That leaves me feeling like the one guy at the party not having a good time, which trust me is a terrible feeling. Its also clearly a game that the development team cared deeply for, just like in "Chrono Trigger" there is a whole secret Developer's Room ending where you can sit back and have a drink with the design staff's digital avatars to celebrate a wonderful journey. If it were a bad game, I'd regret playing it, I just think its a mistaken game, and there are lessons to learn from its mistakes. These reviews come off a bit more negative than I think I actually feel towards this game. On the other hand, I kinda feel bad bashing "Chrono Cross" the way I seem to. And if you've never gotten over adolescent obsessions with invisible audiences, start a blog, where you can have a real life invisible audience just for you! So when "Chrono Cross" repeats an endless theme of how humanity is totally wretchedly evil and the planet is scheming to murder us all*, a certain audience might nod and say "yes, humanity is evil, wow, I never thought of that before, this game is so deep." While my reaction is something more of a "cut the hippie bullshit and let me fight this next boss already!" Just a difference of temperament, I guess. Don't tell me it isn't true, when you were a teenager, you thought everybody was out to get you. I suppose the heavy philosophizing "Chrono Cross" blasts you with roughly every scene might be very thrilling to a teenager, since those angsty folks by nature believe themselves to be specifically hated by the entire race. That's why I play Japanese video games made for teenagers, get it? That's a seriously scary and accurate portrayal of slacker life in my generation, especially for me since I find the idea of growing up to be utterly terrifying. In terms of life-changing-ness, the "Scott Pilgrim" comics probably have done more than any video game. Am I a more complete person having played this game? Have I learned some deep insight into the hidden philosophy of the universe that has left me a changed person forever? Will my life have been forever altered by the deep indisputable truths of this weighty tome? No. I’ve already ordered a physical copy.Well, I beat "Chrono Cross". Hopefully Chained Echoes is a success and we can see future projects from its creator.
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Every single element of Chained Echoes is full of loving attention to detail. It’s more ambitious than the common indie throwback JRPG, but has many of their modernizations. But, you know a video game is fantastic when your biggest complaint is the character portrait art.įans of old school 2D JRPGs, who would like something made today that resembles the great Super Nintendo and PS1 classics, need to play Chained Echoes. The character portraits also lack the creativity of the rest of the game’s design.
The character portraits have that common indie “child’s attempt at anime art” appearance, and I’m not a fan. My only complaint is about the character art and design. Colors are vibrant, and some of the designs are wonderfully intricate. The pixel art looks great, with gloriously detailed backgrounds and bosses. It has a great variety, while still sounding nostalgic and fitting for the JRPG genre. Chained Echoes looks and sounds beautiful.
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