Time flies when you’re having fun
Though one can be a bit more literal about the process
I love finding my self awe struck in moments of humility upon the realization that a game is celebrating *insert arbitrary anniversary number here*, as the instance always puts life into perspective. Imagine my surprise when I realized Chrono Trigger just celebrated it’s 30th anniversary on the 11th. Seems like just yesterday I was helping someone with their cat at the Millennium Fair, but given the games timey wimey proclivities and my very own fuzzy memories, my sense of immediacy has been warped in a nostalgic delirium, and that event was apparently over three decades ago.
The face of a guilty man
For the uninitiated out there, Chrono Trigger was an action RPG from the 20th century, released on the SNES by Squaresoft, and developed by something of a Dream Team collab, seeing heavyweights of multiple industries coalesce to bring us something truly classic, with the likes of manga legend Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball), Final Fantasy alumni Hironobu Sakaguchi, and Dragon Quest visionary Yuji Horii come together to bring the nerdy masses something they would be talking about for generations to come. In appropriate fashion, Square Enix announced that they would be celebrating the 30th of the classic with festivities of some kind, though mum is the word on what the festivities may yet entail.
(Rough translation: celebratory fun times GET!)
With the SNES title already having multiple capable ports available for many platforms, it’s hard to say what Square could traditionally do to help prop up the title, though a lot of fans have bee clambering for updated ports for the recent batch of consoles (PS5, Series X, Switch). The company could of course go the extra mile by releasing a retrospective behind the scenes type video, a live orchestrated concert celebrating the title, and maybe even a new unnamed project in the form of an original media adaptation using the source material of some kind, any of which I’m sure Chrono Trigger fans would be absolutely ecstatic to hear about, especially if the latter was some kind of heavy duty remaster of the experience ala the FF7 remake to sink their teeth into. Either way, Chrono Trigger is always worth a revisit, and between the game being available on Android, iOS, Steam, the SNES mini etc, there’s plenty of ways to enjoy the iconic game and relive one of the best RPG’s of all time. Stay tuned for more announcements from Square for the 30th anniversary celebration of Chrono Trigger.
~Pashford
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