The Chrono World

[Cerulean]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but if supposedly Chrono Cross takes place just 20 years after Chrono Trigger, why is it that the worlds (meaning: continents, nations, landmarks, etc) are entirely different?  I'll admit, I haven't fully played through Chrono Cross, so I'm probably missing some correlating elements between both worlds - but on the surface, I see zero continuity.


Chrono Trigger Map 1000 AD: http://www.rpgplanet.com/chrono/images/ct/map-1000.gif

Chrono Cross Map 1020 AD: http://www.geocities.com/Kinuvan_100/map2big.jpg

[Vehek]

Personally, I've never played Chrono Cross. But I've read that Chrono Cross takes place within a small area of the world. You aren't seeing continents at all, but rather small islands.

[ZeaLitY]

There you go. According to letrimh's analysis, El Nido is roughly a few miles in diameter (though it could be more, as we have no real way of estimating). As for its location on the CT Overworld, it's a mystery, as only very vague hints are given.

[Cerulean]

Ah, well that makes sense then.  I wasn't entirely sure what El Nido was, whether it correlated to just one island in the Chrono Cross map, or all of it, and then where that actually existed in Chrono Trigger's world.  But thanks for explaining that.