I love classic JRPGs. I’ve played the original Final Fantasy VII more times than I can count, and shout my passion for the series at any chance I get. As well as FF, Persona, Pokémon, and Kingdom Hearts all hold a place in my heart, and inspired me to get into the job industry I’m in today. And yet, I never took the time to play Chrono Trigger or Chrono Cross.
Chrono Trigger always appealed to me, as I know it comes from the minds of Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy series, Yuji Horii, creator of the Dragon Quest series, and Akira Toriyama, author of the Dragon Ball manga series. I even downloaded the game onto my iPad last year, but for some reason, I never actually played it.
That’s where Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition comes in. This game is set in the same world as Chrono Trigger, but has a different development team, which, I’ll admit, made me ever so slightly less interested in playing. However, when it initially launched on PlayStation back in 1999, Cross received near perfect review scores, and sits comfortably at 94 on Metacritic. So I had to give this classic a try.
