I don't want to be this guy but I feel like it's my duty to be this guy. I can't stay silent about this. I can't just skirt around the edges. Chained Echoes isn't just LIKE Chrono Trigger or FF6 it's BETTER than Chrono Trigger or FF6.
The game is just way more fun to play mechanically, it has a lot more customization with a lot less bloat in its systems. On screen enemies, all the homies love on screen enemies. The overdrive system combined with fully healing your characters after every battle turns the normal MP attrition management of a SNES era JRPG into DPS/party optimization. Which my monkey brain loves: The enemies make the big numbers, I make the big numbers, everybody wins.
You get the Sky Armor suits and the airship and it completely recontextualizes the world and previous areas making them worth revisiting and exploring.
The world is cool, the lore is cool, the characters all rule. I read a book that talks about a land of big fungus and then I go and see the big fungus. YES. One of the characters talks to a big bird and decides to become a better person. YES YES. There's a mountain that's just a big meditating monkey. YEEEEEESSSS.
It felt like a weird cross between Berserk, Les Mis, and the first book in a Cosmere trilogy. I think if this was just a book I would have still been satisfied but it also excelling so hard mechanically within its genre. I need to clean my pa
The game is just way more fun to play mechanically, it has a lot more customization with a lot less bloat in its systems. On screen enemies, all the homies love on screen enemies. The overdrive system combined with fully healing your characters after every battle turns the normal MP attrition management of a SNES era JRPG into DPS/party optimization. Which my monkey brain loves: The enemies make the big numbers, I make the big numbers, everybody wins.
You get the Sky Armor suits and the airship and it completely recontextualizes the world and previous areas making them worth revisiting and exploring.
The world is cool, the lore is cool, the characters all rule. I read a book that talks about a land of big fungus and then I go and see the big fungus. YES. One of the characters talks to a big bird and decides to become a better person. YES YES. There's a mountain that's just a big meditating monkey. YEEEEEESSSS.
It felt like a weird cross between Berserk, Les Mis, and the first book in a Cosmere trilogy. I think if this was just a book I would have still been satisfied but it also excelling so hard mechanically within its genre. I need to clean my pa