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Chrono trigger is borderline unplayable
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User
If you're going to purchase this, do it only for FFIV, for whatever reason there are horrible delays during chrono trigger battles. I found myself only able to put up with it for an hour before just downloading an emulator and the snes rom version on my laptop. FFIV on the other hand was fine and very enjoyable.
I only wish I could play
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User
I bought this mainly for the Chrono Trigger game, as it's impossible to get it anywhere else. Sadly both shipments had a non-functioning ChronoTrigger disk. Amazon was unable to replace it.
2 classic games, one package
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User
Games that were released in the Super NES' heyday have been often named some of the best games ever released. Despite dated graphics, not-as-deep storylines or interaction-heavy gameplay, people still hold these games in huge regard and not just for nostalgia value. While personally I would've put Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger in one package, we still get Final Fantasy IV instead so it doesn't really matter. I'll do each game separately.
Chrono Trigger
Story: Crono is attending the Millennium Fair in Leene Square. He encounters a young girl named Marle who has a strange pendant and she tags along. While trying out Crono's scientist friend Lucca's new invention, Marle gets sent to the year 600 A.D. Crono goes after her and soon uncovers a future that is destructive to say the least.
Graphics: Probably the best looking of the games on this package. Sprites are well-detailed, graphics are colorful and there's a certain charm among many of the different time periods. But the overworld graphics look genuinely ugly.
Sound/Music: No VA but the music by Yasonuri Mitsuda is outstanding as always. The music tends to range from eerie atmospheric music to upbeat ones and even rock. My one complaint is that at times there's sections where a piece of music would be perfect for an event but then you get in a battle and that upbeat theme kills the mood.
Gameplay: CT introduced many types of ideas including the New Game+ where you can replay the game and get a different ending depending on when in the game you beat it. Also characters get special skills in battle which you can combine with other members to create more powerful spells. Frog and Crono can combine to create a swordsman skill but combine Crono and Lucca and he can use Fire-based sword attacks and so on.
Final Fantasy IV
Story: You are Cecil of the Red Knights and are ordered to do some rather morally questionable things which gets him kicked out. He finds out that Golbez is plotting to steal the world's crystals and throw the world into chaos so it's up to you and a diverse group to save the world.
Graphics: Let's face it, these graphics now look iffy. While a lot of people can manage playing a game with visuals like these, you still look at it and notice how far along things have gotten.
Sound/Music: No VA but Final Fantasy IV is often regarded as Nobuo Uematsu's first genuine sonic masterpiece. Me? I think he started hitting his stride with VI. Don't get me wrong, IV has a lovely soundtrack but I find myself listening to VI and up's soundtracks more.
Gameplay: Like games such as IX or VI, IV has distinct job classes, offering party members with specific skills. You have Cecil with his dark attacks, Kain with dragoon jumps, summoners, monks and bards. Other than that it's fairly straightforward and familiar from levelling up to item hunting and whatnot so there's nothing new but then again IV made a lot of things new so go figure.
My one complaint out of the entire package is that CT has some annoying slowdown where there's a fair amount of delay going into battle and your menus but then again it has some nifty anime cutscenes as well as IV's FMV's so all in all, it's a good package for RPG fans.
nice
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User
This game is good although not my favorite final fantasy but i would definetely buy it if i was you. Plus crono trigger makes it worth the buy right there!
It's final fantasy 3
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 9
Date: February 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User
How come everyone keeps saying it's a final fantasy two remake but it isn't it's final fantasy three anyway to the review it's a great game, if you like rpgs it'll be really fun
Big title reissue draws little enthusiasm
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User
I owned the cartridges for FF4 and CT way back in the day and thought they were excellent. Buying up the new versions to see what had changed ended in disappointment. While the dialogue of FF4 has, thankfully, been improved and flows better, the rest of the game has not improved. What used to be an easy fight for me resulted in several restored games. Having all the deleted items restored to the game only served to muddle it up. Additional abilities were not all that useful. I found myself doing what I have always done: used what was familiar. The game took much longer to complete and I was getting rather bored before I reached the underground. To add to disappointment, there are a multitude of opportunities for new CG scenes to help with the tangled skein of the story and every one of them is wasted.
As for Chrono, not much has changed about this either. The animated scenes are a nice touch but there are too few of them. Their insertion is rather sloppy as well. They *look* cobbled on and don't really contribute anything. We should see the trio enter the Dome and find Robo and Lucca gets to work on him, not enter the dome, approach Robo and see the scene repeat in a way that we *know* did not happen (because we just saw it not happen that way!). We should see Crono killed by Lavos only once, not twice. We should see Ayla's approach and fighting Reptites only once, not twice. It exists in two different versions and having both options was a bad choice.
The galleries of both games are a good addition, but I think there's not enough of it. At least it's something to do when the game bores you.
These games are all right if you've never played them before. To longtime fans like myself, you might get why I feel a little cheated by the set.
As a sidenote, months before the release of FF3 on Nintendo DS, I wrote to Square and suggested that FF3 be paired up with one of the Game Boy FFs (such as FF Legend), in similar fashion to Chronicles and Anthology. They said no - it was already in production for another platform.
No Surprises
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User
Chrono Trigger is one of my favorite games of all time. I purchased this set just for the PSX remake of Chrono Trigger with the added animated cut scenes. If you have the SNES version of Chrono Trigger this isn't really necessary unless you really like the game. Fun: 5 stars, Overall: 4 stars (just because FF IV is included and I didn't really want it).
Amazing!!!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User
This game is extremely wonderful! Let me start by saying that I have played these games before, and since you could emulate em', you might figure why bother buying? In typical Square fahion the extras are cool, but not worth a purchase, and with a poor ... job in terms of actual production (the load times can be harsh), why bother? Because along with these faults, these 2 games have AWSOME GAMEPLAY & STORYLINES!!!! Throw some wicked cutscenes into the mix and you truly have something special. So in closing I say buy this game. For newbies (to the games) it's awsome, for vets its solid and ... everyone else!!
... and Candy
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User
Okay. Well, neither of the games are actually about ..., but there's some ... in Chrono Trigger. Anyway, it's Chrono Trigger nuff said. But for you ... out there who didn't p-lay it when it first cam out like me, It's a great game. Crono, the hero, goes back in time to save a girl. They are running from a bad guy and they get sent to the future. They find out that an evil (though it's never actually stated that it's sentient) space alien is going to destroy the planet. They then bounce back and forth through time to try and save the world. This is the game that got me started on RPGs. It is the greatest. Even better is the fact that there are all new anime sequences for parts of it, and the new arrangements for some of the music are better than before. A MUST have. Trust Yo. Belie dat.
Very Good Game
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User
These games are really good. Final Fantasy Chronicles has Final Fantasy IV (Final Fantasy II in America)and Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy IV has been re-done with 3D cinemas. Chrono Trigger is the psx (Playstation)version that was never released in America till now with Anime sceens drawn by Akira Toriyama (The person who wrote Animes like Dragonball Z and DR. Slump). Both games are extremely good and if you want some old school rpg's then i highly suggest you buy this game.
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