Are we 100% sure that Glenn or Schala can't be inserted? Ayla's running sprite isn't that small, thanks to her tail which increases the sprite's length. Glenn could be running like Magus, as someone proposed on the other topic.
Anyway... I actually just read the plot outline recently, so everything is still fresh in my head, but I have some stuff to expose.
People might not agree with this idea, but I think that (for example) simply replacing the Malakh-ar with Nus would give the game a more Chronoan feel, if you see what I mean and what it would suddenly change.
I believe there are also some problems with the current plot though that are not technical but just story-related. They might not all be "plot-holes" though, maybe just things that I misunderstood:
- What did Magus do for the 2 whole years in the Ice Age? Everybody knows that Schala was last seen in the Ocean Palace, so the ruins of the Black Omen should have been the very first place he searched at.
- I'm still not sure about Magus patronizing Dalton about his crimes... The Mystic War must have caused more deaths than Dalton's slavery of the Earthbound, especially since the Magus ALSO had slaves in his castle, and not just slaves, but
undead slaves who implored the party to "kill" them to ease their pain.
- The time paradox with the Chrono Break:
According to the Frozen Flame, the Chrono Break banishes an entity from all timelines and permanently casts him into the Darkness Beyond Time. However, if Crono, Marle, and Lucca were banished from history, the Frozen Flame never would have escaped the Ocean Palace and resurrected King Zeal, which would mean that Sorin would never get altered or get the Chrono Break and thus he would not have been able to banish them.
...but isn't the purpose of the DBT precisely to make time loop impossible? The CB's logic seems different than what we see in the series, and the item seems basically impossible to use: you can't kill anybody with it, because if you did you would have created a timeline in which that person never existed... so you never had to kill him/her, but you did kill him/her... so you couldn't use the CB to begin with.
Also, is the reason for the party's decrease in power explained somewhere? I might have missed that part, but I think it's not explained.
Other stuff:
- Is Lavos really a unique person? CT and CC implies that the Lavos we see is just a grown Lavos Spawn, which gives birth to other Lavos Spawns which will parasitate other planets. CT:CE though reveals that Lavos is a unique person, and that all Lavos Spawns are his creations. Then did Lavos drift in space for all the time between his corruption as a Malakh-ar and 65,000,000 BC?
- Finally, I'm not sure about Lavos needing a "bioweapon" to do his dirty work. He certainly didn't need any to harvest DNA in CT. The original series implied that the Planet vs. Lavos struggle was more about survival of the fittest than good spirit vs. evil lord. So Lavos had that kind of parasitical nature, everything he did he could do it by himself, he never needed weapons. Even his only external tool, the Frozen Flame, is just in fact another part of himself, not a telephone that he left when he crashed on the planet.
Moreover, Calasperan and the dream of King Zeal is quite reminiscent of FFX's Zanarkand and the dream of the Fayth... so unfortunately, that somehow makes Geddon a bit too similar to FFX-2's Vegnagun (omg kigzeal = shuyin!!!111). I don't know, maybe this FFX feeling is what gives the current plot a slightly different tone than what we feel as "Chrono".
