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badgenome said:
I know Chrono Cross is kind of polarizing, but I think it's pretty brilliant. Having such a huge cast of characters an amazing enough feat, but the story works out pretty well regardless of which ones you use. And one of them is a Mexican wrestler! Take that, every other RPG!

Surely there are worse disappointments than Super Mario Bros 2, as well. It's fun in its way.

You're kidding, right? The worse part of Chrono Cross was their amount of playable characters. None of them are even worth remembering cuz their stories or background was an afterthought from the creators that one would never get attached to them. What made Trigger so great was that you could simpathize with every single one of their characters in one way or another, and they all had some sort of epic background (well except perhaps the Robot) that  you couldn't help but like 'em. In Cross they totally forgot the importance of the storyline behind the characters, it seemed more like "hey, lets throw this sterotypical character in here, now let's throw another stereotypical character there, now let's just write 2 sentences about them and we're done!"

Cross will always be subpar to Trigger and even in its own without being a direct sequel, it doesn't deserve any appraisal.

 



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brute said:
^i dont think that SMB2 is the lost levels one

 

 yes it is.

In the USA Super Mario Bros. 2 is actually Doki Doki Panic in Japan.



StanGable said:
badgenome said:
I know Chrono Cross is kind of polarizing, but I think it's pretty brilliant. Having such a huge cast of characters an amazing enough feat, but the story works out pretty well regardless of which ones you use. And one of them is a Mexican wrestler! Take that, every other RPG!

Surely there are worse disappointments than Super Mario Bros 2, as well. It's fun in its way.

You're kidding, right? The worse part of Chrono Cross was their amount of playable characters. None of them are even worth remembering cuz their stories or background was an afterthought from the creators that one would never get attached to them. What made Trigger so great was that you could simpathize with every single one of their characters in one way or another, and they all had some sort of epic background (well except perhaps the Robot) that you couldn't help but like 'em. In Cross they totally forgot the importance of the storyline behind the characters, it seemed more like "hey, lets throw this sterotypical character in here, now let's throw another stereotypical character there, now let's just write 2 sentences about them and we're done!"

Cross will always be subpar to Trigger and even in its own without being a direct sequel, it doesn't deserve any appraisal.

 

The backstories for many characters were an afterthough because they weren't that important to the story and the fact that their recruitment was optional

 



O-D-C said:
brute said:
^i dont think that SMB2 is the lost levels one

 

 yes it is.

In the USA Super Mario Bros. 2 is actually Doki Doki Panic in Japan.

oh ok i see now

 



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The main reason that Chrono cross and MGS are up there is that they threw out the original main characters for new one. MGS2 had Raiden, and chrono cross had serge. The gameplay and other elements of both games are still very good.



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1 and 2 are two of my favourite games ever. Chrono Cross was one of the best games I've played, and Metal Gear Solid 2 was a fantastic game with a great story and a lot of improvements over the first. I haven't played the others, but that list is pathetic for me. Congrats, 1UP, you lost a lot of points in my scale. I shall not trust your reviews ever again




whacker41 said:
The main reason that Chrono cross and MGS are up there is that they threw out the original main characters for new one. MGS2 had Raiden, and chrono cross had serge. The gameplay and other elements of both games are still very good.

Yeah, that is a good excuse for hating a game./sarcasm

 



The list needs Perfect Dark Zero. How they messed that up I have no idea...



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Bursche said:
The list needs Perfect Dark Zero. How they messed that up I have no idea...

 

 i think they gave that a high score,im not so sure though



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4. I never played (see franchise's yu regret not playing)

5. I'm not too sure. I probably would've opted for Gran Turismo, I was disappointed big time.



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