The Shrine

Has anyone here played Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers? I guess the acronym would be the ridiculous "FFCCCB". It's been a while since I've played an RPG. If you have played it, what were your impressions?

Yep, played through twice, I liked it quite a bit. I wouldn't recommend it though. It's a very strange type of title. It will be whether or not you can accept the telekensis based battle system.

Only played it for about an hour. Got tired of the cliched RPG storyline. I have about 10 other unfinished RPGs with similar tired storylines.

Didn't even actually get to the real gameplay, which also pissed me off. FF13 has its faults, and it takes a while to get into the more complex battle system, but at least it throws you into combat in the first 2 minutes.

Actually had a ton more fun with Cave Story. (Just wish I didn't screw up the good ending the second time around.)

Again, FF13's battle system was not complex, it just had the illusion of being complex. It really was FF For Dummies.

I find that the Final Fantasies are really good at renaming basic concepts in RPG to confuse you while you figure out what's the equivalent of the standard RPG strat with a newly named system.

FF12 is about the only system that had some complexity, but its complexity is more like one of a programming language rather than the system itself.

We are not having this argument again. Ever.

Just a few more points:

1. It's not an RPG, it's an adventure.
2. The game is sort of an FF9/FF10 feeling game overall, with a bit of GTA.
3. There's different societies to explore, and some very pretty areas that have a very Mana series atmosphere to them.
4. There are locations throughout the land which have monsters; kill them all in the aloted time to gain 1 extra health point - these are optional, but recomended. The game doesn't have a lot of fighting in it when compared to games like FF12 and 13 (which had TONS); it does have lots of other types of scenarios. I really enjoyed the world once I figured outeverything (there's no real world map, you're just kind of thrown out there).