The Chrono Trigger Soundtrack Just BLEW Me Away

This has been one of the most HIGHLY requested video game OSTs. You were right.

Follow me!

[Yojimbo]

You’re going to need a Part 2 for this one…

And my favorite Chrono Trigger track is “Secret of the Forest.”

[Yoru-desu]

Yasunori Mitsuda's story on how he became the composer for Chrono Trigger is amazing. He wanted to compose music so bad, that he told his boss if he doesn't get to make music for a game, he would quit his job. They gave him the opportunity to work on Chrono Trigger, and it became one of the best, if not best, video game sound tracks of all time.

[Exjewatlarge]

I’m a gamer and musician for over 30 years. I played CT basically when it came out when I was 10 or so. I have yet to play a game that has had as massive an impression on me as Chrono Trigger and a huge part of that was the score. Before Logic, I downloaded the MIDI files and used my old freeware of a program called Mozart to convert the MIDI tracks into notation. It came out with the tracks not parsed properly so I had to spend probably hours combining the staffs to convert it into usable sheet music, but then I could play the music from Chrono Trigger!!! To this day, when I sit down at a piano, a few of the go-to things I like to play are variations I came up with as developments of CT music.

[joshuapatrick]

I am a 40 year old who got this game brand new when I was 13 years old and it still gives me goose bumps when I hear it.

[SimonAeberhard]

"Corridors Of Time" is such an epic, endlessly beautiful piece. Gives me goosebumps everytime!

[DianaandherGuitar]

My dad arranged millennium (?) fair for my brother’s wedding ceremony. He arranged it for flute, piano, classical guitar, and church organ. My brother and his wife fell in love playing chrono trigger together in college. The whole thing is pretty cute

[zombie-process]

12:39 Your analysis on Frog's theme is spot-on. He's a "ridiculous" character, until you learn his back story, and then it turns out it's rather epic and tragic, and under that weird exterior he is, above all, a knight with purpose and strength. The theme juxtaposes both.

[guiparmezanibr]

Frog's theme starts shy and clumsy, until it becomes a song of bravery and resolution, which in my opinion fits Frog as a character perfectly. Man, do I love this OST <3

[itiscujo]

10:57 I honestly think of playing chrono trigger as being like your grandfather telling you the greatest bedtime story EVER. The music keeps you cozy like a blanket, but the action and story keep you awake, like his unbridled enthusiasm.
I don’t think it’s a feeling any other piece of media has replicated.

[jonathonbartos]

"Schala's Theme" will *always* get me in tears. Every time. Without fail.

[drenrin]

Chrono trigger is beautiful. I think people forget that games like this may as well have been the equivalent of a novel or gripping tv drama. You get all the action, a fun story, compelling characters, secrets, mystery, drama, and of course, an unforgettable sound track, all in a single game. Of course people can't let go. Is it an easy game? Yes. But it's also a rollercoaster of fun.

[helixproductionsk]

dude...watching this video was great because your excitement for the music is exactly how I felt when i heard it for the first time in 1995...i wish i could relive that moment again

[PedantByNumbers]

The music doesn't shove you around to go where it's trying to take you, it throws an arm over your shoulder and walks with you there.

[themeatsword]

PLEASE, I'm BEGGING you to do more of this game. It's my favorite RPG of all time and the music has stuck with me this entire time.

[Tootsby]

Please do a part 2 of this. Chrono Trigger is one of the best soundtracks of all time and your analysis of more of the tracks is NEEDED.

[greatestcait]

No joke, when I was 13 and got to Zeal for the first time was the most magical experience I've ever had while playing a game. Going from these fairly grounded environments in various points in history to a dead, snowy wasteland and then being transported to a gorgeous kingdom on floating sky islands with THAT ZEAL THEME you react to at 9:14... exquisite. I still remember that feeling, and it was _exquisite._

[matthagen]

Frog's Theme is my favourite song in the game. The orchestral version that plays when Frog cuts the mountain in half (in the NDS cutscene) always makes me emotional.

[thenoisyninja]

Chrono Trigger was a miracle. Every single piece of the production as good as its was possible to make it. The team defied the odds to create something more than art, something sublime, something legendary.

And tragically much of the original project documents and materials are lost to time.

[hughlingard]

chrono trigger is the pinnacle of the potential that 16-bit games were capable of achieving and i will be forever grateful and enriched for having experienced it.

[Sygmus]

I literally cried while you were playing your version of Corridors of Time. That song is my double rainbow, one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard.