Your favorite Chrono Trigger time period

[Marky Tee]

zeal land definetly
though 65 billion trillion hundred has the best music as shown in this diagram

65000000--Ayla=Dj Tiesto track

[Lawr]

2300 AD. The concept of a post-Apocalyptic future setting in an RPG at the ripe young age of nine was foreign and intriguing to me.

Crap! Here comes the nostalgia! I remember getting like 486 emotions when I first arrived at 2300 AD in my younger days. I was like, scared, interested, confused, and all that good stuff. Actually now that I think about it, I remember feeling different whenever I arrived in any of the time periods.

[nik0tine]

600 A.D. and the End of Time if that counts.

[Heath]

12,000 BC.

Excellent music, interesting story-wise and generally just a lot of fun. I liked how the story really all came together here, explaining the roles Gaspar, Melchior, Balthazar and Magus. Zeal was also terribly nice looking.

Otherwise, I liked 600 AD.

[The Ceej]

The Sky World of 12,000 BC. I know Zeal had the best music and that's undeniable fact.

Fixed.

[Wolf Kanno]

12,000 B.C. is my favorite. I adore Zeal and all the kick ass music like Corridor of Time. Its a gorgeous world (even the snowy wasteland) and it was easily one of the more interesting time periods.

1000 A.D., 2300 A.D., and the End of Time are my other favorites.

[cloud_doll]

I'll have to go with 12, 000BC.
The music was just so enchanting!

But 2300AD was pretty intriguing.

[Nice]

Zeal presented a fresh turn in the story, as well as a fresh setting. It was definitely the climax of this game. Loved it.

[Vice Nebulosa]

No question about this one, even if I am throwing in my lot with the general consensus. 12,000 B.C., Kingdom of Zeal. In terms of the plot itself, we experience a number of unnerving events in this time period, from the realization that an entire civilization existed that seems to have been utterly erased from history (and we all know the alien cause of that, I trust), based on a society bound for arcane nirvana and on mysticism the like of which the Middle Ages could not even begin to compare, to a brief contact with a young Janus Zeal in his formative stages of life (still as cunning and cold as always, emphasizing the point that Magus, as a personality, never changes; his nature was intact and burning since childhood). Long sentence, that one. *_* Plus, "Corridors of Time" is an example of Yasunori Mitsuda at the absolute pinnacle of his creative brilliance. No adequate "words" for it; the music speaks volumes for itself. Suffice it to say that it is a remarkable piece of music, and is utterly godlike in a piano arrangement.

As for other reasons, The Kingdom of Zeal is the locale in Chrono Trigger in which I believe I could most congruously exist. It is about as far removed from reality (what one might consider in-game to be 1000 A.D.) as one can get. It is a time of titans, where innate talents are melded with arcane lore to yield a higher class of human, particularly in the Royal Bloodline. Granted, there are still "masses" in the Kingdom of Zeal (Janus, for one, was able to fool his sleepy people into believing he was totally unremarkable magically). Granted, arrogant addiction to mysterious forces was the Kingdom's downfall, and the Earthbound Ones paid the price for the illusion that was Zeal, but it was a glorious dream in certain ways while it lasted, that humanness itself, in all its mortal limitations and ugliness, could be overcome . . .

[blackmage_nuke]

Zeal is pure bliss, but 600 AD held some of my favourite characters