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Unofficial Chrono Trigger Resurrection Impresses
Trinn writes "Planet GameCube has recently reported on a completely unofficial remake of the highly popular Square Enix RPG Chrono Trigger by an independent team, Resurrection Games [their official site is down, here's a mirror of some of the screenshots]. It certainly looks sharp so far. They're even redoing the audio. Their plans are to finish up by Christmas, at which time the PC version will be released for free to the public - 'console versions of the Chrono Trigger Resurrection demo will only be available to official developers with access to GameCube or Xbox development kits.'." Interestingly, this amateur project was formerly in development for the Nintendo 64, all the way back in 2000.
I'm creaming my pants as I type this!
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according to the site, this isnt the entire game redone, just their 10 most favorite "scenes" programmed in wonderful graphics and audio glory
The sample site is down, but all I have to say is that the new music better be really damn good if they're replacing Mitsuda.
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Yet there have been dozens of DBZ game attempts, and none of them have come close to this. This truly looks like how an anime style game should look like. No more simply cell shading or having 2D pictures that always face the camera, those shots of chrono's head look better then a pair of implants fresh from Pamela Anderson's last cosmetic maitnence appointment
For starters, they're not remaking the entire game, they're remaking a select number of the 'best scenes', whatever that constitutes I don't know.
Secondly.. Square/Enix lawyers are probably going to burn these guys.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT! When I clicked on the link, I expected it to be some kind of nicely done 2-D remake of the game -- with edited scenes and such... but when I saw that first screenshot of Chrono, I too wanted to cream myself. Christ, what have these kids done? Someone's going to be making a lot of money if the royalities don't get them first...
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Exactly what I was thinking, damn that is impressive. I just beat the game for the zillionth time a few days ago (rom) and so the images were fresh in my mind... again impressive!
I saw this site earlier today before the /. article was posted (and the site went down), and I have one thing to say: 3d artwork and music does not a playable game make. Might make for an interesting fan demo (especially to appease the masses of Squaresoft fans out there who cream their pants over this kind of stuff), but don't ever expect this to turn into a game worth glancing at. If the people involved had any clue as to what they're doing, they would build the game around emulating the game mechanics first, and layering a framework for building new custom content on top instead of the other way around, much along the lines of what the Zelda Classic project accomplished. But then again, the fact that they've been working on this same idea for four years and have nothing to show for it except for some pretty looking 3d screenshots pretty much speaks for itself.
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- 10 scenes
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- 3 Boss Battles
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- Locations such as: End of Time, Crono's House, Guardia Forest, Zenan Bridge, etc.
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- Rearranged music
I hope the lavos battle is in there, and maybe the T-rex too. But also, will this just be kind of a "tour" or will you have your own character with skills and equipment too?I played through it once because it seemed like something that I should Do, but it just never clicked with me. I didn't like a single one of the heroes, the music seemed dull, combat relied on flashy effects over strategy and the final boss is a giant flying hedgehog. How the heck am I supposed to be intimidated by a giant flying hedgehog? I mean, I suppose there's some schlock appeal to the thing ("ONOS PH34R TEH HEDG13 OF D00M!!1"), but as a serious world-shattering monster it fails to unnerve in the slightest. The only thing I can really appreciate is the multitude of possible endings...
Of course, that's just me.
Yeah, I'm hoping that Nintendo sit up and notice, and that instead of suing them, they employ the guys to clean it up for a real release.
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This game was lovely in two dimensions. I'm all for upgrading the graphics and engine for modern hardware, but why make it 3D??
Isn't replacing Mitsuda and the orignal score kind of like replacing the Mona Lisa with a polaroid? I mean, damn.
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As good as the graphics as, as accurately copied the text will probably be (four words : Chrno does not talk.), and as much as I will end up playing it (its free), the game won't be able to satisfy fans of the original game. Why? We all know pretty much whats gonna be in it. Theres no Akira Toriyama (the original character designer) working on it. And theres that lack of 2D in there to make us wonder 'what does Chrno really look like? Is Lucca cute behind those glasses? Doesn't Ayla get cold when you're in the Dark Ages?' (For those who don't remember, in the Dark Ages the world was covered in snow except for the *spoiler* which gets destroyed.)
Shouldn't it be "s/better/convoluted" ?
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Radical Dreamers was the second game, Chrono Chross was the third. It was on the Satellaview (sp?), which was a SNES/SFC accessory released in Japan where you could download games. Didn't have much for it. Had a remake of the original Legend of Zelda, and some pretty low-key games.
Radical Dreamers was more interactive fiction than game, but it was definitely part of the Chrono series. It had Serge, Kid, and Lynx from Chrono Chross and Magus from Chrono Trigger.
While on this topic, there's also another Chrono Trigger remake in progress by the same group that translated Radical Dreamers (demiforce.com). No news on that remake except that it has a SourceForge page up and not much else. The page for it on Demiforce's website has been broken since he moved the page. It was intended to be an exact remake, though, and not a fancy looking remake like this one.
instead of 2d->3d, this is 3d->2d, but I think they have a more realistic chance of getting something playable...
http://www.oot2d.com/
Wow, this should be amazing. Chrono Trigger is one of my favorite games of all times. The story is the best part, and that will be the same for this version, but it will still be wonderful to see it with beautiful new graphics. I can't wait until it comes out....
This is great and all, but what about the actual play mechanics? I'll be convinced this will be grand once I get to see a video of the game engine in action.
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What happens during battles? How is the character animation? We have some pretty screenshots, but let's see this thing in action!
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Man, if you hadn't pointed that out. I'm glad you wanna-be designers can crawl out of the woodwork and share your wisest philosophies with the rest of us whenever you please.
Give me a break. Spare us your design rhetoric and go make a game yourself insteading of sounding like a whiney little bitch trying to ruin everyone elses tea party.
When we say demo, we mean the entire project itself is going to be a "demo". It will not be the full game, we don't have that kind of resources.
If not, im sticking this into the "wish i could but wont" pocket
That's too bad about the developers recreating only ten favorite scenes. The existing screenshots are fantastic, and I for one would pay full price for a recreation of CT3D. It's one of the best RPGs out there, along with Xenogears.
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