Review: Chrono Trigger DS
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ha! I live in the Netherlands and got the game like a week (yes we europeans can import as well.) I'm near the end boss and somehow the game feels easier than before but maybe it's experience. But I'm realy glad I can play this game without having to buy a region adapter for my snes. If square and nintendo only could find it in their hearts to release Super Mario RPG on the DS That game is awesome as well and never saw the european shores as well.
but then again we got Terranigma. Another gem amongst the 16-bit rpgs.
but then again we got Terranigma. Another gem amongst the 16-bit rpgs.
For me, this "any excuse" was writing a wordy article about one of my favorite hobbies. Huzzah!PedroSteckecilo said:
Unless I'm mistaken, Super Mario RPG has made it to the Virtual Console for the Wii. Although not quite the DS, still a cheap and easy medium to enjoy a classic and fantastic game. And I'm jealous, Terranigma was among my favorite Enix titles of yore.khululy said:
Not likely. Chrono Cross was probably as close as we're likely to get. Although, I fear, if sequel does come to fruition, we'll all be screwed into a gaming series much akin to Final Fantasy [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_179/5544-The-Battleship-Final-Fantasy], which is something I don't think anyone wants.Veylon said:
I favorited that video within twenty seconds XDCantFaketheFunk said:
Anyways, I experienced Chrono Trigger for the first time a couple years back, and it has since been one of my favorites. I never get sick of it, and I'm crossing my fingers for there to be a time machine under my Christmas tree for me this year!
I got it for Christmas on the SNES years ago, and it became one of my top games ever. Got it with the FF4 port on the Playstation, and stopped playing before I even got to the Millenial Fair simply because of how long the load times were. Now I got it on the DS, and while I don't like giving Squenix money, I do like Chrono Trigger enough to shut up and deal.
Chrono Trigger is definitely in the same vein as EarthBound, in that both are classic RPG's fun to this day that other companies didn't rip off enough. It isn't merely the double and triple techs that helped make the game interesting, but enemies are designed that you have to use different strategies. A cave full of enemies where you have to use magic to kill them. Enemies that, when damaged, will strike weaker enemies and absorb their damage. Lighting an Ogan on fire so he tosses his hammer away. You just don't find ideas like this in games, yet they helped make the ATB fun.
What also amazes me is Chrono Trigger does so much more in a 20-25 hour story than most JRPG's can hope to accomplish in 40-80 hours today. None of the dungeons take too long, so they don't feel like an endless and boring grind. There are no random encounters, making you fight on your terms. There aren't a ton of plot twists added in for the sake of extending the play hours. Chrono Trigger should be a reminder to all JRPG developers as to how a JRPG can manage to be fun in an era where it seems the JRPG has ceased to evolve, while every other genre continues forward.
Chrono Trigger is definitely in the same vein as EarthBound, in that both are classic RPG's fun to this day that other companies didn't rip off enough. It isn't merely the double and triple techs that helped make the game interesting, but enemies are designed that you have to use different strategies. A cave full of enemies where you have to use magic to kill them. Enemies that, when damaged, will strike weaker enemies and absorb their damage. Lighting an Ogan on fire so he tosses his hammer away. You just don't find ideas like this in games, yet they helped make the ATB fun.
What also amazes me is Chrono Trigger does so much more in a 20-25 hour story than most JRPG's can hope to accomplish in 40-80 hours today. None of the dungeons take too long, so they don't feel like an endless and boring grind. There are no random encounters, making you fight on your terms. There aren't a ton of plot twists added in for the sake of extending the play hours. Chrono Trigger should be a reminder to all JRPG developers as to how a JRPG can manage to be fun in an era where it seems the JRPG has ceased to evolve, while every other genre continues forward.
It could be argued a lot of these "steriotypes" BECAME steriotypes because of Chrono Trigger. Magus-type characters, certainly, weren't all that common in RPGs before CT.johnx61 said:
This wasn't my first game, but it's still easily my favorite.
Way back when I never had a SNES only thing I had was a SEGA genesis and that big fat old gameboy so I never got to play Chrono Trigger.
I've heard many good things about it so I just had to buy it for the DS.
I've heard many good things about it so I just had to buy it for the DS.
I honestly don't understand why people love Chrono Trigger so much. It was a good game, I can give it that. But I didn't feel like it was ever anything so special. Even taking into account that I played the PS remake, I felt like had I played it when it was originally released I would have felt the same way. The plot was good, the combat was decent, and frankly the game was kind of short. Sure, you could play it over and over again to get every single ending, but I never felt like the game was good enough to warrant that.
And just to show that timing had nothing to do with it, I played Earthbound three years later and loved it.
I'll even go as far as saying that Chrono Trigger was a great game, I just hear too often that it was one of the best games ever made, and I don't agree one bit.
And just to show that timing had nothing to do with it, I played Earthbound three years later and loved it.
I'll even go as far as saying that Chrono Trigger was a great game, I just hear too often that it was one of the best games ever made, and I don't agree one bit.
