Thank you so much for this. I started every song with a new passage and it was an awesome trip through your nostalgia and great humor. You sound like Spoony sometimes, when you talk about your hate for ever Final Fantasy after 7. And the part about music reminded me about the Final Fantasy 7 OST, because whenever my iTunes starts one of these songs I remember the scenes of the game. Well deserved 5/5!

zerglingsfolife

United States1694 Posts

November 16 2011 08:34 GMT

#242

I'd like to mention that a team has produced a sequel to Chrono Trigger. Go to http://metronomeproject.blogspot.com/

It's pretty damn impressive. If you liked Chrono Trigger it is definitely worth checking out. Here is a lets play of the guy playing the game if you want to preview it.

Gelenn

United States87 Posts

November 16 2011 10:00 GMT

#243

This was freaking awesome. I actually teared up from the memories of playing the shit out of this game. The music, man. The music has stuck with me all these years. I can still hum along with all of the theme songs...

God, what a great game.

Belano

Sweden657 Posts

November 16 2011 10:23 GMT

#244

Excellent post, really enjoyed it. 5/5.

Chrono Trigger is easily top 2 in my list of favorite RPGs ever with FF6 snagging the first spot. I played Chrono Trigger something like 7 times and got really far every time but never actually finished it. The last time I played it I think I only had like an hour or so left. No idea why I didn't finish it. After reading this I guess it's time to seal the deal.

Favorite character: Frog. Seriously, it's a giant frog with a sword.
Favorite combo: Crono, Frog, Marle. Sweet defensive combo with double heal. Marle gets haste for epic DPS. When Crono is unavailable I replace him with Ayla or Maaaybe Lucca.
Least favorite character: Robo. Meh.

Squallcloud

France466 Posts

November 16 2011 11:19 GMT

#245

Man great blog! You brought back so many good memories i nearly teared up and i'm 30!

BenKen

United States860 Posts

November 16 2011 11:40 GMT

#246

On November 16 2011 20:19 Squallcloud wrote:
Man great blog! You brought back so many good memories i nearly teared up and i'm 30!

Haha, same here.

Att work just a few months ago we were doing hiring interviews, and my final question was "what's your all-time favorite video game?". Yeah, I ended up hiring the 18 year old kid that said "Chrono Trigger".

CutieBK

Sweden227 Posts

November 16 2011 12:17 GMT

#247

Man, thinking back to the first few playthroughs of Chrono Trigger almost brings tears to my eyes.

Amazing review as well. Thank you for taking the time and adding the music between each segment, it made the reading very immersive-- I felt like I timetravelled to when I played it.

Something that you don't adress, but still baffles me to no end. How can a game this old and technically "inferior" still be a gajillion times more packed with content than any new game? Barring a few titles, most games are around 8-10 hours of gameplay nowadays, if that. And many of the other ones that exceed that are repeditive with constantly re-used textures and the same dungeon twenty times("Oh, a blue lizard this time?!") How come back in the day people were able to make such long, diverse and epic(in the "right" sense of the word) games using so much less? Why has substance been overlooked in the face of new shiny graphics?

Thank you for writing this!

BleaK_

Norway593 Posts

November 16 2011 13:17 GMT

#248

But...but... I loved all final fantasy games up to X... Why... you... You can't talk like that about some of my favorite games!

Great blog anyway

MIKster

Germany333 Posts

November 16 2011 14:19 GMT

#249

I remember playing Chrono Trigger for the first time when I was twelve, 13 years back on my old Intel Pentium II ZSNES emulator. And I was blown away. I got up every day of the weekend extra early to sneak to the computer and have some extra hours to beat the game ... which I did eventually a few years later because I got stuck in the future time not knowing where to go after the race with Johnny.
I picked the game up, couldn't beat it, put it down, picked it up again a year later, got a bit further, laid it down etc. until I finally beat it about 8 years ago… and damn! Yeah I had a first kiss, a first girlfriend and so on. But this moment when the credits rolled, I can remember it better that all those other moments. Am I weird? Maybe, but now I at least know there’s more weird people like me out there!

Thanks for the great read!

mythandier

United States828 Posts

November 16 2011 15:45 GMT

#250

Just read the whole thing while at work (productive much?). Kudos OP. Fantastic work.

Ragnarawk

Canada32 Posts

November 16 2011 16:36 GMT

#251

Got this game bundled with FFIV for the ps1, load times were hideous. actually, it would take a solid 5 seconds to get from game to menu, and another five to get back from menu to game.

that problem aside, this game had a huge effect on me as a teen, just listening to some of the music in this thread has made today great.

amazing blog, would read again

redLeg

Switzerland16 Posts

November 16 2011 17:53 GMT

#252

awesome OP! I've been told by some people that Chrono Trigger is an awesome game, so I bought it like half a year ago for my DS. I've yet to play it though. Reason being that I wanna save it for some long travel.

btw, can anyone recommend an awesome walkthrough for this game? I dont wanna miss out on anything when I play it finally

sutureself

United States192 Posts

November 16 2011 17:54 GMT

#253

I still hear the music when falling asleep every now and then and I luminaire the shit out of Lavos over and over in my mind, even though it's been roughly 16 years since I played it. I played this game SO much when it came out.

As a result of this post, I started replaying it last night. It was over 5 hours before I forced myself to stop and I am regretting it at work presently.

...

but I'll probably do the same thing tonight!

Love it. Great article, thanks.

Belano

Sweden657 Posts

November 16 2011 19:07 GMT

#254

On November 17 2011 02:53 redLeg wrote:
awesome OP! I've been told by some people that Chrono Trigger is an awesome game, so I bought it like half a year ago for my DS. I've yet to play it though. Reason being that I wanna save it for some long travel.

btw, can anyone recommend an awesome walkthrough for this game? I dont wanna miss out on anything when I play it finally

Just check gamefaqs.com. Star'd walkthroughs are usually fantastic.

mastergriggy

United States1312 Posts

November 16 2011 21:59 GMT

#255

I definitely posted this to my facebook. Incredibly amazing write up. 5/5

Edit:

On November 16 2011 17:34 zerglingsfolife wrote:
I'd like to mention that a team has produced a sequel to Chrono Trigger. Go to http://metronomeproject.blogspot.com/

It's pretty damn impressive. If you liked Chrono Trigger it is definitely worth checking out. Here is a lets play of the guy playing the game if you want to preview it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svMe2X9pAQs

Do you need an emulator to play on this version or what?