What about his human form that we see in some of the endings though. I would have loved to be able to unlock human Glenn in New Game+ or a spinoff something. He kinda looks like Magus, which is ironic.
.What about his human form that we see in some of the endings though. I would have loved to be able to unlock human Glenn in New Game+ or a spinoff something. He kinda looks like Magus, which is ironic.
If anything, the fact that Chrono Trigger is uplifting and fun, without the endless exposition and "imcomprehensibility disguised as depth," points to how important a creative team is. Kato is capable of some very creative scenarios, but his basic inclination (Xeno, Cross, Kirite, etc.) is towards the verbose and the depressing. He was a thoroughly bizarre pairing with the Dream Team on Chrono Trigger, whose very identity is defined not by Kato's writing but by the cheerful (but not shallow), Dragon Quest-flavored worldview.
Yes and no. Certainly, production time limits can lead to sloppy editing or incomplete arcs, but they do not cause the fundamental lack of writing discipline that leads to walls of endless text. Any good writer knows to show and not tell. And surely one of the most baffling and damning aspects of Chrono Cross is that he couldn't even manage to get the one character who matters to the Sara/Schala story into the game as planned.
By the way, I don't think Marle is descended from the Zeal royal family. She's more likely descended from the Earthbound since neither Schala nor Janus had children. The Larubans in Prehistory all had purple hair, unlike the Iokans that Ayla and Kino were part of. However the Larubans are the ones who control the Dactyls, even though that's the symbol of Guardia in the Middle Ages and Present era, so there were most likely some crossbreeding between the two classes after the fall of Zeal.
Fun fact the guy who plays the flute in that band actually joined Mitsuda's "Millennial Fair" troupe for some of their live performances:
Maybe! But this reunion/tying up of Chrono Trigger's loose end is literally the only reason for the sequel to exist. If not, why build a strange sequel around looking for a lightly sketched, seemingly inconsequential character without the one person who could conceivably know or care about her? Half of us assumed Sara just died in 12,000 BC when playing the original at the time.
Actually, stuff like this is one of the many reasons that Kato was such a peculiar match for the original, and why the sequel rubbed many people (hello!) the wrong way. I don't like it, but I get while some people do! Some RPG fans will get a kick out of jargon, backstory/lore, and so on, but given that the original is a fairly breezy, character-driven jaunt that doesn't care too much about made-up technical words, the Dire Conseuqences of Time Travel, and other overwrought stuff better fit to a Xenogears-like story, it strikes me out of place, even if Kato can be interesting on his own merits. But there's just no doubt that he's working entirely within a Horii/Sakaguchi framework in Chrono Trigger which precludes all of this stuff, for the better I thinkn.