MobyRank MobyScore
Nintendo DS
92
3.0
PlayStation
...
3.5
SNES
94
4.1

Description

What begins as a carefree day at the Millennial Fair for a young man named Chrono turns into his ultimate adventure. When Chrono meets a young girl named Marle, little does he realize that this young girl, his best friend Lucca's invention, and a mysterious pendant will thrust him into the ultimate trip through time and space, encountering new friends, defeating the forces of evil, and encountering the one who would destroy the flow of time.

Chrono Trigger utilizes the ATB (active time battle) combat system from Final Fantasy games, adding to it combo attacks, which you gradually learn by putting different characters in your party and letting them fight together for some time. There are no random battles in the game, as all the enemies are visible on screen. The game allows you to face your ultimate adversary at different points of time, which leads to several different endings. There is also a New Game+ option, which allows you to carry over your powerful characters to a new game, and adds even more endings to the already existing ones.

Alternate Titles

  • "The Dream Project" -- Workinh title
  • "クロノ・トリガー" -- Japanese title

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User Reviews

Time! There's so little and so much of it... SNES Unicorn B. Lynx Bronze Star Contributing Member (60141)
Quirky Anime-style Time Travel SNES Little Yoda (177)
Gotta Go Back In Time.... SNES MasterMegid (858)
A really upbeat title. It's my favourite game, and that for many reasons. SNES Bregalad (661)
Do you like the hair? SNES Iris-chan (67)
14 years later and it's still the best game ever Nintendo DS Bregalad (661)
One of the few good japanese style RPG's PlayStation Mattias Kreku (407)
A very shallow RPG. Too easy, too kiddy, too dull. SNES kbmb Bronze Star Contributing Member (399)
The best RPG of all-time? Quite possibly. SNES lechuck13 (313)
The best SNES RPG, hands-down. SNES Rufus Shinra (20)

The Press Says

Playback SNES Jan, 2006 10 out of 10 100
Eurogamer.net (UK) Nintendo DS Nov 28, 2008 10 out of 10 100
Game Players SNES Sep, 1995 95 out of 100 95
GamingTrend Nintendo DS Jan, 2009 552 out of 600 92
GameFocus Nintendo DS Dec 10, 2008 9.1 out of 10 91
HonestGamers Nintendo DS Dec 15, 2008 9 out of 10 90
gameZine (UK) Nintendo DS Feb 16, 2009 9 out of 10 90
RPGamer Nintendo DS Mar 08, 2009 4.5 out of 5 90
Gamers.at Nintendo DS Feb 13, 2009 89 out of 100 89
GameCola.net SNES Oct, 2002 8.8 out of 10 88

Forums

Topic # Posts Last Post
Trivia disagreement 2 Unicorn B. Lynx Bronze Star Contributing Member (60141)
Sep 24, 2009
The origin of the Rick (rocket?) Roll 8 Rabbi Guru (1238)
Jun 02, 2008

Trivia

Although the game was officially developed (and published) by Squaresoft, the development was in fact done by people from two companies: Squaresoft and Enix. If you check the credits, you'll see names like Akira Toriyama, the character designer of Dragon Warrior series, or Yuji Horii, Enix' producer.


This entry was contributed by Satoshi Kunsai (1852) and Bregalad (661)
 

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