Though, I think it's quite ludicrous to suggest that writing has overall gotten worse tbqh. Chrono Trigger is a great game, but it barely had a plot and if you think it had particularly affecting scenes it's probably because you played it when you were younger/new to the genre.
Those few plotlines it held were genuinely better-written (mainly after a rather mediocre opening sprawl) than most of the things I've seen from the bigger companies in the past several years. And I doubt it has anything to do with age. I didn't play the game until I was 17 -- seven years later than I got into the genre. By then I'd already identified things about the then-newer games that I didn't care for so much and CT, simplistic though it were, held true to many of the standards I sought.
There's nothing ludicrous about it. Not from where I'm standing. Sorry, but generic as it may be to say, I'll take Cloud's melodramatic "my fingers are tingling, my eyes are burning" over XIII's "moms are tough! ^_^" Until I find more games that can match the overall storytelling of that era I'll hold to that.
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