Chrono Cross- Setting Schala free plus true ending
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- The endgame of Chrono Cross, the way to set Schala free and rescue her from the time devourer.
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Exciting news. Chrono Cross remastered is on pre-purchase on steam and will be available to play in April 7th. This rasterization also includes the original Radical Dreamers first time officially translated. I never thought I would live to see this day.
Hype. Already pre-ordered.
I’m gonna wait to be extra sure it’s not like the steam port of Trigger. I haven’t heard good things about it.
@@alcole-holic8779 so far, the only thing they changed is the art, making it enhanced. That's what its shown on the screens.
@@solitaregames oh, in that case I’m looking forward to it
@🍓 FraisiFrog 🐸 re-mastering, sure it brings in money. But also brings back an old franchise to be revived adjusting to this new era's size of resolution.
As chrono trigger and cross fans. Spending time watching clip like this bring me tears. Good old days....
Making me cry since 1999!
i found my Schala in 2003.. but unfortunately i didn't know that i was me, and she was her. and our paths were lost again.
The weight i lifted from my shoulders when I was able to get this ending , I was finally able to breath, I was able to help Belthazar free Schala from Lavos (Time Devourer) and she was finally able to live once again.
What a game, I can't wait for my son to be able to play Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross in a couple of years from now!
It took me a great deal trying to get this ending too. And when trying to understand the chrono cross. But when I did it right... it was an emotional moment.
And now Another Eden's chrono cross event made me relive the nostalgia all over again.
Don't forget Magus can stop searching for Schala because she's no longer a prisoner of lavos, and finally it'd be possible for him to find her 🥺
Chrono Trigger and Cross was ahead of their time, alt realities/worlds/time, multiple pathway/stories, insane character design, music was beautiful
I'm glad these games came out during their time. If they were to come out nowadays, modern gamers will destroy it because it is not straight forward enough or "takes too long"
@@tonyxiong4913 dang.. if this game "too long".. i don't know what they'll said about legend of dragoon..
best games ever. whoever wrote for those games... god damned geniuses
This reminds me of old days where both my parents were still alive how mom scolded me for living and breathing this game and she thinks this game make me crazy for for bursting into tears out of nowhere. I miss the game and I miss my mom she died at the age of 55 I'm now 43. F u for reminding me of those moments I need to cover my self in blanket........... thank you!.........
My 3 best games for ps1 chrono cross,legend of legia and FF8.
my apologies for your loss. Thank you for sharing.
@@solitaregames I appreciate it no need to feel sorry my mom died 2004 and my dad 2010. I just remember it and it was actually a funny situation my mom thinks I'm going bonkers until they bought 2 more units of ps1 and we had it for business most people that come to play are kids and they all cried. Hahah!
@@kanserfungaming40 Chrono Cross is that deep and moving of a story. Even to this day, the ending also gives me the feels.
No joke.
@@solitaregames same here me and my friends and a distant cousin had an argument that I might ask you I just need to go back on the names. I'll comment it out when I'm ready just need real worlds stuff to finish.
That ending was very well done, its almost like even us, irl, have a soulmate looking for us (the player) out in the real world and not behind the game.
Real world...
"i'll find ya... sometime, somewhere... i'm bloddy sure of it!
no matter the time period, no matter the world ya live in, i'll find ya!
i'm sure...
i am sure i will find you..."
We get to play it again, guys.
What an emotional ending! This always bring tears to my eyes :')
This always brought me to tears.
Why is there no Remake of this? People still played this until now. This game was the best ps1 rpg, way ahead of its time.
Honestly speaking, I prefer not. If its going to ruin the game like some remakes had done.
Same reason why I am hesitant for a Chrono Trigger remake.
No need for a remake. We just need a nice clean-up of the graphics. A remaster like Saga Frontier's would be great as well.
i just prefer a remaster rather than a remake. a remake will totally kill the beauty of the game. a remaster with proper graphics could be done... a ton of people asked for it. we are not asking a tripleA game. just a Steam/ps/xbox/switch version that everyone could enjoy...
this game never came to my country (spain) so i played it with... piracy means.. however i loved so so much that since then i never stopped looking for it. until i finally found a physical copy of the game.
Not even an official re-release! This is also one of the only Square games you can buy physical copies of still on the official website. I want it on Steam officially!
@@Nazrat84 link please? Cant seem to find it on the square enix store.
Why did they change the design of Schala to this? That always puzzled me. I liked the blue hair and the Zeal garb.
That always been a controversy. Because even in Radical dreamers, which is the official Chrono Trigger sequel, Schala was blond also.
The last excuse the creators stated was that the Zeal family are not natural blue but dyed their hair to show their royal status.
@@solitaregames well Magus must not have showered ever, his blue hair dye was still there into adulthood!
@@GarredHATES bruh... i dont want to be an ass, but did you just read what you just wrote and how stupid it sounds?
What, you think hair dye can't be made? Or cant be bought?
Or more: can't be magically changed?
Also, it is known people in medieval times rarely took baths. That was a luxury for the rich, and Magus being casted out was no longer a rich.
And monsters arent known for being clean and tidy.
Just ask BigFoot.
Also, why does she look so young? In Chrono Trigger she's 19, but she looks way younger here
@@jimhuffman9434 i dont think its because she looks young. Its mostly because she is flat chested? She also was like that in Trigger. She looks more or less Kidd's age.
Brings tears to eyes still nowadays....... such an epic ending of an absurdly good story....
Full of details, nostalgic characters, masterfull ost,, unique battle system , how i wish(and SO MANY like me) rpg was more RPG like this instead of a bunch of same like dark soul genre.........Seems like the good/ classic have no more place, but i will not let it die, because games like Chrono trigger/ Cross will ever exist. Tks OLD square for this....
Im a fckin Radical Dreamer for life brother
I've just finished chrono cross and wow😮am 39 and played chrono trigger why did I wait all these years😂what a amazing story and game❤
this always touches me so deeply , impossible to not cry on this for me
What a game this is. So exquisitely thought-provoking, folkloristic, spiritual and yet grounded in nature. An absolutely underrated gem
This series is the very best. I tear up hearing Trigger's and Cross' music. No game will ever touch The Chrono Series. The best FF was 6 and no they are different series but 6 and Trigger are the SNES rpg G.o.a.t.s.
This ending still makes me mad more than a decade after I beat it. Want an original story? Too bad, the last half tells you this is going to be about Chrono Trigger. Want to revisit your Chrono Trigger friends? Too bad, they all died horrifying deaths, except Robo who had a horrifying life instead. Want to finally save Schala? Nope, you get annoying side kick that we’re going to tell you is Schala. Want a fun meaningful ending where you talk to the people you met in the game? Nah, how about a slide show about planet sperm?
Im fucking crying... even 20+ years later
I used turn elements on 1st bar to get this ending, it's work perfectly
I don't want just a remaster. I want a bloody remake of this god tier game! Square! make it effin happen!
(I almost forgot that there is a different dialogue from every character, but never tried Leena, since she is moving on from "Serge" / you on her timeline. And as an adult, you also realize that the reason why Kid doesn't have a dialogue is because she was the one talking to you the entire True Ending Monologue. And also the fact that her version in THIS physical world is searching for YOU. now the context of the credits + true ending before that makes sense now, since it doesn't with the normal/bad ending)
This Game set the bar extremely high for what a relation should be... It broke me deepoy
The great loser in this history is Magus: He never can encounter with Schala again.
False. I already found Her.
Trésor Interdit Unlocked. 🔥
Well. Shit
And you can thank Square Enix for that and canceling Chrono Break for Final Fantasy 11.
Oh my God, I m very happy to watch this
Ngl i cried when i realized who kid really was and hitting the notes while casting your elements man what a ride
with you there mate
I used the Chrono cross first it still worked
If Chrono Cross was real life & I was a newscaster, & I was broadcasting Schala's speech live, I would cry, hug the 1st-person I see and just walk away. Quit my job on set & just cry all curled up
Somewhere, in a timeline far, far away, this did happen.
Personally, I really like Chrono Cross. Honestly, the reason why is I never played Chrono Trigger until very recently. For someone saying reason, I've had the game in my collection for the last 7 plus years, but I never picked it up until recently. Now I can't put it down! I just realized what I've been missing for the past, almost 28 news! There is no fool like an old fool!
Well, for me, I think what makes Chrono Cross special was its unique combat system.
The tears... why are they running non stop? Stop it, tears...
i know, the feels man.
Gotta love how they did these games back in the day. How the fuck were you supposed to guess this? I had to read it on a magazine after beating the game
agreed. And if you try this style now, people will complain.
@@solitaregames Indeed. Beats the "Go here, do exactly this" pointer style we got now. I think that's part of what makes the Fromsoft games so compelling.
Yeeeei!! You save schala!! Now it is my turn
Go at it, tiger. I have faith in your skill.
THE SING ALONGS WITH ZUMAS REVENGE SONGS FEATURING KAHTIKI KHAN AND MAGA MAGA
This game is sorely in need of a rewrite. I appreciate the ambition with the plot, but as many an editor will tell you, sometimes the reach exceeds the grasp. This could have been paired down, simplified, and tied in better with the plot of its predecessor. It's still a five star game and easily one of the best RPGs ever produced. But with a little restraint, it could have been utterly transcendent.
It is more like they failed to add all the features. There are locations in the game that feel like they were supposed to have something more. Also at the start of the game, you can go from house to house and find something to collect. Later in the game that is only left to chests. The first disk has like 70% of the game and the second disk has like 30%. Not sure what happened. Probably since the FFIX started development they needed more people
@@Joso997
There's also the matter of it feeling like they just kept adding more and more characters without considering how they'd add to the story. The cast of this game is probably one of the biggest I've seen of any jrpg, but this results in a great deal of characters outside of their introductory story (assuming they even get one) completely losing any sort of character interaction or growth outside of the lines they'll only say if you happen to have them in the party at any given time. Ultimately, for how large the cast is only a very ludicrously small handful of them are actually all that important for more than a couple hours or have any great deal of non-optional lines or involvement in the story.
You can argue that this is sort of common and there are a great deal of jrpg with this problem even into the ps2 era (Suikoden games for example) but even they still had a select main cast of playable characters with importance throughout the story. Honestly, Serge and Kid are like the only player characters with narrative significance throughout, and one of them is a silent protagonist.
Looking back on that, it feels so peculiar that for how big this game's cast is so few of the characters actually mattered. Most character interaction was driven by your enemies, and a lot of characters you met would become potential party members who from then on would only have optional dialogue based on if they're in the party.
@@OsnosisBones Those characters are there for replay value. Not for story points. Not every character is obligated to have lore built around them.
@@Joso997 Your complaint about first and second disc having more or less is par for the course with PS1 games.
The only thing I know that changed was a major character from the first game was supposed to have a key role but he was changed to a minor character. That's about it.
@@FirstLast-yc9lq You pretty much completely missed the point of my comment, or outright ignored it.
The issue isn't lore. Hell, giving a character a bunch of lore only for them to have no story significance is just as if, not more of an issue.
The issue is that for how bloated the cast is, only like 2 or 3 of the characters matter for more than a very small portion of story, and one of those characters is a silent protagonist that barely qualifies as a character.
Most the cast has no presence or impact in the story whatsoever.
For all the enjoyment that can be had from this game, it's still worth noting its major flaws. And that is a pretty big writing flaw, even compared to other jrpgs of the time that suffered similar issues with bloated casts and large swathes of optional members.
Leena in Another World...
So sad -_-
I know, right?
Anyone ever wonder how is Schala hair in cross blonde when she had blue hair in trigger?
they had an explanation for that. Its simple an stupid. Supposedly the Zeal family dyed their hair blue.
@@solitaregames lol.. what a pretty lame explanation.... So Queen Zeal and Janus/Magus also dyed their hair blue?
@@cai11tube yes, that is the explanation they came up with. Its "A tradition of the royal line of Zeal".
The Queen, Janus, Schala. They all dyed their hair as tradition.
@@solitaregames So Magus kept dying his hair for his whole adult life, even in the Mystics/Ozzie time period? The truth is, they messed up when doing the designs for the game (it's specially hard to connect Cross to Trigger when you loose Toriyama designs and the Cross characters designs are really ugly).
@@musicvideoenhancer If you had read what I wrote... you would had understood what I meant regarding the hair difference.
I am aware of the mistake on the hair by design, that is why I said *the excuse/explanation they came with is dying their hair*
The same for Magus/Adult Janus. He kept dying his hair in honor of his sister's disappearance.
And once more, the Blond Hair on Schala does not come from Chrono Cross.
Schala had Blond hair in Radical Dreamers, its even on her design. And Radical dreamers is the true Chrono Trigger sequel.
Cross took the blond hair from Radical Dreamers.
And the designs being ugly? That's your opinion not mine, nor anyone else's.
ANOTHER EDEN X CHRONO CROSS COLLABORATION!!!!!
WE KNOW!!!! And I am actually trying to film it! Sadly I just began Another Eden, and I need to at least finish chapter 25.
I can't wait to play it again, now on Xbox series
Was that Schala or Kid that crossed over to the real world?! This ga,e makes my head hurt lol
it is one f the seven mysteries of gaming. You're not alone on it mate.
@@solitaregames Schala after being left in the undersea palace combined with Lavos becoming the Time Devourer the form of Lavos that is seen here. Kid was a tear drop of Scholas's that was sent through time to find the reincarnation of Crono aka Serge just as Guile is Magus and Lucca was sent to Xenogears to explain the save crystal there is much unsaid.
@@chronojeremy mate, no offense but, I do not think that is what we were talking about.
He is speaking about which version of Schala is the one to make an appearance in the credit cinematic at the end.
And please do not use easter eggs and cameos as if they were facts.
And for one, Serge is not Crono's reincarnation. It would had been said by Crono's ghost or Linx.
If you're using the "Crono Trigger" title to base this theory off, you're doing it wrong as that title is given to those who break out of time.
Plus the Crono Trigger is the original name of the time egg.
Both in Radical Dreamers and Chrono Cross never mention this claim of yours.
As serge is nothing but a simple thief helping magus and kid in the original.
Which is mentioned as an easter egg mentioned in Chrono Cross.
Guile is supposed to be Magus, that is true as the writers were going to make that possibility, but that was scrapped after finding that Magus's story was too complicated to add into the remake.
But they kept the base character in the game.
@@solitaregames No problem the mystery behind these games is always fun to poke at
So since most clearly didnt notice all the details its simple, yes that is Kid "Schala", that was meant as a fourth wall breaker to say she searched our world as well to refind Serge. To give the players the feeling she kept her promise to "find him, no matter when or where" as the way the game ends as you use different party members you can see their reactions along with Kid's. Regardless even if people say she wasn't, it was meant to give the players the satisfaction of Serge an Schala "kid" zeal's story wasnt over with the picture on the desk showing her an a figure in the photo. It's left open to the own personal preference of the player to who the guy in the pic was. But still one of the best games on the psone. An to see it to completetion playing the Chrono trigger remake on the ds gives you the first attempt to save Schala from her fate even though she says they cant with violence or force that is why the Chrono Cross element was so important it was the song of the planet finally healing itself as some point after the original party fought her in the demension beyond is when time split 20 years later with the start of Chrono cross, but best explanation is its a time paradox symptom as they changed the past to better the future which gave us the two different futures that played its roll when explaining the time crash.
Has any one ever noticed that when you activate each element, as part of your action, a musical sound is played. So in an effort to beat the Time Devourer with the Chrono Cross, you are slowly starting the first couple notes of the ending theme.
yeah, I did notice. Its a bit obvious, no? lol
I remember back then my first ending was the bad one, i mean how in hell i suppose to know the correct order of chrono cross? especially when im not very good at english at that time... however thanks to gamefaqs back then i manage to get this ending, i wonder is gamefaq still around today?
it still does. Gamefaqs.
Well, I had the strategy guide so I used that the most.
Right at the end of terra tower when you get on the elevator for the final boss the order rings out there. I've also seen that it's the order in which you had to answer the crio sphinx.
@@ckelcro it is also the order for the melody sequence of the chrono cross.
All of them are clues for player to realise how the chrono cross works.
Hey yo wtf. Why is ethereal by tmxy hitting it when this song isnt? It feels ripped from this.
You are right, it does sound similar. But this Sound Track game in 1999. So maybe Txmy took inspiration from?
you can't find this kind of eloquent writing in modern rpgs. they've been more generic or just full of nonsense since ff13. or maybe it's just me? maybe also due to the fact they have voice acting now and i want to spend less time reading and just watch movies/? whatever the case is, square enix writers / translators have long lost their touch
No, its not just you. I understand what you mean.
I don’t know Chrono cross screws over the original cast for absolutely no reason and it’s impossible to know whether anything you did was worth anything in the end or not Also they messed up Scahla’s age and hair
@@starvoltnexus3139 i thought they died in chrono trigger so wdym
The dialogue in this game is so philosophical and existential
@@unskillfullymasterful the girl you see inside the creature is... schala, she didn't die per se, but got fused with lavos, which is this creature.
real life is hard to live do we all have time line that tells are story of life the game we all play right now
Is that the same Schala from Chrono Trigger? I thought she had blue hair?
Canon wise its the same Schala. And the explanation they gave was that all Zeal royal family members dyed their hair blue to show their status.
Because even in Radical Dreamers schala is portrayed as blond. (and Radical dreamers is the true sequel to Chrono Trigger).
Okay, that actually explains a lot. So thank you. That must mean, story-wise, Schala must of severed all ties with her past.
@@sibbywoo depends on which version. Radical dreamers schala was reborn after getting lost in time by lavos.
In Chrono cross she was trapped by lavish and player has to free her.
But both versions she forgotten who she is and her past.
I'm Chrono cross she regain her memories as princess schala as seen in the ending.
@@solitaregames Oh cool, thanks for the info!
Хорошее оружие дали Лене конечно 👁👁
I got this ending by accident 😁 EDIT: ... on my first playthrough. And I'm not lying. I can swear on anyone but I have no proof.
First you have to know which colors to cast in the right order, AND the boss not interfering in your colors casting is pure RNG. So i don't believe you at all, you need to be beyond stupidly lucky if you get it by accident.
You trollin like a mother
I think you meant the end credits only. Since the normal ending is a bad one since timedevourer teleports and escapes and eventually ends all life.
@@RaptorZX3 The boss follows a pattern, you can predict it and adjust. (I dont remember the pattern because i played it non stop as a kid, but has been a while)
@@RaptorZX3 I was stupidly lucky apparently. But don't have proof to back it up. So sadly, it will remain a lie for most.
Honestly, SE should remake CT and CC with an eye towards unifying the story properly. CT is one of the most beloved games of all time and, alongside a proper follow-up in a "completed" CC, would be a sales juggernaut
But SE would probably find a way to stuff it with microtransactions and NFTs. Its sad that so many Japanese developers forgot how to "business" and started believing the suits should direct game development. Squaresoft was a brilliant company until they got combined with the pile of stool that was Enix.
there will be no remake of CT unfortunately, it cant be done. Because the dream team is no more. And without it, SE will just ruin a masterpiece.
Closest to a CT remake is "Another Eden".
And regarding SE... the company began to sink once they moved the main HQ to California.
How to get Leena?
Leena should join you automatically at the beginning. At least another world leena. (At least it happened with me.)
But you can also get her and Poshuul if you refuse coming with Kid three times when you meet Kid for the first time.
You have to deny to let Kid come with you. Then you wake up in your house and Other Leena comes in and says she's been thinking.
The choice you make with Leena at Beach is important. Pick the first options for all
Then when you get sent to Another World. Deny Kid 3 times and you'll get Leena and Poshul ( if you didn't get him in Home world with Heckon Bone items)
I used the Chrono cross first a got it
Lenna kind of sucks so I used Fargo at this point since Post Fort Dragonia Kid is NEVER in the party for the rest of the game not only did I keep Fargo in the party I never did the Burning House scenario after beating FATE to use have Kid back in the party.
I also did the Save Kid route so no Glenn in my party on a 1st run.
I used Fargo/Starky as my final party.
well, you dont get Kid but you get Harle for a while.
But Glenn and Kid are always my party members.
Leena is a third and Boris is a forth. So when I dont have Glenn I use Boris or Leena.
Lenna sucks as in never in my party and Glenn I never got until NG+ runs but I used Fargo/Starky as my final party members.
@@veghesther3204 Leena usage is a matter of liking. She is weak physically but good at blue magic, I use her as healer mostly.
I'd rather use Fargo for that since he can use Cure all and he STILL gets all the worthwhile items to steal.
Leena IMHO sucks for the ENTIRE game
I dont get it..
what is that you do not get?
The story was too convoluted. That is the only thing that ruined this game.
As a game by itself -- very good. Spells are a bit clunky, and the fight mechanics with the stamina thing. But overall, good story, love the selection of characters.
As a trigger "sequel" (is it even called that??) Horrible.
6.5/10
honestly speaking, the developers did say that it was more of a stand alone loose based on trigger than an actual sequel.
You do realize that this actually _followed up_ on all the threads that Chrono Trigger failed to cover, right? Like the ultimate conclusion to Magus and the schemes surrounding them, what happened to Robo and the ultimate "ripple effects" of all that time travel they did which was hinted to have destabilized the flow of time, all the defeat Lavos. It didn't so much as "overwrite" Trigger so much as it did try its best to expand the threads. The only issue I take with it as a "direct sequel" was that it seemed to be that the cast stumbled upon the aftermath of the Lavos affair and had to tie it up rather than having a personal stake in it, but you could also argue that the whole story was built around the machinations of that ruined future trying to over-rule an independent world and that world fighting _back._
@@Sizdothyx you know, you do have a point.
More of a real sequel than a Chrono Trigger 2 would actually be. You can't make a regular sequel to Chrono Trigger due to how far it takes its time travel and multiple endings. You would have to be nepotist and rob the game of its multiple endings by choosing but one to be the "real ending", taking away a big part of what made it special. The Dream Team would also no assemble again, and a new Chrono game would not be better at the same things Trigger was good at, never meeting those high expectations. Chrono Cross makes every Trigger ending canon with the Time Crash, all of them coexisitng and competing.
Stop spreading the myth that Cross is not a real sequel to Trigger. It is the best type of sequel it could get, even if it isnt the best game at times. Themes and storylines started in Trigger keep evolving non-linearly in Cross, if you haven't played Trigger, you would not understand those nuances in Cross.
WTF this is best ending??? And i think just beat lavos and don't save schala is true ending
yeah this is the best ending of the game.
Beating TimeDevourer(Lavos + Schala) without the use of elements and Chrono Trigger only kills him in a particular timeline. It doesn't erase it from existence.
This game was trash.
well thank you for your opinion, but if you didn't like it, why are you here then?
When I dont like something I dont even look at it less speak about it. And I am sure many people here have my same opinion and wont care about yours.
So do yourself a favor and move on please.