10 Secret Video Game Companions You Recruit Under The Most Bizarre Circumstances
4. Skelly - Chrono Cross
Chrono Cross is another JRPG with a huge roster of recruitable companions. Some of them require you to do specific things in order to add them to your party, but none of them can hold a candle to the level of complexity involved in getting the game's secret companion, Skelly.
Skelly, the undead jester, is the only companion in Chrono Cross that requires you to assemble him from parts. Parts that you have to gather by going on a worldwide treasure hunt!
Skelly's many bones are scattered throughout six different parts of the world map. Gathering them is in and of itself a monumental task unlike anything you have to do to get other followers; however, this isn't even the end of it!
After you collect the pieces, you have to bring them to the elderly woman in Another World's Termina, who will identify Skelly's remains as the bones of her grandson and then offer to reassemble him.
What follows is a disturbing but touching scene of Skelly reuniting with his long-lost family, after which you can finally add him to your party.
Yes, this long chain of scavenging and drama happens only so that you can have a funny skeleton clown as a companion.