Graphics: Like most psp vita games the graphics are fairly decent. Enough to make players enjoy the experience.

Sound: The music is great. From common battles against enemies to bosses. Also, the story music is pretty good, too. Most Players will definitely enjoy it.

Addictiveness: Trails of cold will keep rpg fans coming back for more with it's new game+ and a few other features as well such as the option to carry over all the past obtained items for your previous playthrough. Even after completing the game most players will most likey give it a second go.

Story: It stars out with a flashback of a unknown enemy attack on a fortress. And ends just the interesting part was about to begin. Afterwards, the game goes back a couple of mouths before the current events all happened. It's really interesting. Enough to make the player want to go deeper within the plot.

Depth: With seven chapters and several quests with some being optional while others are not it'll take some quite some time to complete everything if the player desires to. If not, it'll still take a while, nevertheless. Just not as long as the trying to compete the game 100%.

Difficulty: At first, the basics control are a little hard to learn, but the game itself gives the player a better understanding of how it works. So it shouldn't be too much of a problem. The game has a total of four Difficulty levels. Easy, normal, hard, and nightmare. Easy is preferable for players who aren't too experienced with rpgs, and would like to play for the plots sake. While normal and hard are for players who want more out of the game. Nightmare mode, however, should only be played by players who have alreadly beated at least once with new game+.

Overall: Trails of cold steel is a game just about any rpg fan will enjoy playing.