92
MobyRank
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
3.2
MobyScore
5 point score based on user ratings.

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

14 years later and it's still the best game ever Bregalad (671) 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars
Good ol' Chrono Trigger - with a little more Vitaliy Shalak (7) 4.8 Stars4.8 Stars4.8 Stars4.8 Stars4.8 Stars

The Press Says

Gaming Age Dec 29, 2008 A 100
Gaming Nexus Jan 14, 2009 A 100
Game Vortex Dec, 2008 98 out of 100 98
Official Nintendo Magazine Feb 04, 2009 93 out of 100 93
GamingTrend Jan, 2009 552 out of 600 92
Hooked Gamers Dec 18, 2008 9 out of 10 90
Kombo.com Dec 16, 2008 9 out of 10 90
IGN Nov 20, 2008 8.8 out of 10 88
GameZone Dec 12, 2008 8.8 out of 10 88
The Video Game Critic Mar 12, 2009 B 75

Forums

Topic # Posts Last Post
Trivia disagreement 2 Unicorn Lynx Bronze Star Contributing Member (72406)
Sep 24, 2009
The origin of the Rick (rocket?) Roll 8 Scram the New Age Hippy (1244)
Jun 02, 2008

Trivia

If you talk to Doreen (the big-headed creature) in Ehansa (Kingdom of Zeal, 12000 AD) several times, he'll tell you: "Am I a butterfly who is just dreaming it is human, or a human who is just dreaming he is a butterfly?" This is a quote from a famous book written by the great Chinese Daoist philosopher Zhuang Zi (also known as Chuang Tse).


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

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