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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Decisive Edition (2019)

Platforms
PlayStation 4
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS)

How it feels

A methodical turn-based RPG with a deliberate, character-driven pace that rewards tactical link coordination over time.

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About

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is a role-playing game and a part of the long running The Legend of Heroes series of games. The basic gameplay is nearly identical to the previous Kiseki series entries with a few changes. The biggest change to the battle system and also counting as a brand new feature is the "Tactical Link System". The "Tactical Link" allow players follow up with three different kinds of link attacks, dealing additional damage and providing various other benefits. "Tactical Link" becomes a more useful asset to the player as the story progress and characters level up their "Link Levels" with other characters. As the link levels increase, you will obtain new link abilities such as healing the link partner or increase the CP gain of the partner.

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