Masato Kato's original designs for the Mithra race and for Kam'lanaut look like his original designs for Ayla and Magus, lol
Final Fantasy XI:
Chrono Trigger:
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Why hasn't Chrono Cross been re-released?
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Masato Kato's original designs for the Mithra race and for Kam'lanaut look like his original designs for Ayla and Magus, lol
Final Fantasy XI:
Chrono Trigger:
It's good for Seiken Densetsu, I wonder if they will do Legend of Mana after the 3.
Who said there is no one pushing for Chrono internally? I want to believe there is at least someone who is doing that.
Chrono Cross is one of the greatest rpgs ever made and anyone that thinks otherwise is a monster. I would do anything for a remaster of this game. Even just rerelease it for switch and PS4. Everyone needs a chance to play this masterpiece.
They aren't printing them. These are remaining copies from years ago.
They must have quite a lot of them. I just recently bought Chrono Cross from them and it's brand new condition and was sealed too.
I don't have an exact refrence but I remember reading it did around a million awhile ago, but here's some sales data from 09 and comparing it to other square games that year. Looks like it did real well, considering the other releases.
https://www.siliconera.com/2009/05/21/what-square-enix-games-sold-well-last-year/
I can't back it with a source but I'm fairly certain they where reprinted. I think Square reprinted a few PS1 RPG's around the mid 2000's Cross, Parasite Eve and FF Tactics IIRC. I bought a sealed Greatest Hits copy from a blockbuster when they did it because it was only twenty bucks. I already had the black label version and GH version and I remember this new GH's version had something different about it/on it. Something on the back of the case or something can't remember.
It's still being sold brand new on Amazon for $9.99
I just recently bought a copy off Amazon and I can confirm it's a reprint because the box art and the discs have the Square Enix logo and not Squaresoft logo
Ah, this brings back fond memories of the Unofficial Squaresoft Home Page forums circa 1997 and the same 4 or 5 people posting "Did the new Famitsu hit stands yet? Did Square announce Chrono Trigger 2 yet???" every fucking week.
The best thing about Chrono Cross was the music and it's still IMO one of the best soundtracks of all time, not one of my favorite songs of all time but this is one of my favorites.
I was lucky enough to get the PS3 Classic version for less than a buck in a flash sale Sony did years ago. It's the only way to play CC for me, because I live in Europe and don't have a region-free PS1, only an US PSN account. I would love to see an official HD re-release on Switch or PS4, for sure. You shouldn't have so many hurdles to play such a good game - especially in regions where the original didn't even come out.
Yeah that's the figure I had in mind. It did 790,000 -- quite lower than 1 million, which I think is what Hashimoto was referring to...
Oh I know they were reprinted in the mid-2000s, which is the "years ago" period I was referring to. The other poster was saying that SE still reprint them in the present.
That doesn't invalidate what I said. There are cases of Square Enix games that may or may have not seen re-releases because of licensing issues with specific songs. I remember specifically Xenogears being one of said games because of its credits song and because Sony does not allow roms to be release on PSN if they have been altered. I'm not sure if those policies have changed since then or if the licensing terms have been renegotiated but there is a precedent for it.
If I am right and the issue is due to a music licensing issue, Mitsuda is most likely not the one impeding the re-release.
Huh, source?? Renegociated with whom? Square fully owns the credits song of Xenogears.
Square is sitting on some amazing properties. They should remake/remaster Chrono Trigger/Cross, Xenogears, etc. The only thing that makes sense is that Square must have written over the old source code or something
There was a post about it on the Playstation blog that has now been buried in search results since it got release in the US PSN. I tried to find the post again but it's an 8+ years old post so it's not very easy to find.
What about the source code of vagrant story? Is it kept on 430 floppy disks in a basement or properly?
Cause it sucks :P
Snark aside, Square doesnt see a lot of value in the franchise as a whole. Porting some of the older PS1 games is not trivial work (and in the case of, say, Vagrant Story, incredibly difficult) so unless they had plans to revitalize the IP (like they've done with Mana or SaGa) theres no reason to invest talent, time and money into it.
Remember, big companies never do things just because they can, it has to be a -thing- otherwise its not worth it.
Snark aside, Square doesnt see a lot of value in the franchise as a whole. Porting some of the older PS1 games is not trivial work (and in the case of, say, Vagrant Story, incredibly difficult) so unless they had plans to revitalize the IP (like they've done with Mana or SaGa) theres no reason to invest talent, time and money into it.
Remember, big companies never do things just because they can, it has to be a -thing- otherwise its not worth it.
I have an ex GF who picked that as our song. I was introduced to Chrono Cross that way and loved both the game and song since.
I'm pretty sure you're misremembering, because Square fully owns the rights to Small Two of Pieces. It isn't a licenced track like FFXV's Stand By Me or anything.
As someone that finished Chrono Trigger recently for the first time I'd be really into playing Chrono Cross. Unfortunately I don't have a PS3 or Vita (besides, I live in EU).
The story links with Trigger seem to genuinely offend some people, there's no point trying to understand it. I found it the superior game of the two personally
I remember back in my Gamefaqs days a certain user would write a long extensive wall of texts on how Chrono Cross isn't a true sequel to Chrono Trigger. As far as I remember the internet consensus was that of hatred. I didn't see the turn around in opinion about CC until after 2011.
I always thought it'd be there last trump card if a major FF game were to crash and burn. :P
It's a common thing that happens with lots of Japanese game company data preservation.
Just buy it on ebay, rip it and emulate it. That's what I did about 16 years ago or so.
I ended up thinking it sucked big time, but it's a pretty marmite game so you may enjoy it
The thing that bothers me most is Secret of Mana keeps on getting tons of attention(it being on the snes classic, getting a full remake, collection of mana, SD3 remake) where Chrono series just keeps getting the shaft. SOM is good but its a mess compared to CT and CC.
