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S-E might still be aware the Chrono series exists
« on: January 12, 2007, 07:03:08 pm »
Firstly, if this is in the wrong forum feel free to move it please. :)


I know there's been some discussion and feelings whether or not S-E has effectively put the Chrono series on the backburner indefinitely and thus forgotten about it, but there's at least one recent sign that they're still aware of it. It comes from another S-E game.

If anyone has Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime for the Nintendo DS (awesomely fun game, by the way. Get it if you can), you'll know about tank battles. If not, a brief description. Aside from the sort of Zelda-esque gameplay, there are occasionally battles between the main hero and enemies that involve giant tanks. In the intro screen for each tank battle, it gives a name to each tank, as well as a pun in the short description. Now, this is where the thread is going.

One of the enemy tanks that you fight on occasion that is run by moles, I believe, is called the Chrono Twigger. It has the same style of text as the Chrono Trigger logo, including the wavy italicized text on "Twigger." Maybe I'm reading too much into this, and it's just an Easter Egg for long time S-E fans, but it was put in intentionally, which tells me that S-E still has Chrono on their minds. Perhaps there's some hope after all?

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The next time I encounter that tank I'll try to recall the description of it.

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Re: S-E might still be aware the Chrono series exists
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2007, 09:52:04 pm »
Excellent. If anyone else can grab a screenshot, that would be appreciated as well. I'll put this on the news later.

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Re: S-E might still be aware the Chrono series exists
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2007, 04:26:54 pm »
Interesting find! Since it's a DQ game, maybe it was Yuji Horii who put the reference.

I've just done a Google search and found it in a trailer of the game. Here's the video:

http://dl.qj.net/Dragon-Quest-Heroes-Rocket-Slime-Trailer-Nintendo-DS-Videos-Trailers/pg/12/fid/10038/catid/218

And here's a screenshot I took (at 01:37 of the video):

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