The story starts with Chocobo and his partner Cid in a dungeon. This is where the tutorial begins. You will learn the attack methods and the fact that you have to eat greens so your Chocobo doesn’t go hungry. It’s one of those games. Then there are traps to step on and they can be good or bad. Sometimes it will replenish your health, other times it will hurt you. You can also find items in the dungeon, especially equipment, but you lose all of it if you die.
When that’s over with, you arrive in the town of Lostime where once the bell tolls, people forget everything. Then when some baby crash lands in an egg, somehow this leads to helping people remember. All it takes is a portal, Chocobo to go through, and then plunge in a labyrinth of memories to defeat a boss.
The game is divided up into chapters and at the end of a chapter is a really hard dungeon connected to the town like a mine or Leviathan’s Shrine. As the story unfolds, the boy from the egg Rafaello emerges from a cocoon and gets older. You will probably see the twist a mile away.
This is an incredible RPG. I love the Town of Lostime and it’s design, the house that lives near it and the overall atmosphere of the game. I was intrigued with the character of Chocobo but had a hard time understanding why everyone relies on him for everything. I also love the music which is a remix of past Final Fantasy games.
The only things that did bother me was that the character of Cid was made out to be a big character in the game but he does basically nothing through the rest of the game. He talks about building an airship, but that’s about it. Also the ending was a total cop out. I actually loved everything that unfolded to that point until a reveal happens and it made no sense.
Still, this is an incredible RPG for the Wii. I was amazed on how much I enjoyed this game. It’s one of those RPGs where you want to see what happens next. There’s a remaster on the Switch but I hadn’t played it. I played the originals and this and I can’t imagine that being bad. So far, Chocobo hasn’t disappointed. Kweh!