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Chrono Trigger is kinda insane (lemmygrad.ml)
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I am playing through the Steam version of the game right now. Haven't finished it yet. There are three things that somewhat baffle me. The first is how much stuff there is in the game. The game released close to when I was born so I find it impressive how many eras and locations there are in the game. The second being how smoothly the game flows. When one arc ends it is clear where you need to go next just by following the dialogue. Lastly, I love how the game is somewhat scant on dialogue lines but makes good use of the ones that are there. It is an antithesis of MGS3 cutscenes (which I also love).

The combat system is also actually really fun. The bosses make you think about how to approach them. Does the original SNES version have the "active" battle system that the Steam version has? If yes then that's very impressive. I see it as somewhat of a precursor of the battle system in the FFVII remake games.

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[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

I didn't play when the game launched, I played for the first time in 2006-2008 and I was really impressed by it too, the game has a perfect pacing that is extremely rare for video games, it's one of my favourites.

Is really bizarre to me how good the pacing of the game to the point that they essentially make a non linear game by the end of it and that's doesn't fuck with the pacing, most games when changes things like by the end let you kinda tired.