Chrono Cross

Though I wouldn't call myself an RPG fanatic, I definitely appreciate the genre greatly and I can honestly say I have wasted away countless hours of my life staring at the exploits of Chrono, Cloud, or heck, even The Nameless One (of Planescape Torment fame). Chrono Cross is one of those games that has an awesome story, but it starts you off halfway through it; it confuses the heck out of you for the first bit but vaguely promises to let you in on it later. So you play, and eventually you find out, but you're most of the way through the game! Is this a bad thing? Certainly not! The game pulls you in right away and doesn't let you go.

The battle system is confusing at first but once you get it down you realize it has a surprising amount of depth and boss battles become very strategic and thought-out, as opposed to Hit-heal-hit-heal experiences.

Great graphics and cutscenes, innovative new battle and experience system, and an involving storyline add up to make this the best of Square's "Big Three" releases this year.

I have to say this game was amazing. You can get over 40 characters in the game. Not only that, picking different choices in conversations actually lets you do completely different things. Its a non-linear game, which gives you tons of freedom. The battle-system is original, no ATB, and you can run away from everything with a 100% chance of getting away every time, even with bosses. One of the things that makes this game shine is its sense of humor. I almost laughed out loud when I heard Ketchop talking, what he was saying, I mean. Its a must own for any person who's a fan of RPG's. You probably won't like it if your not the biggest role-playing game fan, but still, its awesome.

The sequel to the very enjoyable Chrono Trigger is just not up to par with the original. Sure the graphics are a bit better, but the story and game play are not. It is interesting enough to start as your character Serge does a routine mission collecting something or another, while at a beach he is suddenly sent to another dimension. Once where the main difference is that he died at a very young age. You meet this one girl calling herself Kid and meeting her sets you off on a quest against a villain named Lynx. During your quest you will meet a lot of companions, and I mean a whole lot of them. I think you can get forty-four total and that is almost in Suidoken territory. So many that I really can not get into them all and their stories either. However, you will get to see a rock concert and that is rather interesting. You also have to wonder why the scope of the game is so much smaller than the original Super Nintendo game Chrono Trigger. There you go all over the world and to different times. Here, you just flip to the two different realities and the world itself seems limited to just one section as there is an outer sea you never go beyond. Another fault is in the story itself. At one point your character has an out of body experience lets say and this lasts for too long. You spend way to much time for my tastes as this other character. However, if you can get past this the story picks up and is very interesting as you learn the origin of one of the characters and you get a very good ending with nice music if you can do the one thing during the final boss fight. Speaking of music, one of the games main highlights is a very good soundtrack that really captures the moods very well.

Chrono Cross is absolutely amazing. Everything about this game, in my opinion, is practically perfect: the graphics, the music, the characters, the storyline. If you loved Chrono Trigger, then you will definitely love Chrono Cross. I would recommend this game to any RPG lover.

Chrono Cross is an omniverse composition of beautiful artwork (graphic - design - text - soundtrack likewise) and most complex philosophical story of immense value, covering whole bio-socio-psychological inter-relations of each individua in their existence on this planet through several protagonists. Although at the beginning it appears as if we're dealing with a somewhat cliché plot, it soon reveals to be incredibly developed and deep, finally to expand into almost infinite creative complexion, awakening hundreds of questions, and offering possible answers men since Antic try to find. Chrono Cross is not just a Playstation Game, it's a masterpiece of written and drawn expression, it goes far beyond any other game in these terms, and proposes thrilling experience to perceptive gamer. Apart from this, in logic to the entire game, it offers incredible reply value and contains massive amount of secrets to be revealed, not even in 20 reruns will you find everything. You will get no information about the very content from me - should you find this review interesting and luring, get a game without checking, and play it for the wisdom and knowledge it offers.