I'm writting this because I see many, many people says that FF X was one of the very best games ever created, and in my opinion it was just the same old known chemistry applied into a PS2 generation game. I'm about to post the reasons why I can't consider this to be an outstanding game, as I feel it just "good".
1.- Combat system: Was here something new, innovative or surprising? I think I saw this same system in FF VII (altough summons looked awesome).
2.- Graphics: They were amazing for its time, but now they hardly stand a chance against the ones seen in FF XII. I rather think of this categhory as null.
3.- Story: Oh come on! There's not a single nice twist in this game! The first five minutes were intense, as you couldn't understand a thing of what was going on, but then, after the arrival to Spira, it just turned out to be the same known story of the hero saving the world.
4.- Character: Were there any depht, besides that depressed Yuna criying the entire game, among the characters? Things I can remember: Kimari lost his horn (that's deep), Rikku was somewhat abandoned by his people, and then reunited again with them, Auron is a dead corpse walking, Wakka lost his brother and Lulu a future husband. And that's it! None of these secondary plots resolve at all, they're just the neccesary background; static and unavoidable. Going again to FF VII, you saw a fighter Cloud trough the entiure game, a character tormented by his ghosts, someone more "human" if you want it. That character, just as his nemesis Sephirot, were tremendously well achieved, not like here.
5.- Sound: Same ol' same ol'.
6.- Blitzball: Urgh, the thing I hate the most about this game is Blitzball. Not only it was a stupid attemp to mix sports and RPG combat system, but it was so ambitious that the programmers thought it would be a nice idea if you could participate in tournaments during the entire game. No, that's just plainly stupid and I can't figure out why someone would have come out with something like that, if somebody could please show me the highlights of this sport role playing game, I would be most pleased.
And that's it right now, if I can think of any other thing that bothers me, or if anyone of you has something different to add or refute, you're all welcome.
Enmiand
Hello my friend :)
Let me give you my point of view, since I enjoyed this wonderful game after hating it at first:
1) Combat system: the sphere grid was really intimidating at first. Once you get the hang of it, you could make even Yuna a melee powerhouse (well, sort off). Now, on the action... from a FF standpoint, the ability to change characters on the fly was really strategic, and the overdrives that required button imputs keeps you on your toes.
2) Graphics: I do think that games like FF7, Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Sonic on Dream Cast, Resident Evil 2 and so on are considered some of the best games ever created, even though by today standards they look like the Joker after fighting Neo Bahamut... so I don't know why you diss the graphics on this game.
3) Story: You can call me a shallow person, but for me to find out that Auron was actually dead, that Tidus was more or less like a dream and that Jecht was a Sin-loving- father were strong points of the storyline, adding misthycism (spell :P) to the characters.
4) Characters: I won't argue... they lacked the personality traits of other main characters from the series... but you should not look them down, because they were portrayed as they should have been, so I suppose this is not that bad (I do admit that Lulu, Rikku and Chewbacca {Khimari} were the weak links, in my opinion)
5) Sound: I liked it
6) I understand, it's a love it or hate it minigame... but I would rather have this than tetramaster on FF9 :P
Again, just my opinion, have a nice day!
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