Listen, I love Chrono Cross
Its fun to play, has AMAZING music and looks great
the moment they decided to implement a Suikoden style character roster, they should have just dropped anything related to Chrono Trigger and called it somthing else
because originally this character here? this guy called Guile?
was supposed to be this mother fucker
but once they decided to add *checks notes* FOURTY FIVE playable characters everything went to hell. You know how you don't have to recruit Kid? Like ever? She just shows up for important cutscenes if you don't?
They realized that they'd have to do this for "Guile" too if you didn't have him in your party during cutscenes, so they said fuck it, fuck the plot, fuck having this really important guy from the last game who is SUPER DUPER IMPORTANTLY CONECTED TO OUR SECONDARY MAIN CHARACTER (Kid) AND A VERY IMPORTANT LINK BETWEEN THESE TWO FUCKING GAMES
shit man, everythig was all set up for it from that Satellaview (SNES thing that let you play games via satellite or somthing) game Radical Dreamers, which is kinda a proto-chrono chross. Magus was Gil, a magician who was yada yada yada looking for his sister.
I remember reading about the Magus/Guile decision in an interview years ago and being flabbergasted.
Like, in a game series like Chrono Trigger/Cross, story is like #1.
Why would you make a decision which would cripple the plot like that in favor of, not game play mind you, but fuckin being able to play any character you fucking wanted out of GODDAMN FOURTY FIVE at any time?
I say this is the major reason people are sour on Chrono Cross:
It doesn't feel like a sequel to Trigger because they plucked out all but the most bare bones references to the game it was supposed to be a fucking SEQUEL TO.
By itself its a great fucking game, but all the Chrono stuff leaves fans bitter and for legitimate reasons.
✨✨THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK BABES✨✨
*Runs off stage and through a window before security can catch me with their giant butterfly net*
*immediately peeks head through the window next to the one I just jumped through*
YEAH AND I KNOW ABOUT THE THING IN THE CHRONO CHROSS REMASTER THE SECRET ENDING YEAH WELL ITS KINDA A BIT LATE FOR THAT NOW HUH UNLESS-
*gets smacked on the head with a net like a villager in Animal Crossing*
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