Easily one of the best games ever created. The 'In Bruges' of video games. The storytelling, aesthetic, gameplay and the way everything fits together is unmatched. I have a few relatively minor quibbles with how some puzzles are designed, but this game is as close to perfect as games get.
Play it.

Chrono Trigger is easily one of the best games ever made and probably *the* best JRPG ever made. As some commentators have pointed out, Chrono Trigger's stand-out characteristic is easily its pacing: the game is far shorter than most JRPGs, but it manages to pack in just as much interesting gameplay and just as many impactful story moments, great revelations and side quests as much longer games. And all this is highly polished, too. AND it's aged incredibly well - better than JRPGs that came out decades later.

There simply isn't anything else like it. Play this game.

Really good gunplay, bosses with lots of fun skill-based mechanics, plenty of fun synergies to mess around with. The fact that the rogue-like elements don't vary too much between runs is a bit unfortunate, but the core gameplay is just so damn good that it doesn't matter.