PrinceWatercress plays Chrono Trigger (Super NES) - Part 1 of 70

I've been waiting to play this game for years...and now, I finally get to do it. Welcome to Let's Play #400!

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When you start the game, you can choose between Active and Wait for the Battle Mode. Active has enemies attacking you even as you are making choices during battle, while Wait allows you to take your time while picking spells and items to use and enemies to attack. If this is your first time, Wait is recommended, but if you're good at this game or you're good at thinking under such pressure, use Active.

You'll also get to name the main character, whose default name is Crono. You only get five letters to work with, so make them count.

The game starts with balloons being released at the nearby community square. You are Crono, and you live in Truce Village. As Leene's Bell rings throughout the village, someone keeps trying to wake you up. Press A to get through the dialogue, and you'll find out it is Crono's mom, who tells Crono to get out of bed and enjoy himself at the Millennium Fair. From here, you can move around with the D-Pad, and you can also hold B while moving to run. You can also hold Up in front of the window to let the sunlight in and out.

When you go down the stairs, Crono's mom will mention Lucca's invention, and you'll also get the chance to rename Lucca. From here, you're free to leave the house, but if you walk up to Crono's mom and press A in front of her to talk to her again, you'll get another 200 G from your allowance. You now have more money! Not only does pressing A let you talk to people, but it also lets you examine things.

World Map (by Rick Bruns)

When you leave the house, you'll be on the World Map. The D-Pad will let you move around, and A lets you enter buildings and other places should the name of a place show up on the screen. Pressing Select shows you the world map (which I don't mention until a little later).

Instead of heading to Leene Square to get further into the story as the game demands, I actually spend some time walking around the part of the world that I can walk around in, talking to people in residences, looking at mysterious boxes that can't be opened, crossing the bridge and the desert, checking out the other town and even riding the ferry. There's a little bit of things here that you can do that you don't even need to do to beat the game, which is why I show some of it off.

There's also the Mayor's Manor in Truce Village, but I wait until the next video to show it off.