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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (2017)

Nihon Falcom

Android · Google Stadia · Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · PlayStation 5

4.26 from 180 ratings

711 members have it in their collection · 27 playing now · 334 backlogged · 213 wish listed

How long? Main story 60h · with extras 91h · 100% 145h (from 16 logged playthroughs)

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is the eighth installment in the main Trails series, serving as a direct sequel to the events of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II. The game follows Rean Schwarzer, now a military professor, as well as his students, and the rest of his military school friends from the … Read more
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is the eighth installment in the main Trails series, serving as a direct sequel to the events of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II. The game follows Rean Schwarzer, now a military professor, as well as his students, and the rest of his military school friends from the prior two entries, notably exploring subjects such as the mysterious origin's of Rean's birth, and what others have been up to since the events of the prior games. Read less
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Developers
Nihon Falcom
Publishers
NIS America, Nihon Falcom
Genres
Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes
Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Party, Science fiction
Franchises
The Legend of Heroes
Series
The Legend of Heroes: Trails
Steam
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Release dates

  • Sep 28, 2017 (Full Release) (Japan) PlayStation 4
  • Oct 22, 2019 (Full Release) (Europe) PlayStation 4
  • Oct 22, 2019 (Full Release) (North_America) PlayStation 4
  • Oct 29, 2019 (Full Release) (Australia) PlayStation 4
  • Mar 19, 2020 (Full Release) (Japan) Nintendo Switch
  • Mar 23, 2020 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Jun 30, 2020 (Full Release) (North_America) Nintendo Switch
  • Jun 30, 2020 (Full Release) (Europe) Nintendo Switch
  • Jun 30, 2020 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch
  • Jul 07, 2020 (Full Release) (New_Zealand) Nintendo Switch
  • Jul 07, 2020 (Full Release) (Australia) Nintendo Switch
  • Apr 01, 2021 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Google Stadia
  • Feb 16, 2024 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PlayStation 5

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Rating distribution

5 stars
91
4 stars
58
3 stars
22
2 stars
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1 star
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Kenchiin

Status Kenchiin Jan 23, 2024

I took a slight break from this game to watch the anime The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War which supposedly takes place between Cold Steel 2 and Cold Steel 3 – and my goodness, what a waste of time that was!

I went in expecting something that would fill in the time skip between games, …

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I took a slight break from this game to watch the anime The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War which supposedly takes place between Cold Steel 2 and Cold Steel 3 – and my goodness, what a waste of time that was!

I went in expecting something that would fill in the time skip between games, and instead got NOTHING.

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Morcys

Status Morcys Apr 22, 2023

Something very strange is happening to me with this franchise: on the one hand it has become my favorite video game franchise, but on the other hand I have a hard time finishing its games. what makes this franchise so great is its story and character development and for that reason I refuse to skip even a single text bubble. …

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Something very strange is happening to me with this franchise: on the one hand it has become my favorite video game franchise, but on the other hand I have a hard time finishing its games. what makes this franchise so great is its story and character development and for that reason I refuse to skip even a single text bubble. Every time the clock advances, the dialogue of all the characters changes. Each dialogue, no matter how tiny it may seem, contributes a lot to the world of the game, and that is why I read them all, but precisely that makes each of their games very exhausting mentally.enter image description here

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AlicinaCat

Status AlicinaCat Nov 13, 2021

So… this game is pretty cool but some things are just cringy. Like the “gender divided classes”: boys get to work with computers and girls have to do a cooking class? Really?

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Girafro

Status Girafro May 25, 2021

Getting into Chapter 3 and I think my only major complaint about this game so far is a change that seems little baffling to me...

Why do I need to keep walking back through dungeons every time I finish one? It feels like padding, especially when the last two games had teleports to get you out of finished dungeons quickly. …

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Getting into Chapter 3 and I think my only major complaint about this game so far is a change that seems little baffling to me...

Why do I need to keep walking back through dungeons every time I finish one? It feels like padding, especially when the last two games had teleports to get you out of finished dungeons quickly. Seems like a weird change to me.

That aside, this game is really good. I can see why some people say it's the best in series, the story moves at a nice, quick pace!

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NightTray

Status NightTray Mar 24, 2021

With two weeks before the release of the 4th game on PC, I finally sat down and finished this game, clocking in at about 60-ish hours and man what a ride. I knew the game would end in a cliffhanger and why I put off playing it until the next game was close to release on PC but MAN two …

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With two weeks before the release of the 4th game on PC, I finally sat down and finished this game, clocking in at about 60-ish hours and man what a ride. I knew the game would end in a cliffhanger and why I put off playing it until the next game was close to release on PC but MAN two weeks is still too long given what a cliffhanger it was. Though I also played it close to release because these games go the extra mile for the amount of content and world building you have to read through and I'd like to have it fresh in my mind going into the "Final(?)" game in the series. Sometimes I think about how the entirety of the ten games' scripts roughly amount to 8 million words... knocking out 1 million that's probably just side quests + in game books... it's quite alot and probably not something I can ever have fresh in my mind haha. Anyway, really looking forward to the 4th game in the Steel series and seeing all previous game's characters finally come together.

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SailorV

Status SailorV Mar 28, 2020

Not a fan of how the demo(/game ?) starts. Immediately dropped into battle with a lot of unknown concepts, and no guide into the battle system at all. Tutorial came after the prologue. Still would continue playing, and I was not disuaded from getting the game

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CrazyDutchwoman

Status CrazyDutchwoman Mar 12, 2020

Well At the moment I am at chapter 3 which is nice but I am one of few that is not feeling this game but I think it is just me. So much talking and too many characters. The story is so complicated I am now skipping most of it Battling is the thing I love most of this game. …

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Well At the moment I am at chapter 3 which is nice but I am one of few that is not feeling this game but I think it is just me. So much talking and too many characters. The story is so complicated I am now skipping most of it Battling is the thing I love most of this game.

The problem is I have bought more games like this one like: Tokyo Xanadu The Lost Child Star Ocean First Departure

I guess my problem is that I have constantly been playing games like this one with lots of talking and I am in need of a game with less chit chat and more battles. No idea which game. Maybe I need to replay one of my older games?

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shad2810

Status shad2810 Jan 17, 2019

Part of me is happy we even got an English announcement for my favourite series. Part of me is crying because it's Nisa.

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FinellaGrover

Status FinellaGrover Apr 22, 2018

I really want news on localization of this title. It's been out in Japan for seven months already but we haven't even heard confirmation that it is getting localized, even though we have the first two games and everyone who has played them is on tenterhooks? Ugh. What's the hold-up in confirming this, I wonder...

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