Chrono Trigger isn’t the easiest game to get your hands on these days, despite JRPG fans’ enduring fondness for it. However, as I just found out, waiting for releases on more modern platforms is much easier when you have the musical version of this group of fans to listen to.
Man on the Internet (opens in a new tab), despite its name, is a group of about 50 people, including actors, artists, writers and more. It has now given some games a musical makeover, although the Chrono Trigger project started five years ago before ending over 12 months ago.
What you get is akin to playing the game you know and love, but with vocal performance and music that features the excitement and whimsy you’d get from a musical. Attending a musical is a pleasure that I keep separate from my professional life, so you can imagine the joy I have writing about it on company time.
Despite maintaining status as a contender for the best JRPG ever released since its release in 1995, Chrono Trigger isn’t the easiest to take. Steam is the most accessible place to pull it off mobile, although it took a few patches to get it working. Fans view the Super Nintendo or DS versions much more fondly, though you’ll probably need to be comfortable with emulation to play them.
Still, there’s reason to hope that Chrono Trigger might be released elsewhere. Square Enix has shipped other catalog classics like Live A Live, Tactics Ogre, and Chrono Cross to Nintendo Switch, so it’s only a matter of time.
For those not in the know, the game was made at Square Enix back when it was only known as Square. It featured Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii, and Dragon Ball manga author Akira Toriyama. Dream teams don’t always work out, but this one certainly did.
It is not surprising that Chrono Trigger is so present in our List of the best JRPGs.