Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition Review - Noisy Pixel

[@seemangalbj]

Reviewer here. Regarding the soundtrack, it's not newly arranged, that's my mistake. Was confused by the conflicting reports leading up to release about it. Recent news used the term 'refined', which I misconstrued as meaning newly arranged. You can disregard that part of the review entirely.

[@Bfr3shBrian]

I'm confused because of this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYazfKCoptiBhsk, these songs are new arrangements.

[@Walamonga1313]

Hmm, the Ys discord guy

[@Kevin-iu8hl]

I do believe the arranged soundtrack that people were talking about before is a vinyl disc that can be purchased.

[@crustyhotdog7940]

@@Kevin-iu8hl This is correct. The marketing has been terrible to distinguish the two. The soundtrack in the game is the original but with higher quality sound.

[@banzaisdead]

@@crustyhotdog7940 thankfully because (no offense to the composers) those re-arrangements are massively inferior to the original tunes imo

[@mr.horseshoe2301]

This came out on my senior year of high school. One of the highlights of one of the best years of my life. Loved the soundtrack and the art. Even got the true ending. One of my favorites of all time!

[@airdrighmor1439]

Truth. I was 19. I remember.

[@joeschmo6637]

Same.

[@ataridc]

This came out i believe my second year of HS and I remember posting on a chrono cross forum that later became a site called all rpg. I dont really miss my teen years, but memories that stick out like that make this game special to me.

[@chocolatesundae8947]

I still have the original soundtrack for this game, even though my original Playstation died long ago. Still brings back memories. From the age of gaming where masterpieces like the original Ff7 and Xenogears came about. Curious what the new soundtrack sounds like. Sad to hear that even after all these years, few games exceed the bar this game set. And it didn’t warrant a remake either. The mobile game Another Eden was penned by this game’s writer. Sadly, it’s a gacha game which requires some deep pockets to obtain all the characters and side stories.

[@peninpant]

Noisy Pixel has the greatest reviews I’ve seen. Not too short and not too long, good pacing throughout the video, and very well informed. I strive to make reviews like this one and all your other videos!

[@NoisyPixelNews]

Thanks so much :)

[@chewy8183]

I’ve played both games and I’m looking forward to playing this one again. I’m surprised they didn’t remaster Chrono Trigger first hopefully they remaster it in the near future both are great games from my childhood.

[@AIKIDOJRA]

I love Chrono Cross, it's one of my favorite JRPG's ever, in fact to me, this is miles better than C Trigger

[@experience_point6233]

Chrono Cross is one of my favorite games off all time.

[@NoisyPixelNews]

Dooope

[@SeraidenAF]

Same.

[@deminybs]

Yes, this, legend of dragoon, FF VII/X , etc so many good games

[@experience_point6233]

@@deminybs PS1 has the greatest RPG library of any console ever.

[@binkyvonbinky6483]

I've been championing Chrono Cross ever since I played it in middle school. When I got older and told friends how much I loved it, all's they'd say was "It's not Chrono Trigger so it's sucks". I've tried a few times to get into Trigger and it's never grabbed me the way Cross did. The opening music and cinematic still hold up great today and how you start out powerful so you can see how you'll become once you get further into the game. Love Cross, I'm glad it's come back out and gives people a chance to see how good it is now that their eyes are no longer clouded by hate.

[@mrgrimreaper94]

Yo this looks a lot like Legends of Dragoon witch in my opinion is one of the best RPGs ever made we need a remake of Legends of Dragoon!!!

[@King_x_Anubis]

Dragoon was out around the same time...#DRAGOONREMAKE. there is a kinda remake it's called Legend of Dragoon Severed Chains...look it up here on the tube

[@DieselJT]

Great review! I just preordered the physical Switch version from Playasia! I just needed this review to push me to do so!

[@contidozack]

This one was a masterpiece in 1999 and now 2022. Already preordered the physical copy.

[@goober7535]

I love Chrono cross. The Chrono trigger fanboys can keep crying

[@WildDogGamerBoy]

Okay...

[@saucygoat24]

Great review! One of my favorites of all time, can’t wait for this remaster.

[@djbpresents9584]

Lets call it a upscale port

[@irwansutanto5202]

you will be very disappointed. it's just a free money grab to developer with tiny job.

[@josephfrechette9916]

@@irwansutanto5202 the original version was amazing. It sounds cool with throphies.

[@saucygoat24]

Well, I played through the entire game 40+ hours and am very pleased with my purchase, don’t really get all the hate on this one, it’s way better than the other PS1 Square remasters (yes I’m looking at you FFIX)

[@Pruflas-Watts]

Solid review from a fresh take. I like that you had the Battle with Fate playing in the background. There wasn't a lot of battle music variety and hearing the main boss battle music over and over again got extremely tiring but the Battle with Fate theme was a very unique and unconventional approach to battle music that I thought borrowed heavily from Chrono Triggers future era 2300 a.d. factory music.

[@dartez666]

It is NOT a newly arranged soundtrack. It's simply an uncompressed version. Nothing changed about the soundtrack itself.

[@wabisabi7755]

What does uncompressed mean?

[@Zelduh64]

@@wabisabi7755 Higher quality, like the difference between CD quality and radio quality

[@Walamonga1313]

@@wabisabi7755 Higher bit rates, so basically larger dynamic range and higher quality of sound

[@PandAMonier]

A nice and succinct review, and you gave Chrono Cross a 9/10!? Subbed!

[@pr0phet]

This is my favorite game of all time.

[@wheelerd00d]

Great review! Can’t wait for tomorrow!

[@ekolite8224]

I will be getting this on steam. I completed Chrono Trigger about 6-7 years ago, but found I enjoyed Chrono Cross more on PS1.

[@devildogwhite]

My love affair with this game has certainly waned over the years, but it's still one of my favorites. I will say, though, that it still annoys me I have to make the "bad" decision to get my favorite character.

[@yoso378]

It's definitely an infuriating design decision that happens a few times. You miss out on obviously-joins-you Leena unless you turn down Kidd for absolutely no reason, and you miss out on Glenn for saying no when the situation really feels like a typical JRPG moment where it doesn't matter what you say because you're going to be forced to say yes anyways. The latter is especially irritating since Glenn was heavily featured in promotional material and he's a callback to Trigger.

[@VOAN]

I still don't get why the Chrono fans hated this game. It's not like the Final Fantasy and Mana fans are hating their sequels too since none of them are connected to the first game anyways.

[@yoso378]

This game plays nothing like Trigger in the first place and the story is pretty hard to follow and quite different in tone. The connections to Trigger are very tenuous and mostly are all dumped on you at the end of the game. You also get waaaaay too many characters in Cross where Trigger having less meant that they could be better designed, more unique, and better written. The amount of characters in Cross almost entirely killed the Dual and Triple tech feature, which was one of the best things about Trigger. And I dunno what FF fans you've met but literally every game in that series gets a lot of hate from different sections of fans no matter if it's deserved or not lol.

[@methodofinstruction1368]

I didn’t like it simply because I found the story to be convoluted and long winded. And the combat was too easy yet too frequent for how simple it was.

[@ombra711]

Radical Dreamers..what my favorite team name!🥰

[@AfterGame]

5:03 Nostalgic? What are you talking about, you just said you never played it before, lol You're just reading Squarenix's press kit, they sent me the same.

[@NoisyPixelNews]

Me (Azario) am the only person on staff who receives those press kits. The reviewers don’t.

[@darickfoxo7986]

Good job exposing these paid reviewers

[@kanetidus]

I comment before I'm watching this review, because yesterday I have seen other 3 reviews and they gave a low score because of the frame rate issue, if the game is at least the same like PS1 (and I know it's better), I have not even 1 problem. I have waited long time time to play this wonderful game again

[@cc4rtwright]

Good review, but some audio snippets sounded a little tinny like you were using a different mic.

[@robertmaguire1067]

Adding this to my JRPG list. Beat my first ever this week....Sea of Stars was a lot of fun

[@danielpaul9523]

Really good game. Glad it got a remaster.

[@GeminiSunrise06]

Nice review, never played it but i'm curious about it. So i'll give it a go

[@jsm2p12]

I never played it too. I only played Chrono Trigger but I always wanted to try out Cross.

[@champdancer19]

It's here finally!

[@samuelviden7412]

I really like the remastered models and backgrounds as someone who played the original to death. They reinforce that impressionistic, dreamlike feeling of the game’s setting. However. The game doesn’t run well. Also, don’t forget that this was one rare 10/10 from Gamespot back in the days.

[@eduardoe3683]

Awesome review. Thanks

[@ignaciogarcia4499]

How is it 2024 I only just found that this had a release in 2022 it’s on black Friday deal on ps store now for £6

[@DrJunkhead]

Aside from the gameplay glitches I'm having. Like sometimes helpful. I'm having instances where I've gone into battle with max spell levels. And then there's another one that's gamebreaking is to get stuck in a state where enemies constantly miss you. I actually do hope it gets patched. Overall I've just played through it and I love it for completionist sake. Some good replay value.

[@deminybs]

oh man I remember playing this game so much as a kid!! And getting the ultimate weapon was the shiz, excited to play it again

[@1712Afterlife]

Also there is character interaction it just comes in certain times of the game like when you get up to the point to where you can and get the monsoon you need to have a couple of people in your party and then go speak to this one guy and you get to learn the oil of their history and how some of them thought they killed him so it really messed up and impacted some of those characters lives moving forward

[@ETXAIL]

The first Smart Review i saw today. The others where a bunch guys saying Stupid things like "I've only played this Game about 4 hours but.... Chrono Trigger Is better"

[@Nersius]

Looking at a few comparisons the touch ups seem to lean heavily into the 80-20 rule. The remaster does not look all that different, yet it's so much better.

[@wudly9195]

nice review

[@GearlessMo]

Maybe... JUST maybe, the positive response from this re-release will spark the ask for a true sequel. I hope...

[@KeepaSkateboard]

Is it comparable to Baten Kaitos?

[@dangy785]

So excited for this

[@NoisyPixelNews]

Let us know what you think of it

[@dreadpyratebubbles85]

Played this game first. I loved it

[@calvinmatthews1527]

Way better than those Star Ocean remakes from a years ago on the PS4!

[@brandonkruse6412]

This is one of those games I tell myself I want to play about once a year and never can get myself to play more than a couple hours :/

[@NoisyPixelNews]

Maybe turbo mode will help you :)

[@brandonkruse6412]

@@NoisyPixelNews I think it may!

[@methodofinstruction1368]

Maybe not. The game play and challenge in combat never picks up. Unless aspects of the story grip you, the games other aspects are kind of bland in my opinion. And the lack of challenge from combat really makes the game a grind when trying to move quickly to the next segment of dialogue.

[@CBlade0]

While it visually looks only somewhat upgraded, at least you can play it on a modern console. Legend of Dragoon soon? Please?

[@syzygy2464]

as far as the original vs the remastered soundtrack, if anyone says there is a major noticeable difference or that the old one is markedly better than the new, they are lying and huffing that nostalgia copium. The songs have not been altered, they're just slightly higher quality. still the same, incredible soundtrack i listened to many times throughout the years.

[@bes5164]

lol a 9/10 :D :D heavy slowdowns, FMVs in 240p, it looks and runs worse than the original.... lol LOOOOL

[@SeanUCF]

If anyone is interested in the story you should check out these videos. This person summarizes the stories in a digestible format and shows how they are connected through a central character. Chrono Trigger kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ2ZhqSYbsh9l8k Chrono Cross kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpPWaoKMjJemZs0

[@Thataaronmurphydude28]

I already have this on my PS Vita because of the PlayStation Network, probably for 10 dollars. Can’t really remember, but it definitely wasn’t more. I know this is only 20 dollars, but I still wonder if I should bother.

[@NostraSamus]

Does this edition offer widescreen support for the Switch? I'm seeing widescreen in your video but the screenshots show a 4:3 aspect ratio.

[@superzellff8179]

4: 3 16:9 ( Stretched/Wide-screen ) or Top/Bottom boarders

[@fieradrake7855]

Nostalgic

[@NoisyPixelNews]

Very much

[@fieradrake7855]

@@NoisyPixelNews love your channel, keep up the great work and stay safe

[@C4Harris]

Hah you brought Poshul to Opassa Beach, way to ruin your date.

[@b.b.s7545]

Poshual getting kicked off the cliff.. 😄

[@MukiMuki688]

This game harkens back to a time before Square lost their minds with storytelling (FF15) Gundam UC0096 Guitar Anime MV kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKqakn-bjJt4oZo King of Fighters 15 Nameless theme Guitar MV kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2qam4anra6aZtk Gundam Hathaway Main Theme Guitar MV (Senkou) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZCUaYabecSmj6s

[@darickfoxo7986]

Square games never really had good story telling with them exception of a few.

[@MukiMuki688]

@@darickfoxo7986 It was good before FF8, then Nomura took over directing and it's all been downhill since. Gundam UC0096 Guitar Anime MV kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKqakn-bjJt4oZo King of Fighters 15 Nameless theme Guitar MV kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2qam4anra6aZtk Gundam Hathaway Main Theme Guitar MV (Senkou) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZCUaYabecSmj6s

[@darickfoxo7986]

@@MukiMuki688 I can see you’re point. Ff1 didt have a story really ff2 story was good for it’s time. FF3 no story ff4 good for it’s time same with 6. What make aqua enix games good is the whole package. Game play, music, likable character and an ok story. Ff7,8,9,10 had good story as well as tactics. The majority of there game have ok story but the total package is what make them great games.

[@emeraldnoir7099]

To this day, I still cannot feed 100 dragons. Had this on my Vita for years and it holds a near 100 star all character save.

[@chronofantasy1987]

It's very easy to do if you put the game on slow mode which you could've done in the original.

[@MdrnRtrGamr]

Hahah trying to read the dialogue makes me feel like a slow reader. 😂

[@countquackula8539]

I heard the original music is still in the game.

[@NoisyPixelNews]

Yea, sorry, this article originally confused us: square-enix-games.com/en_GB/news/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition

[@onnygiriです]

I'm sorry but I think the talking speed is to quick, may you slow it down little bit, thank you

[@saysoun752]

I didn't care for it when it was first released and I tried to play it again and it still doesn't do anything for me. To me, it's simply not a good game.

[@Yusei255]

wish they had fixed the horrid frame rate issue.

[@Danny-px4oi]

I really dont want to think chrono cross is a sequel to chrono trigger cuz cross is a messy story that ruins trigger with a titel that does not have enough charm or likeable characters as triggers more simple but fun members. Sure cross has more depth but even the review saids it, you dont get enough of the characters. If i could describe cross it would be more like a spin off sequel of trigger.

[@NoisyPixelNews]

Spin off for sure

[@LynxxLancer]

The story is hard to understand at first but it's definitely a sequel, not to the characters of Chrono Trigger though, but to what happened after Trigger.

[@chronofantasy1987]

It's exactly as you said. There's a lot of depth. The depth goes so far to have so many tie in with CT and theories as well. Maybe people don't like how there's so many characters and that it's dimensional travel instead of time travel like CT. But it also completes the concept of space and time travel. CT has its own charm and so does this one.

[@pious83]

I think it received more hate for _not_ being Chrono Trigger 2, than anything else.

[@CappuccinO80]

Wish the game was remade ... but like Tony Hawk remake, not FFVII remake.

[@TripperLIVE]

Back then I liked the art style and music. But storyline was too convoluted and battle system too grindy.

[@methodofinstruction1368]

This is also how I felt back then, and still feel now about the game.

[@markrolfe5084]

It's strange to see a diverse score on the reviews, take Nintendo life giving it 6/10 and see one even as low as 4/10, I have even seen a 10/10, opinions seem to be polarising

[@BrandonHeat243]

Not that surprising. Chrono Cross was always divisive. I remember when it came out some loved it, some thought it was average and some thought it was garbage.

[@markrolfe5084]

@@BrandonHeat243 the mixed review are not because they like or dislike the game, but more the framerate performance.

[@VOAN]

A majority of critics prefer better performance and resolution more important than story and gameplay which is why sites like Nintendolife and Push Square gave it lower scores while dedicated sites like RPGFan gave it a 95 out of 100. I would take RPGFan opinion more than than other two though since the framerates aren't really that bad and the visual updates are still good enough to shine with modern titles.

[@LynxxLancer]

NintendoLife played the game for 5 hours then gave the review. That's just what it is.

[@ezg8448]

Looks like they didn't improve the battle frame rate...

[@b.b.s7545]

It's tied to the game. It's a style. At least the load times are better.

[@ezg8448]

@@b.b.s7545 - I know it's tied to the game, but it doesn't mean it can't be changed. If you think it can't be done then I encourage you to try this duckstation.

[@DaBigBlud]

I've played through Chrono Cross multiple times and never got poshul

[@b.b.s7545]

She has some of the most funniest Dialog. Home world Poshal So funny when she got tries to put up a fight but gets kicks off... Comes back and says how rude that was haha

[@orfeas2335]

Unfortunately i did fall for the hype and went against my instinct....and got it....oh boy did i regret that....Yes the multiple characters and story branch was ahead of its time ..-but- today oh god was that an awful and dreadful game. Felt worst than work . Terrible maps leading to dead ends, no quest log, no journal .( I couldn't remember what i had to do if i turned the game off) , constant quest roadblocks upon roadblocks upon roadblocks for no reason, just to make it even more obscenely tedious. Interact detection was also so poor you had to spam a button for something to happen or else you risked thinking you couldn't interact with the object yet leading to more tedious backtracking. The graphics look terrible also for a remastered. I cant drop games unfortunately so i went through the trouble to finish it. One of the worst gaming experiences of my entire gaming career.

[@larkan511]

Really bummed they made the decision to not keep the original OST intact, it's one of the best OSTs of all time. Gonna buy on PC hoping some mods come out to rectify this.

[@dartez666]

It's the original. Nothing changed. It's just uncompressed now

[@TheManaTree777]

Yeah the OST is the same.

[@NoisyPixelNews]

Yea the refined music is what you hear. This article is was what confused us: square-enix-games.com/en_GB/news/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition UPDATE: This article originally incorrectly stated that users can switch between the original and remastered soundtracks. Please note that this was in error and only the refined music can be played.

[@b.b.s7545]

It's the exact Same music just HD

[@jatats7743]

Man. C'mon. You gave this a 9? What did they "remaster"? Very little if anything, adding speed to encounters and a new save system doesn't qualify as remastered in my book. When this game came out, it didn't deserve that high of a score, more like a 7... at best. Quit brown nosing big companies like SE so you can get review copies etc.

[@b.b.s7545]

Game is a Master Piece 😉

[@SeveredLegs]

This video looks stretched.....is the actual game like that?

[@SeveredLegs]

@William LeGod thanks very much for the response. I'm thinking about getting it on PC even though I have it on PlayStation. I'd like to play the radical dreamers thing

[@user-ef7gn4jy6v]

I did not like Chrono cross when I tried it maybe because I expected more Chrono trigger. I'll give it another chance.

[@omensoffate]

Because it’s not chrono trigger

[@user-ef7gn4jy6v]

@@omensoffate That's what I am saying...

[@drizztdourden8111]

Eh, love Cross more than Trigger. But that's just my opinion...been waiting years for it to get at least updated to the newer systems... Also, what the heck is with the whole x game is better than y game and if you don't like x you're not a true fan/don't know what a good game is?

[@joshuaknox2724]

these classic square re-releases are the laziest port out there just minimal effort

[@shizuwolf]

What do you think they should’ve done?

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

I tried it back in the day but didn’t like it since i wanted more Chrono Trigger. I tried again when it came to PS3 as a digital download version of the PS1 game but again didn’t like it. I barely played it though so it might get better. I don’t remember what I didn’t like except it not being Chrono Trigger.

[@omensoffate]

It’s not a sequel to chrono trigger lol

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

@@omensoffate It’s from the same developer and has Chrono in the name and back in the day everyone claimed it was the next game in the series even if it wasn’t a direct sequel. And even if it isn’t that’s what people wanted it to be. Maybe I’ll give it a chance again but I did it difficult to go back to PS1 JRPGs today. Except for FF7 since I’ve played that dozens of times throughout the years.

[@yoso378]

@@omensoffate it was and still is marketed as a sequel to Trigger to this day and its plot literally takes place after events from Trigger. What are you even talking about lol

[@b.b.s7545]

@@omensoffate it's a sequel. Quit saying it's not. The are many characters effected by the Trigger's party actions.

[@captainthunderbolt7541]

The game is just bad without even considering Chrono Trigger.

[@b.b.s7545]

Game is Awesome 👌

[@michaelknight8797]

bias review with bias score

[@grahfkarate1799]

Great soundtrack but completely overrated. No character development, in battle the characters are all the same. Square should have gave Xenogears this treatment

[@FredHerbert999]

The greatest disappointment in my 30 years of gaming. From the perfection of CT to this...it's just sad.

[@omensoffate]

Cross isn’t a sequel to trigger

[@FredHerbert999]

@@omensoffate Not in the traditional sense. More like (mostly) each Tales of game is different It's more of loose spin-off than a sequel. But when you're 11 or 12 year old and you see "Chrono" Trigger and then "Chrono" Cross, naturally, I was very hyped for it. Then I played it and was very sad.

[@Walamonga1313]

CT isn't perfect by a long shot. One of the most overrated games I regret buying

[@FredHerbert999]

@@Walamonga1313 That's too bad. I love it. Unfortunately, when you ppl hyping a game for many years, the. You finally play it, its usually a let down. Thats what happened to me and FF6. I really like the first 10 hours or so, as thats as far as i got as a kid. But as a whole, I don't see why ppl love it.

[@siorai1]

@@Walamonga1313 lmao , cool opinion 🥴🤡

[@CrimRui]

Nice review but dude, you reviewed and showed everything in turbo mode? That was not very professional.

[@NoisyPixelNews]

Haha you try to beat Chrono Cross in a little over a week without it.

[@airdrighmor1439]

@@NoisyPixelNews increasing your productivity is the height of professionalism. Efficiency is king. Keep it up!

[@veghesther3204]

Actually I could do that and it only took me around 20 to 25 hours NOW it should and can take less then 10 with every in game cheat/boost turned on. If your worried about better equipment most Iron base weapons and armors can't be made until the GHOST ship part of the game since before then most enemies/bosses don't even drop Iron to make those weapons/armors at all.

[@Walamonga1313]

@@veghesther3204 Yooo is this the legendary Veghesther?

[@Nersius]

What does turbo mode have to do with 'professionalism'?