Select controller:Now that Crono's back in your party, welcome to the final portion of the game. You have unlimited access to space and time over all the periods you've visited, and if you haven't done so already you can clear out the first set of Sealed Chests easily enough. Saving Crono at Death Peak was more or less "his" sidequest, but you'll find out that every other character has one as well. If you talk to any character with Crono in your party they'll say some words of congratulations, and if you talk to any character whose sidequest hasn't been completed they'll inform you of it. And as always, if you say yes when asked to take a character into your party, it will play their theme music.
There are a few other sidequests/secrets you might consider doing however: as you know, you can compete for a poyozo doll, a clone, and a cat for 10, 40, and 80 points respectively. However, if you win a prize twice you can win some cat food to place in your cat's bin, giving you up to 15 (11 PC) cats which will show up in one of the endings. The other interesting thing is that you can win a Clone and a Poyozo doll of each character if you put them at the front of the party and play the games in Norstein Bekkler's lab. Each Clone will show several poses of that character and each Poyozo doll will play the main theme of that character, although Crono's, Marle's, and Lucca's seem to just be Marle's theme. The clone and Poyozo doll will show up at that character's "home." For each character:
- Crono's clone and Poyozo doll will show up in his room at his house
- Lucca's clone and Poyozo doll will show up in her room at Taban's house
- Marle's clone and Poyozo doll will show up in her room at the castle.
- Frog's clone and Poyozo doll will show up in his house at the cursed woods.
- Robo's clone and Poyozo doll will show up in the Proto Dome where he joined your party in 2300 A.D.
- Ayla's clone and Poyozo doll will show up in her hut in 65M B.C.
- Magus's clone and Poyozo doll will show up at North Cape in 12,000 B.C.
In addition to completing all the sidequests, eventually you'll want to challenge the Black Omen for the most "complete" way to finish the game, and to activate the New Game +. The Black Omen shows up in 2300 A.D., 1000 A.D., 600 A.D., and 12,000 B.C. If you visit it in the future Zeal will show up and laugh at you since Lavos already drained the world's energy, and in any other year she'll tell you how long you have to go until Lavos destroys the world. You can actually fight your way through the Black Omen three times if you go through it in 1000 A.D., 600 A.D., and 12,000 B.C. in that order, although none of the bosses except for Zeal will reappear and you won't be able to get the chests or items more than once.
The first part of this chapter describes all the optional sidequests which you will want to complete for the rewards, and the latter part describes how you should fight through the Black Omen.
The sidequests are arranged roughly in order of difficulty. The first three (Ayla's, Frog's, and Lucca's) are comparatively short and painless. The last four (Fiona's, Magus', Marle's, and Robo's) require some major boss fights and dungeons to get through. If you were to arrange them in order of usefulness, Marle's quest, Lucca's quest, and Fiona's give you the best equipment at the end of them. Gaspar will stop mentioning each sidequest when you complete it, and the party members they apply to will stop mentioning it as well, with the exception of Ayla.
Ayla's sidequest (optional)[edit | edit source]
Included solely for the sake of completeness, Ayla mentions that her village has a strong defensive item. First, head to the ruins of Laruba Village and talk to the Nu. He'll rename your characters if you want, and give you a SilverRock which unlocks Frog, Robo, and Ayla's Spin Strike Triple Tech.
The armor Ayla was bragging about was the Ruby Armor, which cuts fire hits by 80%, and offers better defense than any armor you'll have found so far. You'll need to trade 10 of each trading item to get it, which can be done if you hang around the Hunting Range (which is really close to the Dactyl Nest, to the east and slightly south of it) long enough and fight a few Nus when it rains.
- Note
- you can trade for as many Ruby Armor's as you want and these Ruby Armors will be very useful in the next sidequest.
Lucca's sidequest (optional)[edit | edit source]
- For more details on this topic, see Chrono Trigger/The Sunstone.
Gaspar's Hint: "And there's a very special stone that can shine its light on each generation, from the distant past to the far future..."
Frog's sidequest (optional)[edit | edit source]
- For more details on this topic, see Chrono Trigger/Giving Cyrus Rest.
Gaspar's Hint: "There's the ghost of a lofty knight, slain by Magus in the Middle Ages, who haunts the present..."
Magus's sidequest (optional)[edit | edit source]
- For more details on this topic, see Chrono Trigger/The End of Ozzie.
Gaspar's Hint: "A fugitive in the Middle Ages, Ozzie, maintains an evil hideout..."
Fiona's sidequest (optional)[edit | edit source]
- For more details on this topic, see Chrono Trigger/Fiona's Forest.
Gaspar's Hint: "In the Middle Ages, a woman's sheer determination brings a forest back to life..."
Robo's sidequest (optional)[edit | edit source]
- For more details on this topic, see Chrono Trigger/Robo's Origins.
Gaspar's hint: "There's a task to be done in the Future, where machinery originated."
Marle's sidequest (optional)[edit | edit source]
- For more details on this topic, see Chrono Trigger/The Rainbow Shell.
Gaspar's hint: "There's an object in the Middle Ages that sparkles like a rainbow..."
The Black Omen[edit | edit source]
- For more details on this topic, see Chrono Trigger/The Black Omen.
The final quest you have to complete is going through the Black Omen to defeat Zeal and confront Lavos. You can ram the epoch into Lavos or just use the bucket at the end of time naturally, but you'll only activate the New Game + if you beat the Black Omen the regular way. You can visit it in 2300 A.D. to see an eerie message from Zeal, and you can also fight through the fortress three times if you go in 1000 A.D., 600 A.D., and 12,000 B.C. in that order. You'll encounter all of the bosses the first time through, but only Zeal on the second and third. Unless you want to max out your experience in that order, you might as well finish it off in 12,000 B.C when you feel ready to continue the story.
A few people on the northern continent and elsewhere will also comment on the Black Omen as they're chatting about the weather, until you get rid of it that is. Hopefully you'll have completed all the other sidequests and challenged Spekkio for the last set of items you'll get until you hit level 99/**, so take your party to the Black Omen by flying the Epoch into it.
Lavos[edit | edit source]
Eventually you'll wear Zeal down, and she'll decide to have Lavos destroy you directly. The Black Omen will sink into the sea and crumble through a time gate that sends you directly to Lavos at 1999 AD (as proven if you are defeated by Lavos during this battle OR if you defeated Lavos previously).
Eventually you'll destroy him, and you'll be able to enter his outer shell. Inside Lavos' shell there will be a savepoint, and a time portal, which will lead you back to the end of time. You'll end up outside the bucket that led to the day of Lavos and be able to return to fighting Lavos any time you want, but the outer shell will already be defeated. You have now reached the final chapter.
Challenging Lavos[edit | edit source]
If you challenge Lavos during this chapter, you'll get The Main Ending. There are several variations depending on whether or not you crashed the Epoch into Lavos, spared Magus, and a few minor ones depending on how you completed Fiona's sidequest and how many cats you have. The basic theme of the ending is that Crono and company get honored for their work in saving the past, and have a farewell party. Keep in mind however that you won't activate the New Game+ unless you battle all the way through the Black Omen and move on to the next chapter.