Square-Enix are very, very clever. Rather than market Chrono Trigger in such a way where it will appeal to people who have never played the game before, they're notching their arrow and aiming right for the heart of the real fan -- the gamer who fell in love with this game thirteen years ago.
Any person who has played this game over and over knows the first line of dialogue that opens the game -- in fact, hearing it makes one feel all warm and gooey inside. The ad that you see above is running in magazines now, and I'm pretty sure I won't be the only one that got a huge, ridiculous smile on my face from seeing it.
Square also tacked the tagline onto the Chrono Trigger DS website, so if you go to goodmorningcrono.com, you get greeted with a black screen with the same ad before you launch into the regular website. I didn't know I could be so hyped for a game I've already played. Let's hope by November 25th I haven't put on my Frog cosplay ensemble and camped out on the stoop at a Gamestop, because that would just be downright embarrassing.
[NeoGAF Via C3 News - Thanks, Adam]
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12:16 PM on 10.21.2008
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RFGO! got me excited to play this.
I hope the FMVs are on this.
If Chrono Trigger DS outsells Professor Layton on the DS or Henry Hatsworth, than we have validated the Square Enix tradition of remaking their old games to death rather than trying to hit new games.
Don't buy into the remake game! Certianly not for a SNES port when Square Enix JUST SOLD YOU a full 3-D remake of FF4...which you already bought on the GBA a year and a half ago...which is the SNES port.
We are doomed.
If Chrono Trigger DS outsells Professor Layton on the DS or Henry Hatsworth, than we have validated the Square Enix tradition of remaking their old games to death rather than trying to hit new games.
Don't buy into the remake game! Certianly not for a SNES port when Square Enix JUST SOLD YOU a full 3-D remake of FF4...which you already bought on the GBA a year and a half ago...which is the SNES port.
We are doomed.
I knew that, but I'm not as bitter about it as I would normally be since I won't be playing this anyway. Still, I wish they could have at least adapted a smaller version of the original font instead of use that atrocity. But as funran said, it's probably for the best that a smaller font is used for the smaller screen of the DS. Were it me, though, I would have used a taller font more similar to the original.
Fuck this game, fuck it right in it's touch-screen functionality.
And I love me some Chrono Trigger, I begged to get it when I was 8, I got it again on PS1, and I carry it around with me when I take my PSP. Don't need this crap.
Will this actually be coming to Europe, unlike the original gane or the playstation port?
Yes, it is coming to Europe. Which makes me very happy. :OD
Also just hearing the first tinkles of the theme tune sends shivers up my spine.