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Better than Chrono Trigger at feeling like a Time Travel story with the points you can go back to.
Better characters. Stocke alone is better than every CT character combined probably.
Worse... everything else, really.

The crisp pacing of CT is gone, and in a game that seemingly gives you more freedom to play around with the time travel element due to the structure of all the lynchpins you can fiddle with, it's more glaring how little you can actually change about everything which makes it feel more like I'm solving puzzles than actually changing time. This is kind of a gripe with the gameplay really, but I think if the plot had more branches that didn't achieve the desired result it would flesh things out and make it more enjoyable. It desperately needs more endings that aren't "bad endings" like Chrono Trigger had. It also feels lower stakes than CT, which for me is a negative with a Time Travel plot-- if you're screwing with the fabric of time itself it'd better have a hefty amount of weight.

I kinda liked the story here, but I couldn't help but come out disappointed with it in the end. The game itself is probably a bit better than CT (I liked the battle system), but the plot isn't.

6/10