But, of course, there’s actual Scripture that (might possibly) fix this and bring them all together. So the sum total of these vague connections amount to little more than what most Japanese games do with various religious and historical information: they do whatever they want with symbols and ideas that don’t mean a whole lot to them. The trial’s fixed, sure, but other media fixate on the idea of fixed trials for innocent men, and it’s not as if Chrono Trigger never borrows from a huge well of well-known action-adventure tropes.
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When two of your events happen out of order (specifically, the Last Supper and the betrayal happen in 65,000,000 BC long after the Trial itself in game chronology…or at least to the player character), then that’s just reaching. Or other things…Īnd, I wager, that’s the exact reason why the Trial example doesn’t quite work. Maybe it slouches toward a “virgin birth” narrative, but only outside speculation could back that up rather than information within the game itself. have just one parent? A lot, is the simple answer to that question, although the fact that Crono’s father is never mentioned does lend some credence.
Again, how many protagonists in JRPGs are either 1. In a similar way, Crono not having a father also doesn’t necessarily connect our spiky-headed friend to Jesus Christ. So can the protagonists in most JRPGs (I’m thinking Cecil, off the top of my head), and so can other party members (Marle comes to mind off the top of my head). I find this a tertiary comparison at best. The big outlier, or so our discussion says, is the ability to use Life, which resurrects one party member. he exudes a control over lightning and, more relevant, light. If the developer intended for this Jesus interpretation, then it sure isn’t clear.Īn analysis of Crono’s ability set shows that 1. I can think of a million other examples, I’m sure, but you get the picture.
The developers can’t waste their time devoting precious sprite art to food products (much cooler battle animations are better), so they use your brain’s ability to recognize the symbol for food as a way to make it realistic without all that extra work. Thus, Crono doesn’t carry a whole pack worth of food, merely a bag. Although this idea seems pretty awesome on first glance, it’s rather obvious that graphical limitations of the time made it difficult to represent everything in a 1:1 nature to reality.
A tiny bag of Jerky somehow feeds a whole army. The Game Theorist further compares the Feeding of the Five Thousand to Crono feeding the soldiers at the bridge Jerky. So how else can we connect Jesus to Crono? Not in many solid ways, unfortunately. If anything, we could say Jesus helped Joan of Arc, because how does a provincial French woman learn military tactics like that, but obviously this doesn’t fit into our narrative here. Or, at least, that’s the common viewpoint (another time, another essay for that one). When Urban II absolves you of anything you do, boy you better believe it. In fact, not much of anything religious happened, moreso that the fighting took precedence over genuine expressions of faith. On that note, does Jesus travel through time and space to help the Crusaders in the Crusades? Any of the Crusades? Well, no, not really. On this point, then, it’s a figurative resurrection rather than (as in the Bible) a literal one. In combination with the time egg, they don’t so much “resurrect” Crono as “yank Crono out of the exact moment where Lavos causes him to disintegrate out of existence”.
Crono’s resurrection, furthermore, does not come from his own power but by the rest of the party members. Ok, so Jesus dies and is resurrected, and so does Crono such things happen in a number of games, let’s be honest. The Christ-Crono connection that is so often stated seems generically JRPG, but I can see why people would make the connection for Chrono Trigger.
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