Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (series): Difference between revisions

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The first game, released in 2003/2004 for the Nintendo Gamecube, is the tale of a caravan (made up of characters which you create) sent on a annual mission to replenish their village's crystal with myrrh. The replenished crystal could then protect the village from the deadly miasma that covered the world for another year. The adventurers carried the myrrh in their Crystal Chalice, which was mounted with a small crystal to protect them from miasma as they traveled.

 

 

The second, released in 2008 for the Nintendo DS (under the lengthy title ''Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates''), stars a set of twins named Yuri and Chelinka, two children of a great seer, out to stop an ancient prophecy under the light of an ominous blood moon.

 

 

''Echoes of Time'', a sequel to ''Ring of Fates'', was released in early 2009 for the Nintendo DS and the Wii. Both games are functionally identical and can be played with each other wirelessly. While the DS version was met with praise, the Wii version was rightly tempered for being a blatant port of the portable game, complete with two separate "screens" on the television.

The games in the series are:

* ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (video game)|Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]''

* [[Action RPG]]

* [[Alternate Universe]]: Ring of Fates introduces the idea of an endless number of worlds, even one where the moon crashes into the Great Crystal. [[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (video game)|Sound Familiar?]] It's possible that each game in the series is its own parallel world.

* [[Charged Attack]]: The Focus Attacks, which are tied to the specific weapon being used. Some weapons will shoot blasts of energy, others make you leap to the target and perform a powerful attack.

* [[Art Style Dissonance]]: The character designs are super-deformed and cute, the personalities endearingly quirky... and then the people you love the most ''die''.

* [[Combination Attack]]: Basic magic spells can be stacked on top of one another for added effect (two Fire spells make a Fira {or Firaga with proper timing} attack, and spells of different elements can be combined to create a Gravity spell). The basic elements can also be combined with a [[Charged Attack]] for an elemental strike.

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: The Lilty race.

* [[Deadly Gas]]: The miasma.

* [[Five Races]], minus one (minus two in [[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Crystal Bearers|The Crystal Bearers]], or so everyone thinks)

** Clavats are Mundane, being the clearest human analogue and the [[Jack of All Stats]].

* [[Fur Bikini]]: Selkie ladies.

* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Raem.

* [[Humans by Any Other Name]]: ''All'' the tribes are called human in the games, but Clavats are the ones who ''look'' most human. Selkies are basically human as well, with the main difference being that [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|Selkies Gotta Have Blue Hair]]. Lilties are harder to justify, seeming almost ''plant-like'' with onion-shaped heads topped by leafy tendrils instead of hair, but there's at least one example of them having children with Clavats. Yukes are the most different; in earlier games they appear to have fur-covered flesh but armor conceals most of their bodies (including their entire heads and faces), but by the time of [[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Crystal Bearers|The Crystal Bearers]] they are essentially {{spoiler|[[Animated Armor|gaseous beings that possesses suits of armor]]; they are able to reassemble themselves if the armor falls apart, and if their body is damaged they can get a new body}}. It's not known if this is a reimagining of the Yukes, or if it is a result of {{spoiler|being wiped out when their tribal crystal was destroyed (it's also possible that only Amidatelion is capable of switching bodies due to being a Crystal Bearer)}}; there's not enough evidence to say either way for sure.

* [[Improbable Age]]: This can happen once you're into the 104th year and your caravan full of [[Child Soldiers]] / [[Recruit Teenagers with Attitude]] haven't aged one bit, and that includes your mom, '''her mom''', and the entire world. Invoking [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] can actually be possible.

* [[Item Crafting]]

* [[Jack of All Stats]]: The Clavat race.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Compared to the main ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, but only in art style.

* [[Mineral MacGuffin]]: The Crystals. Subsequent games show that they can do much more than keep Miasma away.

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