Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition (2022)
D4 Enterprise, Square Enix Creative Business Unit I
Bundle of Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition, titled The Radical Dreamers Edition
Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · Xbox One
4.00 from 68 ratings
492 members have it in their collection · 20 playing now · 288 backlogged · 142 wish listed
How long? Main story 30h · with extras 40h (from 7 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- D4 Enterprise, Square Enix Creative Business Unit I
- Publishers
- Square Enix
- Genres
- Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)
- Themes
- Fantasy
- Franchises
- Chrono
- Series
- Chrono
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Apr 07, 2022 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Related
In this bundle
- Radical Dreamers: Le Trésor Interdit (Apr 2022) · NSW, PC, PS4, XONE
- Chrono Cross (Apr 2022) · NSW, PC, PS4, XONE
Rating distribution
5 stars
23
4 stars
27
3 stars
14
2 stars
3
1 star
1
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status VivCousland May 11, 2023
Chrono Cross wears one's heart on one's sleeves.
I'm a s*cker for games that try to convey a certain message even if they can be confusing and having problems like too many playable characters.
Also, I like the battle system. It's unique!
Five stars because it's one of those games that rightfully enters among those titles that have given me …
Chrono Cross wears one's heart on one's sleeves.
I'm a s*cker for games that try to convey a certain message even if they can be confusing and having problems like too many playable characters.
Also, I like the battle system. It's unique!
Five stars because it's one of those games that rightfully enters among those titles that have given me so much on the emotional side.
Review duecomment 4/5 · Jul 10, 2022
A Failed Masterpiece Worth Experiencing
First off, I want to be clear that if I could re-do getting this, I'd grab it on Steam. All of the horrors you've heard about this release have been slightly exaggerated, but it is amazing how absolutely they phoned in what could have received a far better level of polish.
Returning to this failed masterpiece was surprisingly more fun …
First off, I want to be clear that if I could re-do getting this, I'd grab it on Steam. All of the horrors you've heard about this release have been slightly exaggerated, but it is amazing how absolutely they phoned in what could have received a far better level of polish.
Returning to this failed masterpiece was surprisingly more fun than I had expected, for all different reasons than when I had originally played (and played a lot) on release. At that time, the tenuous connections to Chrono Trigger and the music is what drew me in, and while the music is still beautiful (top three soundtracks for a game, without question), I found myself finding the breezy tropical setting and oddball side characters charming. The game has showed its age a bit, but it's hardly hard (the Shaker Brothers got to me) to get through, especially since the game allows you to quicken the pace, which goes a long way to making this a bearable slog.
Regarding the "failed masterpiece" bit - this game obviously reached for the stars and failed to hit them, but it's exactly that which we're missing in today's jaded market of yearly releases and microtransactions. I am still not entirely sure what message they thought they were conveying, but at its heart it wanted to get something across. If I can get ridiculous for a second, it was as if I was connecting over time and space to talk to some developers for Squaresoft in the late 90s and I found that sort of beautiful, in a mundane way.
Highly recommend to JRPG fans as a canon, required play.
