Posts with tag CrystalChronicles
Posted Jan 17th 2008 3:00PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News
Last week, we clambered onto our soapboxes to rant about the
ridonkulous delay between the U.S. and European release of
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker. "No more, Square Enix!" we cried, shaking our fists and jabbing our rusty pitchforks skywards. "No more neglecting Europe!"
Despite the fact that we did this while at our desk in another country with nobody else in the room, Square Enix
seems to have listened. The company just announced a PAL date for
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates, and it's not in 2013 or anything. It's on March 21st
THIS YEAR, just ten days after
the U.S. release. Square Enix had
promised a spring release for PAL gamers all along, but we had no idea whether it would hold, much less that it would be so close to the North American release. Oh, happy days!
[Via press release]
Posted Aug 14th 2007 1:10PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Video, Screens
Square Enix's much anticipated -- at least on our end -- cooperative ARPG hits Japanese stores next week, half a year before we see it here in North America. New commercials advertising
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates have already started to air, featuring music from Japanese pop star Aiko Yanai.
Aiko even appears in one of the TV spots, making some strange faces while playing the game in her dressing room with several friends. We usually doubt the authenticity of these scenes of celebrities enjoying the products they're paid to push, but ever since we saw Utada Hikaru
demolishing opponents in
Tetris DS, we've been a lot more open-minded about the phenomenon.
As usual, we've got the commercials embedded past the jump, but if you've got an acute fear of Japanese women with strained expressions and would rather avoid Aiko's grimace, you can check out the
Ring of Fates screenshots that
Famitsu posted at its website instead.
Continue reading FFCC: Ring of Fates media, constipated face
Posted Jul 27th 2007 11:30AM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Nintendo Wi-Fi, Video, Imports
Square Enix's newest
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates trailer is packed with nearly six minutes of boisterous combat scenes, dungeon-roaming recklessness, and much more! The clips that show everyone working together to put out a spreading fire with water barrels are definitely our favorite parts; it makes our hearts ache knowing that we'll never find more than one other person to play with, if even that many, when the game finally comes to North American
next spring.
The brief preview of the cooperative
ARPG's online component is nothing to get excited about -- players can trade their painted and personalized moogles. Yep, Square Enix actually managed to come up with something worse than
MogNet.
Being able to customize your character's appearance (
ninjas!), though, as you can see from the screen grab above, is the dog's bollocks. The extended movie also demonstrates that you'll be able to flip the action from the top window onto the bottom screen, using your stylus to direct spells and ranged weapons. Jump past the post break for the embedded video.
Continue reading Massive Ring of Fates trailer, miserable WiFi feature
Posted Jul 9th 2007 12:20PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: News
Square Enix spent the morning revealing its lineup of "fresh new faces and timeless classics" that the company plans to exhibit this week at E3, attaching US release dates to its upcoming titles:
We're jumping on our beds with glee over the fact that we'll be receiving
Front Mission so early after the localization was announced, but several disappointing details failed to escape our attention --
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: The Sealed Grimoire,
It's a Wonderful World,
FFIV DS, and
Dragon Quest IX's absence; and
Ring of Fates' distant date. The multiplayer ARPG and its
DS Lite bundle are scheduled to hit Japan this August 23rd.
[Via NeoGAF]
Posted Jun 22nd 2007 2:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Imports
Another Square Enix game,
another special-edition DS Lite. SE seems to have set up a template for these: logo on the left, line art on the right,
money in the bank.
This time,
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates gets the special-edition treatment on a Crystal White DS Lite. For Japan, obviously. We like the pseudo-stained-glass look, which can be found in full color on the box. This new DS variant is
great news for people who were holding out on a DS purchase until the Japanese
Ring of Fates came out. It's probably a little irritating for Square Enix fans who already have a plain DS.
Posted Jun 17th 2007 12:00PM by Eric Caoili
We've been clamoring for a proper follow-up to the
Seiken Densetsu series for over a decade now, and by the looks of the
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates videos we've seen so far, we might finally be getting one. The first
Crystal Chronicles entry on the GameCube was by no means disappointing, at least in our opinion, but hardware and link cable requirements made getting a group together much harder than we would've liked. Its handheld sequel seems free of those problems without losing that multiplayer
ARPG's cooperative fun.
Square Enix's latest
Ring of Fates clip demonstrates the teamwork involved in getting through the game's dungeon puzzles. Carrying around a huge block of wood can be difficult if someone isn't knocking back the enemies coming at you! Bring your crew past the post break for the short movie.
Continue reading New Ring of Fates video: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Posted May 28th 2007 10:00AM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: News
What did we do to deserve all this
recent news on
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates? Whatever it was, we should do it again ... a lot ... and with pretty much
every other game ever. Square Enix has not been at all shy lately when it comes to
Ring of Fates, and we're getting more and more interested in the story of fraternal twins Yuri and Cherinka. Now we're just hoping we can wrestle people into playing with us.
The latest
Famitsu was packed with
Ring of Fates tidbits -- see for yourself after the jump!
Continue reading Ring of Fates updates just keep coming
Posted May 23rd 2007 11:30AM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Video, Imports
If previous
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates clips have left you wanting, look no further than the multiplayer
ARPG's latest trailer from last week's
Square Enix party. The four-minute video has everything you could ever ask for -- story cutscenes, cooperative puzzles, touchscreen elements,
topless Selkies, hectic combat, boss fights, peanut butter jelly, and a baseball bat. Carry your bucket past the post break for the movie, but don't expect to get much use out of it.
Continue reading Extended Ring of Fates trailer
Posted May 1st 2007 6:00PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: News, Video
If there's one thing that shouts "unprofessional" about an adventuring party, it's having a shirtless gypsy in your crew. How do you expect to battle monsters undistracted when your Selkie partner's pointy bits are out there for everyone to see? And you can forget about walking into any respectable restaurant. No
shirt? Sorry guys, no service.
Square Enix's latest preview clip of its multiplayer RPG,
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates, features the useful acrobatics and archery of the game's Selkie hero, Nasche. The red-haired rogue is fun to watch, even if his topless outfit seems impractical. Check past the post break for the embedded video.
Continue reading New FFCC video: Selkies Gone Wild
Posted Mar 23rd 2007 3:34PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Screens
The name (
Final Fantasy Crystal Chroncles: Ring of Fates) may be long, but the characters are all
lil'. The party of adventurers looks like it's composed entirely of three-year-olds. Maybe it's a modern interpretation of the kind of character art found in the NES
Final Fantasy games, but whatever the reason, we definitely appreciate
toddling in our world-ending crises.
Like the
Gamecube version, you'll have to have friends nearby to play in multiplayer. However, unlike the Gamecube, pretty much
everyone has a DS these days. Check out some screens after the break-- you'll want to e-pinch the characters' little virtual cheeks.
Continue reading Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: new fun-size screens
Posted Dec 18th 2006 11:25AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Fan stuff
Famitsu published some screens and info via their website today. The screens (the top two are from single-player, with the bottom two providing a glimpse into the game's multiplayer) show some in-game sections of the title, but don't really reveal much. Aside from that, any online translation aid we've tried online has spit back indecipherable code. So, we're stuck between a rock and a hard place at the moment in trying to gain any further information than the game stars twins.
Posted Dec 6th 2006 11:15AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News
According to German gaming site GameFront, Square-Enix will have
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles on-hand at Jump Festa, a gaming/anime/manga event held in Japan, taking place on the 16th and 17th of this month. The only information missing is just what version, or
versions, of the game will be at the show. Will we see the new DS game or that installment that is Wii-bound? We'll update you as soon as we receive confirmation.
[Via Go Nintendo]
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