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Today's Nintendo Direct was full of enough of surprises, but few anticipated the annunciation that classic PlayStation game Chrono Cantankerous would be coming to Switch afterwards this year. The sequel to the SNES favorite Chrono Trigger left the fanbase divided when it originally launched in 1999, only the remastered edition coming to Nintendo's console could be ready to find a make new audience over 20 years afterwards.

The game, which is set to release on April 7, follows the story of Serge, a boy who finds his way into an alternating world in which he died ten years before. Determined to detect the truth and the meaning behind his ain alternating past, he sets off on an adventure alongside an astonishingly large bandage of over forty playable characters.

The remastered edition is set to give the game a fresh coat of paint aslope some quality of life features such as the power to turn 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 will include Radical Dreamers, a Chrono Cross prequel text adventure that was originally released on the Satellaview.