Don't get me wrong, I love this game a lot and am having tremendous fun playing it but throughout the course of my gameplay I have had some serious deja vu. First off the backgrounds for Eternal Sonata look so similar to Final Fantasy X and X2s that it's just downright eerie. The Elegy of the Moon and the Farplane are virtually the same place in both appearance and purpose. The little glowing "agogos" sure look a hell of a lot like the "fireflies" of the Farplane and are both most certainly representitive of the souls of the dead. The love story between Polka and Alegretto is reminiscent of the love story between Yuna and Tidus. Yuna/Polka both function as the game's clerics/healers and Tidus/Algretto as the speedy fighters. The attitudes and personality of them are identical (the young, too-sweet girl who must sacrifice herself despite her love for thecocky-but-loveable, free-spirited hero). The ideas of dreams and reality meshing and that love can officially merge the two worlds as one is the ultimate theme in both games. Since my PS2 broke last year and I haven't played FFX or FFX2 in 2 years it's both fun to relive the adventure again through Eternal Sonata but at the same time, it's "Hey I've been here and done that".