What-in movies, games, books, pop culture, whatever-is an example of a time travel plot that really gets it right? And what's a time travel plot that is just garbage? Gabe Durham: In what could be the most controversial part of the book, you DARE to criticize the game's time travel mechanics. Now that his book is written, edited, and published, I thought I’d interview Michael again-this time not for his job, but just for the fun of picking his brain one more time. Ah well! This'll have to do, in the expanded gaiden of my book.” I need to go look up gaiden, but already I’m into the idea. I could have written a whole chapter about them. When I emailed him, “That’s a better answer than I deserved,” he replied, “It's an answer I'd thought about too! I didn't get to do nearly enough NPC analysis but there was just no room. Michael’s writing is energized by a deep curiosity, a willingness to delve into his subject, to take Chrono Trigger as seriously as possible, and have a blast while doing it.Ĭase in point: In this interview, I asked him a dumb question about Spekkio, one of Chrono Trigger’s minor NPCs, and found, to my delight, that he had plenty of thoughtful Spekkio commentary ready to go. My question, “Could this guy I’ve never met write a whole book about Chrono Trigger?” was more than answered. What sealed it was a three-hour phone “interview” about Chrono Trigger, Dragonball Z, Secret of Mana, Japanese culture, and I think maybe the Star Wars prequels.

Boss Fight’s Kickstarter backers selected Chrono Trigger as the game they most wanted to read a book about, and when I put out a call to writers for Chrono pitches, it was Michael’s that blew me away. Since I started Boss Fight Books last summer, one of the biggest pleasures of running/editing “the 33 ⅓ of video games” was discovering Michael P.

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