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Walfas
GIVE DACTYL
ToSisPoS
I’d love to see this get the Castlevania treatment by Netflix.
dutchguy1986
The characters were created by Akira Toriyama
thedadinblack4
Still my favorite game.
cloudsmateria
I still play through this game at least once a year.
magus200342
I try to as well
iztric
I made a shadow box of this scene, absolutely love Chrono Trigger !
Thaelin
You only get this right before Lucca goes to save her Mom. Please tell me you guys save that poor woman...
jethroismaxbaer5772
silverFox3000
Some used to consider nostalgia as a disease https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/when-nostalgia-was-a-disease/278648/
Djinngineer
Plug for https://www.videogameshadowbox.com/. Dude goes around to comic-cons and sells cool shadowboxes, one has this exact scene, and you can use your phone with an AR app to animate it. Pretty slick. Disclaimer: I have no relationship with this vendor other than owning several of his shadow-boxes.
relsky
I have this exact scene from this exact site. It's beautiful.
mikeatike
Oh those Cowboy Bebob ones are damn good too.
SleazyBijou
I played the shit out this game between 8th and 9th grade… I grinded to get Lunaire to eat Magus easier…
qtRaven
NewUsernameWhoDis
L A R A
PatSajaksHairLine
Yes! You better save her!
Kotose88
Why do you do this to me. I never found where to put the code when I was a kid, so I just had to watch. The screen goes dark and she screams. Nightmares
Brandigandor
I still have the game, physical cartridge, box and all
thelemontreeepisode
Played this for the first time ever at 39 this year. Still think about it after I completed it months later. What a game.
DiabloGrandeArts
I'm 39. I played this for the first time when I was around 11. It's still my favorite game of all time.
HelpTheWretched
I'm still 39 for a couple months, and I always wanted to play more of this than the rental time allowed for, back in the day. Thanks for the great idea.
nevercompromisenoteven
I am rubber you are glue.
DarkfireDragon
One of the best games in history.
OmnesMundiLardum
Whenever I look back
On the best days of my life
I think I saw them all on T.V.
I am so homesick now for
Someone that I never knew
I am so homesick for
Someplace I will never be
magus200342
Welp. Time to replay for the nth time. And also dig out the soundtrack for the rids home.
DonoraSmogger
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. But what is more powerful are the drugs.
altxatu
Drugs are pretty great
galll11
Every nostalgia post is "if you remember... then you're old" it's boring and repetitive and not worth browsing
ToSisPoS
It’s trite, I agree.
mikeatike
Yea, I'm not here for nostalgia. Chrono Trigger stands up as a great game on its own.
Hudabah225
I remember a game I used to play when I was younger in school maybe 1-3rd grade and it had graphics like this. It was a "learning game" but it was mostly just ladders and obstacles and I can't remember it to save my life. 90s kid. If anyone remembers the monkey stacking game to reach the apples, maybe you remember the one I cannot
Derpetologist
Are you thinking of Monkey Business (1986)?
Hudabah225
That's the one i do remember!
Hudabah225
It was Treasure Mountain!
djangojazz
I was playing Faxanadu the other day. Thank God for, looks around for Nintendo, emulators.
Keru
Meditate on this mantra with me...
skinart
Hello fellow Faxanadu player! I and a couple friends spent a summer or so exploring that world.
Eldibs
Frog's Theme is a banger. The sound of heroism at work.
Kotose88
Still gives me chills, love it
Eldibs
Then have more chills - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JADKlgXqjU
Lantis02
Lantis02
Kotose88
Oh god no this is a bad idea. I mean, the diarama is lovely, but Queen Zeal counterattacks all full-scrren AoEs with reducing the team's HP to 1. Don't do it! Especially not for that incredibly mid Triple Tech, Delta Force.
Lantis02
This is how I know you know.
Lantis02
keyblader1985
I didn't get to play this game until it released on DS. But that's considered the best version of the game, with all the extra content.
Buffelbek
The extra content is pretty bad. A basic monster raising minigame that requires you to just wait for things to complete. One bonus dungeon that's made up of uninspired fetch quests. A second bonus dungeon that I never actually got around to.
They just aren't nearly as tightly designed as the base game. The extra content just feels bloated and uninspired compared to the masterpiece that is the original game.
keyblader1985
I was talking about the non-gameplay extras. It has all the Playstation cutscenes, promotional artwork and commentary, music player, etc.
Kotose88
The "second bonus dungeon you never got around to" was actually the best part of the added content. There are 3 new portals scattered around the overworld, and they're basically 30-minute long gauntlets full of OP items and super pumped enemies and bosses. Fetch quest dungeon was terrible I agree
Kotose88
Oh also, if you beat it all you unlock ultra hard Lavos. It's just the Lavos shell, but he has 30k HP and Schala is trapped on the top of it (a reference to Chrono Cross). Very unfair fight, but pretty fun
LabiusCorpus
Can't believe I don't remember this but what's the mechanic to keep Magus in the party? It has to do with either beating him or Lavos at some point in the game.
HiddenSanity
You just have to go and find him on a little island after, I think, the blackbird or some series of events around then, you can then choose to fight him or forgive him, and if you forgive he joins the party... I vaguely recall frog being involved somehow, but I'm unsure... been a couple decades.
RoombaTheAssaultVacuum
There is a point later at 12,000 BC where you see him on a cliff, and when you approach you enter dialogue. I believe you need to have frog in your party, but eventually a dialogue box will appear asking if you want to fight him and if you choose no, it seems anticlimactic, and you walk away. Right before you leave he catches up to your party and mentions if you are going after Lavos, he demands to come with. Then you can use him.
nietzchebomb
Hold on, looking for the Nintendo Power with Chrono Trigger.
Elnauriel
I have the Players Guide on the shelf, next to half a dozen other SNES players guides. It's a great resource! =)
NightOwlRally
"Now you're playing with POWER! Nintendo Power!" ;o;
FlissFloss86Gaming
He gives you a choice of whether or not to fight him in some cutscene dialog and you just choose not to fight. I believe he has 1 required boss fight and then the second one he gives you the option
Surullian
That's part of it. When you confront him, you can not have the frog in your party, or the frog will start the fight with Magus alone (breaking the curse and becoming one of the game endings). Without Frog, you can get him to join the party. It's funny later on when you have a party that includes both. When your first battle with the two of them in the party starts, they startle as they see each other. Then your fight continues normally.
BenjaminPannell
I think both approaches have their advantages. Naturally, with just Frog, your damage will be way down, but because Magus uses lots of AOE attacks, it'll be much easier to keep your one guy at full health than it would be with a full party.
FortKnoxbutforBagels
You can have Frog in the party, he doesn't automatically attack. It's also funny to bring Magus to Cyrus' tomb. The ghost of Cyrus is thanking Frog for avenging him and taking up the fight against Magus, and Magus just stands off to the side facing away.
FlissFloss86Gaming
I had no idea that was a thing, but I love the attention to detail. Thanks for the additional info!
Apollymkatistrafia
Yes, it's the fight on the cliff. If you choose to fight, he's gone forever.
CaptSchmidtGaming
my first play thru I chose to fight. I didn't know it was like 2000. My 2nd play thru I chose not to. and was shocked to realize he was a party member. the game kept on giving.
Apollymkatistrafia
My 1st playthru was on DS, bc it was the 1st version I could afford. I loved it with my grandma when she rented it once from an old rental store near her, but it had a reservation list 3 pages long. I now have the Mammon Machine melded into a back tattoo.
CaptSchmidtGaming
sick
Elnauriel
I have a dream of getting all 12 endings someday on my cartridge. I still have my original SNES and I buy a new game or two every summer (I prefer OEM over reproduction cartridges, but prices have gotten really extreme in the past couple of years!)
Has anyone hear gotten all 12 endings?
mikeatike
Only got the dev ending on the 3rd playthrough because holy fuck is that hard. I know there was one that I needed a guide for, tho I don't recall which.
NathanDogCarFrog
I got all of them when I was a kid, but then again I loved the game and logged crazy hours on it. I knew every inch of the game inside and out.
Elnauriel
A childhood well spent, my friend. =)
magus200342
I have. Gonna be a sad day when the battery that does the memory in the cartridge dies and its all gone, but I generally break everything out and do a replay every year or so. Only thing I haven't done is cap out Magus level. Takes many many playthroughs to get him to 99, but iirc he's like 72 or so so damn strong.
Elnauriel
That's me and A Link to the Past and Super Metroid. I usually do a 100% playthrough of one of them each summer.
I only completed the first ending with Chrono Trigger last summer. I used a really good player's guide, so I'm in a good position to start the new game plus. =)
demamazndepapaz
I have. On the DS version they keep a log of which endings you got
Elnauriel
That's convenient! =)
Kotose88
Yep I got then all as a kid too. I had the player's guide, so it's reall just as simple as beating the game at the correct timings during your NG+. Some of them are really specific too! As an example, there's one ending where you need to beat Lavos *after* powering up the pendant in Zeal, but before using that pendant to open the sealed door in the next room over.
Elnauriel
I have Players Guide too, and that's where I saw all the endings. That's the goal, to work through them all. =)
Akistos
I did. Unfortunately, about four years ago I had to choose between selling my NES/SNES cartridge collection or getting evicted.
I wound up losing the house in 2022. I shoulda just kept my fucking cartidges. Fuck you, capitalism.
Elnauriel
Sorry to hear that. =(
I hope you're in a better situation these days.
Akistos
actually i lost my job (that I liked) because the stress of homeless crippled my work performance. Wound up getting arrested in the midst of a huge mental health crisis and spending four months in county jail before pleading out to three years probation.
So....... nope. LOL.
Rivalyn
Beating Lavos in the Ocean Palace is pretty hard, it's tuned to fairly reliably kill the party unless you are absurdly overlevelled and well-equipped in NG+. It's meant to be harder than using the wrong telepad at the beginning.
demamazndepapaz
Yeah but you get the Dream Team ending the same as with fighting Lavos from Lucca's teleporter when starting New Game+
mikeatike
Hold up, it's possible to win it on the first playthrough?
Rivalyn
The wrong telepad or the ocean palace? You can use the wrong pad at any point same as most of the ways to beat Lavos. I don't know if the Ocean Palace Lavos can be beaten legitimately on a normal save, it's not meant to be beaten at that point of the game even in NG+. I used a GG to win once and it gives you an ending, so presumably it's possible. I usually let the story unfold because that's barely the halfway point.
onlyhalfghost
it is intended to be possible only on a NG+. Even if you are ridiculously overleveled the Chaos status will bone you on NG.
Kotose88
It is indeed possible, but you need maxed mdef or you'll just explode. New Game+ only.