Morning Discussion
If you only play one traditional textile crafts game this year, make it Coverlet.
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I schooled Magus in the Middle Ages in Chrono Trigger DS last night. Now I'm back in the stone age. Crazy.
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I really do appreciate what they did with the characters in that game. Instead of most JRPGs' approach of trying waaaay too hard to establish deep characters (often falling completely flat --- I'm looking at you, FF13, you big bitch), CT opted instead for simpler characters that each had their unique charm. And it worked! You can't help but love those little bastards.
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Oh good god. I finally beat the PS1 version of that game, and it was a fucking nightmare the whole way through. I heard they changed some of the gameplay in it from the Dawn of Souls port onward, though, so maybe those games don't require such a massive amount of grinding/"cheating the system". I appreciate what they were trying to do with the game, making it so skills develop with practice, and it was probably hell to pull this off on the NES. But still, fuck that shit.
To make it bearable, I played it through ePSXe and frequently abused the "cap/uncap FPS" shortcut, because there's no way in hell I'd play that in regular speed.
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I was up to a section going down this giant elevator - I had just visited the sky people or something? and I had just taken a teleport or stairs down a whirlpool which appeared in the ocean? To the right of an island, if I recall.
These stairs or elevator had battle after battle after battle after battle of the same shit, maybe it was the final crunch of the game but it was really, really annoying - yet the rest was really good (and that's saying something since I'd never played the game before and was only 3 or 4 years ago!)-
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Get the fuck out of here, I was up in the sky with the sky people and they gave me something (I can't recall) and then something hapenned and the big big big big long long (oh god so long) lift went down - big mechanical one and then at the bottom I umm was in some kind of fortress and the battles were remaining mononotnous unfortunately so yeah :(
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here's a version of the zeal theme you should know, if you don't already http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGpAGy-Sb4s
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This is a bit of a non-sequitur, but I've always been taken by how much the music at the beginning of the short 'Franken's Gears' sounds like a proto-Zeal theme. (Also, the short is awesome) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EeMg2ZsSnE
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Schala's Theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIJxrAHuk7Q&feature=related
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OCRemix's Chrono Trigger Remix: http://chrono.ocremix.org/
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Great album! Being an OCRemix nut from way back, I've gotta share the love for a few of the other mixes on the main site:
http://ocremix.org/game/16/chrono-trigger-snes
Some great stuff in there, especially "Calamitous Judgement" and "Revival Day Impoetus".-
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Maybe "Atonement"?
http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01377/
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My favorite game of all time.
FIrst time I played it, I was at a friends house and we played from the beginning to just to the point where Crono sacrifices himself in the Ocean Palace without stopping, basically played from the time we gout out of school until the next morning. Problem was, he was moving that day so we had to stop playing and return the game to the video store (he had rented it) and for reasons I can't remember I wasn't able to re-rent it to take it home to finish it. I was fucking bummed as all hell.
Finally like a year or something later I remembered about it and rented it, played through the whole game in like two sittings.-
first time i played the game, my friend started a new game on his cartridge even though he had been playing it for a while. after a couple hours he wanted to show me his progress (was at a save point just outside the 2nd battle w dalton.) in his excitement, he didn't realize he was on the 'save' screen rather than the identical 'select a game' screen and saved over his progress with the brand new game D=
we were done for that day and i don't think he ever finished it.
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Everyone hates on me when I say it, but I don't like Chrono Trigger at all. And I've tried it in 4 year increments since the 90s to play it with no dice. The dialogue is ho hum, characters inventive I guess but nothing that special, but the combat.....the combat is super boring. Nothing puts up a fight, you just destroy everything and you get in alot of fights.
I'm really not trolling, becuase I've actually played this game 5 or 6 times, or tried to....nothing doing. -
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