Meet the Most Obscure Monster in Chrono Trigger

It’s amazing what sticks in your brain so many years later. I say that as a guy who has made a whole website about the stuff that sticks in my brain, but today, I finally had the occasion to look something up that I remember seeing years ago and had just never investigated.I speak of the most obscure monster in Chrono Trigger: Yodu De. I think it’s entirely possible to make it through the game without ever seeing this monster’s name on screen, to say nothing of seeing it at all, and unless I’m mistaken, it’s not named at all in the Nintendo DS re-release. Yodu De appears in the prison towers that Crono escapes from after he’s wrongly convicted of kidnapping, but confusingly, it’s more or less an alternate form of a more common enemy — Blue Shield in the original localization, and Sentry in every subsequent one. Certain stances of this enemy will show that there’s actually a black, shadowy creature hiding behind the shield. If you put the battle menu cursor on this enemy while this…

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