#ffcc: ring of fates

[sodapaladin]

Canonical moogle swearing, kupo

[sisselkalle]

Some cool things/sources I found on some stuff I dug up on the old FFCCNews site via the Wayback Machine:

A signed art panel for Ring of Fates. These were given out at the "Gladiators in TGS2007" event at the Ring of Fates demo booth. The "Gladiators in TGS2007" event was a 20 minute multiplayer PvP event, who ever came out top in each round was given one of these as a prize.

A low res but clearer picture of the sticker(?) given out at the Ring of Fates demo booth at Tokyo Game Show 2007. I previously made a post about this.

A Crystal Bearers tshirt I've previously posted about. Prior to tonight, I didn't have a source on how one would have obtained this tshirt. Turns out, it was given out to the TGS2009 Crystal Bearers demo booth staff. It's now no wonder why I could only find a singular sold auction for this shirt...

Signed scenario/script booklet(s) for Crystal Bearers. According to the FFCCNews site, these were won as prizes via Square Enix Members.

A scenario/script booklet for Echoes of Time. Unlike the above Crystal Bearers booklet, it was seemingly only meant for the game developers... No information was given about this booklet other than pictures.

...A Pizza Hut collab. Originally I was only aware of the pizza box, but apparently there were other prizes like mobile phone wallpapers and illustration cards. The archived Pizza Hut collab site is broken as hell (images don't function at all), so this is really the only image I have of the collab (taken from FFCCNews)

A Ring of Fates themed hand fan. Given out at the "Everyone can Play! Midsummer FFCC Caravan" event held at Yodobashi Camera in Tokyo & Sofmap Giga in Kobe

A scenario/script booklet for Ring of Fates. Similar to the Echoes of Time booklet, it seems to have been meant for the developers only... No information was given about this booklet other than pictures.

A Moogle mug from the "Everyone's Kingdom" survey campaign for My Life as a King. Only 100 of these were made and winners were randomly chosen.

And some Crystal Bearers chibi papercrafts. If/when I have time and energy, I might go and manually recreate Extra High Quality™ versions of these, I know for certain my sister would enjoy a mini Amidatelion (I still haven't played Crystal Bearers)

[kechiarts]

Just a quick reminder to my followers who follow me for crystal chronicles related content!!

@kechichronicles is my FFCC-only side blog!!

I'll still be posting FFCC stuff over here too of course (*ゝω･*)

[master-infinity]

Artwork to celebrate Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles 20th Anniversary

[yayforocs]

updated one of my artfight refs!!!! (the image uploaded to artfight has less lighting on it so it's easier to colorpick buT)

i think this is the first colored pic of rokhana that i've done in like Actual Literal Years, maybe even the first one like. ever. that i've done digitally. holdon now i gotta check.

bROTHER IN CHRIST THIS IS THE FIRST COLORED PIC I'VE LITERALLY EVER MADE OF HER EVER DSLKHGDSKLHDGS ANYWAY!!!!! HAVE A VERY OLD CRYSTAL CHRONICLES OC!!! SDLKJFSLJ

[mat2modblog]

Welcome to Final Fantasy, where the moon is never not haunted.

[elstreem]

Don't you hate it when someone trespasses into your home, kills all your Tonberry chefs (some of who are just minding their own business), beats up your wife, and casts Firaga on you?

Anyways, I'm playing FFCC Remastered and this whole dungeon was just so ridiculous. I love it (for the most part - man it took me so painfully long to defeat Maggie, why am I insisting on playing this game solo)

The diary entry after is the cherry on top.

[toggle1-mrfipp]

For anyone who visits the Dissidia Opera Omnia subreddit, I am the guy who made all those character polls, as well as the on-going Burst Theme discussion posts.

When I initially made the character polls I was only doing them for games that I had either played or experienced for myself, which would have been all the number titles up to XIV, and later played XV and Tactics so I could add them to those polls when their turns came up. I had not done polls for other games represented in OO (Type-0, Crystal Chronicles, World of Final Fantasy, Stranger of Paradise) because I didn’t know them well enough to make polls for character that might make good choices to add to OO down the line.

However, upon deciding to make the Burst Theme posts, I decided to know those games better, as a way for making up not making polls for them (a task that has since been taken up by another on the subreddit). I managed to play Type-0, but watched the cutscenes for the rest on YouTube since I knew I may not have time to play them to completion, or in CC’s case, just didn’t have the required consoles.

Basically, the reason for this post is just me going on a rant or sorts about what I experienced when going through these games, so expect spoilers.

Type-0

I started Dissidia around the time it came to global, around the time Setzer came out, so when I heard about how how people are forgotten when they die, it peaked my interest, but it wasn’t until recently did I actually play it. I rather liked most of it, I found it interesting to see a FF game be a dedicated war story, and I really enjoyed the cutscenes that were the narrator talking about the different battles and what directions they took the way, it was always interesting.

It was also fun play, each character felt unique, and regardless of who I was playing as, though Ace, Deuce, Sice and Queen were my favorites. That being said, with fourteen characters in a story more focused on plot than character, they mostly felt underdeveloped by the large; Ace, for example, despite being used as the face for this game, could be replaced with Seven or King, and I don’t think it would matter. Machina and Rem are the only one who really have a story arc, but it’s not much.

To further with the criticisms, this game is terrible in handing out its story. There is just so much background lore that is important to the story that is easily missable because its in a conversation who can miss because you don’t have enough free time, it’s buried in a character’s entry in the in-game encyclopedia, or in a cutscene you can’t see until either post-game or NG+. The final chapter is hilariously terrible because the moment you step back onto school grounds, you are assaulted in an info dump how the world is now suddenly ending and monster and killing everyone. Up until this point the story had just been about war, but now it suddenly it throws all this world-ending horror at you at once, and expects you to role with it. Now that I think about it, despite how important it is, I don’t think the game every actually explains what Agito actually is, at least in an initial playthrough.

When I finished Type-0, I went back and watched the Lost Chapter and MSQ cutscenes associated with it, and I ended up having a much better appreciation for these characters and stories, which I feel OO does a better job at exploring on an individual basis than their home game. Their story chapter about Ace trying to rebuild Akademia, with him talking to the Machina manikin that is an obvious stand in of Izana, and all of Class Zero coming to terms with the end of the game, and Machina dealing with his guilt, felt like a fantastic post-game story line for these characters. Out of all the storylines about characters dealing with their deaths, or the deaths of people they know coming back to life, or how they live now that they have gotten back all the memories of the respective game back, I think Type-0 has done the best job with that.

Also, fuck Arecia. Machina gets a lot of well-deserved hate, but Arecia is a piece of shit. You do this 600 million times, and only now decided to end it? I honestly don’t believe that in the literal hundreds of millions times you have repeated these cycles that this one cycle in particular had something in it that didn’t happen at least a couple thousand times before. it just makes her seem entirely arbitrary.

Despite the contempt people of the OO subreddit has had for the introduction of Type-0 characters being added, I would like more in the forms of Tiz, Lean Joker, Cid Aulstyne and Arecia for the sake of more story.

Crystal Chronicles

I watched this on YouTube, so maybe I missed something, but I really liked how lowkey this story was. It was a very much a story about the journey and not the destination, though it did make jump to fighting a meteor and memory-eating being a bit jarring, but that’s on me for how I chose to experience this game’s story. While the player character is a blank slate, I really liked Ciaran’s scenes in OO more, specifically with talks with Ace in the Type-0 story chapter.

Also, the music for this game is great, I really like the celtic/folk style they have going on, which is an appropriate thing to say because I watched this because I plan on making a Burst Theme post for CC later.

CC: Ring of Fates/Echoes of Time

I really don’t have much to say about these individual games for the most part, but I have gained a greater appreciation for Yuri, Chelinka and Sherlotta, their own personal stories and the struggles they went though. That being said, I think they both had incredibly strong endings.

CC: Crystal Bearers

This was kind of a pain to watch because all the cutscene movies I tried to watch were hit by copyright notices and had to be edited to cut certain scenes out. What was weird is that the scenes that had to be removed with almost every scene that involved Jegran using his crystallization powers. That being said, I did manage to watch everything, and in the end I very much enjoyed the story I watched.

Out of all the CC characters we can still get, I think Belle and Althea are ones I would want added for the sake of post-game material.

World of Final Fantasy

I regret every writing this game off because of the chibi art style and not liking Lann in Opera Omnia because I really don’t care for characters who are so stupid that it becomes a wonder they even remember how to breathe. Once I actually watched the scenes, those previous opinions began to change; WoFF’s srty styles was honestly more fun than I had assumed it would be, and Lann was genuinely much better in his home game than in OO, which I pin on the writing doing a better job of bouncing him off other characters like Reynn and Tama, and WoFF’s more motive cutscene direction.

Also, HOLY HONK, that game’s story is great, it really caught me off guard with how much I became invested in it. I was honestly caught off guard in how it dealt with it’s “endings”. That Bad Ending really caught me off guard. When I finish the current list of games I have, I will go and play this myself.

We really need Tama and Hauyn in Opera Omnia.

Also, the soundtrack is so chill, I love it.

Stranger of Paradise

I have not actually played or watched Stranger of Paradise, between all the memes, the plentiful second hand information due to being a recent release, and watching Shenpai’s supercut, I feel I have a good grasp on this game’s story, though I do intend to play it myself eventually.

Ending

Well, that’s about it, like I said this was just a sort of mini rant about these games I went through for the sake of making a series of posts on reddit, I fully intend to make a post for each game series represented in OO (All numbered titles, Tactics, Type-0, Crystal Chronicles, World of Final Fantasy and Stranger of Paradise) so that will give me twenty posts in total. If you are paying attention to these posts, the FFVII Burst Theme post will be up tomorrow.

Also, I am currently replaying my old copy of Tactics Advance, and trying to find Tactics Advance on YouTube to add them to the Tactics post, but they are a bit low priority at the moment. If I can finish them before I make that one, which is a fair amount of weeks away, I will add them. If I can’t, then I simply won’t.

[saan-vi-art]

Happy 15th anniversary to the DS game of all time!

I posted a while ago about how important Ring of Fates is to me so I won’t bother saying it again, but I really wanted to do something for its anniversary because of that. I did want to do a more ambitious piece but I ran out of time cause I’ve been busy

[pecoraisa]

👏Playable👏Gnash👏in👏FFCC Remaster👏

[sodapaladin]

Big Ring of Fates spoilers: it just hit me why King Kolka mentions that his fate can’t be changed at the end. If it could, then we’d be total assholes to wish for that perfect childhood for Yuri and Chelinka. They only grew up in that village with Al and Meeth because Kokla’s daughter died, so Yuri and Chelinka’s parents felt ashamed and resigned from palace life. If Kolka’s family wasn’t bound by fate, how awkward would their first meeting in the new world go?

“Your Majesty, we wished for a world where our parents are still alive! :)”

“And not my daughter???”

[kechichronicles]

Guess I'll go ahead and start adding some tough to find official arts to this growing FFCC database!! These are official wallpapers of a few of the Crystal Chronicles FF TCG card art given out on the Final Fantasy Portal app!! You can still download these directly from the source by downloading the app and earning some points for them! (earning points is super easy and only requires viewing news articles)

[sisselkalle]

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Sound Selection

This CD was given out as a preorder bonus alongside the Japanese release of Echoes of Time. It contains 1 track each from Crystal Chronicles, Ring of Fates, Echoes of Time and My Life as a King Track uploads can be found here

[kechiarts]

This sketch has been sitting around on my computer since 2011 or so ahahha

[charlie-suiko-creator-blog]

Moogle creator 01: KUPO!

Fixed up a few bugs and such. Also increased palette button size as requested. Thanks to @noctuart, this creator now has a Japanese translation! So yay!

DeviantART link to the game~

[dany36]

conall curach makes it so easy to get high bonus points 8D wonder if i can get 400 next time...

anyway, i’m on my 9th year and really enjoying the remastered version. i haven’t had a chance to play online and probably won’t for a while. i know people have complained about some of the online multiplayer features buuuut since all i’ve known is the solo portion of the game, the new features that they’ve added have been a huge plus for me and are making it even more enjoyable to play this...third time around. 

right now i’m grinding for artifacts and memories since i’m hoping to get around 100 memories before i go and face the final boss. i’m in no rush to beat it, although i’m looking forward to doing the post-game versions of the dungeons since i’ve heard they’re super challenging!! so i’m glad they’ve added something else to aim towards to after beating the final boss.

also, all this ffcc makes me want to give echoes of time another shot. i beat it a long time ago and honestly it wasn’t that memorable for me. also curious on playing ring of fates and crystal bearers since i never played those either. 

i hope this remaster helps in reviving this forgotten franchise cus...i sure would LOVE to have another console game in the crystal chronicles series that has similar gameplay to the original ffcc :’v