/vr/ - Retro Games

Chrono Cross: The Best Game of All Time

Cross is great. I get people don't like the throwaway characters, but just don't use them. Run Kid, Glen, Karsh, Zoah, Norris, Radius the whole game.

It had an amazing score, fantastic art style, branching story line that wouldn't become a thing until a decade later, and good main plot. Thematically, it's all about how memory makes you who you are and how choices and branches in life set you on paths that shape your identity. Stuff like the poem book, Mojo, etc.

Battle system is meh but I like it more than mainline FFs where MP is scarce so you basically just do basic attacks except for bosses for the first half of the game. Too many unavoidable fights though.

I wouldn't call it a misfire. Sold a ton of copies and is the highest critically ranked jrpg of the entire generation. It filters people because the plot is too complex and the tone is meloncholy.

Plus, Kid is best girl. Too bad you never actually met her... guess you'll grow up a fisher and marry Lenna, just another forking path. The Borges of games.

>>7988605
>Chrono Cross, if you like islands and acoustic guitars
Based. Probably my goat jrpg for the aesthetics alone. Really reminds me of my childhood.
Dat soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a-4m1O7og4
>Now if you want amazing stories and characters, go read a novel
Also based. I recommend Book of the New Sun to anyone into sci-fi. It singlehandedly resurrected my love for books that died after high school.

Xenogears and Dragon Quest V are some of my favorites if you like a good story.
Also Skies of Arcadia doesn't do anything particularly well aside from a grand sense of adventure but it manages to be more than the sum of it's parts.

>>7379239
The games have some jank, especially the first, but if you can look past it you're in for a fun time.
The music is great too, though not in the same way as Cross: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4FdfaRX8EM

>>7379231
Generally speaking, the backgrounds in Cross consistently make some of the best use of blues and greens I've seen in any game. It really helps to further solidify the game's tropical island aesthetic.

>>7329525
Climbing Babel Tower to reach Shevat in Xenogears gave me a similar feeling of ecstasy but that's about it. I wanna go back.

>>7330102
This >>7330108. Accept that it's different and be willing to look past a few flaws and you'll find a beautiful game with some of the best art and music of the era (and in my opinion period).

>>6453868
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. So many cool plot points like those you listed and save points being used by FATE to control people but once you get to the meat of it everything falls apart.
Still, I think the music, art and general atmosphere more than make up for it. Even the bloated cast is a positive if you thing of it more as a collect-em-all mechanic.

>>6454294
Thanks for reminding me I still need to play this. If it really is only that long, maybe I'll marathon it tonight. Should be comfy.