Navigation occurs via an overworld map, depicting the landscape from a scaled-down overhead view. The player controls the protagonist and his companions in the game's two-dimensional world, consisting of various forests, cities, and dungeons. The game has also been ported to i-mode, the Virtual Console, the PlayStation Network, iOS, Android, and Windows.Ĭhrono Trigger features standard role-playing video game gameplay. A slightly enhanced Chrono Trigger, again ported by Tose, was released for the Nintendo DS in North America and Japan in 2008, and PAL regions in 2009. Square released a ported version by Tose in Japan for the PlayStation in 1999, which was later repackaged with a Final Fantasy IV port as Final Fantasy Chronicles (2001) for the North American market. Excluding the PC version, the game had shipped over 3.5 million copies worldwide by February 2018. Chrono Trigger was the second best-selling game of 1995 in Japan, and shipped 2.65 million copies worldwide by March 2003. Nintendo Power magazine described aspects of the game as revolutionary, including its multiple endings, plot-related side-quests focusing on character development, unique battle system, and detailed graphics. The game's story follows a group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe.Ĭhrono Trigger was a critical and commercial success upon release and is frequently cited as one of the greatest video games of all time. In addition, Takashi Tokita co-directed the game and co-wrote the scenario, Kazuhiko Aoki produced the game, Masato Kato wrote most of the story, while composer Yasunori Mitsuda wrote most of the soundtrack before falling ill and deferring the remaining tracks to Final Fantasy series composer Nobuo Uematsu.

The game's development team included three designers that Square dubbed the 'Dream Team': Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Square's Final Fantasy series Yuji Horii, creator of Enix's Dragon Quest series and Akira Toriyama, character designer of Dragon Quest and author of the Dragon Ball manga series. It was originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as the first game in the Chrono series. Chrono Trigger is a 1995 role-playing video game developed and published by Square.

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