Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Review

By Rob Fahey Published 16 June, 2004

Getting four GBA owning mates around a sofa to review this properly took months of planning, as Rob found out...

Version tested: GameCube

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Connectivity. It's almost a dirty word for a lot of GameCube owners now; it's the battered old warhorse that Nintendo drags out at every E3 conference, every product demonstration, every game announcement. "Look," they cry in excitement, little Mario moustaches and Zelda Master Swords bouncing in excitement and wonder, "it connects up to your Game Boy Advance too! It's magic! The Nintendo Difference, I tell you!" And your eyes glaze over...

Unfair? Well, no, not really. In fact, for even some of Nintendo's most ardent fans, the very mention of GBA link functionality in Cube titles isn't just enough to precipitate a glazed expression - you'll get sighs, eyes rolled to heaven and the occasional angry rant about daft wastes of time. In short, the majority of Cube owners - among the vocal hardcore, at least - don't seem to be terribly enamoured with GBA connectivity.

This all came to a head when games started appearing that actually required that you hook up a GBA as a prerequisite to gameplay - particularly when Square Enix revealed that in order to play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles in four-player mode, you'd need four GBAs and four link cables. Howls of protest emanated from fans stricken at the prospect of requiring the guts of 500 quid's worth of hardware just to play a game.

But surely, if Nintendo is making such a big song and dance about connectivity, there must be something to it? Fans of the Kyoto based behemoth will point and wave endlessly at the many innovations which Ninty has introduced to the gaming world; so could it be that GBA connectivity really is something worth sitting up and taking notice of? Or is this truly another Virtual Boy moment for Miyamoto and company?

Only one way to find out - so clutching GBAs in one hand and GameCubes in the other (thank god for small consoles - try clutching an Xbox in one hand, eh?), we untangled our link cables, invited around some willing test subjects, put the cat out, and sat down to find out what two of the Cube's most hyped wonders of connectivity are actually like in the flesh. First up - Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles.

Late Bird Catches The Flak

'Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles' Screenshot 1

It's interesting to note that the primary reason for the tardy nature of this review (read: my god, didn't this game come out months ago?) is exactly the same as the primary problem with the game as a whole. You see, way back when this review would have been on time, we played FF:CC for a significant amount of time single-player, and found it to be a diverting but ultimately terribly shallow Action RPG style distraction. A willing housemate was nabbed for a brief bit of two-player experimentation (stop sniggering at the back!), but this also proved unsatisfying - providing tantalising hints of deeper gameplay, but still definitely missing out on being a must-play experience by quite a long shot.

And so, before we could write with any level of conviction about Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, we had to get three like-minded individuals, with GBAs and the requisite number of link cables, in front of a GameCube for a fairly uninterrupted stretch of hours. Not, perhaps, a particularly difficult task for someone working in the offices of a game magazine or what have you - but for those of us living in the real world, this is a surprisingly tricky proposition, even when you have quite a few friends who enjoy games.

In fact, we've only managed to get groups together to play FF:CC a few times since the game arrived on these shores - Sunday evenings seem to be the best times, for some reason - and each time it has, we have to confess, been something of a chore to get the whole thing arranged and co-ordinated. It's a testament to Square Enix' game, then, that despite the hassle involved, we're desperately keen to get our party of adventurers together as often as possible - because once you do have those people all sat down around the Cube, what ensues is one of the most compelling multiplayer experiences ever.

Itinerant Lifestyle

'Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles' Screenshot 2

Crystal Chronicles, as you'd hope, is decked out with all the production values we've come to expect from a high profile Square Enix title - stunning graphics, great music, a cohesive and well-imagined fantasy world, a vast range of items, characters and locations, and well-realised gameplay with plenty of intentional quirks and foibles to keep you interested for a significant period of time. Fears that the company might have trouble adapting to the new GameCube hardware were misplaced (although not exactly unfounded - remember the awful early Square titles on the PS2?), and the team has actually turned out one of the best-looking Cube titles ever, taking advantage of all manner of cunning graphical trickery that few other Cube third-party titles have ever exploited.

The character designs are in the "chibi" (cute and slightly child-like) mode, harking back to Final Fantasy IX in many respects - we'll leave it up to the reader to decide if this is a good thing or not, but suffice it to say that we liked Final Fantasy IX a great deal. In keeping with these designs, the world itself is quite cartoonish, with many clean lines and bright colours - but equally, it is by far the most graphically stunning world Square has ever built on a console, with incredible detail and gorgeous water, sky, fire and smoke effects (to name but a few) thrown about with gay abandon.

The basic idea behind the game is disarmingly simple. The entire world is shrouded in an evil fog which kills anyone who tries to walk through it - but the fog can be repulsed using certain magical crystals, which are powered by a substance called Myrrh which is harvested from specific trees. You and your band of merry companions form a "caravan", sent out to collect drops of Myrrh from these trees and return them to your village, so that the village crystal can be replenished. The caravan is protected from the fog by a smaller crystal, which is also what is used to store the Myrrh which you collect.

Mog, Mog Me Do

'Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles' Screenshot 3

The basic game mechanics are simple - you traverse a world map in your caravan, moving between villages and dungeons, and when you enter a dungeon, you fight your way through to the end where you receive a drop of Myrrh. There are no random battles anywhere in the game - all enemies appear on the screen - and battles are conducted on the main screen, in real-time, in true action RPG fashion. You and your companions run around the screen bashing enemies with magic or weapons, picking up items and so on. Magic is equipped by picking up special magic spheres (you lose all of these when you leave the dungeon, and must start acquiring them again later) while statistic boosts to your character come from special items you acquire - one of which you can keep after you leave the dungeon, providing a form of levelling up but cunningly ensuring that even very "old" characters in the game can still play alongside newly created or imported characters without there being a huge disparity in ability.

The really clever thing about the game is that as you move around the dungeon, you are surrounded by a sphere of clear space in which you can move freely - outside which exists the fog which will kill you if you walk into it. This sphere is generated by a "bucket" which you must carry around with you - dropping it in order to fight monsters or pick up items, and then picking it up to move the safe area further into the map. At its most basic level, this simply ensures that all four players stay on the same screen rather than trying to run off to opposite ends of the map (in single player, a fluffy moogle character will carry your bucket for you). Where it gets more complex is when you consider the carnage that ensues from four players playing an action RPG together on the same screen.

After all, what are the chances of your designated bucket-carrier always remembering to pick the bucket up - especially if there's loot to be had elsewhere? Recognising this, Square decided to make the magical pick-ups spherical - and then gave them physics. So, while walking up to a magic sphere and tapping a button will pick it up, running full tilt into it will send it flying like a cue-ball across the surface of a snooker table, bouncing off obstacles and usually knocking itself out of the safe circle. Since you were probably running in the first place in order to grab the sphere before your teammates did, you then have to balance up the health damage with the worth of the sphere, making loot hunting into a risk-laden and often hilarious venture as self-interest and the magpie instinct override the need to act for the good of the team every time.

All In The Teamwork

'Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles' Screenshot 4

That's where Square has really managed to make Crystal Chronicles into a fun, compelling experience. This isn't to say that there isn't plenty of interesting RPG type stuff going on in the background - you get a chance to cultivate relationships with various members of your family back in the village by sending them letters and presents, for example, which can make them more likely to help you out with items or cheap services. The equipment upgrade system revolves around an interesting cycle of finding designs and components for new gear and bringing them to the appropriate tradesman; while another interesting aspect is the fact that your character has personal preferences in food which influence how effective certain healing items are, and which change over time. Eat too many striped apples, and eventually you'll get sick of the sight of them and not want to touch any more. There aren't a lot of RPGs which make you keep a balanced diet (we often wondered how Alucard in Symphony of the Night kept his svelte figure despite eating all those pot roasts, actually)...

However, all of that is really just window dressing to a superbly entertaining multiplayer romp which has been created by the talented chaps at Squeenix. Indeed, working with Nintendo on this title has obviously seen a fair bit of the Nintendo gameplay mentality rubbing off on Square; best known for their dramatic epics, this time they've created a small, fun, purely gameplay focused title which smacks of the Nintendo approach of creating a toybox and then thinking up fun toys to fill it. Jars of oil and water litter the landscape, for example; throw an oil jar on the ground and you can ignite the contents, creating a wall of fire. Throw one at a teammate and you can immolate them "accidentally"... Water extinguishes flames, but also conducts and amplifies lightning magic. The potential for co-operation through combo attacks, healing, sharing items and the likes is immense; but the team has made sure that there's also plenty of scope for the kind of mischievous behaviour that'll have sofa wars breaking out in no time.

Once you remove the multiplayer aspect from the equation, though, it's clear that Square's heart wasn't in it. The single-player game is still very polished and well-presented, and the developers have done their best to add some extras which make it interesting - such as a moogle sidekick who accompanies you on your journey, helps out and can be, er, painted (with spray can paints) and trimmed, in one of the most bizarre sub-games we've ever seen in a console game. However, it's just not a very good experience single-player; we spent several hours with it and, truth to be told, if we hadn't been reviewing the game we doubt we'd have lasted that long. This isn't a flaw, as such, more of a warning; Crystal Chronicles is a multiplayer game, through and through, and it would simply be foolish to buy it for its single-player experience.

Hook Me Up

'Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles' Screenshot 4

The million dollar question, of course, is whether all of this gameplay actually requires GBAs in order to work - or if it could have been accomplished just as well with four standard controllers, saving a vast amount of cost and hassle for players in the process. The GBA is used by each player as their map screen, menu interface and general purpose controller; in effect, you do everything that only you personally need to see on the GBA, leaving the TV screen free to display the world without the clutter of four sets of menus and maps all over it.

Opinions differ on the necessity of this. We, however, come down on the side of believing that despite the faffing around involved in hooking up four GBAs to play a game, it was a good decision to build FF:CC this way. Using the GBA interface makes the whole thing much more seamless and enjoyable; four sets of menus on the screen would have been a nightmare in interface terms, and would have detracted massively from the enjoyment of the game. It simply feels more natural to select attacks, items and suchlike on the smaller GBA screen, and actually do the combat and exploration on the main TV screen - while there's even an added element of gameplay from the fact that each player gets a different map on their GBA, with the monster radar, treasure radar and overview map being divided up across the systems, and demanding an additional bit of teamplay in order to match them up.

Obviously, though, this approach will alienate a large number of people. It's difficult enough getting four people together to play a game, never mind requiring that each one own a GBA and a link cable; so for all that Crystal Chronicles is a wonderful experience, we very much doubt that many people will ever get to play it as the developers intended. To be fair, we can understand why this has happened; and it's down to a fundamental difference between how Nintendo perceives its audience, and how its more vocal fans perceive the audience. It may be tough for a twenty-something professional to get three friends with GBAs together to play a game; but for a pre-teen or early teens schoolchild, it's probably easy as pie. Half their classmates probably own GBAs, and in Japan at least, are desperate to play anything with Final Fantasy slapped on the cover. "I've got the new Final Fantasy game for the Cube, want to come round mine with your GBA after school?" Sold!

The fact that it's clearly been designed with kids in mind, however, doesn't make Crystal Chronicles into a bad game. It's still a superb game; one of the best action RPGs we've played in a long time, and certainly some of the best fun you can have with three other people and a sofa - within reason. It's just that you'll need to think very carefully about whether you're really in a position to make the most of the game before you buy it, because anyone expecting single-player thrills will be sorely disappointed.

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(if you've got some GBA-wielding mates to drag around, 5 if you're on your lonesome)

9 / 10

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Comments (44) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • Machiavel #1 8 years ago

    So, I buy this game now and wait for my kids to grow up? ;)

    Isn't there an issue about the clumsiness of movement using the GBA d-pad though?

  • martyngates #2 8 years ago

    when using a gba sp does it still drain your battery pack while playing or is it powered from the console?

  • Scuzz #3 8 years ago

    It drains. The movement also seems fine to me even with the GBA d-pad.

  • Blerk #4 8 years ago

    It's 'Crystal Chronicles' too. :-)

  • krudster #5 8 years ago

    Thank you my subbing friends :)

  • Blerk #6 8 years ago

    /claims proof-reading wage

    Anyway - nice review, good to finally see a review that takes into account both single-player and multi-player. Sadly, although it sounds interesting I doubt I'll ever pick this one up. It's hard enough to get a two-player game together these days, never mind a four-player game with GBAs.

    I can't help feeling they messed up bad here.... people wait years and years for a Square game on Nintendo hardware and when it arrives they limit the potential customer base to a tiny fraction of Cube owners. Bizarre.

  • bionutz #7 8 years ago

    Erm, you can find a gamecube with games and controlers and memory cards with 80? on ebay. I'll get one, although not because of this game...

  • Blerk #8 8 years ago

    Don't you get the impression though that Nintendo planned it this way?

    Yeah. And that's what's so messed up about the whole business. If Microsoft had signed Square for an exclusive game I'm damn sure they wouldn't have pissed the opportunity away by making a game which only appeals to a tiny minority of their user base.

  • Blerk #9 8 years ago

    The difference is.... from what I hear the new Zelda game plays a good single-player game too. The multiplayer is an option rather than a requirement. As it should be.

  • gamingdave #10 8 years ago

    How does it play 2 or 3 player? Is that an option or is it 1 or 4? Ive got 2 gbas myself and a lot of my gaming mates have one, but getting 4 together will be a rather rare occasion, theres always a couple of people available though.

    Mind, you think thats a hassle, took us nearly a year to get a 10 player bomberman night sorted.

  • ReGuRgIt8oR #11 8 years ago

    Well I quite like it an get to have regular 3 player games of it as my sons both like it and between us we've got two SP's and one GBA. I already had one link cable for use on Zelda WW, got second in with FF:CC and had to buy one more for from Dixons.

    Therefore my additional outlay was minimal, but I wouldn't advise anyone getting this if they had to acquire more than one extra SP to play it on.

    Not amazing but good fun.

  • Killerbee #12 8 years ago

    Shame about the single player. Great review, but I was only ever going to play this in single player mode, so I think this has now - sadly - dropped off the bottom of my list of games I always meant to get around to playing.

    Lets hope Ninty get Square to do a proper single player RPG next time.

  • Stevas mkII #13 8 years ago

    2 player is possible, but don't bother. I'd say the minimum requirements would be that you have 3 players at least. Bear in mind that if you want to move on someone has to be carrying the bloody bucket thing and... they... walk... so... fucking... slowly...
    that by the time you get round to dropping it so you can charge in and kick arse, there isn't any more arse to kick as any arse that was there to be kicked has already been kicked by your colleagues. At which point you'll haughtily be told to "get a move on... and don't forget the bucket."
    (Sigh)
    I'd say three players at least just so's you aren't spending so much time taking your turn carrying the bucket, as, to be perfectly honest, this part of the game is about as mind numbingly dull as gaming gets.
    Believe me, I've had it, tried it, traded it. Single player, dull. Two player, half as dull.
    I can only assume, through my basic grasp of mathematics, that with three players it becomes slightly less so, and that with four it approaches enjoyment, but... man, Nintendo. Linking up is so not the way to go, dudes.

  • Daryoon #14 8 years ago

    If Microsoft had signed Square for an exclusive game I'm damn sure they wouldn't have pissed the opportunity away by making a game which only appeals to a tiny minority of their user base.

    But that's what makes Nintendo who they are, isn't it? They had the FF license and decided to use it on an experimental game instead of playing it safe. And we can't really complain, because as the review points out this was primarily aimed at teens.
    True, over here teens would be more likely to own a PS2 or Xbox, but I'd wager it's a slightly different situation in Japan.

  • Blerk #15 8 years ago

    I'm complaining! Look! Look at me complaining! Grr!

    /grumpy

  • Shinji #16 8 years ago

    They had the FF license and decided to use it on an experimental game instead of playing it safe.

    And the people who moan are the same ones who moan every time EA plays it safe with an established franchise. Conclusion: Some people really like moaning :)

  • Blerk #17 8 years ago

    Oi! :-)

    You can be 'experimental' without alienating most of your fanbase, surely?

  • Stevas mkII #18 8 years ago

    I don't mind any game developer being experimental, as long as my experience of said experiment isn't somewhat diluted simply on account of my not having any friends.

    Sorry, that should have read: any friends... who have SP's.

    Ahem.

  • Stevas mkII #19 8 years ago

    Yeah, like I said before, 2 player is a major waste of time. I can kinda see how things would improve with 3 or 4, but unfortunately I live in the north east of england; Newcastle have won the league more times than I've seen others using an SP on the street. I still feel like I'm about to be dunked for witchcraft anytime I try to play mine on the metro.

  • Tweakmonkey #20 8 years ago

    Great review and I think the score is spot on. This game is oozing quality, and is really enjoyable multiplayer. It is an absolute classic, and will be long remembered by anyone who is lucky enough to play it to it's full potential (using 4 players). Thank goodness for Nintendo & Square doing something truly amazing with connectivity. I can understand some ppl feeling annoyed that they can't enjoy this game by themselves, but don't say Nintendo let you down, because actually they have done something incredibly cool.

  • gamingdave #21 8 years ago

    Stevas mkII, youd be suprised how few people you spot on the london underground with GBAs. I used to carry a link cable in my bag for the rare chance of some mario kart link up, but never ever used it.

  • Tweakmonkey #22 8 years ago

    Trying to multiplayer GBA games with strangers on the London underground probably isn't the best idea in the world. Talking to a stranger is greeted with as much enthusiasm as a corpse.

  • Stevas mkII #23 8 years ago

    Tell me about it. I feel like any moment somebody's gonna shout "burn im! Burn the witch!" whenever I dare to expose the local populace to my fearsome technology.
    One time I DID see someone with a GBA, though (not an SP - NEVER an SP), and I got all excited when I noticed he was playing Mario Kart. Back then I was labouring under the hope that this would happen quiet often, and I was carrying my linkup cable too.
    Man, what was I thinking?

    "I see you're playing Mario Kart."
    "Yeah," he said apprehensively.
    "Wanna game?" I asked him.
    "Um... you what?"
    "Wanna game? Me versus you - yes?"
    "You can DO that with these things?" He looked around the device as if discovering for the first time that his hands were up to no good.
    "Um... yes?"
    "Oh... right." He goes back to his game.
    "So... do you want to then?"
    "Ahaha. No. No thanks."

    I swear, the looks I got off an elderly couple who had observed this happening were much like those you'd possibly see in the crowd that had formed to watch you hang - possibly for crimes so heinous and evil that they were wishing they could think of something way nastier to do to you instead.

    Jesus.

  • gamingdave #24 8 years ago

    yeah, the undergorund really is zombie central, but youd hope one gamer would be fine with another aproaching, gba in hand. does make you wonder the use of the wireless linkup on the ds and psp, if your never going to be able to get someone to play, unless your in a class room.

  • Aretak #25 8 years ago

    The menus could have been done like they are in multiplayer PSO -- there's no pausing in that. Such a shame connectivity was optional rather than required, as it means I'll never get a chance to enjoy this game as I would have liked.

  • malloc #26 8 years ago

    I always got the impression that Square did this game with the Q fund or whatever it was. So the game most likely wouldn't have happened otherwise, so maybe we should be grateful for what we've got. Also the actual idea does seem a good one, albeit expensive and full of hassle.

    I would have hoped that it wouldn't have been impossible to do the game without the necessity of GBA's for multiplayer and a better single player experience. Atleast it's something a bit different.

  • Tweakmonkey #27 8 years ago

    There are many parts of the game that require displaying a map or operating a menu, so I can't see how they could have done it any differently. The GBA connectivity enhances the game's playability IMO. Pausing the main screen would be awful unless it was split screen (like PSO), but then this would have spoiled the concept of the adventuring on the main screen together. I think the connectivity isn't so much cynical, as beautiful simplicity and well executed UI design.
    Edited by 1 at 16/06/04 @ 17:39

  • tiddles #28 8 years ago

    You could take another GBA along with you, just in case....

    "Hello, little boy. Would you like to play a game with me?"

    /paediatrician

  • Shinji #29 8 years ago

    Actually, the only time I've ever ended up having a link-up game of anything with a stranger was on a train to London, years back, when this little kid (about ten or eleven years old I guess) spotted me playing a GBA and demanded to know if I had Pokemon on it. Which I did. At which point he demanded that we battle our creatures. So being bored, I agreed, and we linked GBAs and he battered the shit out of me at Pokemon. Bah. Poxy kids.

    Annoyingly, being a twentysomething with a gameboy on a train and playing a link game against a stranger's kid, you can just feel people's eyes boring into you as you play. It's hard not to break into a cold sweat. I kept looking nervously over at his mum, who was reading a magazine, waiting for her to scream something about talking to strangers at him, and then worried that I was looking suspicious by looking nervously at her all the time... Argh! What the fuck is wrong with this country....

  • dadrester #30 8 years ago

    lol

  • Daryoon #31 8 years ago

    And somehow I doubt the "sleek stylings" of the PSP will do anything to change things...

    Being beaten at Pokemon by a ten year old is highly embarassing. I loller :p

  • Pirotic #32 8 years ago

    Developer: Square-Enix

    I thought it was developed by a small independant dev who simply have ties to Square.

  • AOFanboi #33 8 years ago

    Well it is the same country where pediatricans (child specialist doctors) get beaten because the mindless Sun-reading mob thinks the word means pedophile... Go figure.

  • inpHilltr8r #34 8 years ago

    4 Swords feels like it's tuned across the board. The 1 player is a little slower, but they're all good.

  • retr0gamer #35 8 years ago

    This game was fairly naff. The music and graphics were top notch but it was a different story when you had to play it. Single player is terrible. Co-op is okay but better Co-op games on the PC were far more diverting than this and we ended up playing more Doom 2 co-op than this. Admittedly were only played 2 player but it was a pain in the arse getting more than two people that didn't think FF was crap despite having never played it. Also the game could have easily been played without connectivity.

  • Koedellan #36 8 years ago

    "Indeed, working with Nintendo on this title has obviously seen a fair bit of the Nintendo gameplay mentality rubbing off on Square; best known for their dramatic epics, this time they've created a small, fun, purely gameplay focused title which smacks of the Nintendo approach of creating a toybox and then thinking up fun toys to fill it. "

    Ah...now it becomes clear why I disliked this game. It's the first FF game in quite some time I'm not in the target market for. *sob*

    Oh well, can't have them all turn out to my tastes ;

  • 3william56 #37 8 years ago

    Blimey - this lark makes the Ngage look positively slick by comparison. Anyone know the sales/reviews for this in Japland? I can't believe that even there, there are enough FF crazed pube challenged Nintyheads to make playing a game like this from start to finish a practical proposition for the masses.

    /scratches head/ Sad that GBA linking is such a non-starter. CNN had me believing that the Tube was a seething mass of bluetooth enabled folks sh*gging strangers left and right. I suppose the dread flaw in linking wirely (is that the opposite of wirelessly?) is that you have to actually *talk* to the stranger. Never a good proposition in the average dimly lit city mass transit system. Maybe the Ngage is the future after all... arf!

  • Blerk #38 8 years ago

    According to 'The Magic Box', FF:CC sold 354,991 copies in Japan in 2003. Can't find any figures for 2004, though... and I've no idea when it launched in 2003. Apparently that makes it the 28th best-selling game in Japan last year. So not bad, then.... Source.

  • Rob #39 8 years ago

    Those figures are about right Blerk - and very good considering that Square-Enix announced before launch that they had a sales target of 300k.

    I think a lot of people mis-understand the game - it's not an 'expensive' option as it's targetted at people who already own the GC/GBA combo. You are not supposed to go out and buy GBAs for for your friends to play - they are already supposed to own one. If you don't have friends with GBAs then the game is, quite simply, not aimed at you and to moan about it is akin to moaning that Doom 3 won't run on your 386 machine out back.

    I guess I'm buiased though as I'm right in the centre of their aim - I have a GC/GBA and a couple of friends with GBAs of their own. We quite often boot the game up and have an absolute whale of a time with it.

    Great review IMO folks.

  • 3william56 #40 8 years ago

    Thanks Blerk. I stand corrected. I guess it's easy to forget how deeply gaming in general and Ninty in particular penetrates Jap culture, when down here it takes threats, blackmail or an offer of free beer to get a Timesplitters2 session up and running.

    Should have known I guess - was on a flight full of Japanese folks last week, and the number of GBAs and SPs bleeping and booping away in the gate lounge was unbelieveable. (and f**king irritating at 2 in the morning)

  • Blerk #41 8 years ago

    That said, the amount of sales in Japan only proves the amount of sales. They'd have bought it if it was a donkey-shagging game just because it had SquareEnix on the box. :-)

    Would be more interesting to see how highly the average Japanese gamer would score FF:CC... but somehow I suspect that's a bit more difficult to find out.

  • gonrico #42 7 years ago

    OMG. I have this game. And let me tell you....it sucks.


    *one monthe later*

    This game is awesome. I rounded up some friends and it was the funnest experience ever. Since that 1st faithful day i suggested playing it, All my other friends bought crystal chronicles and gamecubes. It isnt bull either... Im SERIOUS! This game is definately worth the effort to get 4 friends. Even if u need to buy their link cables also (theyll buy it from you after the first day). Plz! Buy this game! I want everyone to experience this fun...
    and for the morons that judge games on demos... F U!
    Edited by 1 at 05/11/04 @ 01:34

  • gonrico #43 7 years ago

    ^ ps. email me at gonrico@yahoo.com for comments on my comment... or if you want to know something about this game from da masta. My guys stats are all above 100. Yukes rule.

  • Duckers #44 7 years ago

    Man.....that's funny. I could have died of shock when I saw the huge writing at the end though. It is not nice to play with peoples' hearts like that. Oh, god....here it comes again.....*retches*..........