Chrono Trigger

Something about this game keeps me coming back to it time and time again. I remember the first time I saw this being played at my buddy Dan's house back in the mid 90s. I had arrived at his house, and when I walked into his (gaming room? den?) He had just entered Magus' lair. He play it for a little bit and then lives went on. I do remember seeing a complex leveling guide that he used to mark off how close he was to obtaining the next skill techs. Looking back on it, it was pretty silly but back when I was 12? 13? It was pretty awesome and impressive.

I've played the countless iterations and re-releases (yes, I really did just type re-re and no, not in reference to Rhianna), and for whatever reason, I come back to this game every so often. Something about the *silence is golden* rule for the protagonist, or the idea of time travel ushers this game as awesome for me. Perhaps it was the countless hours I spent in my bedroom playing this in middle school (which was a traumatic experience in it's own right with my parents going through a divorce), but the amount of times I find myself thinking about the music, art, and general everything of this game is borderline psychotic. With that, I recently found the DS copy of this game, and now that I have a 5 month old daughter I'm limited to my gaming but am thrilled to play this for the 20 minutes here and there that I can.

It's somewhat nostalgic that I think about both this game and the anime Iria.... Iria is an anime that I happened to see at 4 or 5 in the morning back when DBZ was airing on basic cable and only "mature" anime (as in blood and guts and awesome) appeared on the Sci Fi channel before the stupid spelling change again during middle school. I never thought much about it after until a random Game Informer had fan art of said anime which caused me to pursue research until I was able to find the DVD series at an FYE near where I lived. This series relation to chrono trigger was merely the fact that I remember the protagonist (Iria) as a female Crono in reference to the hair. Needless to say, Chrono Trigger is a source of great entertainment that I hope my daughter can one day appreciate. Even for a little while.