CHRONO CROSS: THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION

An excellent PS1 Classic. Works great on my pc and steam deck.

Nearly a generation ago, I was aware of Chrono Cross as a follow-up to Chrono Trigger, but I never got around to playing it. Well, I'm glad I finally did! This Radical Dreamers Edition is probably the best way to experience it today. The boosters and fast-forward help cut through a lot of the old JRPG grind, while keeping the music and sound effects in sync. Even better, you can turn enemy encounters off and skip almost all of the boring trash mobs, only fighting the important battles. There were a few occasions where I still had to fight regular enemies, but it never really got in the way of the overall experience. There's still plenty of old-school JRPG friction here. The battles can be long and sluggish, and its late-'90s game design includes obscure puzzles and very little direction. Sometimes you'll find yourself wandering around in circles because you've forgotten where the game expects you to go, who you're supposed to talk to, or that you're supposed to manually use some particular key item somewhere. There are almost too many characters, and eventually I stopped caring about trying everyone and settled into my main party. But I did grow attached to a few favorites, and they'll probably be the characters I remember as the embodiment of my journey through the game. I also named Serge after myself, which added a fun layer of personalization to the role-playing. He's enough of a silent protagonist that it was easy to inhabit the role, and that made some of the game's twists around his identity particularly effective. The art is beautiful, the soundtrack is fantastic, and the parallel-world premise gives the adventure a strange, dreamlike quality of its own. Revisiting familiar places in another reality and discovering how differently people's lives unfolded kept me curious about where the journey would take me next. I especially liked the ending. The entire adventure is left with this almost dreamlike quality, like something incredible happened to you and then, somehow, life simply carries on. I can't call Chrono Cross a masterpiece from my experience playing it today. I've simply played too many JRPGs and too many modern games since then to experience it with the same sense of wonder I might have had if I'd encountered it earlier in my gaming journey. But I can absolutely imagine that if Chrono Cross had been one of my first few JRPGs, I could have gotten completely lost in its world and remembered it as a masterpiece. Instead, I got to visit it now as a kind of archaeological dig into a piece of classic JRPG history that I missed. And I'm glad I finally made the journey. [b]Technical note: I initially had crashing issues, but after applying a 4GB/Large Address Aware patch, I didn't experience any further crashes.[b]

It's not Steam Deck Verified, every time I play it it freezes after afew minutes. Absolutely awful. A classic game and it's unplayable.

So happy to have an easy port to play on modern devices. One of my favorite games of all time.

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I love it so much, however there is some bugs, but it is still playable and enjoyable. This is my most favorite game of all time.

it ok. i never had any issues with this version, i guess the devs finally delivered. I finally played this game and the story is interesting but the game just sucks. i thought it was funny how one of or the hardest boss in the game was just a generic "Miguel" the cgi looks like vomit and having like 100 characters for an rpg didnt impress me. the game is a complete mess and it could have been better if it was made in this decade. i enjoyed a little bit more radical dreamers. -port is 9/10 -game is 6/10