chrono cross

Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition has been out for a week now, and I’ve been enjoying it a lot. Some have complained about the framerate issues, which were there in the original game (though a Digital Foundry inspection found the “new” version to be slightly worse at it). Though not without flaws, the game is Square at its creative peak: a wholly beautiful and engrossing world, memorable characters and hard-hitting twists that make it impossible to put the controller down. Then there’s the soundtrack, which has never been bested by anyone.

Square’s controversial classic is finally back from the past! Chrono Cross, which originally released in Japan in 1999 for the original Playstation, has been cleaned up and restored for modern-day gamers. If you missed it the first time, don’t make the same mistake twice!

Late last year, it leaked out that Square Enix was working on a remastered version of the Playstation 1 classic Chrono Cross. It being December, the only possible venue to make such an announcement that month was the Game Awards, and we wasted our time with that entire mess waiting for the official reveal — and got nothing. We wanted to kick Jeff’s arse so hard, he’d kiss the moons! (We did it anyway, but for an unrelated reason.)