{"id":554804,"date":"2026-03-11T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-review-an-rpg-that-haunts-itself"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:54:11","slug":"chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-review-an-rpg-that-haunts-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-review-an-rpg-that-haunts-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition review \u2013 an RPG that haunts itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-review-an-rpg-that-haunts-itself.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nChrono Cross is a time travel tale but it often feels more like a ghost story, albeit one rendered in dazzling, oceanic colours that give every pre-rendered backdrop the ambience of a tropical reef. Teenage protagonist Serge is gathering shells on the beach one day when he tumbles through a portal to a parallel world. This world has a different history: its version of Serge died as a child, his epitaph written in coral high above the waves. Seeking answers, Serge meets a boisterous, Australian-accented girl called Kid, and joins the hunt for a sinister, cat-headed man who is himself searching for something called the Frozen Flame.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis journey sees you warping back and forth between worlds, the basis for a narrative in which every character, place or thing is haunted by its alternative. In one reality, a vast technological complex exists far across the sea; in another, it is a ruin. In one reality, a local man has become an accomplished fisherman; in the other, he is a feverish recluse who worships a straw idol (which you can eventually recruit as a party member). In one reality, the lagoons surrounding a fairy village have been drained, thwarting access to a dragon; in the other, they have been overrun by goblins ousted from their homelands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhere its acclaimed SNES predecessor Chrono Trigger operates period by period, Chrono Cross offers a universe without a past: everything that might have been exists simultaneously, giving rise to a pervasive anxiety as possibilities clash and threaten to cancel each other, a predicament emblematised by the game&#8217;s omnipresent, beautiful but horrifying ocean. This applies especially to Serge, walking the boundary between life and death, existence and anachronism &#8211; an irresolution that feeds into one of the greatest plot twists of the PS1 era. But Serge is also a kind of cosmic janitor, switching dimensions in order both to bypass obstacles and reconcile the tensions between parallel selves, each the ghost in the other&#8217;s mirror.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-review-an-rpg-that-haunts-itself\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-review-an-rpg-that-haunts-itself\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrono Cross is a time travel tale but it often feels more like a ghost story, albeit one rendered in dazzling, oceanic colours that give every pre-rendered backdrop the ambience of a tropical reef. Teenage protagonist Serge is gathering shells on the beach one day when he tumbles through a portal to a parallel world. This world has a different history: its version of Serge died as a child, his epitaph written in coral high above the waves. Seeking answers, Serge meets a boisterous, Australian-accented girl called Kid, and joins the hunt for a sinister, cat-headed man who is himself searching for something called the Frozen Flame. 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