CHRONO CROSS THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION REVIEW - Happy Console Gamer 

Yup! Now days JRPGs are niche it's Ashame really

It was the golden age of RPGs

Well, I mean, they were pretty much always niche. They had a lot of mainstream appea after FFVII hit largely just because of the graphical novelty of cgi movies.

Square and Enix were not togheter yet and lowkey competing against each others, so we got that golden era of JRPG

yea, 6 of my top 10 games are all PS1 games!! 6!! & the top 4 are: 1) Chrono Trigger, 2) Valkyire Profile, 3) Final Fantasy VI, & 4) Chrono Cross... & ,well, would you look at that, all are RPGs

Same, this was the game that 10 year old me absolutely fell head over heels for. I got some of the situations and themes back then but every time I replayed it growing up, I noticed more and it just solidified my adoration for it even more. I will probably cry(again, I cried at the announcement) when I buy it, too. ;w;

@Sorey Chrono cross and Tactics are my always in my heart RPG games

It was ahead of its time

Between Chrono Cross, Legend of Dragoon, and FF IX, it was a good time to be in middle school.

Not just colonialism but also (American) interventionism, through the exposition of the consequences of Chrono Trigger's time travels.

Imagine if they would release Xenogears here as well..

@@Deadono My god don't even get me thinking of it

Wow, I didn't know it never came out there. So happy for you to finally be able to own a copy of it. It's one of my fav games. Even though it has a lot visual and gameplay warts now, the characters and visual atmosphere are still such a delight even all these years later

Damn, European gamers really got shafted back in the day

Not absurd at all. I'm a fellow PAL gamer that jumped through many hoops to play this at release. Awesome game and may be my no 1 ever. By FAR my favourite soundtrack as well. Can't wait 😀😀😀

I've been hoping for a LoD remake/remaster for a long time. One day.

Yes! Both of those games would be great right now! I had L.O.D but i let a friend borrow it and got it back with scratches. Xenogears is a game that I always wanted but never got around to playing it. I'm having a blast playing all the ps1 remaster games that are out now. Especially the ones I missed. Man I miss childhood 😢 😪!

Guys they are remaking Legend of Dragoon on ps4

@@DokesConspiracyNetwork Yeah sure and Xenogears is getting a dlc update for its psn version with more game play on disc 2

Legend of dragoon deserves a remaster. Such a damn good rpg that was amazingly NOT squaresoft

Yeah I too had a love/hate relationship with the game. I loved the music and some story elements but the random difficulty and odd decision to tie this game to Chrono Trigger is what brought it down for me. So much so that I will happily play Chrono Trigger again and again but haven't even thought about this game until now. Heck I sold my copy of Chrono Cross and never felt the need to play it since for 22 years. It just didn't stick with me the way Trigger did.

@Fafnd I just replayed my ps1 copy a while back. I haven't played it since it was first released. Its an ambitious game, but yeah it doesn't make sense to tie it to Chrono Trigger, other than they wanted to make sure people bought this game based on CT's popularity.

The budget for this game ran out. They cut some corners towards the end of the game

The story does a huge exposition dump at the end, but the overarching story is pretty awesome if you can make the connections.

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People usually laugh when I say Bogus Journey is one of the greatest sequels. I love that movie. It’s so inventive and unique. I get your comparison.

I prefer bogus journey so that sounds like a win.

As a fan of these two films I almost know exactly what to expect when I play Chrono Trigger and Cross now lol! Trigger is gonna be an absolute classic in every sense of the word. Cross is gonna be VERY unique and low key my favorite of the two lol

Lol very true

I memorized even to this day. I'm playing with my memories of it👌

I love using old guides with m games I have this one as well

AGREED BROTHER! 👍

The Z-slash triple tech was great

Named my wifes cat sprigg she doesnt know the reference yet but maybe she will see me playing on ps4 and figure it out.

@@TheSean89420 Does your cat frequently watch you play videogames?

@@TheSean89420 can her cat transform into a giant blue frog-dolphin who will dropkick your ass though?

That and legend of mana. Except maybe ff9 that barely fits, the rest isnt worth shit

Terrible remaster. Terrible garbage performance

Chrono Cross and Trial of Mana have top tier music.

I’d rather listen to his stuff than Beethoven.

It’s a masterpiece.

I never played this but 20 years. That is so much time. That’s a lifetime or nearly for so many humans through history

@@jamescampisi7716 Why is it bad? What didn't you like?

Only bosses give you levels. Theres no exp system in this game.

@@TheManaTree777 Ok well in that case, I'll leave the random battle off when I eventually pick this game up.

@@EPS5000 Boss gave you level, but random battles give you small stats boots after gaining a level, materials for crafting weapons and money. You need to fill out your elements grid (there is no healing item in this game. You use your element (magic) to heal instead.)

@@zhaoyun255 Oh that's useful, good to know thanks. I'll keep random battles on then. 👍

That's not really needed set a Heal All/Recover all element to LV 1 slot then you won't need to fight the normal enemies besides in between bosses you only get the stat boosts for around 3 to 4 total battles then won't gain ANY more until you kill the next boss. So a no encounters run besides the forced ones is still doable.

Watch that be $10 DLC 😂

Heard it's a bad PC port though, awful framerate(15 FPS) and bad optimization.

Winning comment

That and Xenogears

@Penguin Economics The only bad thing is how the character models sometimes get literally chopped up. As if they're 2 models instead of 1 and you see lines separating them

@@jamescampisi7716 Chill out Mr. Edgelord - no need to be an abrasive asshole to people that are interested in playing the damn game. I'm about 4 hours in and it's fine & perfectly playable with a bit of tweaking in Nvidia settings to turn on V-Sync & max the framerate at 59. Is it perfect? No. Should i have been required to mess with Nvidia settings to improve performance? No. Could SQE have done a better job with the AI upscaling and optimization? Yes. But is it serviceable and halfway decent? Yes. I also watched the Digital Foundries video and while their points are completely cogent & solid there's also an element of emotionalism in their critique because the game is obviously near and dear to them. As for myself as I stated previously I consider it somewhat of a failed experiment, a very rough gem so to speak, and as such don't consider it sacred. If some people that really love the game wanted more than an unoptimized glorified emulated version, are disappointed in SQE, and are voting "no" with their wallet I completely respect that. However a lot of us just want to play the damn game on PC or some other format that's not the essentially discontinued digital PS3 version from 10 years ago or going through the hassle of finding a (legal) copy of the original and getting it working/optimized on an emulator. It's still a fun game and I and others are having a great time playing even though the version is underwhelming. That doesn't make us bad people and if you want to warn people avoid the game on account of the technical deficiencies of the game there's much more respectable ways to go about it...

It is UNFATHOMABLY bad. I don't know how square continues to fuck up worse than the last time

Runs fine . Stop complaining

More like generic fantasy origins: strangers of originality

@@neosummoner5832 It's anything but generic, wtf are you smoking