Ocarina of Time is a timeless masterpiece, it really does nothing wrong and is influential to all of 3d gaming. Similar to Chrono Trigger, the way I view these games are both amazing because of their simplicity. Ocarina of Time's simplicity all around is what makes the game so good, it doesn't try to go above and beyond with its narrative and keeps a very solid and compelling story. The gameplay and level design is so well done everything to me this playthrough was very interesting a joy to go through even on my 4th run of the game. Did almost all the content in this game this run too just missing out on a few skulltulas but did collect everything else and the way the game connects itself through both timelines is really great.

Ocarina of Time is just a super compelling journey the whole way through. The way the game develops overtime is so so good with how as a kid your tasks aren't that big and you are just going alone with what a princess told you to do and leads into a epic journey crossing through time and fighting practically a god. The game knows how to raise the stakes and you feel it. The game gets so much praise and it really does deserve it in my opinion.

Chrono Cross had the impossible task of following up Trigger and while not everything about the game is amazing, it's worth seeing through till the end. The game does a lot right, good battle system, fun characters, nice world and an instant favourite OST. It's just got a really weird narrative, it flip flops between wanting to be its own game and also tying into Trigger heavily. Compared to Trigger narratively, this is much more focused around a main story and not character based like Trigger. The game still has good characters but the fact it has 45 playable characters feels wasted, I recruited almost everybody as you could in the initial character and there's only really maybe 5-8 that I could tell you about which is unfortunate because I feel if you just had a centered main cast the game would be a lot more consistent narratively striking a good balance between cast and main story.

Cross is a weird game in all though, it get fairly convoluted towards the end and some game design choices towards the end of the game some people won't probably be a fan of, the ending overall is pretty good in my opinion. The soundtrack is easily my favourite part of the game though, Yasunori Mitsuda became a top 3 VGM composer for me and even if you don't plan on playing the game you should definitely listen to the songs he did on this game.