Chrono Cross

Chrono Cross (???????? is a PlayStation RPG created by Square Co., Ltd. (now Square Enix) with a story that builds upon Chrono Trigger. However, Chrono Trigger team members Hironobu Sakaguchi (Supervisor), Yuji Horii (Supervisor, Initial Scenario Writer), and Akira Toriyama (Character Design) were notably not a part of the Chrono Cross development team. Indeed, few of the original staff participated on the game as they had been reassigned to different teams over the years.

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PlayStation - RPG - Square Co., Ltd. - Square Enix - Chrono Trigger - Hironobu Sakaguchi - Yuji Horii - Akira Toriyama

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Chrono Trigger had a "sequel" released in Japan called Radical Dreamers for the Satellaview add-on for the Super Famicom, but it was a text adventure.

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Japan - Radical Dreamers - Satellaview - Super Famicom

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When Chrono Cross was being designed, part of the Radical Dreamers' plot and characters were used. However, Chrono Cross cannot be viewed as a mere remake of Radical Dreamers as they have a lot of differences and incompatibilities. Chrono Cross sold to expectations in the United States, but disappointing Japanese sales lead some to speculate that the Chrono series has been halted.

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Chrono Cross was released in United States in 2000 and features music composed by Yasunori Mitsuda. The game was hailed by professional reviewers, but some Chrono Trigger fans denounced it as an inferior sequel. In some cases, this is a result of these players wanting to control the old cast of Chrono Cross's predecessor and play a more direct sequel.

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United States - 2000 - Yasunori Mitsuda

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The game has 45 possible party members to acquire, all of whom come with several abilities of their own, with some combining into Double and Triple Techs.

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Because of the incredibly vast number of possible party combinations, this game contains a system to modify base text for each character's accent. Whereas other games would need to program different blocks of text for each character, this game uses the same text and modifies it based on the character using it. An example of its coding in the script:

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Member Name:

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l.et's2 .go.suffixe, Serge..

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the w.ater1 .Dr3agon .mus1t .be.

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be.yondth1is1 .point...

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