Hands-On With Chrono Trigger DS
Jeremy Parish, the esteemed new games journalist next in line to become King of the World, got to try Chrono Trigger DS at E3. His revelations will shock and astound you!
Chrono Trigger is pretty much the same game you played on the SNES.
And the Playstation.
I know you’re shocked.
But!—If you were unfortunate enough to play it on the Playstation, fear not. The inexcusably long load times are gone, gone, gone.
“It’s Chrono Trigger on the go. What’s not to like? There is plenty to like, though. This is easily the most solid 16-bit port Square has ever put together; even in what company reps claim is a fairly unstable build, the game looks and sounds great. No slowdown, no sluggishness, no twitchy unpleasantness. All the problems that bogged down the PlayStation port from a few years back are completely wiped away; this is a game that’s been reprogrammed as opposed to being done through shoddy emulation.”
Also worth a hurrah: the sound quality reportedly does not suck.
“[T]he music and sound effects are spot-on, free of the compressed, muffled quality that tend to affect Square’s DS games — good enough to sound perfect through a pair of high-quality headphones. Clearly, bringing aboard the game’s original composer, Yasunori Mitsuda, was the right choice.”
It looks like the translation will remain more or less the same, which makes sense since very little of the original script was censored compared to Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI.
The animated cut scenes from the Playstation are making an appearance as well, so we can all appreciate the hasty tie-ins to Chrono Cross.
Speaking of, if Square really wants to please the world with this game’s release, it could do worse than include Radical Dreamers on the cart.
(Hahahaha I wrote “Radical Creamers” at first, oh Jesus.)
Image copyright Square-Enix.
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