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My Life as a Darklord En Route To Europe
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Posted: 15th July 2009 18:17
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Well strike me down, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord will be released in Europe this Friday, with a North American release still pending. This latest Wii Ware instalment of the elusive Final Fantasy brand will be available for 1000 Wii Points, equal to £7 or $10. Further downloadable content is also on the horizon. Japanese players already have access to a selection of spells and stage packs available from 100 to 500 points. Despite the lack of a North American release date, it's likely to be soon.
My Life as a Darklord follows closely with the Final Fantasy formula of having very little to do with its predecessor of the same name. If you were hoping for a game similar to My Life as a King you may be sorely disappointed, and a bit silly. The gameplay focuses on castle defence: as the daughter of a Darklord, and arguably the sister of Zorn and Thorn, it is your job to use your evil minions and traps to keep the forces of good from reaching the top of the tower and destroying your crystal. It might be worth mentioning that you have a Tonberry lieutenant with a pink ribbon on its head to help you. It remains to be seen whether this will be a hit or not. Castle defence is certainly a fine concept; it will never get old as long as real-time strategy is an existing genre. What will make or break the gameplay is balancing, something that castle defence modders slave over and Square Enix failed to achieve in My Life as a King. To its credit, the character and monster detail has a certain charm that hasn't been seen since Final Fantasy IX. Regardless of how successful this becomes, it's great to see Square Enix trying their luck with another genre. Maybe My Life as a... is to be a series of experimentation. Source: Siliconera, Square Enix |
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Posted: 16th July 2009 23:39
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Just FYI you misspelled "defense".
Moderator Edit Even were that true, posting about it is off topic. PM the author next time. -R51 This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 17th July 2009 12:20 |
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Posted: 16th July 2009 23:44
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Quote (yelanates @ 16th July 2009 18:39) Just FYI you misspelled "defense". FYI he didn't. Defense is spelled with a c in Great Britain and Canada. -------------------- |
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Posted: 17th July 2009 00:52
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Ah, cool! Never mind me, then. :)
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Posted: 19th July 2009 01:08
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Wait, can everyone do topics in News? News to me (pun not intended).
I probably won't get it, though. My life as a king was pretty nice, but I never bothered finishing it. |
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Posted: 19th July 2009 02:52
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Quote (Gigantuar @ 18th July 2009 21:08) Wait, can everyone do topics in News? News to me (pun not intended). Nice to know people read my posts.  -------------------- "To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN? |
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Posted: 19th July 2009 10:48
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Quote (Rangers51 @ 19th July 2009 03:52) Quote (Gigantuar @ 18th July 2009 21:08) Wait, can everyone do topics in News? News to me (pun not intended). Nice to know people read my posts. What do you mean?  |
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Posted: 19th July 2009 15:20
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Quote (Gigantuar @ 19th July 2009 06:48) What do you mean? http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/news/article/...eature-contest/ -------------------- "To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN? |
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Posted: 6th August 2009 00:21
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Kotaku wasn't wild about this game, though I think the complaints (aside from maybe pushing DLC a bit hard) are a bit over the top:
http://kotaku.com/5330810/final-fantasy-cr...rifying-thought Doesn't matter to me, I guess; no thought of getting a Wii, and as far as castle defense games go, I'm way too hooked on Plants vs. Zombies anyway. (Hey, is there a CoN thread on that?) |
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Posted: 6th August 2009 02:13
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Quote (Rangers51 @ 5th August 2009 19:21) I'm way too hooked on Plants vs. Zombies anyway. (Hey, is there a CoN thread on that?) i. love. that. game. anyway, i was kinda suprised when they came out with my life as a king, as i didnt think tower defense and final fantasy mixed that well, but now it seems that crystal chronicles is going to be squares 'experiments' series, where if it doesnt do well, at least its just crystal chronicles. -------------------- Aujourdhui a commence avec toi. |
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