Crystal Defenders
Crystal Defenders is a defensive strategy game, in which the player must guard a path using troops taken straight from the Final Fantasy job classes, such as Soldiers, Archers and Black Mages. Every enemy who…
Crystal Defenders is a strategy developed by Square Enix Product Development Division 4, released 28 January 2008 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360 and Android. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Crystal Defenders is
Crystal Defenders is a strategy game developed by Square Enix Product Development Division 4 and released in 2008. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Android and iOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Crystal Defenders is a defensive strategy game, in which the player must guard a path using troops taken straight from the Final Fantasy job classes, such as Soldiers, Archers and Black Mages. Every enemy who traverses the entire path means another crystal lost to the party. The game has three modes: W1 teaches the player the basics, W2 introduces Power Crystals which add a layer of strategy, and W3 is filled with more complex maps.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series
Crystal Defenders is the 98th of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was Final Fantasy IV: The After Years in 2008. Its critic score of 70 is 7 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Final Fantasy III at 100.
How it was received
Crystal Defenders holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 10 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Crystal Defenders launched on 28 January 2008, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Burnout Paradise, Devil May Cry 4 and Audiosurf. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Burnout Paradise, Devil May Cry 4, Audiosurf.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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