WiiWare Final Fantasy due March 2008 in Japan

by Scott Jon Siegel { Oct 17th 2007 at 3:29PM }

Japan's weekly Famitsu magazine has divulged more details about Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Little King and the Promise Country, the new Final Fantasy title recently revealed for Nintendo's online distribution channel Wii Ware.

According to 1UP, the article reveals the game to take place after the Gamecube original, with the main character as the Little King, whose task is to create towns in order to populate a barren land with a new country. The Little ~~Prince~~ King uses special powers to collect elemental skills and develop the land, deferring to upgradeable side characters to do a lot of his dirty work.

Famitsu reports that the game has a March 2008 release date in Japan, and will be priced at 1,500 Wii points (Or $15 USD). Now, given that we haven't heard anything from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers -- the other new Crystal Chronicles Wii game -- in quite some time, are we to assume that this game is an entirely separate venture, or simply Crystal Bearers reborn as DLC? Talk amongst yourselves.

Tags: crystal-chronicles, ffcc, final-fantasy, nintendo, wiiware

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) @ Oct 17th 2007 3:37PM

I'm buying this.

Was the other CC game supposed to have online multiplayer?

phattie @ Oct 17th 2007 3:43PM

Sounds like they are going to reuse GC assets to speed up development... and, it will be interesting to see how they fit this in 512mb of space, maybe they'll go back to midi music.

mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) @ Oct 17th 2007 3:47PM

MIDI rocked in FFVII.

megaStryke @ Oct 17th 2007 3:53PM

I don't know. Let's ask Microsoft how they fit XBLA titles under 150 MB.

kennethrios @ Oct 17th 2007 4:05PM

Mr. Brightside = Fatty

Repent!

James @ Oct 17th 2007 4:02PM

Think of all the SD manufacturers who are going to love Nintendo for this!

Joshua @ Oct 17th 2007 4:24PM

Did they not use MIDIs in FF:CC for GCN? I know Nintendo uses MIDIs for almost all of their games...

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Oct 17th 2007 4:42PM

dude Midis are fucking awesome. I mean I'd rather listen to a Midi then generic dramatic orchestra music.

bm @ Oct 17th 2007 7:54PM

Hahaha fattie you retard, about 90% of the music in all games you've been playing that you thought was redbook audio, was most likely "midi" as you call it and you didn't even know. Though "midi" is a dumb and incorrect description, but whatever helps you understand.

blooh (CDF - Nipple Ring) @ Oct 17th 2007 3:43PM

still no usb hard drive functionality?

megaStryke @ Oct 17th 2007 3:54PM

Use your imagination.

mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) @ Oct 17th 2007 3:57PM

My imagination is only 64 MB.

kennethrios @ Oct 17th 2007 4:06PM

Not enough Muppet Babies

bm @ Oct 17th 2007 7:56PM

They'll do harddrive support. It's inevitable, with Wiiware going the way it's going. I SENSE IT. Either that, or support running software directly off the SD card. That would be fine too.

NATO_Duke @ Oct 17th 2007 3:54PM

Meh, no news on a US release date.

phattie @ Oct 17th 2007 4:14PM

News is that NA gets a mulitplayer bubble popping game... lol.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Oct 17th 2007 4:43PM

And your point? Some of the best games that have come out this have extremely simple ideas.

bm @ Oct 17th 2007 7:57PM

lol hey remember that block stacking game you guys

it was just blocks that was retarded lol

Max @ Oct 17th 2007 4:05PM

Does the whole city-building thing remind anyone else of Dark Cloud?

megaStryke @ Oct 17th 2007 4:09PM

Building cities reminds me of SimCity.

mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) @ Oct 17th 2007 4:12PM

City-building reminds me of local government.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Oct 17th 2007 4:25PM

local government reminds me of corruption.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Oct 17th 2007 4:44PM

corruption reminds me of the dark side.

JodyAnthony @ Oct 17th 2007 4:46PM

the dark side reminds me of darkwing duck

Admiral_Mike @ Oct 17th 2007 4:54PM

The dark side reminds me of cheese...

mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) @ Oct 17th 2007 5:06PM

Darkwing Duck reminds me of the Disney Afternoon!

samfish (MSDF- Nurse Outfit!) @ Oct 17th 2007 5:07PM

Cheese reminds me of mice.

bm @ Oct 17th 2007 8:00PM

Cardboard boxes remind me of mustard.

Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 17th 2007 8:38PM

Cakes remind me of lies.

Oops wrong thread.

Mr Khan @ Oct 17th 2007 4:13PM

hmm, Square Enix takes on the economics-strategy genre (after the turn-based strategy they built in Tactics)

I think it looks good so far, but a bit hazy

Its good to see WiiWare finally getting realized, that's for sure

idioteraser @ Oct 17th 2007 4:21PM

This isn't an action game. It's completly sim.

Crystal Bearers is still coming. Square is keeping a lot of their wii stuff still under wraps. Weeks prior to release everything comes out.

Crystal Bearers last info was that it was a single player expierence. You want multi get the DS Crystal Chronicles game.

NATO_Duke @ Oct 17th 2007 4:34PM

Are these facts or opinions?

John H. @ Oct 17th 2007 5:14PM

How the heck are they going to do this?

They've answered the question of how Turbo CD games will fit in the Wii's system memory (by compressing the audio, duh), but it's not so easy to further compress textures.

The Wii contains 512MB of flash memory, and isn't around half of that reserved for system use? Even if they can squeeze a fully 3D, modern-looking game into that size (and if they don't there'll probably be at least SOME reviewers out there ready to complain about it), there's not going to be a lot of room for much else on there at the same time.

C'mon Nintendo, let us play the damn things off a SD card or USB drive! We can get flash drives now that are four times the size of the Wii's system memory for only $30, easy! For most of the Gamecube's life that's how much those damn 256-block memory cards cost! If Nintendo would only do that, it'd suddenly look as if they made a brilliantly foresighted design decision by only including half a gigabyte of flash in the system instead of a full hard drive.

Admiral_Mike @ Oct 17th 2007 5:46PM

I fully expect them to either announce a usb hard drive, or a firmware update to allow for them. This wiiware service would be damn near impossible without it.

Mr Khan @ Oct 17th 2007 5:49PM

Especially considering that other things are coming down the pipe that definitely need more space, like Civ Revolution DLC and, like you're saying, these bigger Wiiware titles

You're also right, for purposes of space you can use, Wii only has around 270 MB of on-board storage, the other 240 is for the Firmware

Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 17th 2007 8:41PM

Iwata said in his keynote that this game is definitely separate from the Crystal Bearers. I assume that game will be bigger, more expensive, and not about nation-building, and perhaps not based on online play, since you won't need the internet to walk into a store and buy it.