tripleaamin
All Star
Basically exploring is the same as cold steel.
If you remember in Cold Steel where you could get the first strike on an enemy. Instead, you can do action combat and dodge like you've seen in the images. Now if you stun the enemy and enter turn based combat you have an advantage. Also, if you take too much damage the enemy gets the advantage instead once turn based combat begins.
You can also enter turn based combat immediately but that rarely happens. It isn't a forced change but that requires you to run away from battle and if an enemy has the advantage you can't run away immediately. I very rarely ran when I played Kuro. Also boss battles is only turn based which should be expected.
That's because they all debuted in Kuro
The top 2 Elaine and Agnes are easily the two best female kiseki characters since Estelle. Granted female characters in Kiseki have been underwhelming for most of the series outside of Sky. But those 2 are great characters.
Burnout I believe is the case with you. Which happens to a lot of people playing these games. When you consider the amount of dialogue is overwhelming. Cold Steel 2 aint a bad place to stop tbh if you started with CS 1. You still got shyt with Rean that is left unresolved, but if you don't care for him I can see why you would lack motivation to start 3. That would be my guess.
Same in Persona 5. Also, I ended up liking Scythe dude and gunblade dude way more than Rean. All the characters were kind mid imo. Maybe it's just japan in general but these perfect polite nice guy characters are pretty bland. That's why Yusuke is/was my favorite protagonist, he's so different.
