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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: Chrono Cross DS: Is it Possible?
« on: April 10, 2009, 10:27:59 pm »I don't think Sony would make a fuss about Chrono Cross, especially since it's probably not as popular as the mainstream fancandy Final Fantasy.'Mainstream fancandy'...
Sad but true! The series has kind of been diluted to a mainstream one these days... IX was the swan song as far as I'm concerned. As for a Cross port on the DS, I'd love to see it, though there's probably a snowball's chance in hell of it happening. As cool a visual style as CC had, I wouldn't mind a graphic makeover... something along the lines of the FFIV port? How they'd fit the whole game onto a DS cart though, I don't know. Maybe if they chopped the cut scenes and gave it SNES style graphics, but I think that'd be way to drastic of a change for most. I'd welcome it, just to have the storyline on hand again.
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Welcome / Birthday / Seeya! Forum / Greetings, Folks
« on: April 10, 2009, 03:58:59 pm »
Hello all!
I've been hovering around this site since picking up a copy of the DS re-release in January. It had been so long since I'd even Google'd CT that the only site I could remember previously was the mysteriously-MIA chronotrigger.com. Needless to say, I was delighted to stumble upon this virtual encyclopedia on the whole series...! Major kudos to all involved in putting together such an impressive tribute to what remains my favourite game out there. I was especially glad to see that so many younger folks in their teens - the Playstation generation, if you will - still appreciate the game, despite its being a tad dated and playful compared to more recent fare.
As for my own experience with the series, I first rented the game (and console) back in '94 or '95 (can never remember the year), after being drawn in by a large poster of the crew taking off in the Epoch. This would be the first of many such occasions, as I wouldn't own a SNES til years later. I remember having to start over repeatedly, as someone else would always have rented it and saved over my file by the time I got back to it! I don't think I finished it until my early-mid teens sometime. I think the game still has a certain creative spark and colourfulness to it that you don't see in newer releases so often. Still have my cartridge lying around as an antique of sorts.
Chrono Cross and FF Chronicles were the only reasons I bought a PS. Before then I'd just been a Saturn owner - one of the dozen people or so who bought one! I was very disappointed in CC at the time. I didn't hate it with a burning rage like some folks out there, but was disappointed in the lack of continuity between it and CT. Also found it a bit dark, with the pacing of things being rather confusing, and a lot of hollow characters. I played through it once, and that was it. In what was perhaps an appropriate metaphor for things, our ancient TV was on its last legs at the time - it still operated on an aerial - and the picture decided to fizzle out into an incomprehensible blur, just as the ending began to roll.
That said, I'd actually like to give CC another shot sometime. I had forgotten so many of the Zeal / Schala aspects of the story over the years (Present and Medieval eras were my fave back in the day, so I remembered them the best) - that playing through CT DS was almost like a new game in parts. Think I'd appreciate CC more nowadays, especially having read some of the interviews on this site, and having recently played through Radical Dreamers. I actually really enjoyed RD. Thought the characters were better-developed than in CC, probably through virtue of its smaller cast.
Anyway, I don't know that I'll post here a great deal, but I wanted to at least stop by give a big thumbs up on the site and community here. Great stuff!
I've been hovering around this site since picking up a copy of the DS re-release in January. It had been so long since I'd even Google'd CT that the only site I could remember previously was the mysteriously-MIA chronotrigger.com. Needless to say, I was delighted to stumble upon this virtual encyclopedia on the whole series...! Major kudos to all involved in putting together such an impressive tribute to what remains my favourite game out there. I was especially glad to see that so many younger folks in their teens - the Playstation generation, if you will - still appreciate the game, despite its being a tad dated and playful compared to more recent fare.
As for my own experience with the series, I first rented the game (and console) back in '94 or '95 (can never remember the year), after being drawn in by a large poster of the crew taking off in the Epoch. This would be the first of many such occasions, as I wouldn't own a SNES til years later. I remember having to start over repeatedly, as someone else would always have rented it and saved over my file by the time I got back to it! I don't think I finished it until my early-mid teens sometime. I think the game still has a certain creative spark and colourfulness to it that you don't see in newer releases so often. Still have my cartridge lying around as an antique of sorts.
Chrono Cross and FF Chronicles were the only reasons I bought a PS. Before then I'd just been a Saturn owner - one of the dozen people or so who bought one! I was very disappointed in CC at the time. I didn't hate it with a burning rage like some folks out there, but was disappointed in the lack of continuity between it and CT. Also found it a bit dark, with the pacing of things being rather confusing, and a lot of hollow characters. I played through it once, and that was it. In what was perhaps an appropriate metaphor for things, our ancient TV was on its last legs at the time - it still operated on an aerial - and the picture decided to fizzle out into an incomprehensible blur, just as the ending began to roll.
That said, I'd actually like to give CC another shot sometime. I had forgotten so many of the Zeal / Schala aspects of the story over the years (Present and Medieval eras were my fave back in the day, so I remembered them the best) - that playing through CT DS was almost like a new game in parts. Think I'd appreciate CC more nowadays, especially having read some of the interviews on this site, and having recently played through Radical Dreamers. I actually really enjoyed RD. Thought the characters were better-developed than in CC, probably through virtue of its smaller cast.
Anyway, I don't know that I'll post here a great deal, but I wanted to at least stop by give a big thumbs up on the site and community here. Great stuff!