Yeah I think the ties it had with Chrono Trigger, while neat in some parts, made for some, interesting parts in the plot. I don't think it was all good, which is why I think FF7 has the better plot overall.
>Its plenty confusing on it's own
It's pretty simple user.
FFVII got the bigger marketing budget and hype. It got the biggest marketing budget in gaming until Halo came out years later. Marketing and hype can sell anything. Even shitty Star Wars movies and overpriced LEGO sets.
That aside, Chrono Cross is a better game from a gameplay and atmosphere standpoint. But it had a ton of its story and characters left on the cutting room floor. Chrono Cross does need a remake far more than FFVII does. But FFVII is getting the remake because Square knows it will sell 10 million copies. Chrono Cross wouldn't.
came out two years later, FF7 and then 8 were sucking up VAST amounts of attention in those years
I mean shit plenty of people bought Brave Fencer Musashi JUST because it had an FF8 demo in it
also that battle system and CHARACTERS CHARACTERS CHARACTERS THAT DON'T MATTER probably soured word of mouth for a lot of possible players
Yeah, but 90% of said human characters were redundant.
Grandia 2 was such a good game and it gets no love
>FFVII is getting the remake because Square knows it will sell 10 million copies. Chrono Cross wouldn't.
The truth fucking hurts.
For a RPG to be successful, you need to have a great interface. FF7 menuing was far superior to CC, despite CC having also better combat mechanics.
Because FFVII was the first JRPG people played. They were tricked into buying it because Squaresoft only used cuts from the five minutes of CGI cutscenes in the advertisements and like most normalfags they used their NPC mind games to convince themselves they didn't make a shitty purchase, but deep down they knew they'd been had so they stayed away from JRPGs in the future.
It wasn't the first though.
>You will never be mating pressed by a Gladiatrix Barkeeper.