How good is chrono cross?

[GiggityNinja]

Ever played Final Fantasy XII?

It's a great game. Quite fun. I put more than 80 hours into it. But it doesn't FUCKING deserve the "Final Fantasy" name. Quite frankly, it pissed me off how much it butchered the series. Final Fantasy X worked hard to give the next systems good Final Fantasies to work off of, then XII came in and blew it all apart. Fuck Final Fantasy XII.
Of course, if it was called "War in Ivalice" or something without the "Final Fantasy" name slapped on it, it would be awesome due to people having lower expectations on it.

That's what people think about Final Fantasy XII and Chrono Cross. Chrono Trigger was a nearly perfect game, only to have it blown apart with Cross. now, Cross wasn't a bad game, AT ALL. In fact, it was beautiful beyond words. But the fact that it contained the "Chrono" name made it so people would expect it to be THAT much better than it already was. It didn't live up to that hype and expectation, so people hated it. Just like Final Fantasy XII.

BUT. I played Chrono Cross when I was 8, and Chrono Trigger when I was 10. So I played Chrono Cross first, and loved it. A lot. That means it's a GREAT game. YES, BUY IT. But don't expect it to be like Trigger, although it'll still be an amazing game. And when I played Trigger 2 years after, I loved it as well. But at that point, because I switched the order of the games, I didn't make any dire comparison of the "Chrono" name between games.

So basically, if you're looking for a game to play, yes, get Chrono Cross. It was really good.
But if you're getting it only to compare it to Chrono Trigger and the Chrono name, don't get it. (I made that mistake with XII, and you see how pissed off I am at it.)