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| From: Square Enix
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 1753
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 90721
UPC: 662248907215
EAN: 0662248907215
ASIN: B0010YOQIM
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new, factory sealed, in our warehouse, and ships right now.
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 Beautiful but short March 25, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this game dramatically. The graphics were gorgeous for a 3D DS game. The gameplay was fairly simple but fun, the story was great, and even the voices weren't AS bad as some people seem to have said. The biggest complaints I've seen with the game were that it is repetetive, personally I didn't think so. Each environment is new and exiting, and the puzzles grow more elaborate as you go. Unlike the first one, the focus seems to be more on the single player adventure, with a story mode containing a detailed story, unlike the sparse dialogue mixed in with the first one. The problem I had was that I was able to complete story mode in 13:00 hours. That's in my opinion really short. The game does however make up for it in replayability. There are incentives to play again after completing the story, I won't get too detailed with spoilers, but also multiplayer allows you to create and progress your own character(s) in his or her own adventures. And while certain treasures and features require a certain amount of party members or certain races to be in the party, the multiplayer dungeons change depending on what the party consists of, so new challanges await depending on the party you go in with. I would have given this game a five star rating if story mode had been a little longer, and if there had been more places to explore.
 Enjoyable Game March 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I want to discuss the pros of this game first.
PROS:
- Enjoy the single player storyline.
- I don't know why, but the peppered voice acting sometimes cheer me up from the monotonous scrolling of texts.
- The wonderfully designed levels. They are not hard to go through and its plain simple. I enjoyed roaming around it.
- I like how whenever you get a new character then you visit old levels you get a different feel in playing them again. I like it when Gnash joined my team and going through the levels became easy, especially the double jump.
- The "extra pouch" is a good innovation. It gives a slight difficult curve in game play.
Now, just because my review highlighted the easiness and simpleness of the game doesn't necessarily imply that this game is cheesy or "easy" at all. There are levels that will make you go through all tactical especially at later levels. The items such as health and revive become so important at later levels.
CONS:
- I don't like the AI of my companions. I mean, I spent nearly playing the game by myself with little to no help from my AI companions. I am getting pummeled by a boss and all the AI's are just standing there. I miss Final Fantasy XII set up commands that the AI's actually follow.
- The "extra pouch," I hate it because I went to a boss fight with maxed out items but I still lost because I wish I had more of "revive/phoenix" or "health gems/cylinder."
Not a CON against game play, but come on why change the storyline? Okay, getting realistic - I understand for the children. Other than that nothing else. I fully enjoy the game. And I am still trying to finish the game.
A satisfying, but not superior, dungeon crawler March 15, 2008
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This followup to Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles takes the mechanics developed in the first game, polishes them, and wraps them up in a new story and game for the DS. The overall effect is something that would be excellent from any other publisher, but is merely good from SE.
The main complaint from the first game (the annoying bucket), is gone. Whether in one player or multiplayer modes, your characters will all have a chance to play the game. The new one-player mode gives you a party of 4 characters, only one of which you control directly at one time. Changing controlled characters and spells are now just a touch of the lower screen rather than the convoluted menu system of the first game. Overall, controls have improved, though in the single player it's hard to juggle all of the players.
In multiplayer, every player (up to 4, everyone needs a card) controls one character of any of the 4 races. Each race has its own particular strengths, weaknesses, and special abilities that make them useful at some point in every dungeon. Although the game slows down significantly in this mode, it's the way the game is at its best, as all the characters can act intelligently, and the cooperative abilities start to shine.
The graphics of this game make full use of the DS's capabilities, and are the best I've seen on the system, a step up even from the acclaimed Final Fantasy III. Environments are well-defined, special effects are wonderful, and on the whole the game shows a good level of polish. The soundtrack is similarly excellent, but the voices get annoying very quickly.
Difficulty tends to ramp up at a reasonable rate, and never does the game get frustrating, which is amazing considering the variety of challenges in the dungeons. Dungeons are well-designed, and contain a variety of items to acquire and create for your characters, whose look changes depending on what they wear.
This offering from Square Enix is worth a purchase, especially with friends around to join in your game. Although it fits a fairly standard Final Fantasy formula, the game entertains just like its bigger brothers.
A Fun Little Dungeon Crawler March 13, 2008
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Ring of Fates is a great dungeon crawler with superb graphics. With local friends, it's the best multiplayer game around, but it's worth picking up for the single-player as well. You can play through the obligatory quest, controlling 4 characters at once if you feel like it. I found far more fun in creating my own character and playing the multiplayer "free mode" by myself - no cutscenes or story, but all of the same towns and dungeons. The controls are sufficient when you are controlling just one character, but when you're babysitting up to four, they occasionally get convoluted and cumbersome. The selling factors on this game are the graphics and the loot. Your avatar changes appearance with each item you equip - a surprising and rewarding bonus to finding rare helmets or synthesizing a new cloak, etc.
The game is fun, and should be a must-buy if you enjoyed the GC version, or like action/RPGs at all (Diablo, Champions of Norrath, Sword of Mana, "Tales of" series, etc.)
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