6th August 2004, 4:24 PM
A few things about CT. The main story, as you might imagine, is nearly immovable. If you really want the full story though, not just the bare minimum, do a lot of exploring and talk to EVERYONE.
They did pack in a lot of replayability. That is, there is a feature called New Game +. If you use this, you will restart the game with all the (non-story essential) items from whatever save file you used to do the new game +. Also, all the playable characters will have all the exp and abilities they had in that source file. To really make it worth your time though, they added the "hidden ending" system. I won't spoil much, but essentially they give you access to the final boss from the very START of a New Game + file, and beating this at all sorts of points in the story grants you with one of about a dozen hidden endings (not just slightly modified normal ending, there's a lot of story you can get from these). They aren't the "cannon" ending mind you, but they are interesting and worth going after.
They did pack in a lot of replayability. That is, there is a feature called New Game +. If you use this, you will restart the game with all the (non-story essential) items from whatever save file you used to do the new game +. Also, all the playable characters will have all the exp and abilities they had in that source file. To really make it worth your time though, they added the "hidden ending" system. I won't spoil much, but essentially they give you access to the final boss from the very START of a New Game + file, and beating this at all sorts of points in the story grants you with one of about a dozen hidden endings (not just slightly modified normal ending, there's a lot of story you can get from these). They aren't the "cannon" ending mind you, but they are interesting and worth going after.
"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)