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What to play after experiencing Chrono Trigger? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Left feeling a bit empty after playing it for the first time a few months ago(why did I wait so long?) I am afraid no JRPG will be able to surpass it. Would love to have a discussion about similar games that reach the same quality level (Note: I have already played Final Fantasy VI ).

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

More Chrono Trigger!

Have you seen all, IIRC, 11 endings?

Honestly, nothing ever hit the same for me. Even Chrono Cross, which I'm sure tons of people love and is supposed to be somewhat of a sequel to Chrono Trigger (I mean... Final Fantasy games did this too where the stories were totally unrelated but were still "sequels"), was unable to draw me in.

Something about the camaraderie between the characters in Trigger just also felt so much more special than in any other JRPG for me. Western RPGs tend to do this a lot; Baldur's Gate 3 is extremely good at making you want to hang out with the companion characters.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quick note, Cross is very deeply, broadly, and extensively a sequel to Trigger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh officially it is. In reality though they tacked all the references to Chrono Trigger in at the end of development.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I've read that anywhere. Are you able to provide any sources?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I watched a few making of and other types of history videos about the series.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love to see those.
The only one I could find was about them cutting Magus's storyline out since the whole game, start to finish, tied directly into it, did so from the beginning, and would have required an immense amount of writing for a non-primary character, which is why they gave him a mask.

Masato Kato: To let the cat out of the bag, in the early stages of development, Guile was indeed meant to be Magus. In our original plan, the true identity of Guile was supposed to be Magus after the events in Trigger. (At the end of Trigger, Magus [a.k.a. Janus in Trigger and Magil in Radical Dreamers] disappeared into a Time Gate to go searching for his big sister, Schala, who was lost somewhere in time.) However, as the game's development progressed and we decided to use such a huge number of playable characters, we decided not to make him be Magus. We thought it was impossible to portray the relationship between Magus and Schala adequately in this game. So we changed tracks, made the colors of the Magus character design paler, and turned him into Guile, the magician. In a way, it's a pity, as I really would like to have seen the valiant figure of Magus come to life again.

Archived copy of a GamePro interview with Director/Scenario Writer Masato Kato

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. Thank you for finding that. I guess the videos I watched were wrong. I couldn't tell you what videos they were, it's been a long time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There has been a great deal of speculation down through the years. Some of these interviews weren't translated until relatively recently, so for a long time all we had was speculation.