Great game; probably in my top three ever, along with Breath of Fire II (not the official translation though) and Phantasy Star IV.
If anyone reading this can be persuaded to give it a try, please do. It aged like fine wine. The NDS re-release is also very good (the translation is better/more faithful than the original Ted Woolsey one, and the audio and artwork are all pretty much intact on it).
I invited a 21-year old friend of mine who'd grown up playing modern games (mostly fighters and the like) over, and he stayed up until around 7 in the morning playing it with me on the sideline trying to keep my mouth shut and let him explore. He came back two or three more days to finish it. After it was all over he told me wanted to explore more classic 16-bit and earlier RPG's, and I was happy to oblige him with, albeit with the caveat that there are few if any on the level of Chrono in that era. It's just so impeccably polished and pretty much a perfect work of art. A real masterpiece to cap the 16-bit RPG era.
It's also probably one of the last SNES RPG's I'll ever be able to afford/justify a physical SNES cartridge of (non-repro anyway), since I got mine in around 2008 and all the SNES RPG prices have spiked since then.
Please, if you haven't played this, don't read the guide. Just play and look at the pretty pictures when done. It's not an archaic grindfest RPG; in fact I don't think there are any truly random encounters in the entire game. It's thoroughly enjoyable to play in pretty much every way (although IMO the early future segments are the least interesting in the game).
Posted on 20 June 2020, 04:29 UTC by: jerkwagon555
Score +15
I genuinely thought something was up, or this was a cover for something. No, this is literally just a fucking guide. No complaints here, sir. Carry on, god bless.