the 30 seconds I hate chrono trigger

[ForeverZeroUltima]

How the hell did you manage that? He was easily faster than two-thirds of my party when I fought him the first time.

you see, Dario always counterattacks with the opposite color element of what you cast on him.
If you cast a red element on him, he'll counterattack with Numble.
If you cast a blue element on him, he'll counterattack with Weaken.
If you cast a yellow element on him, he'll counterattack with BatEye.
If you cast a green element on him, he'll counterattack with LoRes.
If you cast a black element on him, he'll counterattack with RecoverAll.
If you cast a white element on him, he'll counterattack with ConductaRod.(dead).

but the thing is, HE WILL NOT ATTACK UNTIL 1 TURN AFTER HE COUNTERATTACKS! this gives you time to cast another element on him before he can attack you! And to keep your characters' stamina up, have them use attacks until only 1 stamina point left, then cast an element. then have the next character do the same. by the time it's back to the first char's turn, his stamina has recharged.

so meanwhile he was lowering my stats insignificantly, i was hacking away on him

[Chibi Youkai]

That's the strategy I used at that one island place I can't remember the name of with Karsh, and to think of it, that's kinda what I did with Dario too.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

Strategy=own your enemy

even if it takes a hundred years

which is how long it took for me to figures out a way to beat the Criosphinx WITHOUT Yellow Plates on just "New Game", not "New Game+". AND without doing the Chrono Cross to solve its riddle.

It was hard. I beat it eventually.

[Stayin Dizzy]

my first fight with criosphinx was by accident. I didn't know anything about him being such a tough boss so he kicked my butt for like 2 weeks before I finally beat him. And I haven't played cross in a bit, but what are 'yellow plates"

[Tarshish]

well, does anyone know (especially since Square and Enix are now merged) that there will be anothe installment of the Chrono series? I hope so, and please Akira Toriyama, and not so many playable characters, I just get overwhelmed wanting to max everyone out and it's utterly impossible.

[Clyde Arronway]

No, I'm sorry, but there was one plan for a new game, Chrono Break, but it's officially dead. What is really necesarry is a third installment to reinstate the power of Guardia and create some deus ex machina solution to the deaths of the entire CT charecter list that is CC's main presumption. It needs to get back to the true nature of the wierd person thing that made the time gate things to begin with.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

Daryn: Yellow Plates, you can steal from the Earth Dragon in the Home World. They have very low defense, but you get healed by yellow elements.

Tarshish: Wasn't that third installment Radical Dreamers? If so, it only had three characters, don't worry.

Clyde Arrowny: just so that you know, there WERE some Time Gates in Chrono Cross. (the Dead Sea, Bend of Time).

[Clyde Arronway]

Alrighty! I just was playing Ct on my emulator (I have all the cartradges, I just can't stand how slow the games are!)
Well, nonetheless, to go back to the origional topic of this thread, square apperantly made up the entire kill guardia thing for the sake of CC, because chrono and marle cannot be dead. When in the future in arras dome, It hit me. If you read past this point, I'm gonna have to put up my generic: "there might be spoilers, I don't think so but I'm not gonna have some dingbat who thinks that saying that the main charector's name is crono is a spoiler yelling at me" warning. That said, It hit me while talking to doan, a number of npc's were listed at the end of the game as being in the geneological line of crono, I think ayla was one, but I'm very positive that Doan was a decendant of Crono and Marle. Ergo, the line could not have been broken with the fall of Guardia and crono could not have been killed!

[ChocoboRider]

very true. ayla and...umm... that other dude got married and so she's marle's great great great. . . .grandmother. Doan was a descendant of marle, but we don't know for sure it was crono's. we assume, because of many of ct's endings had marle and crono together in some form (i.e. hanging on balloons, her waking him up, etc). thus, the only requirement is for marle to have had a kid. doesn't matter with whom, it just matter that it happens.

[Clyde Arronway]

yes but the same special psx endings that insinuate that chrono died are the same ones that showed crono marrying marle. True, it could be argued that she escaped and had a child with another, but...
also, because doan is the descendant of the information center, and a dome sitts over truce, it is apparrent that the citizens of the northwestern continent have again regained power of some sort, which allows for an interesting sequel concept. of course given what square churned up when asked for a first sequel to ct, who knows what blech they'll churn up next.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

*eyes squinting in the dark to read these posts*

alright then.

and Ayla's husband was Kino.

[BatChao]

Hmm.. good point, Clyde. But still, if all that matters is that Marle's child survives, then maybe she had a child before Porre's invasion, got killed during, but her child survived. It keeps the decendent think intact while still killing of Marle and Crono. Anyway, I kinda don't like how CC was so dark compared to CT, which was way lighthearted. CC was a cool game and all, but to kill off (or insinuate the killing of) some of my fave CT characters was sad.

[Clyde Arronway]

Come to think of it, that idea would make a good plot too. If Crono dies, I'd rather see it myself than watch him get knoked off in the credits.

[The Captain]

Well, technically, you CAN watch Crono die, if you play CT and get to a certain section of the game...

Take care all.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

disentegrated, more like.

Anyway, I kinda don't like how CC was so dark compared to CT, which was way lighthearted. CC was a cool game and all, but to kill off (or insinuate the killing of) some of my fave CT characters was sad.

i happen to like dark games ^_^. They are the highlight of my life, next to stealing young boys' bodies and forcing their girlfriends to help me control the world. *evil grin*