

The El Nido Archipelago is an interesting place to explore, both by land and sea once you get a boat. The updates to Chrono Cross are rather minimal, but the game’s pre-rendered backgrounds still look good to this day. You can only access these from the top menu and not within the game itself, which is a bit annoying since there’s no way to back out once you’re in a game.

That’s not a whole lot, and it would have been nice to use the old models with the new portraits or vice versa, but it’s serviceable. On the main menu, you can choose between a few options to change your experience: the aspect ratio and whether to use the updated models and portraits. The focus of this release is the oft overlooked PlayStation game, Chrono Cross. It’s a flawed but incredibly interesting game, and I’m glad it’s been somewhat updated in this Radical Dreamers Edition. You wouldn’t guess that from the first half or so of the game, but you won’t understand Cross’ plot unless you’re intimately familiar with Trigger, and even then you’ll be a bit iffy. Why would this one boy’s life matter so much in the flow of time?Ĭhrono Cross is a direct sequel to Chrono Trigger. While he obviously survived, on a trip to the beach he wakes up in a world where the opposite happened, and much more than you would think has changed.

Serge had two such experiences when he was a child – almost drowning and being attacked by a panther. Where that near death experience wasn’t quite so close. Do you ever think about alternate universes? Worlds where just one little change can ripple out and turn everything on its head.
