2nd June 2010, 7:03 AM
I'm not sure where you're getting a lot of that, but that's not really the case near as I can tell. The game specifically explains that the "central thing" in there is actually the Lavos Core, which after you beat it, evolves even further into that humanoid form. It created those offspring, but it seems it's intelligence is far greater than it's roars suggest. That's kinda par for the course with these eldritch things though, it's just that we can't comprehend it and just label it as animal.
I don't think I ever heard anyone call anything a "dream eater" in either game. You really should play Chrono Cross. It sets a lot of this straight. Lavos is Lavos. There's no alien hitching a ride inside. Actually that kinda seems lame... Like, random "extra boss" completely and inexplicably tossed in lame. Don't mean to knock the idea, in Final Fantasy X, the "Sin" creature, the one that created a religion saying it was a punishment for mankind's evil, the one everyone thinks is some godlike entity of some sort, turns out to be nothing more than the result of an ancient wizard's endless experiments on making an ultimate summoning.
I think the outside spikey bit of Lavos can be considered a crysalis, the "planet burrowing" phase, and the inside is where all the real work takes place.
Keep in mind that when your characters examine those forms, they specifically call them Lavos, and specifically say "so everything we've done has been for it". It looks like technology because that's part of what it copied. It's a combination of the entire history of genes, magic, and technology that the planet has produced, and it'll just keep spreading across the universe with it's offspring absorbing more worlds. No wonder it's power is so great.
It really is made a lot clearer in Chrono Cross. Keep this in mind, as much as it clears up, it also creates a whole lot of new unanswered questions. What the heck is Schala talking about in the "true ending"?
Oh, as near as I can tell from both games, Magus simply has been travelling around time searching for Schala after he "returned". They had intended on making him yet another of the 40 playable characters, but scrapped the idea. Instead it's hinted he's been watching one of the characters for a long time.
Incidentally, that purplish bluish hair the enlightened ones all have? That's not natural anime hair :D. Turns out that without Lavos' influence, Schala's blonde, like Marle, and Queen Leene, and Ayla. ...And one of the first characters you get in your party in Chrono Cross. Yeah there's a connection there.
Interesting you know about the third spirit in the Masamune, keep that in mind when it gets corrupted.
Also, red rock? Keep that in mind too. It's first appearence is BEFORE Lavos arrived on the planet, and Lavos itself is only capable of altering time periods where it exists. Further, red rock is common in Ayla's time, but after Lavos it becomes far more rare. It's likely a gift from the planet trying to shape humans (or aimed at reptites), but there's another thing that changes it in a completely different direction. The Frozen Flame is an important artifact in Chrono Cross, it's literally a flake off of Lavos' shell when it crashed into the planet, and JUST that flake is ridiculously powerful. That altered human history forever.
I don't think I ever heard anyone call anything a "dream eater" in either game. You really should play Chrono Cross. It sets a lot of this straight. Lavos is Lavos. There's no alien hitching a ride inside. Actually that kinda seems lame... Like, random "extra boss" completely and inexplicably tossed in lame. Don't mean to knock the idea, in Final Fantasy X, the "Sin" creature, the one that created a religion saying it was a punishment for mankind's evil, the one everyone thinks is some godlike entity of some sort, turns out to be nothing more than the result of an ancient wizard's endless experiments on making an ultimate summoning.
I think the outside spikey bit of Lavos can be considered a crysalis, the "planet burrowing" phase, and the inside is where all the real work takes place.
Keep in mind that when your characters examine those forms, they specifically call them Lavos, and specifically say "so everything we've done has been for it". It looks like technology because that's part of what it copied. It's a combination of the entire history of genes, magic, and technology that the planet has produced, and it'll just keep spreading across the universe with it's offspring absorbing more worlds. No wonder it's power is so great.
It really is made a lot clearer in Chrono Cross. Keep this in mind, as much as it clears up, it also creates a whole lot of new unanswered questions. What the heck is Schala talking about in the "true ending"?
Oh, as near as I can tell from both games, Magus simply has been travelling around time searching for Schala after he "returned". They had intended on making him yet another of the 40 playable characters, but scrapped the idea. Instead it's hinted he's been watching one of the characters for a long time.
Incidentally, that purplish bluish hair the enlightened ones all have? That's not natural anime hair :D. Turns out that without Lavos' influence, Schala's blonde, like Marle, and Queen Leene, and Ayla. ...And one of the first characters you get in your party in Chrono Cross. Yeah there's a connection there.
Interesting you know about the third spirit in the Masamune, keep that in mind when it gets corrupted.
Also, red rock? Keep that in mind too. It's first appearence is BEFORE Lavos arrived on the planet, and Lavos itself is only capable of altering time periods where it exists. Further, red rock is common in Ayla's time, but after Lavos it becomes far more rare. It's likely a gift from the planet trying to shape humans (or aimed at reptites), but there's another thing that changes it in a completely different direction. The Frozen Flame is an important artifact in Chrono Cross, it's literally a flake off of Lavos' shell when it crashed into the planet, and JUST that flake is ridiculously powerful. That altered human history forever.
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