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Radical Dreamers is a
video
game produced by
Squaresoft. The game was released in
Japan in
1996 through
the
Satellaview add-on for the
Nintendo
Super Famicom.
Radical Dreamers is a
role-playing game in which the player takes the role of Serge, a young
adventurer, who is accompanied by Kid, a teen-aged
thief, and
Magil, a mysterious masked
magician. The story involves the trio's attempt to steal the legendary
Frozen Flame from the mansion of Lynx (Yamaneko in Japanese).
Gameplay consists of text-based scenarios presented to the player
through the narration of Serge. The player must then choose from a list of
possible actions. Depending on the selections made, the player may enter a
new area, be presented with a new situation, or may have to choose again if
the previous choice was incorrect. Combat is text-based as well, allowing
the player to select from options such as "Fight", "Magic", "Run", etc.
Radical Dreamers is a
gaiden, or side story, to the
1995 game
Chrono Trigger. Elements of the game were also adapted and
integrated into the 1999
PlayStation game
Chrono Cross. The game ties up various loose ends from Chrono
Trigger, and it introduces several new characters, objects, and
locations that would later feature in Chrono Cross. Two of the main
characters, Serge and Kid, return in Chrono Cross, for example.
Some fans assert that Magil also returns in that game as Guile, but this
point is contested.
As in other Chrono games, only one scenario is available on the
first play-through. After finishing this (and obtaining one of three
possible endings), six further scenarios (each with its own unique ending)
are made available through the game's "New Game+" mode. It is largely
through these later scenarios that the various plot threads from Chrono
Trigger and Chrono Cross are presented.
The music of Radical Dreamers was written by
composer
Yasunori Mitsuda, the same artist who scored the other Chrono
games. In fact, a handful of themes from the game were directly adapted for
Chrono Cross, such as the battle theme.
In April
of 2003, a
ROM
hacker
called NeoDemiforce released a patch that translates the game from Japanese
to English. The patch works with the ROM image of the game used for playing
console-based video games on personal computers through video game
emulation.
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