Chrono Trigger Recreated with Wind Waker Engine
Posted on May 28 2012 by Djinn
YouTube member Habboi recently uploaded a video of their personal project, a complete recreation of the magical kingdom of Zeal from the Super Nintendo game Chrono Trigger. He managed to capture the entire look of all four islands, the three cities, and even the parked blackbird and blue sealed pyramid. Every little detail was included and displayed in The Wind Waker’s cel-shaded graphics style. Within the video we look at all the different regions of the islands from all corners including a few close up scenes of the countryside and water while listening to a version of the original Zeal theme.
Jump inside to see it for yourself.
This is a project that I have been working on since late last year. I never got the chance to play Chrono Trigger when I was a child but I managed to play it on an emulator last year. It’s an absolutely brilliant game and I can see why some people called it “ahead of its time” when it first came out.
Anyway it came out on the Wii store a while back and I immediately bought it because I wanted to experience the journey again. That’s when I reached The Kingdom of Zeal and something inside me wanted to experience the world of Zeal in 3D so I decided that my next project would be to recreate it.
Many, many months later I finally finished it. I spent a lot of time redesigning it and trying to find a style that suited my abilities and tastes. Eventually my search led to the art style from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker by Nintendo and that’s when things started to pick up. I had found my aim and I spent the next few months researching the style, asking friends and strangers for help with recreating certain effects and experimenting with shaders in order to capture the look and feel of Wind Waker. I even watched Dragon Ball: Z again as the building designs are almost identical.
This was awesome, I loved Chrono Trigger and Zeal was amazing. Now I want to play this just to wander around a 3D Zeal. I’m sure many people might be reminded of Skyloft when they see this but Chrono Trigger had its own kingdom above the clouds. This makes me pretty nostalgic for Chrono Trigger now, I might go play it again after watching this.
So what do you think? Do you like the video? Would you like to see more from ? Let us know in the comments below.
Source: YouTube
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