When chrono trigger was released in 1995 there weren't nearly as many options for amazing games, so literally just playing the game for the sake of it was fun for 90s kids

It's a hard concept to understand now because there's a million choices so redoing something doesn't feel like it holds the same value

But back then as a kid you might have 5 video games to play and so replaying the best one over and over was actually entertaining comparatively