* * * * * Chrono Trigger - Week 5 * * * * *

(Plain English: Scroll down to the bottom of the "OP" if you're lagging behind for previous weeks)


TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue:
i Okami Club
ii Fire Emblem Club

Epic Center:
01 Ogre Battle
24 Secret of Mana
39 Phantasy Star IV (cont'd)
67 Earthbound (cont'd)
99 Breath of Fire II (cont'd)
110 Paper Mario (cont'd)
123 Golden Sun (cont'd)
136 Chrono Trigger

(ALL VINTAGE EC GAMES ARE CONTINUED IN THEIR OFFICIAL DISCUSSION THREADS!)

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Hello, true believers! Welcome to Negative World's newest RPG-centric Club Hub, springing off the heels of the Fire Emblem Club. Way back when, Nintendo Power introduced a monthly walkthrough / in depth Role Play Game section (right around the beefiest SNES RPG era), but since they aren't around anymore to use it, Negative World will bring it out of the ashes, dust it off, and roll with it (two things of note: #1, this is not in reaction to Nintendo Force Magazine at all -- I know that because I thought of it in the shower this morning, so THERE; and #2, I just looked up "Epic Center RPG" on Yahoo, and there is apparently another RPG-based site that has that, ugh. I guess we're looking at a "Ghostbusters" / "Real Ghostbusters" thing now... Whatever..).

For anyone who grew playing SNES RPGs, and were a fan of them, they surely resonated to the point where they still hold office as some of your favorite games of your entire videogame life, systems, generations, and decades later. The NW Epic Center (run primarily by myself, with the aid of some special friends occasionally) will help to expose some of those games that didn't quite get the recognition they deserved, and also to relive some of the greatest games EVER as we play through them again -- together -- and open up a whole new dialogue on these lost treasures.


Next up..



Chrono Trigger is held by many (myself included) as The Greatest RPG of All Time, pun not intended. It is a benchmark title in the genre, and even after 20 years the game is discussed daily and held in high regard, even in the face of juiced-up, HD "masterpieces." Is simpler sometimes better? Sure, but we're not talking "Dragon Warrior" simple here; we're talking 16-bit perfection at its finest. I'm personally a bit worried about pursuing this game once more; it's been a long time since my last jog through it, and I'm afraid I might have the rosiest pair of glasses that any shot of nostalgia could ever produce. We find out later this month, for better or for worse. (C'mon, it's gonna be fine -- we're talking Chrono Trigger here!! THE BEST, JERRY, THE BEST!!)

Sunday, August 30th marks the start of Week 1 (if you prefer to start your own quest AFTER Sunday, like Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, thats fine!). Golden Sun ran 6 Weeks. GameDadGrant will be our DUNGEON MASTER for this one, and we figure the playthrough to run about the same length. Less than two months. I'm told the total quest should last you between 20 and 30 hours.


See ya soon!!


CHRONO TRIGGER

Dungeon Master: GameDadGrant

You Did It! Chrono Trigger Complete:
VofEscaflowne
Scrawnton
Mop it up
Ludist210


Week 4 Complete:
GameDadGrant
mrbiggsly
DapperDave

Week 3 Complete:
Mr_Mustache (and Mrs_Mustache!)

Week 2 Complete:
Smerd
Dark weres
warerare
sirmastersephiroth

Week 1 Complete:
Anand

Triggermen:
HammerLord
Koovaps

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5

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@Hero_Of_Hyrule

The rockiest part of the work stress should be over, but now the moving and buying a house thing is a primary stressor. I'm still living at home but I'm trying to find a house while my parents are also. So I'm not even sure who is moving first because we are both looking but its such a task packing almost everything up so that you can move on the whim. I think I might even pack my Tetris lamp, despite it not being in the way really, just so I have one less object to worry about.

I didn't realize that if you hold on the chapter screen in Paper Mario eventually a remix of the original Super Mario Bros. theme plays. Awesome.

Alright, just finished Week 5. Week 6 to begin tomorrow!

And thanks for the tip on the Ice Badge. Probably wouldn't have thought about it until it was TOO LATE.
I tore up the Fiery Piranha guy with an awesome TIDAL WAVE to take out him, both his buds, and the petite things. It was awesome. Fantastic Finish.

Huh. I thought I extinguished the Sewers (went back mid-chapter with my new Lakitu friend; picked up some Ultra Boots too, huzzah), and I haven't seen Rip Cheato. Is he behind that door that just won't open?

Also, where are the Super? Blocks besides the Sewers and the Volcano? Had we passed any earlier? I thought we did..but I think I'm just thinking of old Stone Blocks that were blocking my path.


Making solid progress on the Chapter. I've already got most of the things done, so thats good.

@Hero_Of_Hyrule

Nooo, the blocks breakable by the new hammer. And I think I'm all Upgraded as most I can be.

--UGH, I know EXACTLY what wall you're talking about. I didn't even try. I just kept looking for a little switch as there was on the wall on the way to Shy Guy's Toybox. I've disappointed myself. Again. *sigh*

Finished Week 6 last night. I feel like I'm overflowing with power. Bought some stuff from Cheat Rippo, anything special we're waiting for? I got a badge in there, and a Star Piece. I can tell you I don't want to keep paying 64 bucks for Life Shrooms.

What level are you guys at? I've got 30 Badge Points, 40 HP, and 20 FP. Whatever that comes out to.

@Hero_Of_Hyrule

Ugh, those Bees are the WORST.

And I opted out of the Lullaby thing. I actually did it by accident first and realized that you set it as an Optional Goal, haha. RESET.

@Mr_Mustache Yeah, there's just the one badge from Rip Cheato. Not sure how many star pieces he has, but he has a few. I do know that, after you buy ten things from him, after that, all he has is... a dried shroom, I believe. So if you want to 100% the game, then buy his first ten items.

@Mop it up

Useful information, thank you.

And I'm not sure about the 100%'ing. I'm sure I've missed SOMETHING somewhere..
I will say that I Spy is one of my Active badges though.

@Hero_Of_Hyrule

Brrrr, Shiver City sounds FREEZING already!! Great name to illicit said feeling.


--Anything you can think of that I need to do before I start my trek? I already grabbed the Ultra Boots and did some of that stuff (mid-Week 6), so I don't think I have anything else to do yet. When does that door in the sewer open up? Soon? Will we know when?

@Hero_Of_Hyrule

HA! Funny, thanks.

EDIT- And I just wanna say (since I haven't in a while) that despite the activity, I think you're doing a great job with everything. You're offering up enough information in the initial post where I don't feel like I'm missing something, whereas I think I have a problem providing TOO much information, and end up spoilering out the entire thing. So yeah, good job, dude, thanks.

I finished the Week 6. Was busy last week so it took me a little while to really get to it.

@chrisbg99

Did you like it at all? With all the running around, I feel like that was a week that could've broke someone's patience.

@Mr_Mustache

Had no real problem with it. I would have gone a bit faster had I remembered that there were 2 more paths on the bottom of the hub area. But with 8 straight days of work half of which I was in another city for 4 days, I really wasn't feeling it.

@chrisbg99

I just had problems with the berries and having enough room for them. With as many Syrups that were getting dropped, I had to start dropping them myself. Naturally, I went back to Tayse T. to see what she could cook up...and I was VERY disappointed.

Did you get to fight one of those shiny guys? I wasn't ready for it, and he got away. Bummer.

@Mr_Mustache

I did pretty good with the inventory management. Only had to drop one item.

@chrisbg99

I can't wait to play Final Fantasy III in here. I'm going to have 256 of 256 items on my person AT ALL TIMES.

Flower Fields is probably my pick for the worst chapter in the game. I didn't like it either. Lots of running back and forth for pointless reasons and no interesting story stuff in between. No real interesting enemies either.

But fortunately I think this next chapter is the best in the game. The stuff in the town is one of the few funny parts of the game, and the dungeon part is decent as well. It helps that there are more partners and battle options to play around with for this chapter as well.

@Mr_Mustache I thought it was impossible to get all 256 items without a cheat device.

@Mop it up

Oh, I was just saying. I have no idea. It'll definitely be more than 8-10 different items though. And my Megalixir will sit in my inventory the balance of the game, per tradition.

Now I'm getting all jazzed up; are we doing that next? Eep..

@Mr_Mustache Ah, well the absolute most you can get is 254, since you can't have both the Cursed Shield and Paladin Shield at the same time. And I think that means there are 255 items total in the game.

I look forward to seeing a screenshot of your inventory with 254 items in it spitting on Paper Mario's paltry 10 items!