Patient Gamers

Nothing surpasses chronotrigger even after all these years.

Two contemporaries of chronotrigger that were much different but still quite good are terranigma and seiken detensu 3.

Two games that claimed to be trying to do something similar mechanically that are RPGs are septerra core and anachronox. Both are for PC and should run on a potato these days.

The legacy of Kain series and in particular the soul reaver offshoot has a great story and time travel elements, but they're more action puzzle games.

Suikoden.

Can you give me some tips?

I've come back to this game to give it another shot since it was originally released, I never really enjoyed it or got past the first entry into the future.

This time round I've just gained access to the prehistoric world, although I'm not sure I should visit here yet, and I have got parts of the Masamune sword, I beat the two kids recently,, but I'm basically lost and without a quest log in game I don't know what ime supposed to be doing next, any ideas?

I Am setsuna

Phantasy Star 4 for Genesis. 2 & 3 were also really good but 4 was by far the best. I would not bother with the 1st.

Phantasy Star IV does not reach the same level, but you should give it a try anyway. It has some neat things for its time, if you can put yourself back there. Like comic style "cutscenes" in a 16-bit game, and hidden combination attacks.

Maybe that’s why I didn’t get into many of them after it and replayed it so many times.