Chris takes Michaela through time as she experiences Chrono Trigger for the first time. It’s Chris’ pick for the best game ever made, and we’re playing the SNES version to be as true to the original as possible. Time travel … Continue reading Let’s Play Chrono Trigger (5)
Chris takes Michaela through time as she experiences Chrono Trigger for the first time. It’s Chris’ pick for the best game ever made, and we’re playing the SNES version to be as true to the original as possible. Time travel … Continue reading Let’s Play Chrono Trigger (4)
Chris takes Michaela through time as she experiences Chrono Trigger for the first time. It’s Chris’ pick for the best game ever made, and we’re playing the SNES version to be as true to the original as possible. Time travel … Continue reading Let’s Play Chrono Trigger (3)
Chris takes Michaela through time as she experiences Chrono Trigger for the first time. It’s Chris’ pick for the best game ever made, and we’re playing the SNES version to be as true to the original as possible. Time travel … Continue reading Let’s Play Chrono Trigger (2)
Ah, yes. There are many songs that might be considered the most emblematic in Chrono Trigger (like the eponymous track, for instance), but I think this one takes the cake. I can’t talk about why this track resonates with so … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Schala’s Theme
Chris takes Michaela through time as she experiences Chrono Trigger for the first time. It’s Chris’ pick for the best game ever made, and we’re playing the SNES version to be as true to the original as possible. Time travel … Continue reading Let’s Play Chrono Trigger (1)
This column originally ran on January 18, 2010. In 1995, Square released the best birthday present Chris could ever ask for: Chrono Trigger. The SNES title would later set records for sales in Japan and make a gigantic impact in … Continue reading Checkpoint: Chrono Trigger
If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh! This is the list of At the Buzzer’s top 25 games of … Continue reading ATB’s Best Games Ever: (3) Chrono Trigger
NOTE: “Music to My Ears” is a recurring installment based on Chris’s (not so) secret obsession: the music of video games. His Tales of Graces review will be up next week.
In my review for Street Fighter x Tekken, I mentioned how Street Fighter II was one of the big introductions to the world of video game music for me. Ryu’s stage music in particular was one of the driving forces in doing things like getting homework done. And since computers were not a mainstream thing when I was 8 (not to mention mp3 players, iTunes and YouTube), the only way to listen to it was to toss in the cartridge, head to the Sound Test menu and let it rip.
Those foundations laid the groundwork for other tunes that I loved as a kid, like the Castle theme from Super Mario World or Mute City from F-Zero. But the next big landmark was in high school, when I finally got to play what some would call the best RPG of all-time. Continue reading “Music to My Ears: Chrono Trigger”
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