To me, the battles, the stat and item management, the puzzles, the exploration, those are almost always just necessary evils I put up with to get to the good stuff.* I’ll tolerate all the time-wasting filler that stretches a 7 - 10 hour story into a 40 - 50 hour game to see a story and its characters through to the end, but the biggest reason I rarely replay an RPG, even a great one, is because it’s too much of a damn time sink to justify seeing the same story a second time, even considering how great that story may be. I’m there for the story, the dialogue, the themes, the emotions, the characters, the humanity, the humor, the drama.you know, all the art of storytelling. With that out of the way, though, I have to say, this would be a terrific feature for ANY RPG, if implemented the exact same way. Let’s get the obligatory joke out of the way up front: blah blah great idea because the faster you can get through this shitty game the better. The premise of this key item is simple: with the Time Shifter, you can slow down the game (don’t bother much like an obnoxious American speaking to a non-English speaker, going slower will not make the garbled mess that is Chrono Cross any more comprehensible) by holding the L2 button, and speed up the game by holding the R2 button. The answer is the Time Shifter, an oft-forgotten little doohickey that Chrono Cross awards to you after you’ve hated yourself long and hard enough to actually finish the game and start a New Game+. If you guessed “the accent system,” I will find you and I will murder you in your sleep. Yet there is, in fact, 1 feature to Chrono Cross that is laudable. In the approaching 10 year history of this rant blog, this is a momentous occasion, because today’s rant is the first time, and unless I’m very much mistaken also the last time, you will hear me say something positive about this game. There is just nothing good I can say about this game, no single characteristic or feature that can be praised. Whether you look at it as an RPG in its own right or as a sequel to Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross is crap, through and through.
I have not been especially ambiguous regarding my feelings on Chrono Cross.
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