Coming together with other developers or staff has been something that worked for Square, from their partnerships with Nintendo and Disney, the gambles they take always pay off. One such gamble was made by what can only be classed as a dream team. Hironobu Sakaguchi (Creator of Final Fantasy), Yuji Horii (Creator of Dragon Quest) and Akira Toriyama who was a manga artist who worked on Dragonball came together to create what some people call Squares very best game. It was a title developed in the golden age of Squaresoft and released for the Super Nintendo in 1995, combining the elements of Final Fantasy with brand new mechanics including the removal of the random battles that featured in Squares other series. The battle system received an overhaul and despite retaining the trademark ATB (Active Time Battle) mechanic, the idea of combining moves called 'Techs was revolutionary. However it was its time-spanning storyline that became the games biggest draw. Featuring time zones from the beginning to the very end of time, Chrono Trigger had the player fight off an evil called Lavos that lived within the planets core, among many other things. When the year hit 1999, Lavos would destroy the world, and so the story had Chrono and his friends travelling through time to find out where the being came from to stop it. There was something about the game that perfectly encapsulated the way Square were crafting their epics at this time in their history, and it's a time that if they looked back they could probably learn a lot from.
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