Such annoyances exist in many games, it always comes down to your personal pain tolerance. That one minigame makes me dread replaying the game, and is an example of how a single bad part of a game can hurt the game as a whole. Just my observations.ĭtgreene: The only major issue I have in Chrono Trigger is a mandatory minigame where you can't continue unless you mash the A button. Chrono Trigger doesn't do too much of that and feels more compatible with Western style storytelling. Characters eating a pineapple in Yesterday only, things like that. I can get more easily immersed if there is less obvious story structuring and more rambling and random stuff and everyday bits and pieces.
It interestingly feels way more organic to me because it doesn't have that "edited down to maximum efficiency" feel and doesn't follow a clearly noticeable structure like Shakespeare or the Greek classics. RTS, TBS, managerial, anything really.ĭrawn out storytelling is quite common in Japanese comics/animation, and even though it's often a gratuitous kind of drawn out that seems to "offend" Western story pacing sensibilities, I prefer the drawn out style. And I thought it was entertaining and immersive, if I wanted pure active gameplay I would choose a strategy game over an RPG or adventure 9 times out of 10 anyway. Chrono Trigger keeps things lighter which is perfectly fine but I found the deeper characterization in FF6 more memorable. Personally, I very much enjoyed the lengthy dialogues because it really fleshes out the more important characters and their backstories, to a larger degree than in Chrono Trigger. If you don't like lengthy story sequences then FF6 obviously isn't an ideal game for you to play (FF7 even more so) but that's personal preference, not a flaw in design. Chrono Trigger, by contrast, keeps its story sequences short and too the point.
The Android version fixes all of these issues and presents more features over its predecessor versions.ĭtgreene: Also, my main annoyance with FF6 isn't the random encounters, but rather the story sequences, which are way too common and drawn out. However, it comes with a soundtrack that is a bit degraded in quality and less features, and most notably a smaller screen area (you see less of the game). Plus Ultima Weapon sounds better than Atmas Weapon.
The Japanese translation has a less annoying Kefka and Celes being interrogated with violence, both of which are also non-existent in Slattery's, so yeah. No, I'm not going with Tom Slattery's translation because its closer to the Japanese, but because its inherently better. if gamers want to pretend to be japaneses with their translations, why shouldn't translators cater to them? language is subjective. Dick1982: i would say more literal/direct translations of japanese(or chinese) text is always bad form but whatever.
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