The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III 2017

Is it still worth playing?

Nihon Falcom's 2017 role playing game, the sequel to Trails of Cold Steel II, in which Rean Schwarzer is now an instructor at a military academy. He teaches a new Class VII, two years after the previous game and several months after the Northern War. The Imperial government assigns him to resolve conflicts across Erebonia, many caused by the Ouroboros group, during the campus's field exercises. Battles are turn based and mostly menu based. In the Brave Order system you spend Brave Points, built up during battle, for effects such as buffs or heals. In the Break system, attacks deplete an enemy's Break Gauge, and a fully depleted gauge weakens the enemy for one turn. Each battle asks when to push and when to support. You empty a Break Gauge to weaken an enemy and spend Brave Points on buffs, which is worth working through today.