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GOOD GOD WHAT A GAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've played Chrono Trigger, also a must get, but I think that this game is as good or better than Chrono Trigger! The Plot and action are the best I have seen! The plot is soooooo good! If I tell one part I'll tell it all and you want to find that out your self. :) The battles are easy to navigate. Infact when my 3 freinds started their own games it took them a min. to understand whats going on. If you get one game this year get this one!

GREAT GAME!!!....However......

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have to say this is one of the greates RPG games I've ever played, although sometimes you need to use a guide through the game. But the gameplay, graphics, FMV's and battle system are great. Although it's an excellent game, I still think Chrono Trigger is better. I replayed chrono cross twice with the option New Game + and it wasn't as good as replaying Chrono Trigger with the same option, I cleaned up my dusty SNES, and I played CT.

I also have to say there are some plot holes between CT and CC, I'm aware of the SatellaView game, "Radical Dreamers", but I still don't know what happened in that game.

A Good game, but not as good as its predecessor

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It seems like many people loved Chrono Cross. I must be in the minority when I say that this game isn't nearly as good as Chrono Trigger. In any case, CC was still a well-made game, but it doesn't have the staying power than CT had, and still has.

CC is, simply put, a beautiful game. The graphical and artistic craftsmanship is incredible, and the music is some of Square's best. The diversity of places you visit is incredible. However, the story was somewhat lacking, and the gameplay, while novel, ultimately is worse than that used in CT. And, perhaps the most obvious flaw as a successor to CT was the character design.

The story was incredible halfway through the game - I really wanted to know how everything would end up. But what happened at the end was terrible, because everything before it was so good. In addition, the characters from CT weren't really tied into the story - only Lucca had a significant role, and even her role was not used as well as it could have been. And, if you played CT, you know that Magus goes looking for his sister - well, they don't talk about that at all in the game! That was by far the most disappointing part of CC.

The character design also suffered greatly. Some people felt that 40 characters was a great idea, but I felt it was superficial. True, they all have unique graphical designs, and each one has his or her own miniquest, but almost all of them give nothing to the story or the world of CC. The story centers around Serge and Kid, which is a good thing, so it may have been wise to eliminate maybe 30 of the 40 characters as playable people. It would have been better to focus on a few characters, like in CT, where every character was fully developed and relevant to the story.

The gameplay was also new. There are no random battles in this game, although at points you don't really have a choice to fight - instead of being random, the battles are forced upon you. In any case, there are no levels, and instead you get slightly stronger with each fight. But this system basically degenerates into you getting a lot stronger after beating a boss, and then staying at the same strength after fighting normal people. Many people thought that the three levels of attack (weak, medium, strong) and the power bar were novel developments, but they're not - look at Xenogears (the same team designed Xenogears and CC). The battle system was pulled off better in Xenogears than CC, in my opinion.

So most of my review has been a slam of this game. I don't want to leave you with the impression that this was a bad game - by all means, it was good. I recommend that you buy it, especially if you like RPGs. But don't necessarily expect this game to have the instant feeling of a classic, much like its predecessor, Chrono Trigger.

Thoroughly addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm not your typical gamer; RPGs and adventure games often make me nervous and stressed out. In contrast, Chrono Cross was simply an enjoyable, visually pleasing, and addictive game. I enjoyed the battle engine and the turn-based fighting as well as the choice to avoid certain fights. After sucessfully finishing, it was interesting to be able to run (literally) through the game again and discover other story lines. Chrono Cross is the type of game I also wouldn't mind returning to after some time has passed. Although...I do fear how much time will "disappear" when I do.

Awesome RPG for Playstation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I rented this and i it. The gameplay is amazing! The way battling is amazing! And if you like Chrono Trigger for the SNES you'll love this game. There's no experence points like other RPG's but it has star levels.(You get star levels by betting a bose.)The graphics are amazing.The good part is there is around 40 different characters to join your party through out the game.The story is that Serge(the main character)gets suck into a wormwhole while on the beach.The wormwhole lead to a paralel world.In the other Serge died at age 7.A guy named Lynx(the main bad guy for part of the game)sends 3 guys to capture you.The guys are:Solt,Peppor,and Karsh.When they try to capture you a girl named Kid jumps into the screen to stop them.After a bit of talking you fight them.When you beat them they run away then Kid asks to join your team.If you refuse Leena will join your team when go to town.(Kid will ask to join your team later)Then you have to sneak into Viper Manor.(that's where you find Lynx)Once you get in after alot of searching around you fight Lynxbut you find out that was just a shadow of him.After that Kid gets piosend by Lynx and you need to find a cure.That's all I know for now.If you buy the game you can find the rest out on your own.This game is great just buy it OK.

I expected a bit more, but I was still above average...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'll admit, I never played Chrono Trigger. This game looked great, I being an RPG fan decided to get it.

The pros of this game are as follows:

Music. Squaresoft has a history of great game music and this stands out, very well done, not many tracks I didn't like.

Graphics. For the Playstation, it's very impressive. The thing to note is the amazingly bright atmosphere. The colors are vibrant, mixed and really make you notice how many RPG's are so dark. Cinemas rival PS2 to a degree.

Character variety. There is quite an extensive number of characters that can join your party

Battle system. Well done. You give each member elements(which are summons, magic, cure items, etc.)and as you attack your element levelinecreases allowing you to perform the ones equal to or under that level. As you use elements the level decreases. All elements can only be used once per battle, though a few special abilities allow you to recharge some.

Cons

Non Linear world and lack of in game info. Most people would consider games that give you a variety of places to visit great. Yes, it is great, but the game will rarely if ever tell you exactly what to do or where to go. A problem, when your party decided: "Let's go here!" You go there, and after running around for an hour decide you don't know what to do. Well, there is roughly 20 places you can visit, roughly, and since there are two parallel worlds, it's more like 40, and it does matter which one you visit. This got on my nerves, and more than once I spent huge quantities of time running around before consulting online help.

Too many characters. There is such a large multitude of characters, that it's really hard to tie many into the story well. There are a select few that you think have nothing in common, but then a whole sidequest later things start to make sense.

Slow plot. The plot is just to slow. Disc one begins well, throws some clues, this and that. Then, a body switch occurs early on between two characters, and for the rest of disc 1 all it is is go here to get item 'x' but first to go there you have to go here and get item 'y' BUT you have to visit here first. I think you get the point. Disc 2 is much better, but short, and it loads more or less the whole story onto you then.

But, upon beating the game, you get the option of doing new game +, which restarts the game. But, you keep all of your previous strengths i.e. the stats are the same. You keep all the items except for certain key items. It also starts you with 3 special items. The time egg allows you to go right to the end boss whenever you like, to get different endings. Another, allows you to take the main character out of your party. The third, which is my personal favorite, allows you to speed up the game speed by pressin R2, or slow it down with L2. Very entertaining.

All in all an above average game, but could have been much better. Hopefully, the next Chrono, Chrono Break, will improve.

Where is the series element?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Chrono Cross WOULD have been a great game, it had a unique system, it was hard, it had a good plot, it had many side quests. For any one who played Chrono Trigger however, this game does the idea of a sequal little justice.

Chrono Cross picks up 10 years after Chrono Trigger ends, at a series of islands too small to use in Chrono Trigger (but I have heard they are there). It has innumerable playable characters, which makes the game interesting, but has many issues which Squaresoft should have seen.

First of all, with the multitude of playable characters, you lose plot. Some of the characters of the story fit into it in many ways, these are the main characters such as Serge and Kid. However there are many characters who just appear. Starky, Van, and others have no point in the story, only a side quest which sticks to the story like an old, wet bandage.

Also, with that many characters, they couldn't give them many techs, so therefore another of Squaresoft's great innovations from Chrono Trigger was lost. Some history: in Chrono Trigger you have abilities called techs. You learn these as you gain AP (gained like EXP, only slower). Monsters, who moved about on the screen, would be targeted by techs in different ways. Some techs would only hit one monster, some would hit monsters in a certain radius from the character, or from the target monster, and some would hit all monsters. Since the monsters were constantly moving, this made placement of the characters and monsters essential to how techs were cast. Also each character had three double techs with each other character, and each combination of characters which included the main character had a triple tech. Not so in Chrono Cross. I believe there were about 12 to 20 double and triple techs, and three techs per character (there were about 10 or more in Chrono Trigger). This meant that you would have to go through the game more than once possibly to discover who had them. Sometimes these characters couldn't even be gotten together in one game, so you may have to go through three times to find a certain move. Also with all the side quests to get many of the items, I recomend the strategy guide for this game also.

The game's plot also had some gaps. There are certain places where you are expected to do something, but either don't know which world to do it in, or can't find where to do it. Sometimes you will have a suggested opportunity to get new characters which you won't know about because it never suggests exploring certain places. There is one point where it is essential to find characters, but it doesn't tell you they are available. Another annoying plot point is that any character will suddenly join the party with the knowledge of every event that has occured in the story, there is no explaination scene, a fact which annoys me when a new character in the group starts talking in detail about an event which happened before they joined the group.

The game is fun, and the new game +, one of the few elements which was kept over from Chrono Trigger, allows for great replayability. All in all though, I was dissapointed. I expected a sequal true to the original's good points, something not delivered upon to my dismay.

Not as good as the original, but few are

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has two things that we've come to expect from Square games. Great graphics, and a great soundtrack.

Graphics- 9/10. The CGI was great, the character designs very unique. It got a little choppy at times though. I figure I minds well do this now. To all the people who say this game's CGI sequences are better then FFX and X-2. Stop being an ignorant moron who has to be against anything "mainstream" just because it's mainstream, you sound moronic. FFX graphics blow this game out of the water. .You want to know why? Because it's on a next gen system. But CC was graphically, without a doubt the best on the original PS. Sorry for doing this little rant, but I'm tired of reading moronic reviews like that.

Sound- 10/10. One of the greatest soundtracks on any PS game. Period

Gameplay- 7/10. The element system is...unique, to be sure. The star system was a nice change of pace from usual RPGs. The game is way too low on difficult, and even the optional bosses, well they are all a joke. On top of that, there are only a total of about 10 double and triple techs, combined. And I believe all of them are rip-offs of ones from CT. One of the funnest aspects of the first, and they tore it to shreds in this one.

Story- 7.5/10. On it's own, this really isn't a bad game. The plot moves around pretty well. Unfortunately, this is a sequel, so your waiting for the big unravelling. You get teased every here and there (When Lynx calls Serge The Chrono Trigger.) And at the Sea of Eden for the first time, seeing Crono, Lucca,and Marle. Then you come to the end of the game, and it's all laid upon you. It's kind of weak really. It makes sense, but it sounds like they scrambled it together as much as they could for it to make sense. And don't think I didn't understand it. Because the plot isn't half as confusing as people would like you to believe it is.

Characters- 3/10. Normally I would include this in the story summary, but since this game had so many characters, it had to be done sepretely. This was without a doubt the worst part of the game. 40+ characters, and I can only remember a few of them. Serge, and he was a very weak main character, imo. Kid, great character, but I think finding out what she is kinda ruins it. Glenn, not the same from CT, but it was just a nod towards him, and they have very similar traits, and if you look at the general ideals somewhat the same histories. Lynx, cool character, but what he ends up being kinda ruins it too. Harle, probably one of my fav. chars in the game, but when she leaves and you find out the truth, that's it, nothing worthy happens to her, even though she played a BIG part in it. Sure, if you think about it hard enough you'll remember most of them, but not many are really worth remembering. The last character I want to talk about is Magus. Yeah, the badass from CT. He was supposed to be in this game originally, under the name Guile (I believe.) The devs axed it, either because they couldn't think of a way to explain it (it would be hard explaining how a magician couldn't use magic anymore), or that it would detract from the other characters (Alright, so a game that has no real standouts, and those characters only come to mind because all the rest of them suck, and your telling me your not putting in one of greatest characters from CT because it will detract from a host full of other cruddy ones? Sad...) All in all, I believe they should of put Magus in, since you only get one update on him the entire game, and because of the large part Schala ends up playing.

All in all, this is a game worth playing (even though I just ranted about the things I don't like, the good outway the bad.) It has tons of replayibility with new game+, and with all the multiple endings.
All in all, a deserving sequel to the original, just wish the characters were a little better. You don't even need to play CT to get into this game, I originally didn't, and I think I finished it with more respect for it (of course I recently just beat CT.)

Bow down and offer your soul to this game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I first played this game when I was 9. I liked it, but it was too confusing for my little-kid brain, and was confined to the closet, unfinished and unappreciated. Years later, I found a strategy guide for it in a store. Excited, I bought the guide, raided the closet, and booted up the game once more.

Several late nights, several very early mornings, several well-spent afternoons, and several dozen hours later, I wanted to send the store owner flowers, a bottle of wine, and an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii, because I loved the game to death. A few months later, I actually played it through a second time, because it was just so wonderful.

Yes, the graphics are below-par by today's standards, but the bright colors and lovely painted look can be seen as plain as day. It looks amazing. Watch, especially, for the breathtaking cinematics scenes. They aren't terribly frequent, but their detail is astounding.

Even if the graphics were a drab, blurred mess, it would not matter, because this is the best game music you're going to hear. Ever. From the first village's tropical, happy-go-lucky soundtrack to the swelling, emotional score of the final scenes, the soundtrack will have you revisiting cleared areas just to have a listen. It is truly awe-inspiring.

The story is hard to describe, as it's kind of confusing. There's some stuff about the space-time continuum, political conflict involving an evil cat-person, and then at the end there's a lot of pontificating about free will, and some stuff about Dinopolis and Reptillites. However, you'll always understand enough to know why you're doing what you're doing, and if you concentrate hard, it makes sense, and has an epic tone that makes you feel like the fate of the world is really in your hands. The overall story arc isn't all there is, either. What intrigues you is the smaller stories that weave into it. Rather than focusing on the main plot, I found myself drawn into things like Lady Riddel's tragic, dimension-spanning love, or the strange contradiction of the Dead Sea. And even though you may be confused at times, the story is told in a beautiful way.

Besides, even if it may be a bit vague, the story gives you excuses to do amazing things. Fighting the ancient elemental dragons, exploring a once-great city frozen in time, and escaping from a cliffside mansion on dragon-back is all part of the picture. The abundance of jaw-dropping moments is great.

Of course, combat must eventually come into an RPG, and this is a great combat system. Although it is done in the traditional, turn-based system, it's still incredibly fun. There are dozens of "elements" (special attacks) to collect, and trying them out is a blast. Each one has great animations to accompany it, too. In addition, all the characters have their own unique "tech skills". It's worth using every character in battle, just to see their techs.

Speaking of the characters, there are tons of them. Getting them all to join your party is one of the highlights of the game. You never know when you'll find a new potential recruit. Living voodoo dolls, monster-taming bunny girls, and harlequins with French accents are all possible party members.

So, in sum, this game is new, original, and like nothing you've ever played before. With a complex, amazing story, gorgeous environments, and gameplay that constantly excites and astounds, not to mention a soundtrack that turned already-emotional moments into tissue-box affairs, this is a contender for the greatest RPG ever. Buy it.

chrono trigger of chrono cross

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Chrono 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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