Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers looks awesome

[Regulus Tera]

Wait, the main character is a suave self-confident badarse who's a hit with all the ladies?


WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH SQUARE, ENIX?

[mauve]

My first thought was: Oh goody. Blonde Squall with Jedi powers.

But dang, after watching the whole video, it does look pretty awesome. That kind of scares me.

When's it coming out?

[PyrosNine]

My god, I will defeat a boss by hurling bombs at him...by hurling Bombs at him!

Or, by throwing objects at moving entities in the playing field, I can cause "reactions" that change or alter the entity. I think I saw him throw wood at a bomb, or just hit the bomb, which logically made it react and grow bigger.

I did notice of course, that the video was basically:

"Yeah, it's called the crystal bearers, and here's a few tiny crystals...But HEY! LOOK! TELEKINESIS!"

"FORCE UNLEASHED AIN"T GOT NOTHIN' ON SKYDIVING FINAL FANTASY!"

At least there's a plausible reason for why a main character will wear cool looking goggles, and he will change clothes as the game goes on.

Looks more like a platformer, or action/adventure than RPG. The Crystal Chronicles multiplayer game I wanted looks like it'll have to be Echoes of Time, or Phantasy Star Zero.

[Bells]

It does look pretty sharp for the annual Square-Nintendo Booty-call! I will certanly keep an eye out on this one

[Lord Setheris]

Was that a blonde guy using magic bubbles to save/seduce random women?

[Kaneda]

Holy shit, actual news on this?

While I will miss some of the nice aspects of the original Crystal Chronicles, which seem to all have pretty much been scrapped, this does look undeniably badass. For the wii as well, oh goody!

[neyo the king]

Seems the guys at SquEnix have been playing some Garry's Mod on the side.

[phil_]

I wonder why this is call Crystal Chronicles, when the other Crystal Chronicles have been multiplayer affairs and there's another Crystal Chronicles game coming to the Wii that follows the old formula. It's like their intentionally trying to confuse people.

On the other hand, he threw a sheep, like, 50 yards for no reason. That was awesome.

[Fifthfiend]

I'm not buying it. Square's up to something.

All the scenes in the trailer happen in the first half hour of the game and then the the hero stands there staring while his girlfriend gets stabbed to death in slow motion and he spends the next 70 hours of gameplay fighting enemies by curling up into the fetal position and crying.

I mean it's Squaresoft, it can't not be a setup.

[Kroze Gamegod]

Originally Posted by phil_

I wonder why this is call Crystal Chronicles, when the other Crystal Chronicles have been multiplayer affairs and there's another Crystal Chronicles game coming to the Wii that follows the old formula. It's like their intentionally trying to confuse people.

From what I understand, its suppose to continue the story that started in Ring of Fates and how the world came to be the way that it was during the original Crystal Chronicles. Not sure how Echoes of Time fits in yet though...

It seems they are trying to make Crystal Chronicles much like "Compilation of Final Fantasy VII", "Ivallice Alliance" and the "Final Fantasy XIII trilogy".

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

I'm not buying it. Square's up to something.

All the scenes in the trailer happen in the first half hour of the game and then the the hero stands there staring while his girlfriend gets stabbed to death in slow motion and he spends the next 70 hours of gameplay fighting enemies by curling up into the fetal position and crying.

I mean it's Squaresoft, it can't not be a setup.

Well the story can be dark but still fun and not total emo... just look how Ring of Fates for the DS did it. I mean that game started off all happy go lucky, two little kids and their friend going off and having adventures and then *WHAM!*. The shit goes down hard.