5 Incredible Fan-Made Video Games Killed By Legal Action

Chrono Trigger is unquestionably one of the greatest games of all time. Made by a dream team of creatives responsible for elements of the Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Dragon Ball series, its well-crafted world, story and characters have long endeared it to RPG enthusiasts.

Bar a DS remake in 2009 and a couple of subsequent ports, however, Square-Enix have shown little interest in ever revisiting it, a decision likely fuelled by the lack of plaudits earned by the game’s successor (of sorts) Chrono Cross in 1998.

They have proven to still be fiercely protective of the intellectual property, however, as two innovative mods of the game have been systematically terminated by their legal team in the last two decades.

The first of these, Chrono Resurrection, was an attempted 3D remake that would’ve included additional content, but only a small handful of newly rendered scenes ever saw the light of day.

The second, Crimson Echoes, was a full sequel that used the same graphical style. Crafted over the course of five years, it bridged the narrative gap between Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, bringing back all of the original game’s characters and weaving them into a new thirty-five hour story with ten unique endings.

Immensely ambitious, Square-Enix could’ve profited immensely on a potential classic where 98% of the work had already been done for them by others. Instead they killed the project dead on the spot, leaving just YouTube videos as testament to its memory.