2026-08-08 · blog
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (2003) — The Summer We Brought Four GBAs
The 25th installment of "Today Is Release Day" is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, released on August 8, 2003 for the Nintendo GameCube. It was the first Final Fantasy on a Nintendo home console since Final Fantasy VI in 1994, and the first original Final Fantasy released after the Square Enix merger. Its four-player mode, which required as many Game Boy Advance units as there were players, divided critics — yet the game took the Grand Prize in the Entertainment Division of the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival. Today marks exactly 23 years.
