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Final Fantasy Chronicles (Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy IV) Review (continued)
More User Submitted Final Fantasy Chronicles (Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy IV) Reviews
Date: 2004-12-15
Immortal
I played chrono trigger 10 years ago, but never finished the game. A few months ago I found out about the P S re-release. What A time trip I played through the ten years later, and it was like the game had not aged one day! Truly some of the most memroibal characters and story line of any game movie or book for that matter. Today's RPG s don't even come close in terms of game play and story. Final fantasy X is a total piece of crap compared to this gem. Immortal.
Date: 2004-11-28
"MEMO" save is convienient! Lack of extras in FFIV.
FFIV (Final Fantasy II in USA) and Chrono Trigger are some of the best that SquareSoft has to offer. I do believe that both are equally good games and do have moving storylines. FFIV have been much more harder than the original that was been released on Super Nintendo. In my opinion, the only loading times is when you "LOAD" the game and saving as well. Now there is an extra "MEMO" save feature included for players' convienience. It saves just as fast as the SNES by using the Playstation hardware as a temporary save if players wish to continue playing. Then on the final save is on the memory card which does take time and assumed that the player will shut the game off. So loading was not such a big deal in FFIV since there are absolutely no loading DURING gameplay. Just saving onto the memory card to save and turn off the game. My main gripe about the game is that there are no CG during certain points of gameplay. Just at the beginning and the end, that's all!
Chrono Trigger has been remastered very well in the playstation. The CGs are great and the only downfall about this title is the loading times when going to menus. It seems that Chrono Trigger has been the focus on remastering the title rather than FFIV.
FFIV only has a couple of movies, but overall, great revisted title. Got harder, fixed tranlation on the text, more extra skills for the characters to use than the one on the SNES.
Chrono Trigger has more movies than FFIV, and seem to be more well looked at by the company than FFIV in my opinion.
If anyone is complaining about the save waiting and loading times, USE THE MEMO SAVE! Then when you are ready to turn off the game, then that's the time to save onto the memory card and go through that ONE moment of waiting time.
Date: 2004-10-18
MY FAV RPG OF ALL TIME!!!!
Chrono Trigger is simply the best RPG ever.
Why?
The storyline draws you in and captivates you (once it gets going). Time travelling and altering events in the future is just cool. The battle system is so unique, with the combo-techs!! I can't get enough of that Dark Eternal attack!
So, it's an old game, I never reviewed it, but here it is. I am ONLY reviewing Chrono Trigger.
Why did I not give it 5 stars? Well, I would give the SNES 5 stars, but one thing that irritates me about this game, is because I played it on the SNES, I'm not used to these stupid load times. It's ANNOYING!!!! So, that's why it's knocked down to 4 because of those load times that I myself am not used to. If you haven't played the SNES version it probably won't bug you.
Otherwise, go get this game. It's simply the best RPG ever. If you plan on playing Chrono Cross, and never played the PS version, you should. It makes Chrono Cross more understandable, because I picked up Chrono Cross, and played it and I was just like....HUH???? WHAT IS THIS???
Then I played the PS version, and one CG event, makes so much difference.....
Date: 2004-09-13
A few facts in reviews that aren't right
Responding to a couple of reviews down below. A lot of people complain that Chrono Trigger is in this package when it is not a Final Fantasy game. Umm... do people even know that "Chronicles" is a reference to Chrono Trigger? And the title for Final Fantasy IV was NOT messed up in translation. It was called FFII because at first we really weren't meant to get FFI and FFII or even some of the ones after.
And this is my biggest pet peeve. One reviewer mentioned that in Chrono Trigger you can't run away. You CAN run away in the same fashion you run away in Final Fantasy by holding the L1 and R1 buttons.
One last other pet-peeve is that no one seems to mention that FFII on the SNES in America was the "Easy Version" of FFIV released in Japan. In this Final Fantasy Chronicles package its the "Hard Version" previously unreleased in America.
Aside from that the cons are correct. The game takes a horrifically long time to load (especially for Chrono Trigger). The other con is simply that while the extras and such are nice they aren't enough to make you buy this if you've got the originals.
Date: 2004-09-01
Karl's a little off...
I don't know what Karl is on, but had he known he did not appreciate the genre of RPGs, perhaps he would refrain from using such sheer stupidity in his review. The fact is these are classics for any rpg fan, and not some redneck gun enthusiast. If there is any drawback, it is the loading times. These games were classic on the SNES, but the transfer to PS always brings the baggage of loading, and allows the games to lose some of their nostalgic flavour. Final Fantasy 4 was the first RPG I ever played, and Chrono Trigger I consider to be the greatest SNES game of all time. The animations are a nice addition (Except for the FF4 one. Bleh!), but play these for what they're based around: Two of the greatest classics available for wide release.
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