 Alright so I had no chance in hell in that battle against the news but we do get a glimpse at the mystery of life and all life that is new ends with new begins with new whatever so let's get out of here we're just I don't think there's gonna be a whole lot of action in this particular part that I'm going through here it's just a lot of dialogue a lot of exposition and yeah to teleport around on this place you got to go back to the land where the commoners live the non-magic people and then you just wander around until you find another warp elevator thing Skyway sorry Skyway where I'm from is something completely different it's like a glass for those of you that aren't familiar with the Minneapolis St. Paul metro area it's the Skyway is both downtown St. Paul and downtown Minneapolis it's like a second or third floor hallway that joins all the buildings together it's like almost like a tunnel system above ground yeah rainbow shell and Sunstone are gonna be getting those what anyway um yeah no and the reason those are the Skyway is prevalent in Minneapolis and St. Paul's because it keeps people from going outside in the winter and all the buildings in I know for a fact in downtown Minneapolis they're all heated by steam there's a giant boiler downtown and everything is kind of connected through water going through you know just hot water going through pipes and steam and stuff like that that keeps the buildings heated and keeps the Skyway heated so yeah I went back when I used to work downtown I used to go for a walk all the way around like through target through or not target the what's that building the Campbell Methune building through like all the way over to the Wells Fargo building to what's I think now called the the Capella Tower used to be the US Bank building and what's that other the other it's like the IPS building or something like that the other really tall building I can't remember I don't remember the order I'm supposed to get these in either so I'm gonna leave and come back wind what I think it goes fire firewater air wind rather by your forces combined no because there's no door over here to open I'll get it figured out let's try it again here so that is wind I think that's I think we want to start with water because we want to end at the middle because that's where the yeah I think we want to start with either water or winds and then end with fire so let's try this because the door is right there oh there we go okay and this I think is just laughing at me a black rock is inside well that's kind of a common household like I can go in my backyard and find a black rock but it oh yeah I should probably use these we'll save that for anyway invokes triple tech dark eternal foreshadowing we'll see what that is we'll see what that's good for like six episodes from now I don't know and just kind of messing around lots of dialogue in this part of the section but it's got some of the best music in the whole game if not the best music in whole game so and the colors like just the atmosphere of this part of the game is really cool plus the whole magic motif the whole sleep motif who can't who can't get into that it's fun we got an ocean palace mammon machine we have a blackbird pretty cool stuff now here's where they try and trick you Janice a like we've already met him ha ha ha real funny okay strange prophet a couldn't possibly be the other guy that got sucked into that time warp after the Lavos battle why can't I talk to this dude the hell what doesn't make any sense as if so you're employing the moon has no energy aha so good thing we have a time machine so if that ever comes about again we can put it back in 65 million BC and then just warp up to 23 you know as far ahead as we can go anyway that's all you can do here for the most part I think let's pay the blackbird a visit and get a music change what's up bros aha it's Dalton Ulysses is upset he doesn't like Dalton what what situation what's going on oh that's that anyway just more ominous foreshadowing things to come so we got to annoyingly take all these pathways these warp tunnel things all the way up to the top to the palace and you just walk right in the center of zeal kingdom which makes this the center of the universe how convenient he's not obligated to open up to anybody he doesn't want to that's fine aha hint so if shala has a pendant that reminds me of ours it could be similar let's get some better dialogue here from I was thinking about this earlier should probably get better dialogue options with using the original crew here okay I I'm remembering the triumphant fanfare there I think if you do this a few times he'll give you something I think you need to do it like 10 times or something like that I could be completely wrong let's just keeps the rest of the LP scratching the news back see it now I'm gonna be afraid I'm like I only needed to do it one more time doesn't he give you like a magic tab or something just one more okay I wanted to see what he said if you said no damn it he doesn't give you anything shit oh well thought he did aha so who could that be I wonder can't open these books there isn't a three there isn't a captain planet puzzle in this one yeah you just kind of go around piecing together information talking to people bullshitting you find out who Dalton is you find out who shala and Janice are you find out find out why the Queen is who she is and what she's trying to accomplish why this place is what it is why the earthbound ones are called the earthbound ones and it has nothing to do with the game earthbound be kind of cool if it did though all his prophecies and yeah this is a pretty big palace here's lots of people to talk to all three gurus have disappeared he used to work hey there's the name of the game how about that oh I don't think we want to go in there yet let's try one more time was it what if I was just one thing oh wait no I wasn't damaged let's talk to these folks the power of Lavos can make dreams come true well for Lavos yes considering his dream is to eat the planet oh I'm stuck in a loop I can't get out of this I'm stuck aren't they supposed to leave he's supposed to move do I have to go all the way around damn it don't they disappear oh well anyway I guess I could just ramble about music some more I think this is the bedroom of shala on the right over there yeah the same red rock as the Mammon machine which means that our pendant which was mentioned as being similar is also made from the same red rock hey music change Janice I feel I will become a villain in a James Bond movie someday but it won't be my real name it will be a code name well I guess in a way this Janice is kind of a code name well maybe it's Magus is real name I don't whoops spoiler alert sorry about that hey get out of the way shallow appears to be wearing a one of those wearable blankets that they advertise on TV are they called like snuggies or something she looks like George Costanza like when that episode where George was draped in velvet I'm being cruel what's his cat's name afilador isn't that Spanish for knife sharpener or a knife-ist or something like that afilador it's what they do down in Miami they go and yeah let's go to the Mammon machine now they they actually have people on the streets I think this is like a big thing in Cuba or something but they have people on the streets that shout afilador and they have like a little jingle it's almost like an ice cream man and they go around sharpening people's knives no joke like machetes and anything from kitchen knives to machetes and stuff like that I guess that's a thing in South Florida it's kind of interesting so everybody's really jazzed about this Mammon machine I don't I don't see the big deal looks kind of ugly and then he disappeared I wonder why and Melchior we've met that guy Melchior whatever his name is the earthbound ones alright can we do anything with this yet no I thought Shala was supposed to be in here I guess we got to go to the Queens throne room first whatever anyway let's talk to this now let's just go in oh there she is oh that's this is what you're supposed to do first you watch and observe and then go back to the Mammon machine and charge the thing like it's a phone or something but you're still talking to me you say the same damn thing so let's try it now we get the loser game show sound I'm gonna create a corona trigger rom hack that all it does it keeps the game exactly the same it just inserts that sound into that particular instance that's it it'll be called the prices right hack I'm not actually gonna do that I don't have time bullshit this is a stupid joke alright so we've charged our phone I mean our pendant so let's go back and try and barge through that door ourselves actually we should probably talk to this oh gee thanks it's gonna say news usually have useful information but that one does not cool hey shouldn't Marley be the one doing that it's not Chronos pendant cool pixel art check out that hair on Dalton looks like Dave Mustaine and there's our mysterious prophet up there to the left by your Dalton's got great poses so they get the hell out of there and they send a golem after us now this used to be a huge problem for me I mean you technically can beat this enemy but it's really not worth especially for the purposes of this LP it's really not worth the trouble you might as well just I mean I could try some things to see if they work just to play around a bit and see how much I really get and that's a decent damage but this is a fight you're you're supposed to lose the first time I played through this I got so pissed off that I could not beat this guy and I always the first couple times I actually like reset the game and went back to my previous save state and I could not beat this guy and it's like oh you're not supposed to but we can give it the old college try I'm not gonna waste any tonics or anything or any more MP than I have to but it's worth it's worth a shot all right Luke is dead drunk is dead so this will this next attack I'm sure we'll take out tomorrow or maybe not that should only do like 50 damage or so yeah so yeah let's just get this over with I think he's got like something like 6,000 HP and I'm not even maybe over a thousand all right that'll do it see even if you beat him they still come back and say take them away like but we just beat a giant monster either way Shala let us let's attack aggressively aha see that's Shala's concern she wants to know what happened to the gurus so here come our happy-go-lucky bunch and she's like hey these people may know a thing or two and they may okay so we got to go to the mountain of woe but wait a minute this guy huh and he agrees to spare them but why so she just has to go along with it I guess all right off we go back to stupid ass I think we're that brings us back to 65 million BC and she puts on the pink tetrahedron of death or whatever the name of that is the pink pyramid of death and back we go yep like the stupid ass 65 billion ha see now that we have the ability to open up those doors with the pendant now we can go treasure hunting so to speak we can go any place we remember that we've seen this thing we can go and open it and see what's in it and hey why not that's a good time-killing thing to do right now let's check it out but we have to do that we got to go all the way back around to get there when we parked our parked our pterodactyls reasonably close we got to go back to the other warp point to get back to the end of time I wonder if those birds will or yeah they are birds if they'll stay there when we come back later probably not oh god can we get past these assholes hey we can nice sick of these random battles all right so we just go over here and fall go ahead jump jump might as well jump can you tell I'm great at this LP thing I'm just so interesting singing Van Halen all right I should probably talk to this guy before I leave it's iconic good god let's restore our shit and let's get out of here back to it was the middle one I believe this has the most stuff that we can unlock and if we go all the way back to even like the first proto don't the very first thing we can get some treasures I don't think there's anything else in the factory for us but yeah we got a backtrack through here which means I gotta race Johnny again which means I I'm definitely gonna lose at least once I am drinking gin tonight and I'm not usually a gin drinker gin is I just don't like the taste of it one of those things where but my girlfriend paid like 40 bucks for this bottle so I might as well try and enjoy it but don't drink and drive folks as usual see if I can pull this off I doubt it looking real skeptical here this background is making me dizzy I totally miss time that oh shit see if you had me play something like Contra 3 or Donkey Kong Country or whatever I I would be so terrible at it I just RPGs I can do cuz you're just navigating things and pressing buttons and managing you know battles and that sort of stuff but stuff like this that background is making me like I have to close my eyes every once in a while yeah what are you gonna do anyway maybe it'll help if I take my mind off what I'm doing and just sit here like if I talk about remember back in the day when stuff like alternative alternative music used to mean something like there's a reason the word alternative came up it was an alternative to pop music it had pop sensibilities hey I actually did it worked I'm not a complete failure but yeah stuff like a good example would be the talking heads back in the late 70s like they had a lot of pop sensibilities like the song Psycho Killer like pulled up and from their first album but it wasn't quite pop music it was kind of goofy and weird and a little out there a little too weird for for mainstream audiences another good example is REM REM again it's like pop music it's it's verse chorus verse but there's something kind of off about it something creepy and weird and unsettling the cure is a perfect example that they're probably the best example of the whole alternative thing because Robert Smith writes all kinds of different kinds of music for everything from like pop songs like Friday I'm Friday I'm in love but his they don't look the part for one thing obviously and none of these people say anything different do that or they just talk about Death Peak and that sort of thing I don't if there's any doors down here I thought there would be a door in here and I don't want to waste my time going well let's at least look in here there might be something down here but yeah what was I really about yeah the cure they have all sorts of you know just listen to the album pornography it's one of like the darkest most bleak-sounding albums ever but it still has you know songs like A Strange Day and stuff like that has kind of a pop feel to you know it's verse chorus verse it's melodic it's just very dark so it's an alternative to pop music it's not pop music but it's somewhat similar there we go there is something down here yeah and you just walk up and open it like you normally would and you get this annoying text box every single time and the music changes and we get four trajeuse hit rain oh and we also get a tab over here nice so let's check out our new stuff like Christmas morning over here yeah we're gonna give her the lumen robe I use Marl the most so hit ring yeah let's give that to crown he doesn't need a speed belt he's fast enough as it is he is faster than any other character I have so let's give her no I'm due to get the gold not the gold earring what's the gold something I guess we can give her I forgot what's the other item that gives you it yeah let's just give that to and then power tab I don't want Luca to be completely useless realistically though you really should stick to like your main party and give them all the tabs basically is anything else new anyway yeah alternative music is it used to mean something it was nowadays you know there's a like I have serious XM satellite radio and there's the alt nation station and the stuff they play does not you know I hate to be a snob I don't hate to be a snob about it but I'm going to be a snob about it it's not alternative it's just regular old pop music it's not an alternative to pop music it's just pop it's just regular stuff there's nothing weird I damn it I will say there are some alternative bands out there that I think guerrillas is a great example of something that is kind of weird kind of unusual kind of creepy that's not like that's an alternative band right there like they they do different things there you never know what to expect from them they kind of remind me a little bit of talking heads in that way and that they're capable of fucking anything really it's hip hop whether it's like EDM electronic stuff or whatever I'm not going to go the other way all the way to that dead guy in the fridge you know thanks I don't think there's anything in there I thought there was another one I thought there was one something up those stairs up there but I guess not I guess that's in the other dome so we're gonna have to go back all the way around but yeah alternative used to kind of you know there's a reason the term came about and same thing with industrial industrial used to mean it's weird that industrial kind of how that term came about so we're supposed to go into the sewer access here to reach where at the next place we need to go to find the so called wings of time but let's keep exploring for more crests doors and crests not crest toothpaste yeah the industrial started out as something to go back to like the 70s with you know stuff like really harsh noise stuff like you know seen as anti music it was seen as a protest whereas alternative was an alternative to pop music industrial was like I hate pop music that's what it was it was it was like it was punk but more see punk still at least had verse chorus verse it was angry it was loud and it was you know it was anti music it was more anti society it was more about making a statement at least in my experience like sex pistols dead Kennedy dead Kennedys and descendants and the damned and all that sort of stuff was all about like a making us making a statement and saying something it was more lyrical it was more shit do I have to fight these people no I got through oh these rats gonna take a tonic and I'm not gonna give a shit that rats gonna take a tonic I'm not gonna give a shit as rats probably gonna take a tonic and I don't know doing pretty good at avoiding battles but I could be could do better tired of these guys but no industrial was more about being anti music if I remember correctly it was it was just especially in the face of what was popular at the time like when throbbing gristle or coil or you know that that sort of stuff where it's just like it's just noise and craziness and you know Cabaret Voltaire is another one and I'm trying to think I'm blanking on some of the bands Einstein's Ending Neubautn is another one really creepy band that has some crazy-ass music they're an industrial band that's that's kind of anti music too they're more about hey a wallet so we can turn experience into money oh shit that's an accessory damn okay well that increases her charm spell big time so that will definitely be using let's see if there's any in here I know there's at least one in here yeah we're just going good old-fashioned treasure hunting seeing if there's anything we can do you know any other goodies we can find no doesn't say anything if you say no oh hey yeah they got a sampling over here that's right or sapling rather sampling a plant what's that see if they get nothing for you fools what do you Mr. T anyway yeah but then here came guys like Trent Resner and they just had to take the quote-unquote into a gold stud that's what it is yeah we definitely want to give that to Marl because it I think it haves or your magic usage it's super it's one of the most useful accessories in the whole game oh by 75% even better yeah it's it's an awesome accessory it's the most useful in the game in my opinion and you want to give it to your heavy magic user obviously but yeah now we that's like one less person we have to worry about like replenishing with ethers so really nice to have that so totally worth coming all the way over here in my opinion it's the best accessory so there you go there is at least a couple other spots where you can get gold studs but I can't remember where they are at the top of my head they're later in the game this might be the earliest that you can get that and we got to plow through these battles again oh well but yeah I want I do wonder when people think of the word punk what comes to mind because it started in the 90s with like Green Day and then eventually like Blink 182 and then like good Charlotte and shit like that it's like it's not punk if anything it's alternative because it's you know it's pop music but a little heavier but real punk I'm sorry to say use terms like real punk but it was a it was a societal thing it was a useful thing it was it wasn't just fucking like I don't know what even what what Green Day is anymore like I can't believe they're still around never liked Green Day was never a big fan I didn't like the weird I've talked about this before in fact I think I talked about this like in the last episode but the weird disconnect between their sing songy melodies and like this ridiculously heavy guitar sound it's like just sounds wrong to me but whatever alright we at least got a level up going through all this trouble how did I bypass this last time oh sweet I was totally thinking I was gonna get sucked into that god damn it so yeah this is part 10 I think of the of the thing of the LP people keep asking me like in comments and on discord in the subreddit or whatever actually not on discord but they ask me like what are you gonna do when you run out of games run out of Super Nintendo games and it's like the next natural thing that I quote unquote I'm supposed to do come on don't shuffle me to the next freaking battle like that the next thing the the natural path I would take is supposed to be LPs but I don't like doing LPs they're too time-consuming I run out of shit to talk about I just don't like doing them I'm not very good at them obviously so that's not really like I'll probably finish this one eventually I'll finish the Chrono Trigger one I might do like one more we'll see I don't know but just I want to keep doing regular reviews because I like being I'm a I like writing that's the thing I've always been a decent writer and I'm a technical writer at heart which means taking a lot of information and summing it up in as few words as possible and I feel like LPs are the antithesis of that so I would I feel much more useful just you know writing something and explaining why I like something why I don't like something and hopefully you know making sure that's useful in one way or another whether that's you know telling people about a game they've never heard of or like a game that was never released in the United States hey what's going on here Sir Crawley what's that but yeah we got to go through this way to these guys are dangerous they're magic users but they're also not very strong I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't find LPs all that useful especially since there are about what 200 300 LPs out there of Chrono Trigger already you can go watch anybody and it's probably there's probably like six or seven people streaming Chrono Trigger on Twitch like right now so it's like I'm not offering anything useful in that sense this dungeon down here is a little complicated it's kind of plays some cheap visual tricks on you there's there's and I get I bet you anything I'm gonna get like stuck or something it's another reason I suck at LPs I don't prepare what's going on yeah that's why I put them in the party oh yeah that's right we got this like a little obstacle course here Jin's not bad it's called Tim's TIMMS I don't think it was $40 though it might have been like 30 something but yeah you just kind of it's tempting to it may be tempting to kind of wrestle with this cheese and yes that's a fake safe save spot if you even go and activate it make the sound it'll summon enemies which isn't the worst thing but for the purposes of this video I'd rather avoid that kind of stuff okay moving on but yeah I would rather not do the what's the point of this okay here's where it gets a little tricky you can't really see that hallway but you open that up and then I think you go back around you have to go back up and around or any other switches here huh there a bridge I can activate or something I guess I got to go out and around I told you I'd get stuck folks I'm telling you I don't prepare I don't I've played through this game like a gazillion times and a new game plus I've seen every ending at least want at least a few times now but little details like this like I don't care you know I don't remember I don't retain that much information hey we can get to this chest at least but it looks like we're stuck again so I guess we got to go back down maybe this will unlock another little dialogue scene with one of those little eyeball monster things yeah those guys are pushovers all right let's see what we got in here I think it's a new sword nope never mind don't we get a new sword down here so nothing over here whatever guess we'll just head back down I'm missing something and so you guys some of you guys are probably screaming at the screen sorry you should do more help he's as drunk well this is what you fucking get get me wandering around lost you always he's looked at me very hey I can skip that battle that's cool oh there we go see this is how it fucking tricks you and then you go through the door over there all right that makes sense well it doesn't make sense but that's what you have to do and here we are boss and we are on the other side we can get this rageband you won't do what you tell me we won't be using that though we got a boss fight an Austin Powers moment actually Austin Powers rip this off and that's yeah I'm sure the writers of Austin Powers were playing Chrono Trigger when they came up with that scene where they can't stop laughing okay so kind of telling here that this doesn't even warrant any boss music just have regular just pretty funny oh wow that did a shit ton of damage but I think this is gonna do a little more damage to attacks come on does he warrant that dramatic exit 100 experience points a 500 gold that's not bad yeah we got to get her healed I'm not even close to here too yeah at least I got life for Chrono kind of one of the most useful spells hey what's going on damn it anyway what else can I ramble about oh I do play you know I don't just I don't just listen to music I also play music I do play guitar or at least I grew up playing guitar well I grew up playing piano and then I started playing guitar when I was 10 or 11 my mom had a steel string acoustic don't remember that I think the brand was called Stella and eventually I got my own squire clone from Epiphone so I had that for many years and there we go that's the sword I knew you got a sword down here oh come on that's right I got the aeon blade from whatever hey cool did that open up another bridge like I don't want to go this way oh here we go are we where we need to be yes we are that's death peek over there on the right I don't want to go over there yet though we went ahead see what this is hey it's that familiar music that's kind of cool it's not a strange creature it's a new shut it off all right let's see what's going on yeah my first job I got a I saved up to get a Jackson ps4 because all I cared about when I play guitars a teenager was speed and like super low action had one of those Floyd Rose bridges oh my god those things are such pain in the ass to change the strings on but it was fun to play at the time 24 frets Rosewood and I would play silly shit like you know Metallica Solas I loved Kirk Hammett I loved anything Slayer did I loved their riffs Soundgarden had some great riffs love learning Soundgarden had really strange tunings though like you couldn't just like sit down and play a Soundgarden song you have to sit there and adjust your tuning for like 10 minutes before doing that but no Soundgarden's got some great stuff to play wow look at this thing so let me in let me have them I want to use them so let me have them I think this is one of those things we have to leave this dude's like oh yeah you're gonna want the seats for those or for that I mean no not really oh it is Balthazar wow that's crazy I don't have any clever names or anything so let's just go with epoch all right let's go mumble mumble yeah no we don't need any kind of stuff so we can just go to 12,000 BC on our own but the theme of this episode is treasure hunting so to speak wow look at this yep at this point epoch just kind of drops you off at any given place so now depending on what at what with some of these treasures here that you find nothing here you can you can go back to these treasures at certain points of the game and they'll be something different I just want to show off that the fact that you can still says the same stuff some of these ran it's some of these random houses have just stuff you just got to look for it but like if you go get these things now most of them will be vests if you go later they'll be a little bit more powerful here we got a couple right here probably black vests white vests black vests and then this one's probably a white vest if you leave these alone and you get them like much later in the game they will be something more powerful but yeah you can you can just screw around and go to every time period and unlock all those and you can those black vests white vests those are useful items like you know there it's elemental defense elemental magic and such so but really what we want to do is go back to 12,000 BC unfortunately at this point in the game like I said the epoch just kind of drops us off there's that we can't we don't get to pick and choose where we end up we got to go we just got we just end up where we are and now suddenly this ladder is long enough to go up mysteriously and we got these depressing looking folks but on the plus side this is one of the biggest jumps in equipment and weapons in the whole game I would say it's a massive upgrade across the board so we want to get basically as much as we can get for everybody why not I mean let's equip everything and sell everything yeah I've got that bolt sword I can sell too get her a loom and robe yeah and we've got those vests you can sell those too if you want or we can put them to use we've got the mega blast for her megaton arm got he's still got an iron helm we gotta fix that that's terrible all right let's sell some of this stuff and get some more money back yeah I'm not big on keeping equipment oh forgot to equip that whoops and I bought one too many figures bolt sword let's keep the vests for now we'll get her that get her that we'll keep the loom and robe since that's all right what can we buy can we get frogs thing mine as well some flash mail and we'll get a couple glow helms if we can back 66 gold there we go that's not worth it really she can wear a rock helm but not a glow helm that's some bullshit but he definitely needs an upgrade iron helm that's I guess it's only a nine point upgrade but still get the loom and robe on her flash blade on him who could sell the mouse immune if you want yeah now we can as we'll do a good old-fashioned power glove see if there's anything else that will work maybe a speed belt a power scarf does a little bit more we'll stick with this for now we'll see what else we can sell anything else yeah we have flash mail for chrono you could spend a shitload of time just fighting monsters and just coming back here you know going back in time and you're gonna get shit for this I could sell those but I think I'll hold on to them for now just they might come in handy you could sell that elixir for a million dollars yeah you can go grind and you can get all your stuff you know go back to 65 billion BC or whatever it's wherever you want and grind and get a ton of money and then re-equip the wallet and exchange it for it'll move your your experience for gold so and then you can come right back here and get the best possible equipment the game can offer at this point so and I have done that before so Miss Shala actually comes in hangs out with these losers and I'm just kidding yeah let's go see what the beast nest is oh it's the in sure why not I think we'll end it here we're close to an hour so that'll be it for part 10 huh I want to thank you for watching and I hope you have a good rest of your day cheers