Editing Chrono Cross (section)

===Relation to ''Radical Dreamers''===
''Chrono Cross'' employs story arcs, characters, and themes from ''[[Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai Hōseki|Radical Dreamers]]'', a [[Satellaview]] side story to ''Chrono Trigger'' released in Japan. ''Radical Dreamers'' is an illustrated [[Interactive fiction|text adventure]] which was created to wrap up an unresolved plot line of ''Chrono Trigger''.<ref name="weeklyfamitsu">{{cite web|year=1999 |title=Weekly Famitsu: Interview with Chrono Cross Developers |url=http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Weekly_Famitsu.html |publisher=[[Enterbrain, Inc.]] and [[Tokuma Shoten]] |access-date=July 1, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721173402/http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Weekly_Famitsu.html |archive-date=July 21, 2006 }}</ref> Though it borrows from ''Radical Dreamers'' in its exposition, ''Chrono Cross'' is not a [[Video game remake|remake]] of ''Radical Dreamers'', but a larger effort to fulfill that game's purpose; the plots of the games are irreconcilable.<ref name="weeklyfamitsu" /> To resolve continuity issues and acknowledge ''Radical Dreamers'', the developers of ''Chrono Cross'' suggested the game happened in a parallel [[dimension]].<ref name="radical-continuity">{{cite video game|title= Chrono Cross|developer=Square|publisher=Square|date=August 15, 2000|platform=PlayStation|level=Chronopolis|quote='''Kid''': Kid: Radical Dreamers&nbsp;...!? And me name's on here, too! What the bloody hell is goin' on?<br />'''Kid''':&nbsp;... This seems to be an archive from a different time than our own. / '''Kid''': Aside from the two worlds we already know about&nbsp;... there may be other worlds and times which exist&nbsp;...}}</ref> A notable difference between the two games is that [[Magil|Magus]]—present in ''Radical Dreamers'' as Gil—is absent from ''Chrono Cross''. Director Masato Kato originally planned for Magus to appear in disguise as Guile, but scrapped the idea due to plot difficulties.<ref name="weeklyfamitsu" /> Kato specifically felt that the game's large number of characters, as well as the difficult production schedule, did not allow him to develop the relationship between Magus and Kid.<ref name="mastiempo">{{cite book|title=Más Allá del Tiempo|publisher=Héroes de Papel|isbn=978-8494288166|language=es|date=December 1, 2015|pages=253}} [https://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/2015_-_Masato_Kato,_by_Mariela_Gonzalez.html Translation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803113132/https://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/2015_-_Masato_Kato,_by_Mariela_Gonzalez.html |date=August 3, 2021 }}</ref> In the DS version of ''Chrono Trigger'', Kato teases the possibility of an amnesiac Magus.<ref name="magusdsending">{{cite video game|title=Chrono Trigger|developer=Square Enix|publisher=Square Enix|date=November 25, 2008|platform=Nintendo DS|level=Twilight Grotto|quote='''Magus''': Hmph. If this is to be the way of things, then let me abandon all that was and fade away as well. Should a part of me somehow even then remain, then perhaps that will be the birth of something new—something with greater meaning than all this. / '''Magus''': Who&nbsp;... who am I? What's happened? I&nbsp;... I don't remember anything. There was something&nbsp;... something I needed to do. Something I needed to&nbsp;... to find. / '''Magus''': I must find a way to remember. I will. }}</ref>