If you like RPG's, just play it. I'd put money down the reason you don't like it would be that RPG's as a genre don't appeal to you. Also, as I've said before, stay the hell away from the PS version. If you're going to buy a used Ps version, just download the rom, you aren't giving money to the company either way, and unless you've grown up thinking games are meant to have minutes of load screens, you'll hate it.
I wish Cross was a better game, but I'd say you can skip it. Seeing as you really only level up from bosses, the difficulty is pretty hideously easy, the story is so convoluted there are 100 page documents online of geeks trying to explain it, and the Tie in with Radical dreamers doesn't make any sense to North American gamers. Combat system was interesting though. Despite being a new game + heavy game, most secret bosses can be effortlessly killed on the first run through. Plus, Crono > Serge. Serge gets beaten up by an old man and a furry. Takes a lot more to take down Crono.
See Ya George.
"He did not die - He passed Away"
At least following a comedians own jokes makes his death easier.
