Gameplay

Chrono Cross is RPG (role play game). Controlling Serge through the game's world by foot and boat between two parallel dimensions. Players must go back and forth between worlds to recruit party members, obtain items, and advance the plot. Meet the people in the village or outside, dungeons, cities, and forest. Like Chrono Tirgger, the game features random enemies encounters on field maps. This is where your party used elements, physically attack, defend, or run away from the enemy. Battles are turn-based, allowing the player take turn attack the enemies select an action from the available menu. When a playable character loses all hit points, he or she faints. If all the player's characters fall in the battle, the game ends and have to reload the game where you last save the game. Unless is against boss.

The game's magical system focuses on Element, which unleash magic effects on the enemy or party. To be able to used the element on the map the party must be equipped to them. For more information on the element go to Elements. With each level up, the grid expands, allowing more powerful elements to be equipped. Each character has an innate color, enhancing the power of using the same color Elements. Characters can combine certain Techs to make more powerful Double or Triple Techs. Players can run away from map unless they are against the boss and final battle.

  

At the beginning of a battle, each character gain seven points of stamina. Stamina slowly recovers when other characters and enemies perform actions in battle. Unless they stamina is below one point he or she must wait to take action. Players can equip characters with weapons, armor, helmets, and accessories. Items and equipment may be purchased or found on field maps. Except weapons and armor they can not be purchase but obtain them base on the materials. For example copper, bronze, or bone for blacksmith to forge for character.

Unlike others RPG for Playstation One game, that allow you keep all your items, and level for the character if you choose to started a new game. At the end of the game, the player get the choose option to start a "New Game" or "New Game +" feature. New Game +" feature which allow player to obtain all the characters elements, weapons, skills, level, and item on one save file. Not only have it save all things user from their pervious game. User is allowing to fast ward by pressing [R2] button on the PlayStaion One game.

Depending how you play the game. Determined how the game end. Chrono Cross has twelve ending, two of which you can get. Bad ending (fake ending) or the Chrono Cross (Real) ending. Most of the time when the player play the game all they do is beat the boss. This game you the Bad ending gave you the credits and background song "Radical Dreamers. To get the Chrono Cross ending, at the end battle with the boss, you have to used the six elements in order Yellow, Red, Green, Blue, Black, White.