Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles : Echoes of Time Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles : Echoes of Time is an installment in the " Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles " series . It is the first " Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles " game that allows players to play together online and it allows players who own a Nintendo Wii or Nintendo DS to play together at the same time using the Pollux Engine , an Engine created by Square Enix . Gameplay . The game is a sequel to " " , and serves as prequel for " Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles " . It uses an enhanced version of the gameplay established in " Ring of Fates " , but also shows new features in the gameplay like the ability to swim in water . Some combat is featured while swimming too . Another new feature is that each Tribe is able to equip other Tribe specific weapons , although they can not use their tribe specific abilities without their tribe ' s main weapon , but later on gain level with other tribe ' s weapons . DS and Wii users will be able to play together via Wi - Fi using an Engine created by Square Enix called the Pollux Engine . Mii characters have also been incorporated into the game as masks that can be put on characters . These Mii characters mask can also be used in the Nintendo DS version once players import them from the Nintendo Wii . DS users play with the stylus while Wii users play with the Wii remote . Single player and Multiplayer both play the same , with each mode having only little differences . Players can switch between both modes from a Save point . Wii Version - The Wii version of the game contains all of the major elements of the DS version , but must be played on a single screen . To compensate , the Wii version has two adjustable in - game windows . Each window has a maximum size that is approximately 40 % of the total screen which can make the text ( on both the play and item windows ) difficult to read , however players can use + ( make the main screen larger , sub screen smaller ) and — ( make the sub - screen larger , main screen smaller ) buttons on the Wii Remote to adjust the screen size , and pressing both + and — at the same time swaps the two screens . As a minor addition , the Wii version also contains a new trailer for the next " Crystal Chronicles " game titled " " , and allows players to create masks based on their Mii which costs 5 , 000 gil . DS Version - The game is still the same as its predecessor , " Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles : Ring of Fates " , although with many updates and changes . The player still controls the characters through the arrow buttons and use interactive abilities ( attacking , magic , or holding ) through the A - B - X - Y buttons . The mecanism to hold items is removed , being only possible collect them . The DS version cannot host a Multiplayer game if there is a Wii being used to play cooperatively . Characters . The Hero . Players create their own playable character , choosing their characters tribe and gender . Appearances can be changed through different Headgear and Body Armor equipped . Hair color is also customizable ( except for Yukes ) , though only by talking to Artemicion . While each tribe can use any weapon , they have skills that can only be used with their tribes specific weapons . Story . The story starts with the Hero ' s dream : S / he sees a young girl in a white gown running away from an old man . The girl trips and is caught by the man . He grabs her by the hair and the man sees a large crystal . The girl notices the crystal , and the man begins laughing . Then the crystal shines and the Hero wakes up . This is his / her sixteenth birthday and Coming of Age ceremony , in which the Hero is required to set out in a forest for the crystal , whose with its leader : Sherlotta . When the Hero reaches a clearing in the forest , Sherlotta appears , floating on the Crystal , and she tells the Hero that s / he has passed the test . Sherlotta gives the Hero a Crystal . Soon after , even before the village has time to celebrate , a girl in the village named Eryll falls ill to a disease known as " crystal sickness " . The Hero must leave the village to find a cure for Eryll and enter a world where crystals no longer exist . Arriving in the outside world the Hero visits the town and asks all of the townsfolk about the crystal sickness . Inside the massive library s / he finds Larkeicus , who says he knows the cure for crystal sickness , but needs a Buffasaur horn to complete the antidote . Leaving the library the Hero hears about the water being contaminated and some townsfolk suggesting that it might be a monster . The Hero asks them about it and is told the location of the Aqueducts . After traveling through the area and killing a rare and powerful Buffasaur , collects its horn , and returns to the library . Larkeicus takes the horn , adds it to his concoction , and creates the antidote . The Hero returns to the village , with the antidote , and Eryll is cured . Then s / he returns to the town to repay Larkeicus for his deed . The Hero is told to go up both Fire Mountain and Ice Mountain and activate the ruins there . After doing so the Hero returns home for a rest . That night the ruins activate , and as Larkeicus stands at the Gate , two beams from the two mountain ' s ruins fire in to the sides of the gate , and a portal activates in the gateway . Then from the portal appears a massive Tower , and out of the gate appears monsters . On the other side of the land in the Village , the Hero sleeps softly as Sherlotta silently watches , but when the beams pour in to the gate from the twin mountains . This causes the crystal core to crack and break . As the crystal core shatters , Sherlotta has a disorder in her body . As the cracks in the core increase , the more pain she experiences . Finally , the crystal core cracks . In the morning , the Hero wakes to see a black and white cat , with an orange bow , stare at him / her then scamper off in the distance . Looking around the Hero finds the entire village deserted except for himself and the young Yuke , Norschtalen . Searching through the forest , s / he finds only small fragments of the once large crystal . Eryll asks him to find the fragments of the crystal . The Hero talks to Norschtalen , and she says that the crystal in the forest was a Crystal Core . The Hero decides to find Larkeicus and ask him . When the Hero finally finds Larkeicus , s / he tells of the ancient civilization , and wonders how the Hero got his / her crystal . As he speaks , he places three books on the floor . When he finishes , he snaps his fingers , and three red patterned monsters ( Golems ) appear . Then Larkeicus says the Hero performed his / her role , and must die . Then the Hero battles Larkeicus and wins . S / he shines his / her crystal , then it suddenly flies over and attaches itself to Larkeicus . He then is resurrected , and talks of him being immortal , and says that in a world without crystals , resurrecting himself has become difficult . Then he flinches , then takes the Hero ' s crystal and throws it away . Angry , he promises to kill the Hero . Then Larkeicus teleports away . The Hero goes to find Norschtalen and she says to visit the ruins in the desert . In the ruins , the Hero finds a Yuke who battles the Hero as the boss due to a reaction with the Hero ' s crystal . He then reveals that he was a guinea pig in Larkeicus ' s experiments , making him immortal but also mentally unstable . After telling the Hero a bit about Larkeicus he gives him / her a crystal shard finder . After returning with the first crystal shard , the Hero has a vision shown to him / her by the crystal of when the Hero was younger and developed crystal sickness . When the Hero leaves the forest they find that two of the villages have returned . The second time the Hero finds a crystal shard , they are shown when Sherlotta was setting up the boss battle for the Hero ' s graduation test ( again , two of the villagers return ) , the third time they see Sherlotta naming the Hero ( yet again , two of the villagers return ) , and the fourth time , when the Hero was first found in the forest by Sherlotta . The final time , nothing else is shown to the Hero , however the Crystal Core enters them and Eryll becomes a spirit , who runs through a new path in the Forest . After fighting the coming - of - age boss again the Hero finds a ruined village where Sherlotta is standing . She tells the Hero that 2 , 000 years ago when all the crystals disappeared except for the one in the forest , Larkeicus came to take it , killing everyone but Sherlotta . She ran into the forest to the crystal with Larkeicus following and when they reached it , the crystal core fused with Sherlotta and gave her the ability to create other crystals ( by tapping in to the crystal ' s power inside her . In Sherlotta ' s heart , presumably since when she summons crystals , her right hand is seen gently clutching her left chest ) , and made her immortal . As she talks , all the villagers that had been in the Hero ' s village walk up behind Sherlotta as spirits and Sherlotta tells the Hero that Larkeicus is trying to erase the current future . Then Sherlotta agrees to join the Hero in search of parts to add to a crystal transforming machine that the Hero obtained when s / he was in search of Crystal Core fragments . Upon going to the town , nearly everyone the Hero talks to has some sort of connection or is terrified by Sherlotta . When the Hero talks to one pair , s / he learn the location to the graveyard . At the end of the graveyard , Sherlotta finds the part , but awakes an unnamed ghost woman of an unknown race , which tells Sherlotta to leave the part . Sherlotta , of course , does not listen and the Hero ' s party go into battle with her . After defeating the Undead Princess , she is absorbed into the part , and the ghost effectively joins the party as a non - playable character . The Hero and Sherlotta go to the library , to find a clue about where the next part is . They find a book in the library that described how to get to a mine . Once in the mine , they find the part , Sherlotta gets annoyed and accidentally lodges the part at a giant lizard . They have defeat a giant lizard that has the part stuck in its back . Afterward , they have to release crystal power into the ruins at the top of Fire Mountain and Ice Mountain , as they have to unblock the bridge that leads to the tower . At the top of the Fire Mountain , Sherlotta slams the Crystal Staff onto a pedestal and the energy flowed into the blocked gateway . At the top of Ice Mountain , Sherlotta whacked the pedestal with the Crystal Staff again , and the energy flew into the next space in the blocked gateway . Sherlotta , tired and on the verge of fainting , promptly leaves the Crystal Staff ( and the Undead Princess ) in the rock . The Hero ' s party , and Sherlotta go to the gateway . Sherlotta then creates thousands of crystal and uses them to build a bridge to the Tower . When the Hero gets to the end of the bridge , they face the tower that Larkeicus built . Once they have climbed the tower and get to the top , there is another Sherlotta as a child . Sherlotta then explains how that is not her , but a puppet controlled by Larkeicus , used for crystal making only . She then faces the Hero and tells him / her to kill her , because if she is not alive to make crystals , Larkeicus cannot revive himself after he is defeated . Larkeicus comes out and tells the Hero and Sherlotta that it will not be necessary , because once he is done with his actions up on the top of the tower , he won ' t need Sherlotta anymore . He tells them that he would even kill Sherlotta himself . The Hero ' s party goes into battle with him . Upon defeating him , he absorbs crystals from the actual Sherlotta . She once again falls to the floor because of the crystals being forced out of her heart . Sherlotta lays there , her power drained . The Hero goes into a second battle with Larkeicus . Once defeated , he says to the Hero that s / he was taught well , but the efforts are in vain . Upon hearing this , Sherlotta ( as a cat ) charges Larkeicus , but is easily held back . Larkeicus absorbs whatever is left of her energy and throws her aside Sherlotta ( the human ) , then comes up behind him and holds him in place . He is stunned , and Sherlotta explains how she loves the Hero , and that she would do anything for him / her . She then explains that she knows why the Crystal Core came to her on that day , 2 , 000 years ago . Her essence had created the crystal and that it was made specifically for the Hero . A Crystal Core then appears in front of Sherlotta and Larkeicus , and starts to burn him and kill him . Sherlotta says that it is time to come back to their own age , and Larkeicus slowly disintegrates . Sherlotta then tells the hero goodbye , and that she has lived a long life , and would not give any of it up . There is a flash , and then the Hero is at home . The Hero visits Forest again and comes upon the pond where the Crystal Core once was . The Hero , remembering Sherlotta , pulls the crystal that Sherlotta gave him / her out and throws it into the pond where the Crystal Core was . If the Hero returns after the credits have rolled , a new crystal is found growing where the Crystal Core once stood . Development . " Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles : Echoes of Time " was announced in Jump Magazine on October 1 , 2008 , and included the Japanese release date stated for January 29 , 2009 . The game is directed by Mitsuru Kamiyama who previously directed " " . Characters designs will be by Yasuhisa Izumisawa who previously designed characters for " " . Music is composed by Kumi Tanioka who has composed all music for previous " Crystal Chronicles " games . In Japan , the Wii version of the game contained a special trailer for " " .