Just don't go into Chrono Cross expecting it to be the next Chrono Trigger and you should do fine. I've yet to get through the entire game, but I made it a fair way through and found the characters a little lacking if you ask me. There were just too many for them to really focus on any and I found it took away from the experience since CT had such loveable characters. Pretty much everyone I've talked to about it feels about the same way. Good game, but not really a worthy successor to CT. You might want to give Xmen Legends 2 a try if you're a comic fan at all. Might not be your thing since it is a dungeon crawling RPG, but I've been enjoying it a lot. How set are you on the next game you play being an RPG?