Chrono Cross - The Scars of Time

Yeah, but why? Do you really need to play the adventures of Janice, NeoFio, and Turnip? Chrono Cross, in order to succeed as a story, needs to have drastically fewer characters.

I do have written in my design doc that you can potentially gain new characters in New Game +, once you have the Chrono Cross and can break the chains of FATE. On your second playthrough, you can gain Karsh, Zoah, Riddel, Luccia, Steena, and the new characters Dario and Tia. On your THIRD playthrough, you can gain Viper, Radius, Zappa, Fargo, Harle, and Lynx. However, note that before that, Sprigg's ability is changed so that she can shapeshift into all of the other characters that don't directly affect the story. So you GET characters like Skelly, Grobyc, Janice, Sneff, etc. You just get them as Sprigg morphs by completing sidequests.