A Good Game to Play

[Killua Sean]

I'll get it asap that is all I can say and if I end up getting a job then I will get it when I get the chance.

[TodesengelHS]

Yeah, the best bet for me is to get it for my b-day or something, otherwise i would have to get the money on my own

[makdee]

admin said:

Chrono Trigger is the best RPG IMO.

First off, I would have to agree with Hakaisha on that. Second, if you don't have a Super Nintendo to play Chrono Trigger--and you are not going to buy one--try Tales of Symphonia for Gamecube. It is one of the best RPGs I have ever played. If you do not have a Gamecube then try Tales of Eternia (not sure of the spelling) or Tales of Legendia (again, not sure of the spelling) for Playstation2. I probably should not be recommending the Playstation2 games, since I have never played them, but I just liked Tales of Symphonia so much that I would recommend any game from the Tales series including Tales of Phantasia for Super Nintendo or the remade version for the Gameboy Advanced.

[Hakaisha]

Yes, finally someone on this forum likes Chrono Trigger.

[Sheppard]

I've never heard of Chrono Trigger, also I never had a SNES either. Care to inlighten me on the topic?

[makdee]

Sure, what do you want to know? Do you want me to describe the characters, the battle system, the game variables (at least the ones I know of), or tell you the storyline?

[Sheppard]

The Storyline would be nice.

[makdee]

Wow, this was a lot longer than I thought it would be. Well here it is:

The game starts out with the main character, Crono, waking up on the day of the Millennial fair. At Leene square, where the fair is taking place, he bumps into Marle. They hang out at the fair for a while then go to Crono's friend Lucca's invention, a teleportation device. When Marle tries it her pendant causes the machine to malfunction and a portal to open. Marle is sent through the portal to an unknown place. Crono picks up Marle's dropped pendant and, using it, follows Marle. He finds himself in a wooded area 400 years in the past. In the castle, he finds Marle in the queen's garb. She explains how the soldiers found her in the woods and mistook her for the missing Queen Leene. Marle disappears again and Lucca arrives. She created a "gate key" to open time portals. Lucca figured out that Queen Leene was Marle's great grandmother and that by her never being found Marle would never have existed. They set out to find the missing queen before she is killed and Marle's fate is sealed. With the aid of a frog knight-like creature named Frog they find out that Queen Leene was kidnapped by the Mystics, a group of various races that look like demons or monsters. They go to a monastery and find out that it is just a front for the Mystics. They save Queen Leene and return to where Marle disappeared just in time to see her reappear. Then Lucca, Crono, and Marle return to the present.

When they arrive, Crono is arrest and put on trial for kidnapping princess Marle. No matter what Crono did at the fair the chancellor will convict him as guilty. In three days, Crono is supposed to be executed, but he escapes from prison. During his escape he meets up with Lucca and Marle. They escape to a nearby forest, but the kings men are close behind determined not to let Marle escape. Crono, Lucca, and Marle escape through a time portal to the future. They find the future rather bleak filled with ruins of advanced technology, and starving people. In one dome, they go and try to find the food storage. When they get there they find the food spoiled and a corpse with a note and a seed. Using the information on the note Crono finds out a password that opens up another part of the dome. In here, the party finds a video recording of Lavos, a large spiny creature, destroying the surface of the world in the year 1999A.D. They also find the location of another time portal. The door that leads to the room with the time portal doesn't have power. With the help of a robot who Crono names "Robo" the party goes to the nearby factory and restore power long enough for the door to open. The time portal takes them to the End of Time, a nexus of different eras. There it is explained that when four or more people travel through a time portal they end up at the point of least resistance: the End of Time.

The party then head back to the present where they learn that Magus created Lavos four hundred years ago. Magus is a wizard who leads the Mystics in a war against the kingdom of Guardia. Crono learns of the Masamune, a sword that can beat Magus, and that only the "Hero" can wield it. After helping defend a bridge against Magus' army, the party learns that Tata has the Hero's Medal, which is said to be held by the hero. The party learns from Tata's home village that he went north. Once they know this the party heads north and finds Denadoro Mountain. They see Tata running in fear from a goblin. When they finally find the Masamune they need to prove themselves to the sword's guardians (Masa and Mune). It is revealed that the Masamune is broken. The Hero's Crest can be retrieved at Tata's house and he admits to him finding it on the ground. Crono and company then heads to the cursed woods where they find Frog's home. He will notice the Hero's Medal and say he has no right to wield the sword. Crono finds the other part of sword in his home and now "roihclem" can be read on the sword. The team heads to 1000AD where they speak to Melchior. Melchior can repair the Masamune but only with a dream stone. He goes on to explain that dream stones no longer exist and haven't for a long time.

The party will then travel to the prehistoric era of 65,000,000 BC. On arrival, Crono and Friends have to fight a large group of Reptites--a species of reptiles that are more intelligent than the humans of that era. They are aided by a wild woman who they later finds out is named Ayla. Ayla happens to also be the chief of Ioka village. Crono and company stay for a party that night where Crono challenges Ayla for her red rock (the dream stone). They all sleep well that night, but when they awake they notice the gatekey was stolen. Footprints on the ground point to Reptites as the culprits. The team goes to Ayla's hut and wake her up. She'll join the party to help search for the missing item. The footprints lead to the forest maze. Upon entering, a man named Kino will stop you and admit that he took the gate key because he was jealous of Crono. He goes on to tell you that Reptites stole it from him. Kino then heads back to the village after Ayla reassured him that she did not hate him. The party continues to track the reptites to the reptite lair. In this cave, the party keeps going down until they come across Azala, the leader of the reptites. He inquires about the gatekey and then calls Nizbel. After defeating Nizbel, the party gets the gatekey and heads back to the village. Ayla and the party say their goodbyes and Crono's team heads back through the time portal and go back to Melchior's place.

Melchior repairs the Masamune, then the team heads back to the cursed woods where they show the Masamune to Frog. Frog will let you spend the night as he considers aiding Crono. That night see he has flashbacks of his past (I liked these flashbacks). It shows Cyrus (A famous knight who mysteriously disappeared) and his friend Glenn set out on a quest to get the Masamune so they could defeat Magus. Another flashback to Denadoro Mountain shows Cyrus and Glenn fighting Magus and his general Ozzie. Cyrus and Glenn are losing and Cyrus pleads with Glenn to escape while he deals with them. Magus kills the knight Cyrus, and hits Glenn with a spell, knocking him off a cliff. Anyway, the next morning Frog agrees to join Crono's party. They head off to the magic cave where Frog uses the Masamune to split the rock face in two and reveal the entrance. A few more flashbacks are shown. One showing Cyrus running off a few kids who were making fun of Glenn. Another shows an older Cyrus encouraging Glenn to join the knights. The last shows the same scene where Cyrus was killed, but continues to show the Hero's Medal wash up on shore next to Glenn in his new Frog-like form. The 3 go through the cave and reach Magus' Lair. The party checks Magus' Lair and strangely find only townspeople and familiar faces. After searching everywhere, Ozzie appears and challenges the team to defeat all 100 monsters in Magus' Lair. The party battles through Magus' Lair until they meet Flea, the magician. They defeat it with ease, and realize it is not the infamous Flea. Then the bat that has been following you since you talked with Ozzie morphs and identifies himself as Magus' general Flea. After, a short dialogue involving the clarification of his gender the fight with flea begins. After a difficult fight with Flea, Crono's party battles through more enemies until they meet Slash, another of Magus' generals. They then head back to the entrance where Ozzie calls for Flea and Slash to come help him defeat the intruders. Frog tells him that they were defeated and Ozzie runs away. You follow him via a warp point he left behind. Now the team makes their way through a bunch of traps that Ozzie just happens to have set up. Eventually they do get a chance to fight Ozzie. He encases himself in ice and uses strong counterattacks. The party members defeated Ozzie by not attacking him directly, but using his own traps against him. The party continues on to where Magus is trying to summon Lavos. After a battle Magus reveals that he did not create Lavos, but only was trying to summon it. Then an eruption occurs, opening a time portal.

Crono and company wake up in Ayla's hut, and Ayla explains how she found them hurt and carried you back to her hut. Crono's party goes to Laruba village where they find Ayla trying to convince the leader to give her something so she can summon a dactyl. She wants to use the dactyl so she can fly to the Tyrano Lair and save a bunch of villagers and Kino. The leader gives her what she wants and she leaves. Crono's party follows her to the Dactyl Nest and convince her to let them come along. The first order of business in the Tyrano Lair is to free the captives, but Kino is not with them. continuing deeper into the lair you find him in his own special cell with reptites talking about a special dinner or something. Kino then shows you how to open a passage way that leads you to Azala. He talks about how he realizes that the Reptites may die, but he will not just hand over the world to humans. They will then have to fight the psychic Azala and a blacktyrano. When he is defeated, he talks about how humans will wish that they have will have disappeared with the reptites since the world will freeze over. The team then sees Lavos coming from outer space as a big burning meteor. Ayla then tells the party that Lavos means fire (La) big (Vos). Kino comes by on a dactyl and saves Crono's party before Lavos hits Tyrano Lair causing a huge explosion. The party goes back to the impact site to try and fight Lavos while it's still young, but it burrows into the earth too quickly. The party finds a time portal near the impact site and go through it.

They arrive in a seemingly desolate ice covered land (12,000BC). However, they soon find a a building that teleports them to a corresponding building on a floating island above the clouds. They find an advanced civilization that used magic to prosper. The party learns that Queen Zeal changed the civilization's magic tap from the sun stone to Lavos. This has caused the queen to become more and more crazy-evil. She wants to acquire immortality by tapping more of Lavos' power. To do this, she is building an Ocean Palace to get closer to Lavos, and will have her daughter, Schala, boost the connection. The party also learns of a prophet that has recently appeared. His predictions have been so accurate that he has quickly gained the queen's favor. The party meets Zeal's children Schala and her younger brother Janus. A maid comes and tells Schala that the queen would like to see her. The party tries to follow her and sees her go through a door using her pendant which, surprisingly enough, looks almost exactly like Marle's pendant. They try to follow her through the door, but Marle's pendant does not react like Schala's did. The party then goes to the Mammon Machine. There, Marle's pendant gets charged up with its energy. The party now is able to go through the sealed door. Once in the presence of the queen, the prophet tells her that the group will be meddlesome. She then tells Dalton, her right hand man, to take care of them. Dalton summons a golem to defeat the group. After the battle, the party is captured and sealed with the Mammon Machine. Luckily, Schala and Janus rescue the group. They want the group to save the Guru of Life who has been imprisoned on Mt. Woe. Before the party can do anything, the Prophet interrupts. He spares the group, but only if you show him how they got to this era. They all go back to the time portal where the prophet forces Crono's party to go back to 65,000,000 BC. He then orders Schala to seal the gate so that Crono's party cannot come back to 12,000 BC.

The party then travels about 65,014,300 years in the future. After making their way through the sewer, they find a dome. Inside the dome, they open a sealed door with Marle's pendant and make their way through a hall that has audio recording of the guru Belthasar (a.k.a. The Guru of Reason). The hall leads to Belthasar's greatest invention-- the Wings of Time! The Wings of Time, later named the Epoch by the group, is a time machine. Using the Epoch, Crono's party heads back to 12,000 BC. There they find the village of the "Earthbound Ones." The Earthbound Ones are people who are not allowed in the Kingdom of Zeal because they lack the ability to use magic. They live underground where there is no wind and not as cold. The party travels deeper underground and battles their way through the Beast's Nest to reach a huge chain. The chain leads to a floating mountain called Mt. Woe. Once they reach the summit, they find the Guru of Life imprisoned within a giant crystal with a very large creature named Giga Gaia as a guard. The guru is now free and, to the party's astonishment, it's Melchior! They cannot linger, though. Defeating Giga Gaia has caused the mountain to become unstable and it falls into the sea shortly shortly after the party escapes.

The party meets back at the Earthbound Ones underground village where Melchior explains that Lavos is like a parasite that feeds of the planet's energy as it sleeps deep within the planet, and that by bringing the Mammon Machine from Queen Zeal's sky palace to her newly constructed Ocean Palace, they risk waking Lavos up. Schala enters after Melchior's explanation and says that she will not contribute to her mother's evil plan. Unfortunately, Dalton comes and retrieves Schala. Crono gets a ruby knife from Melchior. Melchior explains that the ruby knife is made out of the same material as the Mammon Machine and can possibly destroy it. The party heads back to Zeal's palace where they fight Dalton. After they beat him, he runs away in a cowardly fashion. He leaves behind a portal that will teleport Crono's party to the Ocean palace. Queen Zeal has already begun the ritual in which she forces Schala to boost the Mammon's Machines power causing Schala pain. Working their way through the palace they eventually run into Dalton again. This time he summons two Golems. After defeating them, he will try to summon Golem Boss, but he will leave since Lavos is about to be awaken. The party rushes to the Mammon Machine and Crono uses the ruby knife. The Mammon Machine changes the ruby knife into the Masamune, but that really doesn't matter since it would seem Crono was just a tad too late. Lavos awakens and a battle ensues. If Crono's party loses the prophet reveals himself as Magus and attempts to destroy Lavos. Lavos crushes him and Crono somehow manages to stand again. Lavos then starts to suck the unconscious toward him. Crono, in heroic fashion runs up to Lavos to try and stop it. He succeeds in saving his friends, but is incinerated in the process. Schala then uses the last of her power to send Magus and the remainder of the party to safety. Lavos destroys the islands in the sky.

When the party awakes, they find themselves in a village with survivors from both the Zeal Kingdom and the Earthbound Ones. It is learned that time portals sent the three gurus and Janus to different time periods. If your wondering the Guru of Time ended up at the End of Time, the Guru of Reason ended up around 2300AD, and the Guru of Life ended up around 1000AD. After talking to the elder of the village, Dalton shows up again, and declares himself king. Also, he decides that he wants to take the Epoch as his flying throne. The party stands up to Dalton who knocks them unconscious and takes them prisoner. The party awakes in a small room without money, items, or weapons. They climb a latter and notice they are flying through the sky in the Blackbird, a ship made by one of the gurus. Once they go back down one of the party notices that they can get into the ventilation system. They sneak through the ventilation system until one of them gets their equipment back. After retrieving all of their possessions they head out onto the wing of the Blackbird. Here they have to fight the Golem Boss. The party will then see the Epoch flying below. It appears that Dalton has modified the Epoch so that it can now fly. The party jumps onto the Epoch and defeats Dalton. They then try and figure out how to use the new features causing them to shoot the Blackbird with the newly installed lasers. The lasers damage the Blackbird enough to make it crash into the sea.

When they return to the island with the survivors they find out that someone has been looking for them. The party goes to the north cape and find Magus. He reveals that he is Janus and that Lavos' time portal transported him to the middle ages. He vowed that he would have revenge on Lavos, but Crono got in the way and he ended up being teleported back to 12000BC.

After this the story becomes much more flexible. You can bring Crono back from the dead, help Cyrus to rest easy in his grave, save Lucca's mother from losing the ability to walk, cause a desert to become a forest, bring back the sun stone, find out about Robo's past, fight Lavos when he surfaced, fly into Lavos with the Epoch, fix Marle's relationship with her father, or deal with Queen Zeal in the Ocean Palace.

I cannot tell you the ending since there are 6 or 7 different possible endings. That is not counting small variables.

If anything is unclear, just ask. I did a lot of it late at night, so I expect I made a mistake or two.

[Sheppard]

I'm getting a chance to play the game. So far I like the game. I am a fan of the old final fantasy.

[makdee]

I recently got a playstation 2, so I could play Chrono Cross.

Yay! Sequel!

Also, I recently played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Gamecube). It is a really good game. It is probably the best in the series yet. They added more features, new race(s), new weapons, and you get more units than in the previous games! The storyline isn't that bad either. The only downside is that it is a little too easy on Normal mode.

[zabe]

yes crono triger was a wicked awsome game... but i think i prefered "final fantasy 3" also for the snes and i also absolutly loved "star ocean" another rpg for the snes even though it was never relesed in the US and never in english but it is an AWSOME game ;D

[Killua Sean]

Star Ocean.... as in till the end of time? For ps1 or was there one before that?

[makdee]

There were three Star Ocean games made. The first one was sweet (even though it wasn't in English and I couldn't understand what they were saying). They made two sequels for it. They were Star Ocean: The Second Story (for PS) and Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (for PS2). I would buy any of them on the spot if I found them.

zabe said:

yes crono triger was a wicked awsome game... but i think i prefered "final fantasy 3" also for the snes and i also absolutly loved "star ocean" another rpg for the snes even though it was never relesed in the US and never in english but it is an AWSOME game ;D

Final Fantasy 3, eh? Do you mean the actual 3rd Final Fantasy made (which I hear they have remade in a 3D enviroment and are planning on releasing in the United States), or the sixth one made that was the third one released in the United States?

[Killua Sean]

well till the end of time can be found in stores like game stop or eb games if you have any stores like that but stores where you can trade games also may have it, I haven't been able to find the second story yet but when I do I'll be getting it.