Chrono Trigger/Endings: Difference between revisions

==The Programmer's Ending==

There are actually two ways to get this ending, which are the two toughest ways to fight Lavos. You can either beat him at the first Ocean Palace fight before Crono dies, in which you're expected to lose, or you can challenge him at the very beginning of the game. If you choose the Ocean Palace route, you can have any characters in your party but Magus, just make sure you have your best equipment since the first fight will be harder than usual.  The later fights are the same as normal. If you choose to fight Lavos at the beginning of the game, you can do it with or without Marle depending upon whether you enter the right Telepod right away or whether you try out the Telepod first and do it with Crono alone. You can fight Lavos with Crono alone if you want, but there's no real reason not to take Marle, so you might as well. Hopefully you're at a high enough level where this is a piece of cake. You'll get to talk to the programmers in the coolest exposition of a credit sequence ever, then be treated to a rapid fire scroll of the credits to complement your breezing through the game.

==The Frog Ending==

Challenge Lavos using the Telepod as soon as you come back from 600 A.D. for the first time. You'll only have Marle and Crono in your party unfortunately, so make the best of it. You'll pop out of the Telepod again only to find out you changed history in a bit of a froggy way.

==The Nu Ending==

[[Image:Chrono Trigger Nu Ending Sprites.png|thumb|200px|right|A peaceful way to end.]]

Use the bucket at the end of time when you first get there, or at any point before returning to 600 A.D. for the second time, the gate at the fairgrounds works as well if you use it before you head to the past. You'll watch a lot of random scenes involving a Nu, a frog, and eventually a Kilwala. All things begin and end with Nu, don't they?

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==The Tata/Legendary Hero Ending==

Beat the game during your second trip to 600 A.D., while everyone still thinks Tata is the hero, and before he learns he's a fake on the Denadaro mountains. After a few scenes with Robo in the future, Tata will go to Magus's castle to challenge him and find some unusual company.

==The Unknown Past Ending==

Beat Lavos after you get the hero medal and before visiting 65M B.C. for the first time to get the dreamstone. You'll see a bunch of scenes showing the villagers in 65M B.C. to show what you missed out on, and a few other random things with the characters.

==People of the Times Ending==

Beat Lavos after you return from your first trip to 65M B.C. with the gate key and before repairing the masamune and giving it to Frog. This ending is probably the worst out of the bunch, it just shows a few sprites in between showing the credits.

==The Frog vs Magus Ending==

Beat Lavos after giving the Masamune back to Frog and having him join your party, but before confronting Magus. You'll start out at Lucca's house with her fixing Robo, and Frog will go to Magus's castle to take care of some unfinished business. He'll go through each of Magus's henchmen in turn, with a final battle with Magus taking place over the credits. And the winner? Open for interpretation in my opinion.

==The Reptite Ending==

Beat Lavos after you defeat Magus, but before you go with Ayla to fight the Reptites. The past will have been changed so that the Reptites won the battle with the humans, so all of the characters are Reptites, except for the Green Ambler, who is a human.

==The Prophet Ending==

Beat Lavos after reaching 12,000 B.C. and before Zeal crashes down to earth. A few scenes will take place involving Magus disguised as the prophet, implying that he would get his chance to do what he wanted in 12000 B.C. without your interference.

==The SlideShow Ending==

Better known as the ending which proves Crono isn't a mute. That's right folks, he talks. Beat Lavos after Schala opens up the door to the Ocean Palace but before charging up your own pendant. Marle and Lucca will put on a slideshow and discuss the men of Chrono Trigger.

==The Reunion Ending==

These last two endings are the ones most players are likely to see, depending upon whether they completed the final quest to rescue Crono or not. This is the ending you get if you defeat Lavos after completing the Zeal quest and while Crono is still "dead." This ending and the main ending however, take place largely at the fair and has a lot of variations depending upon some of the last quests you did.

==The Main Ending==

You'll see some variation of this ending if you choose to fight Lavos after you complete the Zeal quest and have the magic kingdom crash into the ground, and if you save Crono as well. This also allows you a chance to do all the sidequests to get some equipment up to the challenge of fighting Lavos. The ending you get will depend upon two main factors: whether or not you spared Magus, and whether or not you rammed the Epoch into Lavos in 1999 A.D.