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Chrono Resurrection

The end of this doomed project was one of the great tra🐽gedies of our time. Forget mass starvation and genocide, we wanted our 3D Chrono Trigger, damnit.

Okay, we know that we're pretty puristic in our rants about 2D games being ruined by the intervention of the third dimension, but just look at the screens on this page. Watch that video again (like you haven't three times already). Imagine exploring that Chrono Trigger world you fell in love with in 1995 in fully-realised 3D that gorgeous. Wouldn𒅌't this game have been better than a gold-plated chocolate cake served on the back of a naked fꦫemale-type of your own choice?

CR was a massively ambitious project, but⭕ it had a behind it who really did seem like they were going to pull it off for a while. And left alone, they probably would have. In the end the game's death came about not through failure of the talent involved, but via the dark sorcerers of Square Enix's legal department. In 2004 they cast and the project was discontinued for fear of a Lawyer summon.

For the lo🐟ve of God, fan developers, if you're working on something this cool, don't tell anyone until it's out.

Long-time GR+ writer Dave has been gaming with immense dedication ever since he failed dismally at some '80s arcade racer on a childhood day at the seaside (due to being too small to reach the controls without help). These days he's an enigmatic blend of beard-stroking narrative discussion and hard-hitting Psycho Crushers.