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Let's... Trigger the Chronos. (What if...)

x4nti

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Let's push this onto the third page and force his hand!
 

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Interesting. I've tried this game a few times but never got far. Maybe this will be the kick in the but that will make finally pick it up and actually finish it.
 

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Xor said:
I don't think anyone in this thread has said CT is the best JRPG ever. It's my personal favorite, though.

Also bitching about linearity in a jRPG is like complaining that there aren't enough puzzles in FPS games.

Aww man, this is my first JRPG on a SNES emulator. Good times. I think this game made me gain the courage to play Final Fantasy 7 on the PC.
 

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Chrono Trigger - PST of the jRPGs...

Good but overrated game that everybody played.

But the important thing ATM is:

In before thread starting to suck and OP turning into a faggot.

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Page 3; the moment of truth has come.

I always felt that this game is slightly overrated. I like it, but some people treat it like it's the second coming.

That said, I'm still looking forward to this LP (assuming that it makes it past this page). CT's still better than most JRPGs, enough so that I replay every once in a while. Plus, it's a ghostdog LP. Assuming he continues it, that means it'll be good by default.
 

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We can stop Ghostdog from abandoning this LP on page 3 by quickly bumping it to page 4 !
 

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I bet he got bored with the LP and just finished the game.
 

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Sorry guys I would have posted the update yesterday but I was dead tired and blogger was fucked up.

Update coming up shortly.
 

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Ok folks, we're playing Chrono Trigger. Another game that proves that square's best "RPG" games were non-Final Fantasy games:

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Now, where were we ?


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Right ! There was some ass-tapping and Crono was eating dirt. Did he blew his chances with the girl ? That remains to be seen.





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Mighty fine !

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The pendant is hidden somewhere in this screen. Find it and win a 5 days vacation at the mansion of Lord British where where he'll teach you about the virtue of medieval sexual bondage.

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And now we've come upon the first C&C in the game dear readers ! How we act in certain situations will matter at a later stage.
Will we greedily go for the pendant, or will we check out how the girl is ? Crono is a gentleman :obviously: so he speaks to the girl first :

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Continuing our gentlemanly campaign, we pick up the pendant and talk to her again...

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Thanks for finding it, Could you give it back ?

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Of course, here you go :obviously:

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Thanks ! I came to see the festival. Hey, you're from this town, right ?

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Yup.

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It's no fun doing it alone, let's wander around together ! That's okay, right ? Right ?

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Hmm, I don't know. Let me check my schedule... Hey, it's your lucky day, I'm free !

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Yaaay, all right !


Whoa, that's one happy gal right there...

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More roleplaying choices appear in our way !

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I'm Marle. And you ?

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I'm Crono.

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Crono ? That's a good name ! Nice to meet you, Crono ! Come on, let's go, quick !


We've become her boytoy. Mission accompliced.
Now, let's bug random people.

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That's ancient history, why it should concern us ? It's a goddamn festival, let's play some games !

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Yay ! we collected one silver point ! Not that we know what we can do with it.
If we try to go to the back of the square we bump on some doormen.

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They must be talking about the preparations for Lucca's invention. We'll come back later. For now, we'll talk to old ladies :

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Just between us, King Guardia is at a loss with his daughter acting like a tomboy, or so I hear.

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You don't say.

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But I'd like to see just how much of a tomboy that princess is...

It's the second time we hear about the King's daughter, is the game trying to tell us something ?
We move on to bug more bystanders.

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Live happily ever after ? What the hell does that mean ?

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I'm happy I'm with you like this, Crono !


Huh ? It feels like invisible chains just got wrapped around our Hero. Bah, let's forget this and check out the various vendors.

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Hmm, I don't really need a sword right now.

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I live on the eastern continent. Stop by some time.

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By the way, the pendant the girl behind you has...

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Wow, that guy sure tries to take advantage of young people, one way or another... This is another C&C moment folks. If we say NO we'll build more credibility for Crono and that's what we'll do.

Hey, what are those four morons doing ?

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If you haven't noticed, there's a bunch of strange people running around the place like fools. It appears there's a race going on. An old guy stands close by and watches the event. Let's nudge him for some info...

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Since he stands here all day watching the races he must know something... Throw-Down Dina is the green alien tranny. (wait what ? :shock:) Let's bet on her/it !

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Let's follow them and cheer for Throw-down-dina !

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THROW-DOWN-DINA ! THROW-DOWN-DINA !


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THROW-DOWN-DINA ! THROW-DOWN-DINA !


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THROW-D... ... ...


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Last round's winner... Sweet Cat !


:(

DAMN the old man and his sure bets ! We lost ! Thankfully betting is free, since all you can win are silver points.
Maybe we should use the real money we have, to buy our girlfriend some new clothes :

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Women...

Now that we've pleased Marle let's go and do some manly things. Like take part in a BEER DRINKING CONTEST !

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It's the button of awesome !

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Ready... GO !!

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Wow, that guy just doesn't stop !

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FUCK YEAH !

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You give your all no matter what you're doing, don't you, Crono ?


That's right ! and if we have a turbo-emulated gamepad, all the better !
Now it's time show the world that apart from being able to drink humongous amounts of beer we also help little girls in distress :

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She lost her cat ? Leave it to Crono !


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That furry beast must be the one, let's get it back...

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Thanks for bringing me back my kitty !

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No prob... :hick:

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You're so sweet, Crono !


We've made two girls happy with one move, we're on FIRE ! Let's go dancing !

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Maaan, we're so fucking drunk... we must put something solid in our belly.

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A-ha ! something to eat. Let's steal his lunch !

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That, we are ! So what's left ? Oh yeah, how about fighting with a bipedal robot ? (Say what ?)

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WTF ? A Mexican bipedal Robot Rapper ? We must still be drunk.
Oh well, don't let anyone tell you that drinking and combat don't mix.

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Spekkio said:

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One of the best parts of Chrono Trigger is the combat system. What makes it so good are the various "techniques" you can use and the way you use them. Right now we don't have any techniques yet, though.

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Combat is real time but you must wait for your action bar to fill in order to make your move. How quickly the action bar fills depends on your speed. Time pauses only if you go to the techniques menu, but there's an option in the settings to never pause the time, if you want. As I said, what makes combat fun and gives it a tactical aspect, is the techniques, but we'll back on that later.

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Tech points help you acquire techniques. As soon as you've gathered enough points you can start using a technique. When you level up you get access to more techniques and your stats rise. You can also increase your stats by using various boosters you'll find along the way.




As a reward for winning we get to listen to more robo-rap.

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Crono took some beating. so we must find some way to replenish our health. Hey, it seems that the old-man's "mommy" brought him more lunch. Heheheheh...

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So far we've been gathering silver points like crazy, what can you do with them you ask ? Well, first of all we can exchange them for actual money...

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Or we can use them here...

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Wait, what ?

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Oh well, I told you this translation has weak points. But nothing will stop us from testing our courage !

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Let me tell you, this festival is surreal.

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Silver point card. How much will you pay ?

Depending on how much silver points we pay, we can chose between 3 different challenges. The first minigame is "find the tin-head".

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I'm wedge.

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I'm Piette.

We get past the FF references and...

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Where's Piette ?

Here :obviously:

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And our reward is a...

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Apart from being sickeningly cute (or butt-ugly) it can also be used to change the music in your room. Go figure. Next we decide to pay 40 points and start the second challenge.

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WTF ? Our clone ? Who the hell cloned us and why ?

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BRAARGLUAGLUARHH YOU CLONED THE WRONG MAN !!


This one is the only important minigame, if we complete it successfully we get...

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Magnificently doppled !

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We get a clone of Crono (more like a marionette actually) , which is seemingly useless for now. Let's go at our place and check it out !

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:smug:

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It's nice to meet you, I'm Marle.

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Huh ? Marle ? Haven't I met you somewhere ? That's funny, I wonder if it's my imagination.

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??

Marle hides behind crono...

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What's going on here ? Is Marle hiding something from us ? Could it be any more obvious ? Why the hell did we come here anyway ? Why is this chapter so damn long ?


Time to end it.
Next update will be Sensational, I swear.
 

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Good job :thumbsup:
I wanted to replay CT on my symbian phone but i cant find a crack to only snes emu version that handles sounds properly,

Care to LP Chrono Cross too?
 

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WTF. You're playing a different version. That blacksmith is supposed to be Melchior! Or am I remembering it wrongly?
 

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Bahamut said:
Good job :thumbsup:
I wanted to replay CT on my symbian phone but i cant find a crack to only snes emu version that handles sounds properly,
I have in my android HTC, it's playable, but combat gets a bit frustrating since the controls aren't the best for such a game. So I've decided to stick to turn based games, like Tactics Ogre.

Bahamut said:
Care to LP Chrono Cross too?
Let's see If I manage to finish this LP first.
:M


RK47 said:
WTF. You're playing a different version. That blacksmith is supposed to be Melchior! Or am I remembering it wrongly?
As I said in the first chapter, it's a retranslation. They've changed some of the names back to the jap originals.
 

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I still say it's :decline: that you don't allow us to name the characters... Although if I recall correctly later on there was a npc that allowed you to change the party members' names.

Another game that proves that square's best "RPG" games were non-Final Fantasy games:
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Objection!!! Vagrant Story technically is a Final Fantasy game (well, a spin-off game) and even though Chrono Trigger was awesome, Chrono Cross was an absolute piece of shit for having an inane, totally rushed story plus shitting all over its predecessor.
 

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lightbane said:
Objection!!! Vagrant Story technically is a Final Fantasy game (well, a spin-off game) and even though Chrono Trigger was awesome, Chrono Cross was an absolute piece of shit for having an inane, totally rushed story plus shitting all over its predecessor.

VG is completely different from all FF games and its creator had created Ogre Battle before going to square and making FFtactics which is basically the same as OB apart from having the name FF. Some vague lore connections don't make VG a FF game.
 

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