I just thought of how Chrono Trigger had 3 members end game to choose from like FFXIII, and thought these bosses were also very symetrical to compare. i'm not asking people to pick what is better just to take a look down memory lane, and be objectionable with the critisism of both of these games.
So many say that the Battle System is bad for FFXIII (which I completely disagree with) but at the same time no where on the internet does anyone say that Chrono Triggers Battle System was/is boring. I just find that completely laughable that all anyone wants to remember about Chrono Trigger is the Time Travel concept and the Multiple Endings.
Yet it has a very primitive combat system. A merging or hybrid of Top downish Action RPG and ATB guage with the standard attack and techniques and combined techniques to round it out. I haven't played it in years but I believe that is the extent of it. I wish people were true fans of the genre and could actually draw upon all areas when reminising or rating RPG's and not just point out an item or two and say yep that has to be the best. It's so annoying when you know the people who compare RPG's or JRPG's need more experience playing "all" of them or do us all a favor and rate specifically each aspect.
And what should be the criteria for judging a JRPG?
Obviously the the story, the characters, the artwork, the battle system, the soundtrack, the voice acting (if any), innovation what does this JRPG do different than others (example = time traveling), if it pulls from an older or more classic story tropes is that necessarily a bad thing if it does it creatively or with a different enthiusiasm?
I wonder if people can be critical to certain games like a Mario or a Chrono Trigger. I think there are some people who can't or choose not to because of some kind of Nostalgia almost like telling your children that Santa is fake people lack the ability to critisise games areas that were not so great looking back, and possibly C grade for it's time.
I don't know if that made any sense, but I'm going with it.
