Anyone playing Chrono Trigger DS?

[Mozgus]

I'm enjoying it. I'm not convinced that it's worth the crazy $40 asking price though. It's a little insulting that Square has ignored its CT fans for all these years, while even shutting down a promising fan-creation, only to give us the same game yet again, with a new dungeon and some bullshit Sonic Adventure Chao-like monster trainer side-quest.

On the bright side, this is a super solid port, with a new translation. The music quality is EXTREMELY close to the SNES original. The PS1 anime videos are all here, and in the same quality. The touch screen features are worthless, but the 2nd screen itself is used quite well for all your status, map, and menu displays, keeping the battle field clear. One of my favorite little enhancements here are the optional status bars under your characters on the battle screen. They stay under the feet of the character and easily show you your HP and AT in gauge form. It makes more of a difference than you might think.

The visuals are pretty much pixel perfect to the SNES original. I assume they are slightly cropping the edges, due to DS's slightly lower resolution, but you won't notice or care.

One thing I really would have liked is a brand new batch of sound effects. While I love SNES's musical abilities, I've always hated it's sound effect offerings. Nothing ever sounds like it should. They had 44MB of unused space on this 128MB cart, and they could have easily fit new properly recorded sound effects in there instead of use the old ones.

Should you buy it for $40? Only if you love jRPGs but never tried this one. Otherwise just stick with the SNES and watch the PS1 FMVs on youtube, or be a dirty pirate like me. If this were $25-$30 I'd buy it, but it just feels like Square got too greedy with a game they treated like a red-headed stepchild for 13 years, and only brought it back out of the closet when enough people screamed for it. We tend to ignore the PS1 port due to it's inexcusable load times.

[D.D.D.]

Yeah it's not worth $40. Maybe $20 but no more.

[schi0249]

I love the game. It is one of my all time favorites. That being said, $40 for a SNES port is a little high (yet I still bought it). A more reasonable price would have been $25-30. FF IV and FF III were both redone with upgraded graphics. This looks the same. I do like how they used the 2nd screen. Though I never use the touch aspects of the game.

[slowslow325]

I played it on my friend's DS (I'm yet to get one) and I think it is an awesome game and totally worth the $40. It's just plain fun.

[Gamerforlife]

I actually plan on picking this up depending on whether or not I get a DS sometime soon. That and Castlevania:Order of Ecclesia. I don't currently own any version of Chrono Trigger(stupidly traded in my S-NES cart years ago)so it's a good buy for me. Though something as ambitious as say, Final Fantasy Tactics:War of the Lions would have been nicer(minus the minor technical gaffs WOTL has), but I'll take this.

[corn619]

Great game but been there and done that. They should have at least upgraded the graphics or added content not just a new dungeon. maybe expanded the storyline. Its 40 bucks, I'll stick to my SNES cart or ROM thanks.

[itsamemario]

i'd love to play it, but what's with the premium price for a hardly-upgraded port?...it's as expensive as a used SNES copy

[Mozgus]

It's unfortunate that the high price will cause crap sales, which tell convince Square to never make a true sequel.

[redmachus]

Thanks for the review. I'd been wondering whether it was worth the asking price. I think I'll wait for this, as well as FFIV, to drop to around $25 before I shell anything out.

[Mozgus]

Thanks for the review. I'd been wondering whether it was worth the asking price. I think I'll wait for this, as well as FFIV, to drop to around $25 before I shell anything out.

If it was a review, I'd put it in the review section. I was just covering the changes for old fans who might be interested.