The ‘Crystal Chronicles’ series comes off as a half-hearted attempt by Square Enix to reinvent the ‘Final Fantasy’ series for Nintendo’s audience. Little do they seem to realize that Nintendo’s audience is what made their two component corporations successful in the days of the NES and especially the 16-Bit Golden Age of the SNES. So instead of complex RPGs with diverse casts, compelling plots, and intriguing game mechanics (and it’s not like they’ve been making very many of those lately, either), Square Enix gave Nintendo a series of over-simplified multi-player titles that require insane amounts of hardware and don’t even qualify as RPGs.
Yet with their first timid steps onto the WiiWare platform, Square Enix dropped all the multi-player and changed genres completel... |
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