Square Enix removed features from a 17 year old game.

I could forgive the lack of couch co-op but online co-op is handled so badly. Instead of simply grouping up with your friends and heading out on an adventure together, you join with other players on a dungeon-by-dungeon basis. In the original game, you got to journey alongside your friends, travelling the roads and exploring the towns as a team. Here, you wander alone until it's time for the next dungeon then you split up again and are completely alone and doing all the story parts alone... We need a patch for all the story and town related stuff or this game we waited 15 years to play again is going to tank and fail. The host only progression needs to go, parties should stay together on the world map and travel together, enter towns together, cutscenes together etc. They can easily allow us to share villages and take out that awful host-only progression system! It's simply a matter of formatting host focused save states which they're basically already forcing people to deal with already, except in a much worse way.

Just looked up reviews how did they mess up the mechanics so bad?!?!

I really appreciate the updated graphics and music, but the rest is false advertising -- "A journey with your friends." More like "play with your friends in dungeons and throw them out as soon as you get your myrr." I don't even mind the lack of local coop, but by Alexander give us back our caravan and shared village - our JOURNEY TOGETHER.

So I played the demo and just want to put together what I dislike about it. Most people probably already know about those things but here we go: - The multiplayer is REGION LOCKED. I wanted to play with an American friend (I'm European) but it's impossible. - Only the host will progress through the story so if you play with 3 other people, you have to run each dungeon 4 times. Each time you have to make a new lobby. - Lobbies time out very quickly if your friend takes a little bit to join and you won't be able to open another lobby for a while since the game sees it as "lobby spam". - Navigating through the menu is a chore. If you are in a dungeon and you want to go to the options, you have to press B before you can even switch categories. Extremely confusing and annoying especially if it has to go fast. - If you get an invite you won't get a popup to notify you or anything. You have to manually check to see if you got invited. - The new "magic fusion" mechanic to create stronger magic is annoying. Back then you simply had to overlap the magic circles and cast the spell at the same time. Now you have to overlap the circle and wait until a QUICKTIME EVENT pops up. It's way slower and makes casting magic more frustrating, especially during boss fights. - Related to the story progression thing: Only the host will get letters from their family. The other players have to sit around and do nothing while waiting for the host. - No local coop. I played the original 17 years ago and I was really looking forward to this remaster. I was utterly disappointed and I won't buy the full game. I just can't recommend it to anyone. I hope that SE will fix those issues but I doubt they will. I honestly rather buy a used gamecube, 4 GBAs and 4 GBA to GC link cables and invite my friend over than play this garbage online.

I was SO excited to get this but after I learned how much multiplayer got stripped down and essentially disincentivized I can't bring myself to pay $40 CAD for it. Will prob dig up my gamecube and do it the OG way.

Terribly disappointed there's no local co-op.

Multiplayer system is terrible. Square really messed this one up. Noone can progress as a party together, only the host moves foward while everyone else can only get an artifact upgrade. After each dungeon if you want to continue playing together, you have to disband the party and create a new lobby. Every single time. If your playing with friends, they each will need to have a turn to host whatever dungeon you just did so they can progress as well. This is a complete mess.

I was so hyped starting this game after so many years , hearing the opening song got me even more hyped. Then i actually start playing it , alone , no friends with my caravan, started the first level alone? Googled how the multyplayer works . Then i realised i got ripped of by a moneyhungry gaming company again and stopped playing .

The host can only see the story events and progression, the host also has to end the party just so we can go to another dungeon. You can join randos *which is easier then playing with friends*. Finding your friends requires a password/invite that last 30 mins. People drop out randomly and leave you fighting harder monsters alone. Communication with other players is also a nightmare and is set to preset list of commands.

Patch in local co-op, a lot of people wish that existed. Then this game can be enjoyable for many more people as well as sell more copies.

So why did it take Square Enix over two years to release this?

No local Co-op, no party

To summarise this game, Too many loading times which keep on breaking the pace of the game and the main issue is the fact that you cannot join an actual caravan, you are spending most of your time traveling alone, which is just sad, celebrating the end of the year in the village with 3 other Moogle's standing there instead of your mates... that's just painful, I doubt there will be a patch, but I guess we can dream >.

How can square jack up the multi player aspect of a multi player focused game so badly?

who ever the idiots that decided how the co-op shoul work should be fired, it basically counts as sabotaging the game

The opening literally shows a caravan getting ready to travel but once you get online, only the host is travelling and it doesn't have the same feeling as it used to when everyone else is just watching... Why can't our characters travel together??

Why would you remove couch co op?

I love the attention to detail, specially making co-op though, like in the original, where you needed 3 Game Boy Advance, cables, your Game Cube, 8 monitors, big bags of Doritos, a flu shot and recite the Constitution backwards in order to play with your friends. Thank you Square Enix.

A disappointment to a childhood favourite. Most people are only focusing on how poorly multiplayer is implemented, but there are also Pay To Win mechanics like OP weapons and charms that increase gold drops and hit recovery.

If multi-player wasn't completely botched, it definitely would have been a fun game with friends and randoms. I can already tell it won't be fixed either. That's a hard skip.

If anyone was thinking of buying to relive the old days, they messed up the multiplayer. It's nothing like the original. Be sure to check reviews before considering.

Square-Enix you blew it.

Praying for a patch for multiplayer so everyone can progress on the story together 🙏

It's as lovely to play by myself now as it was when I was nine. But I imagine people who actually have friends will be pissed lol

The original is a fantastic and fun game to play with friends/family. This, with no local co-op, is a hard skip for me. I was so excited and hyped for nothing 💔

I'm still disappointed this doesn't have a local co-op option. I wholly regret ever making this purchase. I am thankful I still have access to the original and all the devices to hook up and play.

wanted to buy the game but reviews are in... very low score this game is not what I wanted. i'll stick with the original!

2 years late, no couch coop, bad online coop. Screw you, Square Enix.

This is basically only valuable as a single player experience if you don’t already own the game. The way they gutted the multiplayer is trash.

Remember when Devs made good games?

I used to play this single player when I was a kid but really wanted to try more of the co op when I played a bit of it, please implement couch co op in an update or something I think that’s what the majority of people wanted with this one.

Jesus, well I was excited to get this game. I loved the original and spent many hours playing this with friends, why on earth did they remove local coop!? Me and my gf was really looking forward to this, think we will skip unless something is changed :(

They butchered the most important thing in this game... the MULTIPLAYER, Im gonna skip this one unless Square patch it.

Fix combined progression in multiplayer please. Like, just let the other players use characters from the host save. That would be great

PLEASE patch all the issues with this game. It still has a chance to succeed, Square.... A co-op game with multiple design issues related to making for an awful co-op experience is NOT a good state to release a game.

I wanted to get this on release...but I’m gonna wait to see if they have any sense and add local co-op multiplayer

stick to the gamecube one or download a rom of the gamecube. this release was a complete flop, design, technically, and gameplay.

Btw this game is still amazing and the voices and scenes I love love everything just unfortunate of squares vision for a multiplayer aspect. But this is why I love the game boy advance feature for its time it’s very exclusive and branding and just fresh and unique which this game is originally was and exclusive, people need to remember. I know there’s something that could of worked. But still loving it on my switch feels like I never left Nintendo ❤️and I love GameCube era because the football team the raiders brought me one when it first came out🙏🏼

Good thing the complaints are about multiplayer. Was planning on playing alone anyway just like I did when it came out. I should be fine :) Update: Been playing it for a good 5 hours now and the game is great if you’re plan on playing alone. Feels like the original but with a better resolution. The load times aren’t even that bad either. Good stuff! 🤘🏻

I need this for ring of fates and echoes of time

Plus sides: - They added a storage box for your characters' items (The little Mog at the entrance to your hometown). - You can play co-op online (I hear bad things, but I haven't tried it yet.). - Mogs in this game are cuter than they've ever been (and that's saying a lot). I'm not saying that because of the remaster either. FFCC Mogs are just heckin' cute. Minus sides: - No couch co-op. - Only one person can make story progress when playing online. - The loading times are somehow longer, ever though this game is like 17 years old, or something.

I wish the multiplayer system was like the old version where you could live in the same town as your friends. :( But I’m still excited for the remake. It’s still a lot of fun to play as single player.

They completely ruined the multiplayer, only the one hosting the dongeon gets story progression. You'll have to do the same dongeon 4 times if you're 4 and sometimes when you get into a new area, you'll get locked out of the older dungeons. So your friends will have to do that last dungeon with only 3 players, then 2 and the last one has to do it alone. It's a complete joke.

Glad people are seeing this for what it is: a lazy cash-grab. I saw it the moment I heard there wouldn't even local WIRELESS. I figured sure, I'd have to have another system to play with someone, but at least in the long run it's secured, just get another Switch and play it with a friend. You'll always have that option. But no, they didn't even bother with that, or LAN play over the network for other systems. Online-only. Once those servers are closed, you can't play this with *anyone.* Remember that when you consider paying $30+ for this co-op-centered title. On top of that the loading times are long, the multiplayer is stunted so you can't travel together, you can only join when someone hosts a dungeon run and you don't get any progress in your own world if you do that, you only get to choose a single artifact at the end for stats or spell rings, meaning if you aren't the kind of person to grind and only want to progress towards the end, multiplayer is effectively worthless to you unless you're the host.

I have bought, played, and beaten this game now once more on th switch and I love it!! One small change I would like to see though is a migrate option and/or new game plus. One of the hardest things to do in the game is to simply have a fully functiong village. This is because during single player campaign the only way to increase a village family is to make that family happy. You can only make them happy by sending them letters. You can only send them letters when collecting a drop of myrrh. In the late stages of the game it is near impossible to take an unused character and play the later cycles of a stage. Meaning the best way around d this is grind the everything heck out of all 8 players early in the game and after every single dungeon scrounging every single artifact while switching to all 8 players and beating every boss multiple times and grind grind grind. And not progressing the story very far. This is absurd. Allowing a new game plus mode with a villager migrate option to allow for new characters and playstyles to be used while building familys and the village would be great. The old GC version had this accomplished with migrate options between two memory cards. If you are worried about making a playthrough too easy then just migrate the character with thir artifacts and family plus the family happiness state. Don't even migrate equipment that's fine but please add migrate and a new game plus.

Nice scene of the end of the year festival with four players, which isn’t even possible in the game.

I got the game as the nostalgia struck me. I used to play this game when I was a kid with my brother. Obviously, there are some issuss that I, and many other people, would like to be fixed. However, I wasn't too hurt about no local co-op. But the big issue here is the whole "only host progression" thing and exploring alone. I do miss having my brother in the same area as me in the village. I don't understand why that wasn't a feature. Seeing each other in the village put atmosphere in the game. Letting us know that there are other adventurers also trying to save their village. Strangely, for online, I tried it for the first time last night and I could NOT connect. Was there maintenance? It literally said "function is not available" or something like that. Possible patch? 👀

the charm of this game us couch co-op playing, i remember enjoying it a lot when I was still in my 2nd/3rd grade. Yeah, probably not getting it, until they add local co-op on it

FINALLY!!! Cant wait to play as a Yuke again!

Maybe if it were a proper remaster and had a physical release.

Does this mean we might get a remastered version of My Life as King as well?

I really hope this has a physical release.

Wanna play with friends? Good luck as progression is only for the host, so you have to replay the dungeon if your not hosting.

Guys only want one thing and it's disgusting: ETERNAL DARKNESS Remastered Edition

I hope they release My Life as a Darklord next.

Did anyone else play My Life as a King? Isn't that related to Crystal Chronicles? Sorry I just really want to play that again and this reminded me of it.

Is it only for digital or also physical copy?

How could you mess this up so badly, you had ONE job man.

Would get it just for the soundtrack

All I ask for is local co op on the same system where the other players live in your village and travel in the caravan with you

Y My life si a king este era un perfecto momento!!!

I hope the push an update to fix all the problems this game seemed interesting and I’ll buy it if they fix it simple as that

I may be the only person who liked the game but i reaaalllyy want a remaster of Final fantasy crystal chronicals: Crystal bearers, i would literally sign a contract to only play nintendo, and no other competitor console for the rest of my life

MAN THIS BRINGS BACK SO MANY MEMORIES XDDD

NGL the way they did this makes me wanna find out how to emulate and play online with friends the way it was meant to be played. I get why playing with random people would only be accesible in dungeons but why not have an option to do so with your friends?

They turned a multiplayer console game into a single player cellphone game and didn't take out the things that make it a multiplayer game. What's better? Only the Lite version is on cellphones. If you played the past game and play this game, it will show you what a console game looks like compared to a cellphone game. They even added MICROTRANSACTIONS of ingame improvements (Enchanted wallet and Saphhire Earring DLC. Also pay to win weapons).

Best memory of the game was co op with friends....

This game made so many wrong moves: - No physical release - No Local Coop - Online is restricted - Almost no quality of life improvements I was so exited for this too but I'm not paying money for something like this. Sorry....

Not worth it. They took out the best aspect of the original. I hope they fix it with a patch if that’s possible because this is a mess.

try the demo if you are unsure :) i personally am not a fan, but you may like the battle style.

This doesn’t make justice to how gorgeous the GC trailer was

The online straight up doesn't work in Australia or New Zealand, it times out after 30 seconds every single time on both Switch and PS4. I was really looking forward to this :(

うわー！！！懐かし！！ 買お。

a game that had few small loading times on a machine with 43MB ram from 20 years ago, adds many loading screens on a modern machine with 4096MB ram nice!

Would've bought if it had a physical release.

Tell Square Enix they can have my money when they release physical copies in North America.

At the momment, the best way to play is emulation, or on the gamecube, every comment is saying how disappointed they are. Please, we just need local play

People!!! Hear me!!! Do not buy this game. Protest against it till Square Enix makes a change to the game. If we encourage local co-op and better multiplayer experience it won’t happen. They will continue on with the idea that you are going to buy the game anyways. Fight the urge. I’m pulling out my Nintendo GameCube with the Original game copy and Nintendo game boy links and playing it how it should be played.

Another problem that many people don't seem to realize is the fact that this kind of game never keeps its servers online for a long time. Even if the online system was good (which is not, let's be honnest) what will happen to the game in 2 or 3 years when the servers are down ? There won't be any way to coop at all. Come on, just add couch coop now, stop being stupid Square Enix.

One of the hypest things announced

Awesome Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition Launch Trailer.

Add local coop and ill consider it.

Great. Now, where's Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV, V, and VI?

It’ unfortunate that the game devs are only going to see critique of the game as us saying we don’t want anymore crystal chronicles, instead of introducing remastered versions of the other games that learn from the mistakes made on this one, I highly doubt it’ll happen but I really hope for once they are able to see the negative feedback as constructive and see people are actually really into this serious and eventually remaster echoes of time! It was the best one of the series

Kingdoms of Amular Remaster it is, after reading the comments.

Please add an update for this game! The landscape gets fuzzy when the screen moves... You can see it in the first cutscenes!

This is really in the same franchise as Cloud and others?

Ill just play it on my gamecube. Apparently that's the best version of the game.

Love this game but man is the online messed up.

I want FFCC: My Life as Darklord on Switch

There's voice acting now? Nice.

Is there a physical copy of this game?

What was that at the end lmao

Anyone here got the Japan physical copy? If so are you able to change the language?

for $40 CAD i want local coop

DOESN'T WORK ONLINE FOR AUSTRALIA OR NZ PLEASE FIX ASAP

Local Multiplayer?

I think they should have just made a sequel. The dates mechanics are killing this. Plus the other problems reviews have pointed out. A remaster should improve the original not create more problems.

no local co-op?