>two characters with zero chemistry suddenly get marriedWHA?!
>>731015397Toriyama was never good at romance so whatever
>>731015397Daisy was ROBBED
you didnt see the anime filler
>>731015397How were they meant to show chemistry between Crono and Marle? Does Crono have a single line im the whole game? I don't remember if you even get any yes/no dialogue choices either
>>731015397>save the world>marry the princessit's a trope, it's not that deep lil bro
>>731015630Weird how every Female character instantly becomes useless as soon as they get married in his works.
>doesn't marry best girl, who is also childhood friend
>>731016986They don't become useless though, they focus on becoming good wives or good mothers.Why should they keep acting like they're still single?
>>731015630Was he in charge of the scenario...?
>>731015630he had nothing to do with the story
Funny how none of it matters since Guardia was invaded, everyone was slaughtered, and the Masamune went missing
>>731016818How about not making a dumbass silent protagonist?
>>731017601>caring about Cross loreBased
>>731015397Have you really never seen this happen IRL?
>>731017825Is Chrono Cross worth it? I've been wanting to get it on Steam but the reviews are mixed
>>731015630DQV's romances are really well done, but that's probably more Horii.
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>>731017058Why do the men get to continue existing as people that exist in the plot with interests outside of their marriage while women don't
>>731017993>cares about review score>doesn't even read reviewsbased retard
>>731018074examples?
>>731018074Because women aren't interesting and are far more family oriented.
>>731018074Because men and women are not the same. Next.
>>731017993Cross is a game you either love or hate, and if you really like Trigger the chances you actually like Cross are almost null.In any case, either pirate or emulate the game if you want to try it
>>731015630His wife banged Jackie Chan on the side
>>731015630Toriyama didn't write the scenario.The wedding scene is only in the later versions of the game, and if you accept it as canon you also have to accept that it's a lead in to Chrono Cross, by that canon these two are killed in an invasion shortly after the wedding.
>>731018074because then the whole show changes
>>731018015Our HERO.
>>731015397The hero getting the girl used to be a thing back in the golden age of nerd culture.
>>731018074Krillin
>>731015630ENTER
>going for the airhead bimbo princess over the Bulma of his verseis Crono retarded?
>>731018982It's a fun pairing but it's not a good romance, I think they have maybe 2 conversations total before they're married between timejumps. In terms of actually establishing and then following through on romance it's actually Goku and Chichi that get the most screentime, but because the "z" era treated Chichi so poorly people forget how much work went into that pairing.
>>731018987He knew better than to court a robot fucker, he'd never match up.
>>731018074Chichi wasn't that important and Bulma was never a fighter.Launch and C17 were side characters.
>>731019207People assume Launch was more important than she actually was because filler used her a lot, she was barely in the manga.
>>731016998The inevitable remake should let us choose who to settle down with
>>731017601>>731017825>>731017993>>731018774Kill yourself Crossdressers
>>731019351Nevermind that japanese RPGs never let you actually choose to settle with anyone but Main Girl, even if they bait that you actually do (FFX), most anons would probably settle down with Robo
>>731015397Chrono is just a blank slate characterMakes as much sense as romance in DQ or Persona
>>731015630Dragon Ball in general is much better at executing narrative payoffs than it is actually building up to them. Most of the official pairings work because of the chemistry the characters have after they are already together rather than establishing an elaborate romantic bond prior to it
>>731019554Dragonquest 11 lets you settle down with any party member you choose to.
>>731018074What the fuck does that even mean? Chichi was always a nobody country bumpkin, Bulma continues being the smartest person in the universe, is the only none combatant to travel to Namek, invents time travel, and leads the human resistance against extinction. 18 never had a life prior to getting married, and continues doing shit like joining martial arts tournaments, and being a jobber like anyone who isn't a saiyan. Videl is just a normal girl that grows up of being daddy's rich girl into a house wife.
>>731019723Videl was already an incredibly martial artist when Gohan met her, she was a considered basically a super hero.
>>731015397>zero chemistry??????? She was all over him from the word go. Crono literally had a dream where he married her not that far into the game. What the fuck game did you play lol
>>731015397Kinda hard to give a silent protag a personality. The only one to ever succeed was Wind Waker Link
>>731019818She wasn't even on the level of tournament Chichi back in DB.
>>731019862I like when games play with that a little, like in persona 2 innocent sin you're a silent protaginist, but then in eternal punishment you switch which party member is the lead and you get to interact with them.
>>731016818>Does Crono have a single line im the whole game?Technically when he goes back to 600AD to look for Marle he has implied dialog when he's asking people if they'd seen a girl matching her description. That's the most you get until the postgame where he actually has spoken dialogAnyway the point here is that brave heroes and cute princesses have naturalistic fairy tale chemistry that doesn't need to belabor the point with cheap teen drama levels of dialog and angst. If the world weren't so fucking cynical and irony poisoned this wouldn't even be something worth thinking about
>>731019929You're assigning a power scaling schema to a character instead of just what is factually on screen, it doesn't matter that she doesn't have a powerlevel over 9000.
>>731018982Short kings
>>731015397Exsqueeze me? Baking powder?
>>731020061But this being Chrono Trigger, cynicism, subversion and irony poisoning is extremely relevant
>>731020159Canon version of that scene by the way, Lucca and Crono are Westermarck'd as fuck
>>731020137Yamchabros...
>>731020168Cross really might be one of the worst sequels ever created. I don't even think the game is bad on its own merits but as a sequel to Chrono Trigger it's fucking god awful.
>>731020127>power levelThis predates power levels, retard. One was trained by an martial artist(King Ox) and knows actual martial arts, the other was trained by a fraud, and is just an athlete that trains a lot.
Oh so this is just a stealth Dragonball thread huh. Better than it being a Chrono Cross thread at least. Carry on then, /dbs/But yes for the record, Crono and Marle had more build up than a lot of couples in videogames so no OP not really
>>731015630I didn't know art directors wrote the script for stories
>>731020354I was clearly being hyperbolic about powerlevels you fucking tard.
>>731020369I think there are people that think Toriyama actually drew all the in game assets himself, or that he was in the office every day hashing the game out.
>>731020228>Westermarck'dHey that's neat, had never heard of that.
>>731017601I just treat Cross as another alternate reality spin-off
>>731015397luccabro...
>>731020656>DQ6 starts like thisreference?
>>731019698Even the loli and old man?
>>731020326If it was it’s own game it’d be remembered no differently than Xenogears: a very unique game that doesn’t fully realize its ambition but tries so hard you like it anyway. Instead its Chrono Cross and it feels incredibly antagonistic towards its own predecessor, which is a better game than it
>>731020250Yamcha won at the end with Vidro. Bejita had to settle for sloppy seconds
>>731018982>>731020137at least krillinx18 has the excuse that krillin saved her life and showed he cared about her. what did vegetaxbulma even do?
>>731015397Also known as the shounen special. Just arbitrarily pair two main characters together at the end of the story and call it good.
>>731020061>Anyway the point here is that brave heroes and cute princesses have naturalistic fairy tale chemistry that doesn't need to belabor the point with cheap teen drama levels of dialog and angst. If the world weren't so fucking cynical and irony poisoned this wouldn't even be something worth thinking aboutNot only that, we have a generation of kids who grew up exposed to sexual deviancy so they want all male/male bonds to be sexual while making male/female relationships platonic in the name diversity and representation. Thus they have the gall to question the fairytale outline of a brave hero saving a beautiful princess and romancing her. It's absolutely dreadful.
>>731022449Hit her back walls.
>>731020656This has to be one of my favorite scenes in all of gaming and in fiction.
>>731016986Bulma didn't became useless, she's a big part of the cell saga, she only got sidelined during the Buu saga but the same is true for almost everyone who's not Goku or VegetaChichi wasn't even a part of the story before she got married to Goku
>>731022986My man. CT has been my favorite game since I discovered it a few years after it came out.
>>731020159One of the best moments in the game
>>731015630toriyama only did the art for these gameswhy do people act like he's had his hand in every game he worked on outside of the art?
>>731017996No it fucking wasn't kek>here's three girls you barely know, go pick one to marryAnd no, Bianca ranting about the trip to the mansion one time 10+ years ago means fuck all. DQ5 gets so much undue praise it's unreal.
>>731023230Toriyama could never write anything like Lavos.
>>731017993It's literally patient zero/the poster child for "good game, but bad X game". I'm in kind of a weird place where I hate what it did to the setting but still like it.
I like Chrono Cross as an alternative reality game.
>mid 90s>I'm friends with three brothers down the street who are obsessed with Chrono Trigger but their parents won't buy them a Super Nintendo>they pool their allowance together and buy Chrono Trigger anyway, writing their name on it with a sharpie>their parents allow them to rent an SNES one weekend so they can play their game>they plan to stay awake for the whole weekend in shifts to record themselves beating the whole game on VHS tapes>their adventure ends on a tape where they stop fighting mid-combat when they all fell asleep>they never got to beat the game>they decide to sell me the cart since they won't get another chance to play it>I still have it 30 years later and have beaten it at least twenty times over the yearsI'm still pals with them and let them know it has been well cared for.
>>731015397the whole millennial fair meant nothing I guess? Also he saved her life and went on an adventure with heror are you just a bitter luccafag
>meet ichiruki fag>rewatch bleach>romance is not even there and lines are obviousShippers are just dumb as fuck, they get attached to characters and project.
>>731024230Based. I hope they all got to play Chrono Trigger at some point
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>>731015397That's a Toriyama staple.
>>731018982Dogshit, Toriyama even admitted that he only paired them up because he wanted to throw Krillin a bone.Battle of Gods was also originally going to feature Krillin and 18's wedding, but when Toriyama was given the script for revision, he changed it to Bulma's birthday instead, because by his own admission, he hates writing anything romance-related and knows he sucks at it
>>731024863>Dogshit, Toriyama even admitted that he only paired them up because he wanted to throw Krillin a bone.Yamcha...
>>731015397>zero chemistryThanks for pointing out you never played the game, anon. BTW Chrono Cross was a failure and blows monkey dick.
It's the natural consequence of a silent protagonist with no personality.
>>731017601>MasamuneIT'S GRANDLEON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
