The game's story follows a group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe.Ĭhrono Trigger was a critical and commercial success upon release and is frequently cited as one of the greatest video games of all time. In addition, Kazuhiko Aoki produced the game, Masato Kato wrote most of the story, while composer Yasunori Mitsuda wrote most of the soundtrack before falling ill and deferring the remaining tracks to Final Fantasy series composer Nobuo Uematsu. The game's development team included three designers that Square dubbed the 'Dream Team': Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Square's Final Fantasy series Yuji Horii, creator of Enix's Dragon Quest series and Akira Toriyama, character designer of Dragon Quest and author of the Dragon Ball manga series. It was originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as the first game in the Chrono series. Chrono Trigger is a 1995 role-playing video game developed and published by Square.