The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II 2014

Is it still worth playing?

Rean Schwarzer wakes from a coma a month after the first game ended, with Erebonia in civil war between the Noble Alliance and the government. This second half of the Cold Steel story is about travel across the country, gathering the scattered members of Class VII back one by one. The role playing game came out in 2014 for the PlayStation 3 and Vita in Japan, in the West in 2016, with a PC port in 2018. It is a direct sequel and the first game is a necessity: the battles are the series' turn based system, nothing much changes in presentation or structure, and some locations return. A save from the first game carries over, so events and conversations play out differently for the choices and friendships made there. The story starts slowly, and the carried save still lets the sequel remember who you were kind to.