I quickly began to understand what drew so many people to this game.
It was a roundabout way to play but the SNES Classic controller feels authentic and I felt like I was playing in a traditional enough fashion.Ībout two weeks of playing in the evenings is what it took to finish it but I know if I was more focused I could have knocked it out in a weekend. This time I played the Wii port of the game on a Wii U, using the SNES Classic controller. With newfound knowledge of games and story-telling, I poured through Chrono Trigger and every single detail I could find. Unlike FFVI, I had the time and the reason to come back and finish what I started. I am deeply familiar with the first couple hours of Chrono Trigger I’ve had similar experiences with Final Fantasy VI, another masterpiece RPG. Later attempts would leave me distracted by the time I restored the Masamune sword or I would only play the beginning chapter. Some of the best parts of the story I missed out on and I admit that I dropped the game there, defeated, bested by a laser-shooting turtle. I later realized that I was attempting the fight too early in the story where I was instead supposed to take down Magus and eventually discover the floating Kingdom of Zeal. Much like how the monster was a parasite lodged deep in the muscles of the planet, Lavos infected my mind.Īfter seeing my party of heroes ripped apart time and time again by the seemingly unstoppable force of this alien beast, I think I was genuinely afraid of Lavos. Throughout the time-hopping endeavor, there was always the threat of Lavos hanging over everything. Looking more like a giant crustacean with the beak of a squid than anything else, this creature sports an iconic cry almost like that of Godzilla or many other Toho kaiju. Lavos may be one of my favorite monsters in video games. Every waking moment was dedicated to Chrono’s adventure, Frog’s tragedy, and the impending force of Magus and beyond, that otherworldly creature known as Lavos. We had been combing through a dusty book of RPG discs, popping them in to see a few opening cutscenes, maybe summon a few monsters, but the pixel art and unique gameplay of Chrono Trigger enchanted me so we decided to finally beat it one summer week. I first encountered Chrono Trigger as a teenager, where a friend of mine introduced me to the PSOne version. Almost twenty years later, that monstrous screech echoing in my subconscious, I faced the beast once more and finally prevented the cataclysm.
It’s a game that I have started on multiple occasions but never saw it through, getting stuck when facing down Lavos albeit I was attempting this climactic encounter way earlier than expected. Thankfully, Chrono Trigger is a concise adventure that can be finished in about twenty hours so it fit into my tight schedule well enough. I was recently given an opportunity to contribute to another project which led me to warrant playing through Chrono Trigger, a game hailed as one of the best ever crafted.
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I would love to further explore series like Dragon Quest, Suikoden, and Shin Megami Tensei but finding the time for these massive games is hard, especially when I’m actively reviewing new releases. There is a long list of games I would like to get to eventually, many of them being JRPGs.