Chrono Trigger — considered by many to be the grandfather of modern role playing games — is one of those rare games that merits buying an old console to play. The product of Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy), Yuji Horii (Dragon Quest), and Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball), this title established the standards that would define the RPG genre for years to come.
Fans expected great things from the Chrono Trigger franchise. Critics and players praised the original entry's gameplay, graphics, humor, and story, and it topped sales charts in both Japan and North America. It received several accolades, and has been lauded as one of the greatest video games of all time by multiple outlets.
Though the 1999 followup, Chrono Cross, was generally well-received, the series lost much of its steam over the following decades. What happened and how did this affect the possibility of a Chrono Trigger 3? Here's what you need to know.
Unannounced Chrono Trigger Formism figures were spotted at a 30th Anniversary concert, fueling renewed speculation following Square Enix’s earlier anniversary plans.
Square Enix reveals Chrono Trigger: Melodies That Resonate Across Time, an orchestral album featuring ten classic tracks performed at the 30th anniversary concert in Tokyo.
A remake or even a modern port would do since it is one of the best games all time. Can’t believe it’s been 30 years since I first played it
Yasunori Mitsuda is a talented composer I love the music both from Chrono Trigger, Xenogears. I will always enjoy Nobuo Uematsu as well. I would love to have seen the Chrono Trigger concert live.
Chrono Trigger’s 30th anniversary will be celebrated with a full orchestra concert in Tokyo on January 17–18, 2026.
Can you announce a Chrono Trigger remaster or something and stop pretending you don't have millions of people that would buy it day 1? Morons.
A pixel remaster would be most welcome, especially with the option to choose between the SNES and DS translations.
3 more years and Xenogears will be 30. I would love to see Chrono Trigger get the FFVII treatment.
thats not up to them unfortunately
the people who have ownership over toriyamas art style are very very stingy and difficult to work with
Where was Chrono Trigger 2? Cross was not a "sequel" but rather loosely connected game of the same Genre sort of like how Xenoblade Chronicles is loosley tied to Xenoblade.
I would give my left nut for another chrono game.
Im guessing no, they have said a few times that the lack of chrono projects was due to most of the the people behind leaving
I love chrono trigger but if we have to be realistic, I seriously doubt we will ever get any sequels. not so sound like a heartless guy but Chrono trigger was en experiment during the 90's era for SquareSoft, from 1992-1996 they did lots of RPG games, of course Chrono Trigger was special in its own way, mainly due to history changes and whatever you do choices do altered the story's plot. aside that the combat was quite unique.
Nowadays unfortunately a game like that won't appeal the mainstream, time travel? Been there done that, RPG turn style(today considered obsolete) Not to mention that right now Square Enix is not exactly in a position to take big risk and investment,
Unless they do something like what they did with Street of Rage 4, meaning an small indie studios make a game form scratch licensed by Square Enix or make the game with a low budget like they did with bravely Default and Octopath traveler, I doubt we will Chrono trigger back.
If we do, how much do you want to bet it’ll be a mobile game that only gets released in Japan?
I mean, Capcom did it with Breath of Fire 6!