Square Enix Senior Vice President Shinji Hashimoto revealed that the company wasn't very impressed by the sales of cult RPG classic Chrono Trigger on Nintendo DS during an E3 interview regarding Front Mission Evolved, a reinvention of the Front Mission franchise.
It's long been thought that a Chrono Trigger remake is impossible, but the Super Mario RPG remake could pave the way.
It's already been said that they weren't motivated to do anything with the series unless the gang was back together, not really for any legal reasons.
A third Chrono series game called Chrono Break was planned, but Square prioritized an MMORPG, and Chrono Break’s concepts were used in mobile games.
Kinda misleading title, even from reading the article itself.
The staff and management couldn’t come to an agreement and the team moved on. Part of the team went to creat ff11 and the rest to Monolith software. Ideas for this game were implemented in some form to mobile games-later on. Which make sense as early 2000s mobile phones were not as powerful.
In the 16-bit era, game devs and composers could finally change the type of tones used in the music, simulating a wider array of instruments and creating a whole lot of great soundtracks in the process.
It wasn’t easy picking out the best of the best because there were so many great ones. Even middle-of-the-road soundtracks seemed to deserve a bump if the game was just that damn good, and so many from that era are that damn good!
Here's the Ghetto Gamer list of top 20 soundtracks from the 16-bit era.
why should we?
sure we all want more chrono but what would be the point of everyone going out and buying chrono on the ds only to have the next game appear on the 360 or something
seeing the way square-enix has been lately i wouldn't doubt it
if people went out and bough chrono trigger ds then at least give the people another one on the system it sold on
They won't release a sequel or remake because players wouldn't buy a direct port (crappy extras) of a game over a decade old? Wow....oh well, screw them. Just make more Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games and STFU, lol.
Well I did buy Chrono Trigger on the DS. But does Square-Enix forget that the DS version is half a port plus remake. Not to say it is a bad game I like it but I would want to see a new version in the Chrono series over a remake. I have been waiting years for the Chrono Break game and now because the DS version did not sell well that could be the end of the Chrono series.
I would love to see how many copies sell on a new game vs a remake. So I hope the series does not get judged on this remake. Because I still think the Chrono series could sell well. Plus SE could look at may be new people bought CT and think if you get the people that bought that game plus the old fans the game series could do really well.
So I for one hope Chrono Break will some day come out.
Release a GOOD game and we buy.
Release Chrono Trigger on PS One Classics and/or XBL and we buy it.
Release bullcrap on x360 or DS and we won'tbuy
Let's see... a game that was released 15 years or so ago was remade for the DS... It took you guys 15 years when fans were begging and pleading all that time? And now you expect us to buy your game because you waited too long to causing your sales to be crap?
No thanks.