As much as I've felt Square Enix has stagnated lately, I must say that Chaos Rings was a very nice game. Worked great on iOS devices, boasted simple but fun roleplaying gameplay, and kicked ass in the music department. It's good to know, then, that Square Enix is set on continuing the series.
Two new games are currently in development. The first is Chaos Rings Omega, set for iPhone. This is a prequel (what is it with this prequel obsession lately?) that's due to release in May, at least for Japanese customers.
The second game is Chaos Rings II, which is pretty self explanatory, really.
Sounds like fun to me. If Square Enix stopped making Final Fantasy games and just did these iPhone RPGs, I'd be quite fine with that.
Chaos Rings Omega Hits in May [andriasang]
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8:40 AM on 04.27.2011 | 
seriously? They are shovelware
let the ios have bad titles like this and give real game portables the likes of rocket slime 3, kingdom hearts, ff type zero, ect
It was perfectly suited to mobile devices
Please explain to me how Chaos Rings is shovelware.
You havent been playing many square games lately then
but square has a good strategy. Put out the cheap games on the ios
and then put out there real games on dedicated systems.
The 3ds has kingdom hearts, Final fantasy, dragon quest already in development. And the psp............has so much
I would exactly call squate IOS games "cheap"
Chaos rings originally came out for 12.99 I believe.
I bought it on sale for 5.99. For that price I found it well worth the price. It was a good 6 hours of gameplay that I had lots of fun with.
Something doesn't need complicated gameplay to be fun
Sounds to me like you are describing FFXIII, awsnap
So far you've given me subjective reasons as to why you do not like the game. That is not shovelware. Shovelware refers to mass produced and mass ported games. Chaos Rings was a quality RPG that you, apparently, just didn't like.
I realize that "I thought Chaos Rings was shit" has less impact than calling it shovelware, but don't call it something that it wasn't in order to make a point.
As far as your opinion of Chaos Rings' quality is concerned, I can only respectfully disagree. I believe Square's mobile efforts have far outshined its console games recently.
I have to respectfully disagree with some of the comments on here. This game is definitely not cheap, short, or shovelware. I want Squeenix to keep making console RPGs as well, but this original IP is a fantastic fit for iOS and is quite robust. It suits the mobile iOS experience, and if you want c a console experience, stick to the consoles. Nothing wrong with that. There's no reason to hate on a game because it isn't your cup of tea.
There dedicated portable games are the best things theyve been doing.
That is the conversation that happened.
You shouldn't get angry over what you guess somebody meant.
You see Jim, if you would just ignore their other games and let someone else review them from now on, then your dream world of SQEX IOS bliss would be a reality. But no, your goal is to constantly sour everyone's experience who loves their console, PSP and DS games until they stop making them so you can put up a Dr. Doom pic and proclaim that you're a genius. Go fuck yourself.
......./facepalm.