New Final Fantasy Game Coming To Wii and DS 61
Eurogamer reports on some good news for fans of the Final Fantasy series: a new game is in development for the Nintendo Wii and DS systems.
"It's said to be titled Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time. ... the game will apparently be playable on both machines at once, thanks to the spiffing new Pollux engine. So, while whoever is the best negotiator/fighter/Wii owner is playing on the big screen, another lucky adventurer can wade in on the DS, presumably following around and summoning Ifrit on their elder siblings. This harks back to the series' origins on DS, with the first CC game enjoying the relative splendour of Gamecube/GBA link-up play."
Re:No more (Score:5, Informative)
"Nintendo at times has this thing for insanely ridiculous hardware requirements for their console games, but if you manage to gather the hardware, it's definitely a worthy gaming experience."
As an owner of crystal chronicles, it was a complete letdown even with mutiplayer. The game was too simplified and it wasn't final fantasy at all, not in the slightest. Everything about FF: CC was disjoint and disconnected. They had some wonderful graphics but the world did not cohere well at all, FF: CC is probably one of the craziest projects square has ever green lighted, I can't understand how they would make a different game for the gamecube and not a true final fantasy.
FF: CC was originally some other game whom they grafted into the fold, I wish they had not named it FF:CC but they wanted free money and a lot of stupid people bought it on the name (as they knew)
It was a dishonest thing IMHO. I thought they were seriously releasing an FF, when I played FF:CC I was like : WTF IS THIS?? that's what my reaction was... a crappy overly simplistic button mashing action game.
Re:Not that I want to offend anyone... (Score:3, Informative)
But I have.
And what loupgarou21 says holds perfectly true for it. It's not doing anything you couldn't do on a mouse and keyboard and if you play for more than 30 minutes at a time, it gets very uncomfortable. Plus the Metroid Prime gameplay has now been through 3 iterations with almost no changes (or significant graphical uplifts) and is now feeling very, very dated.
To date, the only first party game for the Wii I've found that I actually genuinely like is Super Smash Bros Brawl, which has decent production values and doesn't actually use the motion sensing functions of the controller. The rest seem to have ranged from the fair-to-middling (Zelda, Mario Galaxy) to the downright awful (Mario Kart Wii - probably the worst "big title" game of 2008 so far on any platform, due to some really dodgy design decisions).
Elsewhere, with a couple of notable exceptions (such as the decent ports of Okami and Resident Evil 4), the system does seem to be drowning under a tide of low-budget shovelware. I didn't pick up the Wii version myself, but from what I understand, the Wii version of Force Unleashed was even more disappointing than the 360 and PS3 versions (another good contender for biggest let-down of the year, on any of its many platforms), as it combined early-PS2 quality graphics with lightsabre mechanics that fell well short of the actual lightsabre control that people had been hoping for.
Now, I freely admit I've not been a fan of the Wii concept from the very beginning. It does, however, feel like over the last 6 months or so, even some of the Nintendo faithful have become increasingly disillusioned by Nintendo's apparent acceptance of the popular concept that "casual" games are effectively "rushed, low quality" games. The novelty of the controller has worn off now and the Wii won't be the hot, trendy main-stream ticket this coming Christmas that it was last year. Decent games are desperately needed, whether or not they make use of motion sensing.
Now, what's the article about?
Oh yes, Crystal Chronicles. Didn't like the first one on the Gamecube, thought the recent DS version was kinda fun but not Earth-shattering, can't say I'll be camping out in line to pick up the new one. I used to be (and to some degree still am) a huge Square-Enix fanboy, but I've been getting a little worried of late. Final Fantasy XIII looks great, but it's taking a hell of a long time to appear. The Kingdom Hearts series appears to be stuck in some kind of limbo of uninspiring hand-held and mobile phone games. Infinite Undiscovery on the 360 is not even close to being as good as Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey from Mistwalker. The lone bright spot among their recent releases has been Crisis Core, which was, I admit, very good indeed. Besides that, it appears that they've allowed too many side-projects and spin-off franchises to distract them from their core strengths.
Re:Square and Nintendo together again. (Score:2, Informative)
That comic is old, and it's referencing the long period between the release of FF7 and FF10 where Nintendo vowed that Square would never release another game on their consoles.
They took it rather personally when Square jumped ship to Sony for the release of Final Fantasy VII and then launched a massive anti-cartridge marketing campaign. Wouldn't you?
As far as Xbox 360 games, Square-Enix has already released Project Sylpheed and Infinite Undiscovery on the console; both exclusives. The future releases of Last Remnant and Final Fantasy XIII share a release with the PS3. Yes, Final Fantasy XIII.