The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II is the seventh installment in the main Trails series, serving as a direct sequel to the events of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel. The game follows Rean…
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II is an adventure developed by Nihon Falcom, released 25 September 2014 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 82 hrs to finish.
What The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II is
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II is an adventure game developed by Nihon Falcom and released in 2014. It was published by Marvelous USA, Inc.. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II picks up one month after the decisive collision that changed the fate of the entire nation of Erebonia. The speedy, tactical turn-based combat with the newly-developed “ARCUS” system returns, with all the bells and whistles players fondly remember, along with the new Overdrive mode, new means of transportation both across the land and sky, new allies, new dangers, and a renewed sense of hope as Rean tirelessly works to right the wrongs that have led the country to disarray.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 51 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Heroes series
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II is the 25th of 68 entries we hold in the The Legend of Heroes series. The next entry was The Legend of Heroes: Sora no Kiseki FC Evolution in 2015. Its critic score of 81 is almost exactly the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter at 87.
How it was received
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 82 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Atom x7-Z8700 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM and Shader Model 5 (GeForce 400 / Radeon HD 5000 / Intel post-2012 series). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 19GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II launched on 25 September 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Bayonetta 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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