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General Discussion / Radical Dreamers remake.
« on: July 07, 2004, 11:37:54 pm »
*cackles*
*steals Arcane and Zeality's conversation before they can copyright it*
*steals Arcane and Zeality's conversation before they can copyright it*
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General Discussion / Oh my--Kidd in her hospital gown?
« on: July 07, 2004, 11:30:36 pm »
I was just playing through a New Game+, the first time I ever chose to not rescue Kidd (the guilt is killing me even as we speak ;-;). Visited Radius, met Fargo, kicked up dirt at the dry Water Dragon Isle, then scooted my rear end back to Guldove. And to my wondering eye did appear, but Schala! ... Not exactly, it was just Kidd with her hair down in the hospital gown.
But she's the identical twin of Schala in the Time Devourer.
I know, I know, "They're clones!" But c'mon. Is this another of Square's rampant "must reuse sprites/3D character models!" fixations? a subtle little hint unless you didn't hear Lucca screaming "SHE'S SCHALA!!" the first hundred times? or maybe I just have issues and need to find me a nice strait jacket?
Comments anyone?
But she's the identical twin of Schala in the Time Devourer.
I know, I know, "They're clones!" But c'mon. Is this another of Square's rampant "must reuse sprites/3D character models!" fixations? a subtle little hint unless you didn't hear Lucca screaming "SHE'S SCHALA!!" the first hundred times? or maybe I just have issues and need to find me a nice strait jacket?
Comments anyone?
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General Discussion / Favorite Place in an RPG
« on: July 07, 2004, 07:35:03 pm »
My most favorite place of all time?
Anywhere NOT in Xenogears Land. ;3
Seriously, I have quite a few favorites. I am in LOVE with Nadia's Bell on the top of Gheddon's Tower--the music is enchanting, you get to see Marle running around with a short skirt (haha XD *points, laughs), Miguel has got to be one of the hardest bosses to fight at that part of the game if you hate stat-boosting (like me), and the sunset is just AWESOME. I also like Memoria from FFIX (especially the Crystal World) and the Ancient Forest in Final Fantasy VII. Those ARE some darn hard puzzles to figure out if you play like a decent person without an internet printout in front of you. >P Oh yes, and one more place I love--Energy Nede, in Star Ocean 2. Excel was just too... blah, but Energy Nede added a whole new twist to the game (and it also added Chisato >D).
Oh yeah! The entire game of Radical Dreamers and Castlevania SotN. >P
Anywhere NOT in Xenogears Land. ;3
Seriously, I have quite a few favorites. I am in LOVE with Nadia's Bell on the top of Gheddon's Tower--the music is enchanting, you get to see Marle running around with a short skirt (haha XD *points, laughs), Miguel has got to be one of the hardest bosses to fight at that part of the game if you hate stat-boosting (like me), and the sunset is just AWESOME. I also like Memoria from FFIX (especially the Crystal World) and the Ancient Forest in Final Fantasy VII. Those ARE some darn hard puzzles to figure out if you play like a decent person without an internet printout in front of you. >P Oh yes, and one more place I love--Energy Nede, in Star Ocean 2. Excel was just too... blah, but Energy Nede added a whole new twist to the game (and it also added Chisato >D).
Oh yeah! The entire game of Radical Dreamers and Castlevania SotN. >P
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History, Locations, and Artifacts / The Fall of the Mountain of Woe
« on: July 07, 2004, 07:13:22 pm »
I have a solution! I have a solution! *waves arms in the air*
Solution:
DON'T THINK ABOUT IT!!
This IS Queen Zeal we're talking about who most likely created the Mountain of Woe, chains, Giga Gaia, and all. This is also the same Queen Zeal who was like, "Yay! Let's banish the only three people with SENSE in this forsaken place, build an unnecessarily large palace under the ocean (seriously, a little scuba tank would have sufficed!), put in charge of this palace the Floating Village Idiot of all supremacy, and sacrifice my only daughter so that we can summon a big ball of spikes whose main motives are to destroy the world and use the citizens as toothpicks!"
You really can't use logic here. XP
Solution:
DON'T THINK ABOUT IT!!
This IS Queen Zeal we're talking about who most likely created the Mountain of Woe, chains, Giga Gaia, and all. This is also the same Queen Zeal who was like, "Yay! Let's banish the only three people with SENSE in this forsaken place, build an unnecessarily large palace under the ocean (seriously, a little scuba tank would have sufficed!), put in charge of this palace the Floating Village Idiot of all supremacy, and sacrifice my only daughter so that we can summon a big ball of spikes whose main motives are to destroy the world and use the citizens as toothpicks!"
You really can't use logic here. XP
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Other Topics and the Prerelease / Cross Phenomena
« on: July 07, 2004, 03:28:08 pm »
Well, we know Kidd transcended from Another World to Home World specifically to save Serge, and then she must have returned to Another World. So who's to say she hasn't exisited for much longer than we thought she has? Who's to say there isn't just one Kidd with the ability to traverse dimensions at will? And who's to say that Kidd isn't a million people at once, spread across every dimension, yet due to Schala's influence and the incomplete Time Egg she carries, she IS every single Kidd, recognizing what's going on in each dimension at one time... Perhaps Kidd herself, and all her millions of dimensional selves, are controlled in unison by Schala? It's not too hard to do for the woman bound to Lavos and outside the normal flow of time-space, in the Tesseract.
Who knows? :P
Who knows? :P
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History, Locations, and Artifacts / Rise Of Porre
« on: July 07, 2004, 02:51:15 pm »
What about that little scene that sometimes appears when the party is defeated in Chrono Trigger? The scene with a certain army in what darn well looks like Porre military uniforms, with the head honcho sitting in the pilot's seat of a mecha? warship? Black Hawk :p? ordering an attack on Truce. The image then displays a single sentence: "But the future refused to change!" If this is the case... Then Crono and company had little to no influence on Porre throughout the entirety of the game. Porre still would have invaded Truce even if Lavos hadn't been defeated and Chronopolis was never constructed, even if Elements weren't brought to Porre or whatever theories may exist on the subject.
I could always be wrong, but doesn't this destroy pretty much everything about Crono's accomplishments triggering the Porre invasion of Truce? I think I might be on to something (if it hasn't been mentioned already), but there's really nothing else out there to back it up. I hope Chrono Break clears up some of these loose ends, or else we're all pretty much going to speculate for eternity. :\
I could always be wrong, but doesn't this destroy pretty much everything about Crono's accomplishments triggering the Porre invasion of Truce? I think I might be on to something (if it hasn't been mentioned already), but there's really nothing else out there to back it up. I hope Chrono Break clears up some of these loose ends, or else we're all pretty much going to speculate for eternity. :\
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Articles / The Rise of Porre
« on: June 27, 2004, 08:44:34 pm »
Whoa--stop the presses! I just remembered a tiny scene from Chrono Trigger that might cause anyone who believes the fall of Lavos is the catalyst for the rise of Porre to rethink their objectives.
Not sure if it's every time the party dies, or occasionally, during specific events, or even just during the battle with Lavos--but I distinctly remember that short scene in some kind of mecca or warship of sorts, with soldiers clad in the Porre uniforms from Chrono Cross, and the helmsmen saying something along the lines of "Fire on Truce!" or something about an invasion--forgive my foggy mind. Then a shot of the planet pops up with the words scrawled across it, "But the future refused to change!" (I believe this refers to the defeat of the party, not the invasion). If this is the case--then Porre had these military advantages even before Lavos was defeated, and they were attacking Truce and Guardia even before Crono supposedly saved the world.
Just a little interesting tidbit I remembered--anyone want to expand? :)
Not sure if it's every time the party dies, or occasionally, during specific events, or even just during the battle with Lavos--but I distinctly remember that short scene in some kind of mecca or warship of sorts, with soldiers clad in the Porre uniforms from Chrono Cross, and the helmsmen saying something along the lines of "Fire on Truce!" or something about an invasion--forgive my foggy mind. Then a shot of the planet pops up with the words scrawled across it, "But the future refused to change!" (I believe this refers to the defeat of the party, not the invasion). If this is the case--then Porre had these military advantages even before Lavos was defeated, and they were attacking Truce and Guardia even before Crono supposedly saved the world.
Just a little interesting tidbit I remembered--anyone want to expand? :)
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Characters, Plot, and Themes / The Many Mysteries of Magus
« on: June 27, 2004, 08:11:36 pm »
There are a couple topics I remember from the game (since I haven't played Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross in ages) that bug me, concerning the existance of Gates and Magus's assumed ability to continue using them during his search for Schala.
1) As stated in Chrono Trigger, the Gates were most likely created by Lavos and his disruption of the flow of history during his landing in 65,000,000 B.C., creating a time/space rift that allowed Crono and his gang to travel through history. (I believe this is also stated during the Gates explanation at Chronopolis.) However, the Gate Key is the item that Crono and his friends used to actually access the Gates. But as we see in 600 A.D., after the battle with Magus, a giant Gate is formed. I've heard explanations that Lavos caused the Gate to open, after Magus failed to summon him, but why? I believe it was Magus who use his own Dark Magic to open the Gate, hoping to draw Lavos into 600 A.D., fresh from his burrowing into the center of the planet and not yet given time enough to absorb the planet's energies... Perhaps Magus knew Lavos was weak at this point in history, and decided to summon him from that point? But, perhaps Crono broke his concentration (or it might have been on purpose--he may have WANTED to go to 65,000,000 B.C. to face Lavos there--who knows?), all four were drawn into the giant Gate.
2) Leah. "What does Leah have to do with the discussion about Magus?" It's been revealed through an ending in Chrono Cross and most likely by the event planners that Leah is either the mother of Ayla or the daughter of Ayla (I'm sorry, I haven't played the game in ages :| ). How exactly, then, did she arrive in 1010 A.D., in the El Nido Archipelago? Moving back to my first point about Lavos being the reason for the Gates' existance, when Lavos was destroyed, Gates most likely ceased to exist--in T-1, that is. But the Time Devourer--the Angelus Errare to the space beyond time where he existed--lay in Home World. Perhaps the split of worlds really originated in 1000 A.D., when in one world Gates ceased to exist, while in the other, the Time Devourer's influence still allowed them to exist, and the split in time, the split of the Home World and the Another World, happened just as Leah was drifting along the ebb and flow of time, thus bringing her into 1010 A.D.?
I don't quite understand it myself... I do admit, my theory needs a little work. But I do believe Magus would have use Dark Magic to travel through the times after Crono defeated Lavos--if he even time traveled at all. Even if he did, he would be limited to a single dimension, and may have missed the Time Devourer and Schala completely. Who knows. That's just my two cents. :)
1) As stated in Chrono Trigger, the Gates were most likely created by Lavos and his disruption of the flow of history during his landing in 65,000,000 B.C., creating a time/space rift that allowed Crono and his gang to travel through history. (I believe this is also stated during the Gates explanation at Chronopolis.) However, the Gate Key is the item that Crono and his friends used to actually access the Gates. But as we see in 600 A.D., after the battle with Magus, a giant Gate is formed. I've heard explanations that Lavos caused the Gate to open, after Magus failed to summon him, but why? I believe it was Magus who use his own Dark Magic to open the Gate, hoping to draw Lavos into 600 A.D., fresh from his burrowing into the center of the planet and not yet given time enough to absorb the planet's energies... Perhaps Magus knew Lavos was weak at this point in history, and decided to summon him from that point? But, perhaps Crono broke his concentration (or it might have been on purpose--he may have WANTED to go to 65,000,000 B.C. to face Lavos there--who knows?), all four were drawn into the giant Gate.
2) Leah. "What does Leah have to do with the discussion about Magus?" It's been revealed through an ending in Chrono Cross and most likely by the event planners that Leah is either the mother of Ayla or the daughter of Ayla (I'm sorry, I haven't played the game in ages :| ). How exactly, then, did she arrive in 1010 A.D., in the El Nido Archipelago? Moving back to my first point about Lavos being the reason for the Gates' existance, when Lavos was destroyed, Gates most likely ceased to exist--in T-1, that is. But the Time Devourer--the Angelus Errare to the space beyond time where he existed--lay in Home World. Perhaps the split of worlds really originated in 1000 A.D., when in one world Gates ceased to exist, while in the other, the Time Devourer's influence still allowed them to exist, and the split in time, the split of the Home World and the Another World, happened just as Leah was drifting along the ebb and flow of time, thus bringing her into 1010 A.D.?
I don't quite understand it myself... I do admit, my theory needs a little work. But I do believe Magus would have use Dark Magic to travel through the times after Crono defeated Lavos--if he even time traveled at all. Even if he did, he would be limited to a single dimension, and may have missed the Time Devourer and Schala completely. Who knows. That's just my two cents. :)
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