia as 18th Century England with Kings, Nobles, Parliament, provincial armies, and more fun social stuff from back then except they have even funner stuff like trains, airships, devices that are basically cell phones but that can also harness the planets energy (easiest comparison would be FF7 and the Lifestream... kinda) to essentially use what is basically magic. Oh yea and they have giant robots too which are basically just bipedal easily maneuverable tanks.
The Hamel incident was your classic power hungry nobles favorite pastime, seeking more power! Gasp... no way! Bad jokes aside basically some nobles wanted to conquer the southern country of Liberl, dressed some dudes up in Liberl soldier uniforms and slaughtered a small town in the Empire near the border of Liberl, and used it as an excuse to invade them.
Osborne lived in the Capital at the time and his residence was also attacked in which he lost his wife and his son was critically injured. Upon rushing back once he heard of the attack he found his son with a large piece of debris pierced through his chest and barely alive. He cried out in grief to the Goddess, to anyone, to save his son. A shadowy entity appeared before him and promised to heal his son. The price? His soul. Truly a "deal with the devil". The only path before him was one now covered in darkness, now bound to do the entities bidding until the bitter end.
The war only lasted 100 days (hence the title "Hundred Days War") until the truth was discovered and the peace treaty was signed. Osborne gathered up the nobles responsible and had them all executed. Hamel was then wiped from all maps and the incident was swept under the rug with the public never knowing the truth with the official story being it was destroyed "in a landslide".
Fun fact, the son of one of the nobles ends up joining the Intelligence Division (basically CIA) and Osborne takes him under his wing as an "Ironblood".
At the end of Cold Steel 2 Osborne reveals that Rean (the MC of the Cold Steel series) is his biological son, and that he's taking over the other antagonist group of the series "grand" plan. That being the secret "Society" only known as Ouroboros who we (the player) fight quite often in the Sky and Crossbell games. Which basically amounted to fulfilling an ancient prophecy and igniting the entire continent in the flames of war.
I hope I didn't write too much, or that this wasn't too much of an info dump I've never actually tried explaining things from this series before. Needless to say this series has some of the best worldbuilding and characters in any source of media I've consumed in my almost 30 years of life. Which is saying something since I only found out this series existed a little more than 2 years ago. Anyway I've rambled enough, if you happened to read this message, skim through it, or skip to the end just wanted to say thanks for checking out another Trails song. Look forward to more, stay safe and keep rockin' 🤘😎
Upon re-reading my comment and making some adjustments I still ended up writing a novels worth, oops... xD
Osborne didn't Live in Hamel, he lived somewhere in Heimdallr
@@yi_hou3092 whoops you're right, the attack on his residence took place at around the same time if I remember correctly. I think I accidentally substituted my CS3 theory with the info we got from CS4. Thanks for correcting me 👍
Light & Darkness from Yakuza Like a Dragon ten days ago, and now this. Two of my favorite game music ever this truly proves that even without getting your request there's still something for you here ^^
Trails is pretty unique in games in that its an ongoing story thats been happening since Trails in the Sky came out on PSP in 2004. There are multiple "arcs" that are meant as jumping on points for new players but they also continue the overall narrative of the games and are generally contained in a region of the world the games are set. Trails in the Sky focused on Liberl an independent nation bordering next two rival superpowers, Trails from Zero/Azure focus on Crossbell an independent trade city (think Hong Kong) that is right between the rival superpowers and Cold Steel set in Erebonia the most powerful nation in the world at that time but with tons of internal strife and conflict thanks to "reformist" and "traditionalist" factions butting heads. Trails of Cold Steel IV / Sen no Kiseki IV was basically the culmination of the story up to that point, basically the Avengers: Endgame of that story. It was 8 games in the making, and each of those are basically 60-100 hour JRPGs. It brought back tons of characters and wrapped up a lot of hanging threads. That said, it is also a very messy game. But I love it, and the series, for the scope of what they try to do. And the music is also pretty good.
Haven't played this one just yet, but I always welcome more Falcom love.
More love for Falcom is always very appreciated :-)
I had to make him listen to this :P.
"Man, look at all those characters"
HE
HAS
NO
IDEA
:D
That's maybe like 10% of the playable characters in this game
This is the track for the final dungeon of the game as well as the true final boss
Thank you to the requester of this song and thank you uncle Jesse for agreeing to the request! Another day made. 😄
You're welcome! I missed that he saw my request for 2 weeks lolol
@@narius_jaden215 kudos to you my fellow Trails enjoyer!
i mean this franchise has amazing music all around so if you listen to more you will never be disappointed
god to the future is such a good song
@@raginggodmandalorian Yes love it too
Hopeful/jubilant final boss theme makes me /immediately/ think Hopes and Dreams from Undertale. But, yeah, final bosses usually go for dark and dangerous rather than "You've got this!", lol.
The random draw was actually such a good idea. Hoping my Dragalia Lost submission gets picked 🙏
If you haven't already, I recommend you giving a listen to "Sword of Biting Gale", for me is one of the best battle themes of the saga
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Of Cold Steel 4
There is Trails in the Sky trilogy, Cold Steel trilogy, and the Crossbell duology.
Cold Steel is a tetralogy
not ys but hey... JDK band still... rock n roll
Yay more falcom
Just an FYI, the western/English name of this game is The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 4. There's a whole lot of Trails games - the music from the Sky games is much much better than the music from the Cold Steel games IMO.
Falcom JDK Band is sorta a shell of its former selves, their band members are just contractors so the only composers are notable.
The 2016 band is really really good compared to 2022.
This was the Era of the PS2, PS2 and PSP/Vita.
Nihon Falcom developed games exclusively for Sony mainly, but the YS series was multiplatform.
in the game version is actually pretty underwhelming because after all the build up and epic music like this, let just say the place you charging is pretty "empty" lol
considering this is like... if you put this in anime centric, this is like the scene where the mc and his gang charge to the "place" and during it all character from previous series is coming and helping you
its basically the super smash "everyone is here" moment
Someone in the live chat also made the same comparison to smash lol
There's too many Cold Steel requests, I'm not familiar with these tracks so I'm not watching these reactions. I've only played the Sky games, Zero and got about halfway through CS1. I'm going to go through Azure releasing a few months from now first before giving CS1 another go (and even then I probably won't be able to get through Azure + all 4 CS games before the end of this year).
The Cold Steel series is definitely the peak, as far as the soundtracks go.
@@guruthosamarthruin4459 I doubt that. Nothing I heard from the CS games so far (most tracks from CS1 and a few from the other games) comes close to most of whats in in the Sky games and Zero. Although I personally also think the music in more modern Falcom games for most part is not on the same level as what they used to make in the 2000's to 2010 era.
Of course, I could be surprised. But I'm not expecting it going mainly by my experience with what I heard from the CS games so far.
The only songs I liked from sky series was battle theme 1 from 1 and of course silver will. Maybe silver will would be good to react to
@@guruthosamarthruin4459 Not gonna say that you're wrong since music is subjective but hard disagree. To me Cold Steel ost is actually the weakest one with Sky and Crossbell competing for the first place. (Azure Arbitrator definitely takes the first place though.)
Personally I've got like 10+ requests in so far, mostly Sky 3rd, Zero, and Azure. Since I know other people have Cold Steel covered I'll probably submit a few from Hajimari as well at some point down the line. Feels like a step up from Cold Steel from the overworld themes to the dungeon themes to the battle themes. Cold Steel music is great, but the older stuff is just... on another level xD Hajimari isn't there, but it's a lot closer than Cold Steel. And I added quite a large number of songs from Hajimari to my favorites Playlist on my phone, which is mostly Sky and Crossbell Era songs with a few Cold Steel osts peppered in lol