I played CC without finishing CT first when I was younger, I guess I missed a lot of references, maybe it's time to finally play CT, but after I finish Legend of Mana
The way Cross ties into CT is so weak you're better off thinking of them as two separate games. Radical Dreamers is the only canon-ish extension of CT.
>into CT is so weak you're better off thinking of them as two separate games.
The entire fricking time Kid is a spawn of Schala. And Schala disappears in Trigger and the entire reason Cross existed was to have resolution for that. The entire goddamn plot is because of the abandoned timeline from Trigger too. Kid was raised by Lucca.
I just went back and played Radical Dreamers and Chrono Trigger. Finished yesterday. Knowing more about Lucca adds a lot to the games even if Radical Dreamers isn't canon to the main timelines.
>same year, different in-house team with likely little communication between them >being a ginormous hipster popular-bad homosexual >people who enjoy a casual RPG are gonna be all about my mechanics diarrhea weirdo game
UH OH STINKY
SNES. The DS has extra stuff but it's all bad and noticeably mismatched with the real game. Suddenly a game that had perfect pacing and no grinding turns into a chore of boring back and forth fetch quests running up and down a mountain.
The PS1 version is just the SNES version with five-second load times between screen transitions, before/after every battle and when entering the menus. It's partially emulation, as you can find a SNES ROM of the game on the disc which will work in an emulator, though it has some PS1-specific stuff layered on top. There are also a handful of anime cutscenes added, which you can just watch on Youtube.
I'll never understand weebs' obsession with this game. The story is not particularly great, the combat is not particularly good, the art style is bland, the music is your typical generic snes chiptune shit....
>a-melodic
yeah that's what it usually comes down to with poor listeners, a complaint that there's too little melody in some highly melodic music that's too good for them to understand
this one is cool, it's surprising you actually liked it given your limitations
>The story is not particularly great, the combat is not particularly good,
Agreed.
Suikoden I has battles that flow twice as fast despite having double the party size (six). It also has a mature story and better realised world. It even beats CT in 'muh pacing" and "muh combo techs" which trigger Black folk love to bring up.
No idea why CT is dickridden so hard when it feels like an early prototype for dozens of average tier PSX RPGs that surpass it in every aspect, especially music.
DS version is utter shit. ALWAYS play the original. The original is what made people love it for 20 years in the first place, not some half-ass doctored port.
SNES or the modern PC / mobile port. The DS version is totally obsolete. I agree with the other posters about the relative merit of the DS version, but if you're going to go there anyway the PC port is same shit done much better.
>PC port
-Menus look weird
+Cutscenes in 1080p
+Audio 99% identical to SNES
+Widescreen support >DS port
+Menus look closer to original
-Sounds like it's playing through a phone
-Cutscenes in 192p with bad artefacting
The PC version is easily the best.
Also, the game looks kino in CinemaScope ultrawide.
This is what the game looks like with the original graphics, and played in ultrawide letterboxed in 16:9.
You could say the same for open matte films.
Top Gun was shot in 4:3 but meant to be cropped to CinemaScope.
Most Blu-rays and digital streams of the film are cropped to the intended theatrical CinemaScope, but the film looks much better in 4:3 open matte.
I can't afford an ultrawide either.
I just created a custom 1920x800p resolution on my PC with a 1080p 16:9 monitor to play in ultrawide mode, albeit letterboxed.
It expands the view horizontally compared to 16:9 mode, but it does shrink the screen.
Super NES.
Skip Reddit Trigger and play the game it half assed-ly ripped off: Romancing SaGa 3.
Don't worry bro I'm only playing Trigger so I can play Chrono Cross
I played CC without finishing CT first when I was younger, I guess I missed a lot of references, maybe it's time to finally play CT, but after I finish Legend of Mana
The way Cross ties into CT is so weak you're better off thinking of them as two separate games. Radical Dreamers is the only canon-ish extension of CT.
>into CT is so weak you're better off thinking of them as two separate games.
The entire fricking time Kid is a spawn of Schala. And Schala disappears in Trigger and the entire reason Cross existed was to have resolution for that. The entire goddamn plot is because of the abandoned timeline from Trigger too. Kid was raised by Lucca.
I just went back and played Radical Dreamers and Chrono Trigger. Finished yesterday. Knowing more about Lucca adds a lot to the games even if Radical Dreamers isn't canon to the main timelines.
why would anyone want to play Redditing SaGa 3 when they could play the game it's just a watered-down homage to: Klax
Imagine playing Kleddit when you could be playing Dual Orb.
>same year, different in-house team with likely little communication between them
>being a ginormous hipster popular-bad homosexual
>people who enjoy a casual RPG are gonna be all about my mechanics diarrhea weirdo game
UH OH STINKY
RS3 came out after, memelord.
SNES. The DS has extra stuff but it's all bad and noticeably mismatched with the real game. Suddenly a game that had perfect pacing and no grinding turns into a chore of boring back and forth fetch quests running up and down a mountain.
The new content in the DS version is worthless garbage and the translation has had all the life sucked out of it.
What about the ps1 version? Never played any of em personally, and am curious.
idk about content but just the added loading times when you enter a battle make it insufferable
The PS1 version is just the SNES version with five-second load times between screen transitions, before/after every battle and when entering the menus. It's partially emulation, as you can find a SNES ROM of the game on the disc which will work in an emulator, though it has some PS1-specific stuff layered on top. There are also a handful of anime cutscenes added, which you can just watch on Youtube.
Is it emulation or is it just accessing art and whatnot from the rom?
It doesn't matter, just avoid the PS1 version.
SNES for higher quality music and woolseykino
I'll never understand weebs' obsession with this game. The story is not particularly great, the combat is not particularly good, the art style is bland, the music is your typical generic snes chiptune shit....
you got bad taste in music mang, sorry to tell you cos there's probably no fixing it, ever
Taste in music? What's so good about CT's a-melodic repetitive chipslop?
Why don't you listen to some actually good VGM?
>a-melodic
yeah that's what it usually comes down to with poor listeners, a complaint that there's too little melody in some highly melodic music that's too good for them to understand
this one is cool, it's surprising you actually liked it given your limitations
>The story is not particularly great, the combat is not particularly good,
Agreed.
Suikoden I has battles that flow twice as fast despite having double the party size (six). It also has a mature story and better realised world. It even beats CT in 'muh pacing" and "muh combo techs" which trigger Black folk love to bring up.
No idea why CT is dickridden so hard when it feels like an early prototype for dozens of average tier PSX RPGs that surpass it in every aspect, especially music.
Snes is fine. The DS extras suck and are no fun and are not worth playing on a DS or DS emu.
PC
DS version is utter shit. ALWAYS play the original. The original is what made people love it for 20 years in the first place, not some half-ass doctored port.
SNES or the modern PC / mobile port. The DS version is totally obsolete. I agree with the other posters about the relative merit of the DS version, but if you're going to go there anyway the PC port is same shit done much better.
Party selection menu in PC version looks like a bad flash game and makes my eyes bleed.
>PC port
-Menus look weird
+Cutscenes in 1080p
+Audio 99% identical to SNES
+Widescreen support
>DS port
+Menus look closer to original
-Sounds like it's playing through a phone
-Cutscenes in 192p with bad artefacting
The PC version is easily the best.
Also, the game looks kino in CinemaScope ultrawide.
This is what the game looks like with the original graphics, and played in ultrawide letterboxed in 16:9.
More like Kino Trigger
that looks terrible. its like looking at a map in a strategy guide.
>Also, the game looks kino in CinemaScope ultrawide.
Looks like shit, game wasn't designed with that aspect ratio in mind.
You could say the same for open matte films.
Top Gun was shot in 4:3 but meant to be cropped to CinemaScope.
Most Blu-rays and digital streams of the film are cropped to the intended theatrical CinemaScope, but the film looks much better in 4:3 open matte.
Don't listen to those saying it looks shit because they just can't afford an ultra wide.
I can't afford an ultrawide either.
I just created a custom 1920x800p resolution on my PC with a 1080p 16:9 monitor to play in ultrawide mode, albeit letterboxed.
It expands the view horizontally compared to 16:9 mode, but it does shrink the screen.
snes if you are a homosexual, ds if you are a Black person. chose wisely