

After returning to AD 600, they challenge Magus, believing him to be the source of Lavos the battle disrupts the spell Magus was using to summon Lavos and causes a time gate that throws Crono and his friends to the past. The player controls the protagonist and his companions in the game's 2D fictional world, consisting of various forests, cities, and dungeons.

The development staff studied the drawings of Toriyama to approximate his style. " It was a nominee for "Best RPG for the Nintendo DS" in IGN's 2008 video game awards. After an encounter with Lavos as a child, he had been sent through a time gate to the Middle Ages, where he was adopted by Ozzie of the Mystics and became their leader. , There are no plans as of 2020 for a new title, despite a statement from Hironobu Sakaguchi in 2001 that the developers of Chrono Cross wanted to make a new Chrono game. Square also released a one-disc acid jazz arrangement called "The Brink of Time" by Guido that year. Ayla and the party eventually defeat Azala at the Tyrano Lair, and Azala dies from the impact of Lavos crashing into the place.

Ayla's character seems most likely derived from the blond hair, blue-eyed, Cro-Magnon era heroine of the same name in the Earth's Children series of novels by the author Jean Auel.

Lavos (ラヴォス, Ravosu/Rabosu) is the game's primary antagonist, an alien parasite with immense destructive powers, which crash landed in the year 65,000,000 BC (65,000 BC in the Japanese version). Yoshinori Kitase and Takashi Tokita then wrote various subplots. The development staff studied all the drawings Toriyama made for the game and tried to be as faithful to his lighthearted style as possible. The PC port received negative reception due to its inferior graphical quality, additional glitches, UI adapted for touchscreens, and failure to properly adapt the control scheme for keyboards and controllers. , Square released a ported version by Tose in Japan for the PlayStation in 1999, which was later repackaged with a Final Fantasy IV port as Final Fantasy Chronicles (2001) for the North American market. He later attributed this song to an idea he was developing before Chrono Trigger, reflecting that the tune was made in dedication to "a certain person with whom wanted to share a generation".
