A boy named Crono goes to a fair, a demonstration goes wrong, and he and his friends are flung across time. From there the game lets you travel between the stone age, the middle ages, the present, the far future, and the end of the world, fixing causes and effects across the centuries. It was built in 1995 by an unusually stacked team at Square, including the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest creators and Dragon Ball artist Akira Toriyama. Even now it is held up as one of the cleanest role-playing games ever made: no wasted hours, no random ambushes, and over a dozen possible endings depending on when and how you finish.
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