Clearly made for multiplayer, but playing that multiplayer in current year is a logistical nightmare. Cool little game if you can actually find a way to play it to its fullest.
I just remember this being extremely repetitive and just overall boring, despite some cool ideas and lots of charm. I never could play multiplayer though.
Crystal Chronicles is not a single player game. Sure, it CAN be played that way, but it's a game meant to be played together, hunched over your Gameboy Advances as you argue about which way to go and battle it out for items. It's an amazing multiplayer experience and I have so many fond memories of it.
The original was a masterpiece. Still some of my favorite character designs of all time. And up there with the best video game OST ever produced, alongside Chrono Cross and equal if not better than the rest of the FF opus. Let us not speak of the remaster.
This game has too much bucket-carrying, and I never really got a chance to play the multiplayer except with my little brother occasionally. I was in love with the world, character designs, and the music is some of the best Final Fantasy music out of the entire series - if not the absolute best. I'm hesitant to get the re-release, but very very tempted to
It's alright, played it for a while with a friend but kinda lost the motivation to keep going at it. It definitely has soul but the actual dungeon-crawling is pretty simplistic and repetitive.
i love this game a lot
and i mean a LOT
but it is so damned clunky and hard to play single player that i might not ever have the strength to solo it but may never be able to have enough friends to give a damn about this game to ever beat it with a full party let alone 2 people
4 stars :(
and i mean a LOT
but it is so damned clunky and hard to play single player that i might not ever have the strength to solo it but may never be able to have enough friends to give a damn about this game to ever beat it with a full party let alone 2 people
4 stars :(
No one got past that first fucking forest as a kid. And if you did, you’re lying. I played it as an adult and was finally able to actually make progress and beat it and it was good. The vibe and atmosphere is the best part by far thoufh
i played this game until i got scared as a kid and it left a very fond impression on me. if you are friends with me please bring over 2 game boys and 3 link cables so we can put together a group to play this game please
This was what Final Fantasy was to me up until my friend showed me FFX in 2006ish. I was obsessed with this. I played it with my nephew all the time. Obviously, the way the co-op worked was really counter intuitive and frustrating at times, but it was so fun to replay and experiment with the different combinations of classes you could use. The music in this game is absolutely one of the best OST's in video games. It's SOOOOO gooooooood. The range it accomplishes from mystical to jolly to depressing and creepy is quite a feat. Having 4 distinct classes to choose from makes replaying it a blast, and I loved playing in co-op and finding creative ways to work together to progress.
Bought it due to having Final Fantasy in its name, but this game is terrible.
The gameplay is horrendous. It is such a tedious chore having to carry that damn pot everywhere you go to protect yourself from the miasma, and if you wanted to play co-operatively, it had one of the worst inclusions of multiplayer in any game ever.
I still remember wanting to play this with friends, as I had 2 Gamecube controllers, which could have been a bit more fun... but even this was ruined as you couldn't use the controllers with the console. Instead, it required the Gameboy Advance and link cable... entirely not worth it.
The gameplay is horrendous. It is such a tedious chore having to carry that damn pot everywhere you go to protect yourself from the miasma, and if you wanted to play co-operatively, it had one of the worst inclusions of multiplayer in any game ever.
I still remember wanting to play this with friends, as I had 2 Gamecube controllers, which could have been a bit more fun... but even this was ruined as you couldn't use the controllers with the console. Instead, it required the Gameboy Advance and link cable... entirely not worth it.
This game is very dear to me. It's also part of those games I tried to play as a kid and merely managed to advance through areas.
Its golden atmosphere accompanied by ancient instruments and cute little houses stuck in my head like few others.
Like I said, I replayed it as an adult. I feel that many have already exposed some repetition issues and limited gameplay. But honestly, I would say that the best way to enjoy it is to play it little by little, at well spaced times. Sidequests are randomized, and the world will always be there, with beautiful landscapes and graceful verses.
Even if not playing, I recommend listening to the soundtrack. Kumi Tanioka was amazing here.
Its golden atmosphere accompanied by ancient instruments and cute little houses stuck in my head like few others.
Like I said, I replayed it as an adult. I feel that many have already exposed some repetition issues and limited gameplay. But honestly, I would say that the best way to enjoy it is to play it little by little, at well spaced times. Sidequests are randomized, and the world will always be there, with beautiful landscapes and graceful verses.
Even if not playing, I recommend listening to the soundtrack. Kumi Tanioka was amazing here.
My greatest shame is that I've beaten this entire game single player multiple times.
A decent spinoff that plays a lot like the Gauntlet games with top-down hack and slash combat and cooperative play... however, setting up co-op is an unfortunate pain in the ass due to its requirement of GBA's being plugged into the Gamecube for each player, hope you've been able to find a lot of them offhand at Goodwill! Because there isn't a lot of lasting appeal if you don't have friends and GameBoys to play with.
L'un des meilleurs spin-off de la saga et l'un de mes jeux du cœur. Une bande son exceptionnelle, un gameplay simple et une histoire qui révèle son intérêt au cours du jeu.
An overhead action game that really has very little to do with Final Fantasy. It's a very odd game with a lot of quirks and an unusual way of telling its story. You can use GBAs as your controllers, and multiplayer is heavily encouraged. It's pretty fun with friends, but I'd say Zelda: Four Swords is better if you're looking to put those GBA cables to use.
I remember this game being too hard for my little baby brain to grasp because I was 10 and didn't understand how jrpgs worked but it was v pretty. -1 star for the gameboy advanced multiplayer set up from hell who thought of this
one of the better final fantasy games
3 of your friends get to fight monsters and 1 of them gets to carry The Bucket.
i rented this a couple times in 2005
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The music is incredible, please play it with three other people before judging it badly but make sure to split the cost of the accessories between you four...
Used to love this game as a kid, dont remember a ton about it but I do remember it was so fun to play at the time, and had great customization and was fun to play through.
The music is good, but the game is tough
Square's subsidiary Game Designers Studio (formerly Square next) delivered a Final Fantasy spinoff before getting absorbed back into the company; Crystal Chronicles, an isometric level-based action-RPG capable of 4-player co-op. Given the studio and some of the members involved, it's hardly a surprise that this often evokes two of Square's long-running RPGs: Mana (combat and multiplayer) and SaGa (character creation/selection, unconventional systems, quasi-open progression and replay value). The brawler/JRPG hybrid of the former turns out to be the highlight, and not only because it constitutes the bulk of gameplay. To start with, they found a more reasonable compromise between these two parts, adding a Kingdom Hearts-like command list and active (instead of menu-driven) spellcasting to facilitate the flow of battle. In a way, it's Secret of Mana for the 2000s, but without much of the story, magic or menu-related interruptions. Also noteworthy is how enemies actually counter the general frenzy (with ranged and armored attacks that force a more cautious style of play) and how variety is provided by a dynamic world (that changes shops, mobs, area paths and unlockables with each chapter). While the result is only vaguely related to Final Fantasy, it's nevertheless a solid and occasionally challenging beat-em-up; not exactly a casual dungeon crawler as advertised.
Their approach has its weaknesses - though: Many bosses are simply lackluster damage sponges, whose movesets are either too slow or too repetitive, while the RPG elements range from interesting albeit barely noticeable (best exemplified by their loot-dependent upgrade system) to formulaic (spell fusion and crafting).
Their approach has its weaknesses - though: Many bosses are simply lackluster damage sponges, whose movesets are either too slow or too repetitive, while the RPG elements range from interesting albeit barely noticeable (best exemplified by their loot-dependent upgrade system) to formulaic (spell fusion and crafting).
This game is something special for me. It has a great world building. You make your own character and you live your own story. You will travel throught villages which are full of nice people, and dungeons filled with the charismatic enemies of the FF series. Also music is amazingly good.
The game is so fun if you manage to play with other friends, which is very difficult because you need a GBA as controler and the cable to conect it to gamecube FOR EACH PLAYER, which is crazy.
Despite of that I completed this game 3 times, which 2 of them played with friends, and we had really good memories of our journey
The game is so fun if you manage to play with other friends, which is very difficult because you need a GBA as controler and the cable to conect it to gamecube FOR EACH PLAYER, which is crazy.
Despite of that I completed this game 3 times, which 2 of them played with friends, and we had really good memories of our journey
nostalgia.
i abandoned it for maybe a decade before i picked it up again in a bid to try and actually finish it. and i did. i liked it.
i abandoned it for maybe a decade before i picked it up again in a bid to try and actually finish it. and i did. i liked it.
A fun game with a lot of sharp edges that needed sanding down, but never got it even with the remaster. Played the original with a friend since it was ironically easier to set up. I still love this game dearly since I grew up with it, I hope you take a chance to play it. The original on emulator because this is too difficult to set up with a real console and the Remaster offers lackluster multiplayer compared to the original, solo would be totally fine there however
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One of my favorite multiplayers for gc 🥰