2nd June 2010, 7:17 AM
I'll need to finish the DS version, but remember it's made AFTER Chrono Cross came out.
Anyway, it's no point trying to argue there's a tiny alien in Lavos piloting it. That IS Lavos, it's specifically stated many times that it's nothing BUT Lavos. The inside part is just the same ol' evolved forms you're always fighting in RPGs. You need not read more than that into it. Lavos exists across it's entire existance, keep that in mind. The final battle takes place in a pocket dimension that draws in all periods where Lavos exists. Plus, there's plenty of plot holes surrounding the "battle Lavos at any time" thing anyway, so it's not really an air tight argument to begin with. I'm not saying there's tiny humanoids in all of them. I'm saying that all the lavos shells are basically cocoons where a super evolved form is being made the entire time, and in this planet's case, it took a humanoid form. I bet whatever "hatches" from the others on their worlds will look totally different.
Here's why I say that, the ending of Chrono Cross gives this concept that every planet is basically a cosmic egg, and every single species created has the potential to "birth a new universe" by being a spermazoa for that egg. Lavos is unique in that it "cheats" the process by arriving from outside. You LOVE sex metaphors, you should like this. It literally feeds off the entire planet until eventually it hatches into a new form, something that'll take the entire planet into a new plane of higher existance. That's probably why the final form is in some weird pocket dimension, but it IS Lavos. I just have to say that considering Lavos is already a super advanced alien parasite that feeds off the entire planet to supercharge itself, adding in that it has another alien piloting it really adds nothing to the story.
I wonder if the Dream Eater you're talking about is intended to be some reference to the Time Devourer from Chrono Cross? I should play to find out.
Anyway, it's no point trying to argue there's a tiny alien in Lavos piloting it. That IS Lavos, it's specifically stated many times that it's nothing BUT Lavos. The inside part is just the same ol' evolved forms you're always fighting in RPGs. You need not read more than that into it. Lavos exists across it's entire existance, keep that in mind. The final battle takes place in a pocket dimension that draws in all periods where Lavos exists. Plus, there's plenty of plot holes surrounding the "battle Lavos at any time" thing anyway, so it's not really an air tight argument to begin with. I'm not saying there's tiny humanoids in all of them. I'm saying that all the lavos shells are basically cocoons where a super evolved form is being made the entire time, and in this planet's case, it took a humanoid form. I bet whatever "hatches" from the others on their worlds will look totally different.
Here's why I say that, the ending of Chrono Cross gives this concept that every planet is basically a cosmic egg, and every single species created has the potential to "birth a new universe" by being a spermazoa for that egg. Lavos is unique in that it "cheats" the process by arriving from outside. You LOVE sex metaphors, you should like this. It literally feeds off the entire planet until eventually it hatches into a new form, something that'll take the entire planet into a new plane of higher existance. That's probably why the final form is in some weird pocket dimension, but it IS Lavos. I just have to say that considering Lavos is already a super advanced alien parasite that feeds off the entire planet to supercharge itself, adding in that it has another alien piloting it really adds nothing to the story.
I wonder if the Dream Eater you're talking about is intended to be some reference to the Time Devourer from Chrono Cross? I should play to find out.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)