Chrono Trigger on PC is a port of the mobile version of the game and brings across all the ugliness that version had to offer. The screenshots posted speak for themselves. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. This looks like someone's first attempt at an RPG Maker game.

It's definitive in terms of content, but in other areas it falls enormously short. On minute twelve, the penny painfully drops: 'This looks like someone's first attempt at an RPG Maker game,' he tweets, marking the start of a painful twitter thread outlining just how inept this port of an all-time classic is. By minute seven he'd purchased it, but by minute ten he was reporting his first doubts.

It's perhaps best demonstrated in the tweets of indie developer Fred Wood, who excitedly tweeted 'WHAT' alongside a screenshot of the game's announcement within four minutes of the game appearing on the Steam store. 'It's an ugly, inferior way to experience one of the greatest games of all time.' For a brief time Square Enix were heroes, but it didn't last for long. Video game fans and Final Fantasy fans are notoriously fickle to begin with, but the change of opinion around Chrono Trigger on PC was whiplash-fast, one of the quickest about-face turns I've ever seen en masse.

This is the problem with the latest PC release of Square Enix's Chrono Trigger, one repeated from their PC and mobile ports of Final Fantasy 5 and 6. The most vital thing of all is that these older games are treated with respect when they're recreated for newer audiences. This is why I'm impressed with Microsoft's efforts to ensure their older titles are backwards compatible and enhanced on their newer hardware, and why it's important Sony took the time to remake Shadow of the Colossus. If we're going to acknowledge games as an art form, it's important that older works should remain available for newcomers to the medium to discover. Video game re-releases and remasters are a good thing, broadly speaking.

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