![]() ![]() Square Enix took a Dream Team of the greatest RPG names in the world at the time, gave them a limitless canvas to work with, and what was created was true art. Everything, from the cast to the exploration to the soundtrack was done with the unrepeatable flourish of a master's brush. There was nothing missing, aside for Schala's plot thread, which honestly is a minor B-plot. It was a perfect game, bringing forth its time-travel based storyline with clever originality and style. By the end of "Chrono Trigger", I could not conceive of a single failing, not one. I'm not talking out of blind nostalgia here, I only first played this game a few years ago on the DS, when it was able to hold its own against far more advanced games like "Final Fantasy XII". "Chrono Trigger" is a magical experience. And "Chrono Trigger" doesn't have random encounters. You can argue that games like "Final Fantasy VI" or "Final Fantasy VII" were actually better games, but they simply do not have the grand vision, the unequivocal balance of tone, difficulty, and story pacing that "Chono Trigger" has. This is the Concorde Moment of the genre, a masterpiece which has not been topped since. This is the classic of classics, a fantastic achievement in 2D RPGs, which I do not think will ever be topped. The craftsmanship of this game is beyond reproach, perfect pacing, excellent sprite-based graphics that hold up even today sixteen years later, a great simple battle system that can be picked up, played, and understood in minutes. If you're looking for an absolutely perfect example of a JRPG, this is it. Not much else to say until I get more into it, but seeing as the story is actually pretty competent so far and the gameplay is basically more Chrono Trigger, I'm certainly willing to play more and see where things go."Chrono Trigger" is one the greatest video games ever made. Once again, not obnoxious, but considering how early in the game this is and how broke you are (unless you cheat at the Casino like I did) you might get a bit frustrated. The enemies aren't really hard, but the encounters are numerous and they hit hard enough that you really have to be proactive in buying and using healing items to be able to survive. ![]() Not that there aren't any weird balance issues, like an entire section where you play as one character through an entire dungeon. I'll say now that, so far, this hack completely avoids any super obnoxious fake difficulty BS that you see with some hardtype RPG hacks. The real change in the gameplay is with rebalanced enemy encounters, as expected, and it's not all good news. Skill system is the same, though everyone now starts with a set of skills and some magic from getgo, with some of the skills being replaced with new ones IIRC. ![]() Weapon/Armor seems to have been redone, though I'm not far enough along to see if there are any real major changes to the game's balance. Given what many might have feared when giving Crono a voice, the hack makers have shown considerable restraint, at least so far.Īs far as gameplay, well. Yes, even the now nonmute Crono, where it seems the only reason they gave him any lines was to establish that he wasn't mute I guess. Second, it follows the philosophy established in the first game, being that you're more or less free to explore around time and space at various points to check out new events and see how changes in the timeline (and believe me, there are some) affect the world around you.Īs for the characters, you have the requisite OOC moments just by virtue of having people in their spare time doing the writing, but it's not too bad and each character is as you remember them. First, it actually does an okay job realizing what the world in various time periods would actually be like 5 years after the first game, with NPCs and various writings giving a lot of background information as to what's going on and how the events of the first game have affected things going forward. Alright so I've played this for a few hours and I have to say, it's actually not too shabby all things considered, at least so far.Įven though the story so far follows pretty closely from Chrono Trigger and is essentially a "fanfic" in that regard, it does manage to do some things well. ![]()
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