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  • What happened to character design since those days? Nowadays you're lucky, if even a game's main character is memorable let alone a whole party.

  • The DS translation is so much better.

    Thumbs up if you've A) played both and agree or B) Played DS and hate the one in this video

  • chrono trigger is one of the best rpg's ever but still ff VII is the best probably the best game ever made !!!!!

  • i have played and beat this game to many times to count, what was tick your hp down in that fight little by little?

  • @MrHuxkyle Geyser / HP Down

  • I beat him on my first try, with some near death moments. Does that make me good at RPGs? (actually I've beaten ff7...)

  • man! they didn't even try to make effort on frogs name did they.

  • @mythicrose89 watch his backstory it explains the simple name. his real name was glenn.

  • @mythicrose89 If you'd played the game up to the point of fighting the boss, you would know that already... so...

  • I don't know why but I was listening to Nas' Hate Me Now the other day and it just seemed like an awesome song for Magus' intro and this battle.....crazy choice right?

  • Saaaaay waaaaaaaaaat?! you beat him just like that?! I'm on level 31!! And I still can't beat him!! :(

  • My frog doesn't know water.

    How does he learn that? Mine he's lvl 19

  • @D1am0nd77 Go back to The End of Time and learn it from Spekkio.

  • this game beats final fantasy! thumbs up if you agree

  • @rollokids Final Fantasy is one the best RPG series in history, so I would say the best FF games are worthy rivals to Chrono Trigger.

  • I watched this just for the music.

  • What is the name of the song you played at the intro to this video?

  • @CozmikMonkey Megaman X3's Intro Stage, You can get download it at OCRemix. It's called "X-BusterMK-17"

  • the dark wind howls

  • "I...it's that stupid frog!"

    hahahah oh man i loled so hard when i first heard that while playing.

  • oh thank god ure using da same teem as me im level 22 crono and lucca and frogz 20

  • Man this guy is way under leveled. I used crono, frog, and robo and they worked really with with their triple attack and both robo and frog have spells that heal everybody

  • I'm recreating this audio using Kontakt4 and Zebra, so far it sounds incredible :)

  • in some part of game i use frog to defeat magus he didnt join, is there other way i can get magus

  • do you mind if i use this in a youtube video?

  • @devindude1 Go ahead and use it, just tell in the description where you got the clip and it's fine.

  • i fighted with chrono, robot and frog. i used the triple attack

  • I remember this fight!!! I always used Robo, Frog, and Crono though.

  • I had Frog use the Masamune and Crono and Marle use Aura Whirl. Then went all out on him in the last half. Wasn't that hard.

  • creo q yo lo hubiera matado mas rapido

  • i know this from like forever ago, but how r u so low lvled at this time in the game just wondering...?

  • @luoiaisahindu L and R buttons... that's fleeing from every encounter that isn't forced.

  • I haven't beaten the game though so im hoping I can find a designated white magic user in another character. Can somebody help me out?

  • @theSneakySasquatch Frog or Marle will probably be your best two healers. Frog can Aoe heal quite effectivly, and combos with chrono quite well in damage. Marle can't aoe heal, but her single target heal heals for more, and can apply haste to your party :D

  • Yeah I did the same as him, only I used crono as offensive along with frog, and cast the occasional ice spell with marle. But honestly as far as boss battles go marle is a godsend when it comes to keeping the party in fighting shape. I don't think I've taken marle out of my party once, because aura whirl is the best move in the game so far.

  • your characters shoulda been more geared up at this time lol and use Marle and Chrono's double tech (Aura Whirl) shoulda helped alot! but well done bro

  • @stevensadler82 Aura Whirl doesn't heal nearly for as much as Mid Tonics and using 2 Characters for 0dmg is just bad, since it just heals for 120 or so, so you need to use 2-3 for a full heal. Also using Marle means you can only do damage while Ice or Lightning is in play, meaning even more damage on your party.

  • @DarkDragonXXD yah man no arguments here lol but what i typically do is cast haste on everyone...have chrono and marle sit defensive and also use any items that protect against magic...then have Frog attack only...healing the group with aura whirls and tonics as needed...then when it says "magus risks casting a spell" ...have everyone go nuts on him....cuz to me it seems that their double techs are most potent at this point. I ussually have done it this way with no problems

  • @DarkDragonXXD Robo's Heal Beam and high HP make him an excellent choice for this battle.

  • @wisemanrashidi Guessing you didn't even bother to check the lvls or what tech I had, Robo would never even have had Heal beam for this fight, even if I had used him constantly (since this was a kind of low lv run, not lowest though) and Robo has the crappiest MDef in the game, making him terrible for Magus.

  • EEK @ 5:50!

  • Hmmm if the majority of gamers like old-school games better, why don't developers take a hint and design their games with more of an old-school feel? Doesn't that make more sense? You would think they would sell like hotcakes since everyone is always saying about how newer games aren't as good as the old ones. So, it's a win-win situation for both the gamers and the corporations. Why doesn't this trend of "Let's see how good we can make the game look, nevermind the gameplay" trend going to end?

  • @Iconoclast12100 Megaman 9 and Megaman 10 :)

  • Po, é muito foda, eu aprendi como se luta, e derrota o magus com esse video.

    EU O RECOMENDO

  • lol when i got there i was lvl 23 to 25, it was easy!

  • So unless he's vulnerable to a specific magic my party member has, I should just lay back and heal? This is the first really difficult boss of the game that I've run into. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the video.

  • @avenger1000 he is not vulnerable to any magic. You have to attack him with the Masamune sword and combination powers. If you're playing New Game + you can use black armor/plates to minimize his Shadow magic, but if not, it's better to level up.

  • 05:54 Crono 4 HP!

  • epic game and U gatta lov that theme song

  • I remember the time when I first bought Chrono Trigger for the DS and I faced Magus,I was like, So this is it. And when he kept casting spells I was like Holy Shit! Lol Magus was always a beast in that gameXD

  • lmao

    lmao

    same here!

    You had to find out his fuckin' weakness because he changes magic type.I game overed from him like 5 times....

    That's it!I'm plaing this game again to kick his ass the first time and make him as my party member(slave)

  • exactly. That was always a pain for me because he can cast a veriety of spells and you never know which one he'll do. And his Darkmatter move packs a punch as well.

  • Magus is way tough in Magus's Keep instead of fighting him in the snow=]

  • Support Crono in the character battle! visit gamefaqs (dot com) and vote for Crono!

  • THE ONLY THING THAT I DO NOT LIKE THE DS VERSION ARE THE EFFECTS OF TECHNIQUES OF MAGUS, THE SOUNDS HORRIBLE DARK MATTER IN THE DS VERSION, AND DARK COLOR BOMB IS NOT INVESTED, BUT A SIMPLE COLOR TRANSPARENT LELA (CLOSE pink)

  • Why are you shouting?

  • sorry !!! : (

  • So I remixed Chrono trigger with Massive attack. On my profile

  • Which party should I use for this? NOTE: DS Version CronoLv28

    FrogLv27

    LuccaLv28

    MarleLv27

    RoboLv25

    :D

  • What's the intro song from? and what is it? The first three seconds, it sounds like a remix of something from Megaman X3.

  • I found this a lot easier when I had Marle instead of Lucca, because of Aura Whirl, but I also had the triple tech move which did about 1134 damage each time.

  • I'm fighting him right now as I type this. lol, I'm looking for a good strategy!!! This is so far the hardest (BUT COOLEST!) boss in the game.

  • I remember the first time I faced Magus years ago - it's among the most epic boss battles of all time. The music, the atmosphere - everything is just perfect.

  • AAAAAUUGH!! the original version hurts my eyes (also was i really lucky becouse this battle was only about 6:30 for me and pretty easy. ( i used frog chrono and marle

  • \o/

  • magus is my guy he own every 1

  • SO HARD!!!!! i cant beat him ):

  • I use Chrono, Frog, and Marle wait for him to choose a weakness and attack with that. In the mean time do simple attacks if when you can. Also remember Aura Wave is your friend when he uses his dark matter...that and Frogs heal to be safe.

  • wow your lucky dude had magus's dark matter that knocked frog for 298hp in damage hit crono u wouldve lost.

  • magus was very tough and very tricky especially when i first fought him back in 96. i lost to him at least 4 times during my first quest and his darkmatter spell is certainly no jok doing as much damage as close to 300 hp without the new game plus crap.

  • his Dark matter only did about 89 to my party and to me Magus was pritty easy well he was easyer then Flea

  • Kissed any princessess lately? O_o

  • fuckin love this video!!!!!!!!

  • how come ur health drops every once in a while?

  • Geyser / HP Down attack, making you lose 1HP a sec or something.

  • @DarkDragonXXD I'm not at this point yet and I'm Level 25 for all characters, is that over-leveled for this point in the game?

  • Wow he didn't like you! Course Magus is always a challange to morons who aren't horridly overleveled or overteched.

    I love all these ppl that are like "magus is easy...on game plus!" or some retarded level lol.

  • back in '96 I thought almost all the bosses were pretty easy except that guy with the two hands on top of the mountain...I realize now that it's just because I loved the fighting so much that I fought every unnecessary enemy I could...marvelous game design IMO

  • Oh yah don't get me wrong, I did that as well. Realizing that though I didn't cheese the battles. Well actually it's pretty hard to cheese Magus..he forces a long good fight.

  • Actually, he's pretty easy. At first, I was all like, "No! I used the wrong magic!", but later all I did was have Frog and Marle with me and ocasionally hit him with frog. I also used Aura Cyclone to heal. I only lost Marle, but I resurrected her next turn. No problem with this boss.

  • I haven't played this game in years but I'm pretty sure I beat this guy at party level 11. Frog, Crono, and Robo. Spire is ridiculously powerful, and Robo can deal a good amount of damage. Sometimes I did it with Marle, letting her heal while Crono and Frog beat on him. It's also fun beating this guy in one hit on New Game + lol

  • I still can't beat this guy and all my characters are level 23.

  • no way , level 17 !!! AWESOME , a true challenge ,defeat Magus in that level ,

  • I beat him on my second try on the DS version. Just have Marle and Chrono keep healing with Aura Whirl and then have Frog attack. Have Chrono and Marle attack when he lowers his attack to use his cheap Dark Matter spell, attack with them. Also attack with Chrono and Marle when your HP is relatively full and he makes himself weak to ice or lightning. He isn't easy to beat but he won't be so insanely difficult this way. I know, Marle is annoying, but...she's useful.

  • I used Chrono, Frog, and Robo at levels 26, 25, and 26, respectively, and beat him on my first try. During the first half of the battle, don't worry too much about how fast you're damaging him, just get a shot in when you can and heal when you can't. Once he gets ready to start Dark Matter, use their strongest techs as fast as possible. Don't use double techs because it will take too long. I pounded away with Cleave, Slurp Slash, and Robo Tackle, and he eventually fell.

  • I beat him on my first try but DANG he was hard.

  • If I'm correct, Magus has 6666 hp. Yeah, that proves that he's evil.

  • naw, 666 is evil, 6666 is lucky

  • Correct.

  • i trained till i had the triple tech which is with frog luca and crono (lightning 2 water2 and fire 2) it helped a lot plus you should be higher lvl then this :| ((HUGE game Hint: you can get 99 megaelixirs from the monkeys in the tyranosaur place by stealing(also with snakes in black omen)

  • this boss isnt the hardest in the game, just use chrono frog and marle and he is pretty easy, attack of course with frog to lower his defense, and when he is weak to ice or lightning, use chrono and marle, other than that when you are hurt use the aura whirl spell to heal everybody. if you do this, then magus is pretty easy, but can still take a little while to beat..

  • cheater

    (to Thugnificent66)

  • i owned this fool chrono was level 25 i had 425 hp

  • screw magus. hes the hardest boss i think i've ever had to fight in an rpg. i just got this for ds and im stuck on him. :(

  • what spells do i have to use

  • wow the dark matter at 05:44 owned them luck as owt crono had 4 hp left

  • DANNNNNG you narrowly survived Dark Matter

  • sheesh! he took off like half your hp in the first turn!

  • this battle isnt too hard at all, actually chrono trigger is an easy game, my fav rpg is ff7 and its got a lot harder bosses than this

  • Every RPG are "Easy" games if you grind to a high lvl for every boss. I'm at low level here and that makes it a lot harder.

  • yea ok, chrono trigger is easy compared to other rpgs, and yea i know if you just keep leveling up that its easy, i was like level 19 when i beat magus and i beat him pretty easy.

  • Video or it didn't happen.

  • to jajajaja07

    wow, your dumb just because somebody doesnt have a video does not mean it did not happen. Your a douche bag, not everyone is a liar.

  • @jabravens52 Final Fantasy 7 is all about out of battle strategy. With the right materia combinations things get much easier. You don't have that luxury in Chrono Trigger.

  • @Mercyme19892003

    Yeah, well thats where you make things a bit harder and do things without materia, it's a hell of a lot harder, true you can't do that in chrono trigger but with a good strategy you can beat bosses at a low level.. It's all opinion though

  • @jabravens52 thats my favorite rpg all time

  • @666Raiderpride

    I love chrono trigger, hell I'll probably pull it out when im 30.. lol

  • anyone else notice a dark bad guy (in this case not worst cuz he helps in the end) has something with a void (hinting 2 exdeath in FF5)

  • One of my all-time favorite boss fights, and one of the all-time best BGMs.

  • definitely! i love the music of the battle. and he takes lots of strategy. i would always switch between marle and lucca

    but also the fact is when i played i only had lightning2 so it was really annoying

  • noob, hes not hard.

  • thx man this really helps me out, i've been stuck on him for a while now

  • It's nice to see someone who is willing to post videos of RPG bosses where they aren't massively overleveled. It seems like most people on Youtube only want to post videos of themselves slaughtering bosses with an overpowered party.

    That said, this party is my favourite to use for this fight when I DO overlevel. It's cool to be able to hit Magus no matter what his barrier is, although it takes a fair bit of grinding to get Frog to learn Water2 so you can use Delta Storm for the Shadow Barrier.

  • I haven't played Chrono Trigger in forever, but I already know I didn't fight this boss, he looks super hard, and it seems as if Crono lucked out after Dark Matter just because his HP is high. Are you under leveled, or is this the way it's supposed to go?

  • Under-leveled, if you are normally lvled all chars will survive Dark Matter.

  • Oh, good. I'll be sure to level up when the DS version comes out.

  • man...i cant wait for this to come out for the DS, i mean i was 6 when i played this...now im 13, but anyway still cant wait!!

  • I see no one mentioned the nu trick in 65 million bc since with that you can use that last tier moves and kill magus or even giga gaia in like 2 mins.

    Just use the nu trick in the hunting grounds 30 tech points a pop 90 per area run back and over and over.

    Once your done with the nu trick just do it to crono get his max move get magus to light weakness and nuke him once or twice.

    Hes a real easy boss the next one after him the one with azala is way harder

  • That's not really a trick... more like Powerleveling and overleveling, why overlevel? Why not play with a bit off challenge instead of blasting through the game? I did mostly for fun and I didn't want to overlevel, so I didn't, and let people see the hard way off beating some bosses.

  • first of all: magus is the best char with the best music theme in the whole game!

    now... a suggestion? a party of frog crono and robo... why? triple raid =D (possibly the first triple tech you will get, and it's really useful in that part of the game, spam when he's going to use dark matter)

  • Magus is one of my fav characters and his theme is so tizight

  • one of the best video game moments in my life...first time fighting magus...when that music kicks in...unforgetable

  • wow!

  • hes not hard. if u know how to beat him and what attacks to use u can be him like nothing. i have played chrono trigger like 25 times and hes one of the easiest boss to beat. also next time try using marle and her haste that helps alot. and attack him using masamune only for a while and put the rest in defense. then when u weaken him you go on a onslaught.

  • Listen to this guy, he is right. I beat this guy easily on my first try. There is always pattern to these bosses.

  • yeah he's easy

  • This is one of my favorite games. I forgot how hard Magus is because I always play new game plus lol.

  • Despite being one of the earlier bosses, I still believe that Magus is one of the game's hardest bosses, even with extra levels gained.

  • I like the opening of this movie, some random music and then instant action. XD

  • LOL that cracked me up too :P

  • hah i remember this game, got it when it came out for snes, i used frog, chrono, and marle (always for healing)

    x-strike :D

  • I trained alot more by the time I fought Magus, I already had Water, Fire and Lightning 2. He was a peice of cake, just gotta take some extra time to gain some levels.

  • LoooooooooooL you do it at lv17 then, PLZ DO! Or why not do it lower? With only 34Mid Tonics and 14revives, And then I can laugh at you and call you a Noob.

  • i've done it at I believe 14. my strategy was a bit diferent though, i used chrono robo and frog. usualyl I had frog and robo heal and hit with single tech elemental attacks. Frog attacked on off turns w/ masamune.

  • Gj, but with this party also :P.

  • People who haven't played CT in while either think it is insanely amazing or... well actually they all think that! But you have to remember that, even though it is a great game, it isn't perfect. This was a great boss battle though!

  • It was pretty much as close to perfect as you could get. So far none of Square's games have yet to even touch this, and probably none ever will.

  • I honestly found Slash and Flea harder than Magus, so long as you're careful.

  • with chrono trigger i only put down my controller to eat,sleep,take a dump,school,and walkthrough help

  • I had this game!But i don't have my super nintendo anymore.. :_(

  • WOO

  • do u know the name of this song? plz help me find it

  • the boss song for magus? go to flyingomelette . com and go to game music and click the c and go to chrono trigger and you got sum chrono trigger music

  • Quick question... I use the zsnes emulator, and it has the record option. But how do you play the videos outside of the emulator itself? Is that what you did, or am I talking nonsense?

  • he uses the snes9x emulator it has a recorder built in and it saves file as avi-wmv

  • Ah fartknocker, you gotta be kidding me...! I HAVE that emulator too, I just don't use it. I recorded every scene with Magus in it for no reason, then. *sigh* Ok, thanks man.

  • I remember this game! It was awesome. I had a SNES and played it on here! I always loved his theme. Thanks!

  • you did very well for a lvl 16 taking on magus... when I did it I was lvl 33....although all tht time could have been put to better use but hey, we have our gaming ways.

  • one guy said to beat magus is to lvl up untill u can use lumanire or however its spelled

  • Well, that's just dumb. Without powerleveling, you usually don't get Luminaire until the Ocean Palace. Leveling up that much...it takes all the fun and challenge out of the fight.

  • exactly plus you couldnt get enuff tech points to be even with your level, i just weakened magus iwth masamune and magic the he started darkmatter attacks so i had frog constantly heal and robo robotackle and i ran out of revives so crono was dead

  • If you travel to the time of Ayla there is a place where it rains, when it rains, nuus comes out and they give you 30 tech point for fighting against them.

    You can kill them anytime, just when it rains.

    It kind of helps a lot. ^^

  • Seriously people...i've played/beat it numerous times (I had no life as a child, lol) If you pay attention to his barriers he goes down in a pinch.

  • Good job, ur skills kill mine by far.

  • Wouldn't it be cool if this game was put in the wii shop channel? That would TOTALLY make my day!

  • at first i used frog and robo and triple raided the hell outta him then i found arc impulse was a better combo try that

  • yeah he wasnt that hard at all

  • Whats a PSX?

  • ps1

  • ah thank you

  • This wasn't so hard i beat him at level 14 and it was easy

  • I like that you make videos of all your boss fights. But don't you think you should have levelled up a bit more before going into a boss fight? Nice choice between marle and lucca though. ^-^

  • This is a Low-Lv (Not max Low-Lv) by running from every battle :p.

  • My strategy:

    Pack up lots of Mid-Tonics, let my other 2 party members die (Frog remaining), and then hack away using physical attacks (use magic when he switches to a wrong defense). I did this with Frog at level 20.

    You should be able to take off 500HP every time in the intervals when Magus uses Dark Matter.

    Really cheap, makes the battle easy as hell (but kinda tedious).

  • i wish i thought of that yrs ago when i first played! LOL

  • I always waited until I learned the dual tech spire. This seemed to make the match go by fairly easily. By then, you should also have access to Fire sword 2.

  • never bothered with lucca, always found marle was much more effective. aura whirls were always key for me beating magus.

  • no need for aura hirls when u have frog's heal

    but rly at this lvl it seems kinda hard XD

  • This guy was EZ after i got the point but it took about 10 mins