If you could change Chrono Cross, how would you do it?

[chrono eric]

Magus' fate, a more elaborate canon ending, replacing the name Time Devourer with Fused Dragon on top of Terra Tower, loose plot ends tied up (wtf happens to the Frozen Flame?), and Crono and co.'s fate unambiguously explained. Not much else I can think of that would make it a better game.

1) A treasure atlas

How so? They already have an item section with pictures and descriptions of the major "treasure" in the game, the rest is just equipment/parts that are collected.

[Dark Serge]

All the things Entity said sound pretty cool. Except that I wouldn't want any new characters. Instead I'd like them to tie in Guile as Magus, and develop other characters more (particularly the minor ones like Draggy and Leah) to tie in to the story. I do hope they would keep the story mysterious like they did in the original, but imo they should remove the Ghost Children forever. They don't make any sense and are just there for plot dump.

[Romana]

but imo they should remove the Ghost Children forever. They don't make any sense and are just there for plot dump.

Well we could argue the shade bosses in CTDS somehow connect to them, so at least they have some meaning... in a flimsy way. Plus I thought their dialogue improved the Miguel scene.

But yeah, keeping out of analysis here, I'd like to see a polished script most of all, and also more development/backstory for those who need it. I say keeping the tons and tons of characters is fine as long as that important few have reasonable development. Call me crazy, but I think a lot of the game was lacking dialogue, mainly during the Lynx section of the game. I felt like it was trial and error, just trying to get somewhere without any clear objective or reason.

I'm agreeing with chrono eric on the TimeDevourer thing. That bugged me.

Tying in Guile as Magus... I dunno. I'm not sure what to think of the new ending, but I'll just wait and see.

I don't think the game needs to cover Crono and Marle, though. There are enough plot threads as it is, and besides, Cross was intended to be a new experience, it can stand on its own two legs.

Last thing... Make the whole underlying Dinopolis and Belthasar plots more clear. Oh, and speaking of which, Dinopolis could be a new dungeon?

[Vagrant]

For (2) I would propose even the NPCs from CT (Gina, Gaspar, Melchior, King Guardia, Fritz, etc.) would appear, not just those from the Seven (Crono [YES, TEAFLOWER VAGRANT, CRONO] and the rest).

For the record, the reason I'm against Crono returning is because he needs to stay mute, and it just doesn't work if he isn't the main character. And I'd rather he wasn't, in a Chrono Cross(esque) plot.

[The Entity]

How so? They already have an item section with pictures and descriptions of the major "treasure" in the game, the rest is just equipment/parts that are collected.

Do they? I forgot about that. I haven't played the game in ages.

[utunnels]

Key items have pictures, but regular items don't.

[The Entity]

Yeah, but I was thinking of something like CTDS, where you can view maps of locations and where all the items are.

[Umaro]

7. A new character or two might be cool, too

Is that sarcasm? Aren't there enough characters in Chrono Cross?

[dan0211]

I would say the most important thing would be that it gets a PAL version, so people like me may have the chance to play Chrono Cross. They're (claiming that they'll be) correcting their mistake with Chrono Trigger. So, as long as it gets a DS, Wii or 360 re-release I'm not bothered by what they add. But, the extras they put in should be similar to CTDS, becasue it was great to see a completed ending log.

[Chocobo_Fan]

First of all, get rid of the thirty or so pointless extra characters, so the other ten or so that are actually essential to the plot can actually get some good character development. And yeah, tying in Guile as Janus would be totally awesome. :D Polishing up the script and battle system would be nice, too.

There's already a "If you could make Chrono Cross better, how would you do it?" thread, though, so it may interest you to check that out...

Yes! There is...!
    ~V_Translanka

PAL version would be good too. No one deserves to be left out from popular video games.

[Shadow D. Darkman]

No one deserves to be left out from popular video games.

Damn straight. It sucks that you missed out.

[Chocobo_Fan]

Huh? No I didn't. I bought CC fair and square. I just feel annoyed that other people are missing out, that's all.

Oh, and also, the "Extra" menu features from CTDS would be awesome, too. :D

[Shadow D. Darkman]

Ooh, cool! Didn't know CTDS had an Extras menu.

[mav]

Me too, I tried many times to defeat him. But I really enjoy the music and background. The first boss fight which slayed my party was the dwarves, but that was just because I was not careful enough(HihoChorus). Miguel is another thing, he's really tough for a newbie. XD

Aye, the Dwarves really fucked me up during my first playthrough, I had a hard time with Dario and Garai too--Miguel raped though, I think I got too caught up in the music to realize how hard he'd kick my ass.

[mikeb123]

I know people are gonna disagree with me, but I'd think it'd be cool if they just replaced Guile with Arf. His design was sweet and I was dissapointed that he didn't make it into the final. Besides, Guile dosn't add that much to the story anyway, so it's not too big of a change.