Chrono Trigger

Out of everything Square has made that isn't Final Fantasy related, Chrono Trigger is probably the most popular. This game brought time travel into an awesome new dimension for gamers, and is still considered a masterpiece today.

Here's the story: While at the millennial fair, Chrono, our silent protagonist, runs into Marle, the princess of the land who decides to hang around Chrono for a while where the two eventually go to a teleportation device on display, created by Lucca, Chrono's friend. When Marle enters the machine, an accident occurs that sends her into parts unknown. When Chrono goes through to find her, he finds himself in medieval times. What happens after that is...well a lot of things. Marle impersonates the queen at the time as she's the queen's descendant, but when something happens to the queen something happens to Marle, so Chrono has to get the queen back, then when Chrono returns back to his time, he's arrested for supposedly kidnapping the princess, then Chrono escapes with Marle and Lucca and finds another time gate similar to the one at the teleporter, and goes into the future, where everything has been destroyed by an alien called Lavos. So Chrono, Marle, and Lucca go back into the past and try to prevent this from happening. Along the way they encounter the frog knight named frog(I bet it took them forever to think of that name), the robot named robo,(they must've thought real hard thinking about that name), and the cave-woman named Ayla. Together they try to prevent Lavos from destroying the future.

Here are the positives: The story is great as is most games made by Square(now Square Enix), everything you do has a consequence and can change parts of the story depending on your actions. The characters are great, while Chrono is silent like a lot of protagonists now a days, his friends are loyal, and have great personalities and humor. The music is awesome, especially the main theme; you feel awesome whenever you hear the main theme. Look it up, it won't be hard to find. The game play builds off the active battle system in Final Fantasy 4, but adds some new things. For one thing, you can do combo moves with a buddy and cause even more damage to your opponent. Also, like in Final Fantasy 4, everything happens in real time and some bosses might be more vulnerable at certain times.

There's only one negative I have with this game, but it's more of a warning. Whatever you do, DO NOT GET THIS GAME ON THE PS1. Any other version is fine, not the PS1 version. Why, because it has ridiculously long load times. Here's what I mean: you have a random encounter with an opponent, and then, load screen, and depending on time it will load from around a couple seconds, to 5 minutes. It takes you out of the immersion and kills the game. So don't get the game on PS1, I can't emphasize this enough!

Overall, Chrono Trigger is a great game for fans of RPGs. I recommend any version that isn't the PS1 version. The PS1 version also comes with Final Fantasy 4, so get the Collection just for Final Fantasy 4 not this game. Thanks for reading, and remember to keep ranting n' raving.