I came to Chrono Trigger embarrassingly late. No childhood nostalgia clouding my judgment, no rose-tinted memories of Christmas morning 1995. I first played it in 2019, sitting in my basement after the kids went to bed, expecting to appreciate a “classic” the way you appreciate old architecture – impressive for its time, but ultimately dated. I was completely, utterly wrong. Chrono Trigger isn’t just good “for a 1995 game.” It’s one of the best RPGs…
Look, ranking the ten best SNES games nearly ended friendships. Carl had to mediate arguments that got genuinely heated. Joe kept trying to downrank everything because of his Sega loyalty. Tim wrote a manifesto about Chrono Trigger despite only discovering it five years ago. Sam defended Street Fighter II with the intensity of a lawyer arguing a murder case. But after three weeks of arguments, passive-aggressive Slack messages, and one Zoom call where John wouldn’t…