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MenuWars posted...

Seeing as we're jumping the shark and going in random directions with the Crono stuff, is Ken from the Fist of the Northstar available in Mercs? He's been in a game now.

i just point out the Crono stuff since i know lopen doesn't respect the guy much, though by all means he should be far, far superior to Yu. experience, what they face, who they face, what they win against, the techs, etc all favor Crono a lot more. ....but Ken kinda has an issue where... everything he's known for is broken. it's a fairly binary "does he make their heart explode or not" kind of choice.

Lopen posted...

Chrono Trigger is really gratuitous with after images. It's hard to take them very seriously as an indicator of speed especially considering how slow some of the techs with em look.

well the first part's easy: they're just a lot faster than you seem to think they are.

the second part: people have no problem respecting Omnislash or Lionheart so why should there be a problem respecting CT techs? sure, some of them a bit wonky but so is Supernova. it's not unusual for a game to have some things look reasonable and others look absurd in ways that can't happen, even on the same character (Squall). far as i remember, all of the CT single techs are completely sensible moves with nothing that's too much of an exaggeration save for maybe Black Hole, which can just be explained as being not a real black hole. the general assumption for limit breaks in FF7/8, including by you, is that even though the moves may seem slow the attacks are actually just super fast, happening in a very brief period of time.
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