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Game entry

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel

2013 · JRPG, Action RPG, Action-adventure, Strategy · PC, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PlayStation 4 · XSEED Games

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is ranked no. 2,475 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,481 and 42% of duels won. The pairing that comes up most often sets it against Final Fantasy VII: 4 duels settled, 0 to 4. In its strongest family it holds position no. 118 out of 209 (2013).

World rank

no. 2,475

ELO score

1,481

Wins

42%

Duels played

144

About 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 VII" at Thors Military Academy, a newly formed class at the academy which is the only one not segregated by social class, composing of both Erebonian nobility and commoners.

The basic gameplay is nearly identical to the previous 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.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,481 ELO points over the last 215 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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The games The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel sits between in the world ranking.

The standing

Where The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 118 out of 209 (2013).

Where The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 2,475 5,110
JRPG 152 232
2010s 1,049 2,044
2013 118 209

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