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brendala[WARNING: Don't read if you don't want to hear Chrono Trigger or Chrono Cross spoilers!!!]
I was playing Chrono Trigger DS and suddenly had the urge to draw these two. I don't know why. Perhaps its due to the frustration over the fact that neither Schala's story nor Janus'/Magus' story ever gets resolved and the siblings never get to reunite after Lavos wastes their home.
Or sure, there was a sequel called Chrono Cross, but that game was pure sh*t. It made no sense and it killed off the former leads in the most ridiculous and implausable ways. Worst of all, Shala (a.k.a Chrono Trigger's big, dangling plot thread) was brought back in the form of a 12-year-old blonde kid for some reason (in Trigger, she had blue hair and appeared to be a teenager or adult) and Janus/Magus wasn't even mentioned at any point in the game! When you "free" Schala by killing Lavos, she ends up in modern day Japan somehow (seriously, WTF!?).
I could forgive Cross if the gameplay were at least decent. But the battle system was a complicated, confusing mess. And they didn't do anything with the "crossing alternate dimensions" gimmick because the two dimensions you bounce between have no significant differences.
And, BTW, the only way you get to see the ending is if you kill Lavos/BlondBabySchala by casting specific spells in a specific order. If you don't, you just get credits and a blank screen after killing the final boss. And you can only figure the order out if you decode some bizarre poem you get late in the game. I'm dead serious.
...so yeah, sorry about the rant. But reliving the awesomeness of Chrono Trigger just reminded me of my bitter hatred for the horrible sequel Square puked out. Now, onto the scribbles!
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I was playing Chrono Trigger DS and suddenly had the urge to draw these two. I don't know why. Perhaps its due to the frustration over the fact that neither Schala's story nor Janus'/Magus' story ever gets resolved and the siblings never get to reunite after Lavos wastes their home.
Or sure, there was a sequel called Chrono Cross, but that game was pure sh*t. It made no sense and it killed off the former leads in the most ridiculous and implausable ways. Worst of all, Shala (a.k.a Chrono Trigger's big, dangling plot thread) was brought back in the form of a 12-year-old blonde kid for some reason (in Trigger, she had blue hair and appeared to be a teenager or adult) and Janus/Magus wasn't even mentioned at any point in the game! When you "free" Schala by killing Lavos, she ends up in modern day Japan somehow (seriously, WTF!?).
I could forgive Cross if the gameplay were at least decent. But the battle system was a complicated, confusing mess. And they didn't do anything with the "crossing alternate dimensions" gimmick because the two dimensions you bounce between have no significant differences.
And, BTW, the only way you get to see the ending is if you kill Lavos/BlondBabySchala by casting specific spells in a specific order. If you don't, you just get credits and a blank screen after killing the final boss. And you can only figure the order out if you decode some bizarre poem you get late in the game. I'm dead serious.
...so yeah, sorry about the rant. But reliving the awesomeness of Chrono Trigger just reminded me of my bitter hatred for the horrible sequel Square puked out. Now, onto the scribbles!
[End Spoilers]
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