Why is Chrono Trigger considered the greatest JRPG of all time when the villain of the story is literally just God but...

Which version of chrono trigger is the best one?

There was already intelligent life on the planet before Lavos showed up you non-game playing retard.

All of it. Kino

emulate the DS version. I think the translation is a bit more polished there. Just don't do the DS exclusive content because it's terrible and doesn't add anything to the scope of the game.

All physical versions have reasons they are good

Original: it's on SNES which is probably the least hassle to emulate and doesn't have any extra crap tacked on, but has a slightly weird translation

PS1: it has anime cutscenes at certain parts, which can be good or bad depending on your preferences

DS: it has extra content, and specifically extra content that lays out a connection with Chrono Cross. But also, the extra content is shit compared to the original game and the chrono cross connection can be considered good or bad depending on your preferences.

The recent digital releases on iOS and then Steam suffer the same issues as most of square enix's recent digital releases: awful emulation, awful visual upscaling, changing shit that didnt need to be changed like the text font, etc.

never played the ps1 version but doesn't it have terrible load times? i prefer the ds version for the battle interface

Honestly, this is one of these games were you're better off sticking with the original version

The DS version adds some new shit, but its total slog to actually play,

Do not use the latest version on Steam, its a haphazard mobile port hastily thrown on Steam, it shows

You'll get the downsides of playing a disc-based game, yes. Although I don't know how pronounced they are on emulators, which I assume is where people will be playing it.

Well said. It’s just chock full of content through and through. Very little of it is repeated, and you’re always pushing forward to some interesting goal. The characters are likesble, the sidequests are soulful, and the story is interesting and not needlessly complex.

>Chrono Cross is fanfiction.
No, it's a 10/10 sequel to a 10/10 game, although instead of being a cheap copy, they decided to risk it and do something different.
As a sequel, CC fills a lot of holes and explains a lot of stuff.
For example: Ayla and her people were already able to speak etc. 65 fucking MILLION years ago. How is it that the human civilisation developed only this much until Zeal?
Why can't Ayla (and her people) use magic? What happened that made it possible for humans to use magic?
What happened to Schala after Zeal's destruction?
All this and much more is explained in CC. There aren't even any new inconsistencies introduced by CC. Everything you could ask like "why couldn't I see El Nido in CT?" is also completely explained.
Sure, what happened with some of the old characters may be sad, but maybe they had planned another sequel which was supposed to resolve some matters, but for one reason or another was never made.

> The DS version adds some new shit, but its total slog to actually play,
Lol how exactly is it different from SNES?

I like JRPGs, yet I can't stand Chrono Trigger. I just get so bored. I've started it twice and dropped it 8-10 hours in each time. I don't get the love at all, it's just too generic and it feels so fucking soulless with how much it tries to go for mass appeal.

There's more to a game than its villain you idiot. And Lavos isn't God are you retarded?

It's basically just two shitty extra dungeons that comprises of rehased areas and content, not fun to go though, the final boss is just a slightly different lavos with shoehorn in extra tie in to Chrono Cross

>crashed into earth after humans were well established
bad bait, you didn't even play the game

The intrigue of Chrono Trigger's main antagonist isn't how it has incredible motivation to do evil (which seems to simply be its nature as a form of parasite), but how omnipresent it is in influencing the history of humanity, how evil humans interact with it to further their own aims throughout history, and how a looming doomsday upon humanity in the future makes for a fantastic motivation to destroy it.
Seeing humanity be destroyed and brought into a new dark age by this monster is amazing inspiration for the player to act on this dark knowledge and save the world. With time travel as their tool, it motivates people to explore time to find a way to stop that destruction event from happening.
In most RPG games, the antagonist decides to do some horrible deed at the end of the game due to their "motivations" and the protagonists put a stop to it once and for all by fighting them after some long-ass speech about how the antagonist thinks they're the shit. In Chrono Trigger, you know this evil deed will happen at the very start - even seeing it occur - and the player's goal is to find out how to beat seemingly insurmountable odds to stop this deed throughout the course of the game. You don't even need to know why Lavos did this. It just does. That's all that matters. And that motherfucker is going to die - we're going to figure out how. Learn about the god-bug's poisonous involuntary influence on humanity to learn how it can be destroyed by travelling throughout the ages. It's a fucking cool approach to an antagonist.

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