Yeah, I'm busy with Revelations Series Persona right now I'm trapped in the Black Market and I have to fight up to the Harem Queen. Eerie. lol I've jacked myself out of all the Poker - Big and small. lol So I guess time to move on.
Nice! I always wanted to play the series but never have. I played the first one on emulation, but never beat it. I liked it, but didn't love it. If I remember correctly, the battle frequency was high and it definitely wasn't a chill or easy game (which was what I was wanting at the time). I remember there's a branch in the storyline with the ice queen, and after that I ended up just going to the casino to make lots of money so I could buy all the best equipment, and I got burnt out and never picked it back up.
Have you played the entire series? What's your favorite one? With all the re-releases of 3 (plus there's the upcoming remake), 4 Golden, and 5 Royal, I've been tempted to pick them up.
And I'm kinda going through Final Fantasy Tactics again. I kinda wanna start doing portables on my bed so maybe after Persona/FFT I might try to bus' out my PSP and do Persona 1 and War of the Lions. lol
Tactics is such an amazing game. I really wish they'd do another one. I've never played the Tactics Ogre games, but I think I'd like them. The FFT Advance games were good, but the storytelling just wasn't on par with the first Tactics game.
As for Chrono Trigger --
I accidentally opened a treasure box in the kitchen but I stopped opening them when I go to the past. I'll start opening them in the future.
I may be wrong, but the only chests that affect the timeline like that are the sealed chests that require the charged pendant to open. Once that happens, you'll want to go to the chest in 600ad, charge the chest, then go open it in 1000AD. Then you can return back to 600ad and grab what's inside the chest. You can get really good elemental gear this way.
... Like the Telepod resonates w/the Pendant but its really the field in-between that opens up sorta lol. Like, really cool stuff. You seem like the type to read The Timetraveler's Wife if you've read it would you recommend it? Anyway, lol, yeah .... And then everything thereafter.
Never read it. I do enjoy time travel stories, though. There's one of my favorite types of science fiction.
And as for the Marle's pendant, there's a rumor that it's a dream creature a la Masa and Mune. They have a sister named Doreen that they don't really explain, and I do think that she's actually the pendant while Masa and Mune are the sword. In the Japanese translation they're called Grand and Leon and make the Grandleon sword rather than the Masamune, which I've always liked.
Anyway, I've since finished the Cathedral and will wait for you to catch up. Did you pick up the hairpin in the Cathedral yet? It's a little sparkly (like a tab) near the stairs. Once you pick it up, the nuns will attack and ultimately Frog will join the party.
Yakra was such a turd. I remember the first time I played the game he was pretty hard, but now he's easy. His design is kinda cool, though.
Also -- don't forget to find the SECRET ROOM in the Cathedral, where there's a statue of Magus aka The Fiendlord. There's some excellent loot in that room! I don't think I learned about this until a few playthroughs in, so I missed it the first few times I played.
I always liked the song that plays in the Cathedral. It's sort of mysterious and makes me feel the feels. There's a mod for the game Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind where someone made a 3D version of Magus' Castle, including all the same enemy placements, bosses, and loot. It's a really fun mod and was amazing back in like 2001 when it first game out, but now seems pretty dated. Anyways, that mod imported this song into the game and I loved it. I think it's called "Silent Light."
