Well, Chrono Trigger has just hit the DS and every major retailer is trying to shove it down your portable's cartridge slot, in exchange for your hard-earned cash. GameStop seems to have them all beat, if only thanks to its excellent description blurb, which makes Chrono Trigger sound even more awesome, and goes something like this.
"Join Crono in this updated old-school favorite as he travels through time and space" -- it states, and it's all pretty good and accurate so far. Then it throws this at you, leaving you in a mind-numbing state of confusion and wondering what has just happened: "in order to go back to 1982 and throw a football over some mountains to win the state championship."
Yes, that sounds much like the dream of one uncle Rico, as seen in the independent film of 2004, Napoleon Dynamite -- watch it, if you haven't. Of course, it didn't work out quite this way for him, since the time machine he purchased from ebay didn't function exactly as advertised. Now, I doubt Square added this as a side story to Chrono Trigger's DS outing, but it certainly could provide them a great idea for a sequel. Thank you, GameStop, even though I'm sure that someone out there will be very disappointed, when he finishes the game without actually winning the state championship.
Anyway, you can view this for yourself at GameStop's DS section. Perhaps the author should start writing for GameCyte.
December 4th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Funny, I saw this exact same story on Kotaku yesterday, with an almost identical headline.
December 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
What, Beeboo? It's not like any of the stories (Kotaku wasn't the first to notice, you know) can really do much with a headline OTHER than say it sounds like Napoleon -- which it does. (And even then they're differently written). As for being the "exact same story," if you mean that they're stories about the same subject, then you're right. Otherwise they're written in completely different ways, and Alexander's goes into more detail than Kotaku's two or three sentence "The guy who wrote this must be bored. We don't remember the game that way." write-up.
December 4th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I first saw this at neogaf forums if that's any consolation. Do you honestly go around gaming websites telling them when they've not been the first to write about a given story? If so, you must be doing that a lot on Kotaku also.
December 4th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Alex is right, that's how news spreads. Lern2reserch and please, stop being so ignorant/offensive.