Recent reviews by bionicfemme

I really wish I could give this game a positive recommendation, as Chrono Trigger is one of my favorite classic RPGs. I've played all of the other versions (SNES, PS1, DS, and iOS). However,

CONS

- Not all cutscenes appear in this version (which was the primary reason I bought it). The first cutscene I encountered was meeting Ayla for the first time, but the ones prior to this did not appear for me

- Square applied a terrible bilinear filter which blurs the sprites, making it look similar to HQ2X or HQ4X on emulators. It's awful. If they had to apply a filter, I would have preferred they used a CRT filter to make it look like the original SNES version, since the majority of people are buying this out of nostalgia

- Some sound effects make weird beeps and boops

- Personal preference, but Ted Woolsey's translation seemed better to me

- Button challenges (like the old ZABIE code in the factory) cuase an ugly touchscreen pop up menu to show up. This clearly wasn't removed from the smartphone port, and it looks terrible.

PROS

- It's Chrono Trigger

- Modders have created some tools to display the game in CRT and remove bilinear filtering, which vastly improves this version of the game

- The cutscenes that actually do work look very nice on the big screen, and this version is faster than running it on a PS1

- Digital liner notes and extra wallpapers were a great addition!


Overall, I can't recommend this product simply because Square didn't care enough to make sure all of the cutscenes were included or that QA had been done properly before release. They claim that this isn't a mobile port, but it clearly is. They knowingly released this unfinished port to their most loyal fans. Modders should not have to do the hard work (for free) of fixing their mistakes.

If you want to try Chrono Trigger for the first time, pick it up on DS or SNES, this is not the best version of the game out there.

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Easily GOTY, 10/10!

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