Here’s another short Crystal Bearers clip, this time from the game’s Japanese site, featuring some of the best scenes from the trailer. It seems to be part of the game’s prologue and sheds some light on the relationship between Layle and his Selkie companion Keiss, who goes missing in the game.   I found the [...]

With all the fuss surrounding Final Fantasy XIII and the release of the demo, no one’s been paying any attention to The Crystal Bearers, Square Enix’s massive RPG project for the Wii. It’s unfortunate because Crystal Bearers seems to be one of the most fresh, innovate Square Enix ideas in years. Everything from the art [...]

Meet Mira. She’s the star of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord a spin-off of last year’s Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King. The twist is instead of saving the world from evil, you summon monsters and set traps to defend your tower from Crystal Chronicles heroes. Think Trapt [...]

What’s that in this Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers screenshot? A Yuke? I thought all of them were extinct after the Great Lilty-Yuke war. Not quite the case since Layle, the game’s gravity manipulating hero, is confronting Amidatelion a female Yuke who also holds a crystal.   Litlys also play a key role [...]

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time is a pick up and play, drop in and drop out multiplayer game. Different from many online enabled console RPGs there is an option to link up with worldwide players. A great idea, but also a potential problem when adventurers can’t speak the same language.   Square Enix [...]

Let’s get something right out of the way: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time is, at its core, a game designed around a co-op muliplayer experience. The single player mode is enjoyable enough, but multiplayer is where the game truly shines and exhibits its unique charm.   The game encourages you to hop right [...]

Time for another Crystal Bearers update! Spencer beat me to covering the website story, so I’m going to make sure he doesn’t get to do it again.   The Crystal Bearers website pretty much confirms the game is going to see a European as well as American release. There’s a gigantic crystal on the main [...]

A clip showcasing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers was not included with the Wii version of Echoes of Time in the US. That doesn’t mean Square Enix won’t release the Crystal Bearers overseas.   Out of the ether, a teaser site popped up with the same Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers [...]

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years won’t be the only downloadable Final Fantasy game coming to Wii. The NES game that started the series will arrive on the Virtual Console this May in Japan. Square Enix promises a North American launch for Final Fantasy sometime in 2009. Future Final Fantasy games will also be available [...]

Square Enix’s newly created Pollux Engine made it possible to develop the same game for the Nintendo DS and Wii. However, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time doesn’t look exactly the same on the Wii. Stare at two screens of the same fight long enough and the models on the Wii version look a [...]

Last night, Ishaan found the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers trailer which snuck out a day early. Both of us don’t know what to make of it since it strays from the swords, spells, and puffball moogle Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles formula. Sure, the main character is a human, ahem, a Clavat and [...]

North America will see Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes Of Time in stores on March 24. The game launches in Japan this Thursday which means the localization gap between regions is a mere two months. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes Of Time just might set the benchmark for the fastest Nintendo DS and Wii localization [...]

The Wii version of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time has a special feature or I should say a special trailer. Pick up Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time for the Wii and you can watch a new trailer of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers. Square Enix has not announced a [...]

Square Enix is starting the limited edition DSi trend with a Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time bundle package. We mentioned this before, but now you can see what the DSi looks like. A cat creature is on the left and the words Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Echoes of Time encircle the outer camera. [...]