grr!

[jinian]

Would someone like to tell me just what it is that I am not doing, but which everyone else in the entire bloody world who has played Chrono Cross apparently found completely intuitive and had no trouble with?! I've done precisely what it says in the manual to get back to the first world (small spoiler but I don't care) and it does not WORK. It is so completely annoying that I can hardly believe it.

Comments

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Are you using the amulet from Kid? If you use that in the correct spot on the beach, you go from one world to the other.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Thanks, yes, that was the thing which I figured out by myself and then had confirmed by the million FAQs. *sigh* But because the instruction manual is not arranged logically and I'd forgotten precisely how to use key items, I had to get really annoyed and have a tantrum before figuring out how to make it work. Yay for a wasted hour.

I feel a bit dumb, but I also think it's bad UI design to have one place in the menu where you can look at your items but not use them and one where you can use them but not look at them. It seems like the design teams try too hard to give each game a different look and feel at the expense of intuitive interaction with them. Usually the result is not too bad, but every once in a while there is a trait that just completely sucks.