Local Co-Op Is Seemingly Returning To The Remaster Of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles

Good, the stuff you could pull off as a team was neat and local coop made it easier for me.

Have they shown how the "personal intel" mechanic will work in this Remaster? You know, where Player 1 sees the map, Player 2 sees treasures, Player 3 sees enemies, etc.

This makes my WiiWii hard

Excellent! This will help when facing the harder versions of each area.

Well this doesn't concern me cuz 1, I have no friends and 2, due to the partial lockdown this currently isant possible anyway.
I still really want to try this game though,I never got a chance to before.

I’m pretty sure it is in fact not just like playing the original.

What about local wireless play???

I had automatically assumed it was couch co op as default. Playing solo was awful, adding online just makes it a little easier to get a group together if you have no locals to play with. I'd also naturally assume it has local wireless as well.
If any of these basic options were not present, there would be no point in re releasing the game, it only worked properly with other players.

Can't wait to play this with my brothers and fight over who has to carry the damn chalice!

Time to dust off those GBAs

Can local mix with online? So like, couch co op for two connected to a friend across town?

"bring everyone together around one TV for couch co-op play"

"And this time around you won't need any Game Boy Advance or special cables to make it happen. How good is that?"

It worries me that they specifically said "one TV" and not "one Switch". So does that mean we need multiple Switch AND multiple copies of the game to play couch co-op? B/c if we only need 1 Switch then we shouldn't even need 1 TV b/c it should also work in tabletop mode like my kids play 3 player SSBU. And then they should have said "bring everyone together around one Switch for couch co-op play".

So for your question "How good is that?" Well, I'll let ya know once I know how couch co-op works. Is it 1 copy of the game, 1 Switch, and 4 Joycon, or is it 4 switch, 4 copies of the game and a TV. B/c in case you guys have forgotten, if you need one TV then maybe couch co-op wont' work w/ the Switch Lite, which a lot of people seem to own.

So before NL starts gushing over the improvements, maybe do some digging and make sure this isn't worse than GBA and cables?

@rjejr It says in the article that that quote comes from the Playstation website. If it has proper couch co-op on PS4 I think it's very unlikely that it won't on Switch.

Great, I hated that they needed to have GBAs to play coop LOL. Let´s hope now that it´s a fun game, and that it´s aged well.

I still have a box somewhere with 4 GBA adapter cables from the one time I got enough people together to play the game.

Cautiously optimistic about this one then

I checked the website 3 times and I cannot find this information anywhere. Maybe cuz I am on mobile, but... Are we 100% positive this wasn't a mistake that got redacted?

EDIT: Found it, in white text on a white background... so still there. Optimistic now.

I'm on the fence with this one. I loved the GameCube version, except for the controls in solo play (I never had anyone to co-op with). I'll wait and see if the online features make it worth it.

Loved playing Crystal Chronicles and Four Swords Adventures with 3 friends. Wouldn't be the same without couch coop.

@Dogorilla Thanks for the fact check.

But I have to say, it doesn't fill me w/ confidence that we are getting info on our Switch games from a PS4 website. Does Squenix know Switch Lite doesn't have TV out? Makes you wonder.

I'm hoping for local wireless play personally

With the Switch you could have made it work like the original.

@sixrings That was confirmed a long time ago. Local wireless is there.

We lost one of our original players a couple of years ago, the rest of us have planned a long weekend where completing this remaster is the main priority, it's gonna be a sad start but he'll definitely be in our minds all the way.

I'm kinda hoping it'll be playable with a gcn adapter and gba's, we still got ours and cables to go with them.

Great news, there aren't nearly enough local co-op games out there. Hopefully they'll make some new games in the series after this, too, although perhaps they'll (first) remake/remaster all games in the series. I can barely remember anything from the DS games, but I do recall they were also pretty fun.

@kukabuksilaks That's sad to hear, man. At least you'll be able to relive times gone by and recall the great time you had together. I'm sure he'd have wanted you guys to enjoy it all over again, too.

This is excellent news if true as I would only get it if it was couch co-op. I'm not a fan of online play.

I did a lot of couch multiplayer back in the day. Never did try this game though, the hassle of needing GBAs and by the time this came out my friends and I didn't live so close together anymore, so I never even bothered to try it.
I'm looking forward to it now, though. My friends still live a bit too distant for regular sessions, but online would be great.

The 2 big questions I have are:
1. Cross-Platform?
2. Who's carrying the chalice?

Not sure how they will handle this with one screen as the reason the original Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles used GBAs for co-op multiplayer was so it doesn't pause the action. If they are implementing co-op multiplayer with this then a lot of the original features had to be assign for specific players.

@Danondorf Well...

1. Yes.
2. You.

Sorry bud...

Does this work with just one cartridge and other players downloading a free app from eshop?

This heartened me so much. My husband and I enjoy gaming together, but it's ridiculous that we'd each own a Switch, being as neither of us enjoy handheld gaming all too much.

I still am holding out reservations this is inaccurate, but it'd be great if true. We really loved Crystal Chronicles, but never finished it for some reason.