Chrono Cross

Chrono Cross
"CHRONO CROSS", "PLAYSTATION", "SQUARESOFT", characters Serge and Kid with ship-oar weapon and dagger respectively in foreground, anthropomorphic lynx character in background
Chrono Cross North American Box Art
Developer(s) Square
Publisher(s) JP Square
NA Square Electronic Arts
Designer(s) Hiromichi Tanaka
Masato Kato
Writer(s) Masato Kato
Artist(s) Nobuteru Yūki
Yasuyuki Honne
Composer(s) Yasunori Mitsuda
Series Chrono
Platform(s) PlayStation
Release date(s) JP November 18, 1999
NA August 15, 2000
Genre(s) Console role-playing game
Mode(s) Single player
Rating(s) CERO: B
ESRB: T
Media 2 CD-ROMs
Input methods Gamepad

Chrono Cross (クロノ・クロス?) is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Sony PlayStation video game console. It is the sequel to Chrono Trigger, which was released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Chrono Cross was developed primarily by scenarist and director Masato Kato and other programmers from Chrono Trigger, including art director Yasuyuki Honne and sound planner Minoru Akao. Composer Yasunori Mitsuda scored Chrono Cross and Nobuteru Yūki designed its characters.

The story of Chrono Cross focuses on a teenage boy named Serge and a theme of parallel worlds. Faced with an alternate reality in which he died as a child, Serge endeavors to discover the truth of the two worlds' divergence. The flashy thief Kid and many other characters assist him in his travels around the tropical archipelago El Nido. Struggling to uncover his past and find the mysterious Frozen Flame, Serge is chiefly challenged by Lynx, a shadowy antagonist working to apprehend him.

Upon its release in Japan in 1999 and in the United States in 2000, Chrono Cross received high ratings and critical acclaim, earning a rare perfect 10.0 score from GameSpot.[1][2] The game shipped 1.5 million copies worldwide, leading to a Greatest Hits re-release and continued life in Japan as part of the Ultimate Hits series.[3][4] Square also released a "Millennium Edition" featuring a calendar, clock, and music sampler disc.