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I'm making a power point presentation for a panel I'm running this weekend at an anime convention about JRPGs, since you were curious.

I have been in the mood to play through CT and CC again though and your threads haven't been helping.
The Panel name will be "Why Final Fantasy XII is The Best and XIII is the Worst" right?

Or encouraging more people to play Xenogears and Saga?
It will be about the RPG genre in video games and how it has evolved. There will be a heavier emphasis on JRPGs because it is an anime convention but I have a feeling the thread will devolve into troll-a-thon fairly quickly.


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I started a cross playthrough myself, though it's on hold for destiny.

Also the 'guided humanity' bit is... interesting. It always felt more like his presence was guiding their evolution more so then any intent to guide it this way. Remember, he simply reaped the DNA of the worlds, and grew based off that. I always presumed it was later on in the world he began to gain sentience of some kind, and created himself some safeguards in case chrono and company managed to win.

I can't say I like that little alteration in Cross though. In context of Cross it's sensible enough, but I feel Lavos worked best as this force of nature rather then a thinking being.
That is one area I did kinda roll my eyes at. The talk about "Lavos' hatred cprri[tomg Schala" at the end of the game was just....it didn't fit for me. I never got the feeling Lavos hated or cared much about anyone or anything apart from being hungry.

I prefer to think it's almost the reverse. Being merged with Schala "humanized" lavos. After all the hardship she had endured, all the loss and suffering, and then being trapped "outside of time" so that she can see the agony of ages...is it any wonder to imagine Schala going crazy? Look what Janus changed into and his circumstances were actually better than hers. The game itself says love and hate are part of the same coin so Schala's great capacity for love and empathy was flipped after all that "time" and she succumbed to despair and instead. She began to project her very negative human traits onto it. Lavos was now a tool of destruction for a woman who had lost her sanity and all hope.
This is pretty much how I saw it in CC as well. Lavos wouldn't care but psycho-Schala powered by Eldritch abomination would...