People, you can save the game when you press Y while going through the hallways.
An interesting text adventure which feels rather generic for most of the playthrough, though in its short lenght it does plant clues for some interesting backstory for the few characthers roaming around the castle, which comes around really well at the end with a beautiful, hallucinogenic finale, though it's left open, I believe to lead into Chrono Cross. Oh, and the characthers don't travel in time to solve their traumas like in the prequel.
"She lived on, enduring a much sadder fate... Running from her past and fearing her future, she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up in the surging waves of the vortex of time"
An interesting text adventure which feels rather generic for most of the playthrough, though in its short lenght it does plant clues for some interesting backstory for the few characthers roaming around the castle, which comes around really well at the end with a beautiful, hallucinogenic finale, though it's left open, I believe to lead into Chrono Cross. Oh, and the characthers don't travel in time to solve their traumas like in the prequel.
"She lived on, enduring a much sadder fate... Running from her past and fearing her future, she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up in the surging waves of the vortex of time"
Game Review - originally written by Gideon Zhi (founder of Aeon Genesis Translation Group)
Radical Dreamers is a visual novel set in the Chrono Trigger universe. It is a pseudo-sequel to Chrono Trigger itself, and is commonly referred to as the game that inspired Chrono Cross. This is true to a very great extent, but if you're expecting CC on the SNES or anything even vaguely similar to CC, then you're going to be sorely disappointed.
RD plays very much like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel. Text is displayed for a while, and eventually you will be prompted to make a choice based on the text. You navigate the mansion that way, you fight battles that way, and in fact, you do -everything- that way. So if reading isn't your thing, then you're not going to get much enjoyment out of the game. If you like to read, however, you're in for a treat.
At the core of any novel - whether it's pushed as a paperback or hardcover book, a PDF file on some website, or a game like this one - is its story and its writing. Demi's team has gone through great pains to ensure that the writing is second to none; in fact, you could probably pass this off as a major literary work. I can't imagine how many pages it would be if it were printed in book form.
The story is a good one as well, one that Cross fans will be familiar with. It follows Serge, Kid, and Magil through Viper Manor in their quest for the Frozen Flame. They go through a number of interesting rooms, encounter a number of fearsome beasts, and meet a number of interesting people. There's the development of a relationship between Serge and Kid, there's the mysterious past that Kid wants to get revenge for, there's the ever-driving hunt for gold, gold, and more gold. On the whole, it's quite a good read.
Combat, as I mentioned, is text based like the rest of the game. Serge does have “health” and you can “die”, and the results of your actions won't always go the same way each time. Each time you get hurt by anything, the game lowers Serge's health a little, and eventually the text accompanying his state of being will alter as well to give you an idea of how badly injured he is. The whole system is nothing really groundbreaking, but it can work against you if you have incredibly bad luck. The game isn't very long though, so hopefully, health won't be an issue.
Graphically and aurally, the game ranges from decent to good. There are a few truly beautifully done areas in the game (most notably the study) but while most of the graphics aren't really anything groundbreaking, they certainly suffice and get the point across. The sound and music fare about the same. Many of the tunes in Radical Dreamers were remixed for use in Cross, so some of them may be familiar while others probably won't. Again, my favorite theme has to be the one that plays in the study.
All in all, if you like reading and you're a Chrono fan, give Radical Dreamers a whirl. It'll fill up an afternoon, anyway, and even if you've managed to get all three endings to the main scenario, there are still six or seven other sub-scenarios that you can read through once you've gone through the main for the first time. I haven't played any of them, though, so I can't say much about them, but I thoroughly enjoyed the main chapter.
Radical Dreamers is a visual novel set in the Chrono Trigger universe. It is a pseudo-sequel to Chrono Trigger itself, and is commonly referred to as the game that inspired Chrono Cross. This is true to a very great extent, but if you're expecting CC on the SNES or anything even vaguely similar to CC, then you're going to be sorely disappointed.
RD plays very much like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel. Text is displayed for a while, and eventually you will be prompted to make a choice based on the text. You navigate the mansion that way, you fight battles that way, and in fact, you do -everything- that way. So if reading isn't your thing, then you're not going to get much enjoyment out of the game. If you like to read, however, you're in for a treat.
At the core of any novel - whether it's pushed as a paperback or hardcover book, a PDF file on some website, or a game like this one - is its story and its writing. Demi's team has gone through great pains to ensure that the writing is second to none; in fact, you could probably pass this off as a major literary work. I can't imagine how many pages it would be if it were printed in book form.
The story is a good one as well, one that Cross fans will be familiar with. It follows Serge, Kid, and Magil through Viper Manor in their quest for the Frozen Flame. They go through a number of interesting rooms, encounter a number of fearsome beasts, and meet a number of interesting people. There's the development of a relationship between Serge and Kid, there's the mysterious past that Kid wants to get revenge for, there's the ever-driving hunt for gold, gold, and more gold. On the whole, it's quite a good read.
Combat, as I mentioned, is text based like the rest of the game. Serge does have “health” and you can “die”, and the results of your actions won't always go the same way each time. Each time you get hurt by anything, the game lowers Serge's health a little, and eventually the text accompanying his state of being will alter as well to give you an idea of how badly injured he is. The whole system is nothing really groundbreaking, but it can work against you if you have incredibly bad luck. The game isn't very long though, so hopefully, health won't be an issue.
Graphically and aurally, the game ranges from decent to good. There are a few truly beautifully done areas in the game (most notably the study) but while most of the graphics aren't really anything groundbreaking, they certainly suffice and get the point across. The sound and music fare about the same. Many of the tunes in Radical Dreamers were remixed for use in Cross, so some of them may be familiar while others probably won't. Again, my favorite theme has to be the one that plays in the study.
All in all, if you like reading and you're a Chrono fan, give Radical Dreamers a whirl. It'll fill up an afternoon, anyway, and even if you've managed to get all three endings to the main scenario, there are still six or seven other sub-scenarios that you can read through once you've gone through the main for the first time. I haven't played any of them, though, so I can't say much about them, but I thoroughly enjoyed the main chapter.
Nao sou muito de jogar VN's,mas eu gostei.
Chrono Cross foi meu primeiro jrpg e continua sendo um dos meus favoritos e assim como o jogo base,essa VN continua com uma ost muito boa.
A historia tbm é legalzinha,uma coisa q fica clara nessa Vn é o tanto q o Serge é apaixonado pela Kid,maluco fica ate bobo quando ver a loirinha de olho azul.
A gameplay é aquela tipica de vn's,vc tem opções de onde ir e quando tem algum combate vc tem q escolher rapido alguma opção.
Eu peguei o primeiro final,é q o final bom,mas nao pretendo ir atras dos outros.
Chrono Cross foi meu primeiro jrpg e continua sendo um dos meus favoritos e assim como o jogo base,essa VN continua com uma ost muito boa.
A historia tbm é legalzinha,uma coisa q fica clara nessa Vn é o tanto q o Serge é apaixonado pela Kid,maluco fica ate bobo quando ver a loirinha de olho azul.
A gameplay é aquela tipica de vn's,vc tem opções de onde ir e quando tem algum combate vc tem q escolher rapido alguma opção.
Eu peguei o primeiro final,é q o final bom,mas nao pretendo ir atras dos outros.
PlayStation 5 version as part of Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers collection.
The ending, Kid's personality and ost made it worth it. But the "random encounters" sucked.
It's decently fun. It straddles the line between being an adventure game and being a visual novel, and it doesn't always work (random encounters and the needing to go back and forth so many times is tedious as hell), but it's decent. My only real gripe is that the official translation is kinda meh, and removes one of the biggest "this is a Chrono Trigger sequel" bits in favor of a bizarre translation choice.
This review contains spoilers
Nah this wasn't great. Back and forward through a bunch of forgettable spots. I HATED Kid and when she randomly is like "i feel like im losing a battle" out of NOWHERE at the end i laughed. But, i liked everyone else and the music was great. Story was FINE.
this game not having load file option in the menu costed me having to replay the game again so i could get the clear data to do extra endings
Worth a read IMO. Very interesting to see how many concepts remained the same before they were implemented into Chrono Cross. Not a must play, but if you liked Chrono Cross, it wouldn’t hurt to kill an afternoon with. Don’t expect that Chrono Cross’s story to make any more sense, though.
The prototype of the game that JarinJove hates so god damn much.
It's peak fiction.
It's peak fiction.
You probably don't often hear the word "stunning" used to describe a visual novel, perhaps less so a late 90s SNES image-light one, but that's exactly what Radical Dreamers is; it's compelling and visually appealing in equal measure, captivating and brisk. It's still incredible to think that we got an official localization of this a solid 25 years after its initial release -- having been a Satellaview exclusive, the game was all but lost to time -- but as someone who grew up loving Chrono Cross to pieces it was well worth the wait.
Of course, that Chrono connection is a huge driving force for chasing this one down in the first place. Radical Dreamers is writer Masato Kato's in-universe follow-up to Chrono Trigger, albeit much moodier and more pensive. Without spoiling much at all, it isn't very clear that it's related at all from the onset. Much of the story and characters are instantly recognizable to anyone who's played Cross, and for good reason -- Kato was dissatisfied with the end product and ended up rolling a ton of RD's elements into production of Squaresoft's PS1 classic, right down to key pieces from Yasunori Mitsuda. Hearing the original versions of stuff like "Gale" and "The Girl Who Stole the Stars" makes sense when you realize you're accompanying Serge and Kid on an adventure through Viper's Manor, but they were surprisingly no less affecting in a new setting than their Cross counterparts.
Aesthetically, Radical Dreamers is a proper treasure -- although there are very few graphics to speak of, the game's beauty lies in its prose and presentation. It's a clean game with no excess, very simple screens and choices to make, and not a ton of mechanics to track. You're really only tasked with keeping some kind of mental tabs on Serge's fortitude and Kid's affection, both left sort of vague outside of more general "you look okay" or "I'm pissed at you" kinds of statements. It's the sort of gameplay integration that leaves players to infer via text what works and what doesn't without any real kind of UIs or menus to speak of, lending to Radical Dreamers' clean presentation. Humorous dialogue is peppered throughout the heist, and even perilous sequences are described in crunchy detail. It's all punctuated by beautiful image accompaniments that range from the mundane (hallways, stairs, spooky doors) to the majestic (blood circle, final sequence), taking on a richly suspenseful tone.
All things considered, it's a fairly short campaign (the initial run only took me about 3 hours and the alternate endings seem considerably shorter) so it's definitely the kind of game I could recommend for a lazy Sunday afternoon or even just some bedtime reading. It's even included alongside the remaster of Chrono Cross, so you don't have to exert any extra effort to pick this up alongside a masterpiece RPG. Definitely give it a spin if you're up for a quick, fun read.
Of course, that Chrono connection is a huge driving force for chasing this one down in the first place. Radical Dreamers is writer Masato Kato's in-universe follow-up to Chrono Trigger, albeit much moodier and more pensive. Without spoiling much at all, it isn't very clear that it's related at all from the onset. Much of the story and characters are instantly recognizable to anyone who's played Cross, and for good reason -- Kato was dissatisfied with the end product and ended up rolling a ton of RD's elements into production of Squaresoft's PS1 classic, right down to key pieces from Yasunori Mitsuda. Hearing the original versions of stuff like "Gale" and "The Girl Who Stole the Stars" makes sense when you realize you're accompanying Serge and Kid on an adventure through Viper's Manor, but they were surprisingly no less affecting in a new setting than their Cross counterparts.
Aesthetically, Radical Dreamers is a proper treasure -- although there are very few graphics to speak of, the game's beauty lies in its prose and presentation. It's a clean game with no excess, very simple screens and choices to make, and not a ton of mechanics to track. You're really only tasked with keeping some kind of mental tabs on Serge's fortitude and Kid's affection, both left sort of vague outside of more general "you look okay" or "I'm pissed at you" kinds of statements. It's the sort of gameplay integration that leaves players to infer via text what works and what doesn't without any real kind of UIs or menus to speak of, lending to Radical Dreamers' clean presentation. Humorous dialogue is peppered throughout the heist, and even perilous sequences are described in crunchy detail. It's all punctuated by beautiful image accompaniments that range from the mundane (hallways, stairs, spooky doors) to the majestic (blood circle, final sequence), taking on a richly suspenseful tone.
All things considered, it's a fairly short campaign (the initial run only took me about 3 hours and the alternate endings seem considerably shorter) so it's definitely the kind of game I could recommend for a lazy Sunday afternoon or even just some bedtime reading. It's even included alongside the remaster of Chrono Cross, so you don't have to exert any extra effort to pick this up alongside a masterpiece RPG. Definitely give it a spin if you're up for a quick, fun read.
I love this visual novel so much and very happy it finally got an official release outside satellaview. I would recommend playing Cross before reading it though as it gives away some of the major twists for Cross.
Both the fan translation and the official translation are outstanding and have their differences with some quotes and jokes, but gets the same story perfectly across painted with strong imagery alongside a good blend of humour, suspense and tearjerker moments.
On the gameplay side of things Radical Dreamers sports an health gauge not visible to you despite being occasionally expressed through text and an affinity gauge with Kid. Otherwise the novel's interactivity is built on exploring Viper's Manour by picking routes throughout a very consistently structured maze.
Just make sure to save a lot to avoid dying from some of the random encounters and Kid's affection rate depending on most of your choices can take you away from the true ending if you piss her off too much.
A very solid 2-3 hour read with incredible music and ambience fit for a rainy day or dark nights.
Both the fan translation and the official translation are outstanding and have their differences with some quotes and jokes, but gets the same story perfectly across painted with strong imagery alongside a good blend of humour, suspense and tearjerker moments.
On the gameplay side of things Radical Dreamers sports an health gauge not visible to you despite being occasionally expressed through text and an affinity gauge with Kid. Otherwise the novel's interactivity is built on exploring Viper's Manour by picking routes throughout a very consistently structured maze.
Just make sure to save a lot to avoid dying from some of the random encounters and Kid's affection rate depending on most of your choices can take you away from the true ending if you piss her off too much.
A very solid 2-3 hour read with incredible music and ambience fit for a rainy day or dark nights.
this couldve been an email
It's a neat text-driven adventure.
Storytelling is very straightforward and simple.
The narration includes pictures, some animations and some tracks. This is done to make the experience more engaging than reading a book. It's extremely short and can be cleared in less than two hours.
Nowadays this type of interactive experience has evolved in every aspect possible. This is the reason why Radical Dreamers: Le Trésor Interdit feels dated. It is a good product in view of the context it was released in, but it definitely lacks the features of a cult classic.
I rank it higher due to its contribution to the 'Chrono' series. It expands the lore in a fascinating way and gives familiar characters more spotlight.
Storytelling is very straightforward and simple.
The narration includes pictures, some animations and some tracks. This is done to make the experience more engaging than reading a book. It's extremely short and can be cleared in less than two hours.
Nowadays this type of interactive experience has evolved in every aspect possible. This is the reason why Radical Dreamers: Le Trésor Interdit feels dated. It is a good product in view of the context it was released in, but it definitely lacks the features of a cult classic.
I rank it higher due to its contribution to the 'Chrono' series. It expands the lore in a fascinating way and gives familiar characters more spotlight.
It stands on its own as a unique little adventure game. However, the greatest value you'll find in Radical Dreamers is as as piece of supplementary material to Chrono Cross – for Radical Dreamers is essentially a four-to-five hour expository exercise to fill in some of the blanks about Kid, one of the main characters of Chrono Cross whose backstory, motivations and psyche are left somewhat vague in Chrono Cross proper.
It's the missing puzzle piece to Chrono Cross's infinitely-labyrinthine narrative, and cements Chrono as my favorite game series. A must-play if you've any investment in Chrono Cross, especially understanding the unique and unorthodox way in which Kid is written and her characterization is fleshed out.
It's the missing puzzle piece to Chrono Cross's infinitely-labyrinthine narrative, and cements Chrono as my favorite game series. A must-play if you've any investment in Chrono Cross, especially understanding the unique and unorthodox way in which Kid is written and her characterization is fleshed out.
Serge and Kid have a cute relationship. It's interesting seeing the heroine being more experienced than the hero, for once. Being a SNES VN gives it a very unique atmosphere and the music is great. The random encounters are annoying as hell, though.
The fact that the outcomes of some of combat encounters are entirely randomized is really annoying, but other than that it's a pretty neat text adventure that's a very interesting bridge between Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, more thematically than in terms of story and gameplay.
The random encounters (often with random solutions) ruin it
Curiosa propuesta cuanto menos... Una especie de aventura gráfica con toques roleros que termina siendo bastante entretenida; aquí le juega a favor su corta duración para no hacerse cansino ya que termina teniendo poca variedad de situaciones y escenarios.
Es tan curioso que es el único juego de la "saga" Chrono que tiene un protagonista con una personalidad definida y que habla, además una personalidad bastante atípica para lo que suelen ser los personajes del jrpg y lo que te esperarías que es Serge viniendo de Chrono Cross. Porque sí, recomiendo jugar Radical Dreamers después de Chrono Cross, aunque su lanzamiento fuera anterior te "spoilea" una revelación bastante clave de Chrono Cross, casi que la más clave de todo el juego y que le da sentido como secuela.
Cuenta una historia bastante entretenida, con una narrativa que no está nada mal y aunque no me haya parecido un gran juego mola bastante jugarlo después Trigger y Cross y ver un juego del mismo universo tan diferente, con sus referencias, sus diferentes finales, etc. La verdad que lo recomiendo para fans de la saga Chrono, sobre todo para jugarlo en tercer lugar y cerrar la saga (espero que hasta ahora) con este interesante expermiento para satellaview.
Es tan curioso que es el único juego de la "saga" Chrono que tiene un protagonista con una personalidad definida y que habla, además una personalidad bastante atípica para lo que suelen ser los personajes del jrpg y lo que te esperarías que es Serge viniendo de Chrono Cross. Porque sí, recomiendo jugar Radical Dreamers después de Chrono Cross, aunque su lanzamiento fuera anterior te "spoilea" una revelación bastante clave de Chrono Cross, casi que la más clave de todo el juego y que le da sentido como secuela.
Cuenta una historia bastante entretenida, con una narrativa que no está nada mal y aunque no me haya parecido un gran juego mola bastante jugarlo después Trigger y Cross y ver un juego del mismo universo tan diferente, con sus referencias, sus diferentes finales, etc. La verdad que lo recomiendo para fans de la saga Chrono, sobre todo para jugarlo en tercer lugar y cerrar la saga (espero que hasta ahora) con este interesante expermiento para satellaview.
really wanted to like this one, but nope, sorry, it's just boring as fuck. and i say this as someone who's read some decently long VNs before, this honestly would have worked way better if it was just linear instead of making you walk back and forth through the same 3 boring hallways trying to find the one item you need to progress. and also the "combat" sucks ass too, basically every instance of it is totally unnecessary and they only serve to pad the runtime. every attempt at shoving what one might be able to call "gameplay" into this is a massive fumble and the game woulda been better without it.
i died at the circle of light (place within like 20 minutes of the end) cuz i picked the wrong option (didn't even know you could die in this game up to this point) and the game just unceremoniously kicks you back to the veeryy start. safe to say i wasn't gonna go through the past 2 hours of slow text scroll and bullshit again (oh yeah, this game doesn't have a skip/ff option like 99% of other VNs do) so i just pulled up a longplay and watched the rest.
i'm glad I didn't play through it again since the ending is certainly not bad but still feels really derivative and trite imo. i feel like the whole game was building up to something and the ending just doesn't deliver anything all that resonant. sure, some vaguely "cool" things happen, but unless you wanna get really artsy (something I don't think this game was going for), there's gotta be some sort of catharsis and the story just does not deliver in that aspect. the last like 5 minutes of dialogue feels so generic, if you told me it was plucked right out of another RPG i'd believe you. the game clearly wants you to care about its leads but doesn't try like at all to make that happen, aside from just giving them basic character archetypes and hoping you like them.
maybe play this if you like reading the same 5 boxes of text over and over again? actually don't, don't do that. it gets points though for the music, which is pretty good all things considered
i died at the circle of light (place within like 20 minutes of the end) cuz i picked the wrong option (didn't even know you could die in this game up to this point) and the game just unceremoniously kicks you back to the veeryy start. safe to say i wasn't gonna go through the past 2 hours of slow text scroll and bullshit again (oh yeah, this game doesn't have a skip/ff option like 99% of other VNs do) so i just pulled up a longplay and watched the rest.
i'm glad I didn't play through it again since the ending is certainly not bad but still feels really derivative and trite imo. i feel like the whole game was building up to something and the ending just doesn't deliver anything all that resonant. sure, some vaguely "cool" things happen, but unless you wanna get really artsy (something I don't think this game was going for), there's gotta be some sort of catharsis and the story just does not deliver in that aspect. the last like 5 minutes of dialogue feels so generic, if you told me it was plucked right out of another RPG i'd believe you. the game clearly wants you to care about its leads but doesn't try like at all to make that happen, aside from just giving them basic character archetypes and hoping you like them.
maybe play this if you like reading the same 5 boxes of text over and over again? actually don't, don't do that. it gets points though for the music, which is pretty good all things considered
"If you wish to steal the jewel from Lynx...If you truly wish to triumph...You will have to let go of a treasure of your own, Kid.
For as long as you cling onto it, the hands of your clock will never move. They'll stay exactly where they came to rest, all those years ago."
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"I remembered everythin'. I remembered another me. A me from a long, long time ago..."
Slowly, kid averted her gaze, looking up at the night sky.
"I have to go."
The stars reflected in her eyes, and suddenly she looked like nothing more than an ordinary young girl, with a sad, distant expression on her face.
"Kid..."
"Don't worry, Serge. I'm okay...We'll meet again."
Kid smiled.
“We'll meet again...somewhere, someday...
Some...time... Promise..."
"I didn't manage to nick the Frozen Flame in the end...
And I lost the Time Egg too--the only thing I had left of Lucca's...
But...it's okay. Everything's gonna be okay.
There's something inside me that shines brighter’n any stupid jewel.
The most important thing in the world."
She opened her eyes again and fixed them on me.
”No one can take it from me...not for as long as I live..."
There was nothing else in the world I wanted but this. I doubted I'd ever want anything again. I only wanted this moment. All the clocks in the world could have stopped right then and there for all I cared.
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And so ends another tale.
Perhaps, one day, I'll see Kid, Magil, and Riddell again...
One day.
Somewhere...At another time...In another world...
Perhaps none of us will even realize it.
But that's a story for another day.
For now, I must put down my pen...
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If you have played Chrono Cross, the above quotes will probably elicit a reaction of absolute despair and melancholy from you, yet also leave you with a taste of something hopeful and sweet, knowing where the story goes next. I really adored this little VN, and wish I had experienced it sooner.
For as long as you cling onto it, the hands of your clock will never move. They'll stay exactly where they came to rest, all those years ago."
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"I remembered everythin'. I remembered another me. A me from a long, long time ago..."
Slowly, kid averted her gaze, looking up at the night sky.
"I have to go."
The stars reflected in her eyes, and suddenly she looked like nothing more than an ordinary young girl, with a sad, distant expression on her face.
"Kid..."
"Don't worry, Serge. I'm okay...We'll meet again."
Kid smiled.
“We'll meet again...somewhere, someday...
Some...time... Promise..."
"I didn't manage to nick the Frozen Flame in the end...
And I lost the Time Egg too--the only thing I had left of Lucca's...
But...it's okay. Everything's gonna be okay.
There's something inside me that shines brighter’n any stupid jewel.
The most important thing in the world."
She opened her eyes again and fixed them on me.
”No one can take it from me...not for as long as I live..."
There was nothing else in the world I wanted but this. I doubted I'd ever want anything again. I only wanted this moment. All the clocks in the world could have stopped right then and there for all I cared.
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And so ends another tale.
Perhaps, one day, I'll see Kid, Magil, and Riddell again...
One day.
Somewhere...At another time...In another world...
Perhaps none of us will even realize it.
But that's a story for another day.
For now, I must put down my pen...
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If you have played Chrono Cross, the above quotes will probably elicit a reaction of absolute despair and melancholy from you, yet also leave you with a taste of something hopeful and sweet, knowing where the story goes next. I really adored this little VN, and wish I had experienced it sooner.
es muy muy lindo y no deberías saltártelo si tienes pensado jugar la saga Chrono
El prota se hace pajas 24/7 con la primera piedra en forma de teta que ve.
yeah. yeah. the vibes are all here
Cc nos quitó al serge horny
The ending blew my brain into the sky
Interesting mainly for it's connections to Chrono Trigger, which are kept subtle enough to let to this story breathe. Other than that, it's a pretty unremarkable adventure game about a stock rpg party and their tiny quest.
There's a few simple puzzles, some pretty interesting side stories for minor characters and then it ends. Not a bad time.
The combat sequences are all very fun the first time around, but don't have enough variation for the amount of times they get reused. Had they not repeated themselves, they would have had a much stronger impact on me.
There's a few simple puzzles, some pretty interesting side stories for minor characters and then it ends. Not a bad time.
The combat sequences are all very fun the first time around, but don't have enough variation for the amount of times they get reused. Had they not repeated themselves, they would have had a much stronger impact on me.
i'm just grateful this masterpiece exists
yeah, definitely played in a satallaview
If you took my average rating across a video game series, the Chrono franchise would easily be on top. Chrono Cross, flaws and all, is still in my top 10 favorite games, and I still consider Chrono Trigger the best game ever made. Unknown to most fans though, there is actually a third Chrono game, which for many years remained somewhat obscure, until the Chrono Cross remaster brought into greater consciousness. Radical Dreamers is technically the second game in the series, released for the Japanese-only Satellaview SNES add-on, and previously only available in English via a mid-2000s fan translation. The game features three characters -- Serge, Kid, and Magil -- as they attempt to break into a manor and steal the treasure inside. For most of its playthrough, Radical Dreamers seems to have nothing at all to do with Trigger, only dropping vague references, waiting until the end to reveal that the entire game is meant to answer the open fate of one of its characters. For those who have played Chrono Cross, this plot will sound incredibly similar. Indeed, dissatisfied with how Radical Dreamers turned out, its plot would be reused as the basis of Chrono Cross, so far as to reuse much of this scenario in that game, when Serge, Kid, and a third party member break into Viper Manor near the beginning of the game. Somewhat ironically, I think the characterization shown here is much better than we got in Cross, as Kid and Serge actually have a relationship, and the connections to the first game are much more solid (Magil has a heavily hinted upon connection to Trigger, while his modified Cross version Guile is a completely discardable character). The game itself is a visual novel with some exploration and light combat thrown in. It's somewhat engaging, and the music is excellent, but I can see why the developers wanted a do-over. There's a hidden and somewhat arbitrary health and relationship stat which will determine how the ending goes. In addition, it carries on the tradition of silly alternative endings, but those are probably best viewed online. I think if you're a fan of the series this game is worth playing, simply to get some additional insight into the development of Cross, and to spend more time in this world. Besides, if you know where to look while playing Chrono Cross, you can find out that this game is not entirely forgotten.