Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles New Features Trailer w/ original narrator

Ovaryactor · Jun 26, 2020

Oooooo

this game always held a special place in my heart as the first game I really got hyped for as a child, to the point I had dreams about the world/art, but then my parents wouldn't let megrab it because of the T rating...

I never did get to try it and nows the chance to dive in with some buds!

mael · Jun 26, 2020

JB2448 said:
Here's a YouTube link from the official FF YouTube channel for platform agnosticism:

I missed that on my 1st viewing.
You can choose your voice in the character creation.

Kazer · Jun 26, 2020

Can't wait for this. The Lite version sounds great to get someone into the game.

pleaseinsertdisctwo · Jun 26, 2020

Ok but why did they change the opening song

jeelybeans · Jun 26, 2020

Lukar said:
It's getting a retail release in Asia at least. I have a Switch copy pre-ordered on Play Asia.

You sure that's an "Asia" release (which are typically always in English) and not the Japanese release? Because I can only find a Japanese release on Play Asia.

soul · Jun 26, 2020

I actually always wanted to play this title back then, but never had the ability to purchase a GameCube. So this makes me happy. I didn't even know they were re-releasing this title.

Kureransu · Jun 26, 2020

I forgot how good Kazenone was. been so long since i heard the song. I have the CC soundtrack at home somewhere.

mael · Jun 26, 2020

The game is getting released in like 2 months and we still don't have any way to preorder let alone know how much they want to retail this.

Deleted member 23158 · Jun 26, 2020

Ugh they kept the chalice carrying in huh, while it's ok with 4 players, it's terrible with 2 players. Shout out to all the younger siblings. ;(

mael · Jun 26, 2020

2San said:
Ugh they kept the chalice carrying in huh, while it's ok with 4 players, it's terrible with 2 players. Shout out to all the younger siblings. ;(

The upside is that unless you do the last dungeon or the additional content, you can include a rando playing the lite version to round up your team.
Heck it seems like you can use an ability or something to have a full caravan that looks like a preset.
For the loners who want the original experience you can still keep the mog to tell you he's tired every 5 goddamn seconds.

GSG · Jun 26, 2020

Lite edition option sounds awesome, much easier to get others playing with you.

Deleted member 23158 · Jun 26, 2020

mael said:
The upside is that unless you do the last dungeon or the additional content, you can include a rando playing the lite version to round up your team.
Heck it seems like you can use an ability or something to have a full caravan that looks like a preset.
For the loners who want the original experience you can still keep the mog to tell you he's tired every 5 goddamn seconds.

Have the lite version pleb carry the chalice? A bit evil, yet brilliant.

mael · Jun 26, 2020

2San said:
Have the lite version pleb carry the chalice? A bit evil, yet brilliant.

As I've read multiple times here and in the old place, the chalice is the leader.
You don't get to fight (unless you drop the chalice) but you choose where everyone goes.
In the original the camera was even tied to the chalice so if the chalice bearer wanted to go right, he could drag you there.
If the camera of the player is no longer tied to the chalice for the non chalice people, it means that you need a cure ring and you can basically explore everything on your own.
Harder, yes but not impossible.

Lukar · Jun 26, 2020

jeelybeans said:
You sure that's an "Asia" release (which are typically always in English) and not the Japanese release? Because I can only find a Japanese release on Play Asia.

You're right, my bad. I got it mixed up. I have a Japanese copy pre-ordered, not sure why I thought it was an Asia release. I don't know if it'll have an English setting then.

Lumination · Jun 26, 2020

Man, pretty excited for this. The demo setup is pretty generous. But man, those menus haha. The graphic design on those make me cringe now.

Deleted member 23158 · Jun 26, 2020

mael said:
As I've read multiple times here and in the old place, the chalice is the leader.
You don't get to fight (unless you drop the chalice) but you choose where everyone goes.
In the original the camera was even tied to the chalice so if the chalice bearer wanted to go right, he could drag you there.
If the camera of the player is no longer tied to the chalice for the non chalice people, it means that you need a cure ring and you can basically explore everything on your own.
Harder, yes but not impossible.

Yeah it's true that the chalice bearer dictates the camera. I just recall as the younger sibling hating my time carrying that thing. As I recall you also needed to move chalice during (some?) battles as well. Would have been cool if there was a way to have the mog along in the 2 player mode as well. I never played the single player mode so I'm not sure how that dynamic is.

I don't think I'll bite unless I can get a 3 man party going.

mael · Jun 26, 2020

2San said:
Yeah it's true that the chalice bearer dictates the camera. I just recall as the younger sibling hating my time carrying that thing. As I recall you also needed to move chalice during (some?) battles as well. Would have been cool if there was a way to have the mog along in the 2 player mode as well. I never played the single player mode so I'm not sure how that dynamic is.

I don't think I'll bite unless I can get a 3 man party going.

Good thing is you can try and mooch off someone having the game to play most of the content (hopefully the account keep track of the character progression because playing starter characters is gonna get old real fast).
In single player, Mog is either slow or REALLY slow when tired.
He will follow your lead, it's better than having to lug the chalice around but you're still gonna do this from time to time because he'll get tired.
Also trim his fur if you go in a hot/warm place or he'll tire even quicker.
No I have no idea why they put that in the game.

Qwark · Jun 26, 2020

So is 13 dungeons all of them? Or are there still some you can't do? I would be on board with this as a replacement for local co-op if it was all of them... but if it's blocking some, seems less valuable.

Zippedpinhead · Jun 26, 2020

I have two sons with Switches and an Ipad, so (assuming the demo on each console is the same as the lite version on Ipad) I'll have a nice crew to play with!

Oaklight · Jun 26, 2020

Crystal Chronicles is one of my favorite games of all time and I can't wait! Hopefully the switch version will be 1080 60 but we shall see.

Vazra · Jun 26, 2020

Oaklight said:
Crystal Chronicles is one of my favorite games of all time and I can't wait! Hopefully the switch version will be 1080 60 but we shall see.

Im expecting the 60fps but not the 1080pbut thats just be acting by previous burns

TheMoon · Jun 26, 2020

Qwark said:
So is 13 dungeons all of them? Or are there still some you can't do? I would be on board with this as a replacement for local co-op if it was all of them... but if it's blocking some, seems less valuable.

them being so explicit about 13 makes me thing it's not the whole game but I'm also to look it up (which is probably very easy lol)

mael · Jun 26, 2020

Qwark said:
So is 13 dungeons all of them? Or are there still some you can't do? I would be on board with this as a replacement for local co-op if it was all of them... but if it's blocking some, seems less valuable.

The last dungeon is the only one off limit from the original game.

TheMoon said:
them being so explicit about 13 makes me thing it's not the whole game but I'm also to look it up (which is probably very easy lol)

In the trailer, they give the icons of the levels available.
The 13 shown are literally ALL the dungeons but the last one.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles locations

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Garlador · Jun 26, 2020

The lack of local co-op is a huge bummer. My household was REALLY looking forward to that.

Dice · Jun 26, 2020

MochaKoffee said:

The fuck were they thinking lol

Honestly amazing how much technical foibles like this happen and at no point are people like "What are we even doing?"

Qwark · Jun 26, 2020

mael said:
The last dungeon is the only one off limit from the original game.

In the trailer, they give the icons of the levels available.
The 13 shown are literally ALL the dungeons but the last one.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles locations

The stories of the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series all take place in the same, unnamed, world. Like the world of Ivalice, each game takes place in the same world during different periods. There are four main tribes in this world: Clavats, Selkies, Lilties, and Yukes. The Crystal...

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Hmm, well that's a bit annoying. I imagine most of my friends that would play wouldn't actually complete it so it might not be a dealbreaker. We're lucky in my household in that we have 2 PS4's so we can buy it digitally and play it locally that way. Still, I'm not really happy with how they're handling the multiplayer. That was its defining feature and they've tarnished it.

Deleted member 18021 · Jun 26, 2020

Dice said:
The fuck were they thinking lol

Honestly amazing how much technical foibles like this happen and at no point are people like "What are we even doing?"

To be fair, they were thinking a lot more this, and a lot less this. I don't think Nintendo ever actually advertised using the GBA Player for this purpose, lol.

The GBA-GCN linking thing for FSA and FF:CC make a bit more sense when you remember that a lot of people owned GBAs at the time, and the link cable wasn't all that expensive. You were supposed to share the cost between yourself and your friends, with one person buying the game, and the other three bringing their GBAs and their own cables. Basically the same idea as someone bringing their own controller to your house to play.

FF:CC and FSA probably could have been reworked to work without the second screen, but they would be lesser games for it, imo.

It probably would have worked better on the Wii, given the lack of wires needed.

mael · Jun 26, 2020

Dice said:
The fuck were they thinking lol

Honestly amazing how much technical foibles like this happen and at no point are people like "What are we even doing?"

I mean that's only possible because you could turn you GC into a literal Gameboy Advance.
Otherwise the game was fully thought off as a gameboy advance linking game.
It's the only reason the game even exists.
using 4 fullon Tvs for this seems like unecessary stupidity than anything.
It's more 2nd screen like DS/3DS/WiiU than trying to make a lan party.

Qwark said:
Hmm, well that's a bit annoying. I imagine most of my friends that would play wouldn't actually complete it so it might not be a dealbreaker. We're lucky in my household in that we have 2 PS4's so we can buy it digitally and play it locally that way. Still, I'm not really happy with how they're handling the multiplayer. That was its defining feature and they've tarnished it.

The game was never going to be full multiplayer on the same system.
It wasn't thought that way.
I'd say it's the best we could get out of the situation while keeping true to the original design.

nikos · Jun 26, 2020

This is probably my most anticipated game of the summer. Can't wait to play it. Hopefully my friends will get into it, or there's at least a matchmaking system. It would be great to see post-launch content as well.

Dice · Jun 26, 2020

mael said:
I mean that's only possible because you could turn you GC into a literal Gameboy Advance.
Otherwise the game was fully thought off as a gameboy advance linking game.
It's the only reason the game even exists.
using 4 fullon Tvs for this seems like unecessary stupidity than anything.
It's more 2nd screen like DS/3DS/WiiU than trying to make a lan party.

The game was never going to be full multiplayer on the same system.
It wasn't thought that way.
I'd say it's the best we could get out of the situation while keeping true to the original design.

MochaKoffee said:
To be fair, they were thinking a lot more this, and a lot less this. I don't think Nintendo ever actually advertised using the GBA Player for this purpose, lol.

The GBA-GCN linking thing for FSA and FF:CC make a bit more sense when you remember that a lot of people owned GBAs at the time, and the link cable wasn't all that expensive. You were supposed to share the cost between yourself and your friends, with one person buying the game, and the other three bringing their GBAs and their own cables. Basically the same idea as someone bringing their own controller to your house to play.

FF:CC and FSA probably could have been reworked to work without the second screen, but they would be lesser games for it, imo.

It probably would have worked better on the Wii, given the lack of wires needed.

The original idea still wasn't much better, it reaaallly hinged a lot on your average player having a whole bunch of shit (and hoping all yours buds have a GBA is kind of a tall order as opposed to 1 console with a bunch of controllers), and worse, peripherals good only for one or two games. :/
It was an awful idea.

mael · Jun 26, 2020

Dice said:
The original idea still wasn't much better, it reaaallly hinged a lot on your average player having a whole bunch of shit (and hoping all yours buds have a GBA is kind of a tall order as opposed to 1 console with a bunch of controllers), and worse, peripherals good only for one or two games. :/
It was an awful idea.

I mean it was more likely at the time that your group of friend had a bunch of GBA than 1 of them had 1 GC.
There's nearly 4 times as many GBA than GC out there after all.
The cables were easy to find and fairly cheap as well (not even half the price of a gc controller).
Considering the target demo as well, if you were into FF and had no GBA you were even less likely to have a GC (instead of you know a ps1 or ps2).
The game would also have been vastly different thematically if it wasn't centered around that mechanic as the sequels show.

Harry Potter Obama · Jun 26, 2020

I'm excited for this, but I'm not feeling the new version of the opening as much as the old one. And while Donna Burke is back for this trailer, do we know if she's doing the stage intros again? They were by someone else in previous videos.

wheely big cheese · Jun 26, 2020

Wait, that's the same narrator as the original game? How come she used to sound Irish and now she sounds Australian?

blondkayvon · Jun 26, 2020

mael said:
I mean it was more likely at the time that your group of friend had a bunch of GBA than 1 of them had 1 GC.
There's nearly 4 times as many GBA than GC out there after all.
The cables were easy to find and fairly cheap as well (not even half the price of a gc controller).
Considering the target demo as well, if you were into FF and had no GBA you were even less likely to have a GC (instead of you know a ps1 or ps2).
The game would also have been vastly different thematically if it wasn't centered around that mechanic as the sequels show.

I know I got several of those cords in the $10-$15 range. It was not prohibitively expensive, even to someone who didn't have my own money at the time.

Jakenbakin · Jun 26, 2020

Man that lite version is very charitable, but it may also prove to be essential to the success of people being able to play this with a full party.

I only ever played the game 2-player and I still enjoyed it so much, so I can't wait to see what it's like without having to be a constant bucket bitch.

Łazy · Jul 2, 2020

Harder dungeons with new climate/scenery/boss is a nice addition.

NetMapel · Jul 2, 2020

So do you need four people to play this game? Can I party up with only another friend or two and found out the members with randoms from online?

Hours Left · Jul 2, 2020

I wish you could play as a moogle. That was my greatest hope in the original.

HandsomeCharles · Jul 2, 2020

Hours Left said:
I wish you could play as a moogle. That was my greatest hope in the original.

Play in multiplayer and you can be relegated to the role of "Bucket Carrier", which is essentially the same thing.

AlanOC91 · Jul 2, 2020

HandsomeCharles said:
Play in multiplayer and you can be relegated to the role of "Bucket Carrier", which is essentially the same thing.

I played a lot of CC in 3 player mode back in the day and the amount of bucket carrier arguments, good lord.

Hours Left · Jul 2, 2020

HandsomeCharles said:
Play in multiplayer and you can be relegated to the role of "Bucket Carrier", which is essentially the same thing.

I want a full-fledged moogle tribe. ;_;

HandsomeCharles · Jul 2, 2020

Hours Left said:
I want a full-fledged moogle tribe. ;_;

You'll take your bucket and you'll like it.

Deleted member 37233 · Jul 2, 2020

I'll play this game with two friends of mine, I'm curious if we'll fight about who has to carry the chalice.

RobbRivers · Jul 2, 2020

They should have removed the bucket carry, I remember buying it for gamecube and sold it few weeks after because of that annoying thing!. If I remember correctly, was it similar to diablo or a dungeon crawler?

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