10 Iconic Video Games That NEED A Remake

8. Chrono Trigger

Chrono Trigger
Square Enix

Slightly out-there take; but sometimes I think that maybe the best ever Final Fantasy game might not even be a Final Fantasy game at all*. Maybe.

Released in 1995, Square Enix (and the "Dream Team" behind the FF series) thought they might have made the greatest video game of all time with Chrono Trigger. They hadn't, but they weren't far off. In a time of Command and Conquer, Wipeout and... um... Earthworm Jim, Chrono Trigger was like nothing the world had really experienced before. An astonishing and clever narrative, genuine emotional depth, and a time-travel story as thrilling as anything gaming had seen prior.

RPGs have changed so irreversibly in the time since - so much that it's near impossible to talk of remakes without losing the essence of most of them - but an understated update would dazzle the world all over again. The world-building still holds up today, as do the engrossing characters and the dynamics between them, and it would only take a modest graphical reimagining to bring the whole package up-to date.

Fans have tried to do this themselves, incidentally, but both times had their efforts forcibly stopped by Square's herculean legal departments. If they're not going to let us do it, then an official remake seems like the least they can do.

*Chill out, it's not. I know it's not. IX is.

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