Xenoblade Chronicles laps up your time with a St. Bernard’s huge, gross, slimy, wet tongue, licks your face with the residue of your lost hours still sticking to its perpetually unclean dog mouth, and then asks if you had a good time. The St. Bernard is fluffy, and the gesture is sweet, but I don’t even know how to begin answering that.

But I guess the music and world design are excellent.

/The/ Japanese RPG. The Dream Team synthesized Dragon Quest's best practices with Hironobu Sakaguchi's high-concept storytelling, and Chrono Trigger is what we got.

The game is required reading for those interested in the strengths of the genre. It's a perfect study in Yuji Horii's "worlds you can feel," as well as the role that player input should play in even the most traditional RPGs.