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Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« on: April 02, 2009, 04:44:08 am »
...or at least his mask is, in a well hidden cameo.

Thanks to utunnels ripping the CC background art, I noticed that a very familiar face appears in Home Guldove in the shop. Look at those masks in the picture I attached. The one at the left-most looks exactly like Norstein Bekkler. The other ones on the panel look like variations of him. Does that mean there are others like him out there? There's something written on the panel but it seems like gibberish ("Qestlo" or something). In any case, the mask on the left looks definitely like Norstein.

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2009, 04:51:19 am »
Check Serge's house, hehe.

« Last Edit: April 02, 2009, 04:53:07 am by utunnels »

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2009, 04:07:17 pm »
Wow, that's gotta be really freaky, Serge sleeping with all these masks just looking at him. Could they represent guardian spirits in El Nido culture?

That would have freaked the heck out of me as a kid though.
« Last Edit: April 02, 2009, 04:17:14 pm by FaustWolf »

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2009, 04:59:05 pm »
"they're staring at me.... please.... just make them stop staring!"

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2009, 05:16:47 pm »
I have a mask on the wall in my room. It's small like a child's face, but has the proportions of a grown woman. The 'skin' is completely white, it has perfectly shaped black holes for its slanted eyes, it has purple and gold eye and lip makeup, and a little black spot for a beauty mark. It's been up there since I moved into this house (I was seven? Six? forgot.) and I don't ever remember it being creepy. Maybe Serge doens't think the masks are creepy cause he got used to sleeping beneath them. Stare at something long enough and the creepy aspect will go away. Take that something away, and the room just won't feel right anymore.

Are there masks in any other rooms in the game? Faust's guardian spirit hypothesis sounds possible.

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2009, 06:03:56 pm »
It would be nice if they were actually like little signs of Fate/Wazuki watching over little Serge ....Aww thats so sweet ^^

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2009, 06:34:16 pm »
Great finds guys--the masks make sense in Guldove, they give off that tribal feel; maybe Serge's were picked up there too. I wonder how many other nods there are to CT...

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2009, 08:53:53 pm »
Odd.  Except for the nose, I'm not really seeing the resemblance.

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2009, 09:24:36 pm »

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2009, 03:06:49 pm »
Odd.  Except for the nose, I'm not really seeing the resemblance.

Aye. Though to be fair, Bekkler was just a mask with a sort of clown nose in CT, so anything with a clown nose could be Bekkler in CC.

... Including Skelly.

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2009, 01:18:00 pm »
Bekkler is the Entity of El Nido?!

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2009, 01:23:19 pm »
Bekkler is the Entity of El Nido?!

I thought that was Starky

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2009, 12:38:48 am »
Okay, folks, let's knock it off with the joke posts in the ANALYSIS forum, shall we?

Anyways, they just look like masks to me...Maybe if Bekkler actually had some concept art we could actually tell one way or the other...

Also, figured I'd put his sprite sheet in here for further comparison...


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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #13 on: April 27, 2009, 07:54:39 pm »
it seems to be a more detailed version of bekklers mask there could be a entire bekkler society, bekkler could be a title with the individuals name in front of it. the person could  choose from a wide variety of masks that are enchanted so the wearers head and hands are the only thing visible and there skin changes to fit the mask color until they take it off.
if this is true that means it could be A bekkler mask that simply looks similar or it could be norsteins.

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Re: Norstein Bekkler is in Chrono Cross!
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2009, 07:13:32 am »
Well, in the retranslation we find out that Bekkler is in fact a magician...

Quote from: Belthasar Nu
A doppel doll! That would do nicely.
The magician Norstein Bekkler could whip one up in the wink of an eye, if only he were here.
You've not heard of him, you say? Well, he loves festivals. Find a fair, and there, too, you shall almost certainly find Bekkler!

Perhaps he uses the clone "dolls" to increase his longevity...
« Last Edit: April 28, 2009, 07:15:12 am by V_Translanka »