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I am VERY surprised they picked Final Fantasy III (VI in reality) instead of Chrono Trigger (while including two Kirby games). The latter is way more popular, a

I am VERY surprised they picked Final Fantasy III (VI in reality) instead of Chrono Trigger (while including two Kirby games). The latter is way more popular, at least in the West. The former is the best Final Fantasy, though :-)

drabiega 9y ago
I had this thought as well. They've basically got everything I would want to play on this except for Chrono Trigger. On the other hand, I've bought Chrono Trigger on three or four different platforms at this point and not FF3, so maybe there are others like me and Square Enix wanted more money for it? EDIT: On the Play Store, at least, FF3 has almost twice as many reviews as CT, so maybe this doesn't hold up.
- sotojuan 9y ago
  Yeah not a problem for me. CT has a great DS port already. I was just surprised! FFVI's ports have always had a negative (worse sound quality for GBA, awful art work for iOS/Steam, horrible load times on PSOne). The only negative of the SNES version is the translation and perhaps some bugs. If you don't own a Wii or Wii U (or Switch, if they ever get the VC working on there), this is the only legal way to play the SNES version of FFVI!
  - derefr 9y ago
    > horrible load times on PSOne Does that load-time still exist if you're playing the downloadable version of the game released on the "PSOne Store", on e.g. a PS3? If yes, would it still exist if you stuck an SSD in the PS3?
    - sotojuan 9y ago
      Yes. It's not as bad as back in the PSOne with a CD, but compared to the SNES versions, it will feel slow. There's YouTube videos of it. If you've played it on the SNES before it's really annoying. For what it's worth, I have FFIX on my PS3 digitally and it's still a bit too slow for me (the game pushed the PSOne capabilities a bit too much!). No idea about PS3 with SSD.
- ashark 9y ago
  It's also short all Disney-owned games (including Lucasarts) despite many of the being fairly well-regarded. Lion King, Aladdin, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Star Wars trilogy.
- derefr 9y ago
  I've been seeing some interesting evidence lately that Square Enix has been "thinking" about Chrono Trigger. There are a lot of little references to the game in FFXV: the way items look on the map; the "Dream Egg" you get from the Choco-Mog festival; the way that you leave the final dungeon by "waking up from a dream"; etc. Also, in the questionnaire Square Enix put out to gauge interest for FFXV DLC, there was a question that went something like "select your favorite Square Enix titles", and Chrono Trigger was the first option on the (short and not-alphabetically-sorted) list. So, in light of this, a lack of CT on Nintendo consoles (despite other "kept-away" properties like SMRPG and FF6 now being released for Nintendo's use) might translate to "we don't want to sell people the old version of the game and satisfy their demand for it, because we're thinking about announcing a CT remake if-and-when the FF7 remake seems to be successful." Or, of course, it might just be FFXV's director Hajime Tabata really liking CT, and wanting to making games that are like it, rather than explicitly remaking it. Either way, I think we're likely to see Square Enix "paying attention to" CT in the future.
  - bitwize 9y ago
    All my reading suggested SE was considering an FF6 remake after the FF7 one.
- santaclaus 9y ago
  I would kill for a western release of Seiken Densetsu 3. Probably my fav Square game of the SNES era.
scott_s 9y ago
There already is an excellent re-release of Chrono Trigger that is almost as good as playing it the original way: the version for the DS. The version of FF6 released on the GBA is heavily compromised (lower resolution, music and sound not nearly the same). I'm not sure if that's the actual reason, but it's why I'm glad they did it.
- sotojuan 9y ago
  Correct. I'm quite happy about this - just surprised!
JansjoFromIkea 9y ago
I'd imagine there's a pretty simple reason for why they've FF3 instead of Chrono Trigger. FF3 (US), has such a bad rep compared to later localisations of 6 that it really only has any kind of value within this context, I'd imagine it was very cheap to get from Square compared to something like Chrono Trigger. Kirby being in-house is free, of course. The only reason to not put a Nintendo game on the machine (w/e of All Stars and any games which may have emulation issues) is a fear that it would significantly bring down the overall average quality a lot.

drabiega 9y ago

I had this thought as well. They've basically got everything I would want to play on this except for Chrono Trigger. On the other hand, I've bought Chrono Trigger on three or four different platforms at this point and not FF3, so maybe there are others like me and Square Enix wanted more money for it? EDIT: On the Play Store, at least, FF3 has almost twice as many reviews as CT, so maybe this doesn't hold up.

sotojuan 9y ago
Yeah not a problem for me. CT has a great DS port already. I was just surprised! FFVI's ports have always had a negative (worse sound quality for GBA, awful art work for iOS/Steam, horrible load times on PSOne). The only negative of the SNES version is the translation and perhaps some bugs. If you don't own a Wii or Wii U (or Switch, if they ever get the VC working on there), this is the only legal way to play the SNES version of FFVI!
- derefr 9y ago
  > horrible load times on PSOne Does that load-time still exist if you're playing the downloadable version of the game released on the "PSOne Store", on e.g. a PS3? If yes, would it still exist if you stuck an SSD in the PS3?
  - sotojuan 9y ago
    Yes. It's not as bad as back in the PSOne with a CD, but compared to the SNES versions, it will feel slow. There's YouTube videos of it. If you've played it on the SNES before it's really annoying. For what it's worth, I have FFIX on my PS3 digitally and it's still a bit too slow for me (the game pushed the PSOne capabilities a bit too much!). No idea about PS3 with SSD.
ashark 9y ago
It's also short all Disney-owned games (including Lucasarts) despite many of the being fairly well-regarded. Lion King, Aladdin, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Star Wars trilogy.
derefr 9y ago
I've been seeing some interesting evidence lately that Square Enix has been "thinking" about Chrono Trigger. There are a lot of little references to the game in FFXV: the way items look on the map; the "Dream Egg" you get from the Choco-Mog festival; the way that you leave the final dungeon by "waking up from a dream"; etc. Also, in the questionnaire Square Enix put out to gauge interest for FFXV DLC, there was a question that went something like "select your favorite Square Enix titles", and Chrono Trigger was the first option on the (short and not-alphabetically-sorted) list. So, in light of this, a lack of CT on Nintendo consoles (despite other "kept-away" properties like SMRPG and FF6 now being released for Nintendo's use) might translate to "we don't want to sell people the old version of the game and satisfy their demand for it, because we're thinking about announcing a CT remake if-and-when the FF7 remake seems to be successful." Or, of course, it might just be FFXV's director Hajime Tabata really liking CT, and wanting to making games that are like it, rather than explicitly remaking it. Either way, I think we're likely to see Square Enix "paying attention to" CT in the future.
- bitwize 9y ago
  All my reading suggested SE was considering an FF6 remake after the FF7 one.
santaclaus 9y ago
I would kill for a western release of Seiken Densetsu 3. Probably my fav Square game of the SNES era.

scott_s 9y ago

There already is an excellent re-release of Chrono Trigger that is almost as good as playing it the original way: the version for the DS. The version of FF6 released on the GBA is heavily compromised (lower resolution, music and sound not nearly the same). I'm not sure if that's the actual reason, but it's why I'm glad they did it.

sotojuan 9y ago
Correct. I'm quite happy about this - just surprised!

JansjoFromIkea 9y ago

I'd imagine there's a pretty simple reason for why they've FF3 instead of Chrono Trigger. FF3 (US), has such a bad rep compared to later localisations of 6 that it really only has any kind of value within this context, I'd imagine it was very cheap to get from Square compared to something like Chrono Trigger. Kirby being in-house is free, of course. The only reason to not put a Nintendo game on the machine (w/e of All Stars and any games which may have emulation issues) is a fear that it would significantly bring down the overall average quality a lot.