Due to the game's multiple endings, story, music (by famed Final Fantasy composers Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda), battle system, and detailed graphics, the game was so popular it sold two million copies within the first two months of release. The development team was comprised of the same minds behind the popular RPGs Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, earning them the moniker of "The Dream Team." The game has sold around 3.5 million copies worldwide across its various ports.Īt the time of its release, Chrono Trigger received great praise from critics and fans. Before its release, Chrono Trigger was a highly anticipated collaboration between members of the well-known game studios, Squaresoft and Enix. The game is well-known for its multiple endings, Active Time Battle system, and time-spanning storyline. If you went to year 1999 AD and defeated Lavos beforehand, you do not need to go through the sequence of battling Lavos again.Chrono Trigger is a traditional console role-playing game (RPG) released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System on Augin North America and for the Super Famicom on Main Japan. The act will transport the party to the year 1999 and immediately to Lavos. Once you defeat Queen Zeal, she will summon Lavos to destroy and making the Black Omen vanishes before she disappears. The only tie that is not linked is the final battle with Queen Zeal, where you can charm up to six of the rare and powerful Prism items (three Prism Helm and three Dresses). The Laser Guard defeated in the year 2300 AD at the outside entrance also counts. Boss spots, Panels, and Ghaj are limited to just one battle, so having Ayla be present to Charm very rare items like the capsules is highly recommended in those battles. Destroying it at an earlier time will erase the existence of the Omen from any future time periods.īecause the Black Omen is tied with the fabrication of time, several events that happen in the final dungeon, with the exception of the final battle on top of the Black Omen, will only happen once. Please note that if the player wants to beat it multiple times, they must do it back through time (i.e.: Present, then Middle Ages, then Antiquity). Also, it did not exist in the year 65,000,000 BC, since it appeared later, in the year 12,000 BC. As mentioned, it cannot be fought in the year 2300 AD (except using an Action Replay cheat in the DS version as described earlier), as the entrance will be closed. The Black Omen can be fought a total of three times: during Antiquity, Middle Ages, Present. Should the party try to enter it in 2300 AD., they will find the doors completely locked shut.
The Black Omen can only be reached by the flight-enabled Epoch. The Black Omen will rise after you board the newly flight-enabled Epoch, but only after you speak with Magus on a cliff the outcome of beating him or him joining your party which does not matter. The Mighty Lavos has already consumed this world's life energy!" - Queen Zeal mocks the party visiting the Black Omen in 2300 A.D. " Know this! The Mighty Lavos reigns here! Relax poor creatures.
Let their strength become your own! For only then can you hope to defeat the enemy you face." - Gaspar before the defeat of Queen Zeal. Borrow the might of all these lives throughout the ages. Some of you may well know the figures behind the events which I have seen. The more accurate DS version's scripting replaces this line with:
This line can be attributed to a rushed translation it does not exist in the Japanese version. find this person.fast!" - Gaspar before the defeat of Queen Zeal. " One of you is close to someone who needs help. This will cause Gaspar to have a new dialogue (after his mentions of the game's side-quests): The player may escape through the Time Gate inside Lavos after Lavos' shell is confronted by the Black Omen. People will actually not pay it any mind, since it has been floating in the sky for thousands of years, except for an Imp worshipping it in Medina's park. Until the party enters this vast dungeon and defeats Queen Zeal, it will appear at all points in time (save for Prehistory). With the immortality bestowed upon her Majesty by the Mammon Machine and its connection to the Time Gates, Queen Zeal is prepared to wait out the millennia until Lavos awakens and rains its havoc upon the world.