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New Crystal Bearers trailer is exciting, a little mean

December 7th, 2009 at 10:00pm Under Wii / Nintendo

Square Enix has created a thrilling, cinematic trailer for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers — and it didn’t even have to lean on the Bon Jovi crutch! The latest trailer for the Wii action title makes it look kind of like a Final Fantasy take on the Indiana Jones style of adventure story — complete with the hero being a total jerk. Instead of a whip and years of archaeological study, however, Layle has the ability to lift stuff with his mind.

We always feel compelled to remind everyone about this game, especially since it’s tucked away the day after Christmas. So here it is. Once again, that’s Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers.

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Amazon bears the best deal on Crystal Bearers

November 24th, 2009 at 05:15pm Under Wii / Nintendo

Amazon’s awesome Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers offer has gotten even better. The online retailer is still taking pre-sales at $44.99, with an exclusive calendar, but it has now added a $10 credit on future game purchases to the package. So the game is effectively $34.99.

With The Crystal Bearers coming out after Christmas, it seems poised to take advantage of gift money and/or returns of items gamers don’t want. However, this pre-Christmas deal may require some budget-conscious gamers to spend against their presumed future cash gifts. Or, for those of you with enough disposable income, you can just buy it.

[Via GoNintendo]

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Crystal Bearers dives into Europe February 5

November 20th, 2009 at 12:45pm Under Wii / Nintendo

The good news: no Boxing Day shopping trips are in store for European gamers eager to telekinetically grab Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers. The (relatively) bad news: that’s because it’s coming out more than a month later. Square Enix announced today that Crystal Bearers will be available in PAL territories on February 5, 2010. As waits for Final Fantasy games go, it doesn’t seem that bad.

In fact, with the game being released on a normal day instead of the day after Christmas, maybe someone in Europe will notice its release — something we suspect may be a problem for a game that has been under the radar for most of its development.

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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers: The Pre-order Bonuses

October 27th, 2009 at 06:45pm Under Wii / Nintendo


Click to My Life as a King-sizeFinal Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers will be released in North America on the day after Christmas. If you’re daring enough to pledge your money in advance to Square Enix’s bold experiment in Final Fantasy action games, you face a choice: which store — and which pre-order bonus — will you choose? Square Enix sent out a list of retailers offering bonuses.

If you purchase the game from Amazon (current price: $44.99), you’ll get a 2010 calendar. If you opt for Best Buy, you’ll get a soundtrack sampler, which probably has tracks from the game, rather than Bon Jovi singles. GameStop’s offer is $5 off of reservations, but that’s not terribly appealing, given that the reduced price is the same as what Amazon is offering, with no extra stuff.

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Crystal Bearers also has a ballroom dancing minigame

October 19th, 2009 at 05:05pm Under Wii / Nintendo

Famitsu revealed two “event” minigames in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers. We knew about the vaguely embarrassing pool float minigame, and we’ve actually seen hints of the other minigame in the trailer: ballroom dancing. This seems to take place in the scene in which Layle steals some guy’s tuxedo to sneak into an event, and involves rotating the Wiimote and Nunchuk to simulate dancing movements.

In the E3 demo, the game was full of diverting events like this. A rail shooter segment opened the game, followed by an airship piloting segment. The main enemy-tossing game will be broken up by events like this one, which finally fulfills the promise of Final Fantasy VIII’s most famous scene.

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Bon Jovi wants you to live on prayer, buy Final Fantasy

October 13th, 2009 at 11:30pm Under Wii / Nintendo

Seeing as no fewer than three of Bon Jovi’s four members are sporting bad cases of Final Fantasy hair, it makes perfect sense that Square would tap the band to promote Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers in Japan.

According to Siliconera, ads for the game will begin airing later this month featuring the song “We Weren’t Born to Follow.” If you recognize the song, it’s likely because it made headlines as Bon Jovi’s record-setting 100th title that sounds like a douchey high school’s senior class motto.

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ESRB describes Crystal Bearers pool minigame

October 9th, 2009 at 06:45pm Under Wii / Nintendo

You may have spotted the particularly surreal moment in the latest Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers trailer: suddenly, we’re not seeing a psychic teen telekinetically lifting stones and monsters; rather, we’re seeing two girls in swimsuits engaging in a Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball-style competition, trying to knock each other off of a pool float.

Good news (or not): it’s playable! The ESRB revealed it as a minigame in its content description: “In one mini-game, two women in bikinis try to knock each other off a floating platform using only their hips.” The ratings organization also warns buyers that “If players wish to, they may pick up steaming manure and toss it at enemies or the bucolic surroundings.” But you knew that!

[Via Siliconera]

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Another quirky Final Fantasy: Crystal Bearers trailer

September 25th, 2009 at 04:44pm Under Wii / Nintendo

The Crystal Chronicles name has always meant players are in for a more experimental Final Fantasy experience. While the spin-off series is still infused with the essence of the main, Roman numeral’d franchise, it’s still like eating an egg that tastes like an orange. The latest Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers trailer highlights this peculiarity quite clearly. Heavy on action, with a little sarcasm and some sexiness … even for Crystal Chronicles, this game still feels different.

You can read our TGS hands-on preview here.

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Surprise! FFCC: The Crystal Bearers out in North America this December

September 14th, 2009 at 11:38am Under Wii / Nintendo

Wii gamers looking forward to Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers may find it hard to believe that the action-RPG is coming out at all, after years of wondering what was going on with the game. But Square Enix announced a Japan release date of November 26, giving us hope that it would come out worldwide soonish, if not this year.

But it is coming out this year in North America! Barely! Crystal Bearers will be out in North America on December 26, just in time for people to return whatever games they received as Christmas gifts from well-meaning relatives. And just in time for students to spend their holiday breaks tossing Cactuars around.

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FFCC: Crystal Bearers now bears a Japanese release date

August 28th, 2009 at 06:16pm Under Wii / Nintendo

Four years after it was first revealed, Square Enix has finally announced a Japanese release date for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers: November 26. That makes us doubt it’ll be out Stateside before the end of the year, but at least it’s actually being released. Actually, for a long time we perceived Crystal Bearers as in trouble or delayed, but four years for a Final Fantasy game seems about right!

Square Enix also revealed the box art (posted in full after the break), which is both nice-looking on its own merits and evidence that Square Enix is getting around to finally putting this thing into boxes!

[Via GAME Watch]

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