I love how you can pinpoint the exact moment when the writer started hitting the blunt

There's no way the 10 year old me understood all this.

CT - "I'm going to break new ground in storytelling and character development." CC - "yo dawg I heard you like multiple characters, so we added 3 thousand. And every future AT ONCE! Are we cool now?!"

Though a tad late, a heartfelt Thank You to every sub that has helped this channel reach past the 40k mark. I sincerely appreciate the patience and enthusiam of the community that supports and shares every adventure in this RECAPitation journey. EDIT: Amazing how the main activity in the comments is arguing how to label the relationship for Chrono Cross to Chrono Trigger/Radical Dreamers. Spiritual Sequel? Non-linear Sequel? Not a Sequel? [I don't care, personally, its just another adventure to me, so don't try and drag me into this debate] Next RECAPitation will be: Suikoden 2

This video needs some supporting diagrams, mapping out relationships, timelines, different dimensions, ...

I lived in Southeast Asia my entire life and enjoyed all the RPGs of my childhood - standing on top of them is the Chrono series, with Cross on top of it. While a lot of people hate it and are unbelievably baffled by it, I want to believe I fully understood its message and lore (consumed from Chrono Compendium). It is exhilarating, beautiful and unbelievably sublime. I felt every emotion of all the characters and grew to love them. I created head canons for each one character and somehow was able to connect to them in some way, shape or form. I say this is in my top 5 PSX JRPG, with Final Fantasy Tactics, Chrono Trigger, FF8 and Legend of Legaia being my personal choices. They made my life so much better. They educated me better, helped me grow to the great values of honor and fortitude while helping me deal with my personal demons as both a child bullied at school with a growing existential crisis. I will always stand by Chrono Cross and believe that, together with Chrono Trigger, that it is the best IP I would ever have played my entire life.

and another jrpg starting with "good morning sleepyhead, time to wake up". it's the law.

I wanted to love this game as much as I do Chrono Trigger. I really did. CT did multiple time paths well, and managed to weave discarded timelines in to a well stated, cohesive narrative. CC is more like what happens when someone's hyperactive preteen writes fan fiction, and lets her equally unmedicated ADD friend edit it.

Holy crap! I've played this when i was 9 years old and loved it! I've replayed again last year(now i'm 25 y.o.) and it was a BLAST! A superman punch right on my nostalgia. This is probably one of the best games ever made in the history of videogame; The music, the plot, EVERYTHING. Congrats on nailing everything right, you did an AWESOME job, and gained a new sub. Love from Brazil!

One of the best soundtracks ever, thank you.

So to summarize best: The story exists as a result from the defeat of Lavos in 1999, basically caused a split in space/time. In the 2300 AD Lavos destroyed alternate universe the Mother Brain or FATE controls events through time in both universes with a time travel device that can manipulate humans throughout history. So its the protagonist job to put an end to this add in some convolution and BAM.. Chrono Cross

I love this game. I was lucky enough to play this before I learned it was actually a sorta-sequel, and thus was able to judge it on it's own merits before I played Trigger, resolving the only big issue I had as a kid with CC, being the CT specific plot elements. I hear a lot of people say that it "ruined the heroes accomplishments" by making them seem like a bad thing. But I always knew (speaking about real life here) that actions have consequences that people really don't and/or can't predict. Looking back on them both, I recognized the problem of what happens to timelines that just end suddenly and found it a compelling plot point that a lot of time travel stories don't really explore. I think this game is a nice example of writers making a sequel story work when they clearly weren't planning ahead of time for there to be a sequel to the first game.

I’m glad to see someone cover this game more fully. Interestingly enough you can actually skip two boss battles in this game. The first is by going through the volcano without going to the Water Dragon Isle (you don’t actually NEED to freeze the lava to make it through, but it’s suggested) and the second is you can skip fighting the Black Dragon.

I can't believe you managed to make Chrono Cross digestible.

This is still my Favorite game of all time. Its hard to say that when I loved the lunar games and Xenogears.

What is Chrono Cross? My childhood game. And my first ps1 game ever.

Any thorough video about my favorite game deserves a like

This was just as complicated in explanation as it was in play and I STILL LOVE IT😂👍👍

With how complex the story is and how epic the music is I'm not surprised that people involved in Xenogears helped make this game. I played this game back in the late 90s. I forgot how the story tied into Chrono Trigger so this video was enjoyable to watch. I'm definitely going to go back and play this game again for the experience and to recruit all of the party members I never got the first time around.

Wow,so amazing,the story is so convoluted but it is still in my top 5 games of all time,absolute perfection. Well done recapitation, you really explained everything as it is,a bit difficult to understand everything right away but this is exactly what modern RPG games are missing,a story that sucks you right in and even when it is finished makes you question everything :)

"And help him out of the strange Van Gogh realm" xD That made me laugh so hard xD

Lesson learned: don't do time travel so things won't get complicated

And I thought Kingdom Hearts’ story was all over the place

One of the few RPGs I couldn't explain to friends after finishing it :P

I fuckin love the music in this game! Especially the main theme. Although not as good as the o.g. chrono trigger theme chrono cross's gives me a distinct feeling of wonder. Marvelous

What an endeavor it was deciphering this hodgepodge of convolution. Fantastic job!

I remember playing this game and initially being very disappointed because it didn’t have the distinct feel that Chrono Trigger did. However, I picked it back up again after many many years and found it to be a rather great game in its own right.

I hope give Vagrant Story the Recapitation treatment in the near future.

I still don't know what happened. And I played the damn game.

Now I feel nostalgic and old.

This story got me so cross eyed, I formed a full on double helix

As a side note, Lavos was feeding off the planet for thousands/billions of years, not merely hundreds.

One of the first RPGs I ever played. I'm so happy u did this one!!!

I loved Chrono Trigger, I was so hyped for this. I got it on release and beat it... I couldn't remember a thing about it, until I listened to this.

Still... confused... ugh...

Everything about this game is heaven! One of the best memories of my childhood. The greatest piece of art i can remember

Spiritual Sequel? Chrono Cross is an actual sequel, it does not only build on elements from Chrono Trigger but is the following chapter--after Radical Dreamers--concluding the story Chrono Trigger began! The "Hydra Humour" has NOTHING to do with a humorous bone--which connects a scapula to radius and ulna of the forearm! "Hydra Humour" refers to Hippocrates' Theory of Humorism which theorizes the healthy body has a balance of four "humors"--blood, black bile, phlegm, and yellow bile--with disease being attributed to humor imbalance. You are sent after the Hydra's internal fluid to make an antivenom. Though Lynx did grab the Dragon's Tear after acquiring Serge's body, he never left with it. Lynx revealed his reason for the body-swap to be Serge's body is the key to FATE, not the Dragon's Tear. Lynx immediately crushes the Dragon's Tear before destroying the dragon idols which is why there were shards which Karsh collected in the "Chamber of the Dragon Tear" before passing them on to the party as the Tear of Hate. ...everything else seems spot-on though!

Best game I ever played, best soundtrack I ever heard, loved story and characters, and the reason behind my love for RPG games😊

One of my favorite ps1 games. Played it when I was about 12, so alooooot of the story kind of went over my head 😅

I remember so little of this. Thank you for the summary -- I failed to absorb so much of this, and it's nice to revisit it now that I'm older without devoting 80 hours to a replay. :)

My one complaint with Chrono Cross is that even though they bring back Schalla, they didn't bring back Magus who ended Chrono Trigger looking for her. I know that one character with amnesia is supposed to be him, but it is not Magus. I guess I also hated the fact they killed off the heroes (time relevant) from the first game.

RIP Razzly -_- Haha but I agree Glenn does have more weight to the story... Good job! I missed these videos!

Thanks a lot for the summary!! I didn't understand much of this when I played it 18 years ago, but this sure is really part of my childhood. Spent most of my summer breaks and weekends playing this. SO NOSTALGIC.

I remember playing and liking it. I don’t remember much of it. This video is great to help me relive the game without actually replaying it. Very well made man. Subscribed.

My mind and body is ready for this RECAPitation 😁

one of the most unnecessarily hated games ever. I feel it would have been in the legendary games category if it didbt have "Chrono" in the game title. But it actually connected the games well...even if it wasn't a direct sequel with the same cast. Also, imo it has the best soundtrack ever. Mitsuda even pulled from it in some sections of xenoblade chronicles 2. Morytha has an eerily similar mood/sound to the dead sea

Such a great sound track to this game. Probably my favorite ever. I wish this game got an HD remake.

Glad to see a new video from you. I will always drop anything im doing to watch. Thanks for everything!

Hey very good video!!!!!! Chrono Cross is my favorite video game, there is something at the very end that I have not been able to bypass, after finishing Terra Tower and having Nikki in your party, if you go to Another World and sleep in Fargo's ship Nikki and Fargo will have a convo talking about their counterparts and Fargo just states his kids died and screen just stays there, I bought two other copies thinking it was the disc! If you could check this out I would appreciate it!

30 minuites later *Brain.exe has stopped working*

During the first encounter with Miguel in the Dead Sea, you mention Lavos having fed on the planet for 'hundreds of years'. I chuckled. I think you meant millions.

I'm replaying this and legend of dragoon right now both are such great games

This was wonderful I love the chrono series thanks for making this great video. :)

What was the start of all this? When did the cogs of fate begin to turn? Perhaps it is impossible to grasp that now, from deep within the flow of time. But, for a certainty back then, we loved so many and hated so much. We hurt others and were hurt ourselves. Yet even then, we ran like the wind... whilst out laughter echoed... under cerulean skies. Always liked the beginning. Never got to the part where all of the CT references came rushing in. They should have put a few closer to the beginning to hook us. They'd have sold twice as many copies or more.

My favorite game of all time. I like how you casually beat Garai and Miguel- both of those took me forever as a 4 year old.. awesome video .

Favorite part was playing as Lynx. I was so annoyed when you shift back to Serge

Man I just replayed this. It's an imperfect sequel but a damn near perfect game. I feel like the massive cast of characters fits the theme of the game; everyone is fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things and the world is going to do what it does regardless.

Good to hear you again, Oni

Wow....I think I need to replay this game sometime, as I either forgot or for some reason, missed that Kid and Schala were connected. My only issue with Chrono Cross are some of the bosses, some of them would act effectively as massive roadblocks for me, looking at you Dario & Garai. The game I feel is a good sequel to Chrono Trigger, hell, I believe it is a good ending to the series, this game, so much awesome!

Great job explaining such a complex story! I really enjoy this series and look forward to more in the future!

Keep up the good work dude!

Chrono Cross is the first JRPG I've finished and it's still my favorite to this day. No other soundtrack can even come close to this game's soundtracks even now. I wish SE would atleast re-release the series or remaster them properly on current and next generation hardware.

This game brings back some great memories, man , I miss my friends

God bless u OBM. I've been waiting for this

One of my favorite games helped create my now gamer name as well as background for my own OC. Being comprised of both serge and lynx unifying their souls in a different timeline

This game is a master piece... Imagine if Square actually put the Magus story in it? Daaamn, it's only a dream now

yep indeed . this is my all time favorite game. favorite soundtrack. if ill be reincarnated and be in a game world. ill pick this game.ill be with the fishing old man sitting and just enjoy the view

Awesome recap

Shit, I've now realized I've never finished the game, I killed the dragon god, but never fought lavos and Schala!

This game may not be in my top 10 RPGs but that intro song is just beyond amazing.

That abrupt ending and the song just hits in the feels. Damn this game was great. Ty for the content

I just started a series on this game! That's how I found this video. Good recap vid. I'm glad people still haven't forgotten about this amazing game

omg i started to play this game last week too!!! after i havent played this game in YEEEARRRSSS :) love this game! i wouldve loved to seen a prequel to this and sequel to CT. That whole Radical Dreamers game.

Dude thanks for this. Always love to listen to these. Looking forward to ur work in the future!

Man I love your vids they're great for lucid dreams.

Please do a recapitation of the first Dark Cloud on the PS2. Also, I never DID get past Fort Dragonia in Another World.

Wow... 9 year old me was NOT ready for all of that, the only part I can say i understood from my first playthrough was how FATE really had everyone playing out how it should've... Past that I was just mesmerized by the beauty that was Chrono Cross. Thankyou for explaining this so well!

a great game that connects the story with trigger, i still play it to this day, wish there was another sequel.

Man i missed ALOT in my first 2 playthroughs of this!

I played this when I was like 5 and I've been trying to find the name of it for years. Been searching "jrpg where you play as ghost blue haired kid that figures out he is dead." I had a very comprehensive understanding of the games story

i've always thought leena is some kind of manipulative partner for serge. it is like a toxic relationship where he has to do whatever she wants

Man, Crono’s team had it rough. Crono and Marle - magic users and defeated a planet eating alien only to be defeated by snotty Dalton and his Porre army. Presumably killed during the Fall of Guardia. I hope not Lucca - kidnapped by Lynx and Killed Magus - devoted his life to find his sister. Wasn’t even mentioned in the CC, even by his sister when she was rescued from the TD. Was Magus and Guile the same person or is it Serge who’s Magus in this timeline? I need a third game or a remake to fully smoothen the story. Robo - badass character with a Rick Astley theme. Killed by FATE. I guess Ayla and Frog only had natural deaths. Although Ayla married an inferior Kino and Frog let her love of his life, Leene, marry an older man and had his Holy Sword became corrupted Edit. 35:32 Kid and Serge got married? Poor Leena

Chrono cross sold over 1.9 million copies worldwide. However, I highly doubt even 25% of those actually understood the convoluted story.

29:14 Is.. Is that an Olmec Head?

Really appreciate this. I didn't really understand the story that well when I was younger and played this, but this cleared a lot of things up for me. I already enjoyed the game a lot, but this video only makes me appreciate the game more.

All I have to say is... Although the game was confusing af to follow, the soundtrack was impeccable. The gameplay was fresh for it's time and this will forever be a part of my top 5 games of all TIME. I'm now 33 and still upset that they never continued with Chrono Break... If I had the money, the power and the people that could make it happen, I would make Chrono Break happen just so 9 year old me in 2000 can have closure.

This is hands down my favorite game of all time. I remember buying this at Toys R Us back in early 2000’s, the new Disturbed Down with the Sickness album had just come out too and playing this game, strategy guide in hand, while listening to Disturbed has been cemented into my mind as one of the greatest childhood memories I hold! Thanks for the video!!!

I think I may finally almost kind of understand the story a bit now. Man this really went out there.

Wow, I do not think that I, in no way, had the full scope of this game when I initially played it. All I really remembered about this game is that there were a ton of characters to collect, awesome techs, multiple dimensions, Surge/Lynx personal story, that Kid was an ancient princes, and going to that future island to fight FATE. I also remember enjoying the game so much.

The body swap scene was one of the most WTF scenes ever in a video game

Ahhh, the Golden Age of jRPGs. Still the best OST of that genre and absolute TOP5 of all time among all games.

One of my all time favorite games! Although I was too young to fully understand the story at the time.

Wow, I forgot just how crazy chrono cross is

Great work. Been waiting for this for a while

OMG finally! This is my favourite JRPG of all time.

I remember back in 2013 when i was 10 and i watched my older sister play this game, then after few minutes of watching i got really hooked. So i start a new game for myself and i poured many hours into the game, i remember that i was staring at the menu screen for a really long time before starting the game just to hear the menu music, I will definitely play this game again. Never had such a blast from playing a videogame before.

I remember playing this and remembering parts of this story, but even at 15 or whatever, I don't think I could fully grasp this. Not to mention aren't there like 11+ endings? Insanity.

Young me before getting the strategy guide "yeah, they are gonna force Kid onto my team. I guess I have no choice" and then later me "WHAT?!? I could have totally chosen to NOT allow her to travel with me?!?!? THAT'S CRAZY COOL"

Haha I was curious how you would handle that exposition dump at the end there! Well done! The story is convoluted, it would have been better to weave the exposition into the narrative of the story instead of "this is what happened. Let's save schala." Either way still one of my favorite games of all time 😊

This game very underrated i completed this game many time still confused but it Was amazing