Retro Review - Chrono Trigger (SNES)

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Nostalgia and good memories is what comes to mind when we name a game as important as it was Chrono Trigger, is an RPG created by the old Squaresoft, when they were not yet converted In the now Square-Enix, this excellent game game was released for the famous SuperNintendo on March 11, 1995 for Japan and on August 22 of that same year for the United States, in this post I will make A review of a game that slashes perfection in too many ways.

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Chrono Trigger tells us the adventures through time travel and different timelines that our heroes should experience. It all begins when our main hero named Crono a young man with reddish hair, and with a look (much like Gohan of the anime Dragon Ball), decides to go to the Millennium Festival,

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a celebration that is celebrated in her city, in order to find her friend Lucca, since she has built a teleportation machine with the help of her father, but when she goes to the place where she is Her friend, Crono stumbles upon a girl named Marle, who accompanies her throughout the festival until finally the two arrive to where Lucca.

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But suddenly everything changes when the machine fails and creates a portal that absorbs Marle, that is why Chrono decides to go find it and when they pass the other side of the portal realize that they have traveled through time, In the same way Lucca also crosses the portal to help Crono, when all three are gathered observe that that time where they are is a future where the world is in danger.

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But they will be in charge of saving the world and the humanity, these will embark in several trips in time in order to change the temporal lines, during their adventures in the time they will know to infinity of personages that will help them and to comprise their equipment to The pair that enemies who tried to stop them. But they have a mission that is to save the future of what will be their world.

The characters we will have in this game are:

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Chrono: It is the main protagonist of the game, its power comes from the light, as physically mention looks like Gohan of anime Dragon Ball, only this one has a color of reddish hair.

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Marle: It's who Cronos encounters when it comes to going to the festival, she is royalty and her powers come from the ice magic, it has a certain resemblance to Bulma from Dragon Ball.

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Lucca: It is the friend that Chrono, the two live in the same town, love robotics and make inventions, she possesses the magic of fire, physically looks like Arale of Dr. Slump

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Frog: At first glance it is a giant frog that owns a sword, but in fact is a knight with a great skill in the use of the sword, he was transformed into frog by a spell realized by Magus . Its power is water.

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Robo: This character we know in a timeline where future is desolate and destroyed, he does not have any kind of magic but has a lot of strength.

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Ayla: She is a girl they know when they travel to prehistory, has great physical strength, but can not do magic or carry any kind of weapon.

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Magus: It is of the characters with more charisma in the game, is responsible for that the form of frog that has Frog, in the beginning is our enemy, but soon we have the possibility to kill it or not, with which This one can join our team, possesses the power of the dark, this one has a personality similar to the one of Piccolo of Dragon Ball.

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When Chrono Trigger came out in 1995, many were stunned by the quality in the details both the scenarios and in the characters, with a design in the sprites of the characters so well molded and using an excellent color palette,

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always striking, the animations of the characters were correctly created,

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You could observe details as small as: at the end of a fight our characters hid their respective weapons, they looked in the direction of the enemy and something as common as the characters blink, it is these little things that show great love And love that developers had when creating such a wonderful game, proving this game is one of the best RPG in history.

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Many will have noticed that the characters of Chrono Trigger have some similar to those of Dragon Ball, before mentioning it, and this is because the great Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball and Dr.Slump, was in charge of the design of the characters, giving a unique style to this game, as it is well known that Akira Toriyama is a master in drawing, and it is in this game where Gives more to shine.

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Very few have a soundtrack as beautiful and perfect as this game, Crono Trigger have a lot of melodies and music of the highest quality, this is responsible for conveying the right feelings to what the game wants To pose, soundtrack that was composed largely by Yasunori Mitsuda, it should be noted that Chrono Trigger was the first work of Yasunori, but was able to demonstrate his great professionalism at the time of composition Of the melodies, in spite of the limitation of the SuperNintendo (SNES), there is no song that can be considered bad or that is very repeatable, with a compilation of 50 songs and melodies that go from songs that Transmit sadness, epic or mystery, necessary to be one of the best soundtracks made for a video game.

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The combat style of Chrono Trigger is a turn-based RPG, but it can be said that it has some of the fun and very dynamic game styles compared to others, with a fast combat system and a not so high difficulty , But not easy, has an exact measure so it is not a game that you frustrate how difficult it can be, we can also find puzzles that although not very difficult you will have to think a little to solve them.

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The battle system is the best and something ahead of its time, a game where the fights are in turn, consisting of touching the enemy in question and start the fight, where at the time we play our team will enter training Of fight, in addition is very important at the time of the fights with enemies or bosses the use of combos of movement since depending the combo that we use will do more damage to our enemy.

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We must take into account that the bosses have to overcome with a specific type of strategy since in order to defeat them each boss has a trick to be able to finish them easily, this is why we must think agile when fighting They do not make a very difficult fight.

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During the battle scenario the enemy has the possibility to move in it, so we must be aware of the scope of the powers and abilities of our characters, since not all have the same range of attack.

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The main feature of this game is time travel, given that the actions we take in the past will have repercussions in the future, giving an innovative style to this wonderful game and is what gives the touch so we never get bored While we are playing.
Because we can travel in time and our actions in every era have repercussions, this game consists of different endings, specifically about 13 different endings, this makes Crono Trigger a good enough replayable, as as players we need to To know how are those endings and to enjoy the game to everything that gives.

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A game considered by many as the best RPG created and in addition to the best games made, a game that the years have not fallen on you, since despite the years has the same charisma and style that showed us by Those years of the SNES.

A masterpiece with excellent music, setting, character design and scenarios, catchy and original story, recommended for those fans of the games RPG, and also for those who for the first time want to try a game of this Style, undoubtedly a game that brings much nostalgia and revive the childhood and adolescence of many.

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