Chrono Trigger is regarded as one of the best games of all time by many people. It was made by a group referred to as "The Dream Team". The Dream Team was made up of Hironobu Sakaguchi of the Final Fantasy series, Yuiji Horii of the Dragon Warrior games, character designer Akira Toriyama of [Dragonball Z]? and music composers Yasunori Mitsuda of Xenogears and [Chrono Cross]?, and Nobuo Uematsu of the Final Fantasy series. Chrono Trigger is the story of a group of adventures who travel across time to save the future. Along the way they acquire allies from other time periods in an attempt to defeat the alien parasite Lavos that is slowly destorying the planet. You evenutally gain seven playable characters (including Crono, Marle, Lucca, Frog, Robo, Ayla, and Magus, in order of appearance) and travel to more than five different time periods (prehistoric times, the ice age, 400 years from present time, present time, and 1000 and 1300 years into the future, in chronological order, but not neccessarily in the order that the characters visit them).
One interesting note about Chrono Trigger is that the main character, Crono, never talks, though the other characters seem to act as though he does. This seems to be for the purpose of allowing the player to be in Crono's shoes, and talk for him.
One of the main problems with the game is it's short playtime. It takes approximately 20 to 25 hours to complete the game, which is a very short timespan for a SNES RPG (Final Fantasy 4, for instance, takes about 40 hours). To solve this problem, the developers of the game created quite a few multiple endings that the player could earn, including several secret endings. Also, they invented the "New Game +" system, which allowed you to start an new game with all the various rare and powerful equipment and experience you ended another game with. This allowed the player to search for other hidden endings very quickly.
The remade for the PlayStation featured Anime movies spread through the game at key sequences and a bonus mode that allows you to listen to the game's music, watch the movies, view enemy stats, and much more.
A side story for Chrono Trigger was released for Nintendo's Satellaview? add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and was called Radical Dreamers. Radical Dreamers was completely redone for the PlayStation and released in the U.S. in the year 2000 as [Chrono Cross]?. The original Radical Dreamers was a very short game, available only in Japan. However, [Chrono Cross]? was redone with many more characters, a complete and total revisal of the plot, and other such advancements to convert Radical Dreamers into a full-size RPG, [Chrono Cross]?.
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