No love for Crystal Chronicles?

[AndyMugu]

Haven’t found much references, armor, hairstyle from FFCC, I’d love it if the devs got some in.

I’m not asking for a full blown crossover; but it’s just surprising to see.

Give the post a like if you agree, and I’d apreciate any ideas for things the devs could put in!

[MikkoAkure]

Crystal Chronicles was a huge part of my childhood but unfortunately I don't think it sold well or left a mark on many fans. Plus it's not a numbered FF game and exists outside of everything else. There was a legacy title called "Crystal Bearer" which could potentially be a small nod to them but I don't think there's anything other than that.


As for ideas, it would be neat if there was a miasma-filled dungeon with mechanics around it, sort of like a more advanced version of Aurum Vale. But considering everyone's attitude toward that dungeon, I don't would go down well...

Maybe a boss with a mechanic that puts different spell effects on each player and you need to combine the spell effects to make a different spell that does something? That would be neat.

Or a plant-based beast tribe like the lilty. Or an animated armor tribe like the yukes. CC had some interesting concepts.

Since it appears the devs will keep adding 2 classes every expansion but we're quickly running out of weapon/class ideas, they could steal rackets from the selkie and have another RDM-like class that bounces back from melee to ranged.

[MicahZerrshia]

As for ideas, it would be neat if there was a miasma-filled dungeon with mechanics around it, sort of like a more advanced version of Aurum Vale. But considering everyone's attitude toward that dungeon, I don't would go down well...

Fun Fact, in version 1 Aurum Vale was filled with poisonous gas and you had to find safe spots to dps pulls and consume plants you found around the dungeon to avoid taking damage from said gas as you moved around the dungeon, which was about 2-3 times larger than it currently is (as were Dzaemal Darkhold and thousand maws, the other 2 version 1 dungeons)....and it was absolutely, positively horrible.

[Wavaryen]

Crystal what? *googles* I forgot all about this.

[FrogDog]

I love Crystal Chronicles and it's such a comfy game. Thanks for bringing it up! I was telling a friend the other day that I wish there was an FF MMO or even another numbered series game that followed the 9/CC type of aesthetic.

It'd be cool to at least see something from CC make its way into XIV. A few things they could do:

Simply tell and don't show. Allude to some of the CC races existing somewhere in the lore, or use a place name, etc. It'd require very little work. Yukes are one of my favorite FF races and it'd be cool to even hear that they exist somewhere in the world. Some of the CC races would be jarring to see in XIV's world but I think something like Yukes might even work as a possible beast tribe.

Make glamour sets based off some of the player models in CC. I think some of the Selkie and Clavat sets would be possible to pull off and would be pretty cute.

Do a dungeon as an homage to CC. With places like Matoya's Relict, The Antitower, and Grand Cosmos this doesn't seem very farfetched to me. I think Moschet Manor would be a really good candidate for a dungeon.

[Enkidoh]

Trouble is, CC is not just a spinoff game, it's a spinoff series, and SE haven't really been too interested in referencing directly spinoffs, save for that subtle jab at Mystic Quest with that black sheep called 'Benjamin' in a sidequest at Camp Dragonhead - the Ivalice games only ended up being referenced with a raid series due to one of it's number being a main series game (FFXII). And worse, is the original CC was made by a splinter team from Square who had to keep their identities secret by forming a semi-independent development company to get around Nintendo's then prickly relationship with Square, or so the story goes (as I understand it, many of the original FFCC team members were ex FFIX team members, hence the similar art style).

So it's likely Nintendo probably has claims to that particular IP (Nintendo being famously very possessive of licensing of games on their consoles) which makes a FFCC event or something similar in FFXIV very very unlikely I'm sorry to say.

[Byonka]

I would love FFCC WHM robes!

[ItMe]

I would love Lilty glamour pieces.
They're WHY I went Lala.

[KizuyaKatogami]

I remember playing CC so many years ago and i fell in love with it. My favorite dungeon was Mochet’s Manor and it would’ve been cool if wanderer’s palace had its ost as a subtle nod to the tonberry themed dungeon.

[MikkoAkure]

One thing I forgot to mention was the soundtrack. I still think the FF:CC soundtrack is one of the best done in the whole FF series and the composer went out of her way to include a lot of medieval instruments like the crumhorn to give the game a very specific feel and it would be nice if SE took inspiration from that and had added some tracks that don't use typical modern orchestral instruments and get more of an old feel.