

That said, if you haven't played Chrono Trigger. The battle system, characters, and plot are all fairly different, and apart from the occasional plot connection, Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger are not much more similar than any other two Squaresoft JRPGs.Ĭhrono Cross is, in the end, a good JRPG that has always suffered in comparison with the GOAT JRPG. There certainly *are* plot points in Chrono Cross which make explicit connections with Chrono Trigger, but no familiarity with the prior game is needed and if anything, familiarity with the prior game will only frustrate your expectations. (The contemporaneous PS1 RPG Xenogears has a bit more of a Chrono Trigger-esque "feel," in my opinion, though it has never been released for Switch.) At some point in its development, a decision was made to bring it into the Chrono Trigger series, but the game does not have any real intrinsic connection. 2 is a sequel to Super Mario Bros.Ĭhrono Cross is really a sequel to the visual novel Radical Dreamers, which is included in this Switch release (but which, IMHO, is a pretty blah experience, particularly if you're not a huge visual novel fan, as I'm not). No – Chrono Cross is about as much a sequel to Chrono Trigger as Super Mario Bros.


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