This year I saw it on sale on the PlayStation Store, and was determined. At one point I tried to start it up on an actual PlayStation (which I eventually bought a few years later for super cheap) but never got more than a few hours in. I was a big fan of Chrono Trigger and the sequel had a large, diverse cast of characters, interesting battle system, and an amazing soundtrack. Leaving it unfinished has been hanging over my head for years. Unfortunately I reached a point about 3/4 through where my game consistently crashed during a boss fight in Chrono Cross. I was becoming more and more of a PC gamer at the time, but still loved a few Japanese RPGs, such as Suikoden 2 and Chrono Cross. I purchased and originally played both of those games on an emulator on my PC.
A PlayStation emulator existed, but you needed to own the actual game discs for it to work. 8-bit and 16-bit games were easy, but modern CDs proved tricky. We were going nuts over being able to download ROMs of SNES games and play them on our PCs. In the late 90s/early 2000s, emulators were all the rage. I actually owned Chrono Cross before I ever owned a PlayStation. Chrono Cross is still an amazing game whose early 3D graphics have aged better than most, but it’s not without some major design flaws that somewhat tarnished my teenage memories. Now, almost two decades later, I finally did. But my secret shame is that I never actually beat the damn thing.
I even named one our cats Lynx, and yeah, he’s kind of a jerk. It’s one of my all-time favorite RPGs, hell one of my all-time favorite games. I have a somewhat complicated history with Chrono Cross. Adventuring through my backlog of games, one game at a time.
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