The Sony PlayStation is home to a lot of classic JRPG’s. One of my favorites was Squaresoft’s release, Chrono Cross. Known as the spiritual sequel to Chrono Trigger, the game delivered on all fronts. Chrono Cross’s gameplay follows the JRPG formula we’ve all grown to love.
Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition owes its existence to the fact that the devs at Square Enix were afraid that the original version of the classic Japanese RPG was about to become "unplayable."
I don't know why they were worried. Emulation has ensured the game (and every other PS1 game for that matter) will live on forever. Maybe they're so out of touch they aren't even aware emulators are a thing.
PS1 emulation is essentially perfect. Maybe not frame perfect in the same way that hardware emulation can deliver, but you can't tell the difference. You can run epsxe or duckstation on a potato PC.
So many games are way more "unplayable" than Chrono Cross, which at least had a rerelease as a PS1 Classic on PS3.
Why wasn’t Chrono Trigger included in this?
This should’ve been a celebration of the entire Chrono series
Based on Square's logic, Chrono Trigger had no risk of being lost to time because you can currently get that game on Android, iOS and PC while the only version of Chrono Cross that existed was on the original PS1 and playstation classics for PS3, PSP and PS Vita. Those consoles are discontinued.
I would love to see them give Chrono Trigger the ff7 remake treatment minus it being episodic.
Square Enix has no problem rereleasing their Final Fantasy titles as often as they do. Should apply that logic to CT as well
If Chrono Trigger did get a remake it’d be on the scale of Trials of Mana, Live a Live or DQIII rather than FFVII
I'd be fine with that. Stay truer to the original. Combat , everything. Although I enjoyed ff7r the combat nearly put me off the game. I didn't mind the changes to the story.
The Steam port of Chrono Trigger, since all of the updates it received, is quite close to being flawless, I wish they’d go the final mile and make the remaining fixes, which should be easy for them to do
A third Chrono series game called Chrono Break was planned, but Square prioritized an MMORPG, and Chrono Break’s concepts were used in mobile games.
It’s true.
Squaresoft used to be like the equivalent of Naughty Dog back in the day. When you heard Squaresoft was making a game you knew it’d be a banger.
god I miss those days.
Yeah they used to be the best in the industry. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is the worst decision they ever made. While they had previously talked about merging with Enix, that film flopping so hard left them with no other option.
@porkChop
My understanding is that merger was happening before the film and the flop of the film freaked them out because they thought Enix would call it off.
I personally wish Square Pictures was a success. I thought the Matrix shirt they did was cool and they were pushing computer animation into a more mature realm.
Unfortunately, Spirits Within noted many and wasn’t the FF movie a lot of fans wanted. I thought it was decent, but something like Advent Children should’ve been the direction they went.
To me, Naughty Dog is now Naughtycucks.p after that god awful story in LoU 2.
It was people like Yasumi Matsuno that held it for me, at Squaresoft. The company thought them too radical and ran them out. And now they yearn for people like that. They’re short sighted and pathetic.
Kinda misleading title, even from reading the article itself.
The staff and management couldn’t come to an agreement and the team moved on. Part of the team went to creat ff11 and the rest to Monolith software. Ideas for this game were implemented in some form to mobile games-later on. Which make sense as early 2000s mobile phones were not as powerful.
Chrono Cross’ massive 45-member ensemble cast has been a hot topic since the game's release in 1999, with many arguing that it was too much of an expansion on Chrono Trigger's compact group of seven heroes. But as imperfect as Cross might have been, its large cast was fitting for the story it wanted to say, and helped it achieve a scope that was really kind of profound.
Chrono cross was good injust wouldn't put it up there. I despised the leveling system.
This is the golden age of Jrpgs people. too bad Square don't make games like this anymore.
easily one of the best JRPG games ever made.
It's a shame it's not available in Europe. I'd love to play the game on my Vita. I wish SE put it out on PSN in EU even if only as a "PS One Import" title like other companies have done.
This game still is one of the best JRPG's ever. Like ritsuka commented Square does not make them like this anymore. Too bad. There was a time when playing RPG's was a joy, but today it's not that time.
Epic game.