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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Fates of the Chrono Trigger Team - Discussion

« on: February 25, 2006, 03:15:34 am »

The one under that Lucca picture looks blue at the bottem.  I'd say thats a Nu.  There any screen shots of the other one we can't see?

I think it is.  It looks like it has the little patch of green hair that Nu have as well.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Robo

« on: February 24, 2006, 04:44:04 am »

Yeah, I wasn't quiet sure if it was Poseidon or Hades...

Funnily enough, Hades isn't the personification of death that he is usually portrayed as.  He's really just Hades's king (yeah, the Underworld is technically called Hades too)  Most people think that cuz of....I dunno.  He is no death itself.  That belongs to Thanatos.

In Greek mythology, Thanatos (θάνατος, "death") was the personification of death (Roman equivalent: Mors). He was a creature of bone-chilling darkness. He was a son of Nyx and twin of Hypnos. He plays little role in the myths. In early accounts he was seen as a very powerful figure armed with a sword, with a shaggy beard and a fierce face. His coming was marked with pain and grief. In later eras, as the transition from life to death in Elysium became a more attractive option, Thanatos was seen as a beautiful young man. Many Roman sarcophagi show him as a winged boy, much like Cupid. Because of his ghastly task, he was very unpopular with both man and gods. He became rather overshadowed by Hades the lord of the dead. Night, the destructive, brought forth a horde of villainous immortals. Thanatos was one of that wretched lot.

EDIT:  just looked at the later pages.  Wow, we got off this dicussion a while ago, didn't we?

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / if chrono break ever existed...

« on: February 24, 2006, 04:18:03 am »

Your wrong.  In Trigger, you Trigger a major change in time, Lavos' defeat.  That the consept of CT.  In Cross, you Cross dimensions.  Thats its consept.  It will be the same with Brake/Break.  Sure, there were objects called the Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, but thats hardly relavant to what were saying.

If it goes like that, then I wonder what it would be a Brake/Break of?

Ya know, just because the rules of time travel never applied during Chrono Trigger, it doesn't mean that the heroes would get off scoff-free.  I always figured that in Break/Brake, the repercussions of time-traveling would start affecting the world (ya know, in the negative ways that the game decided wouldn't happen), and you have to back in time (again) to set things right.

If that turns out to be the plot (or somewhere along this), then would Crono and the gang have to kill their past selves (with the possible exception of Magus, since he was an optional character) in order to keep them from killing Lavos and changing history, even though it would cause them to cease to exist?  It would be wierd to have a final battle in which you are fighting to stop the thing you originally believed was right (then again, Golden Sun did the same thing, cept without the time-travel)

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / About Starky

« on: February 24, 2006, 03:26:52 am »

Perhaps Starky's race is an intergalactic force whose primary purpose is to rid the universe of Lavoids? Maybe once a planet has had a Lavoid for too long, as the CT/CC Planet might have had, they simply destroy it unless there are some valuable resources. Finding none on Crono and Serge's world, they deemed it more appropriate to destroy the Lavoid by destroying the planet than to try to eliminate only the parasite and keep those resources for their parent empire. Or something along those lines.

That seems an awful lot like Tassadar's exploration group in Starcraft, except that the Protoss wouldn't wait for a report.

Basically, if a planet had the Zerg on it (which was termed as an "infested planet"), they were under orders to use their cruiser's main cannon to incinerate the planet's surface, instantly wiping out all life on the planet.

Maybe Starky's race did the same thing with Lavoids, except that they waited to see the extent of damage and such?

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Magic, Elements, and Technology / The Field

« on: February 24, 2006, 02:39:04 am »

I tend to get randomness.  

However, I have noticed something wierd:  In my game, after a third boss battle, the third-to-last element color cast will be on the field for the next few battles.  Maybe it's just my game, but it always happens with me.

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Magic, Elements, and Technology / Re: The question of how certain techniques work...

« on: February 23, 2006, 09:09:52 pm »

Certain techniques within Chrono Trigger seem somewhat impossible, improbable, even for the gaem itself. Techniques I'm talking about, are such as Falcon Hit, Line Bomb, and Arc Impulse...

On example, how is it that Falcon Hit works...? Ayla throws Crono high into the air, but one would expect that he is supposedly going to come down and land on an enemy, making this technique a sort of non-elemental Firesword, or Icesword... Instead, he does a fly-by attack, slicing every enemy in a line?

Is it possible that Crono's Lightning Element allows him to turn the currents of air in his favor, and therefore go through a flying movement?

We've seen him break tornado energy with his slash manuever, but how is it that he's using wind to use advantage...

Even more so a questionable technique is Lucca and Glenn's Line Bomb? Does the line of explosions carry Glenn to give him just the adjustment of gliding to slice through enemies as he follows the trail of Lucca's explosions? Does this prove that Glenn can jump as high and far as Ayla can throw?

Even more perplexing is Arc Impulse... I can only guess Arc stands for Arctic, but is the technique merely an Water-element X Slash turned half-way or something more?

We see Crono jump on Frog's back, as Marle gives him elemental ice energy at it's apparent peak, so he can slice vertically, as he usually does with many techniques... Glenn slices horizontally as he does with many techniques, but just how is it that he creates a similar energy pattern to that of Marle in this event?

Is it that Marle and Glenn have somehow learned an amiable way to use Ice and Water together with Glenn and Crono's blades?

Any thoughts, an other techniques that can possibly be questioned?

Yeah, well uh, anytime you notice something like that....a wizard did it.

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Magic, Elements, and Technology / What does the Epoch use as an energy and does it even need 1

« on: February 23, 2006, 04:01:05 am »

I going to suggest Mr. Fusion and the Fluxcapacitor, but...

I knew someone would mention this eventually.  Also, did the movie ever explain how a Flux Capacitor even works?

As to what powers it...hmmm...maybe it siphons energy off the pilot.  Since Crono has electricity as an element (or heaven, whatever), it would work as a suitable power source.

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Lavos, the Planet, and other Entities / Where Did lavos come from?

« on: February 23, 2006, 03:47:13 am »

He always seemed to remind me of the Overmind from Starcraft (although not as cunning), who seems bent on eventually making it so that the only species in the universe is his own.