Low level, high badassitude, total gaming awesomeness

So as you may have guessed from my recent posts, I've been playing the game Chrono Trigger as of late. I had heard of it in bits and pieces over the years, and when I read a Let's Play of the original SNES version (found here, and a great funny read) I decided I had to play it. I knew there was a DS remake, but hadn't gotten it the chance I get, so finding a brand-new copy was a rather lucky event for me.

And then I got Magus.

Here's the thing, for those of you who haven't played the game. Long story short, at first it seems like Magus, a powerful magician, is the villain of the story, having cursed one of your party members with the form of a frog and apparently trying to summon the planet-destroying monster Lavos. But as it turns out, he was time-shifted from his home era as a kid to OVER NINE THOUSAND years in the future where he was raised by fiends, but not before witnessing his mother's corruption and sister's death at the hands of Lavos. So his entire motivation was getting revenge on the giant spiky bugger.

So once you get most of this figured out due to the plot progressing at a very well-written pace, you can either fight and kill Magus or do what anybody with any respect for coolness would do and have him join your team. He has powerful magic and wields scythes.

Let me provide a quote for y'all:
"If history is to change, let it change! If the world is to be destroyed, so be it! If my fate is to be destroyed... I must simply laugh!! I'm coming, Lavos!"
...yeah.

The only problem is that he's a bit low-level when you get him, and while I find his stats to be otherwise good his hit points are kinda low. Presumably that'll fix itself in time, but for now... kind of a glass cannon.

Because of this game I have another valid reason to use the "time travel" tag, and that's pretty cool.

I have to admit that as cool as Magus is, though, Robo is probably my favorite character. I always get excited when I find a new weapon for him, and he has healing lasers. HEALING. LASERS. Plus most of his sprites look really cool. And his theme sounds like "Never Gonna Give You Up." No, seriously, it does, go look it up on YouTube.

No wonder this game is popular.