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Frozen Ephemera
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/25/2017
Just shy of a year after the release of “Chrono Trigger,” one of the Golden Age’s greatest RPGs, the same Squaresoft team that worked on the time-travelling classic produced a follow-up. Published only on the SNES Satellaview digital distribution service in Japan, “Radical Dreamers” (“RD”) followed one of the many endings available in “Chrono Trigger,” but instead of an RPG, took the form of an incredibly basic Text Adventure. Unhappy with the end result of “RD,” the Squaresoft team behind the first true sequel to “Chrono Trigger” took much of the story, characters, and music, then rehashed them into a more proper, long-form RPG for the PlayStation, “Chrono Cross.” Thanks to the preservation efforts of so-called ‘pirates’ and the friendly hackers of Neo …
