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Radical Dreamers preceded Chrono Cross, a full role-playing video game sequel to Chrono Trigger.

Masato Kato cited the desire to " redo Radical Dreamers properly " as the genesis of Cross, attributing the latter's serious atmosphere to the influence of Dreamers.

Chrono Cross borrowed certain thematic elements, story points, characters, music, and objects introduced in Radical Dreamers — including the infiltration of Viper Manor, the Frozen Flame, the name Radical Dreamers for Kid's thievery, and the characters of Kid, Lynx, and Serge ( who became a non-speaking protagonist ).

Though these characters and items were not presented in the same context, their general traits survived the transition.

Gil, confirmed by Kato to be Magus, was also going to be featured in Chrono Cross.

This idea was scrapped due to difficulties in representing the story of Magus among the game's numerous other characters ; the unrelated, enigmatic magician Guile was created instead.

Since the release of Chrono Cross, Radical Dreamers is considered an alternate continuity of the Chrono series.

Chrono Cross addressed this through an easter egg hinting that Radical Dreamers took place in a different dimension.

In the English version of Chrono Cross, this easter egg refers to Gil as " Magil ".

A new Chrono series game has not been made due to the difficulty of reuniting the splintered Cross development team, some of which continue to work on Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV, while others left Square Enix ( then Square ) after the completion of Chrono Cross to form Monolith Soft.

Composer Yasunori Mitsuda stressed that " there are a lot of politics involved " in the creation of a new game, and that Masato Kato should participate in development.