Sea of Stars is another indie RPG built in Chrono Trigger’s image. There’s the seamless battle transition, there’s the techs, sorry—combos, there’s the Yasunori Mitsuda soundtrack. Been there, done that, got the time-traveling T-shirt. What separates from the ever-increasing pile of RPGs that think they can recapture the spirit of the ’90s is that it understands the difference between ‘inspired by’ and ‘mindlessly copying something’” the game wants to be itself more than it does .
