Current Events > Nintendo should buy the Chrono IP from Square and give it to Monolithsoft

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A leaker with a good record says that Square is making a Chono Trigger 2.5 D remake for Nintendo Switch

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hexa posted...

A leaker with a good record says that Square is making a Chono Trigger 2.5 D remake for Nintendo Switch

That was Zippo. He pulls stuff out of his ass.

Nintendo needs to make a new F-Zero, StarFox, and Donkey Kong, and Mario vs Donkey Kong games first.

One of the main scenario writers, Masato Kato (he handled the Kingdom of Zeal arc and was the director of Cross), has long since moved on from Square and is working on a mobile game with Yasunori Mitsuda. No point in bringing the IP back if you're not going to bring back the main creative minds behind the series.

Sad_Face posted...

One of the main scenario writers, Masato Kato (he handled the Kingdom of Zeal arc and was the director of Cross), has long since moved on from Square and is working on a mobile game with Yasunori Mitsuda. No point in bringing the IP back if you're not going to bring back the main creative minds behind the series.

I'd rather give it to bums on the street then get another story from the creative team that gave us Chrono Cross because at least there's a chance the story won't suck with unproven talent.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I'd rather give it to bums on the street then get another story from the creative team that gave us Chrono Cross because at least there's a chance the story won't suck with unproven talent.

Chrono Cross is an example of a sequel doing literally everything right and is what CT failed to be, a masterpiece.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I'd rather give it to bums on the street then get another story from the creative team that gave us Chrono Cross because at least there's a chance the story won't suck with unproven talent.

Ouch. And yet I'd also rather not have another Chrono Cross. Or should I say another Radical Dreamers... give a guy an IP and watch him backdoor pilot his own characters into it and kill off the old ones. That's like a comedy sketch.

Yeah they really should. Chrono Break would be a day one purchase for me. Something I don't do anymore.

KFHEWUI posted...

Nintendo needs to make a new F-Zero, StarFox, and Donkey Kong, and Mario vs Donkey Kong games first.

F-ZERO suffered from a lack of sales with each new entry. Same with Mario vs. Donkey Kong.

Star Fox needs a massive overhaul to justify being charged full price.

Retro Studios was likely working on a new Donkey Kong game before they got forcibly put on Metroid Prime 4 duty.

Honestly i would rather them by the Xenogears IP from Square and Xenosaga IP from Namco instead and give them to Monolith Soft

Raiden2909 posted...

Honestly i would rather them by the Xenogears IP from Square and Xenosaga IP from Namco instead and give them to Monolith Soft

Yeah, if anything, this makes more sense.

At the very least, Xenosaga since Namco still lets Monolithsoft do stuff with it now and then.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I'd rather give it to bums on the street then get another story from the creative team that gave us Chrono Cross because at least there's a chance the story won't suck with unproven talent.

Chrono Cross was supposed to be a spinoff and was refactored into a sequel with an extremely tight budget at the last minute, hence the massive plot dump at the end.

That being said, I'm sure you're aware I would disagree. Just leave the series behind if the old team moved on. If you give it to a new team, they might as well make their own new IP. If it had unique gameplay like The World Ends With You, then I'd agree with you, but not a story. The story and music are the absolute highlights of the Chrono series.

Sad_Face posted...

Chrono Cross was supposed to be a spinoff and was refactored into a sequel with an extremely tight budget at the last minute, hence the massive plot dump at the end.

That being said, I'm sure you're aware I would disagree. Just leave the series behind if the old team moved on. If you give it to a new team, they might as well make their own new IP. If it had unique gameplay like The World Ends With You, then I'd agree with you, but not a story. The story and music are the absolute highlights of the Chrono series.

People are vastly overstating this as a series. It had 1 great game. Then it had 1 visual novel that basically nobody played and it's primitive and boring even by VN standards, and then the sequel RPG which had some good combat & music but filled with useless characters that have Umaro-tier plot relevance and the Relevant plot that exists is atrocious.

It's not like Chrono has some extensive history of high quality games. It doesn't even have a short history. It's got one landmark game and that's it. It's like saying the story and music are highlights of Skies of Arcadia series. I mean sure but it's not really a series.

foreverzero212 posted...

Chrono Cross is an example of a sequel doing literally everything right and is what CT failed to be, a masterpiece.

This is one of the shittiest copypasta memes from CE ever. Chrono Cross is one of the most dogshit sequels that fucked everything up except for the music.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's not like Chrono has some extensive history of high quality games. It doesn't even have a short history. It's got one landmark game and that's it. It's like saying the story and music are highlights of Skies of Arcadia series. I mean sure but it's not really a series.

It appears I misinterpreted your original post I responded to. I thought you implied you wanted a new title but with a different set of developers. I want to give Masato Kato another chance, the development team knew they could do a much better job.

hexa posted...

A leaker with a good record says that Square is making a Chono Trigger 2.5 D remake for Nintendo Switch

Wasn't that the rumor for the Direct where Super Mario RPG Remake ended up getting announced?

But I like Chrono Trigger and I don't care about Xenoblade.

People act like Chrono Trigger was the greatest game ever. Don't misunderstand, I love the game and still play it annually to this day, but I really think it should have stayed as a one and done project. CT was fun because it wasn't heavy on plot or story. In fact, it didn't really have much of either of those. It had music, it had likeable characters, it had appropriately composed music. It was good by any standard I would rate it on and I think it is very much a genre defining game. Despite that though, it did have flaws, particularly in the way the story plays out.

Whenever people talk about the plot or story, I always have to question what their standards are because something like Ender's Game (the book) would be amazing imho. CT was literally just a bunch of sub plots that led into an overarching plot. It wasn't filled with needlessly complicated systems like FF8's junctioning or CT's element grid and field. It wasn't some overly complicated story, nor was it something that felt like it was overly produced. It was just a simple game that had a number of unlockables and secrets that people could discover for the first time when playing through it.

What it did do extremely well that I think people often confuse about the game is that the sub plots were all wonderfully scripted and done. But that's just it. Each time you finished one, you got this feeling of wanting to see what the next small story/episode would be all about. It was like playing a Saturday morning cartoon series and that's okay. Wanting more CT is fine but actually making more is a different matter as I'm pretty sure even the developers don't fully understand what it is that they did to make the game as wonderful as it was. If they did, we wouldn't have had whatever it was CC was trying to be.

Sad_Face posted...

It appears I misinterpreted your original post I responded to. I thought you implied you wanted a new title but with a different set of developers. I want to give Masato Kato another chance, the development team knew they could do a much better job.

I was more trying to say I don't particularly want a new title at all but especially not with the old devs because my faith has been flushed.

I'll continue to recommend Radiant Historia for a time travel based RPG for the story.

I loved Chrono Cross. Personally my opinion is if it wasn't tied to Trigger and named something else it would probably be heralded as an alltime great PS RPG. But because it was declared a sequel to it fanboys trashed it for some reason?

I just take it for what it is. And arguably one of the greatest gaming soundtracks ever made.

Sure! Would you like Nintendo to do anything else for you?

Monolith would not do a good job with Chrono. I don't know if I trust anyone to do a good job with Chrono.