Chrono Trigger Enhansa #8 - End of Time & Life (Bad Ending)
5Chrono Trigger: Enhansa Edition is a hack by inuksuk that rebalances things such as characters, equipment, techs, and so on to provide a harder challenge overall.
To get the patch, you'll need to join the NGPlus discord. A link to join it is located here:
http://l.kaffemyers.com/ngpluschat
From there, locate the Enhansa Edition channel under the mods tab where you can download the patch from the pinned messages.
Version being played: 0.4.4
The team's taken a time gate, but it acted a little funny in the last video and deposited them in a strange place. It doesn't take long to locate an old man who mentions this area is known as The End of Time, an area that lost time travelers are lead to...or a place where people are deposited if traveling in a group of four or more.
Long story short, only groups of 3 can travel. The rest will have to stay here, but the pillars of light you saw when coming in link this place with every time zone imaginable so they're never far away. Crono takes Marle & Lucca since when he tries to leave, the old man mentions a room behind him worth checking out.
Inside this room are two individuals with the one in the very back a new entity this hack added in. It's that guy we saw in 600AD's bar, Toma, but with his consciousness transferred into the body of some odd creature. His purpose here finally gives use to those Soda Tabs you've been picking up through the game.
Basically, one Soda Tab can be traded in to give a character a choice between one of two sets of stat boosts. They're uniform for almost all characters with the first choice being +3 power, +5 stamina, and +20 hp or a more magic focused +2 mag, +2 mdef, and +4 mp.
Each character can get up to four such boosts like this with the next one allowed as you progress through the story.
The exception to the stats being uniform? Two characters have completely different stat paths....and Robo just so happens to be one of the two. He can choose between +3 to power & magic as well as +4 mp...or he can choose a very defensive build of +5 stamina, +2 mdef, and +20 hp. Crono & Lucca are taking a magic infused route while Robo is going all in on bulking up his offenses. No doubt this is going to get him killed plenty of times as the game progresses, heh. He is going to need a third Soda Tab, but luckily the last guy in the room will provide the way.
The curious critter in the middle is known as Spekkio. His whole gimmick is that he grants magic to those with the potential, namely Crono, Marle, and Lucca. Crono gets Lightning, Marle learns Ice, and Lucca masters Fire. Not only are these new techs to use in battle with Marle & Lucca's spells combining for the damaging dual tech Antipode, it allows all three to start learning even more techs as the game progresses.
Also, Spekkio can be challenged. He's unique in the sense that his form upgrades as your lead character's level increases. For the majority of the game, that will be Crono. This is his first form which goes away when Crono hits lv10. Now you see why I was running from so many fights before! This also means I no longer need to do that now that this rare form has been seen.
As for fighting Spekkio, physicals don't do anything. Just spam your magics (Robo can do so too if he's learned his third tech Laser Spin) and he'll drop long before he has a chance to score a kill in his toad form. He hands over a Soda Tab as a reward which is very nice. To boot, every form of his grants at least one Soda Tab as a reward so it pays to check in often with him and challenge him if he's upgraded his form.
Finally....I save up since we've got some clearing out to do in the future now that I don't have to run all the time. Before that happens though, there's an interesting little sparkle in the northeast part of the old man's room. He says it's a gate that takes you to 1999AD, the Day of Lavos. Take it only if you feel you want to get a game over in record time right now.
Game overs normally aren't anything special if your whole party wipes. A sad tune plays and you eventually hit a button to return to the title screen. If you wipe to Lavos though (and you will with its first move, trust me), you get the bad ending where you see the events that computer screen in 2300AD showed play out in real time, coupled with a rather bone chilling scream and the phrase "But...the future refused to change".
More next time!
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