>>717691352You should try to play it one day nevertheless.
After a few hours of E33 my exact thoughts were that I was feeling like back when I played my first JRPG (Chrono Cross), everything felt mysterious, fresh and new.
Before a couple of years pass and I replay E33, I'm not going to say it's on the level of my very favourite games, like CT, CC, Xenogears, FF8, Tales of Phantasia, Tales of the Abyss and so on, but even now I can say that it is a 10/10 game too.
>>717692429I replayed CC around 2 years ago VERY thoroughly, so I can tell you that you're wrong. Schala was taken by the vortex in CT and manipulated the world from the Darkness Beyond Time, sending her clone and saving Serge by making him land in Chronopolis. And it is her merged with Lavos into the Time Devourer.
>>717695408Still remember how in my local gaming magazine, by fans' votes CC was the best RPG for a couple of months in a row.
Your "actual fans" are probably Nintendo fanboys mad that they couldn't play the sequel to a game originally exclusive to their console.