Review Roundup For Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition

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Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition is bringing a PS1 classic to modern consoles for the first time since it released in late 1999. Reviews of the remake are now popping up, ahead of its April 7 release on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Whether you're an old-school Chrono Cross fan, or looking to try it out for the first time, here's a look at what critics are saying.

Being a remastered release, many of the reviews for the Radical Dreamers Edition are unscored--including GameSpot's, which concludes that «in 2022 Chrono Cross feels like a game lost in time,» but that the re-release still has value as a time capsule.

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Reviews for the Chrono Cross remaster currently seem mixed, with reviewers torn between praising how much of the original game has been preserved, and criticizing how little actually seems to have been updated or improved for the re-release. The game currently has an aggregate score of 77 on Metacritic.

«That museum aspect is really what might appeal most about Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition. Chrono Cross is an unusual game from an unusual era, paired with one that many of us in the West have never even seen before. Some parts of Chrono Cross are deeply strange and some of its ideas don't work, but that was true of a lot of RPGs made in this time period. In that way, it's a game out of its time, brought to us with some modern conveniences that are helping me appreciate its endearing oddity. Maybe