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Is it worth starting a new thread to talk about CT? Well, always, but I don't want to.
I have spent 35 hours on my latest and 1st DS playthrough. I hadn't really played CT in several years before I started my DS playthrough and the magic of the game just rushed back on me as soon as I began to watch the opening anime scene and listening to the music. I had this really giddy look on my face; I could feel it!
The game itself isn't that different from the SNES version. No lag like in the PSX port, and I noticed a couple of frames from the anime cutscenes that lagged in the PSX version. The new translation is pretty nice, but there a couple of things that bug me a little: Frog has no Old English phrases and they took out my favorite Magus line: "You got whacked 'cuz you're weak." The dialogue was consistent throughout the game and it flowed well, but I still miss my favorite lines from the old translation. My favorite line in the new translation is when you take Magus to the Lost Sanctum for the first time: he says to the Reptite that called the party hairless apes: "You dare call me a hairless ape? You better learn your place and fast."
Speaking of the Lost Sanctum, it is more annoying than anything. You spend most of the time fetch-questing in the same areas and you have to fight the same battles over and over again. It's ok, but I don't think it is that great. Some of the conversations are fairly humorous though.
The Dimensional Vortex sections are a little better. You begin with random rooms taken from throughout the game and then you move on the new areas, including a mountain that has the Singing Mountain music playing.
The Vortex areas as well as the new ending, #13 Dream's Epilogue, tie into Chrono Cross.
The new items and equipment are nice but not really needed to beat the game. They help, especially against the new Lavos Boss in Ending 13, but I think I could beat it with only old items if I wanted to. I would need a better strategy than the one I used - which was basically to use Lucca's new super gun the whole battle.
Lucca's new armor is really nice as well: Elemental immunity.
The only things left to do are to complete the various logs: bestiary, items, endings, etc. I'm curious to see the changes in the sildeshow ending especially.
I guess that's it. Chrono Trigger is still my favorite game!
