Chrono Cross – Cane and Rinse No.677

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Time jumping, legendary dragons, and an arsenal of playable characters. Join Brian, Chris Worthington, Leah and Rich as they dissect Chrono Cross, the much discussed sequel/follow-up to legendary JRPG Chrono Trigger. Does it provide a satisfying next chapter or are the Chrono Trigger sized shoes too large to fill?

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0:00.0	I'm Welcome, everybody to the Canaan Rince podcast.
0:32.4	Here in volume 14, issue 677, we will be Crono Cross, the follow-up to legendary SNES-R-PG
0:43.5	Chrono Trigger.
0:45.2	Joining me, Brian Edwards, in this issue are Rich Davison.
0:48.3	Hello.
0:49.7	Leah Hey-Doo.
0:51.2	Howdy.
0:52.7	And Chris Worthington.
0:54.1	Hello. So, Worthington. Hello.
0:56.3	So, Crono Cross, an interesting sequel here obviously comes with a lot of ties and baggage to, however you want to describe it, to the original game Crono Trigger, which is widely viewed by a lot of people as one of the more legendary RPGs to come out of the 16-bit era.
1:16.0	A lot of the same people involved with the making of this game.
1:19.4	It was developed by Square and originally released in the PlayStation, on the PlayStation, excuse me, in Japan and in North America.
1:29.4	Japan was a little earlier.
1:30.6	It was November 18, 1999, with North America getting it in August of 2000.
1:35.6	I could not find a European release.
1:38.6	Was this never officially released in the EU?
1:41.1	Nope.
1:42.3	That's what I thought.
1:43.1	Okay.
1:44.0	So it'll be interesting when we get to that because there has been a release since then
1:48.6	that is available everywhere, which we'll talk about.
1:51.1	But the director of this game is Masato Kato or Kato.
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