And pretty much, I'd say that the so called 'Time Devourer' really sucked! =_= Lavos seemed more intimidating than it. The character will then change his appearance from Guile to CT style Magus. xD I'd also give Guile a priority, and at a certain point revealing his true identity as (duh!) Magus, where all his old spells and stuff is unlocked. Well, an active battle would be great too. Next, I'll keep the current stamina battle system with innate, but somehow shorten the LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG battle transitions. So the major characters would only be a few. I wouldn't really remove the characters already playable in-game, except for a few useless ones, and group them accordingly say a group of playable characters that are involved with the story greatly and have good personally developments, and another group of playable characters who aren't useful for the story and are just there for fun's sake, except for minor side-quests/stories (I'll give that to all characters) and certain secrets. Although, I wouldn't intend to 'revive' some of the dead characters (well, I could revive Magus). Being good at storyboard plotting, I'll manage to do that with sufficient amount of time, linking it properly to Chrono Trigger/Radical Dreamers with great respect. *ahem* Chrono Cross is a good game, but if I managed to hack it then I'd change, well, everything!įor one, I'd change the setting of the story. XD I liked all the options, but I'd rather stick to my own opinion. All interested parties must study Compendium theory and the forum debates closely in the meantime. Hopefully there will be no shortage of folks who want to see their writing emblazoned in interactive form, when the time comes. We might end up having to gather several writing teams to split up the work, much as Kato did with Radical Dreamers - I've read that much of the writing was done by people other than Kato. The major difficulty associated with branching paths is the sheer amount of work for the writers.

Luckily ZeaLitY archived what's known about Chrono Cross event flags somewhere in the forums here - the subject had been brought up by an investigator at GameFAQs, but the admins there purge the boards every so often, eliminating countless goodies along with the chaff. I'm still not sure how the game knows which 'path' to take after a branch point, i.e., which fieldscript to load in a given room when more than one exist, but event flags might be involved somehow. If you do not really like Kid then why play a game to save her other half? I think more choice would be a great way to expand upon the gaming experience without having to create a lot of new content from scratch (such as maps and locations).įrom what I've seen of the decompressed dialogue files, branching paths shouldn't be too difficult to implement via ambitious hacking. Maybe some characters would only stay with you if you were sly.Īnyway, that might make it more complicated than it needs to be, but I like the idea of allowing players to choose the character they want to be. Maybe if you pick up Glenn, but then perform acts that are sly or dishonorable (not sure if there are any, but we could always create some) he then leaves your party because of it. For example, Glenn tries to do what is right.

It would also be a way to give the characters more personality. If we reduce the number of characters at the same time then we gain some of that speech text back, so we could have the characters in your party respond differently depending on how much they like or dislike you.ĭon't like Kid? Then you can ignore her, not save her, be nice to Leena, and get close to her instead of Kid/Schala at the end of the game. Not sure if that can be done easily with a hack, since you would need new variables, but I think it is something to consider. If you use a format similar to the growlanser or start ocean games then relationships with your party members can be affected by how you react to a certain situation. What if the person playing the game was given response choices.

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