Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete and Eternal Blue Complete were both excellent games with full voice acting and characterized protagonists. I threw up a bit in my mouth when the main character started speaking fully-voiced lines in the trailer. The initial reaction to updated graphics may be positive, but the overall experience misses a big part of what made it special in the first place. Both projects were stopped in 20 respectively, after receiving a cease and desist letter from SquareEnix. The second was Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes, a ROM hack of the original game which served as a sequel set five years after. This is why I'm not too fond of full-on HD remakes of classic titles. The first was Chrono Resurrection, a 3D remake of the original for PC, Xbox, Gamecube and the Nintendo 64. Sometimes, this is good, but other times, it can be really cringy and take you out of the experience, such as Tidus laughing in FFX. The game developers now have all the power in deciding how characters look, act, and sound. Now that most modern RPGs have amazing 3D graphics and fully-voiced characters, your imagination is left out in the cold. Your imagination gets to fill in blanks and give characters voices, which allows a kind of personalization of the experience. I think there's a certain kind of magic to classic JRPGs due to the relatively low-res graphics and either silent or soft-spoken protagonists. Or, barring that, don't up a classic, and keep it as it was? Instead of messing up classic pixel art with a "HD" remaster, why not go whole-hog, and do a proper 2018-era remake? It doesn't have to have the best textures or the best models (just look at FFIV), but why not bring the adventure of Crono and company to a new era of gamers in a visual style they understand? Hell Final Fantasy IV - a game that is generally agreed to have not aged well at all - has gotten a more modern remaster for phone, DS, and PC! So, I find it sad that Chrono Trigger - one of the best JRPGs of the so-called "Golden Age of JRPGs" - hasn't had a remaster. Modern games could stand to take a step back and learn from it. While the gameplay can be a bit.meh, FFIV has soul. Hobbs, Cecil's redemption into a Paladin.I freely admit that there's many modern JRPGs (heck, even western RPGs) that I don't remember as vividly. Cecil's struggle to let go of the war crimes he committed at Mysidia, his meeting with Rydia, "the spoony bard", Yang going full Chuck Norris on Mt. I have to admit that, while aspects of it haven't aged well, the story and characters are still memorable.
One thing this Chrono Trigger port has going for it: it's not a craptastic 3D port with super low frame rates like the PC port of FFIV.įFIV is pretty awesome. If you'd rather not make that effort, the Game Boy Advance port is also pretty good and adds some new dungeons & gameplay mechanics. Watch your tongue! FFIV is still my all-time favorite SNES game, at least when combined with a ROM hack that makes the translation worlds better and restores the Japanese version's difficulty. Hell Final Fantasy IV - a game that is generally agreed to have not aged well at all