Chrono Trigger turned 15 this year

GregN

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I've never beaten it.

I remember buying it at the EB games at Mall of America when it came out for $70.
 
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Game was my world for half a year. I was determined to find everything in it... Always beat the Black Omen three times per game, traveling back in time for each run. Went crazy trying to figure out the secret (I WAS SURE THERE WAS ONE) to hitting that middle switch in Ozzie's castle.

re: Chrono Cross. The PSX wasn't up to a proper 3d Chrono. Random encounters? ffs.
 
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Soilwork said:
Id also argue that CC has better music, too. Easily the best game soundtrack of all time.
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No need to argue, bud... Chrono Cross definitely has the best soundtrack of all time, hands down.
 
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Game has an amazing soundtrack! Yasunori is legend!
 
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most amazing RPG I have ever played I have spent so many hours on this game and never get sick of it, it's always the RPG I go back to
 
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It's hard to believe we've been playing this game for fifteen years now. Here's to at least 15 more of it being absolutely badass. :buttrock:

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This isn't everything I own CT based, I have a poster, strat. guide, and a few more CDs (including that awesome CD mentioned above).
 
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Billy Blitz said:
No need to argue, bud... Chrono Cross definitely has the best soundtrack of all time, hands down.
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I honestly can't remember a more well put together soundtrack. People gave the game a hard time because of the leveling system, which I thought was brilliant. In RPGs I hate grinding, I hate it so much because I know I will do it for hours for no real good reason. Cross threw that out the window, and yes the game could have been more challenging, but I never felt like it was way too easy. I replayed Cross about so many times I can't even recall.

I need to go find a copy now.
 
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I figure in about another 20 years or so the sealed stuff will actually have some weight to it. (ESPECIALLY the SNES CT).

The Chrono Cross was a different story though, before I got laid off, we found a box of sealed Squeenix games that we could sell (Final Fantasy 8/9/Chronicles/Anthology/Chrono Cross/Origins). I ended up getting Cross and Origins cheap as hell, and was gonna use it as a backup if anything ever happened to my original copy.
 
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striderpunk said:
Chrono Trigger: The Brink of Time, was such a bad ass cd.

Secret of the Forest- Arranged
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I don't usually buy arranged soundtracks, but after following this link and listening to that + a few other tracks, I'm totally sold. I absolutely love the treatment that Chrono Corridor (Corridor of Time) got, it's been my favorite vg song of all time and this version is just incredible!

Thanks for the link!!!!!
 
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Personally, I loved Chrono Cross, and I'm on my first proper playthrough again after playing it when it first came out.

Someone further up in the thread mentioned only being able to get 5-6 hours into this game, well I have the exact same problem with Final Fantasy VII. I've played the first 30 minutes probably 15 times, same with Zelda: Majora's Mask.
 
LoneSage

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what were they thinking with the battle theme in cross


can any of you honestly defend that
 
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A lot of the Square staff who worked on Chrono Trigger left the company after Super Mario Rpg and right before FF7. And it shows.

They set up their own studio (that has long since gone under) and made a handful of brilliant but obscure video games that nobody in japan gave a fuck about.


Now most of those guys, the creativity and imagination behind Squares Snes era games are struggling to make ends meet, making shitty apps and games for cellphones and stuff.

:crying:



Anyway, back on point I fucking loved Chrono Cross, for no other reason but the awesome characters you could collect.

Mojo the Voodoo doll, Starky the alien, Fargo the cigar smoking pirate who looks like Daniel Day Lewis, General Viper who looked like a badass Mr. Clean with a sword, Grobyc, Greco the Luchadore Exorcist, Funguy LOL...

Lotta guys I hated in that game as well, but fuck them: they never saw the light of day anyway.:buttrock:
 
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What the hell.... so many people in this thread saying CT is 'meh' or whatever! Get the fuck out of here.

Chrono Trigger is, in my opinion, the best JRPG ever made. I've played a lot, and it's hard to name another one that was so consistently great across the board. FFVII may have popularized the genre, but CT is probably more influential.

So screw the haters, this game is a goddamned legend. I'll never get rid of mine either — I still remember saving up all summer to get it on release day. Cost a cool $100 up here in the frozen north. Ouch.

P.S. Chrono Cross is the very definition of 'meh'.
 
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Cross was trippy...like looking into an aquarium on LSD.
It was probably the last Squaresoft game I ever liked.


Trigger was pretty magical though, but don't ask me to pick a favorite.
They are like a sexy woman and a sexy car...tough to compare without some quantifiable valuation on either one.


I'd say Trigger is the "sexy car" though, because it has definitely aged better and Cross is looking pretty rough these days.
 
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It's been years since I played Chrono Cross. How exactly did it relate to the original?

Playing through it, it didn't seem like it had anything to do with the original game. It played completely different, it didn't take place in apparently the same world as the original (from what I could tell).




KIND OF SPOILERY I GUESS:

The only bit I remember was one brief scene where someone says that basically events in Chrono Cross have resulted in Chrono Trigger never happening. Well that and rescuing Schala at the end (although she didn't even look like her from the previous game).

I'm not trying to dump on the game. I haven't played it since it came out, so I'm sure I'm mixing stuff up or forgetting things, but thinking back on it, it seems like they just took some random game they were working on at the time and stapled "Chrono" onto it for some extra cash.
 
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T.A.P. said:
It's been years since I played Chrono Cross. How exactly did it relate to the original?

Playing through it, it didn't seem like it had anything to do with the original game. It played completely different, it didn't take place in apparently the same world as the original (from what I could tell).




KIND OF SPOILERY I GUESS:

The only bit I remember was one brief scene where someone says that basically events in Chrono Cross have resulted in Chrono Trigger never happening. Well that and rescuing Schala at the end (although she didn't even look like her from the previous game).

I'm not trying to dump on the game. I haven't played it since it came out, so I'm sure I'm mixing stuff up or forgetting things, but thinking back on it, it seems like they just took some random game they were working on at the time and stapled "Chrono" onto it for some extra cash.
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In CT the final boss was a planet draining alien in the center of Lavos or something. In the Stone Age they wiped out Reptites and humanity took over the earth.

In CC there was no time travel, only timeline crossing.
Humanities timeline was run by a supercomputer called FATE, and in the reptiles timeline everything was run by the dragon god.

In the end of CC you learn that humanity started as apes but they began their evolutionary ascent with exposure to Lavos and his destructive powers....and that the reptites were actually the "good guys" who advanced and evolved through co operation with the earth, rather than conquering and destroying it.


Or something...
 
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Spoon said:
In the end of CC you learn that humanity started as apes but they began their evolutionary ascent with exposure to Lavos and his destructive powers....and that the reptites were actually the "good guys" who advanced and evolved through co operation with the earth, rather than conquering and destroying it.


Or something...
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That doesn't make sense. In CT you go back in time to the stone age and there are already humans when Lavos arrives.

Hooray for contradictions in sequels. :envy::scratch::(:oh_no:
 
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