Now that you know a little behind the setting of the game, the game play is easier to understand. You play as Chrono, the silent protagonist but fearless young warrior type. You are first joined by Marle (who you later find out to be the princess of your current time) at a fair to watch your friend Lucca demonstrate her newest invention. After that, you and your party discover the time gates (first to save Marle after she accidentally gets sucked into one) and travel to a post apocalyptic era to find out that a creature has wreaked havoc on the world. You and your party then set out to stop this apocalypse, and change history to save the world.
Now at first I really didn't like this game that much. The graphics were really good (for the time of the games release) and the music was nice, but it just started out bad. That is, you were basically just dropped into the game not knowing what to do or were to go. You were told about the millennia fair, and your friend Lucca, but when you entered the over world map to travel you had no idea where was what or where to go. After some trial and era I was able to find out where to go and I started to like the game, until I got in my first battle. The way the whole game is set up, including the fighting is just too much like Final Fantasy. The way you inter act act with people, fight, level up, rest, heal, and gain equipment is pretty much exactly like that in Final Fantasy. The only difference was that instead of random encounters with enemies, you could see the enemies and run around them to avoid unwanted confrontations. To me, it seemed like I was just playing another installment of the Final Fantasy series. After a while though, the game started to grow on me.The story is very detailed for a game of that generation, and the more I played the game the more the game began to pull me. After I got use to the fighting style as well, I really started to like this game. The story is really interesting and it was something that I really did not expect, throwing me way off from what I was expecting around each and every curve. The game also goes really deep into character development, using story related side quests to really give you an in depth look into each characters background and role. This is something that you really did not see a lot of until a lot of more recent generation platforms. You can see how the details in the game play, such as character development, has really influenced games such as Mass Effect or later Final Fantasy games.
Another really big impact that this game has, that you can also see the influence of in big titles such as Mass Effect, is multiple endings. Crazy right, how one little thing you do in the game can change the entire ending. The game has a total of 15 different ends, now that a lot of different ways to end one game (here is a link to the different endings). This is something that I found to be really cool, and really helps give a replay ability to the game.
All in all, I thought the game was surprisingly pretty good. With its intricate story, detailed game play and multiple endings, I really recommend RPG fans to check out this game. If you are not really looking to play another Final Fantasy game though (as I have said a million times how this game is JUST LIKE the early Final Fantasy games), I still recommend trying out this game, and hopefully it will grow onto you like it did me.
References:
http://sinfulandroid.com/games-30/chrono-trigger-%5Bandroid-game%5D-7762/
http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/snes/ct/endings.shtml
http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/File:Np1.jpg.html
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