Chrono Trigger by Michael P. Williams

Author:Michael P. Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Chrono Trigger;Squaresoft;Square;RPG;Super NES;Nintendo;Crono;video game;gaming;Michael P. Williams;Ted Woolsey;criticism;nonfiction
Publisher: Boss Fight Books
Published: 2016-04-22T21:52:14+00:00

The Day of Lavos

March 11, 2011 AD. The strongest earthquake ever to hit Japan struck just off the coast of the city of Sendai, causing widespread damage and fires. The quake triggered a massive tsunami that desolated the northeast coastline of Honshū as it spread throughout the Pacific Ocean to places as far away as Chile. Pounding the shores of Japan at heights of up to twenty feet, this surge of water washed away entire towns, drowning and sweeping away thousands of residents. The tidal wave breached the walls of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant roughly 60 miles down the coast from Sendai, causing a meltdown that directly irradiated the environment within 50 miles of the facility. Strong winds carried fallout even further inland. With the toll of dead and missing estimated to be as high as 20,000, and with radioactive material still actively seeping into the Pacific Ocean as of this writing, the Great East Japan Earthquake stands as one of worst disasters in Japanese history.

Meanwhile, exactly sixteen years before this national crisis, gamers across Japan were beginning their simultaneous journeys through time to stop another disaster from annihilating humankind and reshaping the world into a wasteland. Chrono Trigger made its shelf debut on March 11, 1995 in Japan, just nine days before the Aum Shinrikyō cult released sarin gas—a powerful nerve agent—on the Tokyo subway system, killing thirteen and sickening countless others.

Shōkō Asahara, Aum’s founder and leader, had styled himself as a new Jesus Christ. Borrowing heavily from the Bible, Asahara predicted that the forces of evil—in the guise of the United States—would initiate World War III. This war would end in nothing less than global nuclear armageddon. Only the chosen would survive.

While the exact reasons for the attacks have never fully come to light, I can imagine Asahara, Magus-like, tampering with forces of destruction beyond his control. Before he was Shōkō Asahara he was Chizuo Matsumoto, a poor boy in a working class family. Completely blind in one eye and only partially sighted in the other, this seventh of nine children may have understood exactly what it feels like to be stepped on. And just like Janus—the vulnerable boy Magus had been before being displaced in time—Chizuo grew up to be a prophet, and he prophesied the end of the world. As his cult grew, its bizarre propaganda drifted further into public view. The warning signs were there, and they were not heeded.

With a few foreshocks rumbling days before it happened, the Great East Japan Earthquake did not come without forewarning either. But it was unexpected nonetheless. And in another world, in another reality, the Day of Lavos erupts with earth-shattering fury, ushering in a waking nightmare for all humankind.

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65,000,000 BC. Crono, Ayla and their third companion defeat Azala in her fortress. The reptites seemed far more likely to inherit the earth than what Azala derisively calls “the apes.” Only through the coincidental arrival of Crono’s crew are these cavepeople able to defeat their technologically superior reptilian foes.

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