The role-playing classic from Square’s heyday pre-Square Enix stealth launched on Steam. The 1995 time traveling epic goes for $14.99 on Steam under a “Limited Edition” label available until April 2nd. All users that purchase the game before that date get the following bonuses:
- A specially edited Chrono Trigger medley consisting of 5 tracks–Wind Scene, Far Off Promise, Battle with Magus, Chrono Trigger, and Corridors of Time
- Digital liner notes from composer Yasunori Mitsuda
- A collection of 6 wallpapers at four fixed resolutions: 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, 1920 x 1080, and 2560 x 1600
This new release promises “updated graphics and sound” with all the additional content introduced in the Playstation and Nintendo DS ports. This includes the animated cinematics as well as the Dimensional Vortex and Lost Sanctum dungeons. Chrono Trigger takes up 2 GB of storage space on PC and supports the listed resolutions:
- 800 x 600
- 1024 x 768
- 1280 x 720
- 1280 x 960
- 1360 x 768
- 1600 x 900
- 1920 x 1080
Despite just launching, Chrono Trigger holds a Mostly Negative user rating on Steam with only 21% of the reviews being positive. The negative user reviews share common complaints. Among them, “lazy port” is a commonly used descriptive term. According to these reviews, the title is a mobile port with little considerations made for accommodating PC’s controls and hardware. One user, Shiggy, complains that “You can drag your mouse across the screen and the joystick which is used for mobile devices comes up“. Another user, Lil’ Sassy, notes that this issue still occurs with a gamepad, which the Steam page lists as containing Partial Controller Support. “The tap overlay is still there as if you should be clicking it with a mouse even when you play with a gamepad“. Multiple reviews also make note of “blurry” visuals that don’t scale well to large screens and high resolutions.
Chrono Trigger, often considered one of the greatest role-playing games of all time, may demand PC users to remain patient. Maybe Square Enix will fix the issues. Maybe not. We’ll have to wait and see.