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To me Chrono Cross always came across as a game made by a bunch of producers who REALLY didn't like Chrono Trigger.

You know all those characters you liked? All dead. You know that adventure you went on? Pointless. The story ties into Chrono Trigger itself are very loose and non-sanctimonious. As if they were trying every way they could to distance themselves from the game.

And the few cameos you get were kind of to shit on what came before.

To this day I still think Chrono Cross as a standalone experience is OK. But I actually think it would have been a stronger overall experience if it just ditched the "Chrono" part entirely and had released as a completely new IP unrelated to Chrono Trigger at all.

As a game it's good. As a sequel to Chrono Trigger it is absolutely terrible. So in this situation it should have just been its own thing - which it mostly is anyway.

It's like a band calling themselves "The Beatles Reborn" and only doing one OG song and having Yoko Onos's face on all their merchandise.