Crystal Defenders, or should I say Crystal Guardians, started off as a mobile phone game in Japan. Then it became an iPhone game, a sensible move by Square Enix to give their Final Fantasy tower defense game an international release.   Next week on January 27 Crystal Defenders is popping up as a WiiWare game [...]

Nearly out of the blue Square Enix is launching Crystal Defenders today worldwide. Ivalice is at war again. Will Ivalice ever be peaceful?   This time you won’t control a shirtless thief or move an army of moogles on a tactical grid. Crystal Defenders is Final Fantasy tower defense. Deploy black mages, place soliders, kill [...]

Square Enix tested the waters with a tower defense game of their own for mobile phones. Crystal Guardians W1 took classes from Final Fantasy Tactics and turned them into immobile towers. Three episodes of Crystal Guardians came out in Japan and none of them were released in North America.   This winter those 300+ stages [...]