Are you ready for the feel-good story of the year? Square Enix did a thing, fans didn’t like the thing, and then Square Enix actually addressed and fixed the thing in a way that will make everybody happy.
Here’s what happened. In February, Square released a surprise version of Chrono Trigger on Steam, which briefly delighted RPG fans before they noticed that it didn’t look great. Last week, after a month of review-bombs and widespread negative reception, Square said it would patch the game with a setting that lets you enable the original SNES graphics. Yesterday, that patch went live, and it’s just about everything you could want.
When you load up Chrono Trigger on PC, you’ll be asked whether you want to play with high-resolution graphics or old-school ones, so you can pick your poison. Square also made some other big tweaks and fixes. The two most significant changes are 1) the font, which now has proper kerning and no longer looks as though it was ripped from a terrible iPhone app, and 2) the battle screen, which no longer has giant mobile blocks all over it:
For context, here’s what battles used to look like:
Now we just need these same fixes for Final Fantasy 5 and Final Fantasy 6, which I’ve asked Square about. Crossing my fingers.
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2 responses to “Chrono Trigger PC Looks Way Better Now”
Well, it’s better but I still find it really off-putting and not nearly as good to look at as the original.
I was just going to say the same.
Personally, re-selling a 20 year or more old game I’d have imagined it to be re-done graphically, and not through an automated process that makes everything look as if they’ve saved it as jpegs.