Void Stranger is the Chrono Cross to ZeroRanger's Chrono Trigger: A perfectly fine game, maybe even great in any other context, with the misfortune of being a follow up to a significantly better game and having its weakest points all be in areas where the last game particularly excelled, including replacing a straightforward, emotionally resonant plot with an incomprehensible one nobody can make sense of and some truly horrifying gameplay bloat.