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Chrono Resurrection

The end of this doomed project was one of the great tragedies of our time. Forget mass starvation and genocide, we wanted our 3D Chrono Trigger, damnit.

CR was a massively ambitious project, but it had a massively ambitious team behind it who really did seem like they were going to pull it off for a while. And left alone, they probably would have. In the end the game's death came about not through failure of the talent involved, but via the dark sorcerers of Square Enix's legal department. In 2004 they cast Threat Of Legal Action 3 and the project was discontinued for fear of a Lawyer summon.

For the love of God, fan developers, if you're working on something this cool, don't tell anyone until it's out.

David Houghton
David Houghton
Long-time GR+ writer Dave has been gaming with immense dedication ever since he failed dismally at some '80s arcade racer on a childhood day at the seaside (due to being too small to reach the controls without help). These days he's an enigmatic blend of beard-stroking narrative discussion and hard-hitting Psycho Crushers.