If you love RPGs and haven’t played Chrono Trigger I cannot recommend it enough. Releasing in 1995 on the Super Famicom/SNES, it is (in my opinion) one of the best games full stop. I could go on and on about the same things everyone else loves about it including the music, the characters and writing, the gameplay, Akira Toriyama’s art and designs.

I considered finding a video essay on it to try and convince the few wayward readers of my blog but I don’t know that any of them would do it proper justice anyway. Check the trailer above and if you think you’d be remotely interested please try it. You won’t regret it.

The reason for this post is that it’s not just the 30th anniversary, for which Square announced a whole mess of tributes for the year, but it also topped off 5 million sales worldwide recently. This might not be super impressive considering Persona 5 and FF7 Remake both sold over 7 million copies. Silent Hill 2 sold over 2 million within a few months!

But it’s still cool to see that over the years people continued to come back to this world and these characters.

I’ve heard mixed things about Chrono Cross but I’m stoked to dive into it (soon).