Games you hate, but everyone loves

[Nuudoru]

Alright. I'm going to quote a post I made some time ago at this forum in the "Overrated games" thread.

(06-27-2012 02:31 AM)Nuudoru Wrote:  Okay, time to get hated.

Chrono Trigger

Holy average, Batman!

I seriously can't see why this game gets all the praise it does to this day. I'm a huge fan of jRPG so I don't find CT to be all that terrible, but it's not all that good either. Sure, the game looks pretty and the music is AMAZING. Those stuff is not what my complaint is about. It's the GAMEPLAY. Dear god it's so bland it almost makes me mad since Square had so much more gameplay done in every other final fantasy (except 1). There's no depth to the gameplay. It's the usual choosing choosing attack or special attack, as in the first final fantasy. It had a bunch of combo attacks you could do with each character which I have to admit was pretty nifty. Too bad you will find out after 10 minutes that most of them, while they look somewhat cool, are terribly useless or are not just not worth it. You will just end up using the same two cross attacks through the game. I seriously can't see what the big deal is gameplay wise.

Another complaint I have about this game is probably the story. I'm going to be honest that it was a couple of years ago since I finished the game and most of it is pretty cloudy. I just recall playing the game through because some people told me that apparently you play Chrono Trigger for the story. So, after 30min in the game I already felt what a clusterf*ck the story would be since it was about timetravel. And oh boy was I right. Plotholes EVERYWHERE. If that wasn't enough, there are several endings which left it with even more plotholes! This left me with a bad taste since a writer shouldn't get into an advanced plot like that if they can actually pull it off. I can see what they probably wanted to do, they just didn't do it very right. What I can give the story though is the main characters. All of them had a very interesting backstory to them (except the first three, Chrono, Luca and Marle). What made me feel even worse about the story is that they didn't do much with those characters either.. This left me puzzled because they had a lot of potential, but in the end it was all pretty much rushed or mostly ignored. You don't get to know much at all about Magus unless you speak to every NPC ever in his timeline, IIRC. Frog was pretty much ignored after you found out he used to be human and everything they did with Robo was that he found a girlfriend. They had so much story to build with these characters, and in the end we got.. Barely anything.

So all I got left with after I finished the game was a video game with average gameplay, pretty graphics, nice music and terribly disappointing story.

I will hug you if you actually read through my rant.

Feel free to bash me if I'm "wrong" about anything.