Making the rounds of the video game blogosphere, a music video by the hopefully now-famous online drama show “The Guild.” Featuring World of Warcraft game humor and a guild of equally maladjusted, but adorable, characters, we’ve always had a great deal of fun watching these and look forward to it continuing for some time.
The official name is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time, but down here on the streets, we’re calling it goddamn gamer crack. I’ve lost friends to the original game, always coming around, asking if I wanted to try some Crystal, telling me everyone’s doing it. Join the party, they said. Now, on the Wii, sometime in 2009? Hell, I tell you.
We are gigantic fans of adventure games in general. We play them a lot. See The Experiment, The Longest Journey series, Syberia, Bad Mojo, and more—but this one totally takes the cake on the worst teaser ever.
Words do not describe how terrible and not compelling this video is. If I were going to purchase this game at the store because I liked what it said on the box, this would probably turn me off. What did they make this in? Windows Media Maker?
It starts off too slow, pulsing between text and short-shot flip animation graphics. Then it leaps into these inexplicable falling letters that don’t actually create the title words, they rather fall into darkness, and that’s that. Finally we get the title.
And …