NOT Mute Crono

[KebreI]

Not quite Goku is uncontrollable, I don't see that in a mature Crono (young yes). I think Izumi is the closest I can come up with.

[V_Translanka]

There's a couple ways to play Crono, though, I think...There's the heroic adventurer ready for action and then there's the guy who's mostly dragged into everything by his friends. And pretty much everyone gets wasted at Ayla's party (Crono had to get the Dreamstone in a drinking competition btw)...I bet it's a prerequisite at most of their shindigs.

[maggiekarp]

He's pretty much your standard red-haired hero. Pay attention to his actions and what the characters say about him, and try your best not to have him talk too differently from other people around him close to his age, like Marle or Lucca.


Also I'm imagining the campfire scene, but with booze. Possibly a special blend of mystical herbs grown in Fiona's forest. Yes...

[Xenterex]

It's the same concept in which Link doesn't talk in the Legend of Zelda series.  The characters speak, but the game creators don't put text there so the player's can better immerse themselves into the role of the primary protagonist.

It's been a few years since I've played LttP, but from what I remember Link used the Wiley E. Coyote method of communication, as seen here:


In regards to Chrono not speaking, well the biggest tipoff is that people learn his name.  I didn't see any concept art with him having a name-tag, nor does his mom say "Oh dear, don't forget your sticky-notes so you can write what you want to say to people."  so when Marle's all like "Oh, you're Crono, you can call me Marle," that an acknowledgement of communication here.  All those other websites that say he's mute are just plain silly.

[ZealKnight]

There's a couple ways to play Crono, though, I think...There's the heroic adventurer ready for action and then there's the guy who's mostly dragged into everything by his friends. And pretty much everyone gets wasted at Ayla's party (Crono had to get the Dreamstone in a drinking competition btw)...I bet it's a prerequisite at most of their shindigs.

That's kinda what I like about CT. It wasn't like they just decided to go into the past. Everything that happened was by someone else's control. Up until discovering Lavos, and even then they were doing other's bidding. So I agree. In fact I'm more expecting him to be more like the CT:Ungluded. Naive, kind of a showoff, and the most sarcastic person on the planet.

[neo-fusion]

Ok, every site but this one says Crono is a mute. And of course the slideshow ending isn't canon, so in light of this I say we find as many instances as we can in which NPCs have to hear Crono speak. Then make a short article of it! To end this damn conspiracy!

He is a mute... he uses sign language. lol.

Everyone in every time period knows this distinct sign language.

[Phillies64]

The first words he utters in the game are whatever you decided to name Lucca.

Crono's Mom "What was her name again?"

Crono..."Whatever You Typed In."

Crono's Mom "Thats Right Whatever You Typed In."

[V_Translanka]

People that say he's mute are stupid...I don't think we should even pander to them, really...but w/e...here's the first one: Lucca's name.

Hello very first reply to this topic...!

[Phillies64]

People that say he's mute are stupid...I don't think we should even pander to them, really...but w/e...here's the first one: Lucca's name.

Hello very first reply to this topic...!

DOH!

The worst part is I read that and forgot it too. Sorry about that. Maybe the people who think he's mute, left Lucca's name blank.

[Shadow D. Darkman]

Some fanfics explained his silence as being mute, one especially explained it as being due to trauma when his father left his mom (also explained his absence in CT/CC).

However, if someone rewrote the script to have Crono talk, that would rule over all other versions.

[xcalibur]

i think its like the legend of zelda games, where its implied that link talks, but his dialogue doesnt come up on screen.

personally, i think chrono shouldve broken his silence when they confronted the lavos core.

[Mr Bekkler]

The truth is that they're silent. The joke is that they're mute.


Case closed.

AGREED~!! (though the joke is dumb)
                                         ~V_Translanka

P.S. LOCKE'D
                      
P.P.S. Not really.

[GenesisOne]

The late director Stanley Kubrick (2001:A Space Odyssey) used to say that if you can turn off the sound and still follow the story, you've made a film, but if you can still follow the story with only the sound, you haven't.

Instead of film, however, let's insert video game.

Logic dictates that if there is more than one solution, then the problem is not conclusive.

Just because Crono never talks doesn't mean he's a mute.  Case in point? Penn & Teller.

Hopefully, this will put an end to the the Straw Man Arguments out there.

[V_Translanka]

The late director Stanley Kubrick (2001:A Space Odyssey) used to say that if you can turn off the sound and still follow the story, you've made a film, but if you can still follow the story with only the sound, you haven't.

Instead of film, however, let's insert video game.

Um, that analogy is for music though...you'd have to also swap 'sound' for 'hero dialog' or something to make it consistent with what he's saying...and even then we can't say because we can't really compare it to a CT WITH (extensive) Crono dialog...

Otherwise I get your point.

[Dialga_Palkia]

1) Crono himself is basically the main player him or herself. Hence questions like "What should we do Crono?"
2) In Cross Crono does speak. One at the deserted Nadia Bell and Opassa Beach in another (or home) world.
3) Mute or no, whether we are the eyes of the main character, we play the adventure.