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Game Review: クロノ・トリガー
2020-Nov-21, Saturday 18:32
How do you review the perfect game?
Chrono Trigger is the game I've beaten the most times, starting back in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
uriany's basement in high school. He introduced me to the game and showed me how it worked, and then watched me play as I went through the game once, tried out New Game+, and eventually found all of the secret endings. The slow way, too--every time we'd play through the game, get to a secret ending, and then do another New Game+ and start from the beginning. We played through over a dozen times to get all the endings, and I've played through it more since then, making Chrono Trigger the game I've beaten the most in my life. The most recent time was over a decade ago when the DS port came out, and now that it's the 25th anniversary and I speak Japanese, it was time to go back to the original and experience it all over again.
Well, almost the original. I played the Steam game in 4x3 mode, in a small window to avoid any distortion or bad scaling. The port was based on mobile phones and was legendarily bad when it was released, but a series of patches since then made it look pretty close to the original. I usually play old games in an emulator with as accurate graphics as possible and then edit the resulting 240p images up for posting here, but all these images are direct screenshots. As you can see, it still looks amazing.
It's all still amazing. I make no pretense of being objective here.
A boy, a girl, and an adventure across time.
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Chrono Trigger is the game I've beaten the most times, starting back in
uriany's basement in high school. He introduced me to the game and showed me how it worked, and then watched me play as I went through the game once, tried out New Game+, and eventually found all of the secret endings. The slow way, too--every time we'd play through the game, get to a secret ending, and then do another New Game+ and start from the beginning. We played through over a dozen times to get all the endings, and I've played through it more since then, making Chrono Trigger the game I've beaten the most in my life. The most recent time was over a decade ago when the DS port came out, and now that it's the 25th anniversary and I speak Japanese, it was time to go back to the original and experience it all over again.Well, almost the original. I played the Steam game in 4x3 mode, in a small window to avoid any distortion or bad scaling. The port was based on mobile phones and was legendarily bad when it was released, but a series of patches since then made it look pretty close to the original. I usually play old games in an emulator with as accurate graphics as possible and then edit the resulting 240p images up for posting here, but all these images are direct screenshots. As you can see, it still looks amazing.
It's all still amazing. I make no pretense of being objective here.
A boy, a girl, and an adventure across time.
( Read more... )
