For years fans of Chrono Trigger have been waiting for a return of their beloved series. What they're getting now, unfortunately, is not a new episode but another remake of the original installment, that was already re-released on PlayStation in 1999. Unlike other ports of popular Square Enix titles that have been hitting the DS lately, this one is not a remake with additional features but an (almost) straight adaptation of the original SNES title.
The development team decided to retain the old 16-bit graphics, without any facelift, while keeping the animated cut-scenes that were designed by popular manga author Akira Toriyama and added to the PlayStation version.
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.