3rd June 2010, 6:32 AM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:I'll need to finish the DS version, but remember it's made AFTER Chrono Cross came out.
Yes but it bridges the games better and offers more questions to keep it fresh and (hopefully) build on the sequel/prequel.
Quote: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.
That's an interesting theory, I like it. But Lavos (the world destroyer) doesn't seem to show any intelligence beyond absorbing and destroying. When you fight its offspring, it simply shoots its quills at you, it doesn't reason or communicate and just acts like an animal. But i'll reserve any speculation until I finish Chrono Cross.
Quote: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.
Cosmic sperm is so Sagan. xD The seeding theory is basically that, it states that all life forms in the universe would have originated from some original source and therefore have base-similarities. So Lavos being the beginning and ending of all things is solidified as an ideology. In CT it kind of gives the idea that magic didn't exist in the world until Lavos came, but strength and spirit of humanity was already forming before hand, shown with Ayla's intensity (and again the red rock). But the oddity of evolution and our advancement has always been theorized as having extra-terrestrial origins, so it kind of fits in that ideal.
The issue i have is that it makes no sense that a huge machine with tubes hooked up to Lavos's body would 'form' in a cave a mile under Lavos's body as part of any evolution. It makes more sense that an alien setup camp and used Lavos as a generator. Why would the alien want the world to be destroyed? Based on what you said, that siphoning of Lavos's energy would be to power something massive, such as the energy needed for other worlds, or dying worlds.
This starts a new question. Why did Lavos attack in 1999 AD? We only see him do this once before in Zeal after being forced out from the Queen. So why did Lavos need to 'hatch' at that moment? Were the people of 1999 using Lavos as an energy source as well and unknowingly forced him out? Or, could it have possibly been because 1999 AD is when the alien arrived and parasitically attached to Lavos, causing him to 'erupt'?
Quote: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.
You should definitely, the new areas/dungeons are fun too. But my wording was off, the creature in CT DS is the "Dreamdevourer" So, there you go.
I have CC up and running, I am currently looking for the scales of Kimodos and then meeting a pretty girl at the beach to give her a necklace. So far this is impressive but I would have much rather seen 2-D hand-drawn than these models. Dont get me wrong, they're lovingly crafted, but the PSX is just too flaky for proper 3-D modeling. Even 2-D sprites on 3-D backgrounds would have been better.
The battle system is quirky, creating color-coded fields to increase your power is pretty nifty and the combo attack method is clunky but interesting. I am not learning 'techs' so that's disappointing, I was hoping for 'Sean learned Windslash!' but so far no luck. My character has 'cure' which is already bizarre to me, why does the main character have support abilities? ;P