]The weapon names are for greater realism, since with the exception of the phaseblade and beamsaber, all of them are actual words, and lightsaber's already in the dictionary anyway. The weapon names' simplicity (and often technical incorrectness) was one of my gripes with Trigger. Lucca's plasma gun neither functioned like nor physically resembled what an actual plasma gun would be like, save that it would be pretty ineffective. Not only that, the sword types come into question; I've never heard of a Demon Hit class of sword. Pico Magnum? WTF is that? I can forgive the Masamune blooper because of the large role it played in the storyline. But aside from those, it really is quite unreasonable that someone could find a better weapon in 600 A.D. than in 2300 A.D., unless it was a legendary weapon like the Masamune.
Well, I find little problem with the names of the weaponry from Chrono Trigger, personally, and found them very inventive and technically alright. Why would a Plasma Gun not work? Could you not have a shell of super-heated gas that explodes upon impact? Auto-gun - as in auto-reloading - air-gun, and most others are just fine. Demon Hit is not a class of sword, but neither is a broadsword, and you know how often people use that term? Or chain-mail? And one can not call into account most of the mythical ones. Personally, I don't quite agree with the whole vibroblade/lightsaber type thing anyway, it doesn't quite fit. My mind is VERY slow at the moment, though, so I'm not being very inventive thinking of weaponry names. It should, though, follow the same mould as Chrono Trigger, that is, the first few swords and bows named for material – though not too many of these, for these are RPG cliché standard - the gun a fantastical description of its operation, the later swords descriptive of what they are/possess (ie. Rune Blade). Etc. etc. but coming in the end to the mythical ones. The problem with having mythical swords, and I don’t mean with mythical connotations like Siren or Valkyrie, but swords that are actually from myth, like my suggestion Durandal, is that there are probably a lot of RPGs that do this, for which I think they should be stayed away from. For mythical, it should be a mythical reference.
Now, I'm just going to toss a few out I thought of yesterday. I'm not guaranteeing any will be good, though. I’m not feeling all that creative for some reason. Usually ideas for such a thing like this would come to me no problem.
Marle:
FarShooter (this would be a mythical one, as 'Far-Shooter' was the epithet of the archer Apollo)
Apollon (just a bow named after Apollo, like Valkyrie and Siren were mythical)
Ash Bow
Yew Bow (yew, for certain, is a good bow material, and would make a good starter weapon)
Alexandros (ie. Paris, for he was an archer)
Paris' Bow (I think everyone knows this one)
Pandaurus (A famous archer for the Trojans)
Fairy Bow/Fay Arrow (with fairy/fay meaning the same thing)
Ivory Bow (Ivory could perhaps be used in composite bows)
Skadi'sBow (Not sure if Skadi would have used a bow, but she was a giant in Norse myth, the daughter of the ice-god Thiassi, thus connecting her to Marle)
Ishtar (A warrior goddess of the old Babylonians – not of the Sumerians, though, they named her Inanna – and a moon-goddess. I’ve always thought it has an interesting sound. It may not have much to do with bows, but then again, neither does Valkyrie or Siren.)
Lucca:
Flintlock (simple, realistic, and antiquated. Good for a 'first' weapon.)
QuantaShot (Quanta being a small unit in Greek I think, and also having scientific connotations.)
Blaster (A normal laser gun? I don’t know, this is another lame one, I think.)
Snipe Shot (Snipe’s are hard birds to hit, so perhaps this increases the chance of a critical hit, or speed?)
Glenn:
Falchion (A type of one-edge sword)
Sarissa (I saw this in Age of Mythology, but I knew the name before. This was a small Hoplite sword.)
ArmingEdge (An arming sword was usually the smaller sword a knight carried, also called a Short Sword – but arming sword sounds far better.)
Durandal (I first heard this name in Xenosaga, but there it was used as the name of a ship. It is in truth the sword of the hero Roland which, I read recently, was said to have itself been before that the sword of Hektor of Troy.)
Gilt Sword (ie. Gilt means it has gold layered onto it.)
Gram (Famous sword from Norse legend.)
DwarfSword (In all northern traditions, Dwarves fashioned spectacular weaponry. Now, we know for a fact that there are Dwarves in the Chrono world, so I think a DwarfSword may be fitting.)
Magus (I was going to suggest Kronian Sickle, but there isn’t enough room.):
Hell Scythe (A very lame idea, I know, but I’m not thinking too well, as I said.)
Eclipse (Another lame one)
Thanatos (ie. The Grim Reaper of Greek myth.)
Erebos (the Darkness in Greek Myth, a primeival deity sprung from Chaos.)
Hades’Fury (Yet another lame one. For Janus’ weapons, one must be careful not to make them over-wrought. Then again, DoomSickle isn’t exactly a subtle name, either.)
FellScythe (Fell, as in, perilous, merciless, and deadly.)
Reaper (Well… cliché, maybe, but one does reap with a scythe.)
Crono:
Jade Hilt (Jade was highly prized in the east. In China more-so, I think, but even so, I like this name.)
Truesilver (CC uses the term Mithril now and again for silver. Well, it’s slightly wrong, but not fully. Mithril is indeed called silver now and again in LOTR, but rather Truesilver. Thus this is essentially a Mithril Sword, but with a sneakier name.)
Like I said, I can’t think aright, I’m just throwing down ideas. It really bothers me as well, because I should be able to think up things like this in a heartbeat. But anyway, my favourite of the ones that I listed are:
Ash Bow, Yew Bow, Apollon, FarShooter, Fairy Bow, Ivory Bow, Ishtar Bow, Flintlock, QuantaShot, SnipeShot, ArmingEdge, Gilt Sword, DwarfSword, Erebos, Reaper, Jade Hilt, and Truesilver.
What do you think, Hadriel, ZeaLitY? I’ll try to think of some more and better – looking at the inventive names of the actual ones in CT daunts me, it seems my mind cannot think so creatively right now – but just consider these, as I think they are viable.
Oh, as an after-note, I finally got Temporal Flux working. The events are a pain to figure my way through, but I think I know how the maps and exits work now. I got Crono to teleport from his bedroom to Kajar, and the people in Kajar to say different things. I then went on to change some events, but I must have made it unstable, because Kajar loaded dark (I also tried having Magus join instead of Marle at the fair, but all I got was Marle claiming she was Magus: funny, but not the intended result.)
