The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel

 PlayStation 4
User Score
8.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 183 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 159 out of 183
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 183
  3. Negative: 14 out of 183
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  1. michaelb1928
    Sep 6, 2019
    6
    Game was ok, story was boring and dialogue felt fluffy at times, a lot of your time will be spent reading as is traditional for jrpg games, this is still my least favourite part of any of these games. Sometimes you can go for an hour even longer just listening to and reading dialogue before you can actually start playing the game again. combat is very fun tho so thats what kept me playing,Game was ok, story was boring and dialogue felt fluffy at times, a lot of your time will be spent reading as is traditional for jrpg games, this is still my least favourite part of any of these games. Sometimes you can go for an hour even longer just listening to and reading dialogue before you can actually start playing the game again. combat is very fun tho so thats what kept me playing, characters are fleshed out but can be fairly one note at times. about a 60 hour game that could have been 20… Expand
  2. Neatqt
    Apr 20, 2020
    6
    Cast: 6/10
    Story: 6/10
    Fun: 5/10
    Gameplay: 8/10

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  3. Bmooz
    Dec 27, 2022
    7
    The beginning is exceptionally slow. You find yourself doing mundane quests and sort of muddling through things. If you can get through those first dozen hours, the story gets much better. The combat is done well and the story gets stronger as things progress.

    The bad is that this becomes a semi basic harem game, which does a great disservice to the larger series as a whole. It becomes a    The beginning is exceptionally slow. You find yourself doing mundane quests and sort of muddling through things. If you can get through those first dozen hours, the story gets much better. The combat is done well and the story gets stronger as things progress.

    The bad is that this becomes a semi basic harem game, which does a great disservice to the larger series as a whole. It becomes a recurring theme that distracts from and drags down the plotline, since it inhibits the development of characters outside of the MC.    … Expand

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#60 Best PS4 Game of 2019
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#83 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2019
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#36 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2019

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. RPGamer
    Sep 6, 2019
    100
    It was and still is an absolute must-play for any JRPG fan, and a master class in slow-burn world-building that should be mandatory gaming, and if a modern-hardware remaster puts it into the hands of even more gamers, I can’t help but be all for it. If the original release was already a modern classic, then this improved version is nothing short of a masterpiece.
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  2. 4P.de
    May 15, 2019
    82
    Slighty enhanced PS4 premiere of the epic rpg saga with a slight touch of Persona.
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  3. GameCritics
    May 10, 2019
    30
    Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel lacks vibrancy, the animations lack imagination, and the characters are a bunch of bores. Not having played any other games in the series, I can’t say whether this series is suffering from sequelitis exhaustion, but this installment just lacks so much. It’s an excruciating play that I cannot recommend.
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