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Best. RPG. EVER.

In my opinion, there are 5 kinds of RPGs in the world of SNES. The kind where your character is silent, and can be whatever you want them to be; The kind where your character talks and says all the right things and is awesome; The kind where your character says all of the wrong things and is stupid; The kind where you pick what you want your character to say and is agreeable (as long as you like the choices); and there is Final Fantasy.

*WARNING: CHRONO TRIGGER SPOILERS AHEAD!!!*

Chrono Trigger is the kind where your character (Crono) is silent, and thus, awesome. The basic gist of the game is this: You are Chrono, a red-headed boy in the year 1000 A.D. You go to the Millenium fair. You run into a girl (Marle). She turns out to be the princess (but you don't know that yet). You go to meet your tech-savvy inventor friend Lucca, because she has build a transporter (move thing from point A to point B 5 feet away). Marle gets in, her pendant reacts with the transporter, and she gets sent back to 600 A.D. You, being the hero of course, must follow her, and end up going on a wild goose chase through time, finding a number of other characters, including a boy who was turned into a frog by a wizard, said wizard, a prehistoric warrior-woman, and a defective robot who can fight. Really, really well.

Anyway, long, LONG story short, you find out that in 1999 A.D. (Spooky, eh? Well, it would have been if you were playing it the year it was made, in 1995...) a massive alien named Lavos crashes into the Earth and blows the crap out of everyone, making life really crappy from then on (you find this in a video record when you go to 2300 A.D. and everyone is miserable).

So basically, after you fight through this whole game, it culminates in the final battle (or shall I say, final 3 battles) with Lavos. You defeat the outside first, then go inside the husk and fight Inner Lavos, and then go even farther inside to fight the Lavos Core, which has two "Bits" (sort of like those helper ships in Phoenix, if you've ever played that, only they don't work quite the same way, since it's turn-based combat). The whole thing is really cool, and once you beat the game, you can replay it on "+ mode", where you can replay the game with your leveled-up characters and items, and can fight lavos at any time. The earlier you fight lavos, the better the ending you get... my favorite is the hardest ending to get (you start the agme and immediately fight Lavos)... When you do this, you get to talk to all of the producer-NPC's and then watch the credits going 3 times faster than normal, with the music following suit. It's really funny. I love that game...

Oh, and if you wanna chack it out some more, chek out this link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Trigger

Well, there you have it. Chrono Trigger in a nutshell. You really have to play it to experience it, but...

That ends my rambling for today. Check in tomorrow for more video game-oriented madness.

Thanks for reading,

--CB