It's been mentioned in previous topics about CC, but the game just has too many characters with a majority of them having very little impact on the game and can't be fully fleshed out. There's only maybe like 10 characters who are really important to the overall story.
The story itself is kind of a mess, especially near the end, and right before the final boss when you're given a giant lore dump, and then some more after getting the true ending. I've heard that it's because they were running out of time during development and still had more they wanted to include, but I never looked into seeing how true that is.
And many people seem to be angry that almost all of the main cast from Chrono Trigger got killed off between games (and Robo gets eliminated in a late-game boss fight in Cross).
I love Chrono Cross, though, and I still intend to buy it for my Switch when it has a good sale on the eShop. The OST is incredible and I bought it when the game first released on the PlayStation.
more like they all got killed in villain they utter defeated before after he learned time traveling and invaded the kingdom and then completely slaughtered the main characters
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