Chrono Trigger

Chrono Trigger is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Square Enix Product Development Division 5 and released in 2008. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Chrono Trigger is the ninth of 17 entries we hold in the Chrono series. It arrived 7 years after Final Fantasy Chronicles. The next entry was Chrono Trigger in 2011. Its critic score of 74 is 8 points below the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Chrono Trigger at 91.

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Chrono Trigger holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Players rate it 83, 9 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

The main story runs about 25 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 37.4 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.

Chrono Trigger launched on 20 November 2008, within three weeks of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: World at War. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: World at War.

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