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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remaster For Nintendo Switch, PS4 Announced

This time, you won't need multiple Game Boy Advances.

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Square Enix has announced it is remastering Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, and it will launch in 2019. A short trailer for the game made its debut at the PlayStation Lineup Tour, a pre-Tokyo Game Show event, and teases the return of the multiplayer RPG.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles was originally release for Nintendo GameCube in 2004. The game tasks players with battling enemies and solving puzzles so that they can safely gather Myrrh, an energy source that sustains the crystals needed to protect the world from Miasma. In the original release, multiplayer was enabled by connecting Game Boy Advances using a link cable, however, the remaster will have internet connectivity.

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In GameSpot's Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles review, Brad Shoemaker awarded it an 8/10, saying that it is "a fun action RPG with its own style and a fair amount of replay value."

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He continued: "It doesn't exactly fit into the Final Fantasy series proper, aside from the involvement of crystals and a few familiar monsters and magic spells, but it's good enough to stand on its own without any famous franchise names attached to it. Crystal Chronicles plays specifically to those who will appreciate it, and it serves as a fitting return for Square to the Nintendo partnership that first brought the company to fame so long ago."

The PlayStation Lineup Tour has delivered a few other surprises too, including a new Kingdom Hearts 3 trailer that shows the Big Hero 6 world and characters. In it, Sora, Donald, and Goofy meet with Baymax and Hiro to defend San Fransokyo from the Heartless.

In addition to that, a new trailer for From Software's Sekiro: Shadow's Die Twice was also released. It shows off some of the things that differentiate it from the studio's other big games, Dark Souls and Bloodborne--most notably the traversal. Watch the new Sekiro TGS 2018 trailer here.

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Cool.

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Oh whoa...Cool! I have heard good things about this game, never could find it anywhere. I'll definitely make sure i'll get this when it comes out.

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I never thought I'd see the day this game was remastered. I've got a weird relationship with this game, I never particularly liked it but I have a friend who always wanted to play it whenever he came over, so I ended up playing it quite a bit. We got extremely close to beating the game, we got to the final boss and came up just short of beating it, it was so frustrating I basically never wanted to play the game again and we pretty much didn't. Now my friend lives a few hundred miles away and I only see him maybe twice a year but he stills likes to ask if we can play crystal chronicles, but unfortunately I don't really have all the hardware available to do it anymore.
But now that it's being remastered I feel like it is a sign from above that me and my friend have to get through this game once and for all.

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Words cannot express how much I love this game. And I don't care about what anyone sais. This is in my top 5 favourite games of all time.

I know you all hate it.

I don't give a shit.

I freaking LOVE THIS GAME.

I may attempt a self induced coma spanning the rest of 2018 because I cannot live with knowing this is coming for Switch.

**** it I'm going to buy it on PS4 too.

Twice.

All hail Memory Card A.

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Why?

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YES! I've been wanting this since the 3DS was released!

Can't believe it's happening.

Gonna be disappointed if there's no local multiplayer, hope the trailer says anything.

Hope it turns out good.

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Please SE, just stop.

We have taken enough BS.

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I'm glad I didn't go through the pain of emulating these games.

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@superdoyle1: Pain? Bro. You just download Dolphin, download the ROM, plug in a usb controller, and bam. You're playing emulated Gamecube.

There are no settings to mess with anymore for Gamecube/Wii emulation. It's plug-n-play for like 90% of the library.

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We spent so much money on all the stupid adapters, and the game wasn't even good.

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@Thanatos2k: I've played it and agree. It gets repetitive too fast.

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God I hated this game.

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So American Switch owners can't have Dragon Quest XI or Dragon Quest Heroes 1 & 2, but Square Enix is considering flushing this turd into our backyards?

No thanks!

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@professor_megaman: second that! After the release of several dq titles on 3ds and builders on switch I prefer to have em on Nintendo. But here we are with 11 and heroes on ps4 and everything else on nintendo...

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one of the worst "classic era" final fantasy games... this was the entry that made me realize final fantasy wasn't immune to mediocrity and gamecube owners were very unfortunate indeed. definitely won't give this game a second look.

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@Xristophoros: How is it classic era? It came out in 2004, long after FF 6-10 and only two years before FF12.

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@rglgathrawn: the classic era (for me) ended after final fantasy xii released... that is the last "great" final fantasy game for many people, myself included. also, it makes more sense to define an era alongside a console cycle, meaning the ps2 era marked the end of the classic ff era.

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Local multiplayer with Switch or online multiplayer with PS4. I guess that covers both options.

I find it interesting that this is even coming to PS4 considering the game was published by Nintendo... but I guess it's ultimately Square Enix's IP.

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I don’t want this I want ff8 remastered. Plus why skip 8 . What is wrong with you squareenix do like ff8 I guess not .

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@playstationzone: It has something to do with copyright over that one song.

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@Barighm: what is your source? which song? "eyes on me"?

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@Barighm: copyright? They didn’t have problem putting ps1 game on the PS3 psn store. Why know copyright.

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@playstationzone: i agree. 8 needs the treatment 7 and 9 got... just a barebones remaster with the option to skip the guardian force battle animations and i will be happy :D

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Oh wow! I did not expect this, was a nice little game which unfortunately I didn't as much as I would have liked. Will be good to get into this properly with the PS4 release.

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One of my favourite GameCube games. This is fucking awesome news! Hopefully they'll remove some of the annoying stuff.

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I played through this several years ago with a buddy of mine using our Gameboy Advanced SPs. It was a lot of fun, but I feel like the novelty of the GB controllers was the main thing that offset carrying that stupid miasma shield around.

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