Chrono Cross is a steaming pile for a variety of reasons:
- Craps all over Chrono Trigger, from the characters, to the setting, to the villain and to the main story premise
- Battle system is clunky and terrible. The whole "stamina" thing is absolutely pointless. Then you have certain enemies which require either a lot of luck, or knowledge of what's coming up to prepare elements and crap. I challenge anyone to tell me they beat Miguel on their first playthrough without using a guide.
- Plot is confusing and pointless and ties in loosely at best to the series story
- The whole part where you play as Lynx was a complete waste of time and could have been skipped
- The fact that the CC world map is supposed to fit into the CT world map, but is clearly not there.
About the only thing CC had going for it was the graphics and the soundtrack.
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