Back then, Japanese RPGs were very much like Western ones which let the player “roll up their own characters along a spread of archetypes and engage in fairly narrative-light dungeon crawling.” But Japan would soon have their own take on role-playing games, and bits of this philosophy would appear on the third installment of the Final Fantasy games.
In 1995, that philosophy would manifest itself in one of the all-time greats of the 16-bit era, a Super Nintendo role-playing game that would push the envelope of what the genre was capable of, introducing a number of features that we now can’t imagine living without. 25 years later, let’s revisit Chrono Trigger and see how this masterpiece came to be.
Geek.com documents how this game revolutionized role-playing games and how it influenced games that would come after it. Check out the full story over at the site.
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chrono trigger is a very aesthetically pleasing game
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