 Alright, so thanks for clicking on this video to watch somebody play Chrono Trigger while drinking an old classic here, drinking some Jameson on a Saturday. So let's do this. Yeah, eventually I hope to get streaming done on a Twitch kind of a thing. Hopefully it's just that there's a lot of stupid technical stuff in the way that's bothering me. Hey, there's all my old game saves. What are you doing on here? Yeah, I guess we'll just do a new game. I'm playing this on the Retron 5, so we don't need a save point thing. God, that first one is my first game save going all the way back to 1997, I want to say, or 98. And of course we want to do active. And for the purposes of this video, since it fits perfectly, I might as well put drunk. I don't usually like to change Chrono's name, but back when I first played this, God, this is opening scene always gets me. It never gets... I've seen this at least a couple hundred times, I swear, and it's still just the best. I love this game. I love this game. So yeah, no, my friend going all the way back to high school, we used to always come up with absurd names to name the characters, like change Robo into Vibro, stupid shit like that, Oral Plus, and just like using all the special characters, drunk, or just, you know, simple juvenile stuff you do when you're a teenager, like naming Chrono fuck. So it's the mom saying fuck, fuck! Just dumb shit like that. Who doesn't do that with an RPG every once in a while, especially when you're a teenager? Like that's the point, right? Like one of my friends named Robo Cunti, so I remember he took a screenshot and sent it saying, your new name is Cunti, okay? I still laugh when I think of it. Anyway, let's go downstairs, talk to mom, and invent her friend of yours. I've forgotten her name. We're gonna stick with Luca just for continuity's sake. I might make a few changes to the names here and there, but I love that. Making the cat meow. Not much of a cat person. I'm allergic for one thing, but I did have a cat growing up, got her in 93 when I was 11 years old, and then she lived almost 20 years. She died in, I think, December of 2008, no? 93, yeah, it would have been December, yeah, what am I talking about? It would have been December of 2013, I think, that she died. She almost made it 20 years, or 2012, not 2013. I can't do maths. That's one of my favorite lines in this game. I'm so happy I could scream. It's almost like you could see the development team get sick of doing this, or the translation. I wonder what that line is in the original dialogue. If it really is, it comes anything close to I'm so happy I could scream. Oh, here's the training dungeon. Not dungeon, but just, yeah, if you need anything you needed to know about anything about RPGs is right here, and they do a good job explaining it. It's time consuming, and I'm not going to go through all this crap. One funny thing, though, you see the, notice the, I'm going to get out of here, but there was a guy over there playing with a save state. Another high school friend of mine did not know how to save in this game. Been on the ferry yet? No. Don't yell at me, Jesus, I'll go. I got shit to do first. Take your bloody time. They have English accents over here, really? Is that specific to English? No. Airhead, huh? Yeah, what earthquake? What are you talking about? And here's a tell- Oh, and then there's one of these, sealed by mysterious words. That's another nice bonus this game has. Depending on what time you come back, if you get that thing as soon as you can, it'll be, I think, like a colored vest of some kind, like white vest, black vest, blue vest, that helps your immunity to a certain element. But if you wait until, like, I think the black omen appears or something like that and get it then, then you can, hey, where is everybody? Luca's not home. I suppose she's at the ferry, but shouldn't the mom be here? There she is. Hi, mom. Hi, Luca's mom. Tabin, Tabin. How do you say that name? Tabin? Nick Sabin? Yeah, if you come back later for those chests, they're something much better. Better equipment. So, all right, let's stop screwing around, let's go to the fair. I remember when my girlfriend played this for the first time, she spent no joke, like an hour at this fair, just doing everything. And I remember asking, like, aren't you gonna, like, frickin' proceed with the game? She's like, oh, I like this. I like playing at the fair. It's like, okay, whatever. All right, let's place a bet here. Last round's winner was Green Ambler. Sure, let's guess. And we're gonna go with G.I. Jogger, and I'm gonna race two. Say it, on your mark, get set, go. And fuckin' A, Green Ambler. Again, dude's got a frickin' dynasty. Come on, G.I. Jogger, it's garbage. Green Ambler is like the frickin' Bill Belichick of this race. All right, we're not gonna do the Tent of Horrors that comes in handy much later in the game. You heard? Oh, you're standing right there. I'm sure you did hear something. Yeah, what kind of stuff does he have at this point in the game? He's got load sword, but that's really something, I believe you can find later. Blow up, look at me. I think that's something in a treasure chest that you can find. Now these would be useful. Let's buy that, in fact. Yeah, I've got money for both, so why the hell not? We'll equip the bronze helm. I don't ever remember doing this before, to be honest with you. And let's sell the old shit. Yeah, I'm not one to keep tons of equipment and stuff. I'm really efficient when it comes to that crap. Let's get some tonics. Let's get a heal. Isn't this exciting? This is why Kroger Trigger's the greatest game of all time. Buying stuff, talking to people. Funny dialogue. I'm so happy I could scream. Oh, I always suck at this. I can never get the timing right. And of course, fuckin' A. That's right, you're all gonna sit here and watch me do this. That's so stupid. Why can't I get it? Jesus. Come on. You kidding me? Finally. Let's see if I can, there. Now I've got the hang of it. Anyway, I got two silver points. Let's move on. Let's move on with the story. Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot. Ugh. The physics in that collision were a little strange, but whatever. Notice the bell starts ringing as soon as she gets introduced. Sorry. Anyway, yeah, I'm playing the original SNES cartridge. This is not a, I don't know, do I wanna change your name now? We'll stick with Marle. Marley Marle? Drunk, what a nice name. I know, that's why I'm called that. It is a nice name. Oh, here we go. Wah, where's my cat? Oh yeah. Yeah, okay, a soda guzzling contest. Yeah, you know. Well, his name ain't drunk for nothing. Dominant. Yeah, I'm awfully competitive when it comes to drinking. You're damn right. No, I cheat. I put the A button on turbo. I'm playing with the original SNES cartridge on a Retron 5 with the ASCII pad with all the turbo switches and stuff. Yeah, you can steal this guy's lunch, which I'm gonna be nice. I'm always such a sucker. I do all the nice things here because I'm a sentimental sap in some ways. I just like doing things the way the game intends you to do them. If you skip them, it comes in handy. It's gonna come into play later. The first time you play this, when you don't know that, it kind of sucks. Like it's kind of a bummer. It's like, oh, I didn't know you could do all that stuff and then you wanna go back and do it. All right, you know what that theme means. It's time for Gatto. That's a fucking thing. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 14, that's a lot of damage from him. God, again, Jesus, Gatto's gonna kill me. Oh, come on. Stupid active time battles. Geez, he is gonna kill me, look at this. This is ridiculous, go after her. That's gotta be it right there. There we go. Yeah, the aforementioned high school friend used to level up on Gatto. 10 experience points at a time. Just hours and hours of just playing Gatto. That became like a phrase we would use. I need to heal up, he kicked my ass. Nah, fuck it, nevermind. Oh, whoops, I did not mean to do that. I was gonna do it again, but I realized that people might watch this. All two dozen of you might watch this. Oh shit, yeah, they're still setting up. We need to, this frustrated me when I still played it. Do I know the latest gossip? No. Yeah, I didn't know how to proceed with the game. It turns out you talk to this random person right in the middle to trigger the next aspect of the story. That's kind of frustrating when games do that, but whatever, what are you gonna do? Ah, the path is clear. But yeah, leveling up on Gatto became like kind of like an inside phrase, inside joke. When you do that, you're just leveling up on Gatto. Yeah, the game makes you sit there. If you try and move, it happens later. Comes in handy later. This whole fair sequence is really interesting. Like the way the game is structured, really interesting. Super Dimension Warp. Sounds like an early SNES game. It sounds like the subtitle to Hyper Zone. Hyper Zone, Super Dimensional Warp. It never worked, right? Check out that girl's glasses. Yeah, you dumbass, it's me. I'll try it. I'll watch while you try it out. That sounds like my girlfriend, Pearl. Yeah, I'll stay here and watch while you do the insanely risky thing. Okay? Yeah, buddy. It's gonna work just fine, see? It's teleportation. Yeah, see? Her glasses. Wait, what? They say the same thing. Wow. It worked. All right, so now it's time for Marle, Marle. Is it Marle or Marle? Jesus, Marle just sounds wrong and it makes me think of Marle the dog from the book. Was it a book first or was it a movie first? I can't even remember. I think it was a book first. Marle and me. No, no, my American upbringing tells me that the E should be silent. My English-speaking upbringing, rather. Marle, silent E at the end, just because that's how stupid English is. Random silent E's. Any of you, anybody who's watching this who's English's second language is nodding their head right now. Like, yeah, you stupid ass annual speakers in your silent E's that make no sense. What is going on? Whoa, okay, she just frickin' disappeared. What in God's name is going on? Show's over, nothing to see here. Oh man. All right, now we have our first story wrinkle. What the hell happened to the prince? Or we don't know if she's the princess yet. What the hell happened to Drunk's friend? Chrono's friend. It couldn't have been the telepaw. The Warfields seem to be a freaking arh. That's right. It's the heroic music change. I'm gonna go do it. What a fine lad. I'm Irish for a second all of a sudden. Sure, what the hell? I got nothing else to do today. I already did all the cool stuff at the fair anyway. Power to full, Roger. Come on, building suspense. Is it gonna work? I think somebody made a gif way back when of just the looping of like, more power. I need more power, Roger. And it was just like, that's mean because it makes it look like that's all that happens. Anyway, ooh, spooky. We're going someplace far, far away. What's going on? How is it happening? Alrighty, we are in the middle of a forest. Actually, we are right where, uh-oh, Goblins. We're in the exact same spot where the telepod is and where the fair is. Uh-oh, shit, I've got only 22 hit points. That was unwise. I'm gonna get killed by Goblins. And the first part of the game, Gato and Goblins are gonna kill me. I should be fine. So dumb. Oh boy. Yeah, I should probably take a tonic. Immensely stupid. Okay, let's get out of here. Where am I? Weird, also very calm and soothing. Oh, more enemies. So yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, they're not goblins, they're imps. That's my mistake. I deeply apologize. Well, actually, we're not goblins. Four experience points. Hey, but those two, all right, leveled up already and I got Cyclone. That's true, if you face Gato twice, you can level up to your first level at the very least. Oh, there we go, this is useful. Better than a bandana. Just, I love that it's called the Power Glove. I picture Chrono wearing an actual Power Glove, like NES Power Glove, while he's killing stuff with swords. You should be able to wear two Power Gloves in that case. Yeah, kill the Roly first, he does the most damage. Yeah, I'm gonna try and play this for at least, you know, back in the day when I first did these LPs, it was, you know, I had such a crappy internet connection, DSL. And it was so slow, and it took me forever just to upload even just like a five minute video. So I only did it in 10 minute parts. And that's what I saw other people do anyway. That's what, you know, LPs like H.C. Bailey were doing. Are you stupid? Kingdom of Guardia. No, I didn't know that. Lovely, we need more of the Sarkas on there. That's great. Nonsense. Anyway, yeah, that's what LPs back in, I mean, when I say back in the day, I'm talking like 2014, when I first started doing that. They were still, well, a lot of them are still just done in 10 minute parts. I think Game Grumps back then was still doing just 10 minutes each day. Sure. Cider. God forbid you drink an actual spirit there. Beer or something like that. That's it. That's all you had to tell me. Ooh, can I buy a beer? Can I buy quote unquote cider? Actually, hard cider is usually pretty good. I like hard, good hard cider. It's just, I don't like sour drinks very much. I'm not a sour drink person. Maybe one day I'll like sour stuff because I lost it. And then they found the queen, huh? Interesting. It's always such a tricky way to tell a story through NPC dialogue and to give hints without outright saying stuff and to still kind of slyly reveal things as you go. How much money do I have? Not much and I don't have enough for a decent sword yet, but I will buy that for when she comes back to my party. That's interesting that they still, you know what, I already had a Brown's helm. I'll leave it for her. That's fine. Yeah, it's a tricky balance to structure this in a way that it doesn't give away too much. It's the exposition isn't too crazy or too obvious or too blatant. That game does that. This game does that very, very well. And while keeping the dialogue interesting and making it sound a little bit like how normal people talk. Yeah, aren't there supposed to be battles in here? Where's all the enemies? Huh, oh there we go. You're supposed to get curious about the twitching butchers. Rolly riders. Let's use this. What the hell? These guys have a lot of hit points I think. Maybe not. No, they have at least 30 or 32 I should say. I got through that without getting hit. Yeah, those tech points are really useful. It's funny to see you get the ratio between tech points and hit points back then were back then back at the beginning of the game here. It's a little closer so the game gives you a good chance to unlock some cool abilities like this right away. There we go. Okay, so they have 30 hit points. That was very efficient and very useful and helpful. 120 gold, I'll take that. Fuck yeah. In fact, if I... Is this blocked by, oh that's all that's down here. I would go back and get that sword but I think you get it in a treasure chest up here anyway. Maybe, I don't know. Or at least in the next, check out that hair. This kid would never be the cut. Show us your stamp collection. Hey, she looks familiar. Something odd about him. Well, yeah, there you have it. Let's explore the castle. Let's enjoy this cool castle music. Gotta love our square soft RPGs. All have to have a castle theme and they all have trumpets and like this, you know, like all of the Dragon Quest games all have that trumpety sounding, very regal sounding. What is wrong with that guy? I forgot. This game's full of weird shit like that. I forgot about that. Oh, cool. I think I will actually. Well, yeah, that's what I'm doing. Hey, give me a power stew. That sounds pretty good. That does sound good right now. Give me some power stew. What would be in a power stew? It's gotta be potatoes, carrots, lots of vegetables. Yeah, just big chunks of potatoes. Big chunks of like roast beef, like meat. Like a roast that you had in the crock pot for a while. Ice cream reminds me of the Mr. Burns. I'm enjoying this so-called ice cream. Oh, got an ether. That's useful with this part of the game. Hey, wait a second, what's going on? Getting triggered here. Triggered an event of some kind. We got awkwardly moving soldiers. Supper, what are you, from Minnesota? Oh, yeah, you know, gotta go have supper. You know, go to Perkins and have some supper. Oh, yeah, I have to go to Perkins because my stove's not working, so we all had to get in the car and go to Perkins. You know, the one over by 494, over by 3M, you know. So yes, we get the impression that the chef and that guy do not get along. Again, that's foreshadowing something else later in the game. This is a game, see, I already, in fact, this was the game that taught me. This was the RPG I played way back when. That taught me to talk to everybody all the time. So if you don't like that, then you're gonna be pretty bored with this LP because I'm gonna try and talk to everybody. Huh, okay. Sure, I've heard of Sir Cyrus. What is he, a DJ or something? Huh, Yakra, interesting. But yeah, this was the game that gave me the habit. What is he, Randy Savage? Ooh! Hey, I'll take a snooze. They have a special sprite just for Chrono just sleeping. I love it when games do that. And that's another, that music you just heard there, that's another RPG soundtrack trope. You need to have like a lullaby sounding thing as somebody goes to sleep. Oh, here we go. Hmm, where are you going, buddy? Okay, what's up, buddy? All right, let's check it out. Again, you gotta check everything because there's treasures like this. Atonic, come on, there's gotta be something better than. Again, I think there's something I could be wrong. In fact, I probably am wrong. If you don't open that, but if you come back to this castle much later in the game, like on one of the side quests, I think that's actually, that turns into like an elixir, something super strong. I don't remember for sure though. Please leave us. Gods, leave us. Sir. See, now everybody is in agreement that it's Queen Lien, right? It's not Queen Lieny. So why wouldn't it be Marl instead of Marley? You know what, I'm just gonna call her Marl. From now on, because nobody's saying Lieny. That's ridiculous. God, the English language is so stupid sometimes. You're welcome, Marl. Uh-oh, what's going on? Well, that's no good. What'd you eat? Something go down the, something not settling in your tummy? Oh yeah, she must have ate something real bad. Real bad Mexican or something, I don't know. She disappeared. Yeah, the way that scene is depicted in the PS1 port of this game with those anime, do anything funny. Am I sure? Yeah, I'm sure. No, this guy, that guy's me. I grow so tired of it. Anyway, yeah, the way that death scene, so to speak, is depicted as is really well done. It's Luca, how did you get here? What do you mean she's gone? This game has localized really well and I think it was done on a pretty strict timeframe too. Aha, she's Princess Nadia. What? I'm shocked. Yes, let's spell it out for the audience. I mean, yeah, there would be kids playing this at the time, so. What is that maneuver? It's just kind of nod and out comes a kid. Lean has been kidnapped. If you take away that person, that means the subsequent people cease to exist. Interesting how generational traits work like that. Like my girlfriend, she looks nothing like either of her parents, she looks nothing like really anybody in her family except her grandmother. She looks just like her grandmother. It's just, same with my brother. He looks just like my mom's dad. He doesn't look anything like me or my mom or my dad, but he looks exactly like my mom's dad. Weird how that works. I can give her this bronze helm that I have, so there we go. Let's get a move on. Let's talk to the king first. Oh, you don't say anything different? Or is that an instance where I'd say you don't say anything different Lee? Is that where I'd use an adverb? I believe so. All right, so this being a role-playing game, there is a location on the map that I have not visited yet. So of course the inclination would be to go to that location. I don't know how you're supposed to know that. You just have to be used to playing role-playing games and just say, hey, I have not been here yet, so let's go here. In fact, the game does kind of hint to it when it says something, something, Yakra, they built a cathedral there and then Yakra disappeared. So I guess it does kind of give you a hint, but it's like, oh, well, I haven't been over here yet. Let's see what's over here. That's kind of a gamer's intuition at this point, right? So I leveled up again, cool. Let's see if we can get Luka's level up. Does she have any... What's her first tech, I wonder? I know their first combo, their first dual tech is combined with Chrono's Cyclone attack. And that's a... It's not great, but it's reasonably useful. Yeah, this is another LP so far. I'm 30 minutes in and I've talked pretty much just talked about Chrono Trigger unless I've mentioned like, oh yeah, Flame Toss and Fireworld. Okay, cool. So we have our first elemental spell for somebody. Don't ask if she does not know magic, but she knows how to throw fire. It's peculiar, okay. You know, maybe she has like a crazy Zippo lighter or something, I don't know. Wow, 60 damage, early in... This early in the game dealing out 60 for a mega, whatever you call it, critical hit. It's pretty impressive. Hey, she's one shot in these guys too, that's enough. That's cool. Okay, we're moving along. Oh, gotta heal, that's useful. That'll be useful for those birds that have the bells that cause confusion. There is nothing more annoying than a confusion spell in this game. Jesus Christ, it sucks. Cause that's when you like, you can't control the person and even when in some cases they'll hit themselves like they need a physical attack to snap them out of it. Really irritating. Anyway, let's clean up, clean up these imps and these rollies and we'll be on our way to the cathedral. Anyway, yeah, I guess I've run out of things to talk about in terms of Chrono Trigger. I guess I can ramble about, yeah, we gotta level up for Luca, that's good. Let's let us explore down here. Oh, we've got something over there, but let's take care of this battle first. Anyway, what can I ramble about? I've been listening to a lot of serious XM radio. Really, it's kind of weird. I think I explained this in a previous LP. I don't even remember what the LP I did before this was. Was it Zelda? I don't remember, but I got what happened was when Chris Cornell died or when I found out he was dead, he, is there anything else around here? Let's get another battle going. When Chris Cornell died or when I found out he was dead, he, oh, Serious XM had this concert that they were playing. Of course, YouTube kept taking it down. So it's like, you know what? I really want to hear this. I guess it was just a show of just him, another guitarist, a cello player or a cellist, whatever they're called. And maybe a bass player. I don't even know what else. But it was really Bear Bones' show and it was an interview too with him talking about stuff, just about songwriting and about playing stuff and playing music and stuff. So it was really cool, really insightful and really honestly kind of sad because he, you know, he just died. So let's rest up so we can get replenished here. So I got that and I've been listening to, it's like, hey, this is actually kind of cool. So I've been listening to Serious XM a lot and it's interesting how the stuff I grew up with, the 90s stuff like Lithium, I have no interest at all in listening to that at all. Like a lot of the stuff like I just ignore, but I still get a big kick out of that station because it is freaking hilarious to listen to at times because since, you know, it's a 90s, they have the typical radio station like stuff and a place to rest. Oh, I just realized I forgot to go back and get that magic tab. I'm an idiot. Oh, well. Is it a magic tab or a speed tab, power tab, who cares? All right, let's take care of these things. Naga et, naga etsy, naga ets? What the hell is that supposed to mean? But yeah, no, it cracks me up how the Lithium channel in particular, you got to have a real disinterested sounding radio voiceover voice to, you're listening to 90s alternative in grunge. You're on Lithium. I got to sound really disinterested because it's 90s and then they play something from U2. It's like, that does not compute, okay? You're sounding all too cool for school and 90s alternative in grunge and here's Desire by U2. It's like, no, there's a disconnect there, okay? U2 is the most corporate rock nonce. I like older U2, like Unforgettable Fire and War and they're early. I like their, I think Bono's a giant douche but I think he's also a very good singer and with a really good voice and he's got a really good sense of melody but it's just funny to hear U2 on the alternative and grunge station. Like what, what is this doing here? And then they play like eagle eye, that eagle eye cherry song. It's like, what is this doing here, you know? It's really strange to see the music they pick for which stations. Like First Wave is probably my favorite station. That's the 80s station that plays everything from David Bowie to, you know, all the synth pop stuff like Duran Duran into Pesh Mode but then they play like Joe Jackson. Is she really going out with her? But they'll play that but yet they don't consider Rick Springfield to belong on the station, you know? Like, what's the difference between those songs? Oh, here we go with Frog. Frog's here. Anytime I see somebody talk like that I can't help but think of God from Final Fantasy VI. Thou, thou, thou, Mr. Thou. He's making fun of Cyan. I shall save the queen. Yeah, Lucas. Frog person thing. Oh, come on, who would refuse there? You gotta be a really crappy person to refuse that. You know what? Your name may be Frog, but you're really more of a fish. That's right, nice to meet you, fish. You're a giant frog named Fish. All right, we got a cool talking fish. I mean a talking frog with us. Now we're gonna play some Killer Licks on this freaking pipe organ. And it reveals a door. Again, that's another just like gamer's intuition. Like, ooh, I have to check this over here. Like if you don't know to check the organ to play the organ, then I don't know what to tell you. Like that's just what you do in these games. There's a lot of people saying, oh, am I supposed to know that? It's like, you just do. If you play to JRPG, you just do. It's kind of like, Chrono Trigger is a little bit like Cowboy Bebop where the first time I saw Cowboy Bebop I was like, what, I don't get why people like this. Why is this so critically acclaimed? What's the big deal? People might feel that way about Chrono Trigger too, but once you get familiar with other anime and other JRPGs and other video games really, like it took a long time for me to appreciate why people liked Cowboy Bebop. It's when you watch other stuff, like especially crap like Evan, I'm not a fan of Evangelion, especially how they just ran out of money at the end and had the staple on the ending. And yes, I know the movies eventually rectified that and came up with a different ending, but still at the time, in the early 2000s when I first watched it, when I watched them all on VHS tapes, dubbed or subbed, not subbed, dubbed in English terribly, yeah, I did not like that show. So, and I tried watching it again, but once it got, yeah, I just don't like that show. But once you get familiar with stuff like that and stuff like Slayers and, you know, just other anime in general, Trigun, Fooly Cooly, even like Magic Night Ray Earth and all my goddess and all that 90s stuff, once you get familiar with that, then you go back and watch Cowboy Bebop. You're like, okay, now I kind of understand the context of this. Cowboy Bebop has an awesome soundtrack that is much different than the rest of, the rest of those anime's I listed, the rest of those TV shows I listed. Nope, can't get in there yet. Oh, wait, there's a switch there, though. Ah, there we go. That's my sword upgrade I've been waiting for. Excellent. Yeah, what's the point of that? I guess it's just to give you a sense that, oh, hey, this switch exists. But yeah, once you get a sense of what anime is, you know, what the context was, and yes, I will remember to pick this up. I can't believe I left that other one over there. I'll have to go back and get it if I, if I don't get caught up in my own rambling here. Here's a power tab. I wanna give that to Drunk, because Frono, I should say, but yeah, that will make him, what you wanna do in this game is accentuate strength. Frono's already strong. The way I see it, I see it like drafting a football team, or like putting together like a baseball team. Like, for example, this is such rambling nonsense, I'm sorry, but when you get turn-based battles like this with not much going on, you gotta come up with something to ramble about, right? So, it's kind of like drafting a football team or putting together a roster of like baseball, football, whatever. You want to accentuate your strengths. You can either go for balance and fill needs, but you can do what the Baltimore Ravens did in the 2000s where it's like, okay, we already have this dominant defense. We've got Ray Lewis and Ed Reed. Let's draft Terrell Suggs in the first round in addition to those guys. And that paid off huge dividends because they could have done the predictable thing and drafted a wide receiver or offensive line. I love the music change here. That's great. Some good stuff here. We see just a lighter moment for the monsters in charge here. It's such a nice touch. Yes, and of course, these guys are too stupid to understand that you're just regular, same old humans, and you can follow this guy over here. They really got the little things in this game so perfectly, but yeah, anyway. Yeah, we've got, I know, let's get rid of these first. Foist, there we go. We got our money, we got our ether, screw off. We need a third person here. Let's just put a generic soldier. And of course, they are in disguise. Snakes in disguise. But yeah, no, you just draft to incentuate strengths. You do the same thing with the tabs here, in my opinion. Like, Krono's already strong. You can either go for balance or you can make him really fucking strong. Same with whoever you wanna, whoever you wanna make your strongest magician, your strongest mage, I should say. You can either pick Luca or Marl and make them and overpower them like crazy with magic tabs or speed tabs or whatever you wanna do, but just pick one character and just keep applying that stuff over and over to them. I like to do that with power. With Krono, since for most of the game he's gonna be in your party, so you might as well. Make him extremely useful. Anyway, let's heal up here since we finally have a character that has a healing spell and let's keep exploring this cathedral here. Can I get past these guys without fighting them again? Ugh! Oh yeah, anyway, yeah, the lithium thing with U2. I do like U2. They're older stuff. I think Bono is as big of a douche as he is. He's a really good singer with a really good voice. And, but yeah, it's... Lithium has some really strange choices. They play Dave Matthews' band. Like, okay, you play all the typical Seattle stuff. You play even the generic hangarons like Soul Asylum and Candlebox and crap like that. But they play all the radio hits of the time. All right, X-Strike. That's one of my favorite spells in this game. It's my favorite dual techs in this game. But crap, I'm down to four MP. Yeah, this is the most useful when they're in a tight-knit group over here. Hey, what the hell? That was supposed to get all four. That's bullshit right there. But with the new sword, that's gonna do a ton of damage. Let's do a Slurp cut just to show that off. Gonna have to use an aether for Chrono eventually, especially when we get to the boss coming up here. But yeah, we've got the Seattle bands. You're typical, when you think of 90s music, you think of, you know, especially when the station is advertised as alternative and grunge. I think I'm gonna put that on here. I don't really need the scope for her or for anybody, really. What else can I do? Is there anything else? Should probably heal up. I think the boss battle is coming up. So let's get everybody set to go here and let's get Chrono, let's get everybody an aether. I've got enough of them to go around. So, oh, and we have a nifty little save spot here. If I had a tent, I would use that. That's where you save. Don't really need to do that because, oh, shit, I did not get that treasure. That was really stupid. Here, we have a monster down on his luck. What's going on, buddy? You okay? Oh, he's just taking a nap. What can we do to make this a little interesting? Let's have him sleeping. So strange. But yeah, you do get burnt out on those stations because they really do play the same shit over and over. It's the same stuff. And it's like, I was sick of this back then and I'm sick of it now too. So I get sick of that station pretty quickly. But first wave, there's a lot of that stuff. No entry, what? A lot of that stuff. Yeah, let's skip battles. I'm plenty leveled. So let's just keep going in the interest of, let's see if I can, let's do that. Let's see if I can dodge these guys. There we go. Dodge that. Go up. Let's get this treasure over here. Sweet shelter that you use that at the save point. Don't really need to do that. Let's get this done. Yeah, plenty leveled at this point, I think. It's another very tricky thing to pull off. I was talking earlier about the structure of the story and how it's laid out without being too obvious in terms of exposition and all that sort of stuff. But getting the difficulty balanced just right. Not difficulty, that's not the right word. It's more like getting the, just the balance correct for, so the game's not too easy and the game's not too, not absurdly hard where every battle takes forever. Yeah, we're just gonna run with real basic attacks. God, Luca's attack is so pathetic right now. She needs a better weapon, ASAP. But just being able to balance it correctly, so the battles are still, they're not just like boring, but you don't need to sit there and grind. It's not a requirement that you sit there and grind. The strength and speed of the enemies levels up at the same rate you naturally would in the game is what I'm trying to say. That's tough to do and they do a really good job at that with this game. So I appreciate that very much. It's a long battle here. 50 minutes in, I think I'm gonna go for an hour here or at least see how far I can get here. Here we go, a whopping 53 experience points for that. Are you kidding? That's it? All right, an iron sword for frog, or I'm sorry, for fish, excuse me. That's so stupid. And again, gamer's intuition here. It's like, oh, there's something to mess with. Let's check it out. In the distance we hear something triggered. Let's go. Let's take the picnic basket and scramboo-boo. So anyway, let's see if I can get around these guys. I'm sick of these battles. Oh, that just makes more guys appear. That's, that backfired. God damn it. See, the game's gonna pull you into battles anyway at a certain point. That's kind of shitty. Let's fire world these motherfuckers. I should take care of those guys and just do a good old fashioned strike there. There we go. See, that took 39 points and I leveled up. There we go. And suddenly there is a thing and now try hard enough and you will find a way in. Is that supposed to be some kind of inspirational message or something? Hey, I actually got passed though. Nevermind. Boss fight coming up. There we go with the flame world. Get rid of these motherfuckers. Might as well do a... Yeah, those guys are annoying because they put like slow spells on you. But yeah, what else can I ramble about? No, one thing I've always wondered to know if other people experience this. When I listen to the same song twice in a row, like lately, what have I been listening to? I don't even know. Say you're listening to Africa by Toto and you really like that song and you listen to it over and over. When I listen to a song like that, or any song really, it sounds slower the second time I hear it. It sounds like labored and let's use that... What am I doing? There we go. When I listen to the same song twice in a row, it sounds slower. It really does. So I don't know if that's just me, if that's just my brain or if it's... Oh. What's going on? What's the chancellor doing? Fish! I'm easily amused. Hey, his name is Fish. Get it right. Alrighty, here we go. It's a big hideous monster thing. The first million times I played this, I did not realize, I did not see the face on this thing. I thought the horns were the eyes. I just saw, I didn't see the eyes on it at first. I never noticed the tongue the first few times I've played this either. It took me a while to see. Oh, it's faces like, those were horns. Yeah, it's kind of a strange... Oh God, this guy's gonna be a chore, isn't he? I'm plenty leveled. It's just, and I've got the correct weeping re. So, you know, 169. And then those things on its back start flashing as you deal out more damage. I mean, he can still do major. He's got some really strong attacks. Yeah, here we go. This is bad. Oh yeah, that's half my life gone, but no big deal. He'll heal up here. If he does the three... Whoa, what, 21? If he does the three thing, the needles for all three of us, that's a really bad attack. Oh, there we go. That really wasn't that hard. I was expecting more of the needle attack, only effected drunk or chrono, rather. 50 experience points? That's it. Jeez. Let us return to the castle. Now, I wonder, I won't do it this time, just because I like showing this stuff off. If you happen to be watching this and you've never played this, I wonder if you just leave and leave the real chancellor stuffed in there. If that affects the rest of the game, I honestly don't know. Mittyther, that's very useful. Let's return to the castle. Thank you, game for not making me go all the way through the freaking cathedral again, like some games would. We must create a criminal justice system in this kingdom to do away. Poor fish. Come on, fish, cheer up, you're okay. So formal. And then the game just, oh yeah, good point. Yeah, let's talk to everybody first. Who cares? Let's see what everybody has to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got the same stupid crap. What about you? What do you think about all this? I don't know, okay, you're just. They make such a cute couple. Let's check it out. I get tempted to look and see if there's anything new. I'm such a rube. What about you guys? What do you guys think? You're not supposed to talk and talk to these people first, huh? Oh, that guy says the same thing. The game does not count on you to do that. It counts on you to be really worked up. Here we go. There she is. Oh, so my bedroom, I'm just kidding. Womp, womp, womp. Cold, dark, and lonely. Sounds like my prom night, am I right? Zuh? Oh, why is she facing away from us? Oh, and then that gives you the choice. Wrong! Right. Never would have gone near you. Let's go home drunk. That's right, let's stop for a drink somewhere. And, oh, weird. They do change their dialogue, but that makes no sense. That's really strange. Why would they say that before? I don't know. That's an odd little bug there. Okay, well, what's going on? They're like, the fuck? All right. You say anything new? You can pay me in freaking booze. Let's just get out of here. Uh-oh, it's Frog's big dramatic exit. Such good sprite work. Such drama. Hey, thanks, fish. All right, I think we're a winding guy. I'm over an hour now, I think. So we're gonna wind down this first part. Just gotta come up with a good spot to do so. Let's go over here. See if there's anything over here that is worthwhile. All right, same old stuff. I think we can take a snooze, though, and get everybody up to speed. Fish has done a fine job. Cyrus the virus, like from Conair. Is that who they're talking about, John Malkovich? That'd be pretty cool. And of course, we have to check out... Yeah, screw it, let's get out of here. Should we fight? That's right, I've already had a few battles with Marl. So she should be, yeah, she's got 109 hit points. That's not too bad. But yeah, anyway, what was I talking about? I was talking about hearing the same song twice in a row, and it sounds slower the second time. It doesn't matter what the song is, but the genre is or any of that. It always sounds slower, it's weird. I don't know, I first noticed that when I was really young, because one of the first bands I got really into, I was six years old and my older sister was really into guns and roses. When my parents would leave, she'd put on the appetite for destruction cassette on my mom's little boom box cassette player thing and would blast it super loud. And she'd ask me every time, what song do you want to hear? And I'd say, I don't know, it's funny looking back because I used to say Night Train. Little did I know that song is about a drink called Night Train. But what I really meant was welcome to the jungle. I didn't know it was called that. I thought the song was called Night Train for some reason. So she would play Night Train over and over and I realized like, why does it sound slower? What's wrong with the tape player? Is the tape player, is the tape wearing out or something? Like why does it sound slow? And she looked at me like, what are you talking about? Does it sound slower? It sounds exactly the same. What's wrong with you? I thought that was odd. Okay, so we're gonna leave off here. I'll be back for a part two, I'm sure. So, all right, I wanna thank you for watching and I hope you have a great rest of your day. Cheers.