Chrono Trigger

Decent spritework, shitty everything else.
King Zeal is a good character, though.

Wasn't impressed by any of them.

On a technical level, they were impressive romhacks, but the storytelling was derivative fanwank. I was hoping there would be some interesting development, but both seemed a little too fanservice and self-indulgent as opposed to being good.

But then, even Chrono Cross was bad. I've pretty much come to grips with the fact that Chrono Trigger was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that can't be continued or adapted.

Sucks, but it is what it is.

Flames of Eternity is a prime example of what you should never make a romhack for.

The fucked continuity in order to bring it in line with Chrono Cross.

- Magus & Co are brought to challenge the Time Devourer and job to the thing, so Magus in a fit of supreme emo scrubs his brain clean of all memory of who/what he is (setting up that shitty magician character in CC)
- Chrono & Marle are killed in an uprising against Guardiana by Porre. You know, that nondescript hamlet just south of Leene Bridge that gave no indication whatsoever that it was in conflict with Guardiana nor evidence that it had any standing army.
- Said standing army was lead by Dalton, the two-bit incompetent of Zeal who was a less interesting bossfight than his Golems, and also who wasn't even sucked through a space/time warp like Magus & the other royal family members were.
- Lucca finds a baby in the woods and decides she'll never have sex and establishes an orphanage.
- The Lizards in that one special ending (you know, kill Lavos before facing off w/Lizard people in Tyrano Tower and they end up somehow overtaking humans and swapping places because Reasons™) officially inherit the Berenstein universe, and establish the 7 dragons and the calculating computer place that becomes the equivalent of Chronopolis.

It gets worse when you revisit Chrono Cross and realize how thoroughly the 2nd half shits all over Chrono Trigger. And now it's unquestioned canon. Fuck Squaresoft.

Sounds awesome

Except it's all undone by the true ending of Cross, and everyone, even the original party, gets their happy ending.

What in the nine fucks are you smoking, user? It's bad for you.

I think it was because the music sounded like it for a second.

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