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Today'southward Nintendo Direct was full of plenty of surprises, but few predictable the announcement that classic PlayStation game Chrono Cross would exist coming to Switch later this year. The sequel to the SNES favorite Chrono Trigger left the fanbase divided when it originally launched in 1999, but the remastered edition coming to Nintendo's panel could be ready to find a brand new audition over twenty years afterward.

The game, which is set to release on Apr seven, follows the story of Serge, a boy who finds his way into an alternating world in which he died ten years before. Determined to find the truth and the meaning behind his own alternate past, he sets off on an adventure aslope an astonishingly large cast of over 40 playable characters.

The remastered edition is set to give the game a fresh glaze of paint alongside some quality of life features such as the ability to plough off random encounters (a boon for any JRPG). The soundtrack is also "newly enhanced" according to the trailer. On top of that, the Switch release volition include Radical Dreamers, a Chrono Cantankerous prequel text adventure that was originally released on the Satellaview.