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Kasz216 on 07 July 2008
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Riachu said:
Kasz216 said:

Those other people would generally be wrong.

Chrono Trigger stuck to one form of Time Travel.

A completly linear kind. You could only travel between Lavos' most active times. Furthermore time progressed normally through these times.

1 Day in 2099 AD = 1 day in 1000AD. Time wasn't messed up because of this. There were no alternate realties as no alternate reality forms of them were present in the end... this is how you can tell there was no such problem.

Chrono Trigger wrote itself around those paradoxes and so they never existed for them to be a problem in Chrono Cross.

Traveling through time doesn't suddenly make Schalla a supergoddess, time travel able to work anymore or Lavos being teleported to somewhere for no reason when he was killed.

Furthermore if you would read what i wrote, you would note that even traveling through time would not create half those problems which come from the writers having inconsistant rules of time travel and alternate realties.

 

If there are any plot holes, then might have been caused by odd design choices. How can CC's story have any plot holes since Masato Kato, the scenario writer for CT, wrote the story for CC?

 

Easy, Masato Kato had little to nothing to do with the actual story of Chrono Trigger. All he did really was the 12,000 BC stuff and the fleshed out the stuff that had been laid out before him.

Honestly it seems like Chrono Cross was it's own RPG that had a bunch of Chrono Trigger stuff grandfatehred into it just to make it a sequel with the characters names changed and the like and never was really the intended sequel.

If it was... he just really screwed up and didn't pay attention with what the main writers of Trigger actually did.

Had they cut out all refrences of Chrono Trigger and let the game be itself there would be much less conflicts, though still a few. For example the alternate dimension dragonians coming back... though they might not of been the reptiallians before then and just genetic expierments or some such... and wouldnt' be as bad.

Even if he was responsible for the whole thing... Guess what, good writers can make bad games.  Bad writers can make good games too. 

What's the saying... "Everyone has one great novel in them."