I’ll be honest—when my daughter first mentioned Chrono Trigger back in 2011, I figured she was just throwing another retro game title at me that I’d probably never get around to playing. I mean, I was still trying to wrap my head around this whole “16-bit graphics can be good actually” concept she’d been drilling into me since I’d gotten hooked on Super Metroid the year before. But she kept bringing it up, kept insisting…
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