So WK what do you think of Masato Kato? There was a time I tried to recommend Baten Kaitos (the first one anyway) to people by pointing out "it was written by Masato Kato of Chrono fame." However my recent exposure to copious amounts of the Chrono fandom has shown me that this is actually a potential deterrent more than anything.

There was that thread on the other forum I linked to of course but also the sheer vitriol in the comment section of the Trigger DS ending.
I don't know why can't they leave this game alone.

Because Kato is still bitter about not getting to what he wanted to for Trigger
ChaoticDarkShadow

No it wasn't! There was NEVER supposed to be a sequel to Trigger! Kato came in VERY late into production and wanted to do stupid trout with the story that THANKFULLY Hironobu and Yuji said no, Kato made Cross the PSX and DS versions of Trigger as way of saying "smurf you" smurf Cross it's a stupid smurfing sequel and a awful game
Admittedly YouTube comments are not the best places to search for opinions but I get the feeling you and other Chrono fans might not care for him much.