This game, if not too short, exudes an ecstatic amount of childish charm, but somehow retains the Final fantasy spirit.

User Rating: 8.1 | Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon DS
By WhiteFlame-XIII | Review Date:
Take one look at the box art. Don't laugh too hard or you'll get seizures. Any game that has a smiling Cute Yellow Bird deserves to be overlooked, right? wrong. Or atleast not entirely right... STORY(reviewers tilt): You are a Chocobo. A cute looking Yellow bird that many of the FF stars have rode on such as Cloud, Zidane, and Balthier to name a few. You also have mad minigame and Card playing skillz. who would have guessed? certainly, not me. You live your life sleeping and reading a few books. So one day, while reading a fairy tale, a Dark sorcerer pops out of a book that a Black mage named Croma, who looks much like Vivi, bought from some dude. He, a talking book with breath that smells like Paper, traps all your little chocobo friends in cards that you progressively collect. You get your fair share of Traditional NES FF four elemantal crystals, as well as Altered Fairy tales using FF summons as things such as giants and such... so the story pretty much plays out as such: Not too much, not too little.

GAMEPLAY: The gameplay is an accomplishment. Not too amazing, however. The Card Battle is the accomplishment. It is very complex, but easy to learn, and fun to play. You have 15 cards in your average deck. Each card has four elemental attack spaces on their card. These could be filled with either an atttack icon, defense Icon, or blank space. there are four colors and each card has four of those colors. If their attack is on one Icon and the other cards' corresponding space is blank you can damage them. That is only a taste of the battle system. Now, the weakness is the minigames, which really aren't that bad in consideration... but can get old. Other than the story, they serve as ways to obtain cards for your colection as well as Your Chocobo friends' cards to release them. the outer world is fair. And there are no random battles unlike traditional FFs. All in all, the gameplay is decently good. GRAPHICS: the decency is... decent. not much to say, but I'll go into detail. It is basically the same thing as Final Fantasy III, a considerable failure in my book. A good addition is a map at the top screen. And that the FFIII graphics weren't THAT bad. So the Graphics were fair. SOUND: Chocobo tales has a fair sound track. But the music gets a little bit annoying after a little. And it is also very Kiddy-styled. There are traditional and/ or old FF songs from FFs I-VIII. Some are good, some are bad. But I would honestly like to stop habitually humming the Chocobo theme song. It's honestly catchy enough, but not too appealing otherwise... That can basically describe the whole soundtrack for this game.

VALUE: sure, why not... What's that? you want an explanation? well sure, why not? so... yeah... this is alot of spam writing... ........... Well I'm being nice and giving it an 8 just because it has the name, Final Fantasy on it... but I think the value is bad. I beat the easy storyline in 13 hours with doing sidequests, if that's what you can call them. Not too much you can do afterwards, too. Maybe beat the minigames 100%, Card battle wifi... somethings, but not enough to be that great on it's own. But it's not a true FF, so it gets some slack. But... It's FF... BREAKDOWN: Story: 8- for having not too much, but not too little too it. Gameplay: 9- for overall goodness in generality. Graphics: 7- for unoriginality, but okay-ness. Sound: 7- for a Kiddy- styled Soundtrack, but Catchy-ness Value: 8- Courtesy just because it is in the FF series. Final: 8.1 out of Accumulative points.

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