{"id":115455,"date":"2020-07-16T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/the_remaster_of_final_fantasy_crystal_chronicles_wont_support_local_multiplayer"},"modified":"2020-07-16T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:25:00","slug":"the-remaster-of-final-fantasy-crystal-chronicles-wont-support-local-multiplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/16\/the-remaster-of-final-fantasy-crystal-chronicles-wont-support-local-multiplayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Remaster Of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Won&#8217;t Support Local Multiplayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0f43bf7a61de2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0f43bf7a61de2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0f43bf7a61de2\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Oh dear, we&#8217;ve just found out <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/final_fantasy_crystal_chronicles_remastered_edition\">Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition<\/a><\/strong> <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> support offline or local multiplayer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/local_co-op_is_seemingly_returning_to_the_remaster_of_final_fantasy_crystal_chronicles\">claims from the official PlayStation website last month<\/a> that &#8220;couch co-op play&#8221; <em>would<\/em> be included in this next-gen remaster, Square Enix has now revealed that this new version <em>will not<\/em> feature this or local wireless play due to development reasons. It did not elaborate on this. Here&#8217;s the official statement from Square Enix (via Robert Sephazon):<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It has been confirmed that Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered does not offer offline\/local multiplayer due to development reasons. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YoSZ0UMvI2\">https:\/\/t.co\/YoSZ0UMvI2<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Robert Sephazon (@Sephazon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sephazon\/status\/1283414179936755713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As you can probably imagine, this news hasn&#8217;t gone down well on social media. In the original 2003 GameCube release, the multiplayer mode required users to connect to the console with Game Boy Advance, using a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GameCube_%E2%80%93_Game_Boy_Advance_link_cable\">Gamecube &#8211; Game Boy Advance link cable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It means you&#8217;ll just have to resort to online play in the remaster. Keep in mind, the game contains cross-play and cross-save features with the PlayStation 4 and mobile versions. There&#8217;s also a free Lite version being released &#8211; meaning you only need one full version of the game to play online in a party of four. <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/square-enix-games.com\/en_GB\/news\/final-fantasy-crystal-chronicles-remastered-edition-lite\">Read more about this on the Square Enix website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel about this? Will you still be adding Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition to your collection when it launches this August? <em>Tell us down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear, we&#8217;ve just found out Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition won&#8217;t support offline or local multiplayer. Despite claims from the official PlayStation website last month that &#8220;couch co-op play&#8221; would be included in this next-gen remaster, Square Enix has now revealed that this new version will not feature this or local wireless play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}