One of the best RPGs of the 2D era, if not the best.

It does time travel well and its combat system is a breath of fresh air compared to its peers. No random battles, and interesting AOE mechanics based on enemy positioning.

However, this version of the game can delete all of your saves if the game crashes. I lost dozens of hours of progress thanks to this bug. This has been a known issue for at least 6 years, and Square has not fixed it.

DO NOT buy this version of the game unless you intend on backing up your saves yourself.

I've beaten Chrono Trigger once every year since 1998, around christmas times. It's been the one constant in my life through ups and downs, and saying this game means alot to me is an understatement.
Obviously, I can highly recommend the game itself, its one of my favorites. If you like JRPGs at all, you owe it to yourself to play this classic. It holds up well, and isn't too long, around 20-25 hours for new players and 10-15 if you know your way around. Plus an additional 5-10 for the new (and luckily optional) post game stuff.
Replay value is HIGH.

As for the Steam version? Its quite good. Original graphics and Japanese language can be turned on. I only encountered one odd glitch where item names some times don't appear when I open chests, also something weird with gold not displaying in stores.
The anime cutscenes also felt a bit odd to me, but I liked them.

As for the extra content from the DS version (that appears in gateways on the map at two points through the game), I did not really enjoy those and would highly suggest skipping at least the Lost Sanctum(green portals)
Dimensional Vortex(purple portals) might be worth checking out because it doesn't take too long and wraps things up a little more around certain characters.

Not sure what else to say. Gonna keep playing this version the next couple of years until I get that perfect save and unlock all endings again.

Never thought i would care this much about a bunch of little character sprites.