Chrono Trigger/The Fated Hour: Difference between revisions

You'll need to leave it in direct sunlight for 65.0023 million years (Robo's estimated fraction is a bit off), so head to the sun keep in 65 Million B.C. You'll soon notice that one exists in each era at the northeast portion of the map, and it's a mysterious spot where the sun never sets. Head back to the future and it will be missing, and Magus will intuitively guess it's been missing for 1300 years. Head back to 600 A.D. while you're at it to find a Power Tab in the sun keep, and go back to the present. Head over to Poore at the southwest corner of the map, to find that the mayor's house is suspiciously glowing and he denies knowing anything about the moonstone. What'll you need to do is play with space and time to deal with his greed.

Pay the workers once more, and they'll repair the last section of the ruins so you can reach the rest of the items, although you'll have to fight off a few more monsters. What you want to do here, as explained in the [[Chrono Trigger/Sealed chests|Sealed Chests]] section, is to go to the ruins in 600 A.D. and select each sealed chest but decline to open it so the items will power up. Then you can go to the present to receive the powered up item, and you can also head back to the past to get the low-power item. In addition, you can get all the regular chests twice by opening them first in the present, then in the past. The Nova Armor will power up to become the Moon Armor, which raises magic defense by 10. The Siren will power up to become the Valkyrie, a more powerful weapon for Marle, and the Kali Blade will power up to become the Shiva Edge, a weapon for Crono which does 4x damage on critical attacks. Make sure you get the sealed and unsealed chests twice, and pick up a magic tab by Cyrus's grave in the present.

You'll take on Slash and Flea for starters, you should be able to finish them off with your regular attacks at this stage of the game. Just keep moving forward, and in the room with the treasure chest just run past it to have a goon spring the trap. Also, check out the bottom right corner of the room to find Magus's best equipment and a magic tab. In the next room, prepare for what's actually a tricky boss fight with Ozzie, Slash, and Flea ganging up on you. They'll do some nasty triple techs, but if you use your best magic spells which you should have at this point, they'll start to fall pretty fast. The best thing you can do in this battle is have Ayla charm the OzziePants away from Ozzie, the Slasher 2 away from Slash, and the Flea Vest away from Flea for some very useful equipment, the OzziePants is practically the best helmet in the game (yes, you wear his pants on your head), the Slasher 2 is an excellent sword for Crono, and the Flea vest raises your magic defense by 12. I personally keep healing until Ayla's stolen all the equipment I want, then just unload the best magic spells I have. Your spells should do a lot of damage but keep someone healing and reviving if need be if you want to outlast the trio AND grab the equipment you want. Grab the contents of the chests for a dash ring and sight cap after you beat them.

The boss is named Retinite, and it takes after Zombor from earlier in the game. It begins by absorbing energy from its core periodically, try to finish that off yourself first. It's undamaged by magic, but water/ice magic will lower its defenses significantly and is essential to beating it. It raises its power when attacked, so try to start out with a water attack on all its parts and follow up with your best physical attacks. Having Frog or Robo constantly heal the party, having one person constantly cast ice/water spells, and having Ayla or someone else use the best single/double techs you know that do physical damage is the best strategy I found. Make sure to pick up all the chests before you leave and grab a power tab in the left side of the first room after you beat the boss.

Go to the blinking blue dot in the new room you enter to go into a dust chute and escape from this place. Clear the room out of monsters, go in the door to the northeast, and watch a robot open a door near where you entered by charging himself up and stepping into an alcove to open it. Head in that room for a quick fight and some more chests. Use the computer to get more info about the robots, dolls, conveyer belt, and sealed doors. What you'll want to do is charge up with energy from the room by the computer and step into an alcove to open its door. At the northwest, turn the center switch on and the others off to open the alcove and go in it with a charge to reach the doll, picking up a speed tab where it used to sit as well. That's the easy part.

Head into the elevator in the southeast corner, fight a few groups of guards, and go through a door to the southwest to witness a bunch of people being processed by the plant. Go back a ways and have Robo run at the switch he can't reach and he'll leap at it to let you get a megalixer and a magic tab. Go back further and head through the ordinary door just near the elevator, picking up a power tab at the beginning of the long hallway, and fight another group of monsters to find another elevator going back to the previous area. Flip the switch to the bottom left to remove a laser so you can reach the conveyer belt, and go up and to the left to reverse the direction of the conveyer belt. There's also a magic tab in the secret passage you walk through to get to the switch, so pick it up as well.

Anyway, this particular quest begins on the island with the northern ruins to the southeast. Talk to Toma in the bar to pick up his pop, which he asks you to pour on his grave if he doesn't find the Rainbow Shell. Head forward 400 years, and he'll point you to where he found that the shell was located, at the Giant's Claw to the northwest. Check behind the grave for a speed tab as well. Head back to the middle ages to find the Giant's Claw, you'll learn that Toma is already exploring it.

Head inside and read Toma's first diary, and you'll walk through Azala's throne room. I'd recommend bringing Crono or Magus along for this part so you have access to Lightning magic. You can grab a time hat down the left path, but don't follow it all the way since it's just a dead end you use to return to this area. Head down the right path and it should look familiar. The center switch activates a save point, the left one opens up the floor, and the right one summons some monsters. You'll need to fall in the pit, so you'll fight the monsters for sure if you hit the right switch. Fall in the pit in any case and step on the right switch to summon some monsters, and the left one to open the skull to find a power tab. Head south and out.

Head down the ladder and to the right for another power tab, and a full ether to the left. Head up and around the room for a few more fights, you may want a healer on full time duty. Check out the northeast area by the door for a blue rock which activates still another triple-tech. Head north in the next area to exit the Giant's Claw, and head down the ladder and to the left to find a Zodiac Cape, of final fantasy fame. Head out through the cave to the southwest. You can sneak up behind the enemies here to scare them away or fight them. Head through the left skull, to find a familiar area with a couple switches you can step on to get rid of the monsters. Head through the left exit to find a Frenzy Band, which offers an 80% counterattack rate, eclipsing the feeble 50% of the Rage Band. A must have from now on.  

Head back and through the right passage to fight some rubbles for easy tech and experience points, to help everyone finish learning all their single techs. Head into another area and open the right egg to fall into the jail cell. Head through the left exit to open up the skull and grab a power tab you probably saw earlier. Save and heal up if you need it, because you are about to rumble with... the Rust Tyrano.  

After you destroy the lasers on the outside and have Zeal inform you how long the planet has left to live, head inside for a boss fight with a mega mutant. It doesn't seem to have any particular resistances or weaknesses, so just hit it with everything you have, and make sure you put the best equipment on your party before heading in. Be careful with the goons since they absorb magic, and in general just use your best multi-enemy techs, you should have learned about all of them by now. Be aware that there are a lot of useful [[Chrono Trigger/Equipment list|equipment]] and [[Chrono Trigger/Tabs|tabs]] which can be charmed from the enemies here, such as speed tabs from the panels, gold stubs from the flyclops, etc. Eventually you'll come to an elevator where you may have a few random fights while you're riding it.

Grab a power seal in the next room, and fight a Tubster with a couple flyclops and a few more monsters, grabbing a speed tab in a chest in the bottom right corner at the end. There will also be another speed tab in the next room, and then a transport. You'll fight a few sets of aliens with some nasty instant death counters, and pick up a speed tab and a megalixer at the end of the room. You'll come to a save point, heal up and prepare to fight another Giga Mutant, whose worst danger seems to be continuously draining your MP.  

Head through another transport and up another elevator, preparing for fights along the way. Fight through another room of generic enemies, and you'll come to a room with four panels you'll have to fight to reveal a save point. A speed tab will also be waiting in the chest nearby. I'd save and heal again, because you're about to face the next version of the "mutant" monster, the Terra Mutant. This one has a top which absorbs energy from the bottom half, and the bottom half is immune to magic and lifeshavers you if you try a physical attack. Just concentrate your techniques on the top and the bottom will fall eventually. Pick up a white rock and a megalixer, to enable a triple tech, poyozo dance, between the three girls. Hopefully by now you have each of the five rocks.

You can save and use a shelter again if you really want, but I doubt it'll be neccessary. Go forward through another room and prepare to face a particularly nasty Lavos Spawn. As before, avoid all multiple target techs and anything that might attack the shell, and use your best single techs on the head instead. Eventually it'll crumble and the shell with it. Head into the next room for another set of panels, keep in mind you can charm these guys for tabs. A save point will appear, and I'd definitely recommend healing up and saving because you're about to DEAL... with ZEAL. This is also a good tab to use those tabs if you haven't already, they each raise a particular stat by one. Keep in mind that speed never goes up as you gain levels and it maxes out at 15 anyway, Lucca and Magus will max out magic on their own eventually, and everyone but Lucca and Marle will max out power, although it doesn't affect their weapon hits anyway.