The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Am I the only one here who thinks the second half of Chrono Cross (after you change lead characters) bears an uncanny resemblance to the World of Ruin in FF3? It's playing out almost exactly the same. That's a good thing, BTW, I think the World of Ruin is what made FF3 so great</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>In FF3 every time you go out and found another friend in the World of Ruin it's like a missing piece has been completed. They're someone that's been with you for a good part of the game and now reunited. In Chrono Cross you're just beating up random Dragons so you can get into The Garden of God. Sure the White/Black/Red Dragons are cool, but the other three aren't exciting, and there's basically no story other than that you've to beat them to get into The Garden of God.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>In FF3, after it becomes the World of Ruin, the game became semi non-linear in the sense that there is a main quest but there's also a lot of extra sidequests you can do that aren't necessary but enhance the storyline and the characters. The whole world was changed and Kefka was running around terrorizing everyone in FF3 whereas in CC you have Serge/Lynx goes around terrorizing everyone.

It just seems quite similar to me....</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Dark Serge really didn't do much... he's just taking his time going back to Chronopolis. He's not interested in controlling this world because he already does!</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Only things I hated about CC were Serge's portrait (looked like he was either retarded or on crack), and the fact that you didn't get to play as Lynx enough (Harle, either).</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Apparently, you get to keep Harle the FOURTH time through. Man, I don't know if I wanna go through the game THAT many times, regardless of how good it is</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I never heard anything aboot that. I only went through it twice myself.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>My cousin told me that's the only way you can keep her</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>She always leaves your party no matter what choices you make, but you can get her in your praty with an item you probably haven't got yet on a New Game + game that basically lets you use every character you've found already (though you can't use Lynx while you're supposed to be Serge).</div>