>>12554232
It's not really like either. The main differences are you see enemies on the screen and you can try to avoid them or intentionally engage with them instead of the battle randomly popping up on the screen like with older (outdated) JRPGs. You don't move on a tile grid either, you can move or run at any angle. The dev team basically got together and tried a bunch of new things and it all just worked.

>>12554232
You will be disappointed it's not great game

I recommend instead the far superior sequel Chrono Cross

>>12554342
Joke post.

>>12554253
>The dev team basically got together and tried a bunch of new things and it all just worked.
Then those two studios merged and proceeded to only make kusoge for the rest of their days.

>>12554253
I would say though this is true, it feels a lot more like a Dragon Quest than a Final Fantasy. I played it for the first time just a couple of years ago also after avoiding it a long time due to Toriyama hate and have to agree it's really solid and stands along with games like FF6, DQ4, PS4 and the Lunars as one of the best rpgs of the era.

>>12554232
>is it more like Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy
Definitely more Final Fantasy. It's a very 'scenario focused' game that basically gives you little of the open ended depth that DQ offers, even if it sort of pretends to.

>>12554365
I blame optical media for giving them the space to turn RPGs into moviegames. Chrono Trigger started out as a 24 megabit game and they didn't get the ok to bump it up to 32 megabits until later on in development, and even then they had to be creative with the space they had available. The additional space afforded by CDs/DVDs let them ease up on that creativity and put the focus on extended cut scenes rather than having no choice but to rely on good gameplay.

>>12554232
>i want this game to rekindle my passion for videogames

Choosing this game already sets yourself up for disappointment.

I love it, but IMO it's a bit boring until after the first 2300 A.D. section.

Play Cross first, then Trigger for the references.

>>12554464
I played Cross first, bought it new in-store with lawn mowing money and still dropped it two hours in. Then got the compilation ps1 disc with Trigger and, even with crazy disc loads every battle and screen change, I beat Trigger and had a good time. I hadn't even been primed by the internet to think Trigger would be a masterpiece like everyone reads now, I was just trying all the Squaresoft games I came across in stores.
I'd rather replay FF V-IX but one of these days I'll try Trigger again.
OP, it's definitely good to play if you enjoy RPGs at all, but like with any adventure, set and setting matter. If you go into it in a bad mood expecting a pick-me-up you might be too cynical to immerse yourself enough to enjoy it.

>>12554232
you will probably like it more if you run it the autistic way, that is by collecting and completing everything in your path and not missing anything

>>12554232
I always goof up the initial Marle meeting.

>>12554253
>you see enemies on the screen and you can try to avoid them or intentionally engage with them
But most of the time, you'll be forced to battle them because their trigger zone is unavoidable.

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>>12554342
>>12554348
Actually this was my experience. I loved the square SNES games but I never saw A Chrono Trigger cart in the wild and by the time buying stuff online was commonplace the carts were way too expensive for (at the time) broke ass. I kept hearing about how it was the best SNES RPG of all time and this amazing classic and I finally got a copy and played it and it was not bad at all but hardly the amazing experience I'd built up in my head.

If I'd got to play it in like 1996 I think it might have hit the sweet spot but decades later with no nostalgia goggles it's a fun game with some interesting mechanics that is nowhere near my top 10 or even top 50. It's okay. Pretty good, even. Glad I played it. Don't get the hype.

>>12554862
The game is so linear you might as well just do everything, it's not like it saves you much time otherwise.

It’s a fantastically paced RPG with no bullshit grindan and a very enjoyable adventure and deserved every piece of hype it got.

Don’t listen to the other faggot anon.

>>12554342
This.

>>12554232
Good luck with the choices, they all change the ending and the game has 15 endings or so.

>>12555858
Chrono cross wasn't as good, great graphics but you need patiebce as well tolerating everyone dies stuff.

>>12555945
I didn't have a problem with Crono and the gang being dead. It was explained why they died, and they did die for a good reason. Besides they were all saved by Serge and Kid in the end.