New games this week: Chrono Trigger edition

by Justin McElroy on Nov 24th 2008 8:40AM

Yeah, we know, it's a totally retro headline that could just as easily have been written a decade or so ago, but Chrono Trigger on the DS really is the most exciting release this week. And you know what that means, right? You did it! You made it through the worst of the torrential releases of Holiday '08! We're so damn proud of you we could burst.

What's left to fear? Prince of Persia next week? Heck, you could do a Prince of Persia week in your sleep by this point. No, you did it, you made it through. We like to think you may have even learned a couple of things about yourself along the way.

Xbox 360:

Sonic Unleashed
Winter Sports 2 The Ultimate Challenge
NPPL Championship Paintball 2009

Nintendo Wii:

King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga
Winter Sports 2 The Ultimate Challenge
Safecracker
Ultimate Band
Cake Mania: In the Mix
Skate City Heroes
AMF Bowling World Lanes
Championship Foosball

PS2:

Sonic Unleashed
Winter Sports 2 The Ultimate Challenge

PSP:

Mytran Wars

Nintendo DS:

Chrono Trigger
Age of Empires: Mythologies
All Star Cheer Squad
Ski & Shoot
Emma in the Mountains
Personal Trainer: Cooking
Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine
Neopets Puzzle Adventure
Syberia
Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force
Cradle of Rome
Ultimate Band
Bratz Kidz

PC Games:

Zoo Tycoon 2: Ultimate Collection
Band Manager
Neopets Puzzle Adventure
Gothic 3
Disney's Bolt

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Tags: chrono-trigger, DS, joystiqfeatures, newgames

Reader Comments (59)

Whoo, now the catch-up begins!

I don't think playing L4D over and over and over helps me catch up on anything... :D

I know right? Most fun co-op game of the year IMO.

Yeah, I keep waiting for your avatar to puke all over me.

Do I have GTs for you guys? I need more L4D co-oppers!

GT: brother seamus

When you look at it like that then yes. LBP was too problematic from the get go. L4D is perfect and yes the most fun co-op game this year.

Super hyped sony game fails.
Not as hyped Valve game massively succeeds.

Go Valve!

But not Squeenix. suppose it's good for real gamers who want Chrono Trigger to acquire it without paying 60 fucking quid for the SNES version.

makes sense for BST to be playing the crap version of L4D.

Joystiq needs a friend list on here, so we can PM and exchange gamertags/ friend codes.

Get on it!

"makes sense for BST to be playing the crap version of L4D."

Makes sense that I try to be nice and some snobby PC fuckstick has to go an ruin my morning by being a holier-than-thou shitstain. Nice job. I'm gonna go get some coffee, now why don't you go and cram that performance mouse up your dumb ass?

Lee we were all digging the same game...can't we all just...get along? :(

@Lee: Ugh, why can't you just enjoy a good game without first looking at which "team" carries/develops it in your fanboy battle?

@Saria

Because, obviously, games are not about having fun. Duh.

I see, you have to earn the right to be the same quality of douche as BST... after reading his other comments in this news item.

Ok. I'll tone it down for now :)

Lee man, you have a point and I agree with it but sometimes it's best to keep things to yourself.

I don't play L4D on the 360, so my GT isn't going to help. I'm in the Steam group, though!

I can't play anymore games. My thumbs just fell off from exhaustion

/in before "that isn't funny, my friend died from that"

Count me in:

GT: theone12358

Here's my GT: jorojoserojas

Oh shit, that's this week? I promised I wouldn't buy any more games between L4D and Xmas. Oh well, it's been 12 years, what's another month or so.

My god! The Wii lineup is incredible!!!

Yes i was just sarcasticly giving shit to my own favourite currently-available console. As much as the good games that have come out since launch are some of the best games i've ever played, in the last 6 months of 2008 its been dreadful. Probably a good thing, i have many PC games to catch up on like FarCry2, Crysis: Warhead, Dead Space and even Fable 1 and FFVII. I wouldn't mind hearing some PAL release dates for the 'Play on Wii' remakes. I'm looking forward to releases in 2009 a lot, but it seems so long away.

I'm actually in the process of finishing Tales of Symphonia for the 4th time, and i'm starting to see how blurry it is. Not blurry in the tradional sense, but more like a double-vision thing going on as you can see outlines of characters near them. I would pay anything and everything to see ToS remade for 'Play on Wii' on a single disk in proper 16:9 480p with Gc controller/classic support and the ability to read a save-file from a GC memory card and use that information (and rewrite it to the Wii). I don't wanna lose my 135hr save file lol!

None of the platforms have a really good lineup this week. I looked at the PC section and thought "damn, choice between crap and crap here" until I noticed there wasn't even a PS3 section.

Which is odd, I mean it's getting close to xmas now and yet here's a week where literally nothing good except a port of a decade-old game is here.

Finally the Real version of Sonic Unleashed is here :D. This is the Mario Galaxy of Sonic games.

Only in some sad alternate dimension where Mario was saddled down by innumerable annoying friends and transformed into a wereplumber.

Unfortunately, I just made the mistake of Google'ing "mario werewolf" to try to add to my point. I ended up with a picture of Mario and Spider-Man kissing. What a sad world we live in.

Any reviews yet? Man I hope it turned out good!

The reviews so far are lacking, 7.2,8.0,6.7 etc.. But man they is this game fun, while the werehog levels are fun and entertaining the Day Time levels are nothing like I ever seen, it's just right you know, Best 3D sonic game so far but sadly nobody is going to give this game a change.

Btw don't listen to reviewers when they say the wii version is better, that version is terrible.

"Unfortunately, I just made the mistake of Google'ing "mario werewolf" to try to add to my point. I ended up with a picture of Mario and Spider-Man kissing. What a sad world we live in."

After reading that I did the same thing, stupidly assuming you were being hyperbolic for humor's sake. Unfortunately for me, I can never unsee Mario and Spidey lovingly caressing one another. Shit.

I googled too but that wasn't as bad as I though you pansys, the lips don't touch or anything, well I guess the life of internet nerds is divided before you see your first goatse and after you see one.

Don't google for that work I warned you.

It still doesn't beat Secret Rings, and there are a lot of peripheral flaws that weigh the experience down, but if you don't own a Wii, then this is definitely the superior Sonic experience out there

I've done the hard work for you

http://gaygamer.net/images/mario_spider2.jpg

I hope its an actual fun Sonic game. Last one I had fun with was Sonic Adventures. Why can't they make a Sonic Adventures 3, and fix the problems that were in the first 2? I'm sure it would be a pretty decent game.

Then you are in for a Treat Pedobear, Sonic Unleashed feels like a Sonic Adventure game but waaaaay better. (the 360 version anyway avoid the wii version at all cost)

http://gaygamer.net/images/mario_spider2.jpg

*WTF'd!*

...Oh Dear Gaymers!

I know I shouldn't have.....

but I did :(

Lol, the url no longer works. Guess some gaygamer staff read the 'stiq.

I'm so proud of the Wii, no games this week that contain the word 'Party' or the letter 'Z'. Its a step in the right direction...

*gets all misty eyed

Speaking of the Wii, the little white money printing machine is back in my house, thanks to my wife. But this time its in the living room. I guess I'll finally get online and race some peeps on MK Wii, maybe DL an oldschool Nintendo game.

The DS countz too!

There you go man, everything you need to know is in this Sonic Unleashed review.

http://www.hardcoregamer.com/index.php?option=com_magazine&id_rubrique=1&type=article&id_article=228

Ohhhh, nice! Thanks man! As long as IGN, GT and Giant Bomb dont give it anything lower than an 8.0, I'll be playing this mother!

Just be sure to have some time aviable the last stage is freaking hard.

I regret trading my copy of Chrono Trigger for Final Fantasy III over 10 years ago...

Chrono Trigger AND Iron Chef in the same week?! Oh DS you are a cruel mistress.

KOF Collection looks somewhat int... oh, fuck it. Who am I kidding? This is all about the 1995(/2008) GOTY.

I am comfortable saying with zero new games this week, even the PS3 has a betternew release lineup than Wii.

Yay for catch up weeks, but bring on PoP!

Speak for yourself, Joystiq. I've got Sonic and Chrono to buy this week. Good thing I just finished Fable 2, though I'm eager to jump right back into it. The ending was so... Bob the Goldfish. I laughed.

I still can't justify spending $40 for a game that came out a decade ago. The Square tax is getting far too ridiculous, even for them.

Gothic 3 was released in 2006..

I don't approve of the insinuation that Chrono Trigger is not an exciting game.

It's about time.

I would have chosen Sonic Unleashed...only in the hope that it mmight finally restore past glory...we can but hope....

Chrono Trigger is a blast from my past. That was a great game, when I was in highschool.

Phew! Thanks for the break from feeling like a fogey around here.

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