The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is the sixth installment in the main Trails series, serving as the beginning to the Erebonia arc. The game follows Rean Schwarzer and his fellow students of "Class…
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is an adventure developed by Nihon Falcom, released 26 September 2013 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 87.7 hrs to finish.
What The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is an adventure game developed by Nihon Falcom and released in 2013. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on PhyreEngine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Among the nations on the Zemurian continent, the mighty Erebonian Empire has been quick to outwardly stake its claim militarily; yet politically, ugly bouts of internal conflict between the upper class and commoners attempting to rise to power have been steadily intensifying day by day. The Noble and Reformist Factions have been none too kind to one another over the years, and tensions between the two only stand to worsen if compromises aren’t made in the very near future. Rean Schwarzer, like any other citizen of the Imperial Nation, is no stranger to these rising conflicts: the class system has been deeply embedded into the hearts of every Erebonian since the days of old. As a…
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 is the 23rd of 68 entries we hold in the The Legend of Heroes series. The next entry was The Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki Evolution in 2014. Its critic score of 82 is 2 points above 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 holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 57 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 87.7 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 17GB. 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 launched on 26 September 2013, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto V, The Stanley Parable, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD and The Wolf Among Us. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto V, The Stanley Parable, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, The Wolf Among Us.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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