Chrono Trigger

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

Part of the Following Groups

• Chrono series
• Games with frogs
• Steampunk games
• Time Manipulation games

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User Reviews

Derivative! Simplistic! Two traits that help make this a supreme classic for all time.	SNES	J. P. Gray (84)
Time! There's so little and so much of it...	SNES	Unicorn B. Lynx (64097)
Quirky Anime-style Time Travel	SNES	Little Yoda (177)
A really upbeat title. It's my favourite game, and that for many reasons.	SNES	Bregalad (666)
Do you like the hair?	SNES	Iris-chan (67)
14 years later and it's still the best game ever	Nintendo DS	Bregalad (666)
One of the few good japanese style RPG's	PlayStation	Mattias Kreku (407)
Gotta Go Back In Time....	SNES	MasterMegid (865)
A very shallow RPG. Too easy, too kiddy, too dull.	SNES	kbmb (399)
The best RPG of all-time? Quite possibly.	SNES	lechuck13 (313)

The Press Says

Gaming Nexus	Nintendo DS	Jan 14, 2009	A	100
Games Radar	Nintendo DS	Nov 24, 2008	10 out of 10	100
Game Vortex	Nintendo DS	Dec, 2008	98 out of 100	98
RPGFan	SNES	2004	97 out of 100	97
Jeuxvideo.com	Nintendo DS	Feb 06, 2009	19 out of 20	95
All Game Guide	Nintendo DS	2008		90
RPGamer	Nintendo DS	Mar 08, 2009	4.5 out of 5	90
GameSpy	Nintendo DS	Dec 08, 2008		90
gameZine (UK)	Nintendo DS	Feb 16, 2009	9 out of 10	90
The Video Game Critic	Nintendo DS	Mar 12, 2009	B	75

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Trivia disagreement	2	Unicorn B. Lynx (64097) Sep 24, 2009
The origin of the Rick (rocket?) Roll	8	Rabbi Guru (1238) Jun 02, 2008

Trivia

An unofficial remake/sequel to the game, called Chrono Resurrection, was planned and being developed by Nathan Lazur and his team. The game, which was to use the Nintendo 64 console and technology, had progressed to include a trailer, but on September 6th, 2004, the team had to cancel the project, due to a cease-and-desist letter they received from Square Enix, Inc.

You can still visit the project's website, which includes the trailer, screenshots and interviews with the team, here.