MrT-Tar on 31 July 2011
| Jumpin said: Chrono Cross was very overrated. Whether or not it is related to Chrono Trigger, it is still a poor man's Xenogears. In fact, they should have spent the resources working on Xenogears longer to flesh out the second disk rather than waste time on Chrono Cross. Chrono Trigger obviously doesn't have the same sort of graphical issues as Chrono Cross, which was filled with pixelation and slowdown. The music in Chrono Trigger was classic, Chrono Cross was a weak point for Mitsuda, many of the songs, like the lute song in the opening, were fairly irritating. The battle system in Chrono Cross isn't very good; it used random encounters, and some sort of a stamina and elemental system which just made things more annoying than anything. Chrono Trigger had a seamless system, and the battle system was excellent and way ahead of its time. Characters could execute moves, lines, area attacks, based on their positions and those of the enemy. Also, the dual and triple tech systems that all characters have access to are very cool, they essentially take weaker moves and amplify their effectiveness in exchange for the turns of other characters (ie. character A and B can do 2 weaker single actions like heal and attack, or one stronger action like a heal all or attack all attack). Chrono Trigger is also one of the best paced RPGs ever, Chrono Cross was paced very poorly. |
I agree with all of your post bar the bolded. Chrono Cross didn't have random encounters, enemies were visible while exploring dungeons, battle initiated once the party came into contact with an enemy. Unlike CT however, it was not seamless, ie battle took place on a different screen than dungeon exploration, which to me felt like a step backwards.
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