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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!
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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!
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Date: 2010-01-12 06:46 pm (UTC)It boggles my mind that Chrono Cross is seen as a great game by so many JRPG fans. Even if you ignore the fact that it takes a pretentious piss all over Chrono Trigger's story and characters; the gameplay and battle system are just terrible! I could never figure out exactly how the battle system was supposed to work.
For what it's worth, I saw a mention on the Internet that the Japanese version of Trigger mentioned that the royals of Zeal dye their hair purple. I guess her roots grew out by the time of Cross.
LOL, really? I've never heard that before! I suppose it would make sense for Schala. But it wouldn't make sense for Magus in Chrono Trigger. I just don't see Magus as the type to concern himself with regularly dying his massive amount of hair. And where would young, post-Zeal Janus get hair dye? From the monsters who raised him?
....I'm totally over-thinking this aren't I? ^_^;
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Date: 2010-01-17 06:41 am (UTC)You're welcome.
I just don't see Magus as the type to concern himself with regularly dying his massive amount of hair. And where would young, post-Zeal Janus get hair dye? From the monsters who raised him?
Well, if he was a human trying to take advantage of anti-human prejudice, he'd need some way to differentiate himself from other people, right? Maybe he used magic to maintain his hair color.