I beat Chrono Trigger recently.. (about two weeks ago.) For an old game (SNES at that), I really like this one. No characters were annoying, and the story... unfortunately, I didn't pay attention.
I read the dialogue, but nothing really sunk in.
I got the ending where Crono and Marle got married, and Crono's mother and cat jumped into the gate.
I got use to the loading, so it wasn't that much of a deal anymore, however, my issue with the game now is that when I got Magus in my party, the villagers talked as if he wasn't there. I was hoping for a frightening look or some responses that had people in fear or something of that nature, but I didn't get anything.
I like majority of the techs, but I hated Ayla's and Frog's strongest tech. They just look really stupid.
My favorite tech(s), (single) out of all of them is probably Dark Matter and Luminare.
As I said, I didn't have any issues with the characters, but I like to use Crono, Magus, Marle and Ayla over the others.
As for what I'm playing now, nothing, because I'm trying to decide what to play next. I still have these older FF games, but I'm not really interested in playing them (at the moment.). I really just brought FF Chronicles for Chrono Trigger, and I brought FF Anthology for FF6, but what ever interest I had in that diminished fairly quick.
I may start playing FF7 again, or continue where I lefted off with FF8.