It’s easy to hate on “Chrono Cross,” the much-anticipated follow-up to “Chrono Trigger”. Its story was clumsily told, diluted between too many characters, and it threw in one confusing twist too many. Yet as the years have passed since its release, these same idiosyncrasies have made “Chrono Cross” as much of a classic as “Chrono Trigger”.

Square-Enix is a monolith of the Japanese game industry, best known for their mega-popular “Final Fantasy” and “Dragon Quest” series of role-playing games (or “RPGs”). Even before merging with Enix in 2003, Square was a force to be reckoned with.

I have played every popular console in the United States, but my favorite was always the Nintendo 64. Sure, everyone loved it for its first few years of existence before the new millennium, but I defend to this day that the N64 is still a game system superior to any kind created before or after its birth.