I'm giving Crystal Chronicles DS a "buy" rating

[TVC15]

I've only put in 2.5 hours, but it's a solid game.  It's at least as good as the past several mediocre Mana games. . .possibly a bit better.  It plays decently, and it's geared towards single player play.  It's kinda easy, but I'm using it as a bedtime game, so it fits well.

Square's done a decent job of salvaging this franchise after its terrible start.  40 dollars is kinda pricey for a DS game, so I'd wait for a price drop here.  At 30 and below, I'd give it a buy, with a caveat or two about liking kinda simple dungeon crawlers.

[Ichirou]

Geared towards single player?  Really?  I was gonna stay away from this one because I thought it'd be useless without at least two or three other people to play it with.

[TVC15]

Geared towards single player?  Really?  I was gonna stay away from this one because I thought it'd be useless without at least two or three other people to play it with.

So far, yes.  Even still, it's not a great game, but if you like dungeon crawler-y stuff, you can do a lot worse.  I love these kind of things.  Still, 2.5 hours, it might not be too late for Square to do something to fuck me. 

[Ichirou]

Yeah, I dig those types of games - Tales of the World rocked my socks and I even enjoyed the too-short Rocket Slime for what it was.

[demi]

It's not really a game like Tales though, it's a SP experience, and the dungeons arent random I believe - Bebpo compared it to a Zelda-ish game

[Ichirou]

But even in single player mode you travel in a party full of NPCs, right?