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I’m playing Reverie on Nightmare and I just finished the second stratum of the True Reverie Corridor. I’m having an okay time but I’m honestly overwhelmed with how many characters there are. I have my core group but I want to use more of the characters and I honestly have no idea how to build them. I have seen one guide online of like super endgame builds but I’d love to see some mid game builds which would play a little different. Like I have no idea how to build Renne. In previous games I always built her as a caster but that seems like it’s not a great way to build her in Reverie. Would love to take a look at some people’s builds so I can figure out how to build and incorporate some of my less used characters and come up with my perfect Reverie corridor team.

I’ve found that I love the vibe of that song and it feels pretty unique. Nothing else in the XTC catalog seems to sound anything like that which is pretty odd but I’d love some bands that do hit that feeling with the emotional, almost desperate crescendoing vocals and that darkness it has.

What were peoples reactions to the reveal that C was Rufus Albarea? Despite being so determined to avoid any spoilers and not look up any guides or too much info, while I was reading 6 & 9 I wanted to better visualize Swin and Nadia so I googled a picture of their names and one of the first results was a picture of Rufus just titled C. I couldn’t unsee it. The fun mystery ruined for me from the jump. I love trying to figure out things like that while I’m playing so I was not the happiest. The whole time I played I was playing through the lens of someone who knows the other Rufus must be an imposter (haven’t finished yet btw so plz mark spoilers after chapter 3) and that Rufus C must be trying to make it right.

What was it like for people who weren’t spoiled on it? Did it catch you very off guard? Did you start to figure it out yourself? What were some of your guesses as to the identity before the reveal. The fencing style is the only hint I would have noticed had I not been spoiled but I want to live vicariously through those who got to play blind. I’m not touching anything online about Horizon until I finish it, that’s for sure.

So I’ve played every Trails game on my pc, mostly because I wanted to carry over my save data all the way through Reverie. But now with the Calvard arc there’s no data to carry over which means I can switch platforms without missing out on anything.

My preferred platform is absolutely ps5 pro. It is much more of a hassle to set up my pc on the tv and that’s the only way I like to play. I also like trophy hunting sometimes if I’m super into a game. Plus my pro beats out my 3070 in terms of raw power i feel like in my experience.

On the other hand, I’ll miss the steam deck so much. I love Trails on the steam deck. Does the Calvard arc run perfectly on deck? How is the pc port compared to the ps5 version. Any pro enhancements? I had planned to switch to ps5 from daybreak-horizon but the thought of losing out on my portable play is the main thing holding me back.

My girlfriend has been struggling hard lately, not able to keep her commitments to gym, and isn’t feeling very well. She constantly talks about how much missed playing basketball though? How do these leagues get sup, are the membership fees very high. She keeps brushing it off like it no big deal, but I see the way she light up when gets to play. I wanna surprise her in someway to get her an awesome women’s league to play on and I think her happiness will skyrocket. I KNOW it will! We also have a car so can drive outside of Astoria but nothing too far ideally. Midtown or certain parts of Brooklyn would be okay. Thanks for any helps

EDIT: meant to say no major spoilers in the title but I guess I can’t edit titles. I’ll trust that everyone understands my double negative doesn’t mean that I insist everyone use spoilers 😂

Hello, I’d like to keep this free of any unmarked spoilers beyond general names of characters in routes or chapter numbers and times - so I just recently started to play Reverie as my first game on nightmare difficulty, and I’m sure many people will judge me hard here and disagree with my purchase, but I purchased one of the dlc packs that had sepith for the characters to use. It came with some other stuff too, but I left all that stuff unclaimed and only claimed the sepith. See, I love strategizing in these games, I love experimenting with different quartz, especially with advanced quartz once the exchange rooms like Neinvalli start to open up the ability to trade up for some of the really cool advanced ones. I love playing with different builds, and trying totally different quartz builds on different characters and even having a few different ones for different situations. What I DON’T love (in fact I severely dislike it) is grinding.

This is my 10th Trails game in a row starting with the Sky 1st remake last year, and although I love every hour I put into this magnificent series, I don’t want to spend a second extra grinding for sepith - I’d far rather use that time experimenting with cool and fun builds on my characters to help overcome Nightmare mode. So now that I’ve done my best to try and justify my spending real world money on an in game currency (clearly I feel a little guilty about it, but more about the fact that I feel like the internet loves to judge people who spend money on things like Ubisoft games for exp boost or whatever they offer and say that people who do that are supporting the worst practices of the industry and should be ashamed etc) - my problem is that I activated them all on Lloyd without realizing I would only have them active on one of my routes.

So now I have all this sepith on a small group of characters and none on some of the more interesting ones. I’ve read that eventually you can merge inventories and use items and spirit and quartz across the different routes but I’m afraid this is gonna be pretty late in the game and ruin my ability to experiment early on. These games are the least fun to me in the first two chapters because you don’t have many options so I’d like to increase those options as much as I can, especially my first time tackling Nightmare in a Trails game. I just started Chapter 2, can someone give me a brief idea of when I’ll be able to switch between my characters inventories for the different routes? I think I heard someone once you unlock the true reverie corridor you can do so, is there a character route I should prioritize first in chapter 2 to do so? For instance play Lloyd route first because it will allow me to access it sooner? Thanks for the help all, I feel a bit silly for doing this!

Lost my save of 80 hours and am dying to see explanations for the remaining routes. Can be a fun silly explanation, and in depth explanation, but I just wants escape in a way thats somewhat entertaining.

Can be in review form, can just be a brief overview of each roots, but I lost my save after watching many roots for many hours. I’m done with the game but I’m desperate to see the ending of as possibilities as possible without losing my mind googling each individual ending. Surely there’s a good YouTuber that offer simpler explanationsfor many of them! Even just the more interesting ones

I never beat any Trails games on Nightmare so far. The older games were tuned really well to normal difficulty but as I played more and more of the games the better I got at understanding and breaking their systems. Now I’m on my 10th game in a row like a total Trails sicko and I’m trying to get the challenge back without making the game tedious.

CS3 on hard was a cake walk. Easier than the original games on normal by a long shot. Was gonna try CS4 on Nightmare but I just wanted to breeze through it, get max rank and move on because I’m a bit tired of the Cold Steel arc and I’m so excited for Reverie. Getting back my SSS crew and in my favorite setting in Zemuria so far with a huge gigantic cast. Still get some more Rean now that he’s grown on me finally after CS3 and 4 so it’ll be my first game I’m actually looking forward to playing as him, and he’s not monopolizing all the time this time. Then we have exciting third protag who I’m desperately trying not to spoil because I feel like it’s gonna be a really interesting part of the game. Anyway so here is my most anticipated of all the Trails games, up there with Horizon as my other most anticipated, and so if I’m gonna put all my focus and energy into beating one on Nightmare, Reverie seems like as good a choice as any. One final challenge on the og battle system before they switch to the new engine and battle system with Daybreak.

I am really worried that playing it on Nightmare is going to make the enemies super spongey and make it so that I can’t just use proper planning to destroy the enemies quickly. I want to be forced to use my toolkit but not forced to mindlessly plug away at gigantic health bars. I want to min max my builds, and actually have a reason to, because when I min maxed builds in CS3&4 I became so hilariously over powered I didn’t even have to pay attention to boss battles. I know they retuned the difficulty though so can someone help me understand what Nightmare feels like in Reverie? I’m the kinda person that once I put it on Nightmare I won’t want to switch it off, I will feel like I failed at the challenge I set for myself and so I only want to choose to challenge myself with it if I’m really committed to giving it a go.

If there’s any game for me to slowly pour through and take my time with to make some perfect builds and explore every quest and dungeon to the fullest it’s Reverie and I’d feel really good if the last game before the new engine was able to be completed as my first Nightmare Trails experience. I will likely never replay this game, as it’s my 10th Trails game in a row so the only Trails games that will be getting replayed are the new remakes so this is gonna be a one and done experience and want to get the most out of it.

What does everyone think? Is Nightmare on Reverie a FUN challenge? Is it grindy or more strategic and making the most use of your toolkit? One thing that killed me in the last two games was when your party would talk about how insanely tough the opponents were and how this isn’t gonna be easy. And then I just stunlock them with Rean 0 delay casting Alvion Wolf 6 times and they never get a turn. That was super anticlimactic. I know I could just not do it, but I found a way to build so that I could do that, I want the reward of being able to do that! I am hoping for a game that can allow me to create my super broken builds that will then give me a nice edge against my opponents, but give the poor saps a turn if you’re going to act like they’re gods compared to us. If I’m having a big conversation about how brutal this next fight is going to be, I want to feel like it’s brutal - but not spongey and not unfair. Do we think Reverie fits what I’m looking for or should I just run through on Hard and enjoy it for the story. The one thing I do know is the beginning is going to be the hardest part. CS3 was the easiest game in the series but even its first dungeon with Millium was pretty difficult at the boss early on. When you don’t have any tools to work with, there’s not much you can do and so I’m worried about that initial Nightmare barrier of entry before you can really start making a good build.

Sorry for the rambling post, I just am so excited I finally made it to the conclusion of all these 9 previous wonderful games that I was introduced to with the Remake. I am dying to give it a try but I want to make the right decision so I’m not kicking myself and feeling like a weakling because I have to turn the difficulty down lol. Thanks for putting up with my paragraphs of text.

TL;DR: how does Reverie feel on nightmare? Well balanced? Spongey? Grindy? Easy? Did anyone try Nightmare on their first run through of Reverie and have a good experience?

EDIT: sounds like I’m going to be doing a nightmare play through, sounds like if I can wreck hard on CS 3&4 I should be able to to at least finish Nightmare. Hijacking my post to mourn the identity of C because I was just googling to find what the exact things that change for each difficulty setting on Reverie. I thought that would be a safe thing to look up, it should have just showed stats like boss health and stats and how they differ between nightmare and hard. I couldn’t imagine how it would be anything but that. The first picture that popped up right on the main Google screen at the top was just captioned C and showed him with his helmet off…why couldn’t I just done a full blackout on all on anything related to the games. The one entry I was most excited for and that’s the one whose main twist I spoil for myself. Literally heartbroken. That’s my super sad rant that I deserve because I wasn’t patient enough and had to keep reading things to quench my excitement for this game. Heartbroken.

I work as a personal trainer and I have a client that has struggled with chronic back pain for over 20 years. It usually is the kind that starts at the lumber spine and radiates downward towards the lateral aspect of the thigh. We’ve had really good progress in helping that to get better, but now she’s struggling with something even worse that popped up and I’m having trouble making sense out of it. She’s had many physical therapists in the past and she’s a bit jaded with them because she said none of them have been able to help her with her back pain until she met me and she finally was able to have major progress and experienced relief and so now, after working with many different physical therapists for years with only negative results, she is extremely reticent to return to another (she’s convinced some of them made her pain worse by the time they dismissed her).

I suggested she make a post on Reddit to see if any people had similar issues and could offer their experience but she’s not very tech savvy and asked if I could do it for her and then either show it to her or let her know what people said. I don’t intend to do anything out of my scope of practice with her, I just desperately want to help her get some relief from all this pain she’s been dealing with and since I was able to fix some of her chronic pain through basic exercises like strengthening her posterior chain and stretching out her very tight hip flexors I was hoping we could find some ideas to help this new thing she’s been dealing with. I can offer more detail on the work we’ve done on her initial back pain if that would be helpful, but this new one seems unrelated.

The situation first occurred when she was just reaching down to pull out a plug out of a wall socket and then as soon as she reached forward and down to reach the plug she started feeling unbearable pain around her right quadratus lumborum muscle. She actually seemed to imply it felt deeper than her QL but she pointed to the general area that it was in. She described it as feeling like the muscles in that area were rapidly seizing up, I’m not sure if this was a back spasm or what, but it seemed more serious than one. For the past two weeks after this occurred she’s had a few more incidents with the muscles seizing themselves but mostly she just can’t move her back in a certain way without extreme unbearable pain. She dealt with chronic pain for a long time, so she’s no stranger to pain, but she said this has been truly unbearable like it makes her unable to live a normal life like this. When she’s not dealing with the active “spasms” she feels a strong residual soreness in the area that worsens when she moves in certain positions. This is actually not the first time she’s dealt with this exact pain - it happened first in 2018 and again in 2021 where she explained that it started similarly - doing something extremely innocent like reaching for something or bending over without any load and then having these horrible muscle seizures that are unbearable for her to experience. The other two went away on her own after a few weeks or even months but this seems to come back every few years so I want to understand so she and I can help her to prevent it happening anymore in the future and help her recover from this bout.

When she’s getting up she has to basically lift herself into a full squat position and extend her knees to get up without feeling a ton of pain. Getting into the supine position is initially painful, but once there the pain seems to subside especially if she bends her knees in that position. It isn’t painful to the touch but mostly when she moves her back or engages the muscles to get up or bend over. She also mentioned that when she’s on all fours she can round her back like the cat yoga pose, but when she’s brings her shoulders and and chest up to arch for the cow pose she gets this flinching pain and she physically can not maintain it.

I’m kinda at a loss, I can’t force her to try physical therapy again and she already saw a doctor about this incident who wasn’t helpful to her at all so I just want to do what I can as her trainer to make sure the exercises I do with her are safe, what kinda things to absolutely avoid and what exercises might help. If anyone could shed a light on what this sounds like it actually is that would be super helpful (does this sound like a back spasm?) Any advice for her in general would be greatly appreciated. What I can do with her during our sessions, what she can be doing for herself on her own time (I used to have her stretching multiple times a week with a routine I wrote her but now I’m nervous for her to be doing that) and how does she prevent this happening in the future (what muscles to strengthen, what should maybe be stretched)?

Sorry if this was too long, I just really want her to feel better, she’s worked so hard to get to where she is now. When I met her she was sure her chronic back pain would never get better and in the year and change I’ve worked with her I’ve watched her become a new person - so obviously it hurts seeing her revert back to a pain that’s even worse than what her pain was like when I met her. Happy to provide any additional information needed.