95
MobyRank
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
4.2
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" -- Development 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... JazzOleg Bronze Star Contributing Member (53181) 4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars
Quirky Anime-style Time Travel Little Yoda (111) 4.2 Stars4.2 Stars4.2 Stars4.2 Stars4.2 Stars
Gotta Go Back In Time.... MasterMegid (719) 4.2 Stars4.2 Stars4.2 Stars4.2 Stars4.2 Stars
A really upbeat title. It's my favourite game, and that for many reasons. Bregalad (597) 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars
Do you like the hair? Iris-chan (67) unrated
A very shallow RPG. Too easy, too kiddy, too dull. kbmb Bronze Star Contributing Member (400) unrated
The best RPG of all-time? Quite possibly. lechuck13 (313) 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars
The best SNES RPG, hands-down. Rufus Shinra (20) 4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars

The Press Says

Game Freaks 365 2000 10 out of 10 100
Gamestyle Aug 11, 2008 10 out of 10 100
Playback Jan, 2006 10 out of 10 100
GamePro Sep, 1995 5 out of 5 100
AllRPG 2004 9.9 out of 10 99
Netjak Jan 05, 2005 9.7 out of 10 97
Game Players Sep, 1995 95 out of 100 95
HonestGamers Feb 02, 2008 9 out of 10 90
Christ Centered Game Reviews Jun 01, 2005 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars 90
Video Games & Computer Entertainment Sep, 1995 8 out of 10 80

Forums

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The origin of the Rick (rocket?) Roll 8 Dancin' Fool (1236)
Jun 02, 2008

Trivia

The PS1 version of Chrono Trigger was rather unique technically from other SNES-PS1 Squaresoft ports.

First, if you popped this CD into your PC, you'd find a file with the extension ".ROM". It's actually the Super NES version's ROM! The PS1 version uses the ROM for most of its data, while the game code is PS1 data. Changes were mostly made to have the anime cut scenes play when appropriate.

While there is additional data on the disc, most of it is dummy data, but it shows (quite interestingly) that Square at first intended to fully port CT as a full-fledged PS1 game, but cut the project either due to lack of time, laziness, or both.


This entry was contributed by Satoshi Kunsai (1862)
 

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