A strange sequel to Chrono Trigger that never made it outside Japan. It is essentially an interactive novel, building up the storyline for Chrono Cross, but partly contradicted by it. It was not distributed as a cartridge, but via Satellaview, a system that allowed players to download games directly from a satellite. It has been translated as a labor of love by Demiforce.
Of course, an interactive novel on a console like the SNES is not a text-only thing, all the texts are superimposed on often very beautiful graphics.
Radical Dreamers, unlike most traditional Square games, is not an RPG but a Text Adventure similar to the Choose Your Own Adventure book series. A player would read a few pages, then make a choice from a giving selection. Both navigation and battles worked in this way. The one downside was that the Satellaview was only released in Japan so the game was entirely in Japanese. This would leave English speaking players completely unable to play the game until mid-April 2003 when Neo Demiforce released a complete English translation patch for the Radical Dreamers ROM.
Radical Dreamers is considered the true Chrono Trigger sequel as the main reason for its creation was to tie up loose plot ends from CT. Chrono Cross is basically a continuation of both Chrono Trigger and Radical Dreamers, as you can probably tell from the similarities in the plots of Chrono Cross and Radical Dreamers.
Demiforce has operated as a video game translation outfit since 1997, having translated games from popular franchises such as the Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger series.
It's a very ambient, mellow game, much different than Chrono Trigger. It's best played at nighttime. If you enjoy music by Brian Eno, Harold Budd, or Angelo Badalamenti, you'll enjoy this game.