/vr/ - Retro Games

>i suspect kato's the type of melodramatic fuck to need bitterness inserted into everything to make it more "realistic" or whatever the fuck. didn't he wanna add more grim shit into the first game but was stopped by horii and sakaguchi?
He absolutely is. He wanted to have it so Crono couldn't be saved in the way that we saved him. His genius idea was to have the party go back in time and grab a Crono from way before he sacrificed his life, have him help against Lavos, then send him back to his proper time, knowing that he's doomed and he's going back to his death. Luckily, he was laughed out of the room by Horii, the man who actually wrote Trigger's story. I suspect Kato was left extremely salty that his genius, melodramatic ideas weren't implemented and the game was wildly successful anyway. I suspect that Cross is his answer to that, an "I will show them, I will show them all!"

>...also when did schala get so strong i'm pretty sure she gets slapped around by her mom in the first game
Now that is something I have no problem with. Schala is described as stronger than her mother in the game, as the strongest magic user in Zeal, and we see her perform feats that no one else can (Permanently seal a gate, open gates herself to get the party away from the Ocean Palace). There's a reason she's the one who gets drained to power the machine instead of the Queen. She gets slapped around by her mom because she's a victim of abuse and neglect who can no longer conceive going against her abuser's wishes.

>a "magus looks for schala" game has no reason to bungle the story as much as cross does, and that game doesn't even have magus in it. for some fucking absurd reason
Agreed 100%. And the reason was that Kato thought that Magus would be too important in Cross's story if he was in and that steal the spotlight over the fourscore forgettable NPCs he preferred to have in his magnum opus. That kind of idiotic reasoning completely beggars belief.

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>the music is bretty good
It's downright amazing.

For me, it's Schala's theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkIcJ_nF-GI