Left feeling a bit empty after playing it for the first time a few months ago(why did I wait so long?) I am afraid no JRPG will be able to surpass it. Would love to have a discussion about similar games that reach the same quality level (Note: I have already played Final Fantasy VI ).
I’d like to give people in this thread the warning I wish they had given me about this game. Don’t go into Cross expecting it to have anything to do with Trigger (or expecting it to be 10% as good as Trigger). They made a weird JRPG where every character is just a text filter and then decided in the last 3 hours that it was the sequel to Chrono Trigger. It has nothing in common with CT except a couple of place names and some dead characters, and would be a much better game if they called it Lynx Quest or Radical Dreamers 2 or what the hell ever.
Can’t agree enough. My brother and I played through Chrono Cross together and that’s honestly the only reason we even finished it.
It’s tenuously connected to Chrono Trigger at best and those plot points are terribly written anyway. Combat is mediocre, the element system is annoying, and there’s so many characters that only a couple of them get any screentime.
If you enjoyed CT, don’t play CC; you’ll almost certainly be disappointed.
I don’t think it’s fair to say not to bother with Chrono Cross but I do agree it’s important to stress how unrelated to Chrono Trigger it is. As a sequel it fails. But as its own stand alone JRPG, I think it’s great.
Personally I love Chrono Cross and how different it was. And the music is ridiculously good (Yasunori Mitsuda main Chrono Trigger composer.)
I think it’s worth a go. It starts you somewhere in the middle of the story so you get action straight away. So anyone who tries it will know quickly if it will be up their alley without having to invest too much time.
Really good final fantasy of the era, but not a real sequel to Chrono trigger.
Pop quiz, who’s the final boss of Chrono Cross?
As I recall it’s the time devourer which is lavos after merging with part of schala, but it takes more than a final boss to make something a real sequel to another thing.
So the fundamental theme of scratching back our destiny from our own self-destructive nature isn’t a 1:1 match?
You’re free to disagree and think it’s a perfect sequel that has everything you ever wanted out of a chrono trigger sequel. Lots of people like it. I just don’t feel that it’s a real sequel.
Hey so my rebuttal is just a really long list of spoilers for Chrono Cross, demonstrating how every corner of Cross is deeply connected to Trigger. Seriously, like, every aspect of the game.
I will always prefer an experiment that fails over an unending stream of bland clones.
I disagree with the extent of your warning, but only just. I also originally bounced off of Chrono Cross because it wasn’t what I was expecting (3D Chrono Trigger). Once I went back to it like it was a brand new game, I grew to enjoy it on its own merits.
At least play it long enough to get the nostalgia whenever you hear the music come up on rainwave :p