
She remained helpless until Project Kid - the plan to save Schala, was well under way. This abomination would someday have the capacity to devour all space-time. There, presumably after its defeat at the hands of your party, Lavos found her and fused with her creating a new being called the Time Devourer. The game’s events are centered around her imprisonment by the remnants of Lavos in the Darkness Beyond Time.ĭuring the Ocean Palace Incident of Chrono Trigger, she was sucked into a dimensional distortion with the ruined Mammon Machine, ending up in the Darkness Beyond Time. Schala has a very important role to play in Chrono Cross. Today we’re going to look at what happened to each of the key players from Trigger and how they may be represented in the DIRECT sequel.

The question of whether the heroes of Chrono Trigger are dead or not stems from a bit of uncertainty around the timeline proceeding Chrono Cross as well as the ghostly children in Cross’ Dead Sea. It’s a complicated mosaic of themes and ideologies, but the world itself is firmly rooted in what was introduced in Trigger ( here’s a list to demonstrate). That Cross is a spiritual successor rather than a direct sequel.ĭescribing Cross’ story as “obtuse” would be generous. The more common criticism I hear of Chrono Cross as a follow-up to Chrono Trigger is that the ties that bind are weak.
