Chrono Trigger community playthrough
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The G'randiest' Daddy
Teh Bunneh of Doom
- AKA
- Darth
Chapter 5: Party! Eat! Dance! Fight! Fun!
I am loving it so much - particularly when I realised how much the Tech point system is similar to the AP system in some FF games.
Hmm. I love the battle music. And I really like both the Mystic Mts music and the Ioka music. For some reason I also really like the Leene Square festival music.
2 x yes. Fought him/it around 8 times. Used him for his extreme tech point farming-ness, and also for materials to make a) exactly as much equipment as I wanted and b) a bunch of stuff to enrich myself with when I went back to the future (hehe, back to the future. Great movies.)
The Reptites are odd... Some of them seem so ...dumb. But then there's Azala, calling the early humans apes and whatnot. Also Azala does seem like a recurring thing, plus she reminds me a lot of Ozzie... We'll have to wait and see, I guess!
The moment I saw Glenn I said to Airling "I bet that's Frog, I bet something happens and he turns into Frog!" and whaddya know. Pretty sad flashback, in all honesty. Excited to see what happens next, with Frog all powered up, maybe getting to use the Masamune eventually.
Additionally, I did manage to beat Spekkio once so far. Now he looks different, like an Ogan, so I guess he's powering up as I do. And I couldn't beat him in his new form yet.
I am loving it so much - particularly when I realised how much the Tech point system is similar to the AP system in some FF games.
Hmm. I love the battle music. And I really like both the Mystic Mts music and the Ioka music. For some reason I also really like the Leene Square festival music.
2 x yes. Fought him/it around 8 times. Used him for his extreme tech point farming-ness, and also for materials to make a) exactly as much equipment as I wanted and b) a bunch of stuff to enrich myself with when I went back to the future (hehe, back to the future. Great movies.)
The Reptites are odd... Some of them seem so ...dumb. But then there's Azala, calling the early humans apes and whatnot. Also Azala does seem like a recurring thing, plus she reminds me a lot of Ozzie... We'll have to wait and see, I guess!
The moment I saw Glenn I said to Airling "I bet that's Frog, I bet something happens and he turns into Frog!" and whaddya know. Pretty sad flashback, in all honesty. Excited to see what happens next, with Frog all powered up, maybe getting to use the Masamune eventually.
It doesn't seem (in this case) to make a difference. I took Marle and Lucca, Airling took Marle and Robo. In my case it was like yours, in her case Robo helped out, it took the same time, it was just Robo doing it, and Robo's lines.
Additionally, I did manage to beat Spekkio once so far. Now he looks different, like an Ogan, so I guess he's powering up as I do. And I couldn't beat him in his new form yet.
Airling
Ninja-Fairy-Jedi-Princess
Chapter 5
Did I?! Once I discovered Nus give one 30 Tech points a fight, I spent about an hour running around fighting them! I have so many trading items I gave up turning all of them into sellables.
Also, I beat Spekkio this time around. When I came back he was buffed up passed where I can beat him again. Challenge accepted!
It's getting so interesting! But in all seriousness, I've known since we started playing that I was going to love this, and it looks like I wasn't wrong.
Not really, because I find myself humming along and jiving to pretty much all of them!Frog said:
Frog said:
Did I?! Once I discovered Nus give one 30 Tech points a fight, I spent about an hour running around fighting them! I have so many trading items I gave up turning all of them into sellables.
They vaguely remind me of the Mystics.Frog said:
Perhaps Lucca will feel even more comfortable around Frog now, since he's actually a guy?Frog said:
Also, I beat Spekkio this time around. When I came back he was buffed up passed where I can beat him again. Challenge accepted!
Flintlock
Pro Adventurer
What.
I completely missed that.
Are you finding the game too easy as a result of all your new techs?
Flintlock
Pro Adventurer
Found it: Corridors of Time. It seems to be one of the more popular tracks from the Chrono Trigger OSV - there are about a hundred different arrangements and covers, including by Smooth McGroove.
I think like is an understatement. The more I listen to it the more I want to listen to it.
Joker
We have come to terms
- AKA
- Godot
Chapter 6 - Power is beautiful, and I've got the power!
19th - 22nd Jan 2015
After the events of the last two chapters, our destination should be clear, as well as our goal: stopping Magus.
Our target, however...
Don't go in yet
Questions:
19th - 22nd Jan 2015
After the events of the last two chapters, our destination should be clear, as well as our goal: stopping Magus.
Our target, however...
Don't go in yet
Questions:
- Did you enjoy your jaunt through the castle?
- Flea, Slash, and Ozzie - thoughts?
- What do you think of the Laruba/Ioka cultural differences? Do they seem reasonable given the time period and circumstances?
- Do you have a favorite boss encounter at this point? (Flint, this does not include what was in the bucket )
Flintlock
Pro Adventurer
It was alright. The boss fights were the most interesting parts, but I'll discuss those in my answer to the next question.
Flea: not too difficult, I just had to keep everyone's health up.
Slash: pretty straightforward for most of the fight... and then he got to his counter-attacking stage, where he took off about half of each character's HP in one hit. That drew the fight out for a long time because I had to heal after each attack.
Ozzie: lol.
Do you mean the differences between the Laruba and Ioka villages, or the difference between them and some other period of time, like the present? Assuming the latter, it does seem a bit strange to me that the people form the prehistoric time can speak the same language as in the present - not perfectly, but well enough to be understood. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief though; even though the game draws parallels with real-life Earth's history in a number of ways (the middle ages, for example), that doesn't mean it always has to be true.
Fighting Nizbel was a fun challenge, having to hit him with lightning to do any decent damage but then having to prepare for the inevitable discharge afterwards. I had to decide how much I wanted to gamble with everyone's health in order to do as much damage as possible.Do you have a favorite boss encounter at this point? (Flint, this does not include what was in the bucket
The battle with Magus was an interesting concept but I think I got really unlucky with his random elemental weaknesses: it was almost always shadow or fire, and I had neither Robo or Lucca in my party. And considering he's the Fiendlord, I would have expected his "most powerful" magic, Dark Matter, to have been a bit more powerful. The fight actually got easier once he started casting it because I only had to heal once with Aura Whirl after every casting and could go into full attack mode the rest of the time. A combination of Frog, the Masamune and Haste made for an easy victory in the end.
Other thoughts:
- Ice water came in super handy in this chapter. 4 TP to beat just about any swarm of up to six enemies? Yes please. Only the Sorcerers required special attention. Silly name for a tech though.
- No time travel story would be complete without at least one case of going back to fix things but actually making them worse. Magus' dialogue after he was defeated suggested to me that we may just have done exactly that.
- Yay, I got Ayla back, which means I got my old equipment back! Now I just have to figure out when she might leave my party again, if at all.
- Was that lava really so close to the Ioka village the last time I was here? I never went far enough right to check. I have a bad feeling about the fate of those huts.
- Random villager extolling the values of the Ruby Vest + imminent trip to a volcano = hint that there's a fire-casting boss coming up, no? I wanted to switch Marle out of my party as I've been using her for a while but I think her ice magic might come in useful pretty soon.
Edit: I just updated the participant list to see where everyone has got to:
I'm not in the business of hounding anyone to keep up - taking part is completely optional, of course - but it's noticeable that almost half (6/14) of the active participants haven't posted any chapter reports after the first one. Also, I'm pretty sure that Force and KH530 have played the game but haven't posted reports here. It's our job to make it easier for people to stay up to date.
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Kuja9001
Ooooh Salty!
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- roxas9001, Krat0s9001, DarkSlayerZero
Chap 4
Love the game, love the music, love the characters, love the story.
"Battle with Magus" and some others that play much later.
Im aware of the Nu around there I just didn't fight him. I fought the one around Glen''s place though.
I don't look at them as bad guys, they're just doing what they believe is best for their survival.
Magus is a jerk.
Chap 5
Yes believe I kinda farmed off the fightable save points.
Flea is a cross dresser.
Trivia for Slash
Slash was much more a respectful and proper knight in the Japanese original version of the game. The entire "Sir Slush" joke did not exist, and Frog and Slash had a mutual respect for one another as warriors.
Ozzie was a waste of battle mechanics.
Love Ayla's speech pattern it's just like another fav from FFVI, Gau. Seems fine to me.
Definitely Magus, his badass boasts leading up to the fight are great.
Funfact Time
1) I you lose against Magus, he just turns around and continues to summon Lavos.
2) In the original timeline(dubbed Lavos Timeline), Magus summons Lavos like he wants but gets killed instead that's why his followers and others were saying he disappeared.
Love the game, love the music, love the characters, love the story.
"Battle with Magus" and some others that play much later.
Im aware of the Nu around there I just didn't fight him. I fought the one around Glen''s place though.
I don't look at them as bad guys, they're just doing what they believe is best for their survival.
Magus is a jerk.
Chap 5
Yes believe I kinda farmed off the fightable save points.
Flea is a cross dresser.
Trivia for Slash
Slash was much more a respectful and proper knight in the Japanese original version of the game. The entire "Sir Slush" joke did not exist, and Frog and Slash had a mutual respect for one another as warriors.
Ozzie was a waste of battle mechanics.
Love Ayla's speech pattern it's just like another fav from FFVI, Gau. Seems fine to me.
Definitely Magus, his badass boasts leading up to the fight are great.
Funfact Time
1) I you lose against Magus, he just turns around and continues to summon Lavos.
2) In the original timeline(dubbed Lavos Timeline), Magus summons Lavos like he wants but gets killed instead that's why his followers and others were saying he disappeared.
AvecAloes
Donator
Chapter 4
I beat him, but it wasn't pretty. Went through several Revives, but I think everyone was alive when I finally won.
Uh.....to be completely honest, I looked up a couple of things in a walkthrough. I felt like I must have run around just about everywhere but couldn't really figure out what I was supposed to be doing to advance the game. I'm not a great gamer; I generally like a lot of guidance.
At first, I thought that it was somehow going to be Crono from another time or something. Who knows.
I used Crono, Marle, and Lucca. I fought hard after getting magic from Spekkio, so I felt like using the three party members who could use it. Also I love Crono and Lucca's combined move Fire Whirl, plus the convenient all-party healing power of the combined move Aura Whirl that Crono has with Marle. I didn't change party members at all.
Chapter 5
I'm still enjoying it! I have to admit that I get kind of annoyed every time I have to go back to the End of Time, because it always means trekking all over creation to get back to the time portals. There seems to be a lot of running around in this game, which I'm not really a huge fan of, especially because moving around the world map is a lot slower and clunkier than moving around the area maps. But I'm still finding the story intriguing, and I want to see what happens next.
I quite liked Ayla's theme.
Yes, and yes. I only spent as much time there as it took to find the special enemy, though.
"Where is this going...?"
Well, it explains a lot. I kind of wish there had been a montage of a frog learning how to wield a sword though
I beat him, but it wasn't pretty. Went through several Revives, but I think everyone was alive when I finally won.
Uh.....to be completely honest, I looked up a couple of things in a walkthrough. I felt like I must have run around just about everywhere but couldn't really figure out what I was supposed to be doing to advance the game. I'm not a great gamer; I generally like a lot of guidance.
At first, I thought that it was somehow going to be Crono from another time or something. Who knows.
I used Crono, Marle, and Lucca. I fought hard after getting magic from Spekkio, so I felt like using the three party members who could use it. Also I love Crono and Lucca's combined move Fire Whirl, plus the convenient all-party healing power of the combined move Aura Whirl that Crono has with Marle. I didn't change party members at all.
Chapter 5
I'm still enjoying it! I have to admit that I get kind of annoyed every time I have to go back to the End of Time, because it always means trekking all over creation to get back to the time portals. There seems to be a lot of running around in this game, which I'm not really a huge fan of, especially because moving around the world map is a lot slower and clunkier than moving around the area maps. But I'm still finding the story intriguing, and I want to see what happens next.
I quite liked Ayla's theme.
Yes, and yes. I only spent as much time there as it took to find the special enemy, though.
"Where is this going...?"
Well, it explains a lot. I kind of wish there had been a montage of a frog learning how to wield a sword though
Airling
Ninja-Fairy-Jedi-Princess
How does one find that guy? I read up and saw he exists, so I hung around there quite a while and couldn't find him.
AvecAloes
Donator
Double postin
He shows up somewhere on the Hunting Ground map when it starts to rain. If you can find him before the rain stops, you can fight him.
He shows up somewhere on the Hunting Ground map when it starts to rain. If you can find him before the rain stops, you can fight him.
ForceStealer
Double Growth
All right all right, time to get caught up with the posts. As previously stated I've been keeping up with the chapters, just no the writing. Just finished Chapter 5.
I have stated before that I have started Chrono Trigger so many times, but I never got very far simply because I frequently got distracted. It's true that the story didn't necessarily grab me RIGHT off the bat, but I've also had a hard time in general sticking with emulated RPGs on my PC. I'm not sure why. For instance, I got much further in playthroughs of Xenogears on my PSP and PS3 than I ever did on the emulator.
Anyway, I appreciate more now than I have in the past how smooth the animation is. The sprites look just like FF6, by and large, but they have much more fluid animations and the lack of a separate battle screen on an SNES is damn impressive. I have never liked the DBZ artstyle and was thus never very taken with the characters, but you can't really tell with their sprites. I've never been real keen on silent protagonists either, just because of how stilted it makes the conversations (unless it's D&D-style game).
A little in between with a focus on the story. How I generally play RPGs. I definitely like to poke around buildings and such and talk to lots of NPCs, but I also don't intend to use a walkthrough except where necessary as thsi si essentially my first playthrough. And I would like to focus on experiencing the story that so many people rave about.
I'm not sure I ever quite picked up on what was being referred to here... I mean the impact of your seemingly innocuous actions is a bit like the determination of VII's date, but somehow I don't think that's what you mean.
Not guilty, which I was stunned by. I picked up Merle's pendant for her (I didn't want it to get lost!), and I didn't get that girls cat. How are you supposed to, I mean the found the cat, but every time I talked to it it would meow and then leap away off screen. *shrug
If the outside is a wasteland with deadly creatures and/or robots? Yeah it probably makes sense that that is what people would choose to do. Rely on those willing to brave the outside. Especially if you have a device that keeps you healthy, if not sated. It's not unlikely I would be in such a situation, not being terribly skilled in the ways that would be useful to venturing out. Hopefully I could be useful in other ways.
Hm, not sure. I do like Lucca, it's cool that she uses a laser gun in all these alternate time zones and has a bunch of gadgets and such. Kinda like a Cid mixed with Q (from 007).
Oh Mode7, how late SNES games LOVED you. I liked it though. It was fun how the computer would block you, forcing you to pick your spots, then boost ahead and block him
Poor Robo
I like him.
No, I think I did okay.
I did pretty well against him, actually. By far my worst boss performance was, oddly, the Dragon Tank. Who is a boss I fought before, but I got caught in a terrible cycle of burning through Revives on that boss. I've done fairly well since then.
I had a little trouble in the NEXT chapter, but this one I was okay with, I think I picked up on pretty much all of the hints regarding where to go next.
Well, Frog was on my mind at first. But I was surprised when I found out it was a kid. I was actually kind of impressed that the game was going to take a left turn and make someone besides the main character more important for a change.
Stuck with Crono, Lucca, and Merle. I didn't change at all. Like I said before I really like Robo and would like to take him, but Merle's healing is just too useful (and Aura Whirl was a major part of why I remained in command of the Masamune fight. I had seen the NPC hint about Slash, but I didn't connect what the NPC said to what the charging move was called in battle).
I am The combat's fun, and the variety of worlds is very interesting. I confess the plot still hasn't particularly grabbed me yet, but Frog's backstory was definitely interesting. So hopefully that's the start of what gets me investing.
I think my favorite so far is the world map music in 600AD. I can't not whistle it any time I'm there.
The what? I guess I didn't explore as well as I should have in the ancient past...
I don't know, her eloquence as compared to Ayla was unexpected. I didn't see an explicit connection to Magus or anything. But I'm also not sure why she was interested in the Gate Key or knew that it was advanced - perhaps even what it was for?
I liked it, Cyrus looked/sounded badass, and I didn't actually get what was happening (that it was a flashback) until halfway through. And boy, do Magus and his henchman look like DBZ villains or what? Even in sprite form. But with all the other wacky stuff the game's been throwing at me, I was perfectly willing to think Frog was...just an anthropomorphic frog. It was surprising to learn he was a person first. As Airling said, I wonder if it will change Lucca's outlook - if Frog tells them.
Phew, caught up. Besides chapter 6 of course, but the longer I waited to do this the harder it would have been to motivate myself to do so. But yeah, keep it coming. I'm officially in tax season now, which is a drag, but it's nice to have a game with an outside motivation to get through.
I have stated before that I have started Chrono Trigger so many times, but I never got very far simply because I frequently got distracted. It's true that the story didn't necessarily grab me RIGHT off the bat, but I've also had a hard time in general sticking with emulated RPGs on my PC. I'm not sure why. For instance, I got much further in playthroughs of Xenogears on my PSP and PS3 than I ever did on the emulator.
Anyway, I appreciate more now than I have in the past how smooth the animation is. The sprites look just like FF6, by and large, but they have much more fluid animations and the lack of a separate battle screen on an SNES is damn impressive. I have never liked the DBZ artstyle and was thus never very taken with the characters, but you can't really tell with their sprites. I've never been real keen on silent protagonists either, just because of how stilted it makes the conversations (unless it's D&D-style game).
A little in between with a focus on the story. How I generally play RPGs. I definitely like to poke around buildings and such and talk to lots of NPCs, but I also don't intend to use a walkthrough except where necessary as thsi si essentially my first playthrough. And I would like to focus on experiencing the story that so many people rave about.
I'm not sure I ever quite picked up on what was being referred to here... I mean the impact of your seemingly innocuous actions is a bit like the determination of VII's date, but somehow I don't think that's what you mean.
Not guilty, which I was stunned by. I picked up Merle's pendant for her (I didn't want it to get lost!), and I didn't get that girls cat. How are you supposed to, I mean the found the cat, but every time I talked to it it would meow and then leap away off screen. *shrug
If the outside is a wasteland with deadly creatures and/or robots? Yeah it probably makes sense that that is what people would choose to do. Rely on those willing to brave the outside. Especially if you have a device that keeps you healthy, if not sated. It's not unlikely I would be in such a situation, not being terribly skilled in the ways that would be useful to venturing out. Hopefully I could be useful in other ways.
Hm, not sure. I do like Lucca, it's cool that she uses a laser gun in all these alternate time zones and has a bunch of gadgets and such. Kinda like a Cid mixed with Q (from 007).
Chapter 3: No! Let's take care of YOU!
9th - 11th Jan 2015
Did you enjoy the minigame?
Oh Mode7, how late SNES games LOVED you. I liked it though. It was fun how the computer would block you, forcing you to pick your spots, then boost ahead and block him
Poor Robo
I like him.No, I think I did okay.
I did pretty well against him, actually. By far my worst boss performance was, oddly, the Dragon Tank. Who is a boss I fought before, but I got caught in a terrible cycle of burning through Revives on that boss. I've done fairly well since then.
I had a little trouble in the NEXT chapter, but this one I was okay with, I think I picked up on pretty much all of the hints regarding where to go next.
Well, Frog was on my mind at first. But I was surprised when I found out it was a kid. I was actually kind of impressed that the game was going to take a left turn and make someone besides the main character more important for a change.
Stuck with Crono, Lucca, and Merle. I didn't change at all. Like I said before I really like Robo and would like to take him, but Merle's healing is just too useful (and Aura Whirl was a major part of why I remained in command of the Masamune fight. I had seen the NPC hint about Slash, but I didn't connect what the NPC said to what the charging move was called in battle).
I am
The combat's fun, and the variety of worlds is very interesting. I confess the plot still hasn't particularly grabbed me yet, but Frog's backstory was definitely interesting. So hopefully that's the start of what gets me investing.I think my favorite so far is the world map music in 600AD. I can't not whistle it any time I'm there.
The what? I guess I didn't explore as well as I should have in the ancient past...
I don't know, her eloquence as compared to Ayla was unexpected. I didn't see an explicit connection to Magus or anything. But I'm also not sure why she was interested in the Gate Key or knew that it was advanced - perhaps even what it was for?
I liked it, Cyrus looked/sounded badass, and I didn't actually get what was happening (that it was a flashback) until halfway through. And boy, do Magus and his henchman look like DBZ villains or what? Even in sprite form. But with all the other wacky stuff the game's been throwing at me, I was perfectly willing to think Frog was...just an anthropomorphic frog. It was surprising to learn he was a person first. As Airling said, I wonder if it will change Lucca's outlook - if Frog tells them.
Phew, caught up. Besides chapter 6 of course, but the longer I waited to do this the harder it would have been to motivate myself to do so. But yeah, keep it coming. I'm officially in tax season now, which is a drag, but it's nice to have a game with an outside motivation to get through.
Airling
Ninja-Fairy-Jedi-Princess
I fought about 8 of those
. But there is apparently one single lonely one that shows up around Glenn's house. Since it doesn't seem to rain in the Cursed Woods, I wasn't sure how to find him.Oh well. It wasn't like I needed more experience and tech points at that stage
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Kuja9001
Ooooh Salty!
- AKA
- roxas9001, Krat0s9001, DarkSlayerZero
Akira Toriyama drew the characters.
Lucca=Trunks
Magus=Piccolo
Crono=Goku
Marle=???
ForceStealer
Double Growth
Yeah, I know. Just saying that those two were particularly apparent.
Ryushikaze
Deus Admiral Parsimonious, PHD, DDS, MD, JD, OBE
- AKA
- Tim, Ryu
Where are you getting that he was killed? He could have been pulled through time like the party was.
Also, the "Lavos Timeline" thing is fan thing, not a confirmed timeline. Take it with a grain of salt.
Marle is closest to a blonde Chichi.
Also, Lucca definitely more resembles Bulma or Bra than Trunks.
Kuja9001
Ooooh Salty!
- AKA
- roxas9001, Krat0s9001, DarkSlayerZero
The G'randiest' Daddy
Teh Bunneh of Doom
- AKA
- Darth
We're going to be on skype if anyone else will be otherwise I'm also trying to find out if ther regular skype thing is on, then we can alwas just hang around on that while we carry on.
otherwise I'm also trying to find out if ther regular skype thing is on, then we can alwas just hang around on that while we carry on.