Chrono Trigger coming to Japanese mobile phones, we arrive at the future

We're almost certainly approaching the apocalyptic future portrayed in Square Enix's best game ever, Chrono Trigger, as evidenced by the fact that the time-traveling epic RPG will soon be playable on the thing you use to make phone calls. A teaser site for a mobile version of Chrono Trigger has been uploaded in anticipation of Squeenix's Jump Festa 2011 presentation, revealing zero details about the project except for its Spring 2011 launch window.

It's far too early to guess whether the cellular iteration of the game will come stateside, though we imagine it would do quite well on the App Store circuit. We know we'd certainly buy it -- then, we'd send the phone back through time to ourselves in 1995, and watch our heads literally explode.

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Fan-made Chrono Trigger sequel finds release

Square Enix raised some ire by sending out a cease and desist against the release of a fan-made Chrono Trigger sequel, but the game has found its way out to the Internet anyway. Reddit user buu700 has posted what he says is a final build of Crimson Echoes, the sequel made by fans reusing the original game's sprites. He also leaked a game called Flames of Eternity a couple of weeks back, supposedly a fork of the fanmade title, which "diverged fairly heavily from what Crimson Echoes was intended to be."

Fans who've played the game say the characters are a little different than they remember (main character Crono, silent in the original, speaks, and a few of the dialects aren't quite right). But those hungry for some of the old 16-bit RPG magic will have to take what they can get -- at least until Squeenix's lawyers hear about it.

• Source: Reddit
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