 In a special Chrono Trigger Cross Review, "Famicom Tsūshin" scored Magus a 29 out of 40.

 is the game's primary antagonist, an alien parasite with immense destructive powers, which crash landed in the year 65,000,000 BC (65,000 BC in the Japanese version).Lavos slept, gaining power until AD 1999, when he emerged and put the world into an apocalyptic state.While traveling to AD 2300, Crono, Marle, and Lucca see a video of the Day of Lavos of AD 1999, and decide to prevent it somehow.