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That major event is still chilling and fantastic. Other than a very major event at about the 1/3 point, you can feasibly take the same few people with you everywhere.

It’s also frankly unnecessary as the game almost never forces any particular characters upon you. It would take an annoying amount of grinding to get everyone up to speed, fully equipped, and have their Element grid filled out. With Chrono Cross, however, you only ever have three people in your party, and one of them is your main character.

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Having a huge cast is awesome in a series like Suikoden, which is all about gathering allies and building an army (not to mention having six people in your active party). Chrono Trigger had all of seven party members the sequel added over 40. I’ll be honest: there’s too many damn characters. The story teases out the lovely, bright world of the El Nido archipelago while sprinkling in its many, many characters. The opening is very cool, however, as our protagonist, Serge, falls into a time-hole and ends up in a bizarre alternate version of his world in which he had died as a child. It does away with time-traveling in favor of jumping between two distinct dimensions, and saves much of its sequel connections until the last few hours. I dusted it off, ordered a new battery, downloaded Chrono Cross, and finally played through it all over again.Īs a direct sequel to Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross alters the time-theme quite a bit. My wife had won or earned (I forget) a Sony PSP-3000 a few years ago, and it had sat mostly unused in a closet. This year I saw it on sale on the PlayStation Store, and was determined. At one point I tried to start it up on an actual PlayStation (which I eventually bought a few years later for super cheap) but never got more than a few hours in. I was a big fan of Chrono Trigger and the sequel had a large, diverse cast of characters, interesting battle system, and an amazing soundtrack. Leaving it unfinished has been hanging over my head for years. Unfortunately I reached a point about 3/4 through where my game consistently crashed during a boss fight in Chrono Cross.

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I was becoming more and more of a PC gamer at the time, but still loved a few Japanese RPGs, such as Suikoden 2 and Chrono Cross. I purchased and originally played both of those games on an emulator on my PC. A PlayStation emulator existed, but you needed to own the actual game discs for it to work. 8-bit and 16-bit games were easy, but modern CDs proved tricky.

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We were going nuts over being able to download ROMs of SNES games and play them on our PCs. In the late 90s/early 2000s, emulators were all the rage. I actually owned Chrono Cross before I ever owned a PlayStation. Chrono Cross is still an amazing game whose early 3D graphics have aged better than most, but it’s not without some major design flaws that somewhat tarnished my teenage memories.

Now, almost two decades later, I finally did. But my secret shame is that I never actually beat the damn thing.

I even named one our cats Lynx, and yeah, he’s kind of a jerk. It’s one of my all-time favorite RPGs, hell one of my all-time favorite games. I have a somewhat complicated history with Chrono Cross. Adventuring through my backlog of games, one game at a time.

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