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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is a video game for the Nintendo GameCube. It is the first Final Fantasy game on a Nintendo console since Final Fantasy VI
, as well as the first Square-produced game on a Nintendo platform since Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
. Since Sony partially owns Square Enix, the company that makes the Final Fantasy series, it seemed extremely unlikely that Final Fantasy would ever be published on a Nintendo console again. However, Square (now called Square Enix) created The Game Designers Studio, a second party studio which included people who had worked on the Final Fantasy games for PlayStation to make Final Fantasy games for Nintendo consoles. This new Final Fantasy game features many new gameplay elements previously unseen in a Final Fantasy game, for example, real time fighting, as well as being the first RPG to incorporate GameCube-Game Boy Advance compatibility. It was scored by Kumi Tanioka.

Gameplay mechanics

The game can be broken down into three general things players can do: explore, interact and fight. Like many RPGs, these will constitute the bulk of the game.

Exploration

In Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, players assume the role of various young adults who must venture out into the wilderness in a caravan to protect their village from a poisonous gas cloud called "miasma" that engulfs the entire world. They must find magical trees, called "myrrh trees," out in the wilderness that produce one droplet of 'myrrh', magical water every two game years. These droplets of water ward off the miasma, and must be taken back to the village to recharge the town's crystal, which also wards off miasma. The trees are, of course, guarded by a host of creatures bent on killing the caravanners. The passage of time plays an important role in the game, for as the years progress the challenges the players face grow increasingly stronger.

Interaction

Like the other games in the Final Fantasy series, the story involves a character or group of characters journeying great distances throughout the world to complete a central quest, although many smaller quests will arise along the way. In the process, they will meet dozens of people, fight off monsters, discover hidden treasure and unfold the storyline. In Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, movement in the game is similar to the third-person follow-cam mode found in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
. This type of movement is where players will spend the majority of their time. However, with more than one player, the movement must be restricted to keep all the players on the screen at the same time. Because of this technical fact, an aura given off by the "crystal chalice," which carries myrrh, restricts characters to staying on-screen, otherwise the miasma rapidly damages the character.

For movement across large distances, the players go to the "world-map" view, which is a highly zoomed-out view of the world which players use to venture from town to town and other far-away locales.

Combat

Combat in Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles is real-time and takes place in the regular movement mode, much like in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker or Secret of Mana
. The button layout is relatively simple. Pressing the L and R buttons scrolls through a list of actions that are executed with the A button, and the B button is used for miscellaneous actions.

Different spells can be used such as "slow" "haste" "fire" and "blizzard"

Role-playing elements

Character types

A big part of all role-playing games is selecting the type of character you will play. There are four races (character classes) that players can choose from, each with its own unique strengths. A well-balanced party will draw upon the strengths of each race, which makes the game ideal to play with four players. The races are:

Clavat: Clavats are humanoid creatures and wield swords. Clavats are traditionally farmers.
*best defense
*2nd best magic
Lilty: Lilties are short creatures that have slight resemblances to root plant and wield spears. Lilties are traditionally warriors.
*best offense
*2nd best defense
Yuke: Yukes are mysterious creatures that are bird like in shape and wield hammers. Yukes are traditionally scholars or magicians.
*best magic
*cast spells 2x speed
Selkie: Selkies are humanoid creatures that wield rackets. Selkies are traditionally thieves.
*best agility
*charged attack 2x speed

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