Instead, everything is tied to your pool of stamina points, and attacking (and defending) is the only way to replenish it. Only here you don't have a separate MP bar. The Elements themselves are a bit like Final Fantasy VII's Materia - they can be plugged into any character you've got in your party and rearranged at will. The more you attack, the higher the Element level you can use on your character's individual Element grid - indicated by the green Lv icons in the battle menu. You see, physical attacks allow you to power up your magical Element attacks in Chrono Cross. In battle, however, that frame rate visibly grinds to a halt in places, and the accompanying lag on my controller inputs makes me want to bite down hard on my knuckles every time I need to select an attack - an unfortunately frequent occurrence in Chrono Cross due to the nature of its stamina-based battle system. I've got nothing about a locked 30fps frame rate, as long as it's consistent. That in itself, I'm absolutely okay with.
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My eyes aren't nearly as keen as our friends over at Digital Foundry, but as far as I can tell, the game appears to be running at a locked 30fps - despite Nvidia Shadowplay claiming a full 60fps on my 4K monitor. If you, too, have been looking forward to Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition, I'd strongly advise waiting for a few patches to arrive before dipping your toes in. The lack of settings options makes it hard to pin down exactly what the problem is, but there's something about the performance and inconsistent frame rate of my review build that's so fundamentally borked that it's like those 22 years haven't even happened. For all its buff and polish, though, Chrono Cross has, sadly, also been struck by the same curse as other Square Enix PC ports. There are dozens of characters to meet and recruit to your party that can tangibly change your path through the story, the turn-based battle system offers oodles of depth and variety, and Yasunori Mitsuda's revamped score is right up there with the Final Fantasy greats. I'm nowhere near the end yet, but from what I've played so far, Chrono Cross is a rollicking good time. The latter's original 4:3 pixel art looks mildly ropey blown up on today's screens, but the main game has received all the modern conveniences you've come to expect from Square Enix's recent run of retro PC ports: new HD character models, re-orchestrated music, multiple font options, and the holy grail: a fast-forward button. First releasing on the original PlayStation in 1999 in Japan (and 2000 in the US), it's finally arriving on PC and modern consoles on April 7th as Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition, which bundles the original game with its accompanying text-based side story Radical Dreamers that only ever released on the ill-fated Satellaview. Chrono Cross, its semi-related but not direct sequel, has taken even longer to get here. Heck, the first time I got to play time-travel classic Chrono Trigger was when the Nintendo DS version came out in 2009, almost 15 years after it first came out on the SNES. In that vein, here are 8 things we love about the Mazda RX-7 FD, and 2 reasons why we wouldn’t bring one home.Chrono Cross was one of those Square JRPGs that never made its way to Europe at its original time of release. There is a lot to love about the car, and while the car remains timelessly impressive, it isn’t completely flawless. This love that the Mazda RX7 FD commands is not unwarranted at all, since it has always had a lot going for it.
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