Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King Hands-On

By Ricardo Torres, GameSpot UKPosted Apr 15, 2008 4:16 am PT

We live the royal life in Square Enix's upcoming WiiWare game.

Square Enix was on hand at Nintendo's recent media summit to show off its upcoming WiiWare game Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King. It's a branch off of the Crystal Chronicles family tree and casts you as a young king charged with restoring his father's kingdom. The game is, in equal measures, part management sim and part RPG. This is a far cry from the last few CC games, but it nonetheless manages to offer an engaging experience.

We had the chance to try out the game for a bit and found that multitasking and careful judgments were the order of the day. Your goal is to rebuild your kingdom by pleasing the locals, working with groups of explorers, and building structures. In your role as king, you're a supervisor who has to order minions to do work, such as to go explore the surrounding area for loot. If you're lucky, your minions will come back with something good. If not, well, time to find some more minions to send on errands. You'll also have a helper who'll pop up when summoned. One of your biggest challenges is trying to manage the public sentiment about you. If you're careful, you'll be able to be friends with the people. However, if you fail at this, then you'll have to answer to the whole population of your city.

The game makes smart use of the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, allowing you to poke around through the menu-driven interface smoothly. Shaking the controls will call up your faithful assistant, who's ready to help.

The visuals in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King are simple but certainly have an appeal. The game sports the same cartoony style of the other Crystal Chronicles games, including that of the recent DS release. Your evolving city is extremely pretty, although there could stand to be some variety among the natives.

Based on what we played, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King is a promising game. We're just curious to see what its price will be. Although there's plenty to like in the game, it's a basic experience that we hope won't cost an arm and a leg. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King is set to be available for download later this year for the Wii.

37 Comments

  • ultra-chidori

    Posted Jul 21, 2008 10:28 pm PT

    This game is more like a side game and it comes after FFCC 1. I love this game to death it is the most da bomb game I have ever played. A bit repetitive but still The Sim's is like that except in the Sim's there's always new things to do but in this game there isn't.

  • zizanzu

    Posted Jun 11, 2008 4:40 am PT

    Great game!

  • Durhamster

    Posted May 8, 2008 7:33 pm PT

    Anyone know if the downloadable content available in Japan for this game will be available on the North American release?

  • AAwiidog

    Posted May 8, 2008 8:20 am PT

    its 1500 wii points

  • basal1sk

    Posted May 4, 2008 11:43 am PT

    wait so the king is allergic to apple juice?

  • Rabbids_Rule

    Posted May 3, 2008 4:05 am PT

    looks pretty fun

  • Cherry-Blossoms

    Posted May 1, 2008 9:54 pm PT

    I'm not sold on this game yet. I really don't like the concept.

  • GameBlender

    Posted Apr 25, 2008 9:31 pm PT

    Sounds a bit like Actraiser, in which case it should be good. I've heard it will be about 1500 wii points.

  • jordan1985221

    Posted Apr 25, 2008 2:22 am PT

    I've heard that some of the visiting people can be past characters from other final fantasy games, if that's true then it will be a nice little twist.

  • youthebestboy

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 4:25 pm PT

    I hope this is a good game i love the sims and final fantasy, *dream game*

  • BlackZoneHell

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 3:29 pm PT

    im actually waiting for CC: Crystal bearers. is it ever going to appear? this one seems good, but i dont think will as great as the first Crystal Chronicles in GC

  • Shadow_Blade1

    Posted Apr 18, 2008 8:53 pm PT

    wow.... just wow

  • ForlonHope

    Posted Apr 18, 2008 11:46 am PT

    it looks super kawaii

  • themc_7

    Posted Apr 17, 2008 8:00 am PT

    we'll see when this comes out if it's worth while

  • WeWerePirates

    Posted Apr 16, 2008 12:59 pm PT

    Does the king carry a bucket or does he have some one to that for him?

  • PuR3SkiLLZ3525

    Posted Apr 16, 2008 12:40 pm PT

    Looks good but would be much better if there was more fighting etc.

  • kid_ranqe

    Posted Apr 16, 2008 1:54 am PT

    Looks awesome

  • kavadias1981

    Posted Apr 16, 2008 12:05 am PT

    @HailToTheGun - lol, agreed.

  • HailToTheGun

    Posted Apr 15, 2008 9:00 pm PT

    "meh, looks marginal. Where are the REAL Final Fantasy games?"

    See: Pre-SquareEnix.

  • santiagochile

    Posted Apr 15, 2008 8:37 pm PT

    meh, looks marginal. Where are the REAL Final Fantasy games?

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