Even then, it still feels like a lot of the game was cut for whatever reason, and it’s a shame they didn’t take the time to clarify things or flesh out story beats with this remaster. As I said earlier, you will not understand what’s going on in the final few hours unless you are familiar with Chrono Trigger and, to a lesser extent, the SNES visual novel prequel Radical Dreamers. While the battle system is complicated, it’s not nearly as complex as the story. I found the best strategy was to use Diminish to decrease the power of Elements for everyone for the whole battle, then just wail on enemies because they tend to only use Elements. The basic battle flow sounds complicated, and it can be difficult to get to grips with, but it’s very customizable. He’ll then recover stamina back up to 7 as other party members and enemies act. Instead of using one last attack, he backs off to use an element, putting him in negative stamina for a short time. He then follows up with the 2 and 3 attacks respectively, going up to Level 6 Elements and leaving him with 1 stamina. The 1 stamina attack will increase his level by 1 and has the highest chance to hit, so Serge starts with that. There are three types of physical attacks, each increasing in strength but using more stamina. To level up the grid and access equipped Elements, he attacks an enemy. To keep things simple we’ll use Serge as an example: at the start of battle, Serge is Level 0 in his grid and has 7 stamina. Chrono Cross uses a pseudo ATB system for its turn-based battles. Instead of learning new moves, you acquire and assign Capital-E Elements to a character’s grid for them to use in battle. Elements are opposed, so a character who is Water innate will be weak to fire and better at using Water attacks. You can’t get everyone in a single playthrough either, and there are a lot of characters to recruit.Įach character has an innate element attached, such as Fire, Dark, Wind, etc. While the circumstances aren’t always that dire, there are a ton of choices that determine who can join your party. But if you choose not to, because dooming a species to extension is not good, you’ll get one of the best party members in the game who is unavailable in the other route. If you choose to help her, you can go back to Serge’s home world and kill the last one there for the antidote. For example, female lead Kid gets poisoned at a certain point, but the animal the antidote is extracted from is extinct in her world. After a while, you’ll also be able to travel between the two worlds to accomplish objectives. The El Nido Archipelago is an interesting place to explore, both by land and sea once you get a boat. The updates to Chrono Cross are rather minimal, but the game’s pre-rendered backgrounds still look good to this day.
You can only access these from the top menu and not within the game itself, which is a bit annoying since there’s no way to back out once you’re in a game. That’s not a whole lot, and it would have been nice to use the old models with the new portraits or vice versa, but it’s serviceable. On the main menu, you can choose between a few options to change your experience: the aspect ratio and whether to use the updated models and portraits. The focus of this release is the oft overlooked PlayStation game, Chrono Cross. It’s a flawed but incredibly interesting game, and I’m glad it’s been somewhat updated in this Radical Dreamers Edition. You wouldn’t guess that from the first half or so of the game, but you won’t understand Cross’ plot unless you’re intimately familiar with Trigger, and even then you’ll be a bit iffy. Why would this one boy’s life matter so much in the flow of time?Ĭhrono Cross is a direct sequel to Chrono Trigger. While he obviously survived, on a trip to the beach he wakes up in a world where the opposite happened, and much more than you would think has changed. Serge had two such experiences when he was a child – almost drowning and being attacked by a panther. Where that near death experience wasn’t quite so close. Do you ever think about alternate universes? Worlds where just one little change can ripple out and turn everything on its head.
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