Board 8 > Playing Chrono Trigger for the first time

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I'm about 10 hours in, just got my stuff stolen by Dalton and wow this game rules. The only other thing I know is that you can recruit Magus and I'm a little nervous about missing something and not recruiting him. No spoilers please though

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Nice, enjoy a timeless classic. I played it for the first time in 2011 when it finally arrived on the Wii Virtual Console. I remember very little about the plot but do remember absolutely loving it.

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Don't worry. It's impossible to physically miss the Magus recruitment.

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I loved Robo, played the game about 7 years ago on emulator. On the game itself, I like it, do not love it

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Keep your expectations middling and enjoy the ride!

It's one of the few rpgs that's a constant 8/10 throughout, with no weak points, and somehow comes out a 10/10

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It's one of those games I play at least once a year.

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Did you get a guilty verdict

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Yeah I was guilty as fuck but in my defense I did try to talk to Marle first and I tried to save the girl's cat and gave up.

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i don't think there's a single RPG out there that matches its pacing. enjoy it, still one of the best in the genre.

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I hold the (somewhat uncommon?) opinion that the games like a 7 up until the end of the early 2300AD segment, at which point it becomes a 9 and never looks back. Which is to say, it starts off as a decent enough little romp but a few hours in is when it clicks for me in a big and captivating way.

The two-decade dormancy of this franchise is an absolute friggin shame.

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SaveEstelle posted...

I hold the (somewhat uncommon?) opinion that the games like a 7 up until the end of the early 2300AD segment, at which point it becomes a 9 and never looks back. Which is to say, it starts off as a decent enough little romp but a few hours in is when it clicks for me in a big and captivating way.

The two-decade dormancy of this franchise is an absolute friggin shame.

I would honestly put the tipping point of the game a little bit later than that, but otherwise, same sentiment. It does take a bit of time to really get going, but I think the point it starts approaching GOAT tier isn't until you finally get to 10,000 BC for the first time.

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What a classic.

Really great game, played it for the first time just last year and it still blew me away with how good it is.

The coolest thing is easily experimenting in combat with different characters and techs. So much fun

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SaveEstelle posted...

I hold the (somewhat uncommon?) opinion that the games like a 7 up until the end of the early 2300AD segment, at which point it becomes a 9 and never looks back. Which is to say, it starts off as a decent enough little romp but a few hours in is when it clicks for me in a big and captivating way.

The two-decade dormancy of this franchise is an absolute friggin shame.

It's a fine opinion, the 2300 arc is a little too long.

But otherwise this game is flawless. I don't know any game that embodies the concept of "perfect" better than CT.

_SecretSquirrel posted...

I would honestly put the tipping point of the game a little bit later than that, but otherwise, same sentiment. It does take a bit of time to really get going, but I think the point it starts approaching GOAT tier isn't until you finally get to 10,000 BC for the first time.

Nah, for me the entire Frog/Magus segment is absolutely fantastic.

Wow I just got Crono back and I could have got him back way sooner. I feel like I'm almost done with all of the side quests already and I could have had him back immediately. Based on my knowledge of the game I was expecting some intricate quest to recruit Magus, like Vincent in FF7, instead of just asking me if we want to fight him.

Magus is great and I love his silly hovering around levels. If this game ever gets a remake I'd like to see more interaction between Frog and Magus. Frog just kinda shrugs and says okay you're cool now even though his entire character so far has been to defeat Magus.

Game is still great though

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You can find out how close to being done with side quests you are when you talk to the old man at the end of time.

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Yeah the only one left is Robo at this point I believe

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I fell in love with the trial sequence personally!

It just felt so exciting and fun with a good dose of wacky

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Make sure you do the Black Omen at least once too before finishing the game.

Though there are 4 different ways of going to Lavos and you might as well reset the game to see them all!

I wish I could play chrono trigger for the first time again

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Yeah I'm definitely going to do the Black Omen. I was waiting to get Crono back because the boss inside absolutely wrecked me the first time I tried to fight him. Having status immunity on everyone now will help

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Of course the ending would be different between them if you didnt recruit Magus. But I cant resist recruiting Magus.

What a fantastic game. It even has side quests, something that was relatively new to console RPGs at the time.

ZeldaTPLink posted...

It's a fine opinion, the 2300 arc is a little too long.

But otherwise this game is flawless. I don't know any game that embodies the concept of "perfect" better than CT.

This statement makes me remember the smell of Nintendo Power magazine when I was reading it. They covered a decent chunk of the game leading up to its release. I was hyped up to the extreme and then wasn't at all disappointed.

I love this game. It's perfect and holds up completely imo.

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_SecretSquirrel posted...

Don't worry. It's impossible to physically miss the Magus recruitment.

Maybe, but you can definitely miss the opportunity without realizing it.

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I love Magus but I almost love soloing him with frog more

Justin2Krelian posted...

Maybe, but you can definitely miss the opportunity without realizing it.

How could you not realize it?

Spoiler for what happens if you don't recruit him:
You fight him, he's gone forever, and sad music plays.

Though in the ending, Frog turns back into a human. While if you recruit Magus, he stays a Frog.

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ZeldaTPLink posted...

Though in the ending, Frog turns back into a human. While if you recruit Magus, he stays a Frog.

Which makes no sense to me considering by that logic if Janus isn't in the same time period as Glenn shouldn't Glenn change back anyway? Oh well. It also just occurred to me three characters have canon names no matter what you choose.

ugh this topic just made me remember the new endings for chrono trigger ds

I really did not need such a ham-fisted confirmation of magus=guile

also it just occurred to me that CHRONO CROSS SPOILERS lucca getting murdered by lynx off-screen is the original LAST OF US 2 SPOILERS joel's head getting golfed in terms of fan rage

Try Chrono Cross, it's made by the same company.

Don't really have a way to play Chrono Cross without emulators and I don't really care that much.

I beat this game last week after like 18-20 hours so I guess I'll give some final thoughts.

Overall it was good and I can see why it's so revered. I couldn't help but imagine how much better it would have been as a modern game though. The story really needed another 10 hours to really flesh itself out. I mean a lot happens but everything moves so quickly there's not really any time to appreciate anything. The campfire scene is the only one I can think of where the party even interacts with each other (minus the scenes with people in your party obviously).

Battle system was good but by the end of the game I was feeling some of the limits caused by the simplicity. The tech attacks are cool but it usually ends up to just using whatever one does the most damage. By the end of the game I was just letting Chrono auto attack with Rainbow and Cool Sunglasses and he was doing more damage than most tech attacks.

I was also surprised how much this felt like a Dragon Quest game. I know Toriyama designs characters for both but the tone and world were very similar to DQ.

For when this game came out I would give it a 9/10 but if this game came out today I think it would be a 7/10. A modern remake like FF7R would be amazing though.

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Yeah single techs are just straight up better than double techs towards the end.

The damage is nearly the same and you can attack with more people, or get more flexibility with healing.

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Voxwik posted...

How could you not realize it?

Spoiler for what happens if you don't recruit him:
You fight him, he's gone forever, and sad music plays.

He says "Do you want to Fight?"

There's no way of knowing, unless someone tells you, that saying No is the only way.

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colliding posted...

I love Magus but I almost love soloing him with frog more

I always do the fight first, and then reset the game. The duel is too good, and it's one of the harder fights in the game due to only having one character.

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skullbone posted...

was also surprised how much this felt like a Dragon Quest game. I know Toriyama designs characters for both but the tone and world were very similar to DQ.

Yuji Horii, the Dragon Quest series creator, was a supervisor on Chrono Trigger and wrote the initial story draft that Masato Kato used to write the games script.

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