Chrono Trigger

[Tharian]

My understanding was that people didn't re-buy Chrono Trigger enough for SE to believe making a sequel was worthwhile.

Source: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20120...igger-buy-more

They made a sequel of ChronoTrigger. It's name is ChronoCross it is the direct sequel to the ChronoTrigger game. The problem is that it didn't do very well.

[Kimikryo]

They made a sequel of ChronoTrigger. It's name is ChronoCross it is the direct sequel to the ChronoTrigger game. The problem is that it didn't do very well.

this is not directly false but also not quite right

Chrono Cross is a direct sequel to Radical Dreamers, which was a Text Adventure which explains Kidd's past. I tried to play it, but my japanese wasn't good enough to understand a text adventure like that back than.

Chrono Cross has elements from Chrono Trigger, sadly my memory card died shortly after I met Chrono Lucca and Marle in CC so I cant say much more about it. And yes Glenn too is in this game (Kaeru/Frog from CT) but I am not sure how they relate D:

I am not sure, but isn't there somewhere an easter egg hidden? I think I found something during 2.0 (or 1.x?) which made me go "aaaaah so cool"

[Tharian]

this is not directly false but also not quite right

Chrono Cross is a direct sequel to Radical Dreamers, which was a Text Adventure which explains Kidd's past. I tried to play it, but my japanese wasn't good enough to understand a text adventure like that back than.

Chrono Cross has elements from Chrono Trigger, sadly my memory card died shortly after I met Chrono Lucca and Marle in CC so I cant say much more about it. And yes Glenn too is in this game (Kaeru/Frog from CT) but I am not sure how they relate D:

I am not sure, but isn't there somewhere an easter egg hidden? I think I found something during 2.0 (or 1.x?) which made me go "aaaaah so cool"

Er, the Final Boss of Chrono Cross is actually Lavos....

[Rhindas]

Er, the Final Boss of Chrono Cross is actually Lavos....

And Diabolos stole Lavos' theme song! <_< >_>

Chrono Cross has elements from Chrono Trigger, sadly my memory card died shortly after I met Chrono Lucca and Marle in CC so I cant say much more about it. And yes Glenn too is in this game (Kaeru/Frog from CT) but I am not sure how they relate D:

The Glenn in CC is a different Glenn than CT. He's just an homage/reference really. So is Turnip. Though Glenn's a *beast* when he can dual wield.

/endderail

[LineageRazor]

this is not directly false but also not quite right

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Yeah, this. ^

Chrono Cross didn't sit well with me for a number of reasons, but the biggest was that it didn't have the same feel at all as Chrono Trigger did. It felt like a totally different game, but with trappings and plot fragments from Chrono Trigger slapped on here and there. When I learned that it was a continuation of a totally different game, it all made sense: It wasn't Chrono Trigger 2, it was Radical Dreamers 2, with CT bits added on to try to capture some of the huge fanbase CT had.

So, we wound up with a much more serious and less whimsical game. Characters and settings from the first game were referenced, and coldly eliminated one way or another, such as the brutally off-hand way it was mentioned that the kingdom of Guardia was conquered and destroyed, Lucca's implied murder, and Robo's on-screen "death". Instead of an ensemble cast, we had dozens of ridiculously pointless characters to play as, with only three, possibly four of them getting any character development to speak of. None of the cool battle mechanics from the first game made it into the second, with the exceptions of a bare handful of "combo techs" that were clearly added as an afterthought.

As a stand-alone game, Chrono Cross was not bad - maybe even good. I won't deny that I loved playing through it; the music was great, and the storyline was interesting. Whenever it tried to tie in to Chrono Trigger, though, I cringed; as a sequel to Chrono Trigger, it was a cold-blooded cash-grab and a slap in the face to fans of the original game.

[FritoBandito]

They made a sequel of ChronoTrigger. It's name is ChronoCross it is the direct sequel to the ChronoTrigger game. The problem is that it didn't do very well.

I suspect you misunderstood my post. Perhaps I could have worded it better. Here, try this:

My understanding was that people didn't re-buy Chrono Trigger enough for SE to believe making more games in the series was worthwhile.

And as has been said, Chrono Cross is not a direct sequel to Chrono Trigger.

[Laraul]

And as has been said, Chrono Cross is not a direct sequel to Chrono Trigger.

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