Chrono Trigger

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USA SNES cover.

Chrono Trigger is a role-playing game developed and published by Square for the SNES on 1995-03-11 making it the first game in the Chrono series. In the game, the player controls a party of adventurers who, after an incident involving time travel, discover that the world is destined to be destroyed, and attempt to stop it. The game uses an interesting combat mechanic which merges the action aspects of Secret of Mana and the turn-based strategy of Final Fantasy VI.

I saw Chrono Trigger at a friend's house shortly after it was released, and, for several years later, a various friends had the game, and I watched them play it. It looked very interesting, but, since it is a one-player RPG, I never played it myself at the time. I bought a boxed version in the early 2000s for a decent price, and made an attempt to play it, but didn't get too far. Then, in 2011, I actually sat down and played the entire game through beating it across multiple endings, and thoroughly loved it.

Status

I own a boxed SNES game and have beaten the first play-through three different ways.

Review

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Best Version: 100%

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Good

  • The game has been put together in a very solid manner. It looks great, sounds great, and plays great.
  • The graphics are amazing. The developers not only took advantage of the SNES's hardware, but the artists did a phenomenal job on the pixel art. Scenes like the bridge are particularly beautiful.
  • The story, although a bit juvenile at times, remains interesting through the whole game. Each of the characters has their own story arcs and quests, and I especially love Lucca's scene with her mother.
  • The combat system is not only unique, but very well-made.
  • The music is utterly amazing. Yasunori Mitsuda created some of my favorite video game tunes ever and Nobuo Uematsu's added tracks help flesh out the soundtrack.
  • I love how you can combine your party's tec to make more powerful double or even triple character attacks.
  • Giving the player the ability to kill or save Magus adds a nice role-playing choice.
  • The new game + is a really nice addition which gives a lot of replay value to the game.
  • The many hidden tabs are also a nice way to reward players for being especially thorough.

Bad

  • The rubber band aspect of the race with Johnny is really annoying and kind of ruins it.

Ugly

  • Nothing.

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