Echoes of Time Wii vs Echoes of Time DS

(Posted: 02/10/2008) by Ronin90

After Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time was announced yesterday in Shonen Jump, Square Enix followed this up by launching the Official Site, and a TGS mini-site too (see source).

This revealed a little bit more about the game and more specifically the differences between the DS version and the Wii version. The main point is that they are basically identical, which is actually somewhat disappointing given the Wii's hardware capabilities in comparison to that of the DS.

The game is being run on the Pollux Engine which was designed specifically for cross-platform play, but they could have at least touched up the Wii version as it's essentially just a port of the DS version.

As you can see from the above screenshots, they are graphically very similar and the main point is that due to the whole "Dual Screen" aspect, the Wii version doesn't actually use the full-screen, which could get quite annoying.

So what is the incentive to buy the Wii version of this game? Well, currently it doesn't look like there is any. The DS version offers apparently everything that the Wii version does, you can play it online from anywhere with Wi-Fi and it actually uses the screens properly, unlike the Wii version.

It's also interesting to note that the two games will retail for exactly the same price in Japan (¥5,040).