lol, it's not that I don't trust your source, but can someone confirm it?

Wow, that is tough to swallow if you are a huge SquareEnix fan and you pay 15 bucks for that.

It's an act raiser esque game. It's a town building RPG sim. Awesome for anyone that played that game, or likes that very small niche genre.

As I understand it (I;ve been following the game since it's announcement) There isn't direct combat, rather you hire heroes and adventurers to fight for you. The combat is not done on screen, rather your heroes will report back to you to tell you what happened, and give you items and loot or tell you they got their asses kicked and need better equipment and whatever else you need to buff your heroes. You build your town, add shops, houses, ect ect, in order to make your town prosper and survive. It should be under 40MB (which I believe is the limit set for wiiware games).

If you're looking for a traditional RPG, then this isn't it. If you want the sequel to Crystal Chronicles then you'll have to wait for Crystal Bearers which IGN claims is set for later this year. This is a town building RPG sim, very unique niche product. Totally buying it because I love this type of game.

SE said that it comoftably fits in the Wii's memory however common sense would suggest an unnancounced HD.

im not saying it will be a bad game, but there is no reason for this game to carry the final fantasy name. it's more like harvest moon: kingdom edition. so AoA will probably love it, haha.

here's a link to an interview with the creator: http://wii.ign.com/articles/854/854726p1.html

 Actraiser ruled.  The city building parts were even better then the platforming parts... then they got rid of the city building parts in actraiser 2....

Yeah, I hated act raiser 2 for that very reason. The platformer parts in the first were good, but it was just a means of getting to the next town building part as far as I was concerned.

here seems to be a lot of rumors that the "real" Crystal Chronicles game has been canceled in favor of this.

IGN directly addressed that rumor in a podcast about a month ago, and said it was totally untrue. They said from everything they've been hearing from their sources within the industry that the project was going fine. And in their latest preview of this CC game, they even re-iterated that Crystal bearers is slated to be released later this year. That rumor was first put in I think EGM or one of those stupid magazines, and then grew wildly out of proportion. I'll trust the guys that say "that rumor definitely isn't true" over the ones that say "This is a complete rumor"

Thank you @The_vagabond7.

Now I'm even more interested in this game.

Thanks for clearing that up Vagabond, was about to do it. There's a radiosilence on CB because MLaaK arrives first and two CC games can be confusing.
So The Crystal Bearers is still bound to arrive in 08, and the only footage looked awesome.

I think $15,- is a great price. I love city building sims and I love the RPG feel.

And tastyshovelware: a bit negative lately? How is it more a BS FF title then others? It's not a real RPG, but there will be RPG elements. Plus everything is set in the FFCC universe, which was one of the few OK things in the GC game.

Really looking forward to it.

 I totally agree with you, the best part of Act Raiser was running around and shooting demons in the ass with cupids arrows. I really wish someone would make a true sequel to that game.