I just played Chrono Trigger for over an hour.

heartbeat was good

trails is my favorite rpg series but i think it only really appeals to dedicated anime storygamers, that first game has about 20 hours of slow burn worldbuilding before the plot emerges. i dont remember it having fmv other than the standard anime intro movie in every japanese game

the way i feel is, if you can’t tell your story with sprites then why are you making a video game

Maybe they prefer vector graphics

No probably Trails in the Sky is not _that_ bad but I feel like games are more along the lines of what I want to play today than they were ten years ago or however many years ago that game came out, the difference between the trite repetitive dialogue and boring unskippable cut scene versus booting up the modern game Crosscode and jumping right into "Hey let's do some cool stuff" was night and day for me, I'm old and overstimulated. See also why I couldn't get into any Zelda games between OOT and BOTW, the whole "Hey before you start why don't you play a mandatory animal herding minigame and do a bunch of other stupid bullshit". Shit, you know what I will do if I want an infodump? I will read one of the several dozen books in my backlog.

play ys origin if you want a falcom game that would be more to your taste then

I'll probably get back to Trails in the Sky to be honest; it's just the whole steam sale thing where I have like seven new games and I can't play them all at once. Honestly I feel like this whole binging model is why I had 100 sale/bundle games that I never actually played and it's why I didn't buy basically any Steam games at all for the past three years and just played Civ V.

Anyway Chrono Trigger is a fun game even if Earthbound is more my jam.

you'll probably like heartbeat then, its more earthbound/pokemon than squaresoft

plus it's apparently one of those games where everybody is queer which i am all about

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plus it's apparently one of those games where everybody is queer which i am all about

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welp despite all this, this game's devs have been exposed as massive TERFs and are currently doubling down on it in gross ways, so i retract all my previous recommendations and C&P votes for the game

I miss Chrono Trigger.

I'm trying to beat the game again but witht the Frog ending and I just can't seem to beat Lagos - probably because I don't have some of the characters. You can go back from the end caves and grind up without messing up the ending right?

i was online shopping late last night and ordered a super famicom. sooooo excited. it comes with 5 games: art of fighting, super river fishing 2, mario rpg, yoshis island, and... chrono trigger!

coincidentally i just hacked my SNES Classic to add a bunch of sadly overlooked games, including CT. haven't let myself start replaying it yet though, what's the rush?

It so happens I am nearing completion of this game for the first time ever. I know I'm 25 years late to the party, but...it's pretty great! I don't usually have the patience for JRPGs, but this one is special.

I'm so excited for you both to be starting this excellent game. not really ready to play it again, but please report and let me live vicariously

yes!

I just finished replaying this for the first time since high school, and like, WOW.. I was worried I was too over-leveled by the time I got to the final battle with Lavos, since making it through the Black Omen and the Queen Zeal fight was a breeze. But nope, it was just as brutal, challenging and climactic as I hoped it would be. The whole game hypes up this massive showdown with Lavos and it completely lives up to the hype. What an absolute masterpiece of a game.

Except for the extra Lost Sanctum dungeons in the DS version. They really suck.

Lavos is really fuckin tough. also, lol at the OP

my own GZeus-styoe claim is that Wind Scene was my most played Spotify track for two years running, and probably will be again

style

The GZeus really made an excellent contribution to this website with that opening post, didn't he

this is a jam

https://ostilmusic.bandcamp.com/track/chrono-trigger-epic-piano-medley

I’d love to have my kid try this out and like it one day. Terranigma too, but Chrono Trigger seems more likely.

a memory card failure and other mishaps have prevented me from ever having finished this game. does anyone know if the PC version is acceptable now? or is an emulator the best way to play if i don't have a console its been ported to?

SPINAL FUNCTION

xpost ROM loaded onto hacked SNES Classic Mini

bump this thread whenever you play a game for over an hour

yeah i played on the SNES Mini and it worked great. Couldn't get Terranigma to work sadly.

i have an 8bitdo snes style controller so i think i can just use that with the rom on my PC

for terranigma you'll need to do some additional hacking, iirc --- installing another emulator 'core' or something like that. as i delved into this i realized i could also make my Mini act as a Genesis emulator, or any other system for which that controller is enough, and i got distracted.

Update: I started a New Game+ and beat Lavos just with Crono and Marle at the start of the game to get the development room ending.. weirdly enough it was much easier than when I played it with three characters? I guess by then I knew the strategies for beating it so that made it easier

I never got too far into Terranigma. I have beaten Soul Blazer though!

Update: I started a New Game+ and beat Lavos just with Crono and Marle at the start of the game to get the development room ending THE GAME 3 times

i remember thinking Terranigma was super charming watching a buddy play it on a computer in high school. started it once on emu myself and got up to a fight with a big... bird? on top of a mesa? (might be mixing this up with Seiken Densetsu 3) and lost track of it.

Soul Blazer i tried out recently on the aforementioned hacked SNES Mini. i liked the feel of the combat, but the linearity of the quests became truly oppressive --- go into the dungeon, beat some monsters, this releases someone back in town, go back to town, they give you something you need to get a little further in the dungeon... repeat. and then the difficulty of the bosses was off the charts disproportionate to everything else... just not my bag.

Wow, how have I never even heard of Terranigma before now? Looks good!

it was never released in the US is probably why, only japan and europe

unless you're from europe and then i dont know

I've now finished the (surprisingly underwhelming?) Dream Devourer ending. I've done it. I BEAT THE GAME 3 times

i could never get v far in terranigma

i like its music and Ideas more than the actual gameplay

same for actraiser

Just got through Magus’s shitty-ass castle. Man that was a SLOG. You finish a battle, walk up three steps, and start another goddamn battle. Repeat the process a zillion times.

this genre might not be for you

ehh 90s ones had way higher forced encounter rates than the genre ended up settling on in the ps2 to present era

The high random encounter rate was always something you put up with, unfortunately, thanks for Dragon Quest setting the standard for so long. CT at least gave you the option to avoid many of the fights

what's the closest thing to CT in the modern era? preferably something i can play on PS4...
I tried Nino Ku Ni and enjoyed it for a few hours, but it felt a bit samey after a while and the battle system was extremely laboured and confusing.

I Am Setsuna uses a Chrono Trigger-esque battle system but I find it hard to get invested in the game/story

Dragon Quest XI is the most "modern jrpg for people who like 90s jrpgs" game available i think. plus shares the toriyama character designs and vibe with CT of course.

unless you want actual retro stuff like uhh Cosmic Star Heroine is an alright one, indie games that are mimicking 90s games

ah cool. yeah i'm not fussy about it being topdown/old-style, just looking for a similar vibe. i really miss CT but i'm not quite ready to dust down the SNES and play it again yet.

Dragon Quest XI on switch has an interesting feature which I've never tried myself: the default is a 3D world, but you can switch the graphics/level layouts over to topdown/old-style, with all the same characters, enemies, items, stats, etc.

I can't remember if you have a switch, DL, but if you do it might be a good option!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAzOLsMoojQ