History YMMV / ChronoTrigger

* BreatherBoss: Krawlie, the end-boss of the sewers. If you're following the story, he'll be much easier than Golem or Giga Gaia, and the only indication that he's supposed to be a boss is his death animation.

* GoddamnedBoss: The Dream Devourer is the hardest boss in the DS and future remakes, but also one of the most ''annoying'', simply because at any moment it can just decide to KO you unless your party's maxed out. It also has two stances--one where it resists most physical attacks but counters with MP-stealing attack... or it counters ''every'' physical attack with Chaos Zone. Even if you're immune to Confuse (which is mandatory), you still have to sit through shrill noises and an abrupt action pause. All while it can ''still'' throw out powerful attacks, requiring you to ''constantly'' use Lapises, Megalixirs, or waste your valuable turns casting party-wide heals. Frog Drop and Dino Tail will ''not'' work here.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: The most common criticism brought against the game, especially in the new millennium, when [=JRPGs=] and video games as a whole are expected to last for much longer than they did in 1995. However, even some of those critics admit that the tightly plotted story ''might'' make up for its shortness, and with {{multiple endings}} and a NewGamePlus feature, the game is meant to be played multiple times and it being short helps picking it up for future playthroughs.
* JerkassWoobie: Magus, thanks to a mixture of being incredibly badass but having one of the more tragic backstories in the game.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: With how abnormally difficult the battle against Lavos in the Ocean Palace is --being ''the'' hardest version--, you'd think being able to defeat him would result in an ending where Zeal was never destroyed and magic was still common, possibly existing all the way to the present. Instead, the ending is the same "The Dream Project" ending you get for beating Lavos at the earliest possible point in a NewGamePlus.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Or rather, Fantasy Counterpart History. Just like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous–Paleogene_extinction_event K-T Extinction Event]], a large object crashlands into the Earth from space, wiping out the dominant reptilian species and ushering in the age of mammals. Meanwhile, while the exact timeframe doesn't match, there ''was'' [[AncientRome an advanced ancient civilization]], in an era known as "Antiquity," that suffered a tragic fall, leaving those in its wake surrounded by its influence but struggling to replicate its grandeur throughout the long "Middle Ages." The timeframe it ''does'' give lines up with the real-world Ice Age, which is also present ingame.

* CaptainObviousReveal: The modern-day Chancellor being Yakra XIII in disguise isn't too difficult to predict, given his ''severe'' DisproportionateRetribution policies towards Crono at the beginning of the game, as well as his unpleasant and manipulative behavior towards Marle and her father later on. [[TropesAreNotBad Not that it makes finally defeating him any less satisfying.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The Frog King seen in Frog's flashback might have made an interesting boss, but he never shows up outside said flashback. Interestingly, unused battle data for the Frog King does exist in the game, implying that he may have been intended to be fought as a proper boss at one point, but for whatever reason (presumably time constraints), it was cut.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Given that Yakra's background plotting is second only to his shape-shifting abilities, one could be forgiven for assuming that Janus's comments about the Queen were actually right, and that truly ''wasn't their mother.'' Exacerbated later on with Mount Woe, where the ancestors of the fiends are clearly seen to reside.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Much like other [=RPGs=] of the era, SNES copies of the game can be prohibitively expensive to get a hold of nowadays, making it near impossible for purists to play the original game without the use of emulation.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Much like other RPGs of the era, SNES copies of the game can be prohibitively expensive to get a hold of nowadays, making it near impossible for purists to play the original game without the use of emulation.

* CharacterPerceptionEvolution: During the second half of [[TheNineties the 1990s]] and the majority of [[TurnOfTheMillennium the 2000s]], Dalton had a [[EnsembleDarkhorse cult following in the playerbase]] who appreciated him for being a LaughablyEvil [[EvilIsHammy ham]] who [[NiceJobFixingItVillain upgrades the Epoch with the ability to fly]] after stealing it from the party. However, after the 2009 [[UsefulNotes/NintendoDS DS]] [[UpdatedRerelease re-release]] added additional content that aimed to bridge ''Trigger'' with [[VideoGame/ChronoCross its divisive 1999 sequel]]--which canonized Dalton being responsible for [[spoiler:militarising Porre, the Fall of Guardia and [[HappyEndingOverride the deaths of Crono, Lucca and Marle]]]] between the events of ''Trigger'' and ''Cross''--general fan opinion of Dalton started to [[TheScrappy significantly sour]]. Even when ignoring the DS additional content, Dalton has been criticized for being an incompetent nuisance who gets away with far more than he should among a cast of more interesting, entertaining, and/or challenging antagonists, and for being the catalyst for one of the game's worst dungeons in the form of the Blackbird (which follows the widely-acclaimed Ocean Palace). While ''Trigger'' is still generally agreed to be a masterpiece, Dalton is now seen as one of its worst elements.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Magus gets this a lot, due to a combination of EvilIsCool and [[FreudianExcuse having a sympathetic backstory,]] with fans often whitewashing (or straight up ignoring) how he was the leader of the fiends who terrorized the humans in 600 A.D. Him joining the good guys is often portrayed as a HeelFaceTurn as well, when in reality he was mostly [[ItsAllAboutMe just trying to save his own hide]] (though his joining the team does come with, if perhaps not a full level in kindness, at least a noticeable downgrade in jerkass).

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Most of the game's villains are beloved amongst the fanbase in some way, shape, or form. Lavos, Magus, and Azala are strong examples of EvilIsCool, Ozzie, Flea, and Slash are enjoyed for being LaughablyEvil, and Queen Zeal and Mother Brain are considered [[NightmareFuel really scary villains]]. However, the two most disliked characters amongst fans are Yakra XIII and Dalton, who, while still villains, are less proactive villains and have more upfront {{Jerkass}} moments. Yakra XIII is disliked both for getting Crono sentenced to death via a [[KangarooCourt really flimsy court case]] and making Marle's family life actively worse while disguised as the [[EvilChancellor Chancellor]], while Dalton is disliked for his {{Gasshole}} tendencies, being a generally [[ItsAllAboutMe egotistical nuisance]] who puts the party through one of the game's [[ThatOneLevel worst dungeons]], and for [[spoiler:being implied to be the one responsible for the game's HappyEndingOverride]].