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Final Fantasy X Review (continued)
More User Submitted Final Fantasy X Reviews
Date: 2008-04-07
Final Fantasy X - The Last Great Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy X was a great game... so long as you can ignore Tidus's continual whining and his obsession with his 'story.'
It sets you into an interesting plot and puts faction against faction in an exciting story which rivals many of the stories of previous Final Fantasy's. It was also the first Final Fantasy to include talking so it added something new to the whole series.
The character models were beautiful as well along with the music and the story was filled with a large selection of mini games to choose from. Generally it was a solid game and still would be fun to engage in today.
Definitely worth playing if you haven't already.
Date: 2008-04-01
Fantastic!
I loved the little mini puzzles within this game and I can play this again and again. the graphics are amazing; just what I've come to expect from the makers of Final Fantasy!
Date: 2008-03-30
Masterpiece.
This game is absolutely stunning. The graphics are amazing. The music is fantastic and fits it perfectly. You can relate to the characters and they along with the voice acting are done so well they make you care about them. The story is great and feels epic the whole way through. When you feel like taking a break form the story there is blitz ball and chocobo racing. I seriously can't see a single imperfection in this game. Well actually I can, the sequel/side story they made called X-2 was terrible, don't buy that. Go buy Final Fantasy X, not X-2, please god don't get them confused, this game is amazing and the best Final Fantasy of all time, and X-2 is well.....crap.
Date: 2008-03-21
The last real Final Fantasy on PS2 (at least for now)
...like I've said many a time...bad regional artwork...
The simplest word to explain this game is...wow! For a Final Fantasy to have so much depth and great battles (turn base beats FF12's system any day) this is the best FF on PS2.
The characters work together so well and the summonings (AKA aeons, GF's, Eidolons, Espers etc...) are the best to be in a game because not only can you level them up, but you can actually choose what they do such as doing a regular attack instead of doing one massive attack and disappearing to there little summoning paradise. The levelling up system is also very good and is known as the sphere grid system. Although most characters have their own parameters and limited to learning specific abilities for masters you can teach one character every ability under the sun (except summoning which is restricted to one character) and you can switch between characters during battle. THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES!!!
Some people have said that the side quests are a down side to the game. I disagree completely, although there is no exact plot based storyline there are many things to do (some of the secret bosses are so hard you'll spend hours training until you can take off 99,999 in every hit...I know that's 90,000 more than usual you can take off isn't that great?) as well as many secret collecting quests and one of the most addictive mini game ever (ever heard of blitz ball?) where you buy and transfer players to great the ultimate underwater ball masters.
Now I know, I know these games aren't as great as the PSone titles, but this game is definetely worth getting if you have money and a weirdly large amount of spare time.
Date: 2008-03-10
In between cutscenes, Square forgot to include the game.
Argh...As much as it hurts to say, I felt this game was the end of the venerable Final Fantasy series (thankfully XII revived the series somewhat). Where the previous games encourage exploration with loads of optional areas and scads of sidequests ( i.e. the elemental Dragons in VI, The big materia, WEAPON, and Chocobo raising in VII).
There are a great many things wrong with this alleged "game".
Just to fire a few off, there's the irritating, unlikeable protagonist, his irritating, unlikeable cohorts, the one cool character in the game is also absent for quite awhile, and then there's the lame point A to point B 'exploration'. This game is essentially a long walk from one end of the world to the other, with plenty of those wonderful random battles in between. I never felt involved with the character, and I never had much of a reason to care about them.
In addition, there are the puzzles. Now, the FF series has had a few really magnificent puzzles (Shinra mansion, cough, cough) These puzzles are in fact less puzzling and more frustrating as you...pick up orbs...and place them in slots! Wow! For 1979 that would be groundbreaking, for the 21st century, it's shameful.
On the plus side, the graphics are pretty. Unfortunately the character designs are sub par, and the non-main characters have about as mych detail as the German soldiers in Medal of Honor for the PS1.
The music is mostly pretty good, with "Zanarkand", the opening theme, being pretty much the high point.
I never bothered finishing this game. It felt like a big waste of my time, and if time is precious to you, don't waste 40 hours on this. Not quite money well spent.
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