Surely any fan of the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series is wondering what to anticipate from the upcoming Wii title The Crystal Bearers. After all,you’ve Bon Jovi doing the music for the commercial (whoa), the ability to use your enemy as your weapon, and the fact that the game has a December 26th release date (why the day AFTER Christmas?).

We considered the best people to reveal all these mysteries and more were probably Square Enix themselves, and lucky for us, we got a chance to speak to them about itm specifically with Crystal Bearers producer Akitoshi Kawazu. Follow me past the jump to learn how much gameplay you can anticipate to get out of The Crystal Bearers, why they selected to work with a non-traditional control scheme and much more.