MobyRank MobyScore
Nintendo DS
92
3.2
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" -- Working title
  • "クロノ・トリガー" -- Japanese spelling

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User Reviews

Time! There's so little and so much of it... SNES Unicorn Lynx Bronze Star Contributing Member (72586)
Derivative! Simplistic! Two traits that help make this a supreme classic for all time. SNES J. P. Gray (111)
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 (671)
Do you like the hair? SNES Iris-chan (67)
14 years later and it's still the best game ever Nintendo DS Bregalad (671)
One of the few good japanese style RPG's PlayStation Mattias Kreku (404)
Gotta Go Back In Time.... SNES MasterMegid (877)
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 Press Says

GamePro SNES Sep, 1995 5 out of 5 100
All Game Guide SNES 1998 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars 100
GamesAreFun.com (GAF) SNES Jul 26, 2005 10 out of 10 100
1UP Nintendo DS Nov 24, 2008 A 100
Game Freaks 365 SNES 2000 10 out of 10 100
Jeuxvideo.com Nintendo DS Feb 06, 2009 19 out of 20 95
All Game Guide Nintendo DS 2008 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars 90
GameSpy Nintendo DS Dec 08, 2008 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars 90
GameZone Nintendo DS Dec 12, 2008 8.8 out of 10 88
Game Captain Nintendo DS Feb 08, 2009 87 out of 100 87

Forums

Topic # Posts Last Post
Trivia disagreement 2 Unicorn Lynx Bronze Star Contributing Member (72586)
Sep 24, 2009
The origin of the Rick (rocket?) Roll 8 Scram the New Age Hippy (1244)
Jun 02, 2008

Trivia

As further evidence that Ozzie, Slash and Flea are probably references to popular music artists, a woman you speak to in the game refers to them as "Tone-deaf, evil fiends!"


This entry was contributed by Satoshi Kunsai (1844) and Bregalad (671)
 

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