This is why I'm impressed with Microsoft's efforts to ensure their older titles are backwards compatible and enhanced on their newer hardware, and why it's important Sony took the time to remake Shadow of the Colossus. If we're going to acknowledge games as an art form, it's important that older works should remain available for newcomers to the medium to discover. If you give the jerky to her for free, she promises to imbue her children (one of whom becomes a key character) with charitable mindsets, while selling it to her for a fine price causes its own ripple effects.Video game re-releases and remasters are a good thing, broadly speaking. At one point in the game, a quest requires you to either sell or gift a woman with spicy jerky. Outside of battles, your interactions with NPCs matters too. Aside from a few scripted battles, players can choose whether to fight enemies or skirt around them. Unlike Final Fantasy games of yore, there aren’t any random encounters in Chrono Trigger. Related: Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo Has a Secret Ending (Technically)Ībove all else, the game put emphasis on player choice - a rare move at a time when JRPGs were linear and narrative-driven. Hopping back and forth between time periods makes the game feel decidedly non-linear, even though a straight-forward end goal drives the overarching, eon-spanning plot. Chrono Trigger’s narrative approach was revolutionary, and, even by today’s standards, it more than holds up.Īpart from the game’s eye-catching, colorful design and spellbinding score by (primarily) Yasunori Mitsuda, Square’s JRPG played with how a game’s narrative could unfold.
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Each of the five quest-filled epochs has its own plot line, and an action in one period can have a ripple effect on another. Each of these characters has their own arc full of surprising turns and emotional high notes. The trio vows to use their time-traveling abilities to thwart Lavos.Īlong the way, Frog, Robo (a robot with a near-human personality from 2300 AD) and Ayla (a warrior chief from a village in 65,000,000 BC) join your crew. Then there’s Magus, a dark mage and part-time antagonist with a mysterious past and time-travel connections of his own. Lucca and Marle come to Crono’s aid, but another wayward time portal lands them in 2300 AD, where civilization has been all but wiped out by Lavos, an extraterrestrial parasitic creature that’s harvesting the planet’s energy for sustenance.
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Upon returning to 1000 AD, Crono is put on trial for allegedly kidnapping Marle, and (depending on your seemingly innocuous choices at the Millennial Fair) he’s sentenced to death.
Related: You Can Legally Stream The Chrono Trigger Soundtrack Right Now With optional, narrative-shaping side quests, an emphasis on player choices that actually mattered and (at least) 13 different endings, Chrono Trigger was ahead of the curve for its time, and it absolutely deserves the kind of new life that Square Enix is giving another one of its classics with Final Fantasy VII Remake. According to a 2019 Weekly Famitsu poll, Chrono Trigger is the best game of Japan's Heisei period, which lasted from 1989 to 2019. Releasing between Square's much-loved 1994 hit Final Fantasy VI and its iconic 1997 game Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger has long been considered a masterpiece of gaming, both in the '90s and now. …ou’ll wonder how you were ever happy with anything less.” But Chrono Trigger's 25th anniversary came and went this month with little fanfare. In July 1995, Nintendo Power noted that the game “improve on Final Fantasy in almost every area. Take a look at any “Best SNES Games of All Time” list and you’ll find Square Enix’s 1995 classic Chrono Trigger near the top.
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