I love taking Leena around from beginning to end. I wish Chrono Cross explored her relationship with Serge a bit more. The possibility of her developing feelings for an alternate universe version of the childhood friend she never had -- and an innate competitiveness and jealousy she'd subsequently feel against Home Universe's Leena -- would have been interesting topics to explore.

Riddel is best girl. Love her character design and techs.

Glad to know Marcy is actually good. Always picked her back then. Love to slap enemies!

Great video! My favorite character is Radius. I know he's not the best, but I really like mentor characters, and playing with mid-tiers is usually more fun for me.

Serge, Glenn, & Kid.... especially fighting the last dragon

Thank you!!

The artstyle in this game is so good. All the texture work, the smooth animations, it's really impressive that it is running on the ps1.

Beautiful work. Thanks for the content 💪

2nd video I saw of yours, first being the tales of vesperia list (which I'm currently playing). Saw this one when I opened your channel and had to watch, because I love anything Chrono Cross. Cool to find another Resonant Arc fan, too. I definitely agree with most in low and Sh*t teir, however I wish Razzly and Norris were higher... but I don't generally use them after Serge returns; So, I guess fair. Great to see some Leena love, she absolutely is a hidden gem in the game. This game has one of the most colorful cast of characters in the industry. Good video.

Thank you. This was helpful with the remaster. :)

Leena placing so high makes me so happy. I always chose to bring her along and keep her active in my party in every playthrough.

Wow these characters look amazing. Each one is so unique. Irenes and Marcy are soo pretty.

Great list! I found myself agreeing with pretty much everything you said. Chrono Cross is my favorite game, so I'm glad that folks are still talking about it. Here's hoping we get Chrono Break someday. :)

I absolutely loved chrono cross. It gets too much needless hate.

Nice to see some Chrono cross content, subscribed

great list and great video

Oh. The era when Suikoden influenced a whole console RPG generation. And just like in Suikoden, I used not even a quarter of who was available.

I love the Chrono Cross content! Very cool RPG and dear to me. I feel like playing the game with the Relief Charm hacked in from the start is practically mandatory, because otherwise you only have two slots with which to make use of the other 40+ characters. Also, Serge is OP and steamrolls the game. Especially because in this game, stat gains are scaled up with actual use. Anyway, awesome list man. When I saw Pip, I knew this video would either be good or shit depending on if you mentioned that the mechanics are broken. So you know your stuff, which surprised me.

Every song in this game is beautiful

I loved this video, though it was a little eye-opening that I probably wasn't playing this game super optimally when I played it for the first time a few years back. Pip, Poshul, Sprigg, Mojo... Not only were those characters I used in my playthrough, but they were some of my personal favorites to use in the game. Heck, Poshul was even in the team I beat the final boss with alongside Radius and Serge. I'm not sure why I was so drawn to such bad characters. Maybe I enjoy a challenge? Maybe I heard they were bad and wanted to prove people wrong? Maybe I just liked how weird some of them were? But I guess it doesn't really matter because this is certainly the kind of game you can still have a lot of fun playing with a sub-optimal team, and it's kind of a testament to how well designed it is that you're able to do so!

As a kid I never had the heart to leave kid for dead. I wanted Glenn so badly but I couldn’t do it lol. Now I am playing through the “remaster” and now I have no such reservations lol.

Learned some kool stuff here. Thanks! But sadly my final char choices were basically yours. Kid, Serge, Lynx, Glenn, Harle for the win. Didn't know Lena was a boss though!

I was young and needed the main characters in at all times. So back then it was always who would be 3rd to Serge/Kid/Lynx/Harle and when only one of them was available, Leena comes in with an additional 3rd wheeler. I played it a few times over and the 3rd wheel bounced between Norris, Riddel, Grobyc, Fargo and Razzly.

Great video again! Personally like Chrono Cross a lot, but character-wise they could have really gone a bit more quality over quantity (it fits that as shown in the video, a lot of them are also useless in battle...).

Leena and Janice were my picks to go into battle with Serge. Glad to see I'm at least half good at picking teams.

Resonant Arc's reviews are pretty good - I watched their all of their podcasts of Xenogears and was happy with their coverage of it. They go far in depth with the backstory too.

Pip is one of my favorite character that I love to use often despite the broken bug that makes his stats completely garbage. But I’ve always played the game with an interest of characters over quality anyways so it never bothered me.

This list is based on the endresult after 100 playthroughs right? After everyone is maxed out or something? Because I played the game 2 times (never game+), and I had characters that were wery strong that are only in low and mid tier (ex starky with his plasma gun, after that viper with his personal sword were for a long time the hardest hitters) and characters that weren't that great but are up in the list (for ex gaill, and harll as you pronounce it :D)

I love Riddel and Miki but mostly for their character designs. Although Riddel is a fantastic magic user so she was always my favorite and never left my party. OMG I forgot about Guile... def best boy!

Dude, this is a super solid list. CC is one of my favorite games of all time, you got a sub and I'm looking forward to checking out your other content. That said... Run that pronunciation of Guile back by me again..? Guy-ill. Your mispronunciation is dangerously close to the Chinese slur for white people! Hahaha. Edit: Also my traditional party was typically Serge, Kid, and Glenn. Although I'm really fond of Harle, Orlha, Fargo, Nikki, Skelly, and Viper. Serge, Kid, Glenn feels "right", like a true successor to CT, although I suppose you could sub in Leena for Kid and get about the same general feel.

Great vid. You should do a video of Trails of Cold steel 4 man

Great looking video! With 45 playable characters I am surprised that I only disagreed with you once. Keep up the good work.

Ah yes, 'Guilo', everybody's favorite Chrono Cross character...

How did u capture the gameplay and why does it look so clean? Is this on an emulator?

I'm loving this video today...

As soon as that music plays at 7:29, I lost focus listening to the commentary. I played the game years ago and that beautiful music still lives rent free in my mind.

I agree greatly with this list; I did my own daily deep breakdown of CC characters on the Facebook fan page and came up with roughly the same conclusions

I always love to pick Glenn and Harlee on the party! it’s quite surprising that they’re not just good for their looks but also good for the battleground

When you get that clown girl can you keep her when you turn back into human or does she automatically leave when you turn back to Human and if you can keep her through the whole game once you get her on your team how so

Harle is amazing

I'd put Zappa in the mid tier just for his blacksmith ability. You can access the blacksmith ship anywhere from the world and didn't have to go to towns continuously.

character designs and animations are so good in this game

Razzly lovers where you at?? Best Fairy!

Rough around the edges is a great way to describe this game, but as a stand alone? Fantastic!

Glenn is on screw kid tier. Seriously who got this guy on their first run, i had to restart my entire game when i learned i missed out on him lmao

I thought of Pip as a minigame in a very fun and relaxing game

I agree with the list placements. I recall playing the characters more the higher up they were.

I think you should take into account dual and triple techs. Some characters get used only for who they tech with, which gives them a bit more usefulness

The basic squad so Serge, Kid and Korcha, Glenn, Fargo, Guille or Razzly (this one as medic). Remaster is coming on April 7th, so I will check it again. Can't wait!

I really enjoyed discovering Pip's strengths and it's diversity

I always used Serge, Kid, and Orhla cuz I liked their skills and design! I had no idea I had a busted team!

That sound track is still amazing to me

I would actually place Doc in Mid tier based on his final tech. It literally heals everyone completely and boosts the party’s Attack and Magic. I usually mitigate his ok grid by making him support/debuff.

Broke my heart when you pronounced Harle's name as 'Harl', instead of 'Harley', like Harley Quinn / Harlequin.

I'm not surprised most of my favorites are in the mid to low tiers.

Miki was underrated as a red. Didn’t really saw her name being mentioned a whole lot or looked as a competent characters.

This song is soooooo good...

Serge, Glenn, Leena. However! If you put the work in, Pip is like ChuChu over there in Xenogears. You can make Pip OP, and Pip can use multiple exclusive elements. Like, say, Blue and Black.

This is an objectively excellent list.

Spot on list. I personally would put orlha/kid/fargo on god tier but that's just my own bias. lol

I usually use Riddel and Leena. Sometimes i change Leena for Glenn. But Riddel is the best! And i never swap her with any other characters.

Serge, Kid, and Glenn is my usual party, you can honestly get by with just Serge and Glenn, I just used Kid cause why not.

This video shows up while I watch the announcement of the remaster

My favorite party was always Serge, Guile, and Glenn as I found them latter two to be so interesting. There are a lot of cool characters in the game though.

It's nice to look back at this video and watch after playing the game myself. I think you rated Janice too low. Miki had the same magic as her when I recruited Miki, and I had Janice for quite a decent portion of the game. My final team for my first playthrough was Serge, Fargo, and Janice. And Janice had never left my party since the Grand Slam tournament.

Macha, Poshul and The blue transformer lady were my fav

Personally I think they marketed this game wrong. It was advertised as a sequel to Chrono Trigger. I would have preferred going into it as a stand alone game, then have my mind blown towards the end when CT is finally referenced. Guess I can't argue though, I bought it the day it came out because of Chrono Trigger, but it wasn't what I expected and took years for me to finally appreciate it.

Having played through Radical Dreamers as a kid, I always couldn't help but use Serge, Kid, and Guile.

When I was young I choose one of each element/opposite because I usually don't two of the same colors. Now I just use who I love. White/Black - Serge, Lynx, Riddel, Starky, Harle(I wish you playable in more chapters of the game) Red/Blue - Miki, Marcy, Irenes, Leena Yellow/Green - Razzly,Glenn, Karsh My party is usually Serge,Glenn w/ either Miki or Marcy

I'm shocked how many of those characters I remember nothing about...Good sign to play it again.

I love Leena she’s my fave character

I was so bad at Chrono Cross. The game ended so abruptly that I KNEW I missed A LOT of points in the game. I don’t even know more than 1/2 of the characters that you’ve mentioned.

A couple questions of this really cool-looking game: 1) Can i play this in Europe(Finland)? Does a PAL version exist or something? 2) Are there any multi-hit attacks, and/or can you break the damage limit(with 1 hit, or a multiple hit combo totaling way over it)? 3) Are there summons, & do you control them, or not? 4) Are there any uber optional bosses in the game, or are they much easier than in FF titles?

I want you to know I didn’t skip a single commercial lol fun list!

This game is a masterpiece.

I rank some chracters a little higher than you did and here's why: - Pip, 1 tier above: Stat wise he isn't great, but the ability to choose what he evolves into (demon = physical oriented, angel = magic oriented) and the fact that you can make him become any innate you want makes it some kind of "wild card" chracter that you can build however you want. - Sneff an Van, 1 tier above: if you're feeling lucky, try out these guys. I once used HPShuffle and suddently he had around 800 HP while everyone was at like 250 HP XD. Van's level 5 tech is basically a "X Field" of a random color. If you get lucky, you can pull out summons quiclky. If the other two characters are of different colors, there's a 1 in 3 chance he picks a good one. Not too bad for early on, I think it's worth a shot. - Sprigg, 1 tier higher: some of Sprigg's monsters have access to elements you don't get for a long time (example: the TotalChaos with an early BlackHole) plus, changing from and changing back refreshes the elements. She's the one character who, theoretically, has an infinite supply of elements. - Janice, 1 or 2 tier higher (and not because she's my favorite): I agree that her stats are bad for a caster and that's why you give her buffs and "TurnX" elements! Make her you support and you won't regret it! She can only equip carrots of which there's only two in the game, one she starts with, the other is in the final dugeon. This means that 1) She starts with her second strongest weapon and 2) Her final weapon can be FOUND instead of crafted so no BS in farming Shiny materials. Don't like Janice? Disassemble that Betta Carotene for an extra Rainbow Shell! Also, she can get her lv7 tech as soon as she joins (she can't equip it until Star Level 30 though) - Draggy, 1 tier higher: build him on Stamina Recovery and he can hit 19 recovery! He recovers so fast I use him during the Dario fight and stun-lock the boss. He's a furious caster! - Norris, 1 tier higher: give him Starky's gun found in Arni and he starts melting enemies. Apply Strengthen and Eagle Eye (along with a Turn X element maybe) and watch the damage. Later on, there are better characters, however, and he starts to lag behind a little. But early on, man he's good!

I always find it interesting how people pronounce some of the character names. I pronounce Serge like 'hair day' so "Sair Gay" Guile "Guy ole" and Harle as "Har lee"

man about 10-15 years ago i was playing the game not knowing about all its secrets and discovered halfway i missed half the characters and there is a way not to save kid, lol. That made me play it twice with even more fun

and i still remember how i got defeated again and again by cryosphinx due to wrong answer.

IMO Turnip should be higher up. Sure he has average stats, but he has very high STR. On my last playthrough he had even higher STR than Serge and given a support for Serge and himself, he hit really hard. If you saved Kid then I love using him since I would miss out on Glenn. I had Fargo as support/stealer because blue is much better than red as support (over using Kid) and found his damage to be higher too.

Nice !!!

Final Party (From back in the 90s) *Serge *Leah *Karsh Musta loved them axes.

I was always a Serge, Guile, and Glenn trio type of guy. Although I think my first play through I used Zappa and I’m really not quite sure why.

Serge, Glenn and Leena was my perfect party. Sorry Kid, first I don't travel with you then I don't save you 😅 I just love those two too much

Awesome ranking! I honestly don't know why they decided to put Sneff in as a playable character, and then give him all around trash stats, when his character design, goofy as it is, should mean that he'd be at least a good mage character...Lord knows the yellow innate is in need of good magic users.

Serge, Glenn, whatever you need at the moment

I found Glenn to be a top tier with his high attack defense and his combo's with serge are high damage and look cool

orhla is my favorite character in the game bcoz of her sisterhood skill really love that skill hahaha

To me the best char is and always will be Harle!! Great character development, great stats and oh those skills!! Especially her Lunairetic one! If only you could use her in the whole game... which is basically what you said in the video. I am glad we agree on her! :)

Chrono Cross is back!

Van is an amazing character and probably one of the best in the game. His physical attack that damages all enemies is incredibly powerful, especially when combined with the fact that buffs (like hawkeye) on 1 stamina have the effect as buffs on max stamina. He and Guile (for similar reasons) will absolutely demolish most of the game.

9:00 did you just call Guile "gwee-low?" its guile, like street fighter, hes mysterious and he has guile, hence his name. Otherwise you graded them exactly how i would have. I hold Fargo in alittle higher esteem..His grid isnt THAT bad, He can steal from enemies and his Invincible skill is prolly the hardest hitting in the game (if used against opposite elem of course) When Harle joins Linx, its never good idea to have 2 black elem characters, IMO Glen is much more useful then Harle. Shes also not a perm character so if you invest in her and grow to love her..she just leaves, meaning you will always have to find a sub for her when she leaves. My perfect team was always: Serge, Leena Glenn, otherwise great vid man!

Leena best girl. Watching her bonk stuff with a ladle and then nuke them with icebergs is wonderful. Also, it's hard not to love her for the story.

"This song is so good..." couldn't agree more.

I love both Orlha and Steena!

Back because of the remaster 👍

Amazing game, unless you are person who expected too much.I played Cross first and love it and also really enjoy Trigger However, Serge/Lynx top tier Glen crazy good if you get double swords After that Orhla is really good but meh mag/Guile crazy good element grid late game Most characters after them are pretty balanced and the game is not hard enough to min/max Honorable mentions that are great- Groybyc, Kid,Leena, Fargo,Karsh Anyone else is meh tbh Except Harle but she is not always available Liked and subbed good list. Best end game imo is Serge/Glenn/Orhla but literally its Serge/Glenn and flex tbh Leena may be better than Orhla but you can easily breeze through with out her broken techs. I just like Orhla always a must use imo and hert ide quest is fun

if you dont bring riddle while fight darius. damn its hard as hell

I thought i was weird because im main leena all those time ago. When most of my friends not even using her. Guess my old self is smarter than i thought

Is it even possible to get all these guys?