Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition Review - A Worthy Remaster
Chrono Cross is a JRPG classic that passed me by as a kid. Little Jade was far too busy beaming Final Fantasy, Dark Cloud, and Legend of Dragoon directly into her retinas to notice all the other bangers emerging from Squaresoft at that time. Who can blame her?
It was a golden era for the genre with gems releasing every couple of months, showcasing where exactly it was capable of going now global appeal had finally been achieved. We got so many wonderful games, and decades later publishers are eager to revisit their libraries and bring them back into the limelight. Having only dabbled in the vanilla release a handful of years ago, it was fascinating to dive into a remaster that aims to accomplish so much.
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Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers is both a faithful and competent remaster of the PlayStation classic that seeks to refresh the original game without ever taking away from what made it so special. Visuals have been updated but maintain the charm of character designs and environments, while the battle system has been outfitted with a number of neat new mechanics that allow them to both run smoothly and alleviate the archaic tedium that so many games from this era now suffer from. However, it isn’t perfect.
When it comes to remasters like this it feels like developers are always playing with fire, daring to step foot onto sacred ground where whatever legacy awaits has already been committed to memory. Any and all steps taken to alter those foundations will result in fan backlash, regardless of whether or not the end result offers an overall improvement. We’ve been burned so many times in the past by developers failing to comprehend the strength of their
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