2026-08-15 · blog
Chrono Cross (2000) — The Day a Story About Parallel Worlds Reached Another World
Episode 28 of "Today Is Release Day": Chrono Cross, the PlayStation RPG Square released in Japan on November 18, 1999 and in North America on August 15, 2000 — exactly twenty-six years ago today. You travel between two parallel worlds, Home World and Another World, gathering a cast of more than forty companions. Famitsu scored it 36/40; in North America GameSpot gave it a perfect 10 and named it its Console Game of the Year for 2000, while IGN gave it 9.7. Players hoping for a direct sequel to Chrono Trigger, on the other hand, were left puzzled. 1.5 million copies shipped worldwide by 2003 (850,000 in Japan, 650,000 abroad). Europe never got it at the time — it had to wait for the 2022 remaster.
