Remembering Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles – Part 1

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Here it is, part 1 of my giant retrospective review of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. A Final Fantasy Spin-off series on Nintendo systems that innovated… mostly in ways that didn’t quite stick. A few of them are near and dear to my childhood, so I want to make some videos about it as I relive the series.

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Flaffy (Dragon Quest V and playing FFCC1) – https://www.youtube.com/@flaffy_p
Bryce (Playing FFCC1 and Echoes of Time)
DeltaPrime (BattleFront II) – No link
Midnight Wanderer (Saga Frontier & Theatrhythm) – https://www.twitch.tv/midnightwanderx

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00:00 Intro
04:56 Squaresoft, Sony, Nintendo, and PC Engine CD-Rom²
13:48 A rant about GBA-GCN link cables
18:55 Crystal Chronicles 1 Retrospective
1:07:45 “Spoiler Section”
1:21:43 Crystal Chronicles Remaster

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24 thoughts on “Remembering Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles – Part 1”

  1. I wonder how much releasing the MegaMan Starforce games on modern consoles and/or PC by Capcom will be a hassle. They cannot simply emulate the game. I guess the Switch could kninda get away with that, but that's it.

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  2. I know it's oft-maligned, but Crystal Bearers was my first final fantasy, and I still adore it to this day. It's not really a Crystal Chronicles outside of the races but it means a lot to me.

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  6. This was a fantastic video it captures everything that makes Crystal Chronicles special and why the remaster is such a disappointment. This was the first FF game I played I only had a GameCube at the time. Also no GBAs so no multiplayer 😢. I would later play FFIV and that would be the first FF game I finished. I would not finish CC until the remaster I did get some enjoyment out of it by showing people how to get the ??? element. I remember using some website to discover that I was not clever enough to read between the lines 😅. This game is special and I wish the remaster was better but it’s ok I still have my memories.

    BTW you definitely earned a sub from me I’m looking forward to the rest of your series!!!!

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  9. ring of fates and echoes of time meant so much to me as a child, I'm incredibly happy to see the promise of them being covered. I beat the entirety of RoF except the final boss on multiplayer super hard mode – echoes of time sadly was corrupted and I could never get past the tower. I'm just excited to see what you have to say about them since you seemed to appreciate them a lot

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  11. I never got to experience this games multiplayer as a child more than one single time. I still remember the Summer day I saw this game on G4 being shown off with a friend. We had just gotten out of the pool and were in the living room at my house watching TV as we sat on dry towels. We both said the game and way to play it with the link cables looked so cool and that we both really wanted to play it.

    A year or so later, I had the and a GBA (SP at that point?) and he had two link cables, his own GC, and his own GBA. So, whenever I went over to his house, I'd try to play it with him. We only did it once. For whatever reason he just didn't want to.

    Before and after that, I played it solo. I never grinded stages for stats (The thought never even occurred to me till years later), and one night while at a different friends house, at like 2am, I got to the final boss on year 12-15(?) just barely with probably around stats in the high 30/40s. I struggled extra hard with the parasite, barely beat the first phase of the final, and never once got farther than a few hits on the final fight before giving up. I never beat the game.

    When I found out about the remaster, I was beside myself with joy. I was to the moon and back again. I talked about it and got so happy with everyone I could. Then I bought it, played it for a few minutes, and never touched it again. It felt off. Wrong. The controls didn't feel right at all. Nothing felt like my memories of it. I had recently, 2 years prior, just played a short session (I think up to year 4?) I grinded stats a little, and had a bit of fun, but stopped playing as life got rough. It felt just as I remembered it.

    I. Love everything about this game. The way the world changes, the miss-able story and quests even, the choices and world. Everything about it will forever live in my memories as a timeless game that I failed to truly experience. I hope one day I can though.

    Thank you for this video, I can't wait for the next ones.

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  13. I don't think fans have forgot square enix are the ones who forgot and treat this game with a level of apathy that's genuinely depressing. Like the remaster they did was pretty disappointing.

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  16. 23:45 There was a side-quest where a Moogle was having an existential crisis, worrying that he and his species may actually be monsters and don't deserve to live with the rest of civilization because of their ability to survive in the miasma. You can help him discover the whereabouts of Carbuncles and when you do, you see that Carbuncles survive in the miasma because of the crystals in their forehead pushing the miasma away. For him, that was enough to give him reassurance that moogles are closer to carbuncles than monsters.

    Except it doesn't? Moogles don't have crystals, not even in the pom-poms….

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  23. “Oh hey a video about Crystal chronicles! I just bought the switch version and wanted to get a group together to try and multiplayer it like I didn’t get to as a kid!
    …
    What was that about the port not being great?”

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