A portal shimmers, an era tips over, and thirty years on we're still talking about it.

Picked on instinct, Chrono Trigger lands ahead of 99% of games. And the profile backs it without a wobble: the game you'd take to a desert island ahead of 99%, the soundtrack at the top too, ahead of 99%, attachment ahead of 96%, the wish to rediscover it fresh ahead of 97%. A clean sweep on emotion and memory. Where it settles down is more down-to-earth: controller feel around two thirds, art style a touch above average, on few votes so take it as an early read. No surprise for a 1995 turn-based RPG: the feel and the pixels have aged, the emotion hasn't.

Against the JRPGs that came after, it stays the yardstick everyone still cites, the adventure you dream of forgetting just to live it again.

So, who's it for? For you if you love a story that crosses the ages, music that follows you for years, a game you keep close. Much less if you judge first by how modern it feels in the hands.