When my dad died I was forced to sell all of my videogames and my snes to make ends meet. Selling my mint condition CT (with map) was my biggest regret. Years later, the guy I sold it to became my friend without us immediately remembering we were the ones that had done the deal. When we did he gave me back CT as a birthday present and this is now my most treasured possession.

I also played Chrono trigger for the first time in 2012, so I can say it definitely isn’t nostalgia goggles. The game is a masterpiece, and it’s in my top 3 games of all time.

This game was ahead of it's time. No random battles (this didn't happen until Final Fantasy 12). Your choices in the game effected future events. Multiple endings. Incredible musical score, loveable cast. I'm not sure how you don't fall in love with this game.

Yasunori Mitsuda deserves 95% of the credit for this amazing soundtrack. He's easily right up there with Uematsu for "best game soundtrack composer ever" for me. I get it; he's not nearly as well-known as Uematsu, but hot _damn_ is he an absolute master at his craft.

I only played Chrono Trigger when the pandemic started. I was blown away. It was great. An amazing game. Played it on SNES.

While Uematsu did assist a little, the bulk of the OST was done by Yasunori Mitsuda.

11:18 Somebody didn't complete Frog's side story.

Great to hear the thoughts of someone playing this masterpiece for the first time. Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI epitomized my childhood!

Chrono trigger is honestly just a fun little adventure. A very refreshing break from other RPGs trying to be the coolest thing since, well, chrono trigger. It's ultimately a simple story, which is fun since as a cinematic experience. you run around finding new characters and you pick the ones you think are the coolest and those characters get extra lines during the story. And then you do all their sidequests to tie up their short arcs and then you fight lavos. It never feels complex, and you always want to do something because it's just the right thing to do, and that makes it very easy to enjoy.

My love for the game comes from the New Game + and all the various endings you can get. Never before or after has there been a game that I enjoy beating repeatedly.

Love your honesty and pure joy with this! Subbed!!

Literally my top game of ALL-TIME. Such a good story, characters, gameplay, MUSIC, everything.

I played this on release back in the 90s...imported it from the US to the UK for £70. That was ALOT back then. Best RPG I have played alongside final fantasy 6 (3 in the US). It's graphics have dated now but back in the day was pixel heaven with a fantastic story. It was top tier and still is amazing.

chrono trigger is a game that could stand up to modern titles if it got a graphical overhaul, that's how far ahead of its time it was

Chrono Trigger is like comfort food. It's simple, but delicious and makes you happy every time you play it, even if you know what it's going to taste like. It has elements that all JRPG fans would enjoy.

Ahhhhh! Such a great memory during this up when I was in middle school. I knew NOTHING about it and just knew I had loved FF4 and FF6. I’m jealous you got to have your first time with it.

honestly, even with all the forward thinking ideas Trigger had at the time, theres still to this day only 4 words you need to describe Chrono Trigger; NO FLUFF, JUST FUN

We owe everything not just to Chrono Trigger but to the Dream Team that made the game possible. They each brought their A game and it paid off big time. Nearly 30 years after its release and Chrono Trigger is still getting discovered by new players.

Hey Matty I just want to say I’ve been watching your videos since the fallout four hype and speculation. I just want to say it’s been a pleasure watching you grow over the years and I’m really enjoying this new channel. You seem like a really chill guy I could sit down and just talk about our love and passion with gaming. Have a good day bro

I remember this game costing $70 when it first came on the SNES. SNES cartridges tended to be more expensive than the CD-ROM based games of the 90s. I think that was because cartridges included chip technology that boosted the performance of the SNES. Chrono Trigger was definitely one of those cartridges that pushed the SNES to its limits and had to include additional memory on the chip for the game to work. Needless to say, I had to mow a lot of lawns to buy this game. But back in those days you really got your money's worth when you saved up for a game. It took me over a year to 100% complete it. With all of the endings, there was so much replay-ability. It was definitely one of my favorite games of all time. Back then I had a lot of free time, but not too many games, so having a game that lasted a long time was worth a lot to me. I feel like nowadays I have the opposite problem. I have too little time and way too many games I want to get through, so today I tend to prefer smaller games that I can finish quickly and don't have time for side quests and 100% completion. But even though I had fewer games as a kid, I felt like I got so much more out of them because I really put the time in to master them. I kind of miss those days.

Chrono trigger is my favorite RPG of all time and helped me to change my perspective on games for the better. I'm always happy that others are playing this game for the first time, it just has a unique magic and passion filled in it. Artistic masterpiece.

Great video and look into one of the more defining JRPGs ever made. I have very thick nostalgia goggles for this game and still have my SNES cart. It is my favorite game. It's always nice to see a newcomer play it and speak fondly of it, even if they don't agree with me that it's the best game ever.

Absolutely love the start with the old school TV, really makes me feel the retro vibes. Mario RPG next please!!!

Love your retro content man.

My worst part of ChronoTrigger: the only thing I remember about it, is that it was amazing. I hate getting old(er).

I would love to see Final Fantasy 9's quick time events in Chrono Trigger. Just imagining seeing how the various party members react to the food, culture, people and technology in various timelines. It would make for endless entertainment.

Him: It wasn't, like, a deeply captivating, emotionally moving story Me: *Sheds a tear every few years for Schala and Kid

Sup Matty. Been following you since youre Fallout 4 pre launch days. I love your videos. Im happy youre doing retro games. I love these old school jrpgs.

im glad you played this for the first time, great channel. Would like you to give Terranigma a playthrough from start to finish if possible

This was my first completed game as a kid and one of my fondest memories with my brother. We played this game together for what felt like months on end. We loved this game. It definitely has a special place in my heart

The moment you said you love Final Fantasy 13-2. I hit the subscribe button. Thank you my friend. Don’t worry, there are some people out there who like that game. I’m one of the few who platinumed it.

Let’s talk about the real reason this game is the best of all time. The characters feel United. Unified. You form an instant lovable bond with all of them. Magnus a character who’s a villain in his own right. Puts his ego aside and helps our heroes fight the real evil thats threatening both of their timelines. It felt like you held the weight of this world on your shoulders. And these characters are all main characters in their own right. All would be loved as main characters in other games but each of them brings something so absolutely vital to the table you never consider your companions “side” characters. You can fully rely on all of them and at some points are forced to use certain ones to progress, that often you have an existential crisis just choosing which characters to pick. And you can only choose three. There’s so many elements from the music. The sprite design. The story the replay ability, the emotional toll it takes on you. This isn’t a video game it’s a journey. You feel apart of it as much as the characters in the game. You care about them as friends who always have your back. I’ve existentially pondered over this game after I completed it for the second time. Like I sat back with tears in my eyes like I actually am in love with this game. You play it and realize it’s perfect. You can’t even nitpick it. It blows your expectations for an rpg out of the water. Everything has haters. But with crono trigger it’s a different case. Anyone actually hating on the game just looks stupid and is instantly mocked. It’s impossible to genuinely hate the game without coming off like you belong in special education class. So to end it off. Crono trigger isn’t a game. It’s an experience. I can barely remember the miniseries I watched on Netflix last year. But crono trigger a game I only complete twice. Was burned into my brain like learning a language. Every element was memorable. Every aspect was flawless. If you never played it. Don’t feel like you missed the boat. I’m jealous. Go experience this masterpiece! Do yourself a favor!!!!!

Another great video Matty! Hmm perhaps Matty looking for influences and inspiration for his game 🧐🤔🙌

I fell in love with the game for all the reasons you mentioned, but also because you could recruit magus in the party if you wanted, or you could kill him with frog. Having one of the bad guys join you was so awesome… and magus is just awesome with the dark magic.

i love all rpg games but i somehow come back to this game every year. the character's theme songs, they're all unique and it embodies where they come from. the actions you do impacts the future. i would skip treasures from the past just to see if it's still there in the future.

I had the exact same experience that you described here watching The Godfather recently where I realized that the movie was the progenitor of a lot of movies/tv shows I loved, including Breaking Bad. I also had a similar experience recently with FF VII where I've seen a lot of its DNA in more recent FF's. Although I can't say that I "love" the classics more than the things I experienced first - for instance, I still love Breaking Bad more than The Godfather - I still have developed a sincere appreciation and gratefulness for the classics which inspired my favorite shows and games.

Chrono Trigger was one of my favorite games and helped introduce me to JRPG's I owe a lot to this game

Miss this game so much. Hands down my favorite rpg from my childhood.

One of my favorite games ever!! For good reason. It's so engaging, I couldn't put it down.

I played it when it came out. The music and the plot still stay with me till this day. 25+ years later.

TLDR: Nice review. I had a great personal experience with this game and wrote a long comment about it just recanting my childhood and how I also didn't play it until years later on my New Nintendo 3DS with a used copy after hearing it praised to high heaven. Its in my top 25 games of all time now. Nice video. Nice review. Just subscribed to a bunch of new gaming channels from another channel who was shouting out channels and after that this video popped in my recommendations so I checked out the video and smashed that good ole' subscribe button as is tradition on this here website. I don't know why I'm typing in this dialect like I'm from the old dirty West in some sort of spaghetti western but its the first day of 2022 and I have my own head cannon about the events of 2021; still trying to piece together 2020 and 2021 but at the same time I wouldn't mind undergoing some Eternal Sunshine therapy to just forget those years for the most part. Yes Chrono Trigger is a fantastic SNES game. Although I grew up with an NES our family never got an SNES. The SNES was just something I heard about on the playground and once in a while a "rich" neighborhood kid might have one so everyone would ride their bikes, hear a familiar tune, race for the ice cream man and then buy a half melted demented Sonic pop with gumball eyes and a strawberry shortcake, then hop back on our BMX with sticky hands (and somehow Cheeto fingers) and rush to play a few minutes mostly watching said "rich" kid play the Super Nintendo. For the most part I didn't really realize the Super Nintendo was as popular as it was until decades later on KZfaq. In my neighborhood it seemed most of the kids on the block just kept playing the NES as their parents thought Nintendo was trying to pull a fast one by selling a new system when they thought the old NES should just be able to magically play the "tapes" the SNES did. Anyways we eventually upgraded to the Nintendo 64 one Christmas after we moved to Chicago and that was a magic time and also when I realized my dad's vision wasn't good and felt bad whooping his butt in Mario Kart 64. So this is a long story for nostalgia sake and I also didn't play this game until the DS version after hearing people praise it endlessly. I went in knowing very little about it though and I think because of that I ended up thoroughly enjoying it to the point I would rank it in my top 25 games of all time and definitely one of my top 10 RPGs. I also played it on a New Nintendo 3DS XL and got a used copy and don't even recall seeing the game new on shelves and during the DS era I was playing all sorts of wacky games like Dragon Quest Rocket Slime. The music in this game along with the 16 bit art style and beautiful (though super low res) cut scenes hold up well. I felt like I was going back in my own sort of time machine playing this game as the sprite work and beautiful animation and music washed over me upon seeing the overhead view of the city with the smoke billows and balloons from the fair. I loved the story and not having expectations about the contents of the game itself before playing I was really impressed with the time traveling to all the different eras and exploring ruins and prehistoric cave people as well as the companions you meet along the way. For some reason Frog aka カエル (translates: frog) was a character I instantly gravitated toward. I liked the simple backstory for Frog without spoiling it for any new players. The game took me quite a good chunk of time to beat I'd say just over 40 hours really spending my time with it and exploring every nook and cranny and not using any guides. How Long To Beat says 23 hours for main story and 44 1/2 for Completionists. I think HLTB skews heavily towards the fast side of game completion time but that's another meandering rant. I like that the DS added some simple options like changing the menu colors, listening to the soundtrack, having options for some of the systems in the game. I played it and beat it once and made my own memories with it. I think Chrono Cross has an even better soundtrack but I never played the game. Still I'm hoping the Nintendo Switch gets a port or some basic remaster that just adds options and upscales without trying to change too much. It's been a few years since my last play through and although I bought it on iOS out of an impulse purchase one night I haven't played it. I think in a year or so I'd like to play it again. To me it's a classic in the sense of Scarface the movie where I love it and see why it's so acclaimed and once in a green moon I like to bust it out and have a romp down memory lane. I think the time travel aspect of the game combined with the 16 bit art has made it very meta in the sense that gamers are going back to this time and time traveling back to a time when RPGs were still burgeoning in the USA and Western world and they are time traveling in a game who's animator has been incredibly influential, who's composer has been incredibly influential, and with a developer who's pedigree stands for the pinnacle of RPGs decades later.

4:50 Sea of Stars, and this game has also the same music composer as Chrono Trigger, Yasunori Mitsuda... 10:13 and for Uematsu: he is my most admired composer of all time, but he composed only parts of the Chrono Trigger Soundtrack, Yasunori Mitsuda composed the bulk of the soundtrack and was even hospitalized after he collapsed from overwork. dont want to be that guy who points out little mistakes and correct others, but credit were credit is due and Mitsuda nearly worked himself to death over Chrono...

Fun fact: That poster that came in your DS copy was included in the original SNES copy, too.

I just got a Game Boy Advance SP with Advance Wars, though it was only the Cartridge but i always hated the Game Boy Advance boxes anyway, with them being cardboard but i also got a complete in box copy of Advance Wars Dual Strike for the 3DS so i can just keep the original in the game boy holder with the DS case, i haven't played a Game Boy Advance for years, this will be a great trip down memory lane :)

The segment with the Dragon Tank where the game told the player what to do was early in. It was the second boss fight, iirc. And it introduced a mechanic that continued to apply to many of the other multi-part bosses of the game. So it was basically like having a tutorial level or boss fight without having it explicitly called a tutorial level.

I can't even begin to explain how amazing it was to play through this game back in 1995 when in first came out. This game was on another level compared to anything we had back then. Such an incredible experience.

Just finished this for the first time yesterday. I was blown away. Before this only JRPG I have ever played were Golden Sun and Pokémon. But this game was a monster. And I loved no random encounters

One of my all time favorite games. Played it when I was around 14 when it was released. I got it for Christmas and still have it.

Good to see someone experience my favorite game of all time for the first time. I have bought this game on 3 different systems I love it so much. Also, Glenn is one of the best-written characters of any JRPG fight me lol.

"I'm not even a big Zelda fan," he remarked casually. So much said with so little.

The story wasn't amazing at first, but the characters really dragged you in, and the world felt massive and intertwined

I am an OG Chrono Trigger fanboi, so much so that I still have the original box and cartridge that I got on the first day of release and I still replay it from time to time on the super nintendo. I have beaten it well over 40 times and each time I replay it, it still stands the test of time and should be considered one of the greatest games of all time, a true masterpiece.

Loved this video!

Ive replaued this game so many times, it has so many different endings! And how your decision effect the outcome

I remember borrowing this game over and over again from our neighbor just to get all the endings 😆 . This game blew my mind from the start because I was just going to the festival with my friend lucca and BOOM! Your saving space time!.

How many CT game designers looked at the cover and thought "Hmm, Marle has ice as her magic and in this picture she's shooting fire. Hmm, that looks like an inconsistency." My guess is none. Not a single person thought it and if they did, they kept it to themselves.

I remember going on a cruise a few years back and I gave my mate my phone to have a go at chrono trigger. Didn’t see him for most of the trip he had his nose buried in it the whole time

Played this game when it came out in 95'. Got almost all the endings. I still hear the music.

Thanks for these videos, going through a rough time and they are really helping me out. Have you ever played Sonic CD? You might enjoy that for the time travel stuff, in that game its not really as in depth as the games mentioned here but its cool as far as story goes and just cool to see the difference in the environments.

I'd love to see you do a retro review of my favorite game with the time travel mechanic - Zelda Majoras Mask. Having to jump back and forth thru time to set up events was sheer brilliance to me. That and Ocarina are timeless classics

Same, I just played this for the first time at 32 years old on my ipad. I really enjoyed it and want to jump back in to finish the extra content.

I played Chrono Trigger on my SNES when it first came out. An absolutely amazing game, but the first jrpg I ever played (FF2 as it was called when it was released) will always still be my favorite.

First time I played the game was on my iPhone xr in 2019, and I didn’t regret it. The feeling of open world/time travel give it a really unique feeling.

Playing Chrono Trigger for the first time currently, and while it did take some time for me to get into it, I'm glued onto my screen now!

Man I should really play this! I also haven’t played it but bought the DS version about the same as you, 4 years ago. My New Years resolution is to play this plus FFVI!

A lot of the emotion and heart in this story can be found in the optional character sidequests (Did you do those?). And you can't forget this was literally the first game ever to have New Game+! And Mitsuda and Uematsu did the soundtrack together.

I played Chrono Trigger in 1995 on SNES; blown away as the best RPG of it's time (right next to FF6) but now I play Octopath (first time this year) and I completely in awe in how much it reminds me of CT and FF6 put together.

I had been an SE fan since FF on NES, and I got most SquareSoft games at launch. I love this game so much. I can't count how many times ive played this game over the decades

Remember playing this on an emulator 10 years ago and just loving everything about Chrono Trigger. A classic masterpiece.

I play it once every couple years. gives me the same feeling every time. Classic

The game by the Messenger team is called Sea of Stars, and the main composer of Chrono Trigger, Yasunori Mitsuda, reached out to those developers and offered to help compose for Sea of Stars!

Funny thing, I just started my first playthrough this past weekend. Loving it so far. The soundtrack is amazing, I find myself whistling to it constantly

This game was the perfect blend of pudding from the expression when they say the proof is in the pudding well Chrono Trigger is that pudding. Loved your review mate.

Great review! 👍 I was there when it came out, video game Magazines had me Cool 😎 in the 90's. My brother and I were the ones who could beat any and every game. That time nobody was playing RPG's yet. Barely anybody in North America knew these developers either, but we did. It's like you put it so eloquently, games hadn't seen and cohesion yet, where music, graphics, gameplay, character building and story would come together. Features compliment the gameplay and made you play more, where battles are actually fun. Welcome to the club, of Radical Dreamer's, I hope more ppl give these old games a go, and see where the history of our great hobby comes from, where we started, where we started making strides in the right directions 😀

Chrono trigger is my favourite game of all time and I’m glad you’ve enjoyed this game and it’s seriously a work of art.

Chrono was the first RPG i ever played, and its my favorite game of all times. i can play this game over and over again without getting bored.

Love this. There are so many older games, especially JRPGs, I want to play and discover for the first time, but it’s kind of a lonely feeling when the titles feel almost obsolete at this point. Idk if anyone else feels this way, but just knowing others are still exploring classic games for the first time, makes me feel more motivated and cheerful about doing the same

One if the greatest games ever made. Can pick up and playthrough it almost whenever and it never gets old.

I picked it up a few years ago for the DS brand new. Glad I did is a beautiful game

Dude. I played it like two years after it came out and fell in love. I still use lots of the music for ringtones and alarms.

Thanks for the video! I have been meaning to finally jump in to CT as well. Also, I agree fully about FF XIII-2, great game and the TT elements are fun.

Yasunori Mitsuda is the main composer for Chrono Trigger (and Cross) He had a hard drive crash that made him lose all compositions and health problems close to the deadline, and Mr. Uematsu stepped in for a number of tracks, but he is still regarded as the main music guy for Chrono

Mt story is very similar to yours. I found an in box copy of Chrono Trigger DS in a thrift shop for $5 and it sat on my shelf for more than a year before I played it. It was a really good jrpg. The music is just fantastic and so is the unexpected journey. It reminded me of playing Terranigma a bit on the SNES

Whenever I play CT I’m amazed it’s a SNES game. All that story and gameplay in that format wow.

Played for the first time in 2016 after hearing so much about it. Just as good today as it was originally. A timeless masterpiece

I played chrono trigger for the first time in 1996 still can't get enough of it

I also played this game recently in 1996. Can't wait for the sequel!

I remember buying the SNES version of Chrono Trigger in January 2020 for about $100 cad, then returning to that same game store about three or four months later and seeing another copy for more than double what I paid.

Chrono Trigger is the GOAT. You should also check out Wild Arms, Suikoden and Vagrant Story if you haven't had the opportunity yet.

The replay value is also amazing. Like when you go to jail you can wait the 3 days in the cell or you can break out. Both are valid options but they make that area different depending on what you do.

Better late than never. Glad you've finally played this masterpiece. Small correction: Most of the music was done by Yasunori Mitsuda, not Nobuo Uematsu. Both legendary composers.

I wanted to cry as soon as I heard the intro song.

This is my favorite rpg of all time. As a kid I played it to get every single ending. It's my favorite story to replay. There's so much fun with the time travel. Sadly I don't have my og copy, but I have my DS copy by my bed. Beautiful game.

Just finished this game for the 90th time again today. Love this game.

I first played Chrono Trigger on my DS about 10 years ago. Still have the poster in my box, too! Great game.

On the other hand about telegraphing hints my family had to brute force the masamune fight because we didn't realize you used the tech slash, I think that was the name, on them when the tornado attack was about to hit. I don't remember if the sign post telling you to do that was there on the SNES version but I had head desk moment when I read that sign on the DS version.

I still have my SNES and Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross. These were some of my favorite games, I still have memories of playing them for the first time.

Just finished beating it for the first time 🤠 Now I understand why everyone has such high regard for it. Wow!

I finished Chrono Trigger for the first time last year so it's nice to see that other people are playing it more recently too.

This game was a foundation of my youth. So good.