After seeing the thread about great soundtracks in video games. It was decided that we should have a poll to determine which soundtrack was better:
Chrono Trigger? or its sequel Chrono Cross? You are more than welcome to leave your reasons below!
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
After seeing the thread about great soundtracks in video games. It was decided that we should have a poll to determine which soundtrack was better:
Chrono Trigger? or its sequel Chrono Cross? You are more than welcome to leave your reasons below!
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross has so many memorable songs. Radical Dreamers, Dream of the Shore Near Another World, Scars of Time (just to name a few). Most epic video game soundtrack.
Frog's Theme, Battle with Magus, and To Far Away Times were three of the best tracks I've ever heard. For its time it was the best soundtrack in a game and to me the best 16-bit soundtrack of all time.
Chrono Trigger, but both are awesome. Chrono Trigger has my favorite soundtrack period, and I'm a huge game music aficionado. I'd probably say that Scars of Time is the single best song in any video game, though.
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Okay. I searched for Chrono Cross on Amazon. Now what?
All jokes aside, I think Chrono Trigger has a better soundtrack. Just about every battle theme, world map themes, town themes, etc, is great. Chrono Trigger is up there as one of my favorite video game soundtracks. While it's behind almost everything from Hitoshi Sakimoto and Michiko Naruke, some of the Castlevania music(unknown artists on the CV, CV3, and SCV4, or Michiru Yamane on SotN) as well as a few more games, it's definitely high on the list.
I've actually played through Chrono Cross more than Chrono Trigger, but Chrono Cross has nothing memorable in my opinion. I had to search Chrono Cross music on Youtube to remember any of it. The music on Chrono Cross was decent enough, but not much of it really stood out as good music. I think the best music on Chrono Cross was Dream of a Shore Near Another World.
I dislike Cross too, but I wouldn't let that affect the fact it has some good music.
On the whole Trigger has a far more enjoyable and listenable soundtrack. I wouldn't say games click with me due to music but in Trigger's case it certainly helped the allure. It's a memorable soundtrack too, where I can easily recall the likes of a dozen good songs from different areas without much effort.
Cross does a really appealing song for me, Voyage Another World. Gale (normal battle) is ok, but it really pales in comparison to the original from Radical Dreamers. That game also seems to have some decent tunes.
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I hope you guys that don't care much for the Chrono Cross soundtrack aren't holding the game against it. I can relate because I didn't like the game much and for years I didn't give the soundtrack a chance. It wasn't until the unpleasant memories of playing the game had faded that I began to truly appreciate its music.
It's not a great game, but it's also not a bad game either. I think the main reason would be that it's not as good as Chrono Trigger so automatically people think the game sucks.
Other than that there are quite a few problems with the game. Way too many useless characters, most of which are unlikable, not too great a storyline that's tries way too hard to tie itself to Chrono Trigger. Just a few examples.
Cross' soundtrack problems are similar to its game's problems. Too much why aimed for a lot of it feels missing. There are SO many tracks and probably 1/3 are amazing.
Compared to Trigger, which the game and the soundtrack were so neatly wrapped that there are very few loose strings to pull at.
In summary, Cross is good, Trigger is everything it wanted to be.
Are you saying you didn't like Funguy!?!?!?!
I actually liked having all those characters to choose from. Mixing and matching your party members was a blast (IMO).
I guess I just have a completely different opinion then anyone else about this game. I thought the music in Trigger was blown out of the water by Cross's. To each their own I guess.