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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers was the first Wii game ever announced when the system debuted at the 2005 E3 expo. In the time since then, Square-Enix has released a spinoff Crystal Chronicles game subtitled Echoes of Time while promising that The Crystal Bearers was still in development. Those promies will finally pay off later this year (very late in the year might I add) when the company releases Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers on December 26.
In case The Crystal Bearers has slipped your mind during its long development cycle, here's a refresher on the story of what will no doubt be the last video game released in 2009:
A thousand years have passed since the events of the original Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. The destruction of the Yuke Crystal during the Great War had at once brought the victorious Lilty Tribe prosperity, the defeated Yuke Tribe apparent annihilation, and the world a new age of science and reason. In this new era exists a rare breed of powerful beings called "crystal bearers," whose seemingly magical abilities have led them to be feared and scorned by the public. The young mercenary Layle is one such crystal bearer, who has been hired to escort the new passenger airship Alexis, the pinnacle of Lilty technology and a symbol of their current dominance. However, when the Alexis is suddenly besieged by a horde of monsters, Layle comes face-to-face with an adversary thought to have vanished from the pages of history, on a quest that may threaten the future of the world...
We'll have more soon.