The Problem With Video Game Endings | Why Chrono Trigger Excels (Patreon)

The Problem With Video Game Endings | Why Chrono Trigger Excels

The way we talk about endings in games is perhaps a bit stilted and makes us underestimate the strengths of the medium. To explore this issue, we look at the beginnings of multiple endings, how the function and exemplify their masterful use in Chrono Trigger. Guest voice: @Chariot Rider 00:00 Opening 05:19 The Portopia Serial Murder Case 09:27 What even is an alternate ending? 12:35 Chrono Trigger PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/transparens TWITTER: https://twitter.com/transparencyboo #ChronoTrigger #MultipleEndings #FinalFantasyVI BONUS MEME: Isn't it kinda funny how in Chrono Trigger there's this cutscene where the characters talk about a mysterious entity beyond the frames of their world reliving its past again and again and it's so obviously referring to how the player is going through the game repeatedly, yet regardless the Chrono Trigger fandom is like confused about who this character is, it's just very hilarious. Anyway, nice to hear about Radical Dreamers dropping for real in that Chrono Cross thing, looking forward to when everyone will play it for like 5 minutes and write it off as boring, but what can you do? Also, we hope no one is super disappointed that we didn't talk at length about Croc: Legend of the Gobbos or its acclaimed sequel Croc 2 in this video despite all the nods towards it. We just found it funny to exemplify your typical game with Croc against the villains in Bomberman 64 and Klonoa, running through a Nights world collecting bobbins and Mediterranean food. Well, spagnoli is actually just a name, we initially wrote spaggoli as a weird expression for spaghetti and then the spell check wanted to change it to spagnoli and we were just like "what the heck". It should also be noted that whipped cream on the mashed potatoes is an actual Swedish saying, although it's a more general "cream on the mash" which doesn't specify that it's mashed potatoes, and to be real it probably isn't meant to be, but most people will automatically drift towards it being potatoes in their head. Additionally, cherries weren't actually in season, so we had to buy strawberries instead. Don't think about it.