Touch screen functionality is also added, which is nice for anyone who prefers that method of selecting commands.Īll in all, this is a fantastic port of Chrono Trigger with a faithful reproduction of its graphics and sound, the best aspects of the PlayStation port (animated cutscenes and Extras menu), and brand new content. Chrono Trigger hardly had a cluttered user interface (U.I.), but it’s nice to have the top screen devoid of menus, so one can focus on the amazing sprite work. The game benefits from a dual screen presentation that moves all menus to the bottom screen. There’s nothing too significant, but it feels like an improved localization overall. Translator Tom Slattery updated some of the dialogue (Frog’s dialect, or lack thereof, is probably the most noticeable example of this) along with many item and enemy names.

The game’s translation was also revised with this version. It still sounds amazing, however, even with headphones, and most would be pressed to notice the difference. The game looks every bit as good as it did on the Super NES, but the music was slightly downsampled. Graphics and sound both made the transition to the handheld DS impressively. They also added a rather significant amount of entirely new content, which while not all great, certainly doesn’t detract from the overall package. Square-Enix didn’t just stop at porting the game, however.

Programmed by Tose with the goal of faithfully recreating the Super NES game while also integrating the animated cutscenes and extras from the PlayStation version, this is the aforementioned “definitive version” of Chrono Trigger – or at least it was for just over a decade. Considering Chrono Trigger is a game about time, it’s ironic that this version wastes so much of the player’s.

I was personally so disappointed by this in 1999 that I simply replayed the Super NES version and watched the animated cutscenes on the Internet. This collection is only 50% Final Fantasy

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