My way of playing the game is not neccesarily the best, and there may be a lot of ways to play Chrono Trigger which I never even considered. What more, is I enable a smoothing filter to make the game look less pixellated - heresy, I know. This is the way I discovered the game and it will forever be the 'authentic' way for me to play. Myself, I always just play the SNES version on my PC with any random controller. I suspect the game will keep flourishing decades from now since it runs so well on modern hardware.A suggetion came in from /u/hybridfrost to create a sticky community post detailing the best way to play Chrono Trigger.

Among games that use NG+, this was one of my favorite games to complete thanks to the effort they put in all the endings. Additionally, CT has excellent replayability in the many different endings that can pose a healthy challenge depending on when you choose to pursue them. By keeping the battle mechanics simple, the game keeps itself fresh as you explore tech combos while not distracting from the substantial storytelling. I really appreciated the tech combat mechanic which translates well several decades later. From the first couple of hours, you can tell that the game places great importance on exploration and storytelling wherein your decisions render ripples in time as part of the time travel theme. It had a very forward-thinking expression of time travel in the genre and is complemented by the decision to have enemy encounters on contact for the most part. As many other reviews have asserted, Chrono Trigger is a timeless (no pun intended) JRPG.

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