10 Video Game Plots Nobody Fully Understands
4. Chrono Cross
Chrono Cross is the sequel to the much-loved Chrono Trigger, one of Squares most critically-successful titles, as well as one of the best RPGs ever produced. Sadly, its successor never quite hit the same heights, thanks in part to its mind-bending trainwreck of a plot. Well, maybe plot is a bit generous. Chrono Cross plays around with alternative realities and dimensions, as well as a huge cast of playable characters (over 40 of them) including dragons, aliens, robots, a turnip, a voodoo doll and a luchador.
I am not making this up. Most of these guys arent particularly relevant to the overarching story but have expansive, sprawling backstories regardless, just because they can. All of this makes for a stupidly complicated plot, where you don't know whats going on or why at any given time, or whether youre about to suddenly switch viewpoints to someone totally different and seemingly unrelated.
This happens several times, and it never gets any easier to follow. Even the developers must have thought so, because they had program in ghost children to explicitly explain what was going on right before the final boss. It's just a shame that the players brain had probably melted before then.