Chrono Trigger

This is an action role-playing game in which players assume the role of a young adventurer who travels through time to save the world from evil forces. From a top-down perspective, players use swords, crossbows, and magic spells (e.g., lightning bolts, ice strikes) to engage fantastical creatures in turn-based combat; enemies blink and disappear when defeated. In one scene, characters can be seen strapped to small guillotines inside a jail cell; another sequence depicts a character sacrificing himself (i.e., turning to dust) to save members of his party. Some cutscenes also depict brief instances of blood: a bloody sword (with dead bodies in the background); a snake monster that emits small splashes of blood when it is split in half.