This is the 548th original article of the old boy game box, copywriter @Overlordcrab
Multiple endings, multiple branches, open worlds... These keywords are nothing new in today's game industry, but time and space go back to the era of RPG games 30 years ago, a game with a capacity of only 3MB can fit 14 endings, what kind of divine can leave such a legend? It is the first place in IGN's voting 100 best RPGs in history, "Chrono Wheel".
"Chrono Wheel" is so short and capable, but it has a very grand worldview that transcends time and space. The most surprising thing for players is that the game is not completely over after defeating the final boss, the game provides inheritance records for players to replay, inherited abilities and props allow players to beat the final boss beyond the progress, so as to achieve different branch endings, which made the little playmates in the year very crazy, I still remember that the old crab and friends in groups of three or five to pick up the lights and fight at night, constantly trying the various possibilities of the ending of "Chrono Wheel".
From the NDS ported version of the plot letter, it can be seen that "Chrono Wheel" coexists in the official record of 13 main branch endings, today @ Old Boy Game Box Let's talk about the ending of "Chrono Wheel" that I personally think is very interesting!
The other side of fate
This route is the most perfect ending, and it is the first time that many players have tried to achieve it, on the condition that Crono be resurrected, obtain the Wings of Time "Silbad" and find the Demon King to join. After accomplishing everything that could be done, the bell of the Millennium Festival rang in the morning, and a kingdom soldier came to tell Crono that his reprieve had been canceled!
When I came to the king room in the castle, I saw familiar faces from all time and space, and they all unanimously proved that Cruno was the hero who saved all time and space.
Just when everyone was strange, it turned out that Luca invited them from various times and spaces to come together, and then the fantastic millennium festival began, and even the demons happily participated in this festival that was celebrated all over the world. In the end, everyone said goodbye in tears in front of the Time Gate of the Festival Square, but the naughty kitten jumped into the time and space door again, and the mother who is a cat lover also rushed into the time and space door desperately... The three good friends look at the spaceship in the sky in different time and space, knowing that the time adventure will begin again!
The last two conditions involved in this ending, the Wings of Time and the Demon King, are not necessary in the progress of the game, so the ending will change slightly if they are not obtained. When Silbard is not obtained, there will be no kitten plot at the end of the game; The king wanted to raise a new bell through the balloon in the square, the mischievous Mar pulled the balloon to the sky, and Crono flew forward to grab the balloon, but did not want to be carried up by the wind, and a romantic balloon journey slowly traveled under the moonlight. If the Demon King does not join, he will see the frog continue to practice after returning to the Middle World in the finale, and will complete his uncontested revenge deed.
The century of dinosaur man
The most interesting ending is that after defeating the Demon King, defeat the final boss and clear the level before meeting the dinosaur king of Dilan City. The same classic morning wake up plot, just... Mom is actually a dinosaur man? Krono is also a dinosaur man, it seems that all humans have become dinosaur people?!
Even Princess Mar, who bumped into the Millennium Festival Square, became a dinosaur man, laughing! Because Azela was not killed in prehistory and there was no threat from Lavos, the dinosaurs conquered the land and became the ruling class. Interestingly, the race game in the Millennium Festival also has racers who play as humans, and it is conceivable that there are still humans in this world.
The one who inherited Gardia
A very funny and terrifying ending, on the condition that after rescuing the two princesses Rina and Mar in the Middle Ages, go to fight the final boss, and then the time is turned back to the modern era, and the people in the Millennium Festival Square cast strange eyes at Mar, and said some inexplicable words "The princess pretends to be us again".
When he returned to the castle to see the king, he actually said that Mar was "pretending to be a human again", what was going on? Seeing everyone's puzzled faces, the king invited everyone to see a set of wedding photos of the ancestors of the kingdom four hundred years ago.
As a result, what everyone saw was that the frog actually married Lina and became the ancestor of the Gardia royal family, so isn't Mar on the real timeline - the frog?! Mar broke down and shouted, "I don't want it! ”
Legendary brave
The condition is to kill the final boss before the little brave Tata gets the badge of the brave in the Middle Ages, so that the bell of the festival is also erected in the future robot city, and the robot's little fat girlfriend deliberately creates a "crash" accident, so the two fat little lovers will finally become dependents.
On the other side, the Middle Ages were not yet peaceful, and the little brave Tata went to the city of the demon king alone at the request of the king to fight the demon king. After many hardships to come to the Demon King's throne, how can the three figures standing here be so familiar? Isn't this our protagonist: Crono, Mar, and Luca! We actually became the demon king of the Middle Ages, where Crono laughed quite well, and Mar and Luca stood on their sides, like Madra and Weiss in "The King of Fighters' KOF".
Goodbye (Egg of Time)
The condition is that there is no time-space backtracking to save Crono, and the partners go to defeat the final boss on their own, which is a more sad ending, everyone said that although they could not accept the departure of their companions, there were still things that everyone had not solved in various eras, and with reluctance, everyone left from their respective time-space doors.
Only Mar and Luca return to modern times to find clues to save their friends, when the door of the space-time machine opens again, and the former companions chase the Sage of Time, and learn from the frog that the Egg of Time in the Sage's hand will be an important item to resurrect Crono, hoping that it will always be on the other side of time and space, and the final yellowed photo reveals that Mar can still meet Crono again.
An unknown past
The condition is that after obtaining Tata's Warrior Badge in the Middle Ages, the final boss is not defeated before the Key to Time is lost in the original era. People in later generations here enjoy peace every day, but in the primitive era, the battle between humans and dinosaurs is not over, you can see Ella single-handedly defeating a large number of dinosaurs, in the Middle Age Demon King gathered his demon generals, ready to use terror and magic to invade the human world again, will the brave Tata and the frog make the demon king get his wish?
Decisive battle! Demon King City
The condition is that after repairing Grandrian, defeat the final boss before defeating the Demon King. After the fierce battle, Luca is repairing the badly damaged robot, Crono is sleeping soundly, and Mar comes in to lose his temper to wake up Crono, but Luca says that he has experienced such a great battle, and he still won't let Crono rest?
At this time, the frog on the side thought a little, said that there was some personal matter to deal with and ran out, and then the frog returned to the Demon King City in the Middle World alone, defeated all the demon generals, faced the enemy Demon King, and a final showdown began... In the end, people said that standing on the top of the Demon King City seemed to be the figure of a frog majestic.
What the prophets are after is...
A rather gloomy ending. The condition is that after defeating the dinosaur king Azela, Sara opens the door of the seal and defeats the final boss. While everyone else is living happily ever after, the "prophet" of the Magic Age, the Demon Lord who has traveled back, decides to face Lavos alone. At this point his thought was "If history is going to change, let it change!" If the world is going to be destroyed, let him destroy it! If I'm doomed to disappear... That's not bad either! ”
The other endings are simple cutscenes, so I won't repeat them here. There is also a "Yume Development Team" ending in the remake, in which you can see the developers of the game, as well as the famous three phantom gods - Akira Toriyama, Hironobu Sakaguchi, and Yuji Yuji. There is also an interesting anecdote: it was Masato Kato, who was a newcomer at the time, who proposed at a meeting that "you can make the protagonist die permanently in the middle of the term", which caused laughter, but Yuji Sinki agreed with the idea: Why can't the protagonist be written to death? As a result, the sad Crono became the pioneer of the true death of the protagonist in the history of the game...
Author of this article: Overlord crab
Editor: Xiao Lei