The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is a role-playing game and a part of the long running The Legend of Heroes series of games. The basic gameplay is nearly identical to the previous Kiseki series 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.