Chrono Trigger, without hesitation, if you are choosing one. It is tighter, better paced and has no filler at all. Chrono Cross is a beautiful, strange game with a huge cast and a soundtrack people still talk about, but it is a difficult sequel and it works far better after the original.
Shared world and shared themes, and both are much shorter than their reputation suggests.
Twenty hours, no random encounters, seven time periods, multiple endings, and combo techs between characters. It has aged better than almost anything from that generation.
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Forty-five recruitable characters, an element-grid battle system unlike anything else, and a score that is the main reason people return. It resolves the first game's story in ways that divide people permanently.
More like this: games like Chrono Cross.
Chrono Trigger, without hesitation, if you are choosing one. It is tighter, better paced and has no filler at all. Chrono Cross is a beautiful, strange game with a huge cast and a soundtrack people still talk about, but it is a difficult sequel and it works far better after the original.
Better is the wrong question for these two — they are close enough that the answer depends on what you want from the next twenty hours. Pick Chrono Trigger if you want the best JRPG of its era. Pick Chrono Cross if you want the odd, beautiful one.
No. There are no scores anywhere on this page. This is a written opinion about what each game is for, so you can judge whether it matches what you are after.