Crystal Defenders R1 site opens with screens and trailer

by JC Fletcher on Jan 22nd 2009 9:00AM

Just one day after the WiiWare version of Crystal Defenders (now Crystal Defenders R1) was revealed by (early) Famitsu scans, Square Enix has opened the official Japanese website for the iPhone/mobile remake. Not since Lock's Quest have we been ... even slightly excited about a tower defense game!

We saw blurry, small screens of the game in those scans, but the website features pixel-perfect screens, highlighting the colorful, somewhat retro 2D style and cute sprites. Even better, larger screens can be found at Famitsu. The official site also features a trailer and a rather large selection of wallpaper images -- all of which seems delightfully lavish for a WiiWare game! But, then, this is only the second (non-Taito, internally-developed) WiiWare game for SE. They can afford to put a nice website together for each one.

[Via Famitsu]

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Tags: crystal-defenders, crystal-defenders-r1, square-enix, strategy, tower-defense

Reader Comments (3)

Now, if they provide even a simple editor and a way to share custom maps, I'm in for this one.

Warcraft: Tower Defense homebrew for the DS has set my expectations.

The sprites in the screenshot look exactly like the sprites from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. They prolly just recycled the sprites entirely, IMO.

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/mobile/ff/cg/

http://www.crystaldefenders.jp/na/index.html

I'm still a tad lost about which versions are what. Anyone skilled in moonspeak able to give a development timeline for these things, and perhaps a headcount of markedly different versions?