![]() ![]() ![]() Some are robots or morally gray magic users. Some of those characters walk and talk like humans, but look different on the outside. It’s a long-established IP with a team of beloved, teenaged characters. Who would write the Westernized comic? After all, writing Chrono Trigger would be a serious undertaking. While the manga and the OVA were too short-lived to lead to a continuous series, they do lead to a bigger question looming over all of this. It got…less than stellar reviews from fans of the franchise. And, if you want to count it, there was also a short video that followed some monsters from the game and has lots of cameos from other characters. It starts with events leading up to the very beginning of the game, and goes from there. Now, there was Chrono Trigger manga by Kaneko Osamu, if you include what was printed in the player’s guide for the Japanese version of the game. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves – while these show that there’s plenty of conceptual fodder for a comic book series that could last for a decade or more, there’s more than enough in the original game and the events tying to it in these spin-offs to make a strong series. That alone could take years.īeyond that, you have the Chrono Cross spin-off game, which takes place in a universe parallel to Chrono Trigger’s, and Radical Dreamers, a text-based, Japanese video game seen by few Americans that acts as a kind of bridge between the two games. ![]() While estimates of game length are all over the place, you could break down each mission or quest into story arcs: rescuing Marle, escaping the future, going back to the past to fix the Masamune in the present, Magus’s castle, and so on. The thing is, there’s plenty of story to tell. It’s a hell of a hook, and there are many smaller ones throughout that keep the game’s momentum going. The truly insidious thing about the game is how effortlessly the game shifts beneath you you’ve only just saved the princess, and suddenly, you’re in the future, seeing first-hand how the planet died. And while it’s a quest that takes some time to complete, it’s only a fraction of the game’s story. Here’s why it should be a comic.Ĭhrono Trigger started with a simple premise: Save the princess. It also makes mention that as of today, the game has been ported to PlayStation discs, mobile phones and devices, the Nintendo Virtual Console, the PlayStation Network, and even Microsoft Windows and Apple TV.Īll right, you get it. “Chrono Trigger was the third best-selling game of 1995 in Japan, and shipped 2.65 million copies worldwide by March 2003… The Nintendo DS version sold 790,000 copies by March 2009, after about a year of sales.” Don’t believe me? Wikipedia’s got the numbers: Even though it’s turning 25 next March, it remains a fan favorite of gamers everywhere thanks to an unforgettable story, a consistently gripping plot, unique and nuanced characters you fall in love with, and unforgettable music from Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu. It’s an adventurous and emotional tale of time-hopping friends that merges sci-fi and fantasy seamlessly. Chances are, if you grew up in the ‘90s and played RPGs on a video game console, you’ve heard of Chrono Trigger. Welcome back to We Want Comics, a column exploring intellectual properties, whether they’re movies, TV shows, novels or video games, that we want adapted into comic books. ![]()
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