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Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster ❤❤❤❤❤
Bank of Cirila | 02/03/2018
79 hour of playtime, 20 of 69 achievements
The Good
The story was one of my favourite stories in a game ever, it had such a good mix of action, stress, romance, hatred, excitement etc! Honestly, I cannot fault this story, it was flawless to me really, I have not much else to say about it really. Characters again were excellent with Tidus and Yuna being one of the most fleshed out characters I've ever witnessed in a game, independently they are amazing in different way and together there is this amazing friendship and love interest that just makes my heart melt. They both feel like your two best friends finally getting together and you are standing in the sidelines doing some fist pumps and giggles at them. Combat was pretty good, I've never been a fan of turn based games but I've been more open to it and I feel like it did it really well with all of the skills, magic and individual character abilities for all the types of enemies in the game. I really liked the concept of the sphere grid but more of that in the con section... Music was outstanding, each piece I heard stood out and emotionally stayed with me, not many games do that really. Voice acting was stellar really, with a few hiccups here and there... Okay I can't wait to say it, I hate Tidus's voice acting but more specifically his famous laugh scene is awful. Graphically it looks amazing and especially in some of the major cutscenes that are more cinematic however sometimes they looked worse.
The Bad
Right, I am going to repeat myself one more time.. Tidus pls no stahp. The story did feel a little "slow" (I don't know how to explain it properly but it wasn't slow but sort of hanging in the middle) and it did put me off it a little especially when I was dropping in and out of the game when I could. It definitely needed to take its time though so I can't really say it was a con.. Maybe if you got fast travel quicker it might have been better. The sphere grid was a very cool and unique leveling system but for me it just wasn't executed very well, I think a lot of my characters were more leveled than others and I did end up doing cool things with them like making Yuna this crazy powerful mage that did level 4 magic with double casting while healing etc. I just think its just too overwhelming and I wish you had some sort of idea of where each of them stood with a more solid level number. I do really like how much you can customize each character though with teleport, friend and black magic spheres.
Overall
This was my very first Final Fantasy and man it was a good one, its definitely one of my favourite games so far. This is a story that I will definitely replay in the future but for now I'm leaving it in my heart and will shortly get around to playing X-2 which is exciting (despite people saying its awful) but I really want to wrap up the story! I also want to clean up a few achievements and play Blitzball which I embarrassingly put off despite its praise. I have not only made progress on my wins but I have also made progress on "Games I NEED to play" which is awesome (if you have any recommendations to add to it then do say, its basically games I haven't played that are top rated and popular basically.)
Idle - 0 hours/ Playtime - 79 hours > Average Playtime - 43 Hours [APPRECIATED and NOT RUSHED]
Reward Progress
Reward Progress
Finish 5 games then purchase a game as a reward! (I hope I can make this last) (so I bought two bundles so its 10 for now... oops...)
1 - Event [0]
2 - Stories Untold
3 - Batman™: Arkham VR
4 - Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
5 - Life is Strange: Before the Storm
6 - Final Fantasy X
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10
10/10 = Purchase a Game [In Progress - 4 more to go!]
Fave FF, time for you to crack out FFVII…:3
Promise me you won’t ever listen to the audiobooks even if you want to know the full story.
Just here to support a great game, FFX. Glad you enjoyed it, and hope you check out other FF titles ( 7 and 12 are good if you want something similar to 10. Though the early ones like 5 are great too, but are more traditional for a rpg setting.) But more importantly… BWAHAHAHAHA!
FFX also is one of my favourite FF so far! (out of the one I played which is about less than half of the series so… xD)
It’s nice to see it still holds up to this day and it is not only me enjoying it out of nostalgia haha. Congrats on beating it!
So far, I completed it on PS2 long ago, and beat it again on the Vita with this remaster release (bought the Vita because of FFX!). I still have plan for the Steam release at some point too. Because that’s how much I love it! Haha
Anyway, about FFX-2 it’s really a lot different. It’s more light on the story and to me a lot less interesting. I never finished it though, but I guess one day I’ll do it. From memory the dress system was interesting. Having costumes to get different roles and abilities. So it’s not the same as FFX. Battles are also dynamic now which I didn’t particularly appreciate after FFX turn based fighting. So best advice would be you shouldn’t expect too much from it, it’s a simple fun spin off. I guess if you take it like that it shouldn’t be too bad.