Rumours of Chrono Trigger Remake Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Cue Lavos' Theme
A remake of Chrono Trigger is something that fans of quality Japanese role-playing games have been lusting after for a full three decades now, and for a brief moment, it seemed like it might be finally happening. Alas, the brief hubbub was due to a translator's half-joke (curse their eyes), not an official tease from one of its creators.
As reported by our friends at Push Square, during a recent Dragon Quest panel, Chrono Trigger supervisor and scenario writer, Yuji Horii, apparently mentioned the existence of a remake, at which point the audience lost its collective minds. Multiple attendees reported this sequence of events, but if you’ll pardon the pun, it seems something was lost in translation.
Gematsu reviewed footage of the event, and sadly, it seems that Horii didn’t mention the remake at all; instead, it was something that one of the translators mentioned in jest, which was then attributed to the legendary creator himself. This, added to the palpable excitement and hype of the audience itself, caused the tale to grow in the telling, which leaves us with our present feelings of emptiness and loss.
Oh well. We still hope that someday Square Enix will find itself in such dire financial straits that it will be forced to go back to the well, and the hugely influential RPG will live again. With Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 coming out and proving an appetite for AAA, turn-based titles exists, and roundly dunking on modern Final Fantasy releases, we feel like that day might come sooner than expected.