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Chrono Trigger Still Blows Me Away 30 Years Later
The SNES RPG classic was lightning in a bottle and I'm glad I was there for it
Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama made the art and Yuji Horii contributed to the writing while star developers from Square like Takashi Tokita, Yoshinori Kitase, and Kazuhiko Aoki directed and produced. It’s here that a science experiment gone awry opens up a portal to the past, sending the titular Chrono on a collision course with the apocalypse and beginning a quest whose twists and turns deftly dodge cliché and defy expectation. While the story proceeds linearly until the endgame, the act of shifting eras is full of small nods to the past and future that make Chrono Trigger feel like an intricate, living world.
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