What's wrong for a game wanting to branch out from its predecessor?
why can't it be its own thing and offer you a new experience?
Perhaps the name created false expectations but that's not enough to consider a game being bad, right?
Or would you be ok having a sequel always remembering you how great the first game was?
tranny thread
Imagine your entire contribution to this world is screaming the word “troon” in random threads on Ganker
It could have been its own game, but the connections to Trigger are paper thin and in some eyes make the game worse off.
Paper thin until they info dump on you in the last 30 minutes.
because it's leeching off the success of the predecessor without providing a comparable experience
if you want to do something that is tonally, narratively and emchanically dissonant from the prequel, have the balls to call it a different franchise so as not to deceive the player base
If it's supposed to be it's own thing then why bother calling it a sequel to something?
perhaps it is using the concept of time travel but this time applied into parallel universe
The game is bad independently of any Trigger expectations
even if they manage to make toriyama design the characters, it wouldn't have been close to a great game. the fact that it tries to pretend not to be a trigger sequel it bounce back by the end and even hinted early in game as well its connection. perhaps as a failsafe in case they couldn't turn this into an independent series
>What's wrong for a game wanting to branch out from its predecessor?
Nothing.
>why can't it be its own thing and offer you a new experience?
It can, but there is a very valid question about why does it need to be a sequel, and why isn't it "it's own thing" in the first place.
>Perhaps the name created false expectations but that's not enough to consider a game being bad, right?
Obviously not, there are well documented and much discussed issues the game has that has nothing to do with it being the sequel to Chrono Trigger.
>Or would you be ok having a sequel always remembering you how great the first game was?
Not sure what you mean, but if it's a sequel I would expect it to have something to do with the first game. Chrono Cross cleared this requirement, so I really don't get why you are saying this in the first place.
>make an rpg
>levels don't exist
>you only increase stats by defeating bosses
>all minor battles are a waste of time
>ghost pirates
what were they thinking?
you can avoid minor battles, and they do give resources so they aren't completely pointless.
I enjoyed CC more than CT personally, even if the pace of Trigger is way better
Peak game design. Random battles are hot garbage and any way to avoid them in that era automatically made a game better than its peers. See: Mario RPG
nothing is wrong with creative experimentation. however cc just isnt very good on its own terms. little momentum, why is there this massive character swap, and they didnt find a way to justify the lack of deeper rpg systems while gutting levels, encounters, etc. if you want to include so many characters take the suikoden route and at least afford a bigger party with greater customization.
too many characters to care but also a very over complicated tie-in to trigger.
serge being attacked by a panther demon seems like conflated the entire plot twists
Yet it ties itself to Trigger in the worst possible way: By shitting on its "happy ending". The connection is nearly non-existent but its there and just serves to introduce misery onto the characters whose tale had already ended. It adds nothing of note to the narrative Cross tries to tell so, why even have it other than to piss people off?
Gaymers are autistic and right-wing so they are opposed to change. I couldn't name an example of a sequel that changed many things and was received well, but many examples of a sequel being superior but very different and being trashed as a result. That's why companies now only make sequels with very little changes, and market anything else as a spinoff with a subtitle
>there are many examples
>no, i can't even name one at the moment
If it was so good they wouldn't have felt the need to leech off Chrono trigger's success to sell it
it's weird how she always appears next to lynx but they never be seen interacting until the body swap.
it's weird how she's a dragon
Looking back on Xengears, Xenosaga and Xenoblade, people REALLY overreacted to Cross compared to Trigger.
>dinosaurs invented magic
>but is not magic is some technological mumbo jumbo
what a stretch
that greatest hits bright green is so ugly
I think it's intentional, so as not to devalue the originals. Same with the PS2 greatest hits red
lol no one cared about collectorfags back then
They just wanted a bold color that would attract more attention on store shelves.
I don't enjoy the combat system.
I remember that the remaster got criticized when it came out. Is there any reason to play that over just emulating the PSX version?