Chrono Trigger

[Do You Like Erotic?]

OK guys let's stop this before brains start exploding, my eyes are already hemmhoraging.

[Victrix]

They canned future production because every time it came up, the design teams started squabbling over whether CT or CC was a better game

[Mzo]

And frankly, if what it was lacking was a story on par with FFVIII

I never got past the ten hour mark with Chrono Cross, but for the love of god I hope the story is better than FFVIII.

Chrono Cross > Chrono Trigger. Like, its not even close. Better art, battle system, and storyline. It ties into the original Trigger and expands upon it but doesnt undermine it. And it has some great WOAH revelations near the end.

People who bitch about the zillions of characters are really missing the point, theyre missing the forest for the trees. Only two characters in the game mattered, and they gave you the option of using all these other guys for, mainly, the battle system (which was amazing). If you dont like that, thats cool, but its hardly a problem with the game, as the two that mattered were well-fleshed out and did what they needed to do.

Yeah, I keep hearing the story gets a lot better. Maybe you're right about the character thing, but the first few hours of the game really grated on me.

Hell, so did Xenogears the first time through, and now I love it.

I guess I'll reserve final judgement until I finish it. After Fable.

I really did hate the new art style, though... then again, I hated FFVIII and FFX's art styles, too. So there you go.

The whole Glenn in Chrono Cross being frog thing probably made me play the game more than I was going too. Just because it was interesting. I don't even remember the truth to this. Also weren't people saying the magic dude was Magus or something?

I really, really hope you're not spoiling something for me here.

[taloony]

Are my feelings of disappointment a result of 2004 game bias (I assume it was more impressive if played at release)? Or is CT an overrated game to begin with?

I purchased CT day one for the SNES, and was never really impressed with it. I thought it was solid, but never the remarkable game everyone else thought it was. I appreciate it more now than I did then, actually.

And finally, I really dislike the FF7 character designer's art style usually (I forget his name), but I thought the characters ranged from great to decent, PLUS it has Luckydan (or Mojo, I guess).

Umm... are you saying the FF7 designer (Nomura) did CC? Because if you are, you're wrong. I can't name the artist, but it wasn't him.

The whole Glenn in Chrono Cross being frog thing probably made me play the game more than I was going too. Just because it was interesting. I don't even remember the truth to this. Also weren't people saying the magic dude was Magus or something?

Glenn in CC was not the same as Glenn in CT.. at all.

In Radical Dreamers: Guile was Magus. This wasn't the case in CC though. They removed any kind of reference to that.

[Grave]

Umm... are you saying the FF7 designer (Nomura) did CC? Because if you are, you're wrong. I can't name the artist, but it wasn't him.

Nobuteru Yuuki, I believe. His CC stuff was good for the most part, but it wasn't my favorite work of his.

[Mzo]

Lucca was in Xenogears.

[Calliander]

I like both Chrono games equally. Chrono Trigger is my favorite SNES RPG by the longest shot and I still have fun playing it. My girlfriend never played it so I'm looking forward to watching her go through and uncover the story to see her reactions to some of the funny/sad/interesting stuff. I loved all the characters in Chrono Cross and I had a lot of fun playing through enough to get every character possible. The story was insane, too, and I had no problem with the artwork. In addition, some of the music in the game is better than anything before or after it, to me.

Glenn in CC is probably a descendant of Glenn from CT. A lot of people think Guile is Magus, but there's no real evidence to prove it. The J game doesn't count.

[Drewbacca]

If Nintendo wanted to get a great game out of Square that Sony hasn't capitalized on they'd be good to get the Chrono Trigger franchise.

[Opaque]

If Nintendo wanted to get a great game out of Square that Sony hasn't capitalized on they'd be good to get the Chrono Trigger franchise.

They would just do something to fuck it up, like demand multiplayer or gba connectivity.

[Drewbacca]

They would just do something to fuck it up, like demand multiplayer or gba connectivity.

mebbe