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 - 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. Rating:  - A GREAT GAME , A TERRIBLE SEQUELAfter 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. Rating:  - Great, but Not a SequelChrono Cross is, in and of itself, a great game. It has good graphics and astounding music, an intricate and yet easy-to-use battle system, and some... er... interesting characters. But as a sequel to Chrono Trigger, quite possibly the best RPG of all time, it comes up short. There are references, but they almost all come late in the game (though personally I think it is a bit of a reference to have a green-haired man named Glenn). There are references to Crono, Lucca, Marle, Robo, Magus, Schala and possibly Frog. However, all of these are minimal and rather pointless, except for Robo and Lucca's tie to Fate, Lucca's tie to Kid's past, and that whole thing with Schala that was mostly unnecessary and rather upsetting for a Chrono Trigger fan such as myself. The biggest reference is the world contained in the Sea of Eden/Dead Sea. If you've played Chrono Trigger, you will recognize it. It's a bit of a frightening thought, actually, but if you're the type who gets into the storylines of video games, it'll get you thinking. The storyline is complicated and a bit confusing, so it's a game that you'll want to play more than once, if only to understand more of the storyline. Instead of travelling through time like Chrono Trigger, you travel between two dimensions that look identical until you enter a specific area. At times, especially when you're looking to head into the Sea of Eden/Dead Sea or trying to locate the Dragons, it becomes difficult to remember which world is which. I recommend writing down the general atmosphere of all the major places in each world so you can prevent travelling back and forth trying to find some place. Like in Chrono Trigger, there are multiple endings--but the vast majority of people, including myself, got the no-ending ending the first time, and felt ripped off. When it's time to fight the final boss, you might want to consider consulting a guide as to how to get a real ending. Of course, there's always New Game +. The music is one of the best parts. The song at the beginning, Time's Scar, is breathtaking. Being a violinist I can appreciate the wonderful tonal quality of the violin in that piece. And the ending song, Radical Dreamers, is very beautiful also. Gameplay is easy, though it gets irritating to switch Elements between different characters later on in the game, especially when you're fighting all the elemental Dragons and have to keep changing your party. And I'll tell you right now the percentages for hitting are, at least in the beginning, entirely inaccurate. It may say you have a 90% shot of hitting but you'll only hit half the time. Fortunately that gets better as the game progresses. Element placement allows for complicated strategy in the more difficult boss battles, but it's fine to place them without thinking about battles if you are not particularly strategically-minded. One complaint is that it might be TOO easy, but that didn't bother me at all. There are WAY too many characters. There are two entire families you can get to join your party (though you'll need New Game + to get all of one of them). Fortunately, unlike Chrono Trigger, you can just say no. No, really, you can say no, and most characters will get the message and leave you alone. Most have little or no relevant backstory AND are exceedingly weak so it's pointless to take them (*cough* Mojo *cough*). Finally, characters you'd like to ignore that you actually can! The storyline alone, being deep and intricate, was enough to keep me going. I recommend this game highly. Chrono Trigger fans will not find it disappointing if they choose to forget for most of the game that this is supposed to be a sequel. And those who've never played Chrono Trigger will miss a few interesting points but nothing vital to the storyline. It is interesting, full of odd little twists and turns, and it's definitely a game you'll want to play again. If you like RPGs, you should play it! Rating: - My Personal FavoriteChrono Cross is one in a hundred or even a thousand games. The graphics are astounding, for its time at least, and Mitsuda's music is so captivating that at times I'd just stop playing for a few moments to listen. Some of the first few battles can be easy or hard, depending on how quickly you grasp the Elemental system (I didn't realize it was there until I died about nine times without it, but that's just me), and they grow progressively tougher to the point that some of the sidequests are almost impossible without New Game+. New Game+ is the handy little invention that lets you beat the socks off that annoying Pentapus without even getting your hands dirty. While there are forty or so characters, they each have their own stories and it lets you combine them so that, at certain times, their Techniques will be even more powerful. Regrettably, the sheer number will probably make you feel like you're trying to hunt them down and there will usually be about twenty or thirty that you never use anyway. There have also been complaints about the normal battle theme, although I didn't see anything wrong with it and actually like it. My main beef with Chrono Cross is the ending. It seems to wrap things up rather nicely, combining all the Elements in one last stand, but it seems more like Square just wanted to throw in a final reference to Chrono Trigger and pull Lavos and Schala back into play. It probably would have made more sense if the game just ended after the boss preceeding that one, because Chrono Trigger's involvement is rather limited and if you're seeking a direct sequel, seek elsewhere. I realize that I may be a bit biased, since Chrono Cross raised me as a gamer, but I still think it's the best thing since TV and I don't think Square can ever match it. Rating: - chrono trigger of chrono crossChrono cross is a loose sequel to chrono trigger. If you had not recently played c.t. you may not even notice it. If you remove the fact that it is suppose to be a sequel to c.t. then you will have a quality playing experience. Great f.m.v. good story with some nice twists
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