Date played: February 2nd
Platform: Vita
I finished Chrono Trigger!
I took Crono, Robo and Lucca into the depths of the Black Omen to confront Queen Zeal, and eventually, Lavos itself. The Black Omen is a very linear dungeon, but it's very long and filled with the most challenging enemies in the game. This took a while, but my party is now very powerful, and I've got some pretty clever equipment combinations to maximize their potential. For example, Crono has a ring that guarantees a counter-attack, and his sword has a very high crit rate. This makes him deal a lot of "free" damage during battle.
Eventually, I fought with Queen Zeal herself! The battle was pretty easy though. I was surprised by the advanced graphical techniques used to make the event look cool. Considering this game is from 1995 on SNES, it does some really impressive stuff. After the battle, we were finally ready to take on Lavos!
Lavos is a 3 stage battle. The first is against the armored form that we've seen throughout the game. It actually consists of a bunch of smaller battles, mimicking each main boss in the game. The only one that confused me was Tyrano and Azalea, since I forgot that lightning was the key to dealing damage.
Once that was done, we fought the armored version of Lavos directly, but it was pretty easy. Then we went inside it's shell and fought it's second form. This one is more humanoid looking, a giant robotic monster with two large hands. I killed the hands first then had no trouble defeating the main form.
It was revealed that Lavos is some sort of alien creature that steals all resources on a planet to produce it's offspring. It then sends out it's children into space to eat another planet's energy, repeating this pattern forever.
The final form of Lavos is still humanoid, but this time it's organic. This battle was harder than the others, since I had to take out little orbs around Lavos to damage him. The orbs would often get revived, so it took a while to win. We did beat him though, and saved the world!
The ending was great. Back in the year 1000 AD, the King summons Crono and his friends to the castle, then reveals that they brought some friends from other time periods to celebrate our team's success. There was a wonderful moonlight parade at the Millennial Fair, the King even commissioned a new bell for Leene Square!
Soon after, it was time to say goodbye. Ayla went back to the prehistoric era and married Kino. Frog went back to 600 AD, returned to his human form as Glenn, and married the Queen. Magus left too, but I'm not sure where he went. Robo had a fantastic moment with Lucca, where both of them show a lot of emotion as they leave each other. Lucca is worried that Robo won't exist in the future anymore, since Lavos never attacked, but Robo seems confident that he'll survive. Finally, Marle and Crono get married to each other, so that was sweet.
At the very end though, Crono's mom chases their cat through the time portal, just before it disappears forever! Crono, Marle and Lucca jump onto the Epoch and travel through time looking for her as the credits roll on screen.
Chrono Trigger is a masterpiece that will always be remembered fondly. Now that I've played it, I understand why. It has amazing art, great music, a fun world to explore, a satisfying combat system, lovable characters and an intriguing story. I'm very happy to have finally played it from end to end.
Platform: Vita
I finished Chrono Trigger!
I took Crono, Robo and Lucca into the depths of the Black Omen to confront Queen Zeal, and eventually, Lavos itself. The Black Omen is a very linear dungeon, but it's very long and filled with the most challenging enemies in the game. This took a while, but my party is now very powerful, and I've got some pretty clever equipment combinations to maximize their potential. For example, Crono has a ring that guarantees a counter-attack, and his sword has a very high crit rate. This makes him deal a lot of "free" damage during battle.
Eventually, I fought with Queen Zeal herself! The battle was pretty easy though. I was surprised by the advanced graphical techniques used to make the event look cool. Considering this game is from 1995 on SNES, it does some really impressive stuff. After the battle, we were finally ready to take on Lavos!
Lavos is a 3 stage battle. The first is against the armored form that we've seen throughout the game. It actually consists of a bunch of smaller battles, mimicking each main boss in the game. The only one that confused me was Tyrano and Azalea, since I forgot that lightning was the key to dealing damage.
Once that was done, we fought the armored version of Lavos directly, but it was pretty easy. Then we went inside it's shell and fought it's second form. This one is more humanoid looking, a giant robotic monster with two large hands. I killed the hands first then had no trouble defeating the main form.
It was revealed that Lavos is some sort of alien creature that steals all resources on a planet to produce it's offspring. It then sends out it's children into space to eat another planet's energy, repeating this pattern forever.
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| Crono faces off against Lavos' final form |
The ending was great. Back in the year 1000 AD, the King summons Crono and his friends to the castle, then reveals that they brought some friends from other time periods to celebrate our team's success. There was a wonderful moonlight parade at the Millennial Fair, the King even commissioned a new bell for Leene Square!
Soon after, it was time to say goodbye. Ayla went back to the prehistoric era and married Kino. Frog went back to 600 AD, returned to his human form as Glenn, and married the Queen. Magus left too, but I'm not sure where he went. Robo had a fantastic moment with Lucca, where both of them show a lot of emotion as they leave each other. Lucca is worried that Robo won't exist in the future anymore, since Lavos never attacked, but Robo seems confident that he'll survive. Finally, Marle and Crono get married to each other, so that was sweet.
At the very end though, Crono's mom chases their cat through the time portal, just before it disappears forever! Crono, Marle and Lucca jump onto the Epoch and travel through time looking for her as the credits roll on screen.
Chrono Trigger is a masterpiece that will always be remembered fondly. Now that I've played it, I understand why. It has amazing art, great music, a fun world to explore, a satisfying combat system, lovable characters and an intriguing story. I'm very happy to have finally played it from end to end.
