Yesterday, something not entirely unusual happened. Square Enix, the company behind hit franchises like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Kingdom Hearts, put out a new release of one of their classic hits. This is something the company has done quite often in its history, with mixed results. Recently, the company has been trying to make versions of these classics that can serve as easily-ported baselines for other platforms as opposed to the platform-specific ports they used to create. A noble goal, but it makes that baseline all the more important to get right. This is especially the case when the port arrives on more advanced hardware, as anything ported from weaker hardware always gets an extra bit of scrutiny. Unfortunately, with most of these cases, Square Enix would have to work hard to do a worse job than they have. Chrono Trigger is one of the most beloved RPGs in the history of video gaming. You don't have to look very far to find a fan that would consider it the greatest RPG ever, and even those that don't place it on such a high pedestal still don't have a lot of bad things to say about it. For such a landmark title, it has had relatively few releases over the years. There's the original Super NES version, an emulated PlayStation version that runs terribly, a Wii Virtual Console release of the original game, a rather excellent Nintendo DS version, a PSN release of the aforementioned terrible PlayStation version, and an iPhone version that is older than the hills. ...