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Anonymous10/19/25, 03:10No.723606443
We should all agree this is a good video game.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:12No.723606594
Chrono Cross is better and I will not elaborate
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Anon10/19/25, 03:15No.723606805
I will concede that it is a video game, but no further.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:24No.723607329
We should, but we won't, because popular = bad is what fags like to use as a substitute for having a personality.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:30No.723607598
>based opinion
a rare W for this board as a whole
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Anon10/19/25, 03:33No.723607805
chrono trigger sucks. the reasons people like it at all (if they even really do) are the reasons it sucks. it's notable from a design perspective because of how far they stretched the paradigm of a console rpg before breaking it. things like:
>a focus on deemphasizing player agency and strategy in favor of narrative set pieces
>a comparatively very modern idea that is leveraged by games like the last of us (which are also shit)
>a brusque pacing is facilitated by low difficulty, low player agency, and a lack of any real exploration or side activities
>this pacing is important because the focus of the piece (i cringe even calling this thing a game) is on the fast paced spectacle based narrative, and bogging the player down with -gameplay- would shatter the illusion
it is quite intentionally an rpg designed for people who don't like rpgs. it's an anti-rpg and an anti-game, and it is masterfully crafted to that end. i personally find it revolting. the only reason it has such a mystical reverence in the western gaming sphere is because of its incessant shilling by early games media, and subsequently by those early readers and forum goers, in an attempt to establish authenticity and clout. it echoes books like infinite jest and ulysses which are considered works of genius by people who have not read them. my evidence for this is that chrono games sell like shit, and chrono merch sells like shit. people bemoan se for not making plastic frogs and maguses, but in reality they would never buy them because they don't love this "game" or even the story, they just love how good it feels to put it in a top 10 or a 3v3 and imagine people thinking they have great taste.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:35No.723607894
it's too easy, a little short, lacking dialogue and character development, but by god was it ahead of its time and full of personality and direction. the music is also the best the snes had to offer. i like earthbound a little better and maybe super mario rpg, but it's still top 3 jrpg of the gen and deserved a better sequel
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Anon10/19/25, 03:37No.723608021
I always thought it was overrated but every time I play it it gets better and better. Snes is aging like a fine wine well the PS1/64 ages like milk, and the NES ages like water.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:43No.723608271
Yeah it's good but I think the soundtrack is better than the game.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:46No.723608432
I mean...I guess if you don't play it before age 14, it might be a little boring
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Anon10/19/25, 03:52No.723608751
as a 13 year old i preferred FF6 but yeah, CT is pretty good.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:56No.723608950
Aged like milk I'm afraid
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Anon10/19/25, 03:56No.723608958
Did Toriyama ever explain the cover error?
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Anon10/19/25, 03:59No.723609103
It's a game that has Hironobu Sakaguchi, Yuji Horii and Akira Toriyama on the team, plus Yasunori Mitsuda on his peak. It's impossible for this game not being good.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:15No.723609874
>thread to agree on a good game
>already 2 jeets fighting
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Anon10/19/25, 04:17No.723609956
3 niggas are not enough
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Anon10/19/25, 04:40No.723610954
Is this the most overrated game of all time?>Combat is so fucking easy that you never even hear the battle theme get to the good part, just the shitty intro
>The positional "mechanics" are half baked and only matter in like 3 battles
>Didn't even invent ng+, atb or team attacks (their most jacked off features).
>Overworlds are empty as shit and small too, you can walk entire continents in 7 seconds flat
>The game lets you explore a bunch of time periods, but going anywhere other than the main story just gets you overleveled / overgeared for the rest of the game making an already easy game piss easy
>You can very easily overlevel and get to op
>even if you don't the combat is mindless easy and you can destroy anything with iust regular attacks
>If you somehow struggle in combat just spam your techs which obliterate everything and have almost little to no MP cost
>Even if you run out of mp (unlikely) there are too many shelters that both fully heal and restore MP
>Dino chapter is a fucking slog
>the main theme is overplayed, more likely to hear it more than just the regular battle theme
>The best part is frog vs magus and that's only like 1 hours of the total 17 hours runtime
>no side content aside of giving money to poor family and the side quests at the literal last hour of the game
>characters are shallow as a puddle consisting of
>Engineer girl that likes tech and crono
>Caveman girl that likes fight and crono
>Princess girl that likes jewel and crono
>Robot
>Crono
>a frog and mage that actually have some story
>Bosses are mostly bad with 1 gimmick attack like COUNTER, COUNTING FROM 5 TO 0, and more
>The bosses are just damage sponges with 1 gimmick, they are either a joke or too long for their own good
>Time periods feel like an afterthought alongside the whole time travel sequence since the overworld is so small it could of easily worked the same with them just being different regions
>final boss is a rerun unless you crash the ship
>it's a fucking moviegame
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Anon10/19/25, 04:43No.723611095
You must have seen my thread about the versions of Chrono Trigger and thought of making this thread, didn't you.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:44No.723611151
Anyone else on this entire planet prefer I am Setsuna over Chronotrigger? I really liked that game and NEVER see it discussed.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:58No.723611685
Everything except the combat is great but the combat is a big part of the game and it's totally braindead.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:37No.723613462
I think it's objective fact that Chrono Trigger was Squaresoft's masterpiece on the SNES. People falsely attribute that to FF6 and that's largely due to FF7's success which retroactively made Final Fantasy a AAA-tier series. But if you play FF6 now, it's an ugly game with poorly articulated characters. It's almost impressive Square made such mediocrity before FF7.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:44No.723613791
Yes that is correct, unless you are a gay baby contrarian.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:49No.723613997
Yes. One of the best ever made.
Frog is also the best character.
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Anon10/19/25, 07:20No.723618039
no, we should not
not everyone has shit taste
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Anon10/19/25, 08:10No.723620013
chrono trigger is shit
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Anon10/19/25, 09:37No.723623138
i don't know i haven't played it
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Anon10/19/25, 10:11No.723624349
It always has been. I don't need to get bullied by some zoom zooms on here or pajeets telling me what is and isn't good.
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Anon10/19/25, 10:12No.723624378
Get out of /v/, Vinny!
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Anon10/19/25, 10:14No.723624452
Fantastic soundtrack. For a debut composer, Yasunori Mitsuda knocked it out of the park.