Too many characters

[Del Murder]

Chrono Cross had too many characters. If you had a sniper rifle and could 'eliminate' 3 of them, who would you cap off and which Chrono Trigger entities (could be a character, NPC, enemy, or boss) would you replace them with?

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Remove: Guile, Glenn, Leah.
Replace: Magus, Frog, Ayla.

Really, though, I'd eliminate Korcha, Poshul, Luccia, Razzly, Zappa, Orcha, Macha, Leena, Miki, Janice, Draggy, Starky, Lucky Dan, Turnip, Neo Fio, Greco, Skelly, Funguy, Irenes, Mel, Leah, Van, Sneff, Steena, Doc, Grobyc, Pierre, Orlha, and Pip. Not that there's anything wrong with some of those characters, but they just didn't have any business joining the playable cast, and taking them out still leaves a good fifteen characters, which is still a huge cast for an RPG of this kind.

And I wouldn't replace any of them with anyone from Chrono Trigger because 44 playable Chrono Trigger characters would be just as bad as 44 playable Chrono Cross characters.

[Aphelion]

I hate Pierre, Funguy and that clown skeleton...What was his name again? If I had the chance to switch them for CT characters, I'd put Frog, Crono and Magus.

[Wiegrahf42]

I second taking out Pierre. The guy's an insult to the French. I would probably replace him with Cyrus, need a real swordsman. Or Frog. Crono would be nice too. I have heard rumors that Toma and Schala were originally going to join the party, So I may switch them for Funguy or Poshul. Schala was going to do dual techs with Magus (thats where his went) so I'd probably swap Magus for Guile. I kind of like Skelly since it was an inventive sidequest.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Toma and Sara were never meant to be playable characters.

[Wiegrahf42]

Just a rumor I heard. Though we must admit it would have been interesting. File it under General Leo and Aeris ressurection.

[The Man]

What 'kishi said, basically, although there are a couple of characters from his list that I'd probably keep regardless. However, the inclusion of characters like Turnip, NeoFio, Mojo, and a few others makes me wonder what the game designers were thinking.

Really, I think eliminating half the playable cast and adding Miguel as a PC would've made the game far better.

[elorian]

I'd like to see Marcy, Pierre, Korcha and Van brutally slaughtered, just because I really, really hate those guys. Then I'd like to see Sneff, Doc and Starky replaced with Magus, Frog and Lavos. Because having Lavos as a playable character would be awesome.

I like Grobyc, but I'd like to see him as a red innate, because I can't use him with Lynx without duplicating black innate, which I don't like to do.

[Magus]

Remove: Guile, Glenn, Leah.
Replace: Magus, Frog, Ayla.

Really, though, I'd eliminate Korcha, Poshul, Luccia, Razzly, Zappa, Orcha, Macha, Leena, Miki, Janice, Draggy, Starky, Lucky Dan, Turnip, Neo Fio, Greco, Skelly, Funguy, Irenes, Mel, Leah, Van, Sneff, Steena, Doc, Grobyc, Pierre, Orlha, and Pip. Not that there's anything wrong with some of those characters, but they just didn't have any business joining the playable cast, and taking them out still leaves a good fifteen characters, which is still a huge cast for an RPG of this kind.

And I wouldn't replace any of them with anyone from Chrono Trigger because 44 playable Chrono Trigger characters would be just as bad as 44 playable Chrono Cross characters.

But you need Starky near the end. he's kind of important.

[The Man]

I'm sure they could have rewritten the story to make his presence less necessary. Then again, changing too much is probably a bad idea.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

I think that all the 45 playable characters are great. It was interesting to be able to get all of them. It makes the games completely unique and fun. and yes I said 45, I do count getting Lynx when you switch bodies as a playable character.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

But you need Starky near the end. he's kind of important.Just because he helped the party doesn't mean he had to join them. That goes for a lot of the characters I listed.

[Magus]

true, i must agree that there was way too many characters joining your party, i had the feeling that it was almost -Hey you're the friend of my uncle's great grandfather's 2nd cousin's neighbor! i'll join your party. :rolleyes2

[elorian]

If you do the math, you find that you can make 14,190 different parties if you do new game+ and have all the characters. This is in comparison to CT's 35 unique parties.

[Del Murder]

Have you made them all? I'm only up to 7843.