Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4121 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Square Enix
• Released on: 2007-05-25
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Nintendo DS

Manufacturer's Description
Once upon a time there was a small, peaceful island protected by the crystals of fire, earth, water and light. On this island lived a white mage named Shirma, a black mage named Croma and a farm full of cheerful chocobos.

Just when it looked like everybody was going to live happily ever after, Croma bought back a mysterious book from his latest journey. Without thinking twice, he opened the dark tome and inadvertently invited misfortune upon the island. Every nearby chocobo was sucked into the magical pages of the wicked book.

Unbeknownst to all, Darkmaster Bebuzzu, who had once laid waste to nearly the entire world, had been sealed inside the pages of the book. Luckily for the good guys, his strength was not fully restored& at least, not yet.

You will take the role of an unlikely hero, a chocobo, who must rescue his friends while stopping Darkmaster Bebuzzu from regaining his lexicon of devastating powers.

Customer Reviews

For all you Chocobo fans out there!
Got this game on release day in the UK. Have to say I'm really enjoying it. The game has lots of varied mini games and you need to progress to a certain level on each one to move the story along in the game. If you're into beating your highest scores and going for gold times then you will really enjoy this and no buttons to press either as the stylus controls everything! I love the use of old final fantasy music in game too and spend half my time trying to work out which FF game each piece comes from. And watch out for bumping into FF characters too....a lovely added touch.

altogether now - Kweh!
I really, really, really wanted to like this - honestly I did. Final fantasy shaped my formative years and i was excited to see a spin off with my favorite over-sized nugget fodder - unfortunately it just didn't live up to expectations.

The game features you (a chocobo) as the main character and needs you to save the world from the evil belazzu and restore order to the world. To do this you need to conquer 4 dungeons by completing various mini games and challenges. Battle is card based like yu-gi-oh rather than turn based and the random battles and leveling up system has been removed. Unfortunately this leaves the game a series of mini games strung together by a storyline.

The mini games cover a range of activities from racing, to shooting and puzzle solving. Some games are required to be beaten in order to progress while others are needed to unlock stronger cards for battle or free your trapped friends who often present you with cards or the opportunity to win cards through mini games. The games often have a trial mode and a battle mode and by fulfilling certain requirements you unlock events or cards.

The graphics are cute and the game play is simple which will attract younger players but the design of the mini games is flawed in that while most present a good range of difficulty and require patience and practice to achieve completion others are ridiculously hard. Mostly the more difficult games are ones which award you extra cards there is one which is needed to advance the story and requires you to complete the game on a high level. I found this very difficult and frustrating, while I managed to keep my temper (just) i can imagine younger players (or those with less patience) stabbing a stylus through the screen or throwing the DS across the room.

The length of the story is very short compared to standard final fantasy games and has surprisingly little depth, it tantalizes with hints of an interesting storyline but never goes further than this. it took me 3 days to finish this including being stuck on a mini game for one of those. I also found I had no desire whatsoever to play the game again as I do with regular FF games.

Generally for people who don't like the "techno chess" of final fantasy games this is a fun game, it can be compared to wario ware very nicely but for final fantasy fans this is unfortunately going to disapoint.

surprisingly entertaining!
I bought the game mainly becasue of my passion toward Final Fantasy. It turns out to be more fun than the recently released FF III DS. it is basically a game with a lot of mini games packed together around a story line. Yea the game looks a bit childish but it is really enjoyable playing with the mini games although it can get very hard to reach the gold level of each mini game. Perhaps younger players would appreciate this game more than hardcore FF fans, but being a "hardcore" fan myself (and older!), I still find it highly enjoyable! as for non-FF fans, it is still a reasonably good game for ur DS system!