Hey everyone, hope you're all staying safe and well! In today's video I take a look at Crystal Chronicles Remastered. The original had a place in my younger life, so how has it aged? What have they improved, and what have they added? Will Clemps ever discover the true meaning of happiness? FIND OUT TODAY! Thanks so much for your continued support and patience. If you wanna support me some more, then consider pledging to me on Patreon! It'll really help me out. :) Thanks again, and hope you enjoy the show.
Speaking of remasters! ;) any interest an revisiting some of your older videos? While I love some classic clemps :p I would be interested in some updated thoughts.
It is all about creating memories between the players who shared this experience, meeting years afterwards recalling how happy they were playing this game!
I am quite a sucker for FFIX, but when does it mention Vivi being "inhabited" by a magical being? It always seemes to me that the Black Mages becoming conscious was a side effect Kuja neither did see coming nor was willing to accept. His and Vivis character arc basically were the same: Artificial life form with limited life span.
Yes Clemps, I do realize that there won't be another movie trilogy that evokes in me the same feelings as The Lord of the Rings one did. I was just actively avoiding to think about it.
I was literally just thinking "I haven't heard Clemps voice in a while" this morning. Listened to your KH2 video, listened to the full 4 part Nier Automata analysis, then I'm about to clock out for lunch and what do I see when I refresh my TH-cam?? Clemps with a FF: CC video? Excellent timing. And Excellent video as always!
I'm hoping they fix it. The main draw was experiencing the world as a group. Sending letters back to your little town, seeing the story unfold together, developing your characters. Having everyone playing their own instanced and separate version is the biggest issue. A new local mode with the same progression as the original could correct this.
This remaster is so strange. There's some great changes like the unlimited inventory, the spell fusion timing wheel, removing the dumber bonus conditions and the map showing you everything now. Then there's the super difficult reskinned postgame dungeons that give insane new gear with some great new/remixed music. But the new way of multiplayer is so tedious and alienating to veterans that I can't blame them too much for being disappointed. The new way of playing makes it feel more like MonHun where everyone has their own key quests and I wish they can implement a lobby system like that instead of what we got. But even then it's still a great time if you can get friends to stick it out and join you.
I know this comment may get lost in the sea of comments, but I just wanted to say that I have been struggling VERY HARD with my depression lately. Things are very difficult and it’s scary how much I want to give up at times. But watching your videos always seems to bring a laugh or smile, even when I’m nonstop crying. You are hands down one of my favorite (and in my eyes, one of the best) TH-camrs out there. I love your sense of humor and how much effort and love you put into your videos. I just wanted to thank you for bringing a small bit of happiness to me when the world seems dark and hopeless. Sending you my love, Clemps. 💖
FFCC was never a "great" game, but I've always loved the ideas and concepts; music and charm etc. I had an unfortunate history with it though. My friend and I got the original and I went over to their house to play for like eight hours straight, and had a lot of fun. However, when I got home, I found out that all of the progress was made in his game- and my character was still just a starting level 1. I was never to able to close the 20-30 level gap between us, and we were never able to really play it together again in any enjoyable away. I ended up eventually dropping it and never beat it, so I'm glad to finally have another chance just to play it through (even if I can't properly team up with my friends for co-op story).
With how much memory factors into the overall narrative, it honestly just makes me dislike the remaster even more tbh. In the original you got to do everything with your friends, the cutscenes, the towns, the minigames, experiencing everything and making memories together. But in the remaster it all got stripped away, you queue up for dungeons like its an MMO and otherwise you are always alone. Every cutscene, every town, everything outside of dungeons, its just you. You experience the entire game alone. Its makes the experience feel so hollow to me and with the focus on making memories and community it feels like a betrayal of the original, both mechanically and narratively.
I don't know man, I thoroughly enjoyed Crystal Chronicles with just myself. I didn't ever have a problem with the Moogle and I taking turns carrying the chalice and yes the Moogle can also help you make a stronger magic.
I know FFCC is not the greatest game ever made, but man the game opened me up to JRPGs, which I hated before, and the music shaped my tastes for the rest of my life. When I see the classic FF monsters and iconography, I think of Crystal Chronicles, because that was MY FF game. Yeah, it's largely nostalgia, but I feel like maybe because of that nostalgia, I'm just a little more open to the things the game did well than the reviewers who dumped on the game because "whaaaaaat? a 2020 game doesn't have couch co-op? UNTHINKABLE! TRASH GAME!" The game has a really unique narrative that only works as a video game, the music and art come together beautifully, and even among its sequels it stands out as something unlike any other game I've ever played. But yeah the gameplay kinda sucks ngl. I had no friends as a kid and nobody to play it with, so I got the moogle end of the stick. I'm tired, kupo!
You could even say that you have fond... MEMORIES of the game? Cause I do too. It was a decent chunk of my gamecube's lifecycle, even if most of it was single-player.
Why don't they just put a green leaf on a character's name so players know that person didn't beat the game? Like in FFXIV? So they don't skip cutscenes. Give players an incentive play with those players, like extra materials to cut down on grinding for equipment.
Wonderful review! I was so bummed out at the lack of local multiplayer that I kind of didn't want to think about the game for a while, which is a shame since the story and atmosphere are so unique and wonderful and it's like it was made to be experienced with someone else! I was looking forward to playing the game in multiplayer since I had to go solo the first time around, but there are so many hoops to go through I ended up doing it alone this time still. Shame shame shame, the online experience makes it feel even lonelier since instead of living the story with your comrades you're just popping into someone else's.
Funny enough, as a Gamecube owner as a kid I did the opposite. I had Crystal Chronicles but looked longingly through game magazines at FFX and X-2, wondering if they were the "true" final fantasy games I was missing out on. Great video though and I'm glad you put in a section just on the music -- it's easily the best part of the game.
I may love FFCC but the game that truly got my to fall in love with Final Fantasy (because I've every single one excluding FF15 and FF7R because what is money) has to be FFCC: Ring of Fates. This game is what truly stole my heart but also breaks it because not many people know about this game since it basically had little to no promotion on square side of things and left to die on Nintendo DS. Even with the few frustrating bosses, no matter how much I play it, it brings a tear to up eye because of the story.
Ring of Fates is a truly underrated classic, my friends and I played that one just as much as the original Crystal Chronicles and we also found the story to be rather well told and presented.
i dont know why, but the way you edited "jack moschet was starving!" has had me thinking about it for months on end, ill be at work and it creeps up on me
I was lucky enough to have 3 other friends with gbas and link cables back in the day. A multiplayer final fantasy was the equivalent of one of us winning the golden ticket. We argued over who carried the chalice and Fought over who got the best end game bonuses. Personally this game (4 swords too) is about friendship to me. Couldn't imagine enjoying it with anyone else. Props for the memories Clemps!!
I honestly like playing this alone, I imagine my brave and valiant Yuke, questing to save his village's crystal against all odds, standing alone against the Alzheimer's monster because NO ONE, god or mortal is going to make him forget the first time he touched a titty
As an Australian, I wonder what the online multiplayer was like in this game. For me and most Australians (and Kiwi's), it just wasn't possible. Find game, play for 10-30 seconds and then you're timed out and back to menu. Its been roughly a month now and SE has still done nothing to fix it (games are also still unavailable here and in NZ, since SE removed them from PSN and eShop).
0:17 Weird thing to point out, but that is not a cool bug. Those little bastards are called webworms and one year they ate the leaves off ALL the trees in my neighborhood and were all over fucking everything! There were so many on trees and on top of houses it was liking they were raining from the sky
I played FFCC on Gamecube and never played it multiplayer because the trash that it was REQUIRED all players to use a Gameboy Advance, I got bored with it at some point, so no idea how it ended. I bought it for the multiplayer with my sister but the last Gameboy either of us owned was a pocket (pre-color, pre-pre-advance).
I have to make it it’s kind of weird I’m really enjoyed your videos even very pleasant to listen and look at at the same time I thank you so much and keep up the good job and I’ll figure out how to do a patronage
4:07 The thought that Clemps probably has a folder full of audios of screaming children to use in videos just crossed my mind and it made me a little scared, not gonna lie.
I love FF CC. I love this game so much. I really love the side characters Hurdy, the Black Knight, the Striped Brigade, and Amidatty. This game just brings back memories. Wish SE would have done better on the remaster.
Bought the game blind thinking I could play couch coop with my bro like the good old days...only to be highly disappointed with what it was replaced with. Thank you for the video Clemps, you made 2020 a bit less sucky for me.
This was a lovely video to wake up with. I do find the concept of using memories for the final boss really cool, it gives you reason to watch and pay attention to the cutscenes
This is my favourite vid of yours in a while. Not that the others weren't good, I just preferred the overall attitude and criticisms in this one. You didn't seem afraid at all to call out the glaring flaws or to say what you liked. You were able to concisely pick this game apart, without too many qualifiers or overexplaining your opinion. And seeing as you were given a code to play it, good for you sticking to your guns. Also I don't know if it's because I'm watching this at 4AM but the edits and jokes were extra funny. Always happy to see Yuyushiki, god bless.
Alright, time to go to sle- *CLEMPS HAS ENTERED THE CHAT.* Okay, but it's going to be a really long video, and I really need to go to sle- *IT'S A VIDEO ABOUT FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES* _As a fellow man of culture, it is my duty to watch this video._
For anyone who's wanting that original couch co-op. There is now integrated Gameboy Advance controller support on Dolphin Emulator. This means you can stimulate a GBA controller through a GBA emulator. The best part about it is that Netplay also works with this integrated GBA controller meaning that it's also possible to play online this way. So you can play together all on one monitor while seeing the Gameboy Advances on the side when right next to each other. While also being able to see everyone's GBA and the game on separate monitors across the Earth. It's actually a pretty recent change, 3-4 months ago, and I've been having a blast with it.
They marketed it like we were getting the original experience but instead its just optimized for players who have no friends who just want random people to drop in so they can have a higher score to get certain high level area drops. Absolute shenanigans incarnate
Man this was another great video and gave me a lot to think about... like how I still need to start dragon quest 11 s on my switch. Seriously though I'm loving your editing, script, and jokes in, well, all of your videos but especially the last few videos.
FFCC has a lot of fond memories for me, it taps into a soft, younger side of myself, but it was also an incredibly tough game to play back in the day when you were just a kid hanging out at a friends house every so often and i so wish the remaster could have streamlined it better but the online capabilities have really squandered any hope of that. not that i had a LOT of hope for it considering games of this caliber dont really gel with online play but yanno what i mean. amazing review clemps. loved the shoutout to the soundtrack especially.
Thanks for covering this, I was pissed because this got announced just after I'd finally hunted down a Gamecube copy, but I'll probably but it when it gets cheaper anyways. Hope you get through some of that depression bro!
Man this game. I hate hate hate this game. Understand that when this came out how much it cost to just play the damn thing. A Final Fantasy game with multiplayer!? I was hyped as hell for this and had some friends who all saved up to get our own individual link cables with the GBAs. Just the idea that we could all be different classes/jobs, our own unique progression, gear, abilities; we could not be more excited for it. Then we played it. We just kept wondering when the game opened up to make use of the GBA. Why do we all have our own screens if we're not managing anything beyond a few items? Then that horrible feeling of playing on the GBA while you have perfectly good GC controllers right next to you and you're just waiting for the game to finally add some RPG element to warrant all this. After a few stages we were just in awe in how bad it was. Surely there was more to this game, right? I'm glad people are able to find some joy in it, but when I saw that they were going to remaster it, I noped out. At least the music was good.
If Crystal Chronicles was a Final Fantasy Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon type game it'd be remembered as a classic. The look and design of it would be perfect for a chill farming and dungeon delving on the side game. You'd complete favors for people in the neighbouring towns to return their memory and earn a party member from each of the four races from their respective towns. Helping you speed up your farming and assisting in delving deeper in the dungeon.
I don't know a lot about that game, but I honestly adore the music, which I hear here, and its celtic folk vibe, which reminds me a lot about Spice and Wolf, which remains one of my most favorite animes. Like, I haven't heard it used as a JRPG battle theme before, and it is pretty cool.
But see, here's the problem. Not giving myrrh to non-host players doesn't mean they will wander around the map in search of events. The multiplayer levels can be hosted from anywhere so long as your chalice has the correct element to *potentially* reach the level you want to play. Once you have the ??? element, you can literally do entire years from your starting village. Forcing players through the tedium of doing a level 4 times will just encourage them to gravitate towards a state of maximum efficiency so that they move around as little as possible. That being said, this does still result in 4x as many memories per level, so even though you miss all the fun events, you at least get that. Still though, the balance of the final boss fight could've been tweaked if they wanted to avoid players not having enough memories due to the new mechanics. Change one fight vs change the entire rest of the game to be more annoying...which sounds more reasonable?
Love love love the soundtrack. Think I'd prefer setting up my GameCube again or figure out how to get multiplayer working in Dolphin to relive the glory days instead of getting multiple copies of the Remaster with its own share of headaches though.
Hey everyone, hope you're all staying safe and well!
In today's video I take a look at Crystal Chronicles Remastered. The original had a place in my younger life, so how has it aged? What have they improved, and what have they added? Will Clemps ever discover the true meaning of happiness? FIND OUT TODAY!
Thanks so much for your continued support and patience. If you wanna support me some more, then consider pledging to me on Patreon! It'll really help me out. :)
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Thank you for the video . I love this game when I was kid it was just too difficult for me playing it by myself
Speaking of remasters! ;) any interest an revisiting some of your older videos? While I love some classic clemps :p I would be interested in some updated thoughts.
Date me, you asshole
Finally my baby boy is back. Hope youve been staying well. So glad to enjoy some of your content always.
Clemps is empty, he is Clempty if you will.
I came here to say: "Aw, don't be Clempty!" but you beat me to it ;-(
I hate you.
Take your Like
I read the text on the screen as "Clempsy is Empty"
I will not.
It is all about creating memories between the players who shared this experience, meeting years afterwards recalling how happy they were playing this game!
Fun fact: The Yukes are living dolls inhabited by magical beings- like a certain black mage we all know and love
Vivi!
I am quite a sucker for FFIX, but when does it mention Vivi being "inhabited" by a magical being? It always seemes to me that the Black Mages becoming conscious was a side effect Kuja neither did see coming nor was willing to accept. His and Vivis character arc basically were the same: Artificial life form with limited life span.
Ah yes, Annabelle
Geno?
Woke my partner up laughing at "I decided to go for a Yuke, since I too have shit myself"
Man, sounds of the wind just does things to my heart. I can't think of another song that captures that exact same feeling.
Yes Clemps, I do realize that there won't be another movie trilogy that evokes in me the same feelings as The Lord of the Rings one did.
I was just actively avoiding to think about it.
I was literally just thinking "I haven't heard Clemps voice in a while" this morning. Listened to your KH2 video, listened to the full 4 part Nier Automata analysis, then I'm about to clock out for lunch and what do I see when I refresh my TH-cam?? Clemps with a FF: CC video? Excellent timing. And Excellent video as always!
I'm hoping they fix it.
The main draw was experiencing the world as a group.
Sending letters back to your little town, seeing the story unfold together, developing your characters.
Having everyone playing their own instanced and separate version is the biggest issue.
A new local mode with the same progression as the original could correct this.
Agreed.
This remaster is so strange.
There's some great changes like the unlimited inventory, the spell fusion timing wheel, removing the dumber bonus conditions and the map showing you everything now. Then there's the super difficult reskinned postgame dungeons that give insane new gear with some great new/remixed music. But the new way of multiplayer is so tedious and alienating to veterans that I can't blame them too much for being disappointed. The new way of playing makes it feel more like MonHun where everyone has their own key quests and I wish they can implement a lobby system like that instead of what we got. But even then it's still a great time if you can get friends to stick it out and join you.
Did they add a patch that lets you actually journey with your party (shared cutscenes/village)? Or is it still just combat?
I know this comment may get lost in the sea of comments, but I just wanted to say that I have been struggling VERY HARD with my depression lately. Things are very difficult and it’s scary how much I want to give up at times. But watching your videos always seems to bring a laugh or smile, even when I’m nonstop crying. You are hands down one of my favorite (and in my eyes, one of the best) TH-camrs out there. I love your sense of humor and how much effort and love you put into your videos. I just wanted to thank you for bringing a small bit of happiness to me when the world seems dark and hopeless. Sending you my love, Clemps. 💖
As a fellow depressed person, throwing some love back your way.
Forget LoTR, I'm here for The Rat Movie references
That would be real nice if it were true, except it isn't. _You're a rat!_
@@requiem4ameme2 Does he make "all of the rules"?
@@darnoc001 Assuming he's the largest? Yes.
They really are the best looking moogles lol, so fucking adorable.
I was just thinking this morning "A new Clemps video would be cool!"
The same thing happened to me!
Heckin rite... youtube was hiding this from me!
Cant even fall asleep without clemps in the background😂 usually the drakengard analysis playlist
Wait! Was that an "IT Crowd" reference!?! @13:04? NICE! 😁 👍
FFCC was never a "great" game, but I've always loved the ideas and concepts; music and charm etc. I had an unfortunate history with it though. My friend and I got the original and I went over to their house to play for like eight hours straight, and had a lot of fun. However, when I got home, I found out that all of the progress was made in his game- and my character was still just a starting level 1. I was never to able to close the 20-30 level gap between us, and we were never able to really play it together again in any enjoyable away. I ended up eventually dropping it and never beat it, so I'm glad to finally have another chance just to play it through (even if I can't properly team up with my friends for co-op story).
With how much memory factors into the overall narrative, it honestly just makes me dislike the remaster even more tbh. In the original you got to do everything with your friends, the cutscenes, the towns, the minigames, experiencing everything and making memories together.
But in the remaster it all got stripped away, you queue up for dungeons like its an MMO and otherwise you are always alone. Every cutscene, every town, everything outside of dungeons, its just you. You experience the entire game alone. Its makes the experience feel so hollow to me and with the focus on making memories and community it feels like a betrayal of the original, both mechanically and narratively.
No the original game sucked too
I don't know man, I thoroughly enjoyed Crystal Chronicles with just myself. I didn't ever have a problem with the Moogle and I taking turns carrying the chalice and yes the Moogle can also help you make a stronger magic.
I know FFCC is not the greatest game ever made, but man the game opened me up to JRPGs, which I hated before, and the music shaped my tastes for the rest of my life. When I see the classic FF monsters and iconography, I think of Crystal Chronicles, because that was MY FF game. Yeah, it's largely nostalgia, but I feel like maybe because of that nostalgia, I'm just a little more open to the things the game did well than the reviewers who dumped on the game because "whaaaaaat? a 2020 game doesn't have couch co-op? UNTHINKABLE! TRASH GAME!" The game has a really unique narrative that only works as a video game, the music and art come together beautifully, and even among its sequels it stands out as something unlike any other game I've ever played.
But yeah the gameplay kinda sucks ngl. I had no friends as a kid and nobody to play it with, so I got the moogle end of the stick. I'm tired, kupo!
Oh WOW! Did NOT know you watched Clemps, Claw father.
It's always hilarious to me how all the youtubers I watch all seem to also watch each other.
You could even say that you have fond... MEMORIES of the game?
Cause I do too. It was a decent chunk of my gamecube's lifecycle, even if most of it was single-player.
Hey Deadwing Dork! Didn't expect to see you here.
@TheTrueRoxas1 I remember Echoes of Time.
I also remember my copy being stolen on the bus to school one day
Zzzzzzz
This summarized my experience and feelings toward ffcc
Nothing like binging all of Clemps' KH videos, then looking over to see a new vid JUST uploaded
Thank you based rat boi
There are never too many Lord of the Rings quotes
Clemps releasing a new video has cleared my skin, watered my crops, and picked up my kids from soccer practice
Your videos are always super fun to watch, man. The editing and the pacing is just always perfect and so enjoyable.
How are you so talented Clemps? Legitimately every video you make is better than the last and none of them are even close to bad. You're amazing!
Why don't they just put a green leaf on a character's name so players know that person didn't beat the game? Like in FFXIV?
So they don't skip cutscenes. Give players an incentive play with those players, like extra materials to cut down on grinding for equipment.
Seriously if they're any music nerds watching, Crystal Chronicles has a stellar ost
Noted
"There is no incident I am just depressed :("
:( huuuuuuuug
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Wonderful review! I was so bummed out at the lack of local multiplayer that I kind of didn't want to think about the game for a while, which is a shame since the story and atmosphere are so unique and wonderful and it's like it was made to be experienced with someone else! I was looking forward to playing the game in multiplayer since I had to go solo the first time around, but there are so many hoops to go through I ended up doing it alone this time still. Shame shame shame, the online experience makes it feel even lonelier since instead of living the story with your comrades you're just popping into someone else's.
Yo! That IT crowd reference at 13:08.
Just finished bing watching every Clemps vid again this morning and now a new video! Great timing and video as always
Crystal Chronicles really is about the friends you met along the way!
Clemps: “Before we reach grumpy old man territory”
Ad: “rated T for teen”
18:08 Clemps having a hard time to swallow his own sass
Funny enough, as a Gamecube owner as a kid I did the opposite. I had Crystal Chronicles but looked longingly through game magazines at FFX and X-2, wondering if they were the "true" final fantasy games I was missing out on.
Great video though and I'm glad you put in a section just on the music -- it's easily the best part of the game.
I may love FFCC but the game that truly got my to fall in love with Final Fantasy (because I've every single one excluding FF15 and FF7R because what is money) has to be FFCC: Ring of Fates. This game is what truly stole my heart but also breaks it because not many people know about this game since it basically had little to no promotion on square side of things and left to die on Nintendo DS. Even with the few frustrating bosses, no matter how much I play it, it brings a tear to up eye because of the story.
Ring of Fates is a truly underrated classic, my friends and I played that one just as much as the original Crystal Chronicles and we also found the story to be rather well told and presented.
The only name anyone is ever allowed to call me from now on is "Pom Pom Daddy"
i dont know why, but the way you edited "jack moschet was starving!" has had me thinking about it for months on end, ill be at work and it creeps up on me
I was lucky enough to have 3 other friends with gbas and link cables back in the day. A multiplayer final fantasy was the equivalent of one of us winning the golden ticket. We argued over who carried the chalice and Fought over who got the best end game bonuses.
Personally this game (4 swords too) is about friendship to me. Couldn't imagine enjoying it with anyone else.
Props for the memories Clemps!!
Lil clemps with his super British ears.
I honestly like playing this alone, I imagine my brave and valiant Yuke, questing to save his village's crystal against all odds, standing alone against the Alzheimer's monster because NO ONE, god or mortal is going to make him forget the first time he touched a titty
The Doug Walker bit tripped my fight or flight response
As an Australian, I wonder what the online multiplayer was like in this game. For me and most Australians (and Kiwi's), it just wasn't possible. Find game, play for 10-30 seconds and then you're timed out and back to menu.
Its been roughly a month now and SE has still done nothing to fix it (games are also still unavailable here and in NZ, since SE removed them from PSN and eShop).
0:17 Weird thing to point out, but that is not a cool bug. Those little bastards are called webworms and one year they ate the leaves off ALL the trees in my neighborhood and were all over fucking everything! There were so many on trees and on top of houses it was liking they were raining from the sky
The scream at 4:05 actually caught me so off guard that I just almost choked good lord
I played FFCC on Gamecube and never played it multiplayer because the trash that it was REQUIRED all players to use a Gameboy Advance, I got bored with it at some point, so no idea how it ended. I bought it for the multiplayer with my sister but the last Gameboy either of us owned was a pocket (pre-color, pre-pre-advance).
I have to make it it’s kind of weird I’m really enjoyed your videos even very pleasant to listen and look at at the same time I thank you so much and keep up the good job and I’ll figure out how to do a patronage
I can't stop laughing at the whole JACK MOSCHET bit, fantastic video as always.
The Dragon Quest 8 music during the depression disclaimer made it crawl into me. Look after yourself Clemps, you sexy, sexy man.
4:07 The thought that Clemps probably has a folder full of audios of screaming children to use in videos just crossed my mind and it made me a little scared, not gonna lie.
I love FF CC. I love this game so much. I really love the side characters Hurdy, the Black Knight, the Striped Brigade, and Amidatty. This game just brings back memories. Wish SE would have done better on the remaster.
Man, those boss designs are sleek. Memiroa looks like a combination of Necron and Penance.
This is my chilli game and i am one of the strange people that likes playing the game solo.
Bought the game blind thinking I could play couch coop with my bro like the good old days...only to be highly disappointed with what it was replaced with. Thank you for the video Clemps, you made 2020 a bit less sucky for me.
This was a lovely video to wake up with. I do find the concept of using memories for the final boss really cool, it gives you reason to watch and pay attention to the cutscenes
I love the "thinking Nazaré" meme you use
Your videos, edits and personality is grade A sir. Enjoying your channel.
4:49 me running away from the problems of my fucking life.
It's always a good day seeing Clemps in my feed!
This is my favourite vid of yours in a while. Not that the others weren't good, I just preferred the overall attitude and criticisms in this one. You didn't seem afraid at all to call out the glaring flaws or to say what you liked. You were able to concisely pick this game apart, without too many qualifiers or overexplaining your opinion. And seeing as you were given a code to play it, good for you sticking to your guns.
Also I don't know if it's because I'm watching this at 4AM but the edits and jokes were extra funny. Always happy to see Yuyushiki, god bless.
Always pleased to see a new Clemps video in my subscription box 🤭💗
Just what I wanted today! Missed these!
Suggested just gave me this and I'm glad it did. Not finished with the video yet, but I've enjoyed everything I've watched so far
Just discovered your channel. Loving it already :)
Oh baby another Clempy video to comfort me in these depressing times.
A Clemps video always cheers me up and makes me smile
I too played Yuke, cept on the DS, now that was my jam.
Clemps, you and your videos give me LIFE.
Alright, time to go to sle-
*CLEMPS HAS ENTERED THE CHAT.*
Okay, but it's going to be a really long video, and I really need to go to sle-
*IT'S A VIDEO ABOUT FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES*
_As a fellow man of culture, it is my duty to watch this video._
"The year of our lord, BAD" fucking perfect
For anyone who's wanting that original couch co-op. There is now integrated Gameboy Advance controller support on Dolphin Emulator. This means you can stimulate a GBA controller through a GBA emulator.
The best part about it is that Netplay also works with this integrated GBA controller meaning that it's also possible to play online this way. So you can play together all on one monitor while seeing the Gameboy Advances on the side when right next to each other. While also being able to see everyone's GBA and the game on separate monitors across the Earth.
It's actually a pretty recent change, 3-4 months ago, and I've been having a blast with it.
They marketed it like we were getting the original experience but instead its just optimized for players who have no friends who just want random people to drop in so they can have a higher score to get certain high level area drops. Absolute shenanigans incarnate
This game was such a huge part of my childhood! Me and my friends played it so much, we could only beat it together.
14:16 no, TH-cam... Wrong Ad
NO BEARDS, NO TINGLING!
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I had to pause the video crying of laughter at the "Yesss Pom-Pom Daddy (Whats wrong with you?!)" bit. Great vid man
I am so GLAD that I’m not the only guy who feels this way about Stiltzkins voice! ❤️😩
Good to have you back!
Man this was another great video and gave me a lot to think about... like how I still need to start dragon quest 11 s on my switch.
Seriously though I'm loving your editing, script, and jokes in, well, all of your videos but especially the last few videos.
And here I was, wanting to play this game together with my son by my side. Thanks, Square...
FFCC has a lot of fond memories for me, it taps into a soft, younger side of myself, but it was also an incredibly tough game to play back in the day when you were just a kid hanging out at a friends house every so often and i so wish the remaster could have streamlined it better but the online capabilities have really squandered any hope of that. not that i had a LOT of hope for it considering games of this caliber dont really gel with online play but yanno what i mean. amazing review clemps. loved the shoutout to the soundtrack especially.
Looking forward to your follow up Crystal Bearers video.
I was just about to rewatch your video library
Thanks for covering this, I was pissed because this got announced just after I'd finally hunted down a Gamecube copy, but I'll probably but it when it gets cheaper anyways. Hope you get through some of that depression bro!
Really didn't expect to see Digi here
Should we be looking forward to game analysis?
Sadly. Gamecube is the better version. I really hated playing the remaster.
Man this game. I hate hate hate this game. Understand that when this came out how much it cost to just play the damn thing. A Final Fantasy game with multiplayer!? I was hyped as hell for this and had some friends who all saved up to get our own individual link cables with the GBAs. Just the idea that we could all be different classes/jobs, our own unique progression, gear, abilities; we could not be more excited for it. Then we played it.
We just kept wondering when the game opened up to make use of the GBA. Why do we all have our own screens if we're not managing anything beyond a few items? Then that horrible feeling of playing on the GBA while you have perfectly good GC controllers right next to you and you're just waiting for the game to finally add some RPG element to warrant all this. After a few stages we were just in awe in how bad it was. Surely there was more to this game, right?
I'm glad people are able to find some joy in it, but when I saw that they were going to remaster it, I noped out. At least the music was good.
Really nice vid man, keep on the good work!
The “scream” always gets me
If Crystal Chronicles was a Final Fantasy Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon type game it'd be remembered as a classic. The look and design of it would be perfect for a chill farming and dungeon delving on the side game. You'd complete favors for people in the neighbouring towns to return their memory and earn a party member from each of the four races from their respective towns. Helping you speed up your farming and assisting in delving deeper in the dungeon.
This is one of my fav games and you are funny as hell. Keep it up
When he was not using Holly on the Zombie Dragon 🤮
I was and still am mad.
I don't know a lot about that game, but I honestly adore the music, which I hear here, and its celtic folk vibe, which reminds me a lot about Spice and Wolf, which remains one of my most favorite animes.
Like, I haven't heard it used as a JRPG battle theme before, and it is pretty cool.
I love this man and his content
Are we not going to talk about how similar the premise is to Legend of Legaia? I remember it weirding me out as a child.
But see, here's the problem. Not giving myrrh to non-host players doesn't mean they will wander around the map in search of events. The multiplayer levels can be hosted from anywhere so long as your chalice has the correct element to *potentially* reach the level you want to play. Once you have the ??? element, you can literally do entire years from your starting village.
Forcing players through the tedium of doing a level 4 times will just encourage them to gravitate towards a state of maximum efficiency so that they move around as little as possible. That being said, this does still result in 4x as many memories per level, so even though you miss all the fun events, you at least get that. Still though, the balance of the final boss fight could've been tweaked if they wanted to avoid players not having enough memories due to the new mechanics. Change one fight vs change the entire rest of the game to be more annoying...which sounds more reasonable?
Clemps back with the laughs. Keep up the good work.
I'm almost 90% sure 9 and Crystal Chronicles are in the same world tbh for various reasons.
That moment where you attack the zombie dragon with blizzara instead of holy
omg the fucking monkey's paw line got me good XD.
just discovered your channel and it's amazing! :D cool video!
Love love love the soundtrack. Think I'd prefer setting up my GameCube again or figure out how to get multiplayer working in Dolphin to relive the glory days instead of getting multiple copies of the Remaster with its own share of headaches though.
Nice! I was just thinking about trying the game so this is good timing
3:48 - I thought I was the only person who named my characters after Caim or Furiae in Drakengard, I’m glad to see that I’m wrong!