Crystal Defenders R1
In a land ruled by might and magic, peace is ensured by the benevolent power of the crystals. In CRYSTAL DEFENDERS R1, you must deploy various units such as Soldiers and Black Mages to stop wave after wave of…
Crystal Defenders R1 is a strategy developed by Square Enix, released 27 January 2009 on Wii. The main story takes about 5 hrs to finish.
What Crystal Defenders R1 is
Crystal Defenders R1 is a strategy game developed by Square Enix and released in 2009. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In a land ruled by might and magic, peace is ensured by the benevolent power of the crystals. In CRYSTAL DEFENDERS R1, you must deploy various units such as Soldiers and Black Mages to stop wave after wave of encroaching monsters from escaping the area with your party's crystals. There are many different types of units to choose from, some specializing in powerful short-range attacks, some wielding far-reaching magicks, and still others equipped with bows, enabling them to bring down aerial foes. Deploy units in strategic locations to take full advantage of their traits. Each time an enemy breaches your defenses and reaches a map's exit, your party will lose crystals. When all your crystals…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series
Crystal Defenders R1 is the 105th of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles - Echoes of Time in 2009. Its critic score of 60 is 17 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Final Fantasy III at 100.
How it was received
Crystal Defenders R1 holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 10 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Crystal Defenders R1 launched on 27 January 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Flower. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Flower.
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