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God bless exchange trips to North America. ;)

Well, today I purchased Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Metroid Zero Mission. All I can say is that I'm simply gobsmacked. I've clocked up 5 hours with my friend on FF:CC in one day (not bad considering we stopped to eat, go to lectures etc) and its 2:30 am because I didn't want to sleep: Zero Mission called to me.

Without wanting to blow my load early, these could be shaping up to be some of the best games I've ever played, up there with Ocarina of Time and Metroid Prime. (Man, I sound like a Nintendo fanboy right now. :lol: )

FF:CC is, in essence, Gauntlet. But a shinier Gauntlet. The magic system is incredible, as is the combat; it retains the Final Fantasy feel in real time. My worries that a new player would not be able to join in half way through were unfounded; you can create upto 8 characters (choosing from tribe*, gender, job, and distinguishing feature) and pick and choose who to use between missions. You can create a new character at anytime, and a new player can join in at anytime. (By anytime, I mean in the map screen. The map screen being the only minor dissapointment so far. I was looking forward to actually travelling between the villages.) But by far the best point is the social interaction. You never stop talking to your co-adventurers. "You take that one, I'll get the other." "I've already got cure, do you want this?" "You open that chest, I'll distract the monster." Simple genius; you wouldn't get this over the internet. :D

* read: race

Zero Mission is also amazing. It feels alot more like Prime than Fusion did. The music is possibly the best I've ever heard in a hand held game. Oh, and to confirm: linking the two GBA Metroids gets you a Fusion art gallery. Finishing ZM gets you the original NES Metroid. Which is slightly annoying, seeing as having a finished Fusion gets you this in Prime anyways. Finishing ZM gets the ZM gallery.

All in all, this has been the best gaming day in my life for a long time. ;)

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From what I've seen in the IGN video review, the game does look to offer "limited enjoyment" in single-player mode. I totally buy in to the game's intention to be played multi-player, but it would have been nice to have had a good Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance style single-player too. Saying this, I've not played it myself and am only basing my opinion on a video review. However, comparing the on-screen action between single and multi-player, the latter really does seem to fit the game's design.

Having no mates near by and a wife who won't play this stuff means that single player is quite important... to some of us at least.

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From what I've seen in the IGN video review, the game does look to offer "limited enjoyment" in single-player mode. I totally buy in to the game's intention to be played multi-player, but it would have been nice to have had a good Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance style single-player too. Saying this, I've not played it myself and am only basing my opinion on a video review. However, comparing the on-screen action between single and multi-player, the latter really does seem to fit the game's design.

Having no mates near by and a wife who won't play this stuff means that single player is quite important... to some of us at least.

That's a shame :lol:

Although you can play it single player without a GBA, iirc.

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Zero Mission is also amazing. It feels alot more like Prime than Fusion did. The music is possibly the best I've ever heard in a hand held game. Oh, and to confirm: linking the two GBA Metroids gets you a Fusion art gallery. Finishing ZM gets you the original NES Metroid. Which is slightly annoying, seeing as having a finished Fusion gets you this in Prime anyways. Finishing ZM gets the ZM gallery.

Are you playing another game??

http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=30843

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FF:CC while good is still a massive dissapointment too much time was spent on the link up feature and one player suffers because of it...

Surely that's the point - to be a multiplayer RPG, not a singleplayer game. Perhaps they should have lifted the single-player mode out of it completely to stop people being disappointed? ;)

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Surely that's the point - to be a multiplayer RPG, not a singleplayer game. Perhaps they should have lifted the single-player mode out of it completely to stop people being disappointed?

Yeah I understand that.. but how many people are gonna have the chance to trule experiance the multi-player side of the game??

Not many I think

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Well it's only a 'waste' for those that can't play it.

For those that can, it's proabably the best thing to happen to a Squaresoft RPG since Secret of Mana.

You cant compare this too the beauty that is Secret Of Mana

This is more like Secret Of Evermore class

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Well it's only a 'waste' for those that can't play it.

For those that can, it's proabably the best thing to happen to a Squaresoft RPG since Secret of Mana.

they should have made the specifications for play as simple as Secret of Mana then, and set it in Secret of Mana world rather than Sylvanian Families ;)

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We're all just bitter that it takes so long for Gamecube games to come out and when a Final Fantasy Gamecube game comes out with the potential to spread love and happyness and people go mental with anticipation.....

Then its Crystal Chronicle with its shitty only even a good game on GBA linkup and people are frustrated and annoyed and alot more negative than they should be.

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What did it promise exactly?

It is what it is. And what it is, is a fine MP title.

So much fucking negativity

That maybe but what is the point of developing a game only a minor few will get to play properly??

Its a waste of such a big franchise

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We're all just bitter that it takes so long for Gamecube games to come out and when a Final Fantasy Gamecube game comes out and people go mental with anticipation..... and then its Crystal Chronicle and people are frustrated and annoyed and alot more negative than they should be.

I guess thats kind of inevitable.Sad, pathetic, but inevitable.We're all guilty of it though.

Luckily I haven't been waiting for another Square title on a Nintendo console for the last 8 (?) years. so this is just another game for me.

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That maybe but what is the point of developing a game only a minor few will get to play properly??

The point is to make it better. They could have made it work as a better one-player game too, but I'd rather they didn't 'dilute' the experience for the sake a few people complaining about it.

What about XboxLive games. They must be a terribly missed opportunity too, since only 500,000 people can play them properly.

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The point is to make it better. They could have made it work as a better one-player game too, but I'd rather they didn't 'dilute' the experience for the sake a few people complaining about it.

What about XboxLive games. They must be a terribly missed opportunity too, since only 500,000 people can play them properly.

I know that but this is A FF game and a game that Nintendo need to sell lots of copies but CC is not it im afraid, FFX-2 on the PS2 is so much better

As for XBL Well thats for a different thread entirely but most XBL games HAVE good single player modes.

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