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Many people go back and play CT semi-religiously, like rereading a favorite book over and over again, perhaps once a year (or so).
CC not so much. Yeah it wasn't "bad" just... it's really hard to measure up to the greatest RPG game of all time:-).
Another Eden was kind of a spiritual successor to CT, and even made by some of the same people - it has time travel, even branching out to include alternate realities, and all kinds of techno-weirdness.:-) However, it's also a greedy ga(t)cha mobile game that tries its very hardest to get you to spend money, even if you have already spent a great deal. Essentially the game itself becomes an advertisement (for spending), sorta like how Netflix works in moving pictures (sometimes with sound) into every single place it can in its player, despite how you pay for the service bc it "doesn't have ads".:-(
Anyway, even aside from that, while AE contains some fantastic stories, it's also incredibly long, and still doesn't hold a candle to CT, despite having essentially some of the same characters - e.g. a talking sword-wielding frog whose name is definitely not Glenn hint hint nudge nudge wink. It's also enormously grindy, even if you pay money to vastly shorten it.
CT was definitely something special, for its time, and we will not see its like again anytime soon I suspect - capitalism offers what is most profitable to sell, not what would be best for us to have.