@Jojothegoodperson @redneonglow @p Chrono Cross is a sad story. :/

The problem with the "Dream Team" is that you can't get them back together again for act 2. You had different groups owning different parts of Chrono Trigger, and that caused... shall we say... narrative problems.

Tthe team's vision exceeded their reach - and in creating a bazillion characters, they could not even hope to properly flesh them out - let alone conclude Janus and his sister's storyline in a satisfying way.

Which was arguably the entire point of the game.

Frankly, Magus should have been the main character of Chrono Cross. But I think there were legal problems and nobody kept the dev team in check and on track for what the game was supposed to be.