This is sorta a Love/Hate review. I have played Legend Of Heroes since Trails in the Sky. I played the first 2 Cold Steel and loved them both. I was really looking forward to the third installment. Here's what I have to say:

A newer looking continuation of the story is GREAT. I am fully into the world at this point and I want to see it through. HOWEVER, I do not like the decisions they made in regards to the OG Class 7 characters. They aren't even a big focus in the story. They sorta just tag along every now and then and while you have NUMEROUS options for bonding events, including OG characters, you can only romance THREE OF THEM. The rest are the new cast.

I understand wanting to introduce new characters, and I fully support that. But if you played the first 2 games and romanced and bonded and even personally got attached to any character besides the 3 you can romance in this game, then it literally throws every relationship bonding experience from the previous games out the window.

In the end it is a Legend Of Heroes game. I really like it. I will play it more than once probably. Just really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dumb I can't romance Fie