Oh Chrono Trigger, by far the best SNES game made by SquareSoft (now Square Enix), so what was so great about it. The game so perfectly blended story gameplay and replay value that it became a quick favorite.
Let's start with the story it covered everything from worldwide destruction, time travel, betrayal and hope that a small force could undo inconceivable wrongs. Not to mention the multiple endings from great and wonderful to.....well at least we didn't all die endings.
The gameplay let you avoid an RPG headache of random encounter battles by being able to see most of the enemies and actually having to approach them in order to enter a turn based battle right on the same screen, successfully keeping the action and the adventure from splitting into two different games (something that ruins far too many RPGs). Not to mention the function to link characters abilities to pull off some incredible co-op moves.
But just about the best thing about Chrono Trigger was the New Game + option. To be able to start the game over after beating it with all the levels, abilities, and gear you had collected on the last play through and go tackle the whole game again from the beginning was a marvel at the time. Which brings up the question of why this is not an option in every single game that has been made since. Developers need to get on the ball and realize sometimes people want to play back through a game not as the struggling hero, but as an ultimate destruction machine, because come on didn't all our hard work the first time mean we earned it?
So now that our time warp is done for this week let me know what you think or if you even ever played this game on any of it's versions, SNES, Playstation or the Nintendo DS. If you have any time warp requests let me know and I will see what I can do.
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