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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Square Enix
EAN: 0662248908298
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone 10+
Feature: After 13 years, the role playing game of the ages returns with Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DS
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Label: Square Enix
Manufacturer: Square Enix
Model: 0662248908243
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Nintendo DS
Publication Date: 2008-11
Publisher: Square Enix
Release Date: 2008-11-25
Studio: Square Enix
Features
After 13 years, the role playing game of the ages returns with Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DSCrono, meets an adventurous girl named Marle, and accidentally travels back in time 400 years
Past, present, and future worlds collide as Crono tries to save the planet
Revised version of the groundbreaking Active Time Battle (ATB) System delivers exhilarating combat
Special Tech skills and powerful combos, known as Dual and Triple Techs, encourages strategic battle plans
Editorial Reviews:
After 13 long years, the role playing game of the ages finally returns with Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DS. This chapter begins when a newly developed teleportation device malfunctions, and young Crono must journey through time to rescue a mysterious girl from an intricate web of past and present perils. Enhanced with Nintendo DS's dual-screen presentation, stylus controls, and a host of great new features, this classic tale returns to a modern, portable platform.
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 After 13 long years, the role playing game of the ages finally returns with Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DS. View larger. |
 Gameplay is enhanced with Nintendo DS's dual-screen, stylus controls, and a host of great new features. View larger. |
Through a chance encounter amid the festivities of Guardia's Millenial Fair in Leene Square, the young hero, Crono, meets an adventurous girl named Marle. The two decide to explore the fair together and soon find themselves at an exhibition of the Telepod -- the latest invention by Crono's long-time friend, Lucca.
Marle, fearless and brimming with curiosity, volunteers to assist in a demo. However, an unanticipated malfunction sends her hurtling through a rift in the dimensions. Taking hold of the girls pendant just before she's whisked away,
 Explore the past -- Prehistory, Antiquity, and the Middle Ages -- Present, Future, and even the End of Time. View larger. |
 This game utilizes a revised version of the groundbreaking Active Time Battle (ATB) System. View larger. |
The Worlds of Past, Present and Future
In Chrono Trigger you'll journey back to Prehistory (65,000,000 B.C.) where humans and reptiles battle to wipe each other from existence. Antiquity (12,000 B.C.) is an age where the world is divided between people whose continent is buried in snow, and the magical kingdom of Zeal, a highly advanced civilization. The Middle Ages (600 A.D.) is an era of swords and sorcery, a dark time when the armies of Fiendlord rule over the land.
The Present (1000 A.D.) is the time period in which Crono, Lucca and Marle live. It is a bright and peaceful age. However, in the Future (2300 A.D.), an era of despair has taken hold with rogue machines ruling the world. After the day of the apocalypse in 1999 A.D., the prosperous civilization of humanity crumbled and the remaining people struggle to stay alive. And, finally, there remains the End of Time -- a place with no era to call its own. This confluence of time's streams transcends spatiotemporal boundaries. It is here at the gravitational center for all temporal flotsam that Spekkio -- the Master of War -- serves as your guide on time's treacherous roads.
Battle Systems and gameplay
This game utilizes a revised version of the groundbreaking Active Time Battle (ATB) System. Chrono Trigger features exhilarating combat in which the clock is constantly ticking. Characters must first wait as the ATB gauges charge, and then perform an action. This makes strategic timing a crucial element in your battle plan. In addition to standard attacks, each character has an array of special Tech skills and powerful combos known as Dual and Triple Techs. Cooperate with other characters to unleash over 50 unique and devastating moves!
Chrono Trigger utilizes great story-telling, interesting characters, action-packed gameplay, and the unique controls of the Nintendo DS to deliver a fun and well-rounded role-playing game on a portable platform.
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Customer reviews:
Customer Rating:Summary: An Old School Adventure!
Comment: Chrono Trigger DS is not a remake along the lines of Dragon Quest IV DS; it's mostly just a port of the original SNES game. It's one of the best RPGs of the 16-bit era, and has held up reasonable well. Chrono Trigger tells a sprawling story across many different regions of space and time. You play as a boy who meets, goes back in time and meets a frog, goes forward in time and meets a robot, and then eventually battles an ultimate evil. It's a simple but solid story with many different possible endings depending on the choices you make throughout the game.
Chrono Trigger plays exactly how you would expect a SNES RPG to play. There aren't many surprises here. There are a few improvements designed to add on present day RPG staples (a bestiary, various galleries, an item encyclopedia, etc) and some additions to make Chrono Trigger fans happy (a few bonus dungeons and an alternate ending). Other than these features, you're basically playing the same game that was on the SNES.
The DS doesn't really add a whole ton to Chrono Trigger. The extra screen real estate spreads out the information display, which is definitely helpful, and allows a map of the current area to be displayed on screen at all time. There is an option to use the stylus as input instead of the conventional controls, but I found this setup clunky and quickly went back to the standard controls.
There's not a whole lot left for me to say here. There are two different demographics that I think will enjoy Chrono Trigger DS: RPG players interested in learning something about the "sort of old days", and Chrono Trigger fans looking for an excuse to replay one of their favorite games. If you fall into one of those two categories, then I don't think you will be disappointed.
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Summary: Chrono Trigger........
Comment: Considering how much I've heard about this game through the years and how many consider it to be one of the 'Greatest Games of All Time', I had to check Chrono Trigger out. I had to have it proven to me, to be quite honest. Well, I'm here to tell you--I more than got it proven to me. I'm a believer now, lol. I can see why people feel that way.
The game begins with our hero, Crono, going to the Millennial Fair. There, he quite literally bumps into a girl named Marle. After they meet, they decide to see the fair together. Thing is, Marle ends up getting teleported to the past when Cronos' friend's teleportation device malfunctions. Being the cool but silent dude he is, Crono jumps in after her. The plot is rather simple til the time travel is introduced, that's when things get pretty wild. Course, that's what I love about the game is the story. The gameplay is nothing to scoff at either,..you roam the map til you encounter an enemy & then you engage them without going to a battle screen. From there, your party spreads out, draws their weapons and prepare for battle. The cool thing about the battle system is it utilizes Active Time Battle(which is taken straight from Final Fantasy). The tech system is pretty cool too as every character has techniques that they can utilize. Thing is, your party can combine their techniques together to pull off double and triple hits & whatnot. That makes a huge difference when you're going up against a tough opponent. There's tons of side quests, FMV cutscenes and more.
In my opinion, Chrono Trigger has held up pretty well through the years. I would've loved to have seen a 3-D remake of it as the graphics show their age but you can't have everything, can you?
Chrono Trigger is quite a remarkable game. I loved it. It was, definitely, worth a purchase.
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Summary: Excellent port of the best SNES RPG
Comment: I have played Chrono Trigger since it's original SNES release and it is still one of my top 5 video games. It is the apex of Japanese-style RPGs - engrossing story, entertaining combat system, incredible soundtrack, numerous innovations.
The DS version takes the original and adds a few changes; my only possible complaint would be that it's possible to get some great items in the Arena which make the game much easier on a first play - not that this game is designed to be exceptionally challenging, nor is it designed to be a single play through game.
Highly recommended to anyone who likes great video games.
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Summary: Great story, Great classic, GOOD FUN
Comment: Chrono Trigger never gets old. Although I've beat this game the experience was well worth it. The game is just plain good fun. The story is awesome and battling is actually..FUN! One of the best rpgs ever created hands down. Well worth your money especially if you've never played the original.
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Summary: A Great Classic, Successfully Ported to the DS
Comment: Having never played the original Chrono Trigger on the Super Nintendo, but having heard much about it, I was very excited for this product. Chrono Trigger did not go through very much change when it was adapted for the Nintendo DS. Several new endings were added, an update to the menus to make them less clunky, some extra touch-screen features for the DS (which I mostly did not use), a few extras, and a mini-game of sorts was added (called the Arena of Ages), but all in all the game retains the excellance that it had when it was originally released. Chrono Trigger has aged gracefully, and I highly recommend the DS version for those who have not yet experienced this story. For returning Chrono Trigger fans, it's up to you to decide if the streamlined menus and bonus features are worth the price tag. If you own a Nintendo DS, I emphatically suggest that you purchase this game.