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I started with Chrono Cross when I was 11 and didn’t play trigger until re-releases years later. Having played both, I can say this:
Honestly, this is one of the best assessments of Chrono Cross I’ve ever seen.
I purchased the game on release, because I am an unapologetic and rabid Chrono Trigger fanboy—and was sorely, sorely disappointed in it as a sequel. At the time (I was in college), I conflated the ideas of “awful sequel from a thematic…
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