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My Life in the Everyone's Kingdom website
My Life as a King fan, are you? Then you'll be happy to know that Square Enix created a love-fest site for the game, in which you take a break from being the king and become the adventurer instead.When you first enter the site (assuming you've logged into your Square Enix Member's account), you'll be greeted by a quiz that will determine your job (this blogger sadly conjured up the lamest of the lame jobs, the white mage). Once you have a job and a house, you can dally around the town.Different places in the virtual kingdom let you do various things. At the castle, you can write questions, comments, or thoughts about the game to its developers. Throughout the town you can also check out the bulletin to see the "king's behests," download some goodies (like screen savers), see other members' "houses," and other random stuff.The website is a nice idea for fan service, but to be honest, there's no reason to spend more than five minutes there at the moment. Hopefully Square Enix will add some more neat things to it soon.[Via Destructoid]
Controlling and Thieving as a King
Were you wondering how you'd be ruling your kingdom on the Wii once Squeenix's My Life As a King hits WiiWare? It looks like it won't necessarily be with the Wiimote, as the game supports four different control schemes.Supposing you like your Wiimote just fine, you can use that alone or with a Nunchuck while playing the game. Some of you might prefer the GameCube or Classic Controller, though, which are also supported. Furthermore, widescreen TV owners will be happy to know that Square Enix's country-building RPG can be played in 16:9.For those of you craving more details for this title, Game Watch reports that it will include a thief class. This is a nice addition to the game, although no big surprise in an RPG with a class system. The thief will have the usual skills of being able to unlock things, quick movement, and searching capabilities. If you ask us, a thief will be worth using just for the sweet dagger. This thief's got bling. Gallery: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Young King and the Promised Land [Via NeoGAF]
Wii Warm Up: Wii Ware progress report
Even though no one outside of Japan knows when to expect Wii Ware, the game service has had quite a few interesting titles announced for it. But, what game or games are you most excited about?Let's give it a little rundown, shall we? We have a pretty looking spin-off from Square-Enix, a few possible adventure titles, a platformer, some puzzle games (including a beloved classic), a unique butterfly simulation, something currently called Project Bang! -- oh, and then there's the one with the Pokemon. We haven't even mentioned the slew of others that came with Wii Ware's original announcement, and then there may even be some that we've forgotten.We know you have to be at least a little bit excited for Wii Ware. So, tell us -- which games most strike your fancy?
The Young King goes to school, learns magic
Five fresh screens of Square Enix's quirky country-building sim Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Young King and the Promised Land appeared on Famitsu today, though there is little that is particularly new to be found in these.What is new, and thus of greater interest to us, is some of the artwork that accompanied them. This depicts the game's Black Mages and White Mages, and also two more of the buildings we'll be able to construct in the game: a Black Magic School (as pictured to the right) and a Law Institute, where White Mages can gather to learn the tricks of the trade.Yell "Abracadabra" and whoosh past the break for the rest of the screens and artwork.
Yet more FFCC: The Young King and the Promised Land screens
Following on from this morning's Jump Festa trailer, GAME Watch has posted a bevy of new Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Young King and the Promised Land screenshots.If you've already familiarized yourself with the game's wide-eyed, button-nosed cast, there's little new to be found in this latest batch, though we do get our first look at one of the game's classes ("Warrior") and two of the buildings that will be available for construction ("Small House" and "Weapons Shop"). Needless to say, this first glimpse of the game's town-building elements has ramped up our excitement considerably for the game's release.Go past the break for a further eight screens, or hit GAME Watch at the link below for the full selection. %Gallery-12067%
The Young King and the Jump Festa Trailer
Square Enix released a lengthy trailer for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Young King and the Promised Land today, for the few of us who didn't attend Jump Festa 2008. And it looks great. Suspiciously great, for a downloadable game.We know in our heads that this is a strategy/town-building kind of thing, but the trailer is so old-school Final Fantasy that we can't help but get nostalgic about fighting Imps. It's got crystals, airships, moogles, and chibi protagonists -- how much more pre-FF7 Final Fantasy can you get? Now we're thinking that if this game can transfer the goofy, adventurous feeling of early Fantasy into a new genre, it will be a major success on Square Enix's part. We'd certainly take experimental Wii Ware games over Final Fantasy VII spinoffs.[Via Dengeki]
New shots from The Young King and the Promised Land
The site for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Young King and the Promised Land seems to be doing frequent updates -- possibly every day, but we'll see how long that lasts -- and that means we've got new and tiny screenshots of the Wii Ware title that you can find in our gallery below. And speaking of titles, that one ain't getting any shorter. Geez. In other news, there was a rumor in the recent issue of EGM about the fate of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, and it's sadly looking like there might be some truth to the notion that the game is "in trouble." There's a button on The Young King's site that leads to Ring of Fates news, but nothing about that other, lost title. We're sad. Mark us down as sad, like pandas what are sad. At least we have all this other Final Fantasy goodness to tide us over.%Gallery-12067%
Chronicling the Young King and the Promised Land with goodies galore
Another trailer has popped up for (deep breath) Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Young King and the Promised Land, which introduces two of game's main characters. Aside from that (and some pretty Wii Ware graphics), though, this true-to-form Square Enix trailer doesn't really show us much in terms of gameplay. Still, the mystery of it all is enough to make us want it, and we're really looking forward to the coming of Wii Ware ... since, you know, we hate money and want to get rid of it as fast as possible.Also, the game has stopped bumming off the offical Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles website, as its own official site launched this week. You can check it out here, if you feel so inclined.If that's not enough to quell your burning desire for Promised Land goodness (insatiable pigs, the lot of you), check after the break for some Famitsu scans.
First trailer for Wii Ware Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
After checking out Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Young King and the Promised Land, we can only guess one thing: a hard drive or some other storage solution for the Wii is coming, and it's coming soon. With 512mb, we can barely handle the title of this Wii Ware game, and that's not even counting the game itself. The latest Crystal Chronicles looks like the result of a romantic evening between King Story and Chocobo's Dungeon, and we're behind that 100% ... especially when we see dancing moogles.
