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The website you quote sums it up nicely:
>in Chrono Trigger, Mr. Yuji Horii wrote the basic plot line first; following that, it was editted and rewritten by me (Kato), and even further on after that, the sub-scenarios were created by Mr. Tokita and Mr. Kitase.
Sub-scenarios =/= main scenario. Main scenario was developed by Kato. It's evident in the fact that the very first sketches of the main characters were done by him, and redrawn by Toriyama later on. Also by the fact that, as he admits and the game validates, he's the only one credited with the final story.
There's no "upwards of a dozen writers" anywhere. There's a story planner (Kato) and there's three event planners, and that's it.
>That's why it's pervasive in every single time period. Because he decided his little pet scenario should be the most important one in the game.
Sure he worked on Zeal 100%, but the rest is conjecture on your part. He wrote the main scenario, of course it was going to be focused on his favorite part.
>So important that the subsequent sequels even revolved around what was going to be otherwise yet-another-time-era.
You are the dense one if you think Cross revolves around Zeal. Zeal is not even in the damn game. And it shows up for a grand total of one screen in Radical Dreamers. Zeal is not a significant part of the plot of either game at all; Schala and the Flame are.
>but you're pretending to be dense if you don't understand why Trigger fans hate the post-trigger canon so much.
I'm not dense. Cross is based around Schala. She's not Zeal and she's not why the fans hate the sequels.
The fans hate them because it's not CT2: Electric Boogaloo, and because it implies that Crono and company not only are not omnipotent warriors, but also that they maybe did something wrong by messing with time.
We all know this is the main reason. "They killed the main characters (even though they're alive in Another)!" "it doesn't take place in the same world (even when it does)!" etc.