/vr/ - Retro Games

In typical Squaresoft fashion, the plot goes batshit about 2/3s of the way through.

I would excuse that, but what really pissed me off is how half of Harle's characterization is in optional scenes, especially the fact that she was literally in love with Serge.

Chrono Cross is a beautiful mess.

>>617601
>I mean shit, everything you know and love from CT is fucking shat on. It's a fun game, but only if you have no love for CT, and that is not how a sequel is supposed to work.
I loved CT as a kid, and I also loved CC. Even back then I thought it was amazing how it turned things from CT upside down and made you consider dilemmas CT just brushed aside with an arm pump. The best part of CC to me was seeing Nadia's Bell in ruins, and the trigger-spirits blaming you for it.

Sequels do not always have to be about jerking off to part one. Sequels like Cross, where the events of the previous story are expanded, turned inside out, and everything takes a different turn, are much more satisfying to me. There's not a lot of that in vidya, but in other media it's probably the best kind of sequel, in my opinion.

I like CC better than CT despite having played CT first, but I also like RD a lot better than CC. The problem with CC is not taking Trigger into a tragic place, but rather doing it in the most convoluted way possible. Radical Dreamers does the EXACT same thing CC does in regards of "shitting on CT": Guardia has fallen, Lucca was killed, and Crono is explicitly dead (something never mentioned in CC). But it works because the events do not involve child-clones, furry transformations, unrealistic wigs and all that nonsense CC felt like having.

RD is a lot more simple, a lot more intimate, and it's a lot more meaningful because of that.

And as for the gameplay, I love CC's system to death (like it way more tan CT's), but there's definitely something to be said regarding exploring an atmospheric old manor through text choices with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLY2l-ID60A playing. I hate the typical VN format that has a tiny text screen and huge anime lolis with retarded faces, but I like reading and personally Radical Dreamers offers as much fun to me as CC does. Then again, their gameplay is so different I don't think one has to compare them.