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30 Days of Gaming: Day 2: Favorite Game

Posted March 6th, 2011 at 11:05 AM by Shanghai Alice

w00t, Colon Cancer.

Anyways, this post will be about, as the title suggests, my favorite game. Hoorays.

Now, before I start, let me explain that I've played too many games to remember them all, and I've finished roughly 10% of them, if not less. Also, I'm automatically disqualifying the game I'm currently playing, [I]Sengoku Gensokyo[/I], because I tend to be blinded by fanboyism and love towards whatever game I'm playing at the moment. And besides, [I]Sengoku Gensokyo[/I]'s getting an article tomorrow.

I grew up in the tail end of the SNES era, and the beginnings of the GC era, so I remember quite a few games from that period with extreme fondness. However, like many before me, there is one game that was so well made, and so consistently hyped and loved over the years, that I can't help but love it to death, and but every unchanged port Square Enix throws at me.

Yes, that's right. I'm one of the hordes of people that would kill for another chance to experience [B][I]Chrono Trigger[/I][/B] for the first time.

Because it's my favorite game. See how I came full circle with that? Eye'm a jeenyus.

Anyway, perhaps I should explain [I]why[/I] it's my favorite game.

See, as with most people, I have strong memories of certain video games. As I've already spent the last post ranting about those, I won't get into that again. However, out of all the games of my youth, [I]Chrono Trigger[/I] has been in favor the longest. I've never grown bored with [I]Chrono Trigger[/I], and I've never missed a chance to buy a port. Every single playthrough is always as fun as the last, though, sadly, not the first.

Why is this? Why do I keep coming back to this game so much?

Simple. Great plot, great gameplay, and good ol' eight-bit nostalgia.

Few games have a plot that has as many [I]well made[/I] twists as CT. You beat the current problem, and a foreshadowed event comes and drags you to the next one, giving you a new world to explore, a new boss to fight, and new characters to interact with.

And, frankly, this game felt bigger than many games out today. You had several different time periods to explore, which led to interesting side-quests that involved the creative use of time travel. You had several continents in each period, not to mention the End of Time. Simply put, for the time, the world was just so... big...

And the characters. Oh goodness, the [I]characters.[/I] Who could forget all the people that joined you in your quest? Who wasn't saddened by the ending?

Speaking of the ending, the multiple endings of this game were utterly fantastic. There are over ten (Can't remember the exact number right now...) different endings, all depending on your choices in game, giving the player a ton of things to do after the game is over.

As for why I love this game so much... Let me tell you my [I]Chrono Trigger [/I]Story. Yes, this does sound like a commercial.

About... seven or eight years ago, I was going through the family computer, looking for games on that new emulator my brother had just downloaded (We legally owned a SNES, so save your whining about legality for later. Also, I was seven or eight, so yeah...). Sifting through the others, I found one called [I]Chrono Trigger.[/I] Intrigued, I loaded it up, played through for a while, found it awesome, and...

...got my butt kicked by the Naga-ettes. Hard. And I couldn't get past that part. Whatevs. I forgot about it, and stopped playing.

A few months later, my brother found the actual cartridge in a game store, and bought it. We played the living Hell out of it. I'd watch him play, then follow up on my save file. It was... amazing...

I played obsessively. It was great. A few years later, we moved. [I]Chrono Trigger[/I] was the first game we set up, and we played that on a portable TV and a cardboard box until the rest of our stuff was unpacked.

PS1 port for CT? My brother bought it and played it.

DS port for CT? Didn't even have a month before I bought it.

Seriously. I love this game, and, although I'm not going to give it another playthrough right here and now... I know that I'll have experienced it several more times by the time I'm... say, forty.

The point is, it's a lovely game.

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