History VideoGame / FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesEchoesOfTime

[[FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles The third game in this series]] of spinoffs from the [[RunningGag neck-severingly popular]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' franchise, which was released on both {{DS}} and {{Wii}}. Unfortunately, the Wii version was a straight port of the DS version, which lead to half the screen being taken up by the map. Gameplay is very similar to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesRingOfFates Ring Of Fates]] with only slight differences.

* [[spoiler:SelfFulfillingProphecy: If [[BigBad Larkecius]] hadn't built his tower in order to prevent the destruction of the crystals, said destruction would never have occurred in the fist place.]]

* YouCantFightFate: Larkeicus realizes that the [[spoiler: Crystals disappeared in the past because of something that happened in the future. After figuring out where the event happens, he builds a massive tower in order to reach that point, but as Sherlotta points out, if he didn't build the tower in the first place, nothing could have happened up there]].

* ChainmailBikini: Female Selkie get a ''lot'' of armour that is backless, midriff-baring, fitted with plunging necklines and so on, presumably so they retain their agility.

[[FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles The third game in the series]], which was released on both {{DS}} and {{Wii}}. Unfortunately, the Wii version was a straight port of the DS version, which lead to half the screen being taken up by the map. Gameplay is very similar to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesRingOfFates Ring Of Fates]] with only slight differences.

** [[spoiler: The Crystal Core shards.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Sherlotta]].
** Also Veriaulde.

* RobotMooks: The numerous [[PaletteSwap mostly-identical]] self-destructing enemies that start showing up in the second half of the game, which are apparently created by the BigBad.

* SentientPhlebotinum: The crystal-finding artifact, not that she's very sinister once you've defeated her.

** Yukes technically only use Staves, but some Staves look like Bells or Books.

* SorryImGay: From the LesYay entry above. The girl mentions that gender-wise the Selkie hitting on her was no match.

* LesYay: You can save one of the town girls from being hit on by letting her pretend she's dating you instead. Even if you're playing as a girl. The guy who was hitting on her points this out. The girl he was hitting on says she knows.

-->Eryll: "The Crystal Core is peaceful and loving and kind."
-->Eryll: "[[spoiler:*giggle* Kinda like you, Sherlotta.]]"

* TheArcher: Selkies

* [[spoiler:HoistByHisOwnPetard: If [[BigBad Larkecius]] hadn't built his tower in order to prevent the destruction of the crystals, said destruction would never have occurred in the fist place.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Sherlotta]]. Also, [[spoiler: Everyone else. In the village, anyway.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Sherlotta. To everyone but the player character and the people in the village.

* DoubleJump: Selkies

** Some of them are [[ShoutOut shout outs]] to specific characters. The male versions of the Paladin Armor and Monk Gi are basically [[FinalFantasyIV Cecil and Yang]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The world is saved, and the hero returns home to the village. Entering the forest where the pond with the Crystal Core once was, the hero angrily throws the crystal received from Sherlotta at the beginning of the game into the water.]] In the post game, [[returning there shows that the crystal has become a new Crystal Core,]] and talking to Norsy reveals [[the cat Sherlotta possessed is still acting like her, suggesting she may be alive after all]].

* ContinuityNod: Archimedon, a moogle from the first game, makes an appearance.

* NewGamePlus: Beating the game unlocks "Start+", which is where you can start a new game but with the same characters and items. It also unlocks Hard Mode, which is the same as Normal Mode but where all the monsters jump about 50 levels, as well as about twice as many accessable items (shops continue to add to their inventory, quest rewards change, and monsters drop some new items). Beating ''that'' unlocks Very Hard Mode, which just makes the monster levels jump again but with very few extra items available.

[[FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles The third game in the series]], which was released on both {{DS}} and {{Wii}}. Unfortunately, the Wii version was a straight port of the DS version, which lead to half the screen being taken up by the map. Gameplay is very similar to {{Ring Of Fates}} with only slight differences.