For those of you brave or masochistic enough, this will be a guide on winning every battle (including the optional ones) in Trails in the Sky SC, on Nightmare mode, with a fresh new game. Each battle has an accompanying video and description of character setups. Strategies detailed here are designed for Nightmare difficulty but most will work fine for lower level difficulties as well.

Some quick notes:

If this is your first time playing the game, I highly recommend playing it on Normal or Hard—Nightmare is definitely not designed for a New Game playthrough. This guide assumes that you will have Agate for Chapters 1-3. If I do feel like subjecting myself to Nightmare mode again anytime soon, I’ll see if I can make some with Schera. Having a max BP save from Trails in the Sky: FC is necessary to get through the Prologue. If you don’t have one, do that first.

With all that covered, check out the Prologue here or pick a chapter from below.

Chapter Index

Prologue (Part 1)

Prologue (part 2)