The Chrono Campaign Has Begun

[Forsaken Lover]

So when i first read "FATE" some time ago I was like "are they just being melodramatic?" with all the all caps thing. Now knowing that it's a computer makes more sense. Although it being based on Mother Brain - the genocidal anti-human thing from Robo's subplot - worries me some....

And man oh man was my suspicions right.

So my idea was I'd try and jot down my impressions as I went along but I think that kind killed the atmosphere or mood ya know?

So...Chronopolis. To begin with, some people have talked here and elsewhere about how "El Nido was its own thing." Like when I mentioned the fate of demi-humans/Fiends, people said El Nido was an isolated incident and the Fiends we helped in Medina might all still be doing just fine. I honestly didn't buy this idea because...well, it just seemed kinda silly. Perhaps its due to the technical limitations but I feel we saw practically nothing of the world iN Chrono Trigger. We saw a couple kingdoms, a couple random towns and that's it. I had it in my mind we glimpsed just as much of the planet iN CT as we did in CC.

But Chronopolis throws that all out of whack. El Nido truly is "an isolated incident" as it was a super-bubble of pet goldfish. They are nothing more or less than bred lab animals, even if the breeding was super-duper long. Do any real animals get bred "in captivity" for 10,000 years? At that point is it even captivity? Then again, FATE intervened so directly that it kinda is. That poor wannabe poet waitress....

I recall talk earlier about Lavos wiping out the Reptiles "being no accident." And this seems to confirm that idea. Mammals, or more precisely humans, were the creatures Lavos chose and the Reptiles bit the big one. I see now what people were saying about Lavos guiding evolution being a thing iN CC that might have been retroactively put into CT. In any event, I made sure to listen to all the...ghosts? Memories? Time-frozen consciousnesses? I made sure to read everything tey had to say and the one I liked was the idea that humans are such contradictory beings because our evolution has been altered by Lavos. We are contaminated which leads to the way we all live our sad little lives in hate while simultaneously wanting tlove. it's the paradox of starting war for peace and it's all Lavos' fault.

On a more substantive level, let me see if I'm getting Events straight.

El Nido Bubble is created at some point in the future.

Everything is going great for a long, long time.

TheN Wazuki and Miguel stumble upon Chronopolis. For...some reason, Serge is healed by the Frozen Flame and "chosen" by him too as "Arbiter"? Did Wazuki and Miguel just stumble through the facility until they found the giant energy thing? I guess it might help explain things if I knew what the Flame really was.... In all the information I received, I don't recall theme ver saying precisely what it was. Oh wait! Something to do with Lavos? It fell from the sky with Lavos? Is it perhaps like the Mammon Machine? Drawing out Lavos' endless power to do....anything? Still doesn't explain the whole Serge situation though.

I'm getting serious Xenogears vibes from this whole section however. Save Points being used as monitoring devices, the main character had his fate altered by coming into "contact" with a super-energy source, a sort of god-like computer thing.... Heh, I've heard Deus called a 'Lavos Clone" but FATE kinda reminds me more of Deus in a way.

Oh yeah!

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Substitute "Yamcha" with "Robo." What the hell was that? I'm still not sold on Kato hating Chrono Trigger or its cast but I think he might have hated Robo.

Also, as a boss, FATE was kind of annoying. Not hard but I had to run away the first time because Serge died. I'm gonna consult a guide because this is getting ridiculous. I have precisely ONE Revive Element and if Serge dies, I'm screwed. I must be missing something.

I also missed some goodies I think. I have no idea HOW I missed it but I missed "Recharge" in Chronpolis.

I also didn't steal whatever the hell FATE had to steal. I got it the first time - when Serge died - but the second time around I said smurf it. Probably gonna regret that but oh wel.

Back to story...I'm utterly at a loss for how the prologue of this game plays into what's going on now. Serge and Kid are after lynx? But right now we're after the Dragons who, if I'm understanding this right, are the super-beings who reign over the future in which the Reptiles inherit the Earth. How the hell does Lynx play into this?

This is pretty neat turn of events though, in every way. The whole El Nido reveal, the kind and holy Dragons being vengeful Reptiles, etc.. I wonder if they're still gonna have that awesome music when they show up again? Be kinda contradictory but at the same time fitting.



Also all the stuff with "Time Crash" and whatever? I'm not sure if i get any of that. I think the big and small of it is that they tried to do an experiment, trout went wrong, and both Chronpolis and Dinopolis ended up in El Nido. But now I'm thinking on this, I realize just how confused I am.... Isn't Chronpolis from the future? Then how did they create El Nido in the past? And wait, wasn't the experiment that screwed up everything them trying to manipulate time? But they already did that with El Nido, right...? I'm lost now. Did Wazuki and Miguel happen upon the destroyed Chronopolis that got sucked back in time?

EDIT:

Yessss, Kid is back! Although that flashback was appropriately nightmarish. I'm not sure how much control I have over what happens there? Is there a "bad' way to do it? Can you screw up and leave Kid in a coma? Masa and Mune said they were running out of power so I got scared and thought they meant the thing was almost over and I had to hurry up and save Kid or risk losing her forever.

The kids' drawings of the CT cast was also adorable yet heartbreaking. As was Gato being there but unable to help and beign destroyed....

EDIT 2:

I just got Lucca's letter from...Luccia.

Wow.

kid is Schala? Only, not the Schala we knew? She mentioned someone from the distant past who was gentle and all the rest of it and yes, Schala did cross my mind. But, come on, we barely spent five minutes with her! So I dismissed that possibility. yet no sooner than had I dismissed it when the next line, about Janus being there to protect Kid, sealed the deal. Kid is Schala... One of the weakest characters from CT is the best character in CC.