Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time clocks in March 24

not enough lasers and aliens huh?

I agree with Alien Lord, the first one was pretty crappy unless you had others to play it with.

This shit is just lame, though. The gameplay looks pretty decent, but check it out, it's the Square Tax rearing it's ugly head again. $40 for a DS game when probably better games (I'm not going to pull some Gundam dickery here, in that I'm not going to assume that the game is bad... it's just that Square has had many opportunities with the DS and has shown that they're only capable of bringing out crappy ass ports and pretty meh standalone projects, probably to generate profit to carry the weight of the console titles and their monolithic budgets) are going for half that is just plain lame, and $40 for a Wii game that is the EXACT SAME as the DS game is just unfathomable. Then again, Square is taking into account the fangals, who'll eat up anything they throw out regardless of price. *sigh* A good business decision, I guess. I won't be getting any DS FF games until one hits that's actually worth $30. Then we'll talk $40.

I think Chrono Trigger was worth 40$

Chrono Trigger isn't a Final Fantasy game, and even then I can't really think up an excuse for that rerererelease to be worth $40. That's a decent enough price for those who haven't played it, as it's a fucking fantastic game, but I guarantee you that there is not a single Square-made DS game half as good as Chrono Trigger - really weird, because as far as no-effort DS ports go, that was Square's most blatant.

@afro
*cough* The World Ends With You *cough* one of the best DS RPGs ever *cough*

Yea The World Ends With You is a good example of a exquisite Square DS RPG.

@Strategy_Panda (Pot & Spoon 4 Life) while energy weapons and off worlders are great material for games fantasy is also very good material for games so no it's not that it's fantasy that made the first suck, it's a JRPG and a boring repetative game (way, way too common in JRPGs).

ive actually been a fan of all of the crystal chronicles (i havent played the my life as king thing though). however, ive also always played them with a friend who also had the game, so it made it a lot more enjoyable that soloing it out.

anyway, whats with all of this CC hate?

Yeesh, voted down? Well, excuse me for thinking that Square's gone a bit overboard with pricing their handheld games so damn high when there are better games out there for less. Disagree with me there, but whatever.

And yeah, I totally did forget that TWEWY was developed by Square. You can't blame me, though... it's not often Square does something totally original, after all.

Don't get me wrong, I typically love Square Enix's games, but it seems they think so highly of themselves that a $40 price tag for a handheld game seems reasonable. It's really not. And you really know what isn't reasonable? Paying $40 for the equivalent of an N64 game on the Wii. Had any other company made that move, we wouldn't be hearing the end of it right now, but it's Square, so expect to be hearing people singing their praises.

Main series games:
~ Final Fantasy III
~ Final Fantasy IV

Spinoffs:
~ Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Time
~ Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (unreleased)
~ Tactics A2
~ Revenant Wings
~ FF Fables: Chocobo Tales

So that's 7 by my count.

You forgot Chrono Trigger and The World Ends With You. So...9?

The game was alright, I wouldn't go as far as calling a Masterpiece though =/.

Sorry I was trying to be sarcastic.

Yeah Quattro, it might be good, but it's not Sonic Unleashed good.


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You've got it backwards, bro. At least in my opinion, anyway.

Don't let Square's bullshit Squeenix Tax push you away from the PSP or the DS - they're typically the ONLY games available on those consoles that sell at that price. Square can get away with lots of shit when they have legions of loyal rebuyers ready to snatch up whatever they feel like porting that week, anyway.

I meant 'after all', not 'anyway'.

Well I have both a DS & PSP and to be honest I have maybe a combined 15 games or so for both of them. On my iPhone alone I have about 10 games that cost me as much as two titles on those platforms.

I also have very different tastes when it comes to portable gaming. I am content with having a repetitive pick up and play adventure opposed to something like Chrono Trigger, Chains Of Olympus, Order Of Eccselsia & Jeanne D'Arc. Don't get me wrong because I liked all of those games but when on the go I would prefer Patapon or Fieldrunners 100x over the more time sinkers.

That did look pretty good but it's hard to tell how good the actual in game scenes looked. There are so many games with the Final Fantasy label that it's hard to keep up with everything.

I'm pretty excited for Dissidia which is like a Smash Bros fighting game with FF characters.

Well, SE is promising a Crystal Bearers trailer packed in with EoT's release so... One can hope for progression and a solidified direction of the plot.

We got a taste of the celtic/fantasy heavy world that FF:CC was set in during the first game and minor increases of the plot potential in the first game and DS game...

Bearers is where we'll need to see some major progress.

And I will less inclined to buy the game if they don't take some of the material from ANOTHER game and include it at LEAST as a 'side' feature.

I.E. the My Life as a King game should at LEAST be a minor minigame-ish thing for the full version of TCB.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/43765.html

Hmmmmm

thank you for showing me the folly of my ways...