Chrono Trigger Comments by Simon Parkin

@orange goblin I'm importing mine from yesasia as I don't really know of any other importers. Cost me just over £30 with the cheapest delivery option.

Chrono Trigger is fantastic and I'd love to play this again on my DS. But I played the emulated SNES version years ago and I'm not sure if I like the additional anime cutscenes though...

Contrary to what the review says Chrono Cross is certainly *not* inferior to Chrono Trigger. Where CT is the best JRPG on the SNES, so is CC on the PS1. IGN gave it the highest accolades back in 2000. Contrary to what I expected CC is not a sequel in the literary sense, but a spiritual successor it definitely is.

@McFly55
You and me both, can't wait for it to arrive! I'll buy it again when it comes out here as well, I wish there were more RPG's as great as this one.

@ mark1
"Never got the chance to play this on the SNES as I got a playstation instead!
So I've decided to import it! Yay"

So why didn't you just play it on Playstation then? It was a crap port (inventory screen pausing hell!), but it was available.

I'll be buying this when it hits Europe, and I've no doubt it'll be great. But I can't help but think it's one of those games that you had to play at the time to fully appreciate. And in that respect it'll probably end up disappointing me, what with everyone going around saying it's the greatest RPG ever an' all.

Then again, I didn't play FFVI 'til 2002, and I thought it was immense even then.

One of the loveliest things they included was an easily-found rare enemy that gave about 10x the usual magic-experience - just when you needed to level-grind Frog/Ayla so they actually had some techniques to use!

Chrono Trigger is cool, but FFVI trounces it. :)

Can we get Chrono Cross on PSN now? No, OK thought not...

It is by far one the best games I have ever played and it really is sincerely one of those timeless games which don't age. Even if you hate jprgs you can't hate chrono trigger.

If this comes out during an inevitable game drought next year I will definitely pick it up. I'm not really a JRPG fan but the review points out that this got rid of most of the things that I don't like about them. My DS could do with something to play on it.

£26.50 with postage from Video Games Plus.

Linky

I recommend play-asia.com (shipping about $3)
Also heard yesasia is good, but ive never used it myself.

Read the review now:
Hmm, while I wont argue with the 10/10, the reviewer seems to try to make "excuses" all the time, saying its not really an rpg at all etc.
For everyone who never played it and aint very fond of RPGs. It is an rpg! If rpgs aint your thing, dont get this. In the same way i wouldnt reccomend GranTurismo# to anyone who's not a fan of racing games.

All in all a rather shitty review for a superb game.

Is there any sort of Wi-Fi mutliplayer?, the trailer ( in Japanese ) seems to hint at there being some.

Just curious realy.

I'm disappointed they didn't do more with the remake, but having finished it for the first time about a year ago I think I agree with the score.

It really has aged superbly and the story is excellent as are the characters. Good stuff.

Import retailers I can vouch for: VG+, NCSX.

Both fast and reliable.

This game is ace, and the reviewr is quite right to point out how bad it makes current JRPGs look. I'd argue that the golden era extends to FFVII/Xenogears and the PS1 in general, but it's amazing how stagnant that area of gaming has become. FFXII was a good effort to do something new on the combat side but the story was atrocious.

It deserves a 11/10!

thanks for comments - I feel a Christmas import coming on

RE: Chrono Cross - myself and Mr. Parkin have always managed to steer clear of this argument whenever we're discussing RPGs, but I love it and he hates it. He's clearly wrong, and therefore shouldn't be allowed to give people his opinions for moneys.

By which I mean: awesome review, buddy!

maybe

Oh dear, I think Im gonna cry. Thank you Squenix... *sniff*

I have always said, and will continue to do so...

Chrono Trigger isTHE BEST game I have ever played, I really rate it that high.
I first encountered it on a SNES emulation site because it looked somewhat interesting,,,it far exceeded anything I had ever played up to that point, this was in 2001, I would wake up early frequently to play this game.
To experience the music, the story, the characters, hell the battle system is even great! Watching characters perform their dual or even TRIPPLE techs whilst the epic boss battle music played is an experience awarded only by this game!

So many years down the line this game can still teach gamers valule lessons as to what a decent game actually is. I needn't tell you to stick with it because I'm pretty damned sure that you will anyway! To those of you that have yet to play Chrono Trigger game, wait for this one, because you will blown away.

I am absolutley going to purchase a DS for this game!

As someone who has never played Chrono Trigger, this review is absolutely terrible. Why should I be interested? I don't understand where that 10 came from after reading the text.

@Incredulous_Fish

Because it is one of the best balanced rpg games in history, the game play is very smooth, you're not bothered with difficult upgrade stats and schemes, it's fairly charming to look at, i could go on and on. It's a game that gets almost everything right. (with the exception of catching the rat/cat/whatever thing)

Still, I liked FFVII better

/runs

One of the most moving reviews I have ever read. Chrono Trigger is our masterpiece, many will agree when I say that Chrono Trigger far surpasses anything the movie industry has ever come up with and it is right up there with the best of them such as Michelangelo in terms of human achievement.

Sure some people might not understand Chrono Trigger, but it seems fairly clear to me that for a work of art to be truly perfect that some people HAVE to not understand it.

And to think, some people are young or foolish enough to say that Halo is the best game ever, or that Citizen Kane is somehow the best story ever told (I did enjoy Kane, but nothing will ever immerse you and no story will hold you like Chrono Trigger did the first time you play it.

@dk_rare: lol, most people wont understand such subtle irony, dude.

This is the friendliest, most helpful selection of comments there has been on Eurogamer for some time. RPG fans and handheld gamers are a genuinely nice bunch.

please, call us Nerds

Crono (so named because removing the 'h' freed up much-needed cartridge space in the SNES original[...]

Cartridge space. XD

I'm not a big fan of JRPGs but it's certainly the best RPG I have ever played.

Also the second best JRPG I have ever played was Secrets of Mana, which also didn't have random encouters, and fast paced combat (not a 1 minute long summon in sight), no teen angst (yes both protagonists are teens but they are mute, unlike others who yap their faces off, someone rip their tongue out).

See the pattern, Mr JRPG developer? Since those two games, most JRPGs just makes me annoyed: random encounters, excessive xp grinding, teen angst themes, cliched and uninteresting storylines, even the FFVII steampunk setting was a hell of a lot more interesting than Ivalice's rainbow color fantasy land, etc... Maybe I'm too westernized.

If like me many moons ago you spent £80 on a just released super nintendo US final fantasy VI cart, than a year later forked out another £90 on the super nintendo US chrono trigger cart than you would be doubly dissapointed.. Firstly because final fantasy VI is a far superior JRPG having the having better characters and script, but also secondly at the same time of purchasing import chrono trigger being able to possibley purchase the also just released yoshis island on japanese... And did'nt..

Chrono trigger is a definate top squaresoft title but suffers more importantly from some JRPG Cliché...

"This wide-angle examination of cause and effect, always videogaming's primary theme" /chokes on pipe. You are joking aren't you? Aren't you? Sigh.

I'm definitely buying this. I'm currently pretty hooked by the DS version of FF4.

Bloody ell.

"Borrows" wife's DS and goes shopping


Joy!

i played a rom of it two years ago, and must admit, it never really grabbed me.

Personally Grandia and FFX are the pinnacle of the RPG genre, but roms neverreally capture the essence of playing on a real onsole, so I might just give this another chance...

Just picked it up 2day to see what all the fuss is about and I honestly can't put it down! The score is brilliant too!

Chrono Trigger really suprised me.

I played it first time on PSP Emulation. And there were lot of glitches and such resulting from poor emulation.
But man does this game just deliver one of the most satisfied experiences ever. I will like some others declare that Chrono Trigger is the high mark for JRPG games. This game were so ahead of its time. And its just awesome they finally decided to give it another chance althrough sad they don't created a bit more out of it. The game still holds to the test of time.

Some will agree and disagree. But i was totally moved by game when i played it in 2004 on a poor emulator.
Would had never imagined Chrono Trigger would be immenseful and deliver such strong memories.

Wow nearly 2 full pages and no one wrote; "better than Killzone 2"

Wow nearly 2 full pages and no one wrote; "better than Killzone 2"

That "type" of gamers doesn't care about gems like these...

Going to pick it up myself today, arrived in the shops here in Belgium

Am I the only person who noticed that this review is almost exactly the same as Edge's article on Chrono Trigger in their 100 Greatest Games special edition (page 98)? The language has been dumbed down, but there are too many similarities to ignore. If this is plagiarism, guys, shame on you.

This game is awful. Because it's shitty jRPG.