/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2270907
>Its not clear whether these are just references to CT or talking about being in the same universe
You're told and shown repeteadly during the first hours of the game about Porre invading El Nido. Within five minutes of gameplay you can interact with Porre soldiers. The main antagonist is described as being from Porre. You'd have to be pretty daft to think "lol it's just a reference" when the box art says this is a sequel to Chrono Trigger.

You'd have to be extremely daft to think that CC takes place in another universe when the timeline mechanics are explained over and over throughout the game. Not to mention that every other major antagonist is a CT reskin in some form. This is not related to you personally, just talking about all the other people in this thread.

>Never used her in any capacity outside of the mandatory stuff.
Neat, because it's during the mandatory stuff that she talks about Lucca.

>Did not give a shit about
This seems to be the problem with you. It's a game with a lot of text. Your main claim is that "it's easy to forget/misread". If the game repeats and shows over and over the existence of Porre, how is it hard to forget or "misread"?

>Sometimes you need to be explicit
Which is why the game is explicit from the halfway point on. What's so bad about keeping this in an incresingly badly concealed state of mystery? Would you rather just start the game with a map showing El Nido in a sea west of Porre and every other character hamfistedly mentioning Guardia? The very existence of El Nido is linked to Crono's deeds, is a huge plot twist, and is clearly that this is why the writers chose to keep it a bit mysterious.

Also I forgot to mention how you meet Balthasar an hour into the game.

I get that the STORY pacing is bad, but to claim that you dismissing constant CT mentions is somehow the game's fault is disingenuous. Not to mention that keeping the sequel links faint until a big plot twist is far from a fault.