Chrono Cross

Chrono Cross
North American box art
Developer(s)Square[a]
Publisher(s)PlayStation
The Radical Dreamers Edition
Director(s)Masato Kato
Producer(s)Hiromichi Tanaka
Designer(s)Hiromichi Tanaka
Programmer(s)Kiyoshi Yoshii
Artist(s)
Writer(s)Masato Kato
Composer(s)Yasunori Mitsuda
SeriesChrono
Platform(s)
ReleasePlayStation
  • JP: November 18, 1999
  • NA: August 15, 2000
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
  • WW: April 7, 2022
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Chrono Cross[b] is a 1999 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. It is set in the same world as Chrono Trigger, which was released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Chrono Cross was designed primarily by scenarist and director Masato Kato, who had help from other designers who also worked on Chrono Trigger, including art director Yasuyuki Honne and composer Yasunori Mitsuda. Nobuteru Yūki designed the characters of the game.

The story of Chrono Cross focuses on a teenage boy named Serge and a theme of parallel worlds. Faced with an alternate reality in which he died as a child, Serge endeavors to discover the truth of the two worlds' divergence. The flashy thief Kid and many other characters assist him in his travels around the tropical archipelago El Nido. Struggling to uncover his past and find the mysterious Frozen Flame, Serge is chiefly challenged by Lynx, a shadowy antagonist working to apprehend him.

Upon its release in Japan in 1999 and North America in 2000, Chrono Cross received widespread acclaim, earning a perfect 10.0 score from GameSpot.[3][4] The game shipped 1.5 million copies worldwide by 2003, leading to a Greatest Hits re-release and continued life in Japan as part of the Ultimate Hits series.[5][6] Chrono Cross was later re-released for the PlayStation Network in Japan in July 2011, and in North America four months later.[7] A remaster of the game, titled Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition[c] was released on April 7, 2022, for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One.

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  2. ^ Seiji Narita; Nick Mosier (April 12, 2022). "Chrono Cross remaster performance issues has the original game's art director perplexed". Automation Media. Archived from the original on May 6, 2022. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  3. ^ "Chrono Cross". GameRankings. Archived from the original on October 20, 2007. Retrieved July 27, 2007.
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