Playthroughs of development versions of Crimson Echoes have been released via a YouTube account. And so the untold story of the eternally burning flames begins.Ĭharacters Main article: List of Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes characters Legacy Main article: Crimson Echoes:Video Playthroughs
They all share glimpses of events across time featuring their old friends, then find themselves greeted by Robo in the year 2305, who is assisting Belthasar in his hidden facility. After a suspicious encounter with the Porrean agents, our three heroes are caught in an unstable Time Gate generated by a Time Egg replica. Porre has grievances of some kind and some political mumbo jumbo goes on. as for Crono (Still living with his mother) is yet again forcibly to wakened, but this time by Marle.Ĭrono, Marle, and Lucca attend an important meeting at Guardia Castle between the nations of Guardia and Porre. They would kiss and make their way back home. Marle drilling Crono's head not to sleep in. Not much else to say until I get more into it, but seeing as the story is actually pretty competent so far and the gameplay is basically more Chrono Trigger, I'm certainly willing to play more and see where things go.Crimson Echoes takes place right after the events of Chrono Trigger in the year 1005 AD It starts where Marle and Crono are discussing the big day tomorrow. Once again, not obnoxious, but considering how early in the game this is and how broke you are (unless you cheat at the Casino like I did) you might get a bit frustrated.
The enemies aren't really hard, but the encounters are numerous and they hit hard enough that you really have to be proactive in buying and using healing items to be able to survive. Not that there aren't any weird balance issues, like an entire section where you play as one character through an entire dungeon. I'll say now that, so far, this hack completely avoids any super obnoxious fake difficulty BS that you see with some hardtype RPG hacks.
The real change in the gameplay is with rebalanced enemy encounters, as expected, and it's not all good news. Skill system is the same, though everyone now starts with a set of skills and some magic from getgo, with some of the skills being replaced with new ones IIRC. Weapon/Armor seems to have been redone, though I'm not far enough along to see if there are any real major changes to the game's balance. Given what many might have feared when giving Crono a voice, the hack makers have shown considerable restraint, at least so far.Īs far as gameplay, well.
Yes, even the now nonmute Crono, where it seems the only reason they gave him any lines was to establish that he wasn't mute I guess.
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Second, it follows the philosophy established in the first game, being that you're more or less free to explore around time and space at various points to check out new events and see how changes in the timeline (and believe me, there are some) affect the world around you.Īs for the characters, you have the requisite OOC moments just by virtue of having people in their spare time doing the writing, but it's not too bad and each character is as you remember them. First, it actually does an okay job realizing what the world in various time periods would actually be like 5 years after the first game, with NPCs and various writings giving a lot of background information as to what's going on and how the events of the first game have affected things going forward. Alright so I've played this for a few hours and I have to say, it's actually not too shabby all things considered, at least so far.Įven though the story so far follows pretty closely from Chrono Trigger and is essentially a "fanfic" in that regard, it does manage to do some things well.
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