As some of you may know (although I highly doubt it) my volleyball team that I am on just took state! Since then that's all that I can think about! So here is my post on games that "Take State:"
6.Kirby's Return to Dreamland
5. Halo Series
4.Legend of Dragoon
3. Chrono Trigger
2. Final Fantasy Series
STATE CHAMPION: You are going to have to decide that one for me! It's way too hard!!!!!
The reason why I have these games is because they score high in all different areas! Areas that include music, storyline, character develpoment, graphics, and just pure amazingness. What do you guys think? Also, because Halloween is right around the corner, what is the spookiest game you've ever played? I think the weirdest game I've played has got to be "Shadow King." Never got to finish it though...
Sadly I have something pathetic to admit to. I have only beaten six Nintendo games in my life. Three of those games consist of Mario. Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario World, and Yoshi's Island. The other two are of course Chrono Trigger and Donkey Kong Country. The most current was Ocarina of Time; I'm so "awesome", yeah right. Anyways I guess my point is I feel pathetic. Out of those five games only one is an RPG; probably the hardest genre to beat out of all of those.
I always end up giving up on games. I know that's a bad thing but they just get so frustrating and hard!! I usually do get back to them after a couple of weeks (sometimes months) but hey, the point is I did get back to them!! After I picked them back up, I do sometimes get past the hard part that made me quit in the first place. I think what makes me want to come back and beat the game is the sense of accomplishment you get! For all of you who've beaten a game before you know what I'm talking about. The most satisfying games to beat are definitely those that have like four discs (in the PlayStation cases at least)! It's insane when you finally beat it.
How do you feel after beating a game? Personally after it's done and beaten I don't even want to look at the case; I'm so sick of it! Then again you feel like something is missing in your life . . . I don't know why! When you get home after a long day and want to play a game you now have to start a new one! I do love the feeling of pure accomplishment when you are watching that final scene. Perhaps one day I'll stop being such a baby and will just jump up and down after killing that final ending guy! How do you react? Pure joy, complete sadness, or are you like me and just put the controller down and walk out of the room very calmly?
I love music because, like many other forms of art, it has the ability to produce feelings in the human being. Oftentimes, these feelings cannot be described in words, so music is its own beautiful kind of language.
Today's music selection comes from the SNES game Chrono Trigger. It is a great example of a piece of music that creates a feeling that is hard to nail down. Not to mention it augments the feeling that the actual game is portraying at the time it's played.
By the way, in addition to having awesome music, this game is just an overall amazing experience. Enjoy the tune!
I know a thing or two about the RPG genre! I've played Pokemon since I was ten! Other than that...well, who needs more?
My line of thought was somewhere along those lines before I played a little game called Chrono Trigger. RPG's, where have you been all my life! That's what my new thoughts are.
But before I get ahead of myself, let's go over the meaning of "RPG" first. RPG stands for role-playing game. A "party" is almost always key to the RPG formula. Leveling up is also a necessary ingredient. Battles must be fought. These can be turn-based or action-based. In a turn-based battle, each active character can choose how to act, then the battle proceeds, generally with the fastest character attacking (or not attacking) first. Thus, a certain degree of strategy is involved in turn-based battles. Action-based battles, on the other hand, play out much like battles in any action-adventure game. In fact, "Action RPG" is its own sub-genre.
I hope that at least gives you the gist of it. Back to Chrono Trigger! What a spectacular game! I must acknowledge Mary as the one to whom I owe the finding of this game. The question that remains now is this: is the RPG genre for everyone? Absolutely not! And I'll tell you why: many gamers want that quick burst of gameplay, which comes from a Mario platformer, or a Star Fox shooter, or a Wii Sports party-er, or a Mario Kart racer. There's a great deal of complexity in RPG games! And, oftentimes, there's a degree of drag to them as well. It was hard even for me, a big Pokemon fan, to accept the foreign RPG style of Chrono Trigger (What? I can't catch 'em all in this game?! Ludicrous!). But the bare-bones truth is, RPG's provide deep, rewarding experiences that are worth all the trouble of learning all there is to know about them. So dig a little deeper, and maybe you'll find that there's an RPG fan in you after all!
Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo is, of course, a blast! The only question is: Was it just too easy? I don't know about you but I absolutely love challenging games!!! The kind that really make you work hard and actually strategize. In most RPG games you may only have three people that you stick with the entire time. They are the highest leveled and have the best equipment. That's where this game changes the rules.
You can do special Techs, or Techniques, with different sets of characters. This gives you a one up with most enemies, but you have to strategize or else it's all for naught. That is what makes Chrono Trigger so challenging and fun. Then you get to the point where you have your favorite combination of three with the Techs that can do it all. They can heal, damage, and protect. Due to that, they are just so very strong. So then it becomes so simple, you just wish you had a "That Was Easy" button. That's when the game gets boring and you want it harder.
Of course it doesn't stay like that for long. When you finally get those amazing Techs that can do pretty much anything (that's it, I'm calling them Supermans from now on because lets admit it Superman can do ANYTHING!) your main character, Chrono, disappears from the picture. This forces you to put a different third party member in, screwing up the awesome thing you had going. Therefore it makes the game harder.
How could that make it harder? Well first you now have to level up your other characters. You know,the ones you barely use, because you don't know who's going to be there one second and then suddenly be a rainbow of crystals the next! When you finally get someone to a sufficient level, you can start playing the game again. This is where it gets really difficult. At this point, you can choose to do side quests or save Chrono. The combination of these two vital tasks will have you running all over the place to keep it all together.
After you finally finish doing all the quests and getting Chrono back you can beat the game. That itself is pretty hard. So if you do all of that the game is pretty hard. So now you're thinking, "Then what the poop is the point of this post?" Well here it is: The whole time you could have played on a New Game+. This allows you to start a new game with your old game data. Usually you can only do this after you beat the whole game. Once again though the Super Nintendo breaks this rule. From the very beginning you could have done it. This makes the game a whole lot easier! It's almost like cheating.
If you couldn't get past an ending guy well, looky here, start it over with New Game+ and all problems are solved. It becomes the easiest game ever. You can even start it while you're not very far into the game and you will still have a heads up on everything. So with that said, is this game too easy - or is it just right - or even is it too hard? Looks like someone *stares at reader* just has to play the game to find out. Then after that go and try it on the Playstation. You see cool little video clips and it's a little more challenging because you don't have the New Game+ option from the very beginning. It's a very fun game!
