Chrono Trigger
In this turn-based Japanese RPG, young Crono must travel through time through a misfunctioning teleporter to rescue his misfortunate companion and take part in an intricate web of past and present perils. The…
Chrono Trigger is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Bird Studio, released 11 March 1995 on Wii, Satellaview, Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The main story takes about 29.2 hrs to finish.
What Chrono Trigger is
Chrono Trigger is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Bird Studio and released in 1995. It was published by Square. It is available on Wii, Satellaview, Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Crono Meets Marle In 1000 A.D., a teenager named Crono from Truce attends a fair made to celebrate 1000 years since the Kingdom of Guardia's founding. While at the fair, he meets Princess Nadia, or Marle, who is the immediate heir to Guardia. Crono and Marle participate in a demonstration of Crono's friend Lucca's teleportation device; a reaction between it and Marle's pendant, handed down for generations, causes a time Gate to open and transport Marle to 600 A.D., the middle ages. Crono immediately follows using the pendant, and discovers that Marle has been mistaken for the Queen of Guardia of that era (Queen Leene had been missing prior to Marle's entrance, and the search party mistook…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Chrono series
Chrono Trigger is the first of 17 entries we hold in the Chrono series. The next entry was Chrono Trigger: Character Library in 1995. Its critic score of 91 is 9 points above the series average of 82. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Chrono Trigger holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 96% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 25 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 92, across 1,394 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 29.2 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 45 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Chrono Trigger launched on 11 March 1995, within three weeks of Star Wars: Dark Forces, Descent, Discworld and Front Mission. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Star Wars: Dark Forces, Descent, Discworld, Front Mission.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Chrono Trigger yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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