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1. Sea of Stars

2023
PC/Switch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqK-1WGqYmI

This game is kind of a dream. You've got the developers behind The Messenger, one of the best 2d action games of the last several years, and maybe more importantly for this case, some really amazing sprite artists. You've got them making an RPG that looks like the spiritual successor to Chrono Trigger. Those two things go together absolutely perfectly. They've even got Mitsuda doing some music. Everything here looks kinda perfect.

The big questions here come down to: can this group make an RPG with the proper writing and tone given how The Messenger's story was largely living on puns and jokes? So far, the answer to that seems to be yes. They've put out tons of media that's all hit the right tone for what a proper CT-like would warrant. I follow these guys and every week they put out a 5-10 second snippet of something that just seems to get it. But, it's still an open question. You can have the look of a Chrono Trigger but nailing the feel and the charm is a monumentally harder task.

This game got delayed to 2023 today, which really made me consider putting it elsewhere in my rankings because now it's possibly not coming out for over a year. But in the end, I think I kinda like that they're taking their time with this one. When you aim so high, I'd rather that you spend as much time as you need trying to make it perfect. It's got high standards to live up to.