Chrono Trigger Has Aged SO WELL 

Arguably a top 5 all time.

God-tier soundtrack, quite boring game (Music doesn't dictate how good or bad the game itself is, lol)

At this rate, you’ll see all the endings by 2115! Noice.

@@Rorshacked Hehe! 😀

I used to play it once a year lol! Grew up on it from when I was a kid so that was a lot of playthroughs. But with so many games nowadays and adult life, unfortunately I don't play it as often anymore. But it is one of the most replayable jrpgs ever! :D

I'm turning 25 next month, so I wasn't even close to alive when Chrono Trigger came out. It's a game I've kind of wanted to play for a while, but I never really felt strongly enough to actually do it, yknow? Last December, I grabbed it on Steam and played it for the first time. Chrono Trigger really is as good as they say it is. 11/10 Masterpiece.

You played one of the best version lf the game, ds version added a lot of content

​@@gigaya777i think the DS version is the only one that i haven't played, didn't know there were different versions aside from maybe color/sound/graphics.

@@jasonlauritsen5587 the Ds version is the most complete the second best is the PC port, lore-wise there is a little bit of lore in the monster arena, that content was cut in the PC port still those versions are better than the Snes one just because the SNES has less lore and things, if you like the Snes version you should play the hack name call Chrono Plus there you can even play in 1999 there are tons of extra content in this hack rom

@@jasonlauritsen5587 DS version added extra content and iirc 1 or 2 more endings, not that significant tho as the extra content was mostly a minigame loop.

I remember seeing that a while back, what they did get to show was impressive.

@@TheKisekiNut Yeah this was the early 2000's and they were working on a _3d_ fan remake of a game! Both a trailer and some leaked alpha build gameplay exists, also I *vagualy* remember there being a site for the project, but not 100% sure

The trick is that it is not really about time travel (that is the dressing), which is part of why it stands the test of time. It is so much about identity, the human condition if you will, and we have been all about that since all recorded history, at least, and will likely continue to be all about that for quite some time.

This screams '90s, and I love it.

Spoiler: I actually really like what they did with Crono - it's an optional quest, you don't actually need to revive him. The fact they had the balls to outright remove the main protag and gave the player the choice to bring him back was awesome to me.

@@TheKisekiNut Fair enough. It's probably not something that would be too popular today, but it really emphasises player choice and realistically shows what they would do if given the power of time travel.

@@giuseppeparry1365 I think one also has to consider that within the game itself, saving Crono is a big deal, not just something they can do with a bit of will and effort. Gaspar doesn’t have a ton of Chrono Triggers lying around; the implication is that he only had the one. To borrow a Doctor Who phrase, Crono’s death was a fixed point where two party members, Magus, Schala, and Zeal witnessed it and made irrevocable choices because of that moment. You could argue other events such as Lara’s accident could be the same, but the Chrono Trigger takes you not only to the specific point but also creates the time freeze. In at least one translation, Magus says he “never thought it possible.” The scary thing? The Black Omen exits because your team was there when Queen Zeal and Schala woke Lavos, Zeal Kingdom was destroyed, then the Gurus and Janus were sent through time. What happened to Schala and Queen Zeal in the original timeline? Unclear, but the pendant passed down over 13,000 years to eventually be worn by Marle. The Ocean Palace event is supposed to be when you stop Lavos and change the course of history, but instead you make Queen Zeal an immortal, Crono dies, and Schala *spoiler* gets lost in Time’s Eclipse, setting up the events of the superboss, Radical Dreamers, and Chrono Cross. Yet what does the party do with the Chrono Trigger, the most potent device in the history of time travel? Nothing if you don’t get it, but if you get it, the party (and player) save Crono, or Marle *spoiler* uses it herself to save Crono. You can’t blame them for their choices, but across literally millions of years and countless people in the existence of the world, was there a better, more deserving choice to be saved by Gaspar’s life’s work……?

I hate how cheap are the minds of people who think "Resurrecting a character cheapens the impact of the scene..." Don't you think it would be cheaper for them to NOT revive the character when they have the ability to do so? It means you're not looking into the story through the eyes of the characters, and you don't feel how they want to ressurrect that character. You're also indoctrinated with this sort of view that it "Cheapens the plot" Bunch of "Plot" cult cultists... unable to feel the story, able to only judge it like robots...

@@KeyleeTamirian Oh, don’t pretend you wouldn’t make the exact same criticism if it wasn’t anything else but a well-loved game. You’ll find very few people who don’t think undoing X reduces the impact of X. You notice how the vast majority of my comment was extremely positive about this game? If you get mad at someone for posting a glowing 9/10 review of a game instead of a perfect 10/10, I’d say that’s way more “cult-like” than someone who gives an honest review. And you’re actually disrespecting the game by doing that, because you just say the game isn’t allowed to be criticised. If I hear anyone get angry at anyone for DARING to make a single criticism about a game, I just roll my eyes and think, “Welp, they’re just a fanboy. Clearly, I can’t take any praise they have seriously.” Kiseki Nut politely replied and told me why he thinks the resurrection works. Very different to what you did, which was call me cheap, robotic and cult-like. So, just like the person in the example, I can’t take you seriously. “Wouldn’t it be cheaper to not do it if they could?” … I don’t think you understand the meaning of “cheap”. First of all, no, it wouldn’t. Because that would mean no game, show, film, book that has any element of time travel would ever be allowed to have any stakes. Secondly, EVERY piece of fiction where anyone’s resurrected a character is done “because they could do it.” That doesn’t stop it from being cheap. The question is WHY can they do it? Is it because of some theme of resurrection that’s clearly established much earlier in the story? Or is it because of a deus ex machina device (in this case, the Chrono Trigger) that’s conveniently only revealed AFTER the person dies? Let’s follow your rules for writing: 1. Character dies an emotional death. 2. Invent magical device that can conveniently revive people. 3. Well, it would be cheaper not to resurrect a character if we could, so now that step #2 gave us a device for resurrecting people, we can claim that we’re actually following the LESS cheap route, not that step #2 itself was incredibly cheap or anything. 4. RESULT: So, now we can kill as many characters we want for emotional impact safe in the knowledge we can immediately bring them all back and no-one will have any problem with it. Might as well kill off every character in every story and bring them all back again and again! Infinite free emotional impact with zero consequences, and thanks to step #3’s logic we can claim this is the LESS cheap route. Damn, this writing gig is easy! Doctor Who is a show entirely based around time travel, and quite a few of the Doctor’s companions have died. But the Doctor has time travel. Surely, he can find a way to save every single one of them? Except he doesn’t, because literally no-one wants that (well, tbf, he did do it once, and everyone hated it) because then the show would never have any stakes and you’d have no reason to care about anything. Same with ANY piece of media where time travel exists. Or imagine FFVII (spoilers): If Aerith was revived after her hard-hitting death scene. FFVII has a hole story about the Lifestream and souls continuing after death. Surely, they could write a way to bring her back? Except they don’t. Because that would be stupid and ruin one of the greatest videogame scenes ever made. Imagine if Chrono Trigger didn’t have a way to save Cronos. Would you be saying the same thing? Would you say it was cheap that they didn’t save him? Of course not. You’d be saying what an emotional final moment it was with Cronos and talking about the last scenes you had with him alive, etc., etc. Hell, the game even has an option to not save Cronos. So, by your logic, the game and characters are cheap for having that option? Like I said, this is an amazing game. I love almost everything about it. If you’re so mad that I gave it the abysmally low score of 9/10, you can look literally anywhere else for a perfect 10/10 review.

The only thing with these new mobile versions is that the menus all look like shite. It takes me out of it.

the story behind the making of the soundtrack is also a great story, like how a lot of it was written and then lost when a computer failed, how mitsuda was stressed to the point of sickness. Uematsu stepped in to assist on a few (really good) tracks like Tyran Castle, and if all that weren't enough, some parts of the ending theme were supposedly taken from a dream.

Ultimately it doesn't need much. A little polish to the visuals perhaps, but the core of the game is fine.

I've heard some iffy things about the mobile port, how is it for you? I always played on snes or ds but those consoles just aren't as convenient anymore. I'd love to have it on my phone as it's my favorite game of all time.

@@mewichigo3410 it's fine for me. Although, I can't really tell the difference as I have not played other versions back-to-back. I played the original on PS1 decades ago, & now the mobile. It's as I remembered it. If it's your favorite game of all time, for $10, I definitely have it on the phone, & whenever you get a chance, please mention a Chrono Trigger remake wherever you're discussing Chrono Trigger. I want one baaad. Sandland made me a believer in a remake

@@eltren6120 Thanks for your response! And yes I've been begging for a CT remake for years 😭😭😭 The Octopath engine would be so perfect for it, I really hope Square listens to their fans!

Chronotrigger is an SNES generation game. They did a rerelease for PS1 with the animated cut scenes added.

Yeah, the other endings are meant for NG+

I play it on my tablet with a SNES emulator.

Mother 3? Persona 5 Royal?

OST was indeed solid, but I only give mention to the ones that 'really' stand out to me. CT's was great, but doesn't measure up to my personal tastes.

It's not, it still looks amazing.

Yes but also don't underestimate women's love for vampire-looking dudes(???)

@@babithehuman2505 Haha touché

The tile sets on the trees look really messed up, so I'm guessing it's the PC version.

@@Nel_Annette Ah, really? That bad on the PC version, eh? I used to play the NDS version, but never finish it. I’m thinking on playing the PSX version to do that. I’ll use the turbo mode or something to compensate the notorious long loading time on that version.

I think the game is excellent, it's pacing is top tier. There wasn't one wasted moment that I recall.

@@TheKisekiNut for me it could have just been a case of expectations being too high going in