Crystal Defenders R2
In a land ruled by might and magic, peace is ensured by the benevolent power of the crystals. In CRYSTAL DEFENDERS R2, you must deploy various units, such as Fencers and Black Mages, to stop waves of…
Crystal Defenders R2 is a shooter developed by MSF/Winds, released 24 February 2009 on Wii. The main story takes about 7 hrs to finish.
What Crystal Defenders R2 is
Crystal Defenders R2 is a shooter game developed by MSF/Winds and released in 2009. It was published by Square Enix. 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 R2, you must deploy various units, such as Fencers and Black Mages, to stop waves of encroaching monsters from escaping the area with your party's crystals. There are many 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 are gone, the game…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series
Crystal Defenders R2 is the 107th of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was Final Fantasy XI: A Crystalline Prophecy 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 R2 holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. 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 7 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 15 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Crystal Defenders R2 launched on 24 February 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned.
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