Chrono Trigger
I'm going to run out of pictures for Chrono Trigger soon. Internet, come to my aid!
Okay, maybe next time we find a more exciting battle.
As I may have said before, I found Chrono Trigger on a SNES 9X CD.
THAER BE SPOILERS AHEAD.
So I was browsing the contents of the CD looking for a new game to play on my computer. I had played Super Mario RPG over and over and over, so I thought I'd give one of these other games a shot. I made it down the alphabetical list into the Cs and saw a file name called CHRONO_TRIGGER.EXE (or something along those lines). I remember thinking, "Okay, with a name like Chrono Trigger, this is either going to be a waste of time or an awesome waste of time." I was kind of waiting for a so-awesome-it's-bad scenario.
AGAIN, THAR BE SPOYLURS. If you haven't played it and have thought even for a moment that you might kind of sorta want to think about playing it, I will loan you my DS and my copy of Chrono Trigger so that you can play it. I mean that, even after my current lessons in not loaning things to people. This game is too important to ruin even a shred of plot, so if you want to play it, don't read on.
All right, so I turn on the game. The title screen confirms my allegations: the C in Chrono is half of a clock. Sweet. So then I start playing, and I'm lead to the "choose your character's name" screen, where I swear I thought I saw a leftover character from Dragonball Z. The suggested name is Crono, and I decide to leave it like that. Next, I go to this Millennial Fair everyone is talking about. As I talk to vendors and see what's happening, a girl runs smack into me. "Who are you, mystery chick?" I ask myself. I go and grab the shiny thing that she lost and give it back to her. Oh neat, she wants to be my friend. I leave her name set as Marle. So we go along, and I'm told my friend Lucca is going to demonstrate a new invention. Eventually, we get to go there.
Then you learn that Lucca is your inventor chick friend who has a knack for messing up some of her devices. But it's okay, because you are a loyal friend, and probably kind of dumb. You step into her teleporter, unaware that this is pretty much how Half-Life started, and boom! Everything goes fine. :AWESOME," says Marle, "it's my turn!"
So at this point, I'm enjoying the world and this Millennial Fair thing, having fun with the music. Marle goes up, and she'll come back in the other exit. Incorrect. The pendant I gave back to her starts reacting weird to Lucca's machine and makes it malfunction. A portal opens and swallows Marle into it.
Me: Uhhhhhhhhh, what the hell?
Then Lucca and her dad pull crowd control on this whole thing, and it's apparently up to me to go rescue this girl who still means nothing to me.
Actually, this is appropriate because this is the first battle I had.
I wind up in a place that looks like the one I was just in, but darker. I was talking to NPCs because I had no idea what to do, and one says, "Millennial Fair? Have you been drinking!? It's 600ad!" And I was like WHAAAAAAAAAA?
Chrono Trigger is such a good game if you don't know what you're in for. I loved it. Playing that stupidly-named file on the SNES 9X is still one of the top 5 decisions I have ever made.
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