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I started it, but also got bored. I hear it's good though once you get into it so maybe i should be more patient.

I tried to ghetto close the topic of Final Fantasy but it didn't work hahaha.

In that case...Chrono Cross is an amazing game. Not as good as Trigger, but then again not even many FF's are as good as Trigger.

If you haven't played it, go do so very soon, either by buying it or dling the iso...whatever means necessary. (Note: it is old so good luck buying it w/o tons of scratches)

As for the game itself, it starts off kind of slow, but if you have in fact beaten Chrono Trigger on any ending, you will get the hugest feelings of nostalgia while playing Cross. It is all Chrono Trigger was minus the great character development. Story is great; A+. There are, I think 43 characters in the game, so that really dumbs it down considering they have basically no plot save for maybe five of them. Other than that...go play it. Tons of Chrono Trigger references and stuff like that. You even see Chrono, Marle, and Lucca later in the game...which you find out some relationships tie in to those characters with ones from this game as well, which is pretty damn cool.

Also, if you remember Zeal Palace from Trigger; it's pretty much in the game..known as Chronopolis. Music is very similiar too. If anything go DL the soundtrack and listen to the music. All the character's themes tie in really well with all 43? of them...

...and Glenn's (Frog) late "ancestor" is quite playable and has some of the same attacks and double and triple-techs that him and Chrono shared in Trigger.

All in all, it's a very good game, if you can get past the characters and get used to the "magic" system.

So good hunting!:kickass:
 
I don't know how this topic started in this thread instead of the "gaming" thread but oh well....

I never got too far into Chrono Trigger. Hell, I didn't even play it at all until it released on the psone with FFV. Also, the psone version has such annoying load times it got aggravating.

As for Chrono Cross, I got it the day it released but never got too far at all in it. Not that it was bad, just that I had so many different RPG's at the time and it didn't hold my interest particularly. I picked it up again a year or so later and started from the beginning. I got farther than my first attempt but got to the "twist" part of the game (I will not say anything as not to spoil) and that basically pissed me off and I haven't played it again ever since. A friend of mine who is like a Chrono Trigger freak played all the way through it a couple of times though.

The best part of Chrono Cross for me was the opening theme song "Time Scar", that track is a work of art I tell you. That is definately one of my favorite video game music tracks of all time.
 
As for Chrono Cross, I got it the day it released but never got too far at all in it. Not that it was bad, just that I had so many different RPG's at the time and it didn't hold my interest particularly. I picked it up again a year or so later and started from the beginning. I got farther than my first attempt but got to the "twist" part of the game (I will not say anything as not to spoil) and that basically pissed me off and I haven't played it again ever since. A friend of mine who is like a Chrono Trigger freak played all the way through it a couple of times though.

Yep, around the time Cross was released...so was Legend of Dragoon, the beginning of all the different FF remakes, and stuff like Legend of LeGaia. Just too many RPGs to name that were coming out right at that time. I didn't get into many more though besides the FF series and the Chrono series.

Note: There's a sort of, lost game in the series if you didn't know, called Radical Dreamers. It's a rom, and it's very hard to find...but if you do congratulations; you'll need a subtitle thing for it as well. It's not a very good game, but for storyline purposes, I believe it revolves around Kid (Cross) and Magus or something wierd like that.

The best part of Chrono Cross for me was the opening theme song "Time Scar", that track is a work of art I tell you. That is definately one of my favorite video game music tracks of all time.

Hahaha. Man I knew there was something I liked about you lol. The Time's Scar track is, I agre, on of the best pieces in a game I have heard yet.

-playing in Winamp-

As for the semi-review...your very welcome. If you have any questions about the game or any RPG in general, I am a pretty avid RPG/MMO player so let me know and I'll try my best to answer. :Smokin:
 
all great games, I'm really enjoying Kingdom Hearts II, I mean the came is amazingly immersive, you lose yourself in it! And not in the sense of morrowind where you actually get lost... I mean its just you feel at peace while playing the game, knowing your square enix games and disney makes it that much more enjoyable! DISNEY AND SQUARE ENIX are fappable \m/
 
Yep, around the time Cross was released...so was Legend of Dragoon, the beginning of all the different FF remakes, and stuff like Legend of LeGaia. Just too many RPGs to name that were coming out right at that time. I didn't get into many more though besides the FF series and the Chrono series.


Legend of Dragoon was the main game I started playing after Chrono Cross came out. Even though there are not too many people who like that game I thought it was a pretty unique game. The battle system kind of had a timing element to your attacks and combos that made it interesting. When you turned into a dragoon there was not too many moves to do though. I think each character got only like 4 skills for their dragoon forms, however, the key was to have a good combination of three characters who's skills worked well together.

BTW...has anyone here played any of the Shadow Hearts games? I love that series and how it does a sort of alternate history. I seem to love games that have turn based battle systems but also add something unique to it. In SH there was the judgement ring as Legend of Dragoon had the combination attacks.
 
all great games, I'm really enjoying Kingdom Hearts II, I mean the came is amazingly immersive, you lose yourself in it! And not in the sense of morrowind where you actually get lost... I mean its just you feel at peace while playing the game, knowing your square enix games and disney makes it that much more enjoyable! DISNEY AND SQUARE ENIX are fappable \m/

Another quite amazing game I might add.

One of the best RPGs I have played for the PS2. Quite easy though, if I remember correctly, until you get to the endgame stuff.

Other than that...it's damn good; FF characters being in it make it much more interesting too.
 
Hahaha. Man I knew there was something I liked about you lol. The Time's Scar track is, I agre, on of the best pieces in a game I have heard yet.

I don't see how we can both live in this small ass town and not know each other seeing as we have the same tastes in music and games?