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.

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!

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!

I played this game when I was 15 and it had a huge impact on me at the time both from a story and gameplay perspective. I cannot wait to play it again on the Switch. I am hoping that they fix the battle framerate with a patch, but I cannot begrudge Square for only updating the polygonal character models and "airbrushing" the backgrounds for a remaster of a game that very nearly fell into obscurity a few times over the past twenty years.

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

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

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!!!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Radical Dreamers..what my favorite team name!🥰

This game deserved a full remake. All they did was create higher resolution textures, and updated character profile images, music resampling. Serge is the Chrono Cross, or the rip in time between dimensions.

Great review! Can’t wait for tomorrow!

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

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

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.

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.

It's here finally!

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

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.

Awesome review. Thanks

This is my favorite game of all time.

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

Really good game. Glad it got a remaster.

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.

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 :/

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

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.

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

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

So excited for this

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

nice review

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

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

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.

Nostalgic

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.

Played this game first. I loved it

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.

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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.

I heard the original music is still in the game.

Is it comparable to Baten Kaitos?

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.

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"

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

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

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

wish they had fixed the horrid frame rate issue.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

bias review with bias score

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.

As a Chrono Trigger fan, the terrible characters designs and average gameplay of Cross turned me off from the game.

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

The game is just bad without even considering Chrono Trigger.

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.

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

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

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