Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition

For the base game itself, I don’t think it was worthy of a 10 back when it was originally released, but it was definitely in the 8-9 score range for me, closer to 9. I didn’t realize that until about 5-10 years ago when I finally fully experienced this game. The music is wonderful, I love the colors of the game, and I love the concept of the parallel worlds. Not a new concept, but it was done well. People expecting a direct sequel to Chrono Trigger were disappointed. Admittedly, Chrono Trigger was perfection, and outside of producing basically the same game again, people were not going to be happy. I like that Squaresoft (now Square Enix) wanted to do something different for this game. The personality for this game was similar to Chrono Trigger, yet distinctly different. I do think that the element grid system is cumbersome (thank god for auto-allocate, but still, what a drag), and there are too many characters to really have significant character development for any of them. I think Radius probably had the most interesting story.

Remaster:
As for the remaster, I do agree partially with other reviewers commenting on the frame rate. For the bit of the little bit of the remaster that I tried, I wouldn’t say the frame rate was worse than the PS1 game. It’s about the same. The original game did not have a great frame rate. Don’t believe me? Go and boot it up and you will see. I think there’s an opportunity for this game to really wow people with a remaster by fixing that. Is it broken? No, absolutely not. The character models are better, it just needs an improved frame rate to give the game a polish to it. Now as for the soundtrack and sound in general, the quality to me is noticeably improved. That was the first thing I noticed was the sound quality. And to ease any fears, those remixed tracks are not used in the game itself, it’s the original soundtrack with the sound quality improved.

For those of you that enjoyed this game before, you will enjoy revisiting it, now with trophies as an incentive to experience this game in full. An easy recommendation to buy. For those of you that are determined to hate this game with all of your being, you will undoubtedly continue to do so. I’m someone that was disappointed with the game initially, revisited it about 10 years ago and changed my mind. I definitely recommend the game to those that are already familiar with it and enjoyed the game in any way.