Both were great games. But Trigger was by far the better of the 2. The "dream team" only had less than half of the original creators when cross was made and it showed. I've done Trigger around 6 times. New Game+ probably around 30. There's something fun about going in and wailing on bad guys unopposed.lol. And come on people. Magus. Everyone loves Magus. I've always had a personal belief that parts of the idea of Sephiroth came from Magus. Particularly the way how they hold themselves up, the arrogance, and the long hair. Magus was always in my party. All about Dark Matter.

As noted by others, my issue with Cross was also that it seemed they were forcing a relation to Trigger. That and Kid's slutty clothes. However it was a nice change in pace of the old ATB and the elements were an interesting system. But it def needed more double and triple techs. That was one area that set Trigger apart from many RPG's particularly Square RPGs, was the combo attacks with other characters. Cross only had a few. But at least they retained X-strike.