

He nonetheless harbors darker wishes to leave a grand legacy in history, and is almost recklessly pragmatic. Belthasar claims it will be a guardian of time to ensure a threat such as Lavos will never arise.

Robo assists the Guru of Reason, Belthasar, who has established a clandestine temporal research facility named Chronopolis in 2305 A.D. Ayla dwells in 64,999,995 B.C., and has given birth to her tribe's successor. Magus searches for Schala in the still-frozen 11,995 B.C., and feuds with Dalton, obsessed with finding artifacts from the lost Kingdom of Zeal. Frog lives in 605 A.D., restored to his human form, though this was not implemented before the cease and desist letter. The three struggle to ease tensions with Porre, which has modernized its military and seeks to end Guardia's economic hegemony. Crono and Marle are junior regents of the Kingdom of Guardia Lucca continues her scientific endeavors. See also: List of Chrono Trigger charactersĬrimson Echoes features all the playable characters of the original game, and is set five years after the events of Chrono Trigger. Despite its cancellation, versions of the game ranging from an alpha to a release candidate have since been leaked onto the internet and can be played through to the end. This cancellation was widely reported in the gaming press, who were largely sympathetic to the project. A few weeks prior to the expected released date, Square Enix sent the developers a cease-and-desist letter for knowingly violating Square Enix's intellectual property, which led to the cancellation of the project.

The game reportedly totaled around 35 hours of play time, and had ten alternate endings.

The project was in development from 2004–09, with 98% of the game completed. Crimson Echoes concludes by setting up several plot points that were used in Chrono Cross. The plot includes elements from both official games. It is based five years after the events of Chrono Trigger and features all the playable characters from the original game, who come together across different time periods to fight an enemy attempting to change the past. The game, as a ROM hack, runs on the Chrono Trigger game engine and has gameplay similar to the original. It was conceived as an unofficial installment in the Chrono series, set between the events of Chrono Trigger and its sequel Chrono Cross. Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes is a fangame developed by the international team Kajar Laboratories as a ROM hack of Square's role-playing video game Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
