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Chrono Trigger DS: The |OT|
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Regarding the game's difficulty, it's not the hardest game out there, but you'll get destroyed if you just try to pound your way through. I found certain battles to be very strategic in terms of what order your characters executed their commands, and it's helpful to have certain characters (like healers) wait with a full bar until they are needed. I used a good number of MegaElixirs when fighting Lavos, too. Like DQ games, sometimes you just get really unlucky with what attacks/spells bosses come at you with. They can wipe you out fast if you're not careful.
I guess I was talking about it more from a collector's standpoint of finding the one w/ the poster in it. I mean, it must have sold at least decently if there was a second printing, right?Mister Wilhelm said:
BentMyWookiee
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You can find it for $16.13 brand new at the momentcarlo6529 said:
Mister Wilhelm
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ghibli99 said:
It definitely should have been $35 but there was a decent amount of extra content added to it.
The problem was the extra content was shit, it came out for a system that is notoriously easy to pirate games for, and there was crap advertising behind the release.
That's too bad. I'm really excited to play the PSP remake of FF4 in a few weeks. When I see that and think about what they could've done to refresh Chrono Trigger, it bums me out. Never say never, though... seems bleak, but then again, I never would've thought I'd see the day where we'd have every DQ game released stateside (in one form or another), but that's finally a reality.
It's been so long, but wasn't FF Chronicles on the PlayStation $20? And you got FF4, too. $40 for CT only just felt like Square being greedy.Lothars said:
I agree with you that it's worth the money, but if you're going to sell it to us for a 3rd time, don't take us for fools. And yes, if you want to attract a new audience, put some money into advertising it.
DJ_Lae
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I've had it for a while but never finished it (I've beaten Chrono Trigger before dozens of times) as I didn't have the drive to do the extra dungeon.
I finished that off last night and it was...pretty bad. I mean, the concept was fine, but holy shit at it being nothing but fetch quests. And when the fetch quests involve you running up a convoluted map to the top of a mountain, back down again, into Epoch, traveling in time, running back up the mountain again, running back down, over and over again, it gets really old. I understand there's another dungeon once I beat the game, so maybe that one fares better, I dunno.
I finished that off last night and it was...pretty bad. I mean, the concept was fine, but holy shit at it being nothing but fetch quests. And when the fetch quests involve you running up a convoluted map to the top of a mountain, back down again, into Epoch, traveling in time, running back up the mountain again, running back down, over and over again, it gets really old. I understand there's another dungeon once I beat the game, so maybe that one fares better, I dunno.
Scythesurge
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The 2nd extra dungeon is definitely better than the fetch quest one...still not THAT great though.
Mister Wilhelm
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malfcn said:
Do you have the
repaired Masamune and hero badge and gave them both to Frog?
Mister Wilhelm
Member
malfcn said:
No, in this game you just have to kind of figure things out sometimes.
JRPG...you know...
Fernando Rocker
Banned
Gahhh... I want to to play the game!
I just can't open the game because it isn't the version with the limited edition poster...
I just can't open the game because it isn't the version with the limited edition poster...
Fernando Rocker
Banned
ghibli99 said:
I ordered the game from Amazon last week for $15... it wasn't the first run, because it doesn't have poster.
But, my local K-mart still has the first run with the poster included. I'm going tomorrow to K-mart to buy that version, and then in a few hours I'm going to return the Amazon copy to K-mart. Both games have the same UPC.
added_time
Member
I've had this game in my backlog for AGES and just never got around to playing it. I'm out of town right now so I thought I had DQ6 with me but noticed that I accidentally grabbed Chrono Trigger instead by mistake!
What a great mistake!
I have never played this game before. I skipped it on SNES because I didn't start liking RPG games until I played the DQIV remake on DS just a couple years ago.
I'm only 5 hours in but I can already see the magic here. The game is so charming and the story is presented in a straight forward but interesting way.
Great characters too. Frog is super cool.
What a fool I was for skipping this when it was first released on SNES.
What a great mistake!
I have never played this game before. I skipped it on SNES because I didn't start liking RPG games until I played the DQIV remake on DS just a couple years ago.
I'm only 5 hours in but I can already see the magic here. The game is so charming and the story is presented in a straight forward but interesting way.
Great characters too. Frog is super cool.
What a fool I was for skipping this when it was first released on SNES.
Mister Wilhelm
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I was having a discussion with a co-worker about this game and when we got to the characters, I mentioned how Ayla is actually
and he said he never knew that was the case.
At the end of the game,
I'm just curious how many other people played this game and got that ending but never noticed this?
Marle's great great great etc. grandmother
At the end of the game,
Marle's family members from throughout time are shown and Kino is one of them. Since it is implied, quite strongly, that at some point Kino knocks Ayla up, she is clearly Marle's dino-age grandma.
I'm just curious how many other people played this game and got that ending but never noticed this?
UpperCaseN
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Mister Wilhelm said:
I haven't played CT since SNES days, but I played the shit out of it back then. Not only did I not know this, but I don't remember the scene you reference either. so...
MIND BLOWN
Mister Wilhelm
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Gryphter said:
That was the case with him, too.
The scene happens
when you beat the game and get the "good" ending
added_time
Member
I just finished the game. Incredible.
I can't decide if Chrono Trigger or Dragon Quest V is my favorite RPG of all time. They are both so amazing.
I can't decide if Chrono Trigger or Dragon Quest V is my favorite RPG of all time. They are both so amazing.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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dc89 said:
umm, yeah
It's an RPG released in 1995 for the SNES, designed, conceived, and supervised by Yuji Horii and Hironobu Sakaguchi, with art by Akira Toriyama, produced by kazuhiko Aoki, written by Masato Kato, and scored by Mitsuda and Uematsu.dc89 said:
What do you think?
Now that's parenting that I can definitely support.soldat7 said:One of the best games ever made. Thinking of picking this up on VC as well because I want my kids to watch me play through it. They just watched me play and complete A Link to the Past. I believe in a proper education.
Agent Unknown
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My brother got a copy of CT DS as a gift for me in late May (he found it mint and complete with the poster for only 10 bucks at a local used video store, quite a steal, only drawback was having to start new games over all three existing files in order to overwrite the already completed data from the previous users) and I'm absolutely loving it, great port. Due to getting sidetracked with buying my 3DS and OoT last month, I haven't gotten much farther than the arrival End of Time but I started playing it again consistently this weekend while on a roadtrip. This will be first play through since I first beat it way back in summer '96 on our old SNES cartridge. I can't believe how tough those evil Robos are after all these years, it took me about five tries before they finally went down. lol Can't wait to get to the Prehistoric age (my fave era next to the Future and Kingdom of Zeal). Looks fine on a 3DS screen too btw both in standard and original res mode.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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So I didn't realize how you get the different endings. After I beat the game is there a way to get those different endings or do I have to start the game all over again?
Well if memory serves there's basically two possible endings for your first runthrough:
the one where Crono's still dead and the one where he's still alive
if you crashed the Epoch into Lavos or used the bucket
There is also another "ending" you can get by finishing some of the bonus dungeons added in the DS re-release. Load up your most recent save and there'll be some strange portals on the map. Once you finish all three of them, you'll have access to a new location from the End of Time which features a new final boss tying things to Chrono Cross.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Christopher
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It also perhaps didn't sell well cause they were charnging full price for a Super Nintendo title...it could have had some enhanced graphics, with the original as an extra. Just seemed very lazy to farm this out at full price instead of putting it on the Virtual Console.
The DS version was my first playthough of the title, and I thought it was "ok" didn't live up to the hype that gaf makes it out to be...but maybe because that was also a lot of first people's RPG here. I still found the music charming and the characters great...just the story seems to lose steem half way through.
The DS version was my first playthough of the title, and I thought it was "ok" didn't live up to the hype that gaf makes it out to be...but maybe because that was also a lot of first people's RPG here. I still found the music charming and the characters great...just the story seems to lose steem half way through.
Finally started to play this game after meaning to my entire gaming life (which started hardcore with the golden SNES era). Right now I'm at the part where
. I had to take a huge break of several months because of personal stuff and so there are parts of the story that I can't figure out. Specifically, I don't know where Magus is. And I figure that he's the reason that even though I equip a certain item I can't use the Omega Flare Triple Tech. Hmmm...
Robo aka Prometheus fights the purple robot