Play along with the Endurance Run on iOS :)

app store link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chrono-trigger/id479431697?mt=8

Thats fantastic, how does it control though, thats my main issue.

It is the DS version apparently. It's turnbase so I doubt there would be any problems selecting actions/spells but the game is huge at 588mb.

Have never played the game before but I think I might because of hte ER....

588Mb? Oh my that's a lot. Then again, it does look a bit better than the SNES version.

@Vexxan: It probably has the cutscenes from the ps1 version.

Controls damn well. Same old movable analog stick from Square's other iOS RPGs, which is pretty great. And that art on a dense wide-angle screen... Holy shit. It's awesome.

Screen shots from my iPhone...

@tmek: I like that you are properly naming the characters. :)

@InsidiousTuna said:

Controls damn well. Same old movable analog stick from Square's other iOS RPGs, which is pretty great. And that art on a dense wide-angle screen... Holy shit. It's awesome.

Yep controls are great!

I've also noticed how good the graphics looked.. and yet at the same time I could tell they seemed to be the same graphics/artwork from the SNES.

What they have done is "pull the camera out" so to speak, modified the code to draw further out than what you'd see on the SNES. It reminds me of how when Pixar released some of their movies to DVD in "fullscreen" 4:3 aspect ratio. Instead of having the black bars on top and bottom they re-render the scenes such that those 'black bar' areas are filled in with what was off camera from the theatrical release. I Also noticed the graphics scaling filter is tuned just right such that the art is scaled up smoothly (as it has to be to some extent given the source art) without being overly pixelated.

So you get the best of both worlds, the nostalgia of the original but it's zoomed out and filtered well enough that you have better graphics and more detail on the screen.

I can't decide whether to grab this on IOS or Wii VC  (where I can play with my SNES classic controller.)

thread of this exists. good screenshots though.

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/chrono-trigger-for-ios/527896/?page=1#div_shout_post_5005938

@MEATBALL said:

I can't decide whether to grab this on IOS or Wii VC (where I can play with my SNES classic controller.)

The wii version is $2 cheaper (assuming they charge standard price) for what that's worth.

@MEATBALL said:

I can't decide whether to grab this on IOS or Wii VC (where I can play with my SNES classic controller.)

The wii version is $2 cheaper (assuming they charge standard price) for what that's worth.

I got the whole game on my Snesnoid app on my Desire HD so...Meh

Does it suck like the other Square Enix iOS games?

It's a good game and seem a good port of the ds version. I would not say the control are the best, it does the job but can be frustrating at time. Well for now, only one time where I try to do the 80 point mini game at the fair. I feel that if I had real controller the challenge would be a lot easier. But beside that the game is great and I'm hsppy be able to play it.

Controls are pretty bad. The onscreen joystick makes it really hard to move precisely and during combat the buttons to switch targets is teeny tiny so if you miss it by a centimeter it attacks whatever was selected instead.

Edit: Just realized you could swipe to select other targets during combat. Still not perfect but alittle better. They really don't make that clear lol.

It works better on iPad than most iPhone only games and thats pretty good. I really wish they made it so you could select targets by tapping on them. it would have made the game 10x more playable.

How....timely

@MEATBALL: I dont like iOS gaming so id go VC. Depends what you prefer? TBH id get the DS version over any other version.

10$ seems pretty steep, but Squeenix loves to overcharge on the apple store. I'll keep my eye open for sales, but I don't have any hopes about that. I could always just play it on DS.

I have a lot of nostalgia for Chrono Trigger, so I find the re-rendered text and UI incredibly off-putting.

The most annoying thing I found in the iPod version was when you needed to scroll down to select a tech/item in battle. It just didn't feel responsive enough to me.

Just in case anyone is thinking about buying this. DONT it becomes impossible to progress past death peak due to the sketchy controls...