crono cross is awesome. I never got to finish it because my goddamn friend lost my original disc. that bastard.

I thought it was crap. Too easy, the characters were a bore, piss poor antagonist. Just crap garbage compared to CT.

Way too many characters (you don't care about any of them), uninteresting story, practically no ties to the original. I had to start over three times before I was able to force myself to get through it, the first two times I just lost interest.

Banned.  For wanting to play Chrono Cross, I assume.

I was stuck in a swamp boss fight and I hadn't learned the battle system by that point so I was stuck. Hadn't played it since.

I imported a copy at the beginning of the year and I quite enjoyed it, but I thought it was a disappointment compared to Trigger. It's a good game, but an absolutely terrible sequel. I feel that it chucked out many of the things I loved about CT (Akira Toryama's character and enemy design, time travel, no separate battle screen, ATB, etc). Don't get me wrong, it is a good RPG, but Trigger was more than a 'good' RPG, it is arguably the best game of all time.

It is kind of a terrible sequal. As the way it deals with the the original is not really what fans would want I think. 

However, I played Chrono Cross first then trigger. And I do like them about the same. I enjoyed the story a bit more as well. Despite what D21 saying is true.

I played chrono cross when it came out. And I liked most every jrpg better back then, because I only played... FF6,7,8... and Legend of Dragoon.

I played chrono trigger 3 years ago... I found chrono trigger too easy and I used turbo mode >_>, but I played chrono cross when I was 10. So nostalgia can be skewing things.

they're both great games. But I do not consider either in my top favorite games. 

Chrono cross was way better than Trigger

Okay. I'll admit it. Chrono Cross was a great game. At the time, I enjoyed it more than Final Fantasy IX. It had some of the best PS1 graphics available at the time and the music was top notch. The story was confusing as hell, though. My big gripe was how they tried to take Chrono Trigger and turn it into Final Fantasy. The story was so far out there that it had almost nothing to do with the game that came before. They tied it together somehow (going off of memory, here. Forgive me if I get something wrong.) with a fire, Schala, and some shitty 8-bit sprites hanging out with PS1's best polygon models. That's what rubbed me the wrong way.

On its own, it's a great RPG. As a fan of Chrono Trigger, it was a kick in the balls. It was like making Uncharted 4 take place in a space ship and getting rid of all of the familiar characters. Technically, it could still be an action adventure but it would be nothing like the game that you loved (aka the game that most of us bought the sequel for).

I still own the OPM demo disc that featured the intro to Chrono Cross. I watched that intro a billion times trying to analyze it. I was so excited, only to find out that none of the stuff I expected was in the final game. That's where my bitterness comes from.

Your experience with Chrono Cross sounds eerily like mine. They should have called it Serge's Multidimensional Adventure and I would have had a better opinion of the game since it wouldn't be in the shadow of Chrono Trigger.

P.S.: I know Serge's Multidimensional Adventure is an horrible title but you get the idea.