Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers

I started playing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers this week. I managed to make it to the first “boss” encounter against Bahamut, which is only a couple of hours in. I’ve now decided I don’t want to play Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers anymore because it’s just not any fun.

I have tried that boss fight about a dozen times now and have spent more time fighting with the camera (which is mapped to the dpad) than I have actually fighting enemies. I’ve found it extremely frustrating to try and move that camera around to get it to where I can actually see anything and target things properly and the motion controls haven’t registered very well in the heat of combat. Having half a dozen guys around you trying to target them with the pointer and flick the controller to pick them up is crazy ridiculous and completely un-fun.

I wanted to like this game a lot because I enjoyed the GameCube and the DS games in the series, but this one just isn’t grabbing me.

Kinda like how I wanted to really like FF XIII but it never really panned out that way. I found it to be more like work than play. Strange that I still got a platinum in it. I guess I was bored enough at the time that even though I didn't enjoy FF XIII, It was less boring than being bored. Something like that.

Yea. I don’t really having a problem baby sitting a camera little bit in a game, but it’s really hard to do on the Wii, and this camera just seems to get in the way more than it’s worth. I messed around with the demo of Final Fantasy XIII-2 and I think it looks like it’s going to be a better game that Final Fantasy XIII was, but I didn’t put a ton of time into the first game, so I’m not the best judge.

The only other camera I had as many problems with recently was the one in Epic Mickey which just made some of the platforming sections unplayable.

And Epic Mickey looked so promising. Would explain why I always see it in a bargain bin or seriously discounted.

Maybe you should write an article about how much you don't like the Crystal Bearers. It worked out so well for Monster Hunter Tri.

Somehow I don’t think a scathing piece about a Final Fantasy spin-off would have quite the same effect as a piece against one of the most popular adventure games of all time. [=^)

Tony Miller wrote:Somehow I don’t think a scathing piece about a Final Fantasy spin-off would have quite the same effect as a piece against one of the most popular adventure games of all time. [=^)

But it would be an interesting test.

I came around to buy the game at some point but haven't played it yet. I'd like to know what I'm getting into beforehand even If I already read a few reviews(obviously). The Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series is one that is very close to my heart and I've been worried about getting a game of this serie on my 3DS. My girlfriend and I both played both episodes on the DS to death and it was very very good.

At this point, there is no multiplayer dungeon crawler/RPG on the 3DS... That is until "Heroes of Ruin" gets released...