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Author: zippdementia
Posted: March 03, 2012 (01:06 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
This was like having a really good conversation about the downfalls of Chrono Cross with a good friend. One of those reviews of the game which makes me glad, because I don't have to write one, now. The only part I disagree with is "it's a great junk food game that goes by quickly." Chrono Cross does NOT go by quickly. It's frickin' 60 hours long.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: March 03, 2012 (01:07 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I guess by "junk food goes by quickly", I mean just the actual game without the padding. I did about everything until the second disc, when I stopped trying to get L7 powers for characters I didn't use, as well as additional characters you only can get really late in the game and it took about 50 hours to beat it. Take away the unnecessary optional stuff that I did and it'd probably be about 40-45 hours.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: March 03, 2012 (01:54 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Yeah, in every way, I feel Chrono Cross is an example of trying to have one's cake and eat it too. Like how they go through great lengths to tell this complex, dreamlike story in a potentially fascinating setting and then fill it with too many characters to ever really connect. Or how they give us this big, beautiful world to explore and then limit the experience system in such a way that every minor battle after the first five or six between story-related bosses yields virtually no reward. Your review communicated all of that, so well done. And thanks for the comments, Masters.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: March 03, 2012 (04:02 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Perhaps the greatest sin of Chrono Cross is that it isn't Chrono Trigger.
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Author: espiga
Posted: March 03, 2012 (04:49 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
This was a great review, Suskie. Probably one of your best, and one that I agree with wholeheartedly.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: March 03, 2012 (07:00 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Don't forget, though, that Chrono Cross wants you to play it three frickin times in order to fully fill out your roster. There are three ways to approach Viper Manor the first time you go there and each bags you a different set of characters. Incidentally, that was one thing I did enjoy about the game, was how the branching paths really are different. The whole thing where you have to decide whether or not to save Kid leads to two entirely different games, which lasts a long while until the sections dovetail again.
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Author: Genj
Posted: March 03, 2012 (09:57 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I vaguely remember some scene in Chrono Cross where the half naked rock star plays a concert and he flies around on stage with a bunch of faeries. Did that actually happen or am I making this up?
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Author: SleazyBastard
Posted: March 03, 2012 (10:21 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Everybody is expecting to play Mass Effect 3, and not Chrono Cross.
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Author: Halon
Posted: March 04, 2012 (09:16 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I don't think I will like this game anymore :(
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: March 04, 2012 (10:32 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It totally happens, Genj. There's also a scene where a hideously old man turns you into kittens and you play as kittens as a while, a scene that takes place in one of Dali's paintings, and a Catman who dramatically shouts at the screen (ALL CAPS): YOU ARE THE CHRONO TRIGGER1!!
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: March 16, 2012 (06:14 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
You know one thing that was really cool about Chrono Cross? That opening CGI movie that plays if you let the game sit too long at the intro scene. I think I've spent more time watching that intro than playing the game.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: March 16, 2012 (06:16 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Oh hey, you didn't mention the terrible battle music. I suddenly feel like this review is somehow incomplete.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: March 17, 2012 (05:46 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
That opening movie is awesome. In fact, as long as you only watch it, the entire game is awesome! It's just the whole dealing with characters while going through the same dungeons repeatedly part that gets a person down...
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