Chrono Trigger still is my favourite RPG. They did so much right with that game I don't know where to begin.
I loved the battle-system (even though I hated turn-based battles in general at the time), that there was NO random encounters (!!!), the amazing characters (I always have a huge problem deciding which characters to go with. I want to use them all!), the soundtrack, the story.

It's a masterpiece.

...Why do I even bother.

It doesn't matter, Chrono Cross and Radical Dreamers are aknowledged as different games, in different dimensions, Chrono Cross is in Trigger's timeline and dimension, Radical Dreamers isn't.

You still fail.

^^^ no, you fail

Looks like you don't know what you are talking about. I think you should play it again and make some research.

You still fail because you aren't paying attention to what I said: Chrono Trigger and Cross aren't in the same world or dimension, if you really finished both games you will know that.

And Cross is based on Radical Dreamers (I am not sayind that they are the same games), part of the storyline and some characters you will find in both games.

"Radical Dreamers is a sequel to Chrono Trigger based off a small sub-plot. Chrono Cross isn't a sequel to Radical Dreamers, but rather it is a newer, longer, somewhat different version of it that borrows the main scenario for the first part of the game."

Source:http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Radical_Dreamers_FAQ.html

If you have a game "A" (Radical Dreamers) based off a small sub-plot of a game "B" (Trigger) you will have a side-story/spin-off in the game "A" and if you make a game based on the game "A", you will have... a side-story. That's what Cross is to Trigger.

I will help you with your research:

"Initially, the game was intended to be a short, original text-based adventure developed in three months with almost no planning. (he is talking about Radical Dreamers) Nevertheless, by the end of the development, Masato Kato had connected the game's plot and characters to Chrono Trigger, turning it into a side story."

I'm going back to the main point, Cross is a continuation of the timeline, and it is related, because:

SPOILERS FOR CHRONO CROSS
























The fact that Cross has Chrono, Marle, Lucca (Both in "spirit" and she's the one who raised Kidd ), Schala (She's the one inside the time devourer) and Lavos, the same pepole, doesn't mean that it is related?










Wether you call it a sequel or not is just semantics, I call it a sequel for the same reason the MGS3 is considered a prequel for MGS1 and 2, and for the same reason that MGS2 is considered a sequel for MGS1, for the same reason That SMB3 is considered a sequel for one, etc.

Guys why are you even arguing about Chrono Cross, that is a pain to scroll past

Chrono Trigger did not have random battles. Enough said.

Mike from Morgantown

Are you reading what I am saying? You can have the same characters in another dimension. You (as a person) can appear in another dimension with a different life, this is the concept of parallel dimension but still, it's not the same story. That's why Cross is a side-story and not a sequel.

I gave you proof showing the developers admiting that it's a side-story. I don't know why you are ignoring it.

I will post it again:

"producer Hiromichi Tanaka made it clear that the new installment was not a sequel to Chrono Trigger"

"Chrono Cross was described by director and scenario writer Masato Kato as "not a Chrono Trigger 2", but "a result of a pulled trigger", "another Chrono""

Isn't the better comparison FFVI vs. Chrono Trigger. Anyway, with both Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger, SquareSoft managed to put together a AAA team (for a lack of a better term) to make the game. I don't think they ever managed to put together a team that good again.

As for storyline, atmosphere, soundtrack, etc., you really need to compare SNES games to SNES games (or Genesis games). I believe that, using what they had for the time, Chrono Trigger did a better job with almost every aspect of the game as compared to FFVII.

Okay, it isn't a sequel, but it is related, and there's no proof that it is either in the original dimension or a parallal dimension, can we agree on that?