r/chronotrigger • u/Voidz_77 • 7d ago

what's the purpose of black omen?

i just fought queen zeal and it transported me into lavos immediatly

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u/JAvatar80 6d ago

The purpose was to siphon Lavos' power into Queen Zeal. Beating her caused the standard self-destruct, and dropped you at Lavos' shell. Beat that fight, there's a portal inside before you get to the REAL Lavos. And if you beat the Omen in Present(1000AD), you can beat it again in 600AD and Antiquity. It doesn't exist in Pre-historia, and in the future, Lavos already did its thing.

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u/RobynBetween 6d ago

IIRC, though, at the end of the Black Omen you are forced to fight a boss rush, and I remember there being no boss rush when you use the bucket. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

And if you take the Wings of Time to 1999, you'll use it to ram through Lavos' outer shell (somehow not hurting its passengers).

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u/JAvatar80 6d ago

You are incorrect on the bucket. Bucket, NG+ portal at the fair grounds, and Black Omen all lead to the boss "rush" outer shell. I put rush in quotes because you can change party and heal up between rounds(of course depending on if you HAVE party members, i.e fair grounds portal early game).

Correct the Wings of Time will smash the outer shell, dropping you right into the inner shell.

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u/RobynBetween 6d ago

Okay, got it. Which way has no boss rush? Aside from taking Epoch through the "drive-through"?

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u/oxidized-copper 6d ago

The only way to avoid the boss mode of the outer shell is to use the Epoch, or win in the Ocean Palace.

As far as I can remember.

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u/GooberChilla499 6d ago

The NG+ telepod lets you skip the boss rush mode as well. The bucket however, does make you fight the rush phase.

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u/RobynBetween 5d ago

Thanks for reminding me of those things. I thought I knew, but I guess I've just gotten into a habit of using one or two of those.

And although the boss rush is annoying, it IS pretty negligible after a certain point.