Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition Comes To Switch In January 2020

Hopefully Local Wireless will be available as well.

I loved this on the GameCube.

I'd love to understand why this Remaster was announced a year ago and only releases next year. It's around the same time needed to make a brand new game lol

Loved this game on Gamecube. When I was a kid I could only play singleplayer because of a ridiculous setup involved with multiplayer, but now it's all online.

IMO games like this are the real ones deserving of ports. That is, anything with multiplayer that was a huge pain to get working back in the day (GB/GBA games because horrible link cables, and the 2 Gamecube games that used the 4 GBA setup for 4player coop). I also wouldn't mind some ports of Gamecube and Wii games to give them online coop like Mario Party and Kirby AirRide. Online is so much better than local when you're all grown up and no longer live 20minutes away from all your friends...

Delayed till January actually works better for me lol.

With Link's Awakening coming September, Pokemon in November, and Animal Crossing in March, I now have some more stuff to pad out that dead zone between Pokemon and Animal Crossing, which I definitely need as I'm crazy hype about AC and I'm gunna need a lot to distract me otherwise I'll go nuts.

I didnt like this game on the Gamecube at all. They just attached the Final Fantasy name on it so that it would sell

I loved the tone of the game. It felt different and fresh. I hated how it played. Very boring and aimless.

@AstralSoul13 If I remember correctly, NL confirmed already that this is digital only, sadly.

I dont know much about this game as I never had a gamecube,the style reminds me of ps2's final fantasy x. I may get this, I dont mind it being delayed as I have more than enough games to get through at the moment

That song is awful. Especially by Final Fantasy standards. Also I hope this game features cross-game chat somehow. I don’t see how this game will work without some form of communication.

I highly enjoyed this game back in the day on GameCube. I played it entirely single player, so I'm really looking forward to more easily accessible multiplayer options. I'm glad to see it delayed till January, as this autumn season is overwhelming for Switch owners!

Would jump on this if it had local multilayer.

By far my favorite game of all time, cant wait! 😊

Hearing that we get new dungeons, bosses AND character looks!? Oh man, cannot wait!

This game had such a good soundtrack, art style and tone, so unique. This made my day

One of my favourite gaming memories was rushing to beat this with my friend before he moved away, we finally managed to beat it the night of! There was much celebration. Good times!

I don't blame Square Enix, pretty much all they do this year was trying to remastered Final Fantasy VIII so delaying this one to 2020 is okay.

I feel like it’s still ambiguous on whether the online multiplayer is friends only. I do hope somehow they have a way to play with randoms, since sometimes it might be hard to coordinate times with friends...

I remember playing this with my friends I'll look forward to gathering water in a fancy cup all over again

In some moments I liked this simplistic dungeon crawling take on final fantasy, but was mostly disappointed. I invested in 4 GBA SPs for this with all the cabling, was OKish but not worth the price of admission back then. Not sure it would be now either. Hope many will enjoy it however!

Loved this game during the GC era. Instant pre-order when it's available.

Has anything been said what exactly its online mode entails? As in, will you be able to play through the entire main story in online co-op or will it be a separate mode entirely (think special quests/missions/whatever)? I do know that the former would make the most sense here but I've grown wary when it comes to online/co-op features after certain disappointments.

i wonder how they're gonna handle the wii ware games, always wanted my life as a dark lord but wasn't into digital back then

I missed this on GameCube so interested in picking this up next year.

I’ve spent multiple weekends with a few friends fighting our way through this game back in the day. Good memories, all the hassle of connecting GBA’s included.

I can’t bare to play this in singleplayer though... it’s definitely meant to be played with other people.

On the one hand, I've long waited for this game. On the other hand, TMS lands a few days earlier and promises to be a $60 spending.

Oh well, "not a bad problem to have, if you ask me"(c).

@Fazermint If by local you mean couch co-op on one Switch, they are so quiet about it I am guessing it will be wireless Lan multiple Switches only.

Of course, you COULD buy it on mobile as well and just use that as your controller, so to speak, but... Yeah...

Honestly, I am kind of annoyed that it doesn't support local co-op. I know about the "secret mission" mechanic, but who cares. Just give us the option of playing couch without that mechanic. It's not like my sons care.

@Xelha
What? The Chalice is carry by the bot not by you when you play solo. Tell me if I'm wrong!!
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@Daniel36 I can understand why the couch co-op would be removed from the Switch version. The GC version was able to do it fine due to the GBA being the menu system of the game. Unless the Phone is used as a replacement (which would kind a suck), they'd have to put all that menu system onto the single screen. There would be so much clutter it be hard to do a good local co-cop that way.

@KarateLuigi Since the GC multiplayer could be through the whole story mode, I don't see why the Switch version wouldn't allow it. We'll see more of the game once the tokyo showcase is over.

@Shade_Koopa Yeah, well... You are not wrong... I didn't even really look at it that way... That said, even in single player that would mean clutter...

I guess what I would've liked them to do, was create some sort of ring menu thing as part of the remaster. If they had time to create new skins, they could've done that too.

I mean, the menus didn't pause the game in the original, a ring menu around your character while you choose whatever it is you need to choose wouldn't clutter up the game too much either.

Maybe I am nitpicking, but I was just really looking forward to playing this with my kids and this way it won't be possible, or at least a lot harder.

Unless I score a couple of Advances on the cheap, as I have all the cables ready to rumble on the GC version.

@Daniel36 There is supposed to be some gameplay footage to be shown at the Japanese showcase. We may see how the menu system works. It could be how the singleplayer menu system worked in GC. Or maybe it will be an overlay menu system to the side of the screen. The overlay menu system seems to be a safe bet.

@Daniel36 I saw the Tokyo gameplay demo. First off, who ever they had testing it out has NO IDEA how to play an RPG. The warrior was casting, the mage was melee hitting..such a mess.

Anyway, it looks like it's an overlay menu that takes up the screen. The menu is transparent enough that you can see what is behind and on the field still. Looks like the game will be design with online and local wireless play in mind. Couch co-op is looking to be less likely an option. Single player from one console, be it Switch, Android, iOS, or PS4.

@Shade_Koopa Decided to look for some gameplay footage and to my surprise there was already footage in september 2018. Never knew.

I am sort of ticked off that it won't be couch co-op, but since it is also going to be playable on Android, it might be possible to use your phone as a sort of GBA replacement... As long as the Android version doesn't cost the same. I am not shelling out 3 times the money for this game.

ps. Just found out I still have two GBA's lying around. I only need one more to be able to play the old version with my boys if need really be.

@Daniel36 From my understanding of what the Tokyo video showed, the Android and iOS version are going to be the game itself. Just like the Switch and PS4 version. It won't act as a menu system like the GBA did to the GC version.

Guess you could play the old version but you'd be out on the new content and such.

@Shade_Koopa Yeah I know, but I would then join the Switch game, so to speak, so I could simply play on the phone but see the action on tv... but honestly... I'd much rather they added couch mode.

@Daniel36 I'm pretty sure it was a toss up between online play and couch co-op. Given that 3 of the 4 "consoles" to play on are mobile, online play was the better option. Couch co-op, unfortunately, is slowly a dieing feature..