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Sun 14/03/04 at 01:14
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Yep Mario Kart, Mario Sunshine and Zelda are all just wonderfully created games but I've just bought one better.

A great all round game is great... and you know it. But no game is perfect. My favourite games of all time had their "flaws". Majora's Mask was short, lacked traditional Zelda plot and had a poor saving system. Conker, one of my favourite games, was short, had SOME multiplayer problems and some of the various in game varietys were boring. Pokemon Yellow (my actual favourite game) forced you through dull caves and on long journeys. Super Mario Sunshine over did the collecting and lacked iconography and varios traditional mario traits. Wind Waker was way too short and forced long sailing section. etc... etc...

All games have flaws so essentially the best games are flawed gems. If the flaw is small then the gem side does not need to be TOO great to make the flaw easy to ignore. Got me? Let me explain. Lets take Timesplitters 2 as our flawed gem,. The single player is utterly dire! But the multiplayer is so DAMN AMAZING that we can all easily over look the flaw as if it were not there.

Like my list above, Conker despite it's short coming was hilarious and it is THE most fun game I have ever played with the matrix final level being the best gaming moment in my entire gaming career. Pokemon Yellow is so deep and involving, the deepest and most involving game I've played... that the minor flaws simply dissapeared.

So when I go Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles I read the reviews "A flawed gem"... but how big is the gem?

Too damn big. The fun of mario, the competitiveness of Mario Kart: Double Dash and the beauty of Wind Waker has seeped into nothingless in the wake of Crystal Chronicles.

Am I going over the top? Maybe. But I just had my fellow FF veteran over and we just cracked through the first few parts of Crystal Chronicles and we are stunned. The game is easy to play, fun and damn gorgeous... best presented Cube game so far in fact. But you see it is the GBA connectivity that makes it so good.

For starters linking your GBA genuinly feels like a cool feature as it is (note that my mate is suffering due to the screen quality of the original GBA) but it is the inclusion of my friend that makes it so good. He went mental when he saw a familiar character from Final Fantasy 9... that was till I gave him a slap round the head and we were on our way. Making fun of the inhabitants... openly threatening the enemies... moaning over who has held the Chalice for too long...

Co-operative gaming was always relativly good but in this game you HAVE to work together to get things done... and this team work... this social bond with your friend is without a doubt the best reason to own any console. The game is gorgeous... involving and most of all fun. Yes online RPG's offer the same idea, but reading the diary entries out loud in comical fashion doesn't work over the net.

I was wrong... YOU were wrong. The GBA-GC connection is over priced but FF:CC, the first game to really NEED a GBA and a connection lead, is proof Nintendo were right... this is the future of gaming. Sell controllers with built in screens next time Nintendo because if it wasn't for the steep price this really could have taken off. The next essential GBA-GC connectivity game comes free with R-Racing Revolution at the end of the month doesn't it? I know I am getting that.

Not to mention the special Zelda compilation at the end of the year.

Well done Nintendo, well done Square-Enix... this is my favourite Gamecube game so far.
Sun 14/03/04 at 20:25
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"tokyo police club"
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Go and listen to all this nu-rap-metal stuff that all the hip young cats are listening to, then
Sun 14/03/04 at 20:22
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Chronicles' does look nice n everything but GOD DAMN the music is annoying.
Sun 14/03/04 at 20:19
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"tokyo police club"
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I respect them for having the balls to do it, but it's a biatch
Sun 14/03/04 at 20:13
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I'd buy it no question if you could have multi with normal controllers.

It really is stupid that you can't use them instead of GBAs.
Sun 14/03/04 at 19:57
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Well, someone on here has bound to have played the single player mode, is it worth getting the game for single player alone?
Sun 14/03/04 at 19:27
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Play it before commenting i say.
Sun 14/03/04 at 19:17
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Dringo wrote:

> Anyway the reason for the GBA's are vital... for starter it is pretty
> cool but can you imagine 4 people fiddeling with their stats screen
> at the same time? Everybody would be stopping and starting... the GBA
> connection means the play time just carries on.
>
> The game is genius don't knock the idea till you've tried it.

But it's that very idea that's putting me off trying it. I'm not going to go and buy a GBA just to try something out. I understand the reasoning behind it though from what you said, basically the GBA's are just very expensive menu screens. However, if they had made a reasonably priced peripheral however, like a controller with a screen built in, just for games like CC, then I may have been willing to give it a shot.
Sun 14/03/04 at 17:03
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Soul Calibur 2 rules... there is loads to do, very addictive and fantastic in multiplayer.
Sun 14/03/04 at 17:01
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No it's some mungle or somet? Some ginger cat like thing.

Anyway the reason for the GBA's are vital... for starter it is pretty cool but can you imagine 4 people fiddeling with their stats screen at the same time? Everybody would be stopping and starting... the GBA connection means the play time just carries on.

The game is genius don't knock the idea till you've tried it.
Sun 14/03/04 at 16:04
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PSO ep 1+2 by far without a doubt it...then possibly crystal chronicals and zelda..but then zelda still isnt what it was on N64 is it..still a great game though =) apart from that i think nintendo need to sort it out and get some "GREAT" games on their release date list

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