my first game review

For my first game review I would like to choose a game from the SNES platform (yes an oldie). This game in my opinion was one of the very few games in all of gaming history that had a unique story line as well as a new and innovative game play style, the game I am talking about is Chrono trigger.

Description:

Chrono trigger is a game which was developed by the video game company known as square enix (formerly known as square at the time), and released in the year 1995. The designers of the video game are the same people who brought you the final fantasy series.

Chrono trigger is a game with 7 playable characters each coming from a diffrent time zone within the game. You the player start in the year 1000AD. with three characters, chrono, marle and lucca. The plot devlops around chrono the silent protagonist of the story, who is depicted as a strong and brave man who yeilds a katana.

Gameplay

the gameplay in nature is very similar to what you would find in a classic final fantasy game. However the game also brought about a great stat system that affected battle, from elemental damage to diffrent types of resistances to the elements.

Also when you unlocked and played with more and more characters you would learn techs(skills) generally in 3 diffrent categories,single tech was a tech used by a single character, a dual tech was a combination of 2 single techs and used by two of the players, and triple tech was used by three of the players.

The game also supplied two diffrent modes of gameplay, the first was turn based where the enemy and yourself took turns attacking each turn. there was also a time based style gameplay where each character had to wait a certain amount of time in order t oattack (the time was determined by the characters agility and speed).

rating: 9/10

music/sound

The music in the game composed by Nobuo Uematsu and scored by Yasunori Mitsuda. Was in short a masterpeice. Every area you went to had a very unique feel to it most of this was acheived through the use of music within the game. The music used during "boss" fights was very suspenseful and really got the players into the game. The battle sounds when fighting enemies were not complex and were simplistic in nature, but yet it was effective.

rating:8.5/10

graphics

For the time the games graphics were very well done and showed scripted weather effects within the game(snow and rain). the character art was brilliant but the character miniatures were average.The battle graphics although were not overly complex in nature were style very effective and awed the crowds.

rating:9/10

Plot

This game definetly got the name "grand daddy of RPGs" definetly due to the outsanding and well developed plot. The plots timeline is perfectly created and leaves gamers entertained for hours on end. Every character also has a very unique back story which in of itself is one of the most entertaining aspects of the game in my opinion. the game from start to funish (without trying to acheive maximum level or obtaining all skills and the best items) will at least take around 20+ hours.

rating:9.5/10

Difficulty

The difficulty in this game clearly depends on the player, however the games difficulty definetly gets much tougher as the game progresses. As the game progresses you will come across bosses that require a high end battle strategy in order to take them down, while at the beginning of thegame its just a matetr of hitting him and keeping your health high by healing.

rating:(n/a)

Overalll

overall this is definetly one of the greatest RPGs ever made. Alot of RPG games today have a very difficult time in creating expansive plots, and make a game last more than 15+ hours. This may be due to developers focusing more on the effects and battle systems than the storys or plot.

overall rating: 9/10

trimires video game blog

Hello fellow gamers, bloggers, and random surfers.

For those of you have not figured it out yet this blog of mine is going to be used to create video game reviews of the old the new, and basically any game I feel should be discussed. I will post 1-2 game reveiws per week(usually cause im busy) but in some cases i may get up to 3 or 4. I really hope you find my reveiws exciting and entertaining to read. If you have any comments feel free to share them through my email at. trimire@hotmail.com please make sure to put trimires game reveiw as the title for the message or I will most likely regard the e-mail as junk.