I mostly really like the trial, just because of the fun you can have manipulating it with your actions on the fairgrounds. Each juror is tied to a specific key (yes, even the one that everyone thinks is "random". He's not), and you can really have fun with it, especially with the extra scenes from the NPCs.
Plus, the trial music is epic, and I love the time-travel tie to it.
Medieval times, after you rescue the Chancellor: "We have to create a criminal justice system to deal with threats to the royal family."
Modern times: You get put on trial for abducting the princess. If only you hadn't rescued the real Chancellor (actually, he breaks free anyway, but still).
05-02-2014, 03:24 PM
Loony BoB
Oh man, I haven't played this game in forever and had forgotten pretty much everything, but this LP is remindng me of it piece by piece. :up:
05-02-2014, 09:44 PM
Pumpkin
So I manage to break out by making a lot of noise and then beating up on the guards. I explore, run around, do some fights, collects some treasure chests.
Rescue this guy who was about to get his head chopped off. Which in hindsight was an odd thing to do. Like, he could have been a mass murderer for all I know. It's done now, so that's that.
So I'm being chased through the woods by Chancellor McJerkface and some guards and I find another Gate that Marle immediately says we should jump through because, you know, that's smart.
The lookout guy and this... slug thing both start laughing at me and then challenge me to a fight. Before the fight starts, however, the lookout guy runs away, leaving me with slug who seriously wants to kill me.
I ALSO HAVEN'T RUN IN TO A SAVE IN FOREVER SO I AM SUPER GLAD I CAN QUICK SAVE
Will I be able to use this device? I hope so, and I hope it helps me leave this horrible awful area because I hate it so much :nonono:
Tune in next time!
05-02-2014, 09:53 PM
Formalhaut
So is Chrono Trigger quite linear then? That's what I'm getting so far.
05-02-2014, 09:56 PM
Pumpkin
It seems a bit linear so far, yeah. I'm not too far in yet though, so it's hard to say.
05-02-2014, 10:01 PM
Madonna
A lot of routes are closed off to the world at large due to [future story plotlines], which you get to, and there comes a time when the world is your oyster. Until then, yeah, the scope gets narrow, but shion has not shown how a person can get lost in Guardia forest, the sewers, and even the cannibal church has a lot to miss if you somehow only go from plot point to plot point.
05-02-2014, 10:05 PM
Pumpkin
Yeah you can go to different areas and explore before the plot points but so far it has been limiting. Like old guy and fish robot slave don't seem to have advanced the story for me at all, but I could still go and visit them. The sewers were pretty long and there were a few more dialogues with the frog dudes that I didn't include.
05-03-2014, 12:07 AM
Sephex
You can actually skip the sewer when you first get to the future, but there comes a point where you HAVE to go through it, so it's best just to get it out of the way when you first arrive.
The commentary keeps on getting better and better! I need to up my game when I update my Shining Force II thread (hopefully ASAP in a couple of days)!
05-03-2014, 05:42 AM
Pumpkin
I back track through the sewers and find these people in a dome thingy.
See, I was worried, because he has this countdown thing he does. I was expecting like a super mega ultra attack to take place when he reached 0, but he just regenerates his stupid little pod things. You disappoint me giant robot.
This is incredibly unfortunate. We also find a dead man and apparently decide to search him for some reason. Seriously, what is it with people and dead bodies in RPGs? I touched a dead cat body once and it was horrifying.
See, that place looks a lot like the world from the present (past?), but what's happening there does not look good. Apparently that happens in the year 1999 AD and we are in the year 2300 AD and our real time is 1000 AD. That's a lot of ADs.
Marle is very upset at the fact that this is our future (no kidding), but then decides:
Yeah, sure. WHY NOT. It's not like we're just a bunch of kids who should probably be in school and maybe we should find some evidence of this and the Gates and hand this over to professionals or something.
LETS TIME TRAVEL
We head back to the sad people and they basically don't care about our time traveling, but the old man (I already forgot his name) is happy to see such hope in us.
I do win the race actually, mostly thanks to my boyfriend's racing. As some of you know, sharky races cars, and he's told me about this thing called.... I don't remember, but it's where you bump a car to give it a boost to go faster. So I just kept having him bump in to me and I stayed ahead of him pretty consistently.
Bet you never thought having a racer boyfriend would come in handy. WELL NOW IT HAS TRANSLATED IN TO THE REAL WORLD SKILL OF PLAYING VIDEO GAMES TAKE THAT
So I arrive at the dome thingy I was searching for.
We sadly had to tell him that the others are probably dead and he is a sad robot :(. We tell him about our time traveling shenanigans and how we need to get through that door behind him.
