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expired Posted by Bojjihuntindeals | Staff • Mar 16, 2023
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Chrono Cross is really a sequel to the visual novel Radical Dreamers, which is included in this Switch release (but which, IMHO, is a pretty blah experience, particularly if you're not a huge visual novel fan, as I'm not). At some point in its development, a decision was made to bring it into the Chrono Trigger series, but the game does not have any real intrinsic connection. (The contemporaneous PS1 RPG Xenogears has a bit more of a Chrono Trigger-esque "feel," in my opinion, though it has never been released for Switch.)
There certainly *are* plot points in Chrono Cross which make explicit connections with Chrono Trigger, but no familiarity with the prior game is needed and if anything, familiarity with the prior game will only frustrate your expectations. The battle system, characters, and plot are all fairly different, and apart from the occasional plot connection, Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger are not much more similar than any other two Squaresoft JRPGs.
Chrono Cross is, in the end, a good JRPG that has always suffered in comparison with the GOAT JRPG.
That said, if you haven't played Chrono Trigger... do yourself a favor and play it!
You will have a much better experience playing them elsewhere.
I need some new re-releases of Final Fantasy Tactics and Star Ocean: The Second Story to rebuy but never replay.
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Any opinions on FFIX?
If you're a Final Fantasy and/or JRPG fan, I can't recommend it enough.
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Further, Cloud games are not running on your device, so once the Cloud servers shut down, "your" game is gone.
You will have a much better experience playing them elsewhere.
I understand they wanted to save money and release it quick to tie in with smash brothers but they could have easily ported over the first two collections at the very least. Those ran on PS3, they even have PC ports to work from. Heck even just throwing the emulator PS2 originals would have been a better alternative.
I know a few people who have purchased these cloud versions and then realized they're basically unplayable to them because their internet connection is not strong enough. Doesn't help that eShop purchases aren't refundable. There is a demo that is supposed to let you test the game to see how it runs on your network but many people don't realize it's even a cloud version to begin with.
Any opinions on FFIX?
My friend swore by FF9 and recommended it to me but when I played it, it didn't capture me as much I had hoped it would. Bare in mind that my play-through was almost two decades after its initial release so there have been many great games that I had the pleasure of playing before getting to FF9. Maybe if I had played it when it was released in 2000, my opinion of it would have been more positive. The same goes for Ocarina of Time, as I wasn't as impressed as I thought I would be considering all the praise that the game received over the years.
So keep that mind as you play these older games where you have a tendency to compare it with more modern games, because some games age better than others.
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DRAGON QUEST III: The Seeds of Salvation: https://www.nintendo.co
Yup, it's $8.11 at the moment, surprised it's not on the list here!
If you think CT and CC's stories aren't relevant then I think you may have missed the point of the final conversation at Opassa Beach and therefore the ending.
DO play CT first. The mystery of CC is basically figuring out what happened to everyone from the first game, which completely enriches the CC experience.
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Chrono Cross is really a sequel to the visual novel Radical Dreamers, which is included in this Switch release (but which, IMHO, is a pretty blah experience, particularly if you're not a huge visual novel fan, as I'm not). At some point in its development, a decision was made to bring it into the Chrono Trigger series, but the game does not have any real intrinsic connection. (The contemporaneous PS1 RPG Xenogears has a bit more of a Chrono Trigger-esque "feel," in my opinion, though it has never been released for Switch.)
There certainly *are* plot points in Chrono Cross which make explicit connections with Chrono Trigger, but no familiarity with the prior game is needed and if anything, familiarity with the prior game will only frustrate your expectations. The battle system, characters, and plot are all fairly different, and apart from the occasional plot connection, Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger are not much more similar than any other two Squaresoft JRPGs.
Chrono Cross is, in the end, a good JRPG that has always suffered in comparison with the GOAT JRPG.
That said, if you haven't played Chrono Trigger... do yourself a favor and play it!
Outside of some of the gorgeous soundtrack and some 'moments', the game feel unaffiliated in every possible way. A couple of story points are there, but they are loose. IMO a better comparison between the two would be more like Final Fantasy 4 (FF2 US) and Secret of Evermore (hear me out). They don't look alike or play alike, they aren't even made by the same people, but there are references in SOE about a couple of character from FF2 that serves more like a cameo than anything else.
Again, never mind what it tries to do near the finale, it's pure nonsense. CT has a lot of Toriyama's work in it, CC has none.
None of this is to bash the game at all, but expectations really need to be curbed to truly enjoy the game.