Recap of Chrono Cross (RECAPitation)

I love how you can pinpoint the exact moment when the writer started hitting the blunt

There's no way the 10 year old me understood all this.

CT - "I'm going to break new ground in storytelling and character development." CC - "yo dawg I heard you like multiple characters, so we added 3 thousand. And every future AT ONCE! Are we cool now?!"

This video needs some supporting diagrams, mapping out relationships, timelines, different dimensions, ...

and another jrpg starting with "good morning sleepyhead, time to wake up". it's the law.

Though a tad late, a heartfelt Thank You to every sub that has helped this channel reach past the 40k mark. I sincerely appreciate the patience and enthusiam of the community that supports and shares every adventure in this RECAPitation journey. EDIT: Amazing how the main activity in the comments is arguing how to label the relationship for Chrono Cross to Chrono Trigger/Radical Dreamers. Spiritual Sequel? Non-linear Sequel? Not a Sequel? [I don't care, personally, its just another adventure to me, so don't try and drag me into this debate] Next RECAPitation will be: Suikoden 2

I lived in Southeast Asia my entire life and enjoyed all the RPGs of my childhood - standing on top of them is the Chrono series, with Cross on top of it. While a lot of people hate it and are unbelievably baffled by it, I want to believe I fully understood its message and lore (consumed from Chrono Compendium). It is exhilarating, beautiful and unbelievably sublime. I felt every emotion of all the characters and grew to love them. I created head canons for each one character and somehow was able to connect to them in some way, shape or form. I say this is in my top 5 PSX JRPG, with Final Fantasy Tactics, Chrono Trigger, FF8 and Legend of Legaia being my personal choices. They made my life so much better. They educated me better, helped me grow to the great values of honor and fortitude while helping me deal with my personal demons as both a child bullied at school with a growing existential crisis. I will always stand by Chrono Cross and believe that, together with Chrono Trigger, that it is the best IP I would ever have played my entire life.

One of the best soundtracks ever, thank you.

Holy crap! I've played this when i was 9 years old and loved it! I've replayed again last year(now i'm 25 y.o.) and it was a BLAST! A superman punch right on my nostalgia. This is probably one of the best games ever made in the history of videogame; The music, the plot, EVERYTHING. Congrats on nailing everything right, you did an AWESOME job, and gained a new sub. Love from Brazil!

What is Chrono Cross? My childhood game. And my first ps1 game ever.

I love this game. I was lucky enough to play this before I learned it was actually a sorta-sequel, and thus was able to judge it on it's own merits before I played Trigger, resolving the only big issue I had as a kid with CC, being the CT specific plot elements. I hear a lot of people say that it "ruined the heroes accomplishments" by making them seem like a bad thing. But I always knew (speaking about real life here) that actions have consequences that people really don't and/or can't predict. Looking back on them both, I recognized the problem of what happens to timelines that just end suddenly and found it a compelling plot point that a lot of time travel stories don't really explore. I think this game is a nice example of writers making a sequel story work when they clearly weren't planning ahead of time for there to be a sequel to the first game.

This was just as complicated in explanation as it was in play and I STILL LOVE IT😂👍👍

So to summarize best: The story exists as a result from the defeat of Lavos in 1999, basically caused a split in space/time. In the 2300 AD Lavos destroyed alternate universe the Mother Brain or FATE controls events through time in both universes with a time travel device that can manipulate humans throughout history. So its the protagonist job to put an end to this add in some convolution and BAM.. Chrono Cross

I wanted to love this game as much as I do Chrono Trigger. I really did. CT did multiple time paths well, and managed to weave discarded timelines in to a well stated, cohesive narrative. CC is more like what happens when someone's hyperactive preteen writes fan fiction, and lets her equally unmedicated ADD friend edit it.

I’m glad to see someone cover this game more fully. Interestingly enough you can actually skip two boss battles in this game. The first is by going through the volcano without going to the Water Dragon Isle (you don’t actually NEED to freeze the lava to make it through, but it’s suggested) and the second is you can skip fighting the Black Dragon.

I fuckin love the music in this game! Especially the main theme. Although not as good as the o.g. chrono trigger theme chrono cross's gives me a distinct feeling of wonder. Marvelous

Any thorough video about my favorite game deserves a like

Glad to see a new video from you. I will always drop anything im doing to watch. Thanks for everything!

I can't believe you managed to make Chrono Cross digestible.

Great job explaining such a complex story! I really enjoy this series and look forward to more in the future!