/vr/ - Retro Games

I loved Chrono cross' story when I was 16 but most of its charm comes from the fact you're trying to understand what the fuck is going on.
It's sad because, once you finally get the whole picture (after reading the compendium, just to be sure) you realize that it's pretty dull and it was a bad case of overcomplexification for something that didn't really need it.

It's a shame because there are excellent ideas in chrono cross that aren't used anywhere else, or rarely

SPOILERS :

>It's a scifi/time travel story that takes place in a tropical archipelago... How cool is that?
>Said archipelago is terraformed and controlled by a supercomputer FROM THE FUTURE
>You got 2 universes, one in which you're dead and you've got to unravel that mystery
>You get a flashforward of the future of "you" killing your soon-to-be best friend/love interest and that's a great twist once you understand why
>Harle then asks you if you're really Serge, like your soul switched body... or you didn't simply exchange memories. That's a powerful philosophical questionment
>The dead sea... Just the dea sea

All of that is awesome but falls flat when you learn that it's all thanks to a single man who calculated everything so these events would happen in that precise order, all to save Schala... A character that hasn't been mentionned at all during the game.
70% of the plot is told at the very end, and 70% of the plot isn't good. It ruins the mystery the game carefully created before.

Chrono cross would have been MUCH better if it was just about Serge and his identity crisis and how the chrono trigger heroes by saving the world, created unforeseen consequences. Sure it's not nice to hear that our heroes fucked up but that would have made CC on par with CT, in a different fashion.
CT's story is competently told. CC's is not

Also
>Remove 30 useless characters and flesh out those who matters
>Remove the dragon fetch quest. Because of it, Kato realized he didn't have enough time to finish the story