Customer Reviews
Truly amazing role playing game...
Chrono Cross, which is a semi sequel to 1995's Chrono Trigger, cant even come close to its former games plateua. Chrono Trigger is arguably the greatest RPG ever created. So while Chrono Cross is 'not as good' it still does a whole heck of a lot of things right.
The gameplay, story, and battles in this game are all top notch.
Its fun to get a handle over the numerous tough boss battles in this game because of the elemental magics strategic system. Black beats white and red beats blue, etc.
Its always fun and interesting to see what the next dungeon or boss has to offer. The gameplay is never sluggish and will always keep you on your toes.
Also, when you beat the game you have an option to replay the entire game again with all of your beefed up characters from before. And if things are going slow you can speed them up with a fast forward button on your second play through the game. Truly brilliant!
So why does this game get 4 out of 5 if it is so darn good?
Because of its confusing/tedious magic system and over abundance of characters.
Most of the magics and summons in this game are a joy to watch and to behold their might. But in this game there are no magic points and you must 'equip' every single magic spell you have. That could mean 50+ spells to equip per character! Setting up each character late in the game can take upwards of 5-10 minutes easily. And each spell can only be cast once per battle unless you buy multiples of that spell.
And probably the games worst point is its ridiculous amount of characters. Chrono Trigger had something like 7 recruitable characters that you can play as, each with their own terrific and unforgettable personalities.
Chrono Cross has 44 recruitable characters.
95% of your 40+ characters have the personality of a wood stool. Some characters will literally say 'Can i join your party' than join and NEVER say anything else EVER again!
Having 44 playable characters instead of 7 spreads each one way too thin and makes them all lose individuality.
In the end this game is still one of the greatest rpgs ever made for the first Playstation. While its few flaws keep it from being a true classic, it is still one of the greatest rpg experiences to be had in the past 5 years.
More like Chrono Crap!
Please promise me you will never play this. It is not worth your time. If you paid money for it, try to find the person you gave that money to and kick them in the shin. Hard. Then throw your copy of this game in the dumpster.
Seriously though, this game is absolutely terrible. The graphics are bad even for the PSX, the combat quickly becomes boring as all hell, the story line was confused and the fact that there was a second dimension pointless. There was no reason for there being 40 something characters, most of them were exactly the same statwise, and all of them were poorly designed. The most annoying thing in the world, bar nothing, is having to re-equip all your character's spells whenever you switch characters. You have like 50 spell slots. God. I don't think I even need to say it, but those crumbums at Square couldn't pull another hit out of their oversized victorian tophats if they wanted too. They should really stick with straight to video Final Fantasy 7 anime movies from now on, lest they risk making something like this again.
A GREAT GAME , A TERRIBLE SEQUEL
After i payed crono cross the felling i got is that squaresoft had a game ready to go but wanted to do a crono trigger sequel , and so FORCED this finished game to be a sequel, by putting mentions (sometimes senseless mentions) to crono trigger characters, if crono cross was called THE RADICAL DREAMERS and wasn't a sequel it wold be perfect, as a crono trigger fan i got very angry and disapointed.
