Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers is being remastered for all platforms
Square Enix have announced that Chrono Cross, the iconic RPG is coming back to modern platforms, remastered, making use of the newer consoles to enhance it, check out the reveal trailer below.
The game is coming to Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC as a digital only release, but in addition to the game, "Radical Dreamers - Le Trésor Interdit -", a text-based adventure video game released for Satellaview in 1996, which forms the bedrock of the story, is also included in this edition.
Because Square Enix love their lists, they put out all the features about what players can expect:
3D models converted to HD
Brand new artwork and character redesign by Nobuteru Yuuki
Refined background music by Yasunori Mitsuda
Switch enemy encounters on or off
Background filter feature
Battle enhancement features
Auto-battle function
French, Italian, German and Spanish localization now added
Switch between imitation pixel font and HD font
The inclusion of Radical Dreamers, never before released in the West.
Players can choose between playing with original or updated graphics
One of the big additions for the game, is that you can swap from the new look to the old, but something that they have said is that if you swap, everything new goes away, except the music. So the new art, text, character models and background filter are either all new, or all old.
To see why you should just enjoy the updated visuals check the below comparison visuals.
In addition to the enhanced visuals, the game will also let you scale up the image on screen, from the original 4:3 visuals, all the way up to full screen, check out how they look in the various configurations.