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Author: KingZeal

Oct 16th 2013 at 1:51:08 PM

* The ''Chrono'' series of videogames has this theme:
* ''Videogame/ChronoTrigger'' takes a very light-hearted, and extremely optimistic, view of fate and one's ability to ScrewDestiny.  The moment that our protagonists find out about their world's BadFuture, they vow to change it without a second thought.  The game [[TimeyWimeyBall zig-zags on exactly what the rules]] of TimeTravel are, though, with some parts of it leaning toward SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and the entire plot hinging on what's ultimately a StableTimeLoop.  In the end, though, [[spoiler:the future was changed, and everything turned out for the best.]]
** Until ''Videogame/ChronoCross'' was released.  [[spoiler:It takes a far darker, bleaker, and more serious approach to TimeTravel, at one point even bringing up the possibility that [[ShaggyDogStory everything the original protagonists did]] [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight made things ''worse''.]]]]  Replacing the TimeTravel mechanics from the first game, you instead travel between AlternateTimelines, and the plot makes it explicitly clear that [[spoiler:changing time only replaces one timeline with a new one and implies that our heroes from ''Trigger'' inadvertently destroyed billions of living beings in the past, present and future every time they changed time.  Further, [[TheHeavy the plot-centered villain]] is a supercomputer called "FATE" which is determined to master TimeTravel so that it can [[KnightTemplar shape a future which protects mankind]] from TheEvilsOfFreeWill.  What happens in the ending is [[GainaxEnding highly debated ]], as it involves stuff like merging all potential timelines into one, setting a ResetButton on the events of that game, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything defeating FATE and allowing humanity to pursue a free--if uncertain--future]], stopping an EldritchAbomination from ever coming into existence, and the {{Deuteragonist}} finding herself in the "real" world but telling TheHero that they will be MarriedInTheFuture someday.  So who knows how much of the future is written and how it isn't.]]