So I played CHRONO TRIGGER For The First Time...
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- As an RPG aficionado, I am deeply disappointed I waited to long to play Chrono Trigger. It didn't necessarily blow me away with anything it did and that's exactly the point. The amount of excellent ideas baked into this game that influenced the RPG genre is difficult to process yet cool to experience.
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When my dad died I was forced to sell all of my videogames and my snes to make ends meet. Selling my mint condition CT (with map) was my biggest regret.
Years later, the guy I sold it to became my friend without us immediately remembering we were the ones that had done the deal.
When we did he gave me back CT as a birthday present and this is now my most treasured possession.
My guy...
that's poetic.
Great story, man
Man, that’s incredible.
Thanks guys 🙏
This was the best thing I've read all day.
I also played Chrono trigger for the first time in 2012, so I can say it definitely isn’t nostalgia goggles. The game is a masterpiece, and it’s in my top 3 games of all time.
Yeah, I didn’t play it until I was 25 and it is one of my favorite games.
I'm playing it for the first time now, it's on my top 10 favorite games!
All you RPG plebs, I got the original on SNES for Christmas the year after it's initial release, opened it at my Grandparents, drove home to play it for a while before going back for supper, I didn't want to go back I was pulled in by the game so much. FFVI is still my favorite RPG of all time but Chrono Trigger is up there as well. J/K about the plebs thing btw. I'm glad more people are finally picking up these old classics and seeing where things came from. Check out Secret of Evermore if you havn't as well, highly underrated game imo.
@@NormireX I actually had that FF Chronicles game on Playstation 1 back in the day, but I only played Final Fantasy 6 on it (Honestly, there was just no way any one person kept up with every RPG coming out in that era). It wasn't until the Wii Virtual Console that I finally played Chrono Trigger
I agree. FFVI is still better but CT is up there.
I only played Chrono Trigger when the pandemic started. I was blown away. It was great. An amazing game. Played it on SNES.
Out of curiosity, how many of the endings did you see? I remember as teen being blown away that a game could have so many endings
@@guesswho7881 If I were younger, I would replayed it to see all the endings. I only saw one ending. I think I got the best one. I have to replay it, though, because I was not aware that Magus can be added to the party. So I have to play it again to not kill Magus when he and Frog fought.
The younger part of your comment made me laugh lol, yeah I was 13 when it came out so younger me wanted to play it again and seeing new game+ was really cool back then. I also don’t think you get the best ending in the first play through, but that’s a whole different discussion
@@guesswho7881 Yeah, possibly that I didn't get the best ending. But I'm okay with it. Nowadays I just play a "one and done" playthrough. Due to work and other responsibilities, I just play to finish. No more 100% completion, unlock everything madness LOL.
Total understandable, I’m the same way in my old age lol
While Uematsu did assist a little, the bulk of the OST was done by Yasunori Mitsuda.
100% correct. Did you know Hironobu Sakaguchi had plans for a direct sequel, but the execs at Square prevented him making his Chrono Trigger 2. Travesty. They told him "it doesnt have final fantasy potential for sequels"....then years later chrono cross lol.
And ofc chrono cross did not have the dream team. Hironobu had nothing to do with it.
@@beyondz55 yup, it’s an absolute shame. I would have loved to see what could have been
@@Jmerithew87 i felt so strongly about this subject I sampled Hironobu's interview about it into a lofi remix of 'Wind Scene'. Its on Bandcamp, my artist name is 'Octavators'. Did a bunch of other lofi beats on there as well.
@@beyondz55 Yet, Chrono Cross is one of the best games ever made and still an amazing sequel
This game was ahead of it's time. No random battles (this didn't happen until Final Fantasy 12). Your choices in the game effected future events. Multiple endings. Incredible musical score, loveable cast. I'm not sure how you don't fall in love with this game.
Grandia also didn't have random battles in 1997
I don't mean to take away praise from Chrono Trigger, the game deserves it, but it wasn't the first game with overworld encounters, there were multiple before it. One example I can think of is Romancing SaGa, all 3 have this feature, and the first one is at least 3 years older than Chrono Trigger.
@@rubemevangelista3868 I was using the Final Fantasy series as a reference. But that I suppose is being narrow minded. Good examples of other RPGs without random battles.
@@joes1109 Sorry for misinterpreting it. That was actually a great parallel. Since this game had a bunch of people from Final Fantasy, and lots of similar features, it's astonishing how well Chrono Trigger stands up to the whole FF franchise. It's truly one of a kind.
Yasunori Mitsuda deserves 95% of the credit for this amazing soundtrack. He's easily right up there with Uematsu for "best game soundtrack composer ever" for me. I get it; he's not nearly as well-known as Uematsu, but hot _damn_ is he an absolute master at his craft.
Great to hear the thoughts of someone playing this masterpiece for the first time. Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI epitomized my childhood!
Me too. Final Fantasy VI is my favorite game of all-time, but Chrono Trigger is the best game I've ever played. More than a quarter century later, it has yet to be rivaled.
@@SuperSupersoda Agreed! Those are my top two games of all time. It’s so close it’s hard to pick a favorite honestly, but FFVI came first for me and I have more of an attachment to it for a multitude of reasons over CT but that doesn’t discredit it as any less of a masterpiece.
Now go play DQ 3 on Nintendo Switch and complete it. Just as Goated of a game with the rest of them, DQ 3 the most influential JRPG ever in 1988!!!! Still holds up so well today. Play DQ 1-3 on Switch in order because its a goated trilogy and gives the best impact on DQ 3 playing it in order like that. After that, play DQ 5 and you'll be good man.
Interesting.. I have beaten Chrono Trigger 2-3 times, but never FF6. Actually I almost started playing it couple of weeks ago, again. Every time I start it I like it, but there are too many characters, and they aren't as interesting as in CT. And those random encounters.. Actually, a couple of years ago when I tried FF6, I probably played 10-20 hours, and started to realize how good it is. I guess that's the problem, Chrono Trigger is great from the beginning (when you hear Morning Sunlight/Peaceful Days..)
@@strummerrr One thing about FF VI: you play it for the villain. Chrono Trigger has a very good villain, as far as villains go, but FF VI's has the best villain maybe ever. The quick plot summary of FF VI: it's like Avenger's Infinity War and Avenger's End Game, only in this case, there is no quantum realm, no undo button. In FF VI, once the finger snap happens, it's permanent.
I remember going on a cruise a few years back and I gave my mate my phone to have a go at chrono trigger. Didn’t see him for most of the trip he had his nose buried in it the whole time
I played this on release back in the 90s...imported it from the US to the UK for £70. That was ALOT back then.
Best RPG I have played alongside final fantasy 6 (3 in the US).
It's graphics have dated now but back in the day was pixel heaven with a fantastic story. It was top tier and still is amazing.
Literally my top game of ALL-TIME. Such a good story, characters, gameplay, MUSIC, everything.
honestly, even with all the forward thinking ideas Trigger had at the time, theres still to this day only 4 words you need to describe Chrono Trigger; NO FLUFF, JUST FUN
"If it's not fun why bother?" - Reggie Fils-Aime
(likely before getting back to playing Animal Crossing New Leaf on his Nintendo 3DS)
It sucks now, 3 words
It's difficult to overstate how satisfying "no fluff" is in a world dominated by empty open worlds, fetch quests, collectibles, and other low-effort filler.
Warsong and Shining Force were better than Chrono Trigger and FF6 fight me.
@@kenny5844 They're not even the same genre.
Chrono trigger is honestly just a fun little adventure. A very refreshing break from other RPGs trying to be the coolest thing since, well, chrono trigger. It's ultimately a simple story, which is fun since as a cinematic experience. you run around finding new characters and you pick the ones you think are the coolest and those characters get extra lines during the story. And then you do all their sidequests to tie up their short arcs and then you fight lavos. It never feels complex, and you always want to do something because it's just the right thing to do, and that makes it very easy to enjoy.
Chrono trigger is my favorite RPG of all time and helped me to change my perspective on games for the better. I'm always happy that others are playing this game for the first time, it just has a unique magic and passion filled in it. Artistic masterpiece.
Have you given Chrono Trigger Crimson Echoes A shot?
My love for the game comes from the New Game + and all the various endings you can get. Never before or after has there been a game that I enjoy beating repeatedly.
chrono trigger is a game that could stand up to modern titles if it got a graphical overhaul, that's how far ahead of its time it was
It already stands up to them without doing that.
It doesn’t need one
My worst part of ChronoTrigger: the only thing I remember about it, is that it was amazing.
I hate getting old(er).
When I was younger, my brother played it and did not know you could switch out the equipment…and he got all the way to Black Omen…with only the wooden sword
@@angelredvivar LOL
That sounds like a positive, since now you can experience playing it for the first time, again.
@@lnsflare1 Absolutely! Hopefully sooner than later.
I remember almost everything about it
11:18 Somebody didn't complete Frog's side story.
I remember this game costing $70 when it first came on the SNES. SNES cartridges tended to be more expensive than the CD-ROM based games of the 90s. I think that was because cartridges included chip technology that boosted the performance of the SNES. Chrono Trigger was definitely one of those cartridges that pushed the SNES to its limits and had to include additional memory on the chip for the game to work. Needless to say, I had to mow a lot of lawns to buy this game.
But back in those days you really got your money's worth when you saved up for a game. It took me over a year to 100% complete it. With all of the endings, there was so much replay-ability. It was definitely one of my favorite games of all time. Back then I had a lot of free time, but not too many games, so having a game that lasted a long time was worth a lot to me. I feel like nowadays I have the opposite problem. I have too little time and way too many games I want to get through, so today I tend to prefer smaller games that I can finish quickly and don't have time for side quests and 100% completion. But even though I had fewer games as a kid, I felt like I got so much more out of them because I really put the time in to master them. I kind of miss those days.
I'm at this point where I just play whatever the hell I want. I don't make a concerted effort to cut down the backlog if I'm not feeling like picking up a new game. It if interests me I'll get to it eventually, but I find it's important to not let things like that distract you from how you are feeling in the moment. If I feel like playing Xenoblade Chronicles again, then dammit nothing's going to stop me. 40 unplayed games and 50 hour runtime be damned.
Hey Matty I just want to say I’ve been watching your videos since the fallout four hype and speculation. I just want to say it’s been a pleasure watching you grow over the years and I’m really enjoying this new channel. You seem like a really chill guy I could sit down and just talk about our love and passion with gaming. Have a good day bro
same 😁
4:50 Sea of Stars, and this game has also the same music composer as Chrono Trigger, Yasunori Mitsuda...
10:13 and for Uematsu: he is my most admired composer of all time, but he composed only parts of the Chrono Trigger Soundtrack, Yasunori Mitsuda composed the bulk of the soundtrack and was even hospitalized after he collapsed from overwork.
dont want to be that guy who points out little mistakes and correct others, but credit were credit is due and Mitsuda nearly worked himself to death over Chrono...
Thanks for clarifying the name of Sea of Stars. It’s now on my list of games to keep an eye on.
I think you said it well. Yes, credit were credit is due.
Mitsuda is assisting with Sea of Stars, he's not the lead composer.
We owe everything not just to Chrono Trigger but to the Dream Team that made the game possible. They each brought their A game and it paid off big time. Nearly 30 years after its release and Chrono Trigger is still getting discovered by new players.
How many CT game designers looked at the cover and thought "Hmm, Marle has ice as her magic and in this picture she's shooting fire. Hmm, that looks like an inconsistency." My guess is none. Not a single person thought it and if they did, they kept it to themselves.
Chrono Trigger is like comfort food. It's simple, but delicious and makes you happy every time you play it, even if you know what it's going to taste like. It has elements that all JRPG fans would enjoy.
Him: It wasn't, like, a deeply captivating, emotionally moving story
Me: *Sheds a tear every few years for Schala and Kid
I was sad for Robot when he waited all those years lol
Saving lucca's mom :( sooo many cool parts
@@saintsr0w1 I’m not crying you’re crying 😭
Let’s talk about the real reason this game is the best of all time. The characters feel United. Unified. You form an instant lovable bond with all of them. Magnus a character who’s a villain in his own right. Puts his ego aside and helps our heroes fight the real evil thats threatening both of their timelines. It felt like you held the weight of this world on your shoulders. And these characters are all main characters in their own right. All would be loved as main characters in other games but each of them brings something so absolutely vital to the table you never consider your companions “side” characters. You can fully rely on all of them and at some points are forced to use certain ones to progress, that often you have an existential crisis just choosing which characters to pick. And you can only choose three. There’s so many elements from the music. The sprite design. The story the replay ability, the emotional toll it takes on you. This isn’t a video game it’s a journey. You feel apart of it as much as the characters in the game. You care about them as friends who always have your back. I’ve existentially pondered over this game after I completed it for the second time. Like I sat back with tears in my eyes like I actually am in love with this game. You play it and realize it’s perfect. You can’t even nitpick it. It blows your expectations for an rpg out of the water. Everything has haters. But with crono trigger it’s a different case. Anyone actually hating on the game just looks stupid and is instantly mocked. It’s impossible to genuinely hate the game without coming off like you belong in special education class.
So to end it off. Crono trigger isn’t a game. It’s an experience. I can barely remember the miniseries I watched on Netflix last year. But crono trigger a game I only complete twice. Was burned into my brain like learning a language. Every element was memorable. Every aspect was flawless.
If you never played it. Don’t feel like you missed the boat. I’m jealous. Go experience this masterpiece! Do yourself a favor!!!!!
The moment you said you love Final Fantasy 13-2. I hit the subscribe button. Thank you my friend. Don’t worry, there are some people out there who like that game. I’m one of the few who platinumed it.
I would love to see Final Fantasy 9's quick time events in Chrono Trigger. Just imagining seeing how the various party members react to the food, culture, people and technology in various timelines. It would make for endless entertainment.
Better late than never. Glad you've finally played this masterpiece.
Small correction: Most of the music was done by Yasunori Mitsuda, not Nobuo Uematsu. Both legendary composers.
True story. It was Mitsuda's first big project and he was so stressed out during the whole process that he became ill and Uematsu came in and finished the soundtrack.
@@damonke79 , I think he also lost a lot of work early on due to data corruption, too. He definitely suffered.
@@WCCXtra He supposedly developed a stomach ulcer and started losing his hair if I recall correctly. Mitsuda is my favorite game composer of all time. Glad he made it through. His OSTs for Xenogears and Chrono Cross are truly incredible.
He wasn't even credited during that time, but now everyone knows he's behind almost all the music of Chrono Trigger. Not even a part of The Dream Team, so does other current Square-Enix employees that grew from Squaresoft.
@@Eclectic.Nostalgia To be fair we don't really know who did which songs in Chrono Trigger. The majority of the songs have a very Uematsu-like style to me.
Chrono trigger is my favourite game of all time and I’m glad you’ve enjoyed this game and it’s seriously a work of art.
I can't even begin to explain how amazing it was to play through this game back in 1995 when in first came out. This game was on another level compared to anything we had back then. Such an incredible experience.
Was my top 2 favorite games on the snes the other ff 6, I remember me and my friend taking turns and we stayed up all night playing trying to beat it.
@@maulressurected4405 FF 6 was a great game also. FF2, which is 4 now, was my first rpg. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but had a ton of fun playing it.
@Rex Trowbridge 4 was good, huge step up from the very first game and the first ff that I actually got to finish. FF 1 the nest always locked up when I got halfway through the final dungeon and would always wipe my save data.
@@maulressurected4405 yea I tried to play part 1 after beating 4, but I just couldn't get into it.
It REALLY was man.
Chrono Trigger is the GOAT. You should also check out Wild Arms, Suikoden and Vagrant Story if you haven't had the opportunity yet.
Suikoden is my all time favorite jrpg series. Glad someone else enjoys it
I started with Suikoden 2
Then I realised I could have another character if I played Suikoden 1 so I went back to 1 and redid 2 right away. These games are so well crafted! Then I tried playing Suikoden 3 but it wasn't really the same anymore.
The story wasn't amazing at first, but the characters really dragged you in, and the world felt massive and intertwined
Chrono Trigger was one of my favorite games and helped introduce me to JRPG's
I owe a lot to this game
Played this game when it came out in 95'.
Got almost all the endings.
I still hear the music.
"I'm not even a big Zelda fan," he remarked casually. So much said with so little.
I just got a Game Boy Advance SP with Advance Wars, though it was only the Cartridge but i always hated the Game Boy Advance boxes anyway, with them being cardboard but i also got a complete in box copy of Advance Wars Dual Strike for the 3DS so i can just keep the original in the game boy holder with the DS case, i haven't played a Game Boy Advance for years, this will be a great trip down memory lane :)
Ahhhhh! Such a great memory during this up when I was in middle school. I knew NOTHING about it and just knew I had loved FF4 and FF6. I’m jealous you got to have your first time with it.
This was my first completed game as a kid and one of my fondest memories with my brother. We played this game together for what felt like months on end. We loved this game. It definitely has a special place in my heart
Fun fact: That poster that came in your DS copy was included in the original SNES copy, too.
Just finished this for the first time yesterday. I was blown away. Before this only JRPG I have ever played were Golden Sun and Pokémon. But this game was a monster. And I loved no random encounters
One of my favorite games ever!! For good reason. It's so engaging, I couldn't put it down.
I am an OG Chrono Trigger fanboi, so much so that I still have the original box and cartridge that I got on the first day of release and I still replay it from time to time on the super nintendo. I have beaten it well over 40 times and each time I replay it, it still stands the test of time and should be considered one of the greatest games of all time, a true masterpiece.
I played it when it came out. The music and the plot still stay with me till this day. 25+ years later.
Absolutely love the start with the old school TV, really makes me feel the retro vibes. Mario RPG next please!!!
The game by the Messenger team is called Sea of Stars, and the main composer of Chrono Trigger, Yasunori Mitsuda, reached out to those developers and offered to help compose for Sea of Stars!
I remember buying the SNES version of Chrono Trigger in January 2020 for about $100 cad, then returning to that same game store about three or four months later and seeing another copy for more than double what I paid.
I see by your profile pic that you are a person of culture
This game was the perfect blend of pudding from the expression when they say the proof is in the pudding well Chrono Trigger is that pudding. Loved your review mate.
Love your honesty and pure joy with this! Subbed!!
Playing Chrono Trigger for the first time currently, and while it did take some time for me to get into it, I'm glued onto my screen now!
Love this. There are so many older games, especially JRPGs, I want to play and discover for the first time, but it’s kind of a lonely feeling when the titles feel almost obsolete at this point.
Idk if anyone else feels this way, but just knowing others are still exploring classic games for the first time, makes me feel more motivated and cheerful about doing the same
I constantly play older games and mostly RPGs. Played through Wild Arms this year. 2022 is gonna be a big year for old JRPGs for me.
Tackle that game my boy its a first for me
I mostly only enjoy older jrpgs. I try to get into all the new ones, but I just get bored. Using graphics and flash to cover up the story and characters just aren’t there. So much filler, it’s just hard, but I continue. I’ve played some that really stand out ie Child of Light, Nier Automata, Radiant Historia, DQ11…so there is still hope out there. Ready to play Tales of Arise, Scarlett Nexus, Triangle Strategy, and Sea of Stars.
@@hugbuzzard I'm kind of in a similar boat, but DQ11 caught me off gaurd with just how good it is. A proper modern evolution of the DQ games. Shame the same can't be said of Final Fantasy...
@@ERWebster I have faith for the quality of Final Fantasy 16. I’m digging the “gothic fantasy”/Game of Thrones-type vibe I’m getting from the trailers. I think it’s gonna surprise everyone. And FFVII Remake was absolutely stellar, so I know the boys at Square still have it in them to create some solid work.
I played Chrono Trigger in 1995 on SNES; blown away as the best RPG of it's time (right next to FF6)
but now I play Octopath (first time this year) and I completely in awe in how much it reminds me of CT and FF6 put together.
I wanted to cry as soon as I heard the intro song.
If you like Chrono Trigger then you should play Lunar Silver Star Story on the PSVita. It’s so good.
I had been an SE fan since FF on NES, and I got most SquareSoft games at launch. I love this game so much. I can't count how many times ive played this game over the decades
I played chrono trigger for the first time in 1996 still can't get enough of it
First time I played the game was on my iPhone xr in 2019, and I didn’t regret it. The feeling of open world/time travel give it a really unique feeling.
Remember playing this on an emulator 10 years ago and just loving everything about Chrono Trigger. A classic masterpiece.
Chrono was the first RPG i ever played, and its my favorite game of all times. i can play this game over and over again without getting bored.
Whenever I play CT I’m amazed it’s a SNES game. All that story and gameplay in that format wow.
TLDR: Nice review. I had a great personal experience with this game and wrote a long comment about it just recanting my childhood and how I also didn't play it until years later on my New Nintendo 3DS with a used copy after hearing it praised to high heaven. Its in my top 25 games of all time now. Nice video.
Nice review. Just subscribed to a bunch of new gaming channels from another channel who was shouting out channels and after that this video popped in my recommendations so I checked out the video and smashed that good ole' subscribe button as is tradition on this here website. I don't know why I'm typing in this dialect like I'm from the old dirty West in some sort of spaghetti western but its the first day of 2022 and I have my own head cannon about the events of 2021; still trying to piece together 2020 and 2021 but at the same time I wouldn't mind undergoing some Eternal Sunshine therapy to just forget those years for the most part. Yes Chrono Trigger is a fantastic SNES game. Although I grew up with an NES our family never got an SNES. The SNES was just something I heard about on the playground and once in a while a "rich" neighborhood kid might have one so everyone would ride their bikes, hear a familiar tune, race for the ice cream man and then buy a half melted demented Sonic pop with gumball eyes and a strawberry shortcake, then hop back on our BMX with sticky hands (and somehow Cheeto fingers) and rush to play a few minutes mostly watching said "rich" kid play the Super Nintendo. For the most part I didn't really realize the Super Nintendo was as popular as it was until decades later on RUclips. In my neighborhood it seemed most of the kids on the block just kept playing the NES as their parents thought Nintendo was trying to pull a fast one by selling a new system when they thought the old NES should just be able to magically play the "tapes" the SNES did. Anyways we eventually upgraded to the Nintendo 64 one Christmas after we moved to Chicago and that was a magic time and also when I realized my dad's vision wasn't good and felt bad whooping his butt in Mario Kart 64.
So this is a long story for nostalgia sake and I also didn't play this game until the DS version after hearing people praise it endlessly. I went in knowing very little about it though and I think because of that I ended up thoroughly enjoying it to the point I would rank it in my top 25 games of all time and definitely one of my top 10 RPGs. I also played it on a New Nintendo 3DS XL and got a used copy and don't even recall seeing the game new on shelves and during the DS era I was playing all sorts of wacky games like Dragon Quest Rocket Slime. The music in this game along with the 16 bit art style and beautiful (though super low res) cut scenes hold up well. I felt like I was going back in my own sort of time machine playing this game as the sprite work and beautiful animation and music washed over me upon seeing the overhead view of the city with the smoke billows and balloons from the fair. I loved the story and not having expectations about the contents of the game itself before playing I was really impressed with the time traveling to all the different eras and exploring ruins and prehistoric cave people as well as the companions you meet along the way. For some reason Frog aka カエル (translates: frog) was a character I instantly gravitated toward. I liked the simple backstory for Frog without spoiling it for any new players.
The game took me quite a good chunk of time to beat I'd say just over 40 hours really spending my time with it and exploring every nook and cranny and not using any guides. How Long To Beat says 23 hours for main story and 44 1/2 for Completionists. I think HLTB skews heavily towards the fast side of game completion time but that's another meandering rant. I like that the DS added some simple options like changing the menu colors, listening to the soundtrack, having options for some of the systems in the game. I played it and beat it once and made my own memories with it. I think Chrono Cross has an even better soundtrack but I never played the game. Still I'm hoping the Nintendo Switch gets a port or some basic remaster that just adds options and upscales without trying to change too much. It's been a few years since my last play through and although I bought it on iOS out of an impulse purchase one night I haven't played it. I think in a year or so I'd like to play it again. To me it's a classic in the sense of Scarface the movie where I love it and see why it's so acclaimed and once in a green moon I like to bust it out and have a romp down memory lane. I think the time travel aspect of the game combined with the 16 bit art has made it very meta in the sense that gamers are going back to this time and time traveling back to a time when RPGs were still burgeoning in the USA and Western world and they are time traveling in a game who's animator has been incredibly influential, who's composer has been incredibly influential, and with a developer who's pedigree stands for the pinnacle of RPGs decades later.
Chrono trigger low key allowed tell tale games to exist they had free will and actions with consequences when no one was doing it
The segment with the Dragon Tank where the game told the player what to do was early in. It was the second boss fight, iirc. And it introduced a mechanic that continued to apply to many of the other multi-part bosses of the game. So it was basically like having a tutorial level or boss fight without having it explicitly called a tutorial level.
Just finished beating it for the first time 🤠
Now I understand why everyone has such high regard for it. Wow!
I had the exact same experience that you described here watching The Godfather recently where I realized that the movie was the progenitor of a lot of movies/tv shows I loved, including Breaking Bad. I also had a similar experience recently with FF VII where I've seen a lot of its DNA in more recent FF's. Although I can't say that I "love" the classics more than the things I experienced first - for instance, I still love Breaking Bad more than The Godfather - I still have developed a sincere appreciation and gratefulness for the classics which inspired my favorite shows and games.
Yasunori Mitsuda is the main composer for Chrono Trigger (and Cross)
He had a hard drive crash that made him lose all compositions and health problems close to the deadline, and Mr. Uematsu stepped in for a number of tracks, but he is still regarded as the main music guy for Chrono
I’m so sad for ppl who still haven’t played this masterpiece. Went through it on the SNES era and it is still on my Mount Rushmore of videogames.
Easily, one of the greatest games ever made with one of the best OSTs ever composed.
I fell in love with the game for all the reasons you mentioned, but also because you could recruit magus in the party if you wanted, or you could kill him with frog. Having one of the bad guys join you was so awesome… and magus is just awesome with the dark magic.
Chrono trigger is still one of the best games ever made. It’s sad some companies don’t even try anymore.
I'd dare to say that Chrono Trigger is justly praised because while it may appear to be an dated, standard RPG from yesteryear. When this title surfaced decades ago, there was nothing even remotely close! Final Fantasy 6 was a great game, no question but its formula was too standard. It had a great narrative but didn't pioneer too many original gameplay elements. Whereas Chrono Trigger really was the OG of so many contributions that future generations of gamers take for granted...even now, most gamers are stranded these days. They're all left aghast as they observe all these elder gamers revering an old-school 16 bit game more than many, if not all of the current roster of videogames.
It's not so much that developers are not trying to produce original games, I just think Squaresoft unwittingly set the bar too high. They've even backed themselves into a corner, it seems.
I played Chrono Trigger on my SNES when it first came out. An absolutely amazing game, but the first jrpg I ever played (FF2 as it was called when it was released) will always still be my favorite.
I usually get very bothered by times when I hear people needing things to impact them or wow them right from the beginning.
In my life, I've found that the most well-made and often profound pieces of entertainment I've experienced throughout the years always take time to unfold, reveal their layers, and build toward their greatness.
I'm glad you ended up seeing what most of us have in the end!
Chrono Trigger is a classic, around 20 hours in a first time play through, near perfect pacing, and characters that are linked together throughout time. It gives you multiple endings, lots of freedom and still is such a tight story driven adventure that people can talk about it for all these iconic moments. Sometimes graphics get in the way, and this might have been a problem for you, it is on the DS and would have looked even worse on a 3DS with the screens being cut down, hopefully one day they do a remake of this game, a straight up retelling with modern graphics, because I think it deserves to be played on modern systems. I'd give it another go at that point if I were you. I do wonder what your choices were in the game, what did you do with Magnus? Chrono? how did you feel about 12,000bc? This game remains my favorite RPG of all time, FF7 and Xenoblade being 2 and 3, I just tip my hat to Chrono because of it's story telling and in such a brief game.
Hey Matty, Have you played Earthbound? Another retro RPG classic! The best JRPGS were on the SNES and PS2
Top 5 jRPG on my list
Mother 1 and Mother 3 are better IMO. But yeah.
@Shawn Cook Perhaps in your opinion. Not in mine. That’s kind of how opinions work.
Miss this game so much. Hands down my favorite rpg from my childhood.
I remember borrowing this game over and over again from our neighbor just to get all the endings 😆 . This game blew my mind from the start because I was just going to the festival with my friend lucca and BOOM! Your saving space time!.
Love your retro content man.
Another great video Matty! Hmm perhaps Matty looking for influences and inspiration for his game 🧐🤔🙌
We never got this here in Europe. I got it immediately when it finally made it to Germany via Nintendo DS. I absolutely loved it. It's one of those insanely good games we missed... just like Earthbound (which I finally got to play on Wii U).
Man the snes had so many jrpgs.... Chrono trigger, dragonquest 3, final fantasy 3, super mario rpg, earthbound, etc.
Playing this game as a kid on the SNES, I couldn't put it down. I remember reaching Magus' chamber in his castle, when everything was dark and quiet, and then ghostly blue torches started to light up the way. It was already late at night and I was alone in front of the screen as everybody else in my family was already asleep, so it was pretty spooky for kid me back then. And then the M man revealed himself, and that legendary musical score played, and we battled. And he kicked my party's ass. Great times.
chrono trigger was also the first game to have new game +, I'd say that's a pretty massive concept as well. something nearly every game has now.
I always pronounced her name "Marl". No idea if that's correct either. But you're spot on here, it's not that this game had some amazing story that resonates in you and makes you sad. (Final fantasy X did that for me) But it literally lavos spawned so many of the different things we see in games today. The time travel and the ability to ACTUALLY change things in different times...I've searched for so many other games with that idea and I've found so very few. That blows me away, because it's one of the coolest ideas and ways to play a game I've ever experienced. I can only think of Chrono trigger, Radiant Historia, FF 13-2. But yeah, this game is an all time favorite.
I remember playing this game back when it came out in 1995. It was the SNES version and I remember being blown away by the story. It was like a sci-fi story (which I'm really into). my family didn't have money to buy the $60-65 (would be like $120-160 in todays dollars) game cartridges back then, so I only ever got to play the first quarter of the game. The SNES had awesome RPGs. A link to the past, Chrono Trigger, EarthBound (this one I played later on), Secret of Mana (will be playing this one next!). I'm so glad Nintendo doesn't own the rights to this game! It's on PC, iOS, etc. Not sure if it's on Android or not. I'd say this might actually be the best game that was on that system.
CHRONO TRIGGER is the Seinfeld of the games industry ❤️ timeless and classic.
Edit: I’m also a fan of XIII-2.
I recently started XIII-2 on Xbox game pass. 60 frames per second. It’s pretty fun.
Mitsuda is a genius.
Not even 4 minutes in and I already have to pause and say: based Radiant Historia enjoyer
5:54 That's just suspension of disbelief. The term Ludonarrative Dissonance originated from a Bioshock analysis, where the gameplay allowed the player to choose between embracing objectivism (kill the Little Sisters for a big boost in power) or being humanist (heal the Little Sisters for a small boost in power), while the rest of the narrative has you railroaded into antagonizing objectivism until you beat the final boss. The main thing everyone misses is that this dissonance is intentional and not an obvious incongruence between narrative and gameplay that gets you out of the immersion (like the rest of the Internet started using the term for).
11:07 Because the original Chrono Trigger didn't have cutscenes (the cutscenes first were added in the PS version), so if you're playing for a SNES nostalgia trip, they'll pull you out of the experience.
11:34 Gotta love how one can characterize a silent protagonist. It reminds me how a couple of youtubers complained about the Persona 5 characters being at first hesitant on going back to the other world (like if risking life and limb on a dangerous place for no good reason is something a normal teenager is eager to do)
12:48 Oh, yes! The Trial is one of the most memorable parts of the game. I wonder how many people got the guilty verdict in their first run. Fun thing: if you don't attempt to escape the jail on your own, you get taken to the execution room, Lucca breaks in during your execution, saves you and joins your party for the whole jail break level (instead of joining just before the boss fight).
Agree with everything you said. It’s not the story. Like many JRPGS they introduce too many characters, worlds and side plots. But it doesn’t even matter because the music, art and mechanics hold up very, very well.
Me playing Chrono Trigger as a kid for the first time: wow, the sprites are so beautiful. It looks better than Mario. And the music is kinda catchy. Umm, how do you play this? I’m confused…
A few hours later: time travel? this is fun! What a goofy, fun adventure!
Then: a trial!? Hahaha. I’m enjoying this! The music here is so catchy.
Then: wait, what just happened? Why does the future look so dreary? Lavos, what the hell is that? Wait, The world ended??????
A few hours later: i just killed Magus, wasn’t he the big bad guy? I fixed the future, right? Hold on, where/when the hell was my party sent to? A frozen landscape? (Corridors of time starts to play), this music… It’s gorgeous!
Hours later: wow, this story is deeper than I originally thought. This is not a goofy time traveling adventure at all. The reason this story even exists is because a mother abused her children to the point where she forced her own daughter to commune with the evil that is slowly killing their world. My 12 year old brain can’t handle this.
A few hours later: we have to save Crono, guys! We have to fix this! For Schala! For Janus! Let’s rid our world of this parasite!
End credits: I just played the greatest game ever made.
@ absolutely! When I realized that you can recruit that villain my tiny little brain exploded. So many great memories.
I obsessed over this game when it first came out. Had to get every item and skill, do all the side quests, and of course try for all the different end scenes.
After doing all that, I decided to grind New Game+ and attempt to defeat Lavos during that first encounter, via The Mammon Machine and Queen Zeal… and eventually did just that. It’s very hard and time consuming breaking through the shell, you need dozens of Megalixers, but it can be done. The inner parts, they’re not beefed up so the rest is a cake walk.
I'd love to see you do a retro review of my favorite game with the time travel mechanic - Zelda Majoras Mask. Having to jump back and forth thru time to set up events was sheer brilliance to me. That and Ocarina are timeless classics
Chrono trigger was a huge deal then and still is. Best story, gameplay, and the best music ever. Hard to compare it to anything.
It is great whenever you hear so much hype about a game and finally sit down to play it, even after years or decades, for the first time and realize that the hype was real. The game is as good as all the stories you have heard. But it is a completely different story when a game does not. That is what happened to me and Resident Evil 4. I hated the Game Cube controller, so I never picked up a game Cube. So, I never played RE4 when it was first released. But I heard about it. From everyone. Every magazine, website, person, gamer, employee, I mean everyone. Fast forward several years when RE4 is finally released for the PC. I buy it off of STEAM, install it, and prepare to have my mind blown. I mean, it is RE4. Everyone and their grandma have this thing on a pedestal like it is the greatest video game ever created by man.
And boy howdee. After finishing RE4 for the first time I was thoroughly disappointed. To me the hype was not at all deserved. Sometimes, though, a game has to be played in it's time to see the greatness shine, sometimes good games don't age well. Was RE4 bad? no. but playing it for the first time over a decade after it was released did not help any. I had seen many of the trends in the video game industry that RE4 helped cement. I was annoyed by the unimaginative plot devices which told the player where to go. it felt like it was holding my hand the entire time instead of letting me just figure it out myself. It was a far cry from RE 1&2 that I loved so much.
It is great when a game lives up to the hype. But it is equally sucky when they don't
You may be asking yourself "what is the point of this story?"
I like stories.
If Final Fantasy VII could get a remake, Chrono Trigger could make a comeback.
I’ve also played this for the first time earlier this year. It is now in my top 5 games ever. When the theme for the Epoch kicks in for the first time I thought my party was destined for greater things. The late game quests were some of the best things I’ve ever experienced in a game. I played the bad PS1 classic on PS3 and I still really loved it. My second favorite JRPG ever to P5 Royal
Amazing! It’s my favorite game of all time!
I bought it on the ps1, hopefully it’s not unbearable to play
@@damascus6480 the load times going through menus/into battles was bad. I got used to it
While saying earlier this year do you mean like, start of 2021? It's been a year, man.
@@mmert138 I think beat it early June? It was right before Ratchet came out I believe
Played C. Trigger in the 90s when I was in middle school. Please - Please - Please - Remake it in HD-2D. I will buy it for whatever system it releases for ~ Thanks for the video!
I play it once every couple years. gives me the same feeling every time. Classic
Least we not forget that Chrono Trigger created the New Game+ feature that many, many modern games have adapted back into use today.
There was so much innovation and trailblazing in this game. It's a huge testament to a 30 year old game, when you can play it and realize it doesn't feel "old". The fact that it's standards and mechanics are still common in gaming today, is a huge, huge, indicator of what this game's stamp is in the history of gaming.
I still have my SNES and Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross. These were some of my favorite games, I still have memories of playing them for the first time.
I will obtain chrono trigger for the second time this december(probably). I played it on the DS many years ago, but wasn't into rpgs then, so I am looking forwards to experiencing the game again, I have new goggles on. Everybody says Chrono Trigger is a true masterpiece, so I have to give it a try!
Nobuo only did a few tracks. The main composer is Yasunori Mitsuda!
Super happy you got a chance to play this! Better late than never.
A lot of big character moments in CT happen in the sidequests. This game has a simple story, but it's how they decided to tell that story is what makes it perfect. The paciing is flawless and there is no fat, they knew what they needed to do, and they nailed the execution.I also didn't have much a problem with Chrono's motivation because he is just the player's avatar.