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Editorials   Imaginations of a Chrono Trigger Obsession
- By Lander Clinton

By now you’ve heard the news: Squaresoft is putting Final Fantasy back on Nintendo systems and wants to utilize the GameCube-GBA connection. I’m sure Final Fantasy will sell like hot cakes (silver dollar-size, so it can fit in the GameCube...), but there is another Squaresoft property better suited for this unique connection. I’m talking about Chrono Trigger.

First some pertinent info: last December Squaresoft trademarked the name “Chrono Break.” Although no announcements have been made, we can infer that they are still interested in the popular series.

Many people would buy a GBA Chrono Trigger remake even without any extras, but what if Squaresoft (who, from here on out I’m referring to as “Square” because I'm lazy) allowed a new GameCube Chrono Break to interact with and CHANGE a GBA Chrono Trigger? The game is all about time travel anyway, so you should be able to go back in time and change events from the first game (unless you’re Guy Pierce from “The Time Machine” and all you can do is watch your girlfriend die over and over again in many amusing different ways).

Most problems were solvable within Chrono Trigger (except where Schala was, but that was resolved in Chrono Cross), so perhaps Square could add in new eras in the GBA Chrono Trigger that are only accessible when connected to the GameCube game. To make sure it’s not just a gimmick, what you do in these new eras should affect events in the time-lines you could already journey to. You should also be able to explore the world of 1999 without having to fight Lavos.

If they want to say why the original SNES and PSX games don’t change when you change the GBA version (for all you stupid people who can’t figure it out), they could just say that the GBA version takes place in a parallel universe from the original Chrono Trigger. Now they can tie in events from Chrono Cross, which involved travel between dimensions.

Okay, here comes the dream part that might be harder to pull off: They could have the whole thing be online. Imagine for a second, you leave your online Chrono game for a few minutes (or less) to peruse some of the more interesting “gentlemen’s web sites,” only to return and find out that I came in and altered the past in your game, sending the present into chaos! You would have to travel back in time and correct things. And while you’re in the past, teach your younger self some self-control so baby Jesus won’t cry. Just kidding, but if you were able to read that it means no one proof-reads my work.

HISTORY ALERT!! Square released “Radical Dreamers,” a text-based Chrono Trigger sequel on the Super Famicom’s online system in Japan, so online Chrono is not impossible.

Whether any of this happens or not, let me be the 158th to say, welcome back, Square. And as the original Chrono Trigger ad said in 1995, “it’s about time.”