Chrono Trigger, Xenogears Writer Is Releasing A Brand New RPG On Switch 2

When I saw the trailer in the direct I thought this looked like a mobile game, so it being a port of a one makes sense. The character models and their animations had that cheap, papercut-like quality seen in so many mobile games. It's an instant turn-off for me.

So basically the EoS release
Wonder when Sega is gonna do this with 404 Game Re:set.
Give it a proper translation
We can't let any of Yoko Taro's work go to waste!

New Kato/Mitsuda RPG sounds huge! Then I am quite deflated to hear it's based on a FTP mobile game 😅

I'll hope that my anti-mobile pessimism is misplaced in this case.

That's basically Glenn from Chrono Trigger. It's even the same name as Glenn's friend.

It’s weird when the main character says “now begins an rpg beyond space and time”. As if he’s roleplaying himself.

But tnx for the notice, Nintendolife, I did blink and miss this one. But anything Chrono Trigger (even just the write) is worth it keeping an eye open for.

I love all those games, but this art style is… not my jam…

Not a fan of Kato's storytelling. I love Chrono Trigger and get that he had the difficult task of consolidating many storytellers' visions into a cohesive whole, but Trigger rocks BECAUSE it's more than just his vision. When it's Kato on his own, you get, depressing, cynical stories like Chrono Cross and Xenogears.

So I’m guessing the switch port for Another Eden has been scrapped and we got this in its place. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy we finally got Another Eden on the switch but I’m curious about whatever happened to the supposed port for the original Another Eden.

I’ll keep my eye on this; hopefully it turns out well.

Played this game when it was a mobile game and I hated it. It was so bland and boring and it still looks incredible boring and bland. Can't say I'm hyped to see this game again. XD

I was as turned off by the art style as I was excited by the headline 😞

thought it was kind of gross just frog was there... kind of feels more gross knowing a guy was involved and it being used as advertising. probably wouldn't feel that way if it didn't look like a mobile game, cause then... eh why not acknowledge past projects... much too prominently

kind of reminds me of patton oswalt saying his biggest paycheck is from having a bunch of drunks just yell movies he was in at him instead of letting him do his act.

If the translation and character designs are true to the source material and it's on a physical cartridge, then I am interested.

Are there any modern anime games that actually try to use that storybook art style for their 3D elements rather than just the menus/cutscenes? We got a decent number around the GameCube/Wii era, but I feel like most things since then have trended more towards the extremes of cartoonishness or pseudorealism.

@Anachronism Bravely Default

>A Brand New RPG

>"And it may well be a reworking of a mobile favourite"

Bruh

Love the pedigree of talent, hate the mobile origins. I won't go as far as to say it's a pass, but I'm going to need some convincing to stick it out.

Soooo, only the first arc?

@fenlix Yeah, I do love that series, and I guess it's the closest thing that's presumably still active, though it's more chibi character models on actual 2D backgrounds in towns and more generic ones elsewhere. Baten Kaitos was a step closer with more normally proportioned character models while Xenoblade 1 and the other project rainfall games, along with a couple Final Fantasies from around that time, got that color pallet just about perfect in a fully 3D environment, but the limited polygon counts mean none of them hold up great.

TERRIBLE graphics.

Sorry, i don't like mobile games at all.

Looking forward to this. I got to the beast king on mobile but didn’t have the cash to beat him lol. Will be nice to play this without the gacha elements.

I think it looks really nice.

It was a good game. Great controls, unique and beautiful environments, and one of the best soundtracks in gaming (Mariam Abounassr is an incredibly gifted composer). The game didn't click to me until I realized it wasn't a spiritual sequel to Chrono CROSS, not Chrono Trigger. Then I loved it.

But oh my goodness, I've never played a game more shackled by its gacha mechanics. Every weapon in the shop needs to be synthesized with rare drops from enemies in the field. All new characters join you at Level 1. About 2/3 of the way through the main campaign, you realize the game is really only playable with 5-star characters. However, all of the storyline characters are 3-stars, meaning that they stop leveling up at L.30, and you have to grind for literal hours to raise their star level. If they have taken the bones of this game and made it into a non-gacha game, it's an instant buy for me.

I'm just glad it's coming to Switch so everyone could experience it.

Yes, not very good graphics. ... Chrono Trigger was / is better !! I bet it's done with Unity engine which has the characters like puppets..

Oh gosh, I've played the hell out of it years ago. High hopes for zero microtransactions on this, and just a tad less grinding please. The hard numbers wall some time after the main story peak reveal just killed my enthusiasm for the game.

Ooof. Looked great at first, until I saw the character animation. It looks like bog standard boring out of the box boring P2W mobile game graphics. Not a fan at all and probably a reason not to play.

He directed Chrono Cross? That is not a good sign at all!

@axelhander lol, Xenogears depressing? You've missed the point I think.

I'm definitely looking forward to this game but might be a "wait and see" title. I'm much more invested in The Adventures of Elliot when it releases in June.

The frog isn't lefthanded, so it's actually completely different

I remember seeing the trailer for the Chrono Cross event and it really got me excited for the game... until I saw the art style of the game itself.

the visual style sucks. Just looks like a generic phone game

@voidemissary I've played the game multiple times and missed nothing. It's ostensibly a love story where the love is mired by societal pressures, imperialism, a machine literally named Deus (aka God), and Evangelion-esque sequences inside people's heads which are about as meaningful here as they were in Evangelion (ie not at all), and all in service of a cynical person's unflattering thesis of humanity. I like how it plays and I like most of the characters but it is a Kato story through and through, for better and (mostly) worse.

@BrazilRules Yup. He's behind quite a few very pretty games, sometimes with amazing OSTs and fun mechanics, but the stories are... messy.

I see a lot of people dunking on the art style. I'll just assure you that it works well in-game.

And I hope this includes more than just the 1st arc. The Chrono Cross crossover is a pipedream I know, but it was my favorite scenario.

You know, when people insist this mobile RPG is “one of the good ones,” I usually don’t have any choice but to accept that, as I don’t play all that many mobile games. But if, in the same conversation, folks are gonna cite something I have played, like Dragalia Lost, as another “one of the good ones,” I begin to suspect these “good ones” do not exist.

Really? The frog character is named Cyrus?? Like Glenn's friend Cyrus from Chrono Trigger? Well, that's kinda neat.

You had me at Cyrus the Frog and Chrono Trigger

@axelhander You are clearly an outlier. You can wear your badge now. There's a writing on it saying "Xenogears story sucks".

ps. your reply tone is very ignorant, have a good evening

@voidemissary Being an "outlier" invalidates what I feel about the game and makes my opinion "ignorant?" lol k. Not everyone universally feels the same way about everything. I accept this sidestep as your surrender.

@Kestrel The best mobile RPGs are the ones that are just good mobile ports of good console RPGs, like the first 3 Dragon Quest games on Android, or Vay on iPhone from like 150 years ago.

@axelhander

"When it's Kato on his own, you get, depressing, cynical stories like Chrono Cross and Xenogears."

As a act of good will, I won't argue more than I have to. Above there is your comment. So, tell me, why having a depressing story bad? Especially when one of the main themes is freedom in terms of not being bound by gods or authorities and the struggles one might go through to achieve that freedom. Not to mention how masterfully that cynnical and depressing story weaves in themes of philosopy, psychoanalysis and more. It's ok if you like fantasy settings, cheerful etc. You can be a Peter Pan, but saying outright as a Peter Pan without a perspective that the story is bad in contrast to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of fans right now, that the story is bad...

That's the ignorance I was talking about. I don't know how old are you, but you act like a jaded 20-something that still has a lot to learn about life and that's what I wish for you, to learn.

If you squint a bit it even looks like Chrono Trigger, complete with the frog guy.

@Polvasti I would have liked to see the visuals receive an upgrade for a paid console release.