The question of how certain techniques work...

[GrayLensman]

Actually, Crono Versus Lavos alone is really easy.

In the official story-line, Crono tried only once to fight Lavos alone, in the Ocean Palace, and he got totally pwnd...

In the official story-line, Crono and two other time travelers, fully prepared for battle, are effortlessly beaten by Lavos in the Ocean Palace.  In the aftermath, Crono sacrifices his life by placing his body in the path of Lavos' final attack, allowing the others to escape.  After the time travelers regroup and spend some time preparing themselves to fight Lavos, they emerge victorious. Crono is a lot stronger at the final battle than in the Ocean Palace.

[V_Translanka]

<~*POST 2000 (THE NU POST ^_^)*~>

Not to be the bee in anyone's bonnet or anything (what? no, it's not that gay of a saying!)...but isn't Lavos just more powerful in the Ocean Palace scene?

[AuraTwilight]

He is. Teh Schala compared the stats from a Rom.

[GrayLensman]

I think, storywise, Lavos does not change in strength.  The player isn't supposed to win the Ocean Palace battle.

[V_Translanka]

That kind of depends on your idea of "story-wise"...I mean, sure, from a game-creator's POV they aren't supposed to win there (i mean, you don't get a real ending doing that!)...But if you see it as Crono & Co. are up against Lavos now, that who they're trying to destroy, I think they are supposed to defeat it there, but Lavos's simply too powerful for 'em (either at the time for them or because Lavos's actually more powerful for some reason [which he is]).

edit: I kept referring to Lavos as "He" and I h8 that...

[Weggy]

I kept referring to Lavos as "He" and I h8 that...

Someone's gonna have to flip that shell over and check.

[V_Translanka]

I think you could make a case for Lavos being any or no sex...It supposedly produces spawn, so you'd think it'd have to be female. But it could also use some kind of asexual reproduction (involving genetic manipulation anyways). Or, you could see it as Lavos using it's seed to kind of impregnate (in a very loose metaphorical kind of way) the planet to produce it's spawn and that way it'd be male?

I like to just use unspecific pronouns just to avoid any confusion...

[Sir Frog]

Metophorically speaking, Lavos is the sperm that fertilized the Planet's seed.  We humans are the offspring.

[Zaperking]

Humans were there long before Lavos.

Also, Lavos is apparently female. Or atleast in CC, the TD's (in the DBT) sex is female. It's either based on Schala, or Lavos is really a chick Oo. That's one bad PMS that she had during the Ocean Palace then xD

Anyway.. You wonder why Crono and Co don't die when they fall from Mystic Mountain, Black Omen to Epoch? BECAUSE IT'S A JAPANESE ANIME STEROTYPE! Not sure for the exact word, but in Japanese anime, they like using comic relief and other sort of stunts. Wonder why a character in an anime can punch someone when they're pissed off and the person flys 1 km away? Or how Team Rock always simply fly off at the end of every ep. and are still alive the next?
Wonder why the characters have weird poses when they laugh or are scared? Duh >.>

[AuraTwilight]

Slapstick is the term you're looking for.

[SilentMartyr]

When they come down from the Omen to epoch, it is easily possible that the Epoch flys closer to them and catches them.

[UraRenge]

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.

[AuraTwilight]

If you were just gonna say that, why bother reviving a dead thread like this? "A Wizard Did It" Hardly suffices as worthy content.

[Zaperking]

If you were just gonna say that, why bother reviving a dead thread like this? "A Wizard Did It" Hardly suffices as worthy content.

That was in the Simpsons, when the Xene lady had to answer all these plot holes to a bunch of geeks.

[ChronoMagus]

That kind of depends on your idea of "story-wise"...I mean, sure, from a game-creator's POV they aren't supposed to win there (i mean, you don't get a real ending doing that!)...But if you see it as Crono & Co. are up against Lavos now, that who they're trying to destroy, I think they are supposed to defeat it there, but Lavos's simply too powerful for 'em (either at the time for them or because Lavos's actually more powerful for some reason [which he is]).

edit: I kept referring to Lavos as "He" and I h8 that...

Wasn't it cuz the Mammon Machine was hooked up to Lavos and that super charged him?