EPTFinal Fantasy X review - an obsession with death - Page 2
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nyxnyxnyx
Indonesia2978 Posts
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ToT)OjKa(
Korea (South)2437 Posts
It looked fucking great and still does. The aeon system was badass. Yuna learn Firaga etc GG DAT FUCKING MAGIC STAT HOOOLY. Shits on Lulu. Blitzball was fucking baller too. It's a shame the matches became pretty easy. I tried one match of blitz in X-2 and didn't like it because I couldn't control it but after playing blitz again, I wouldn't mind it being automated. | ||
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HeeroFX
United States2704 Posts
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Animzor
Sweden2154 Posts
On November 11 2013 15:29 Golgotha wrote: 10? I'm guessing you would also give many other games a 10 if you think this was a 10. I'm glad you liked the game so much but then again I wouldn't call this a review since it's so subjective. I would say it is more along the lines of: Omg, I love this game. This is why. That's a review. | ||
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koreasilver
9109 Posts
On November 11 2013 13:00 holdthephone wrote: lol, it's just my take on the series is all. give the other ones a read and maybe you'll get an idea of where i'm coming from, not that it'll change your mind on them. @thread: Also, I don't mean a 10/10 to imply anything like perfection. FFX has its flaws, no doubt. The blitzball tutorial is sluggish, some cutscenes are lazily animated compared to more central ones, and if you have a compulsive tendency, you might annoy yourself by swapping every character in for EXP for every single battle. Sidequest tedium, some lines of dialogue that make you scratch your head, etc.. These are all shots I can take at the game off the top of my head. All my score means is that I think it's a stellar experience regardless of minor issues. Not that anyone has to find that agreeable. Many think the game has huge issues, and that's fine. I did, and the most glaring problem I saw with your review of IX was your complaint that it referred back to the past games of the series too much when that was something the creators explicitly intended, and the setting of the game was pretty explicit as a throwback to the pre-VII games. You can't write about this as if it was some kind of compounded accidental mistake when it was an intentional design of the creators. Whatever, all review are subjective and you can what you want about each games but there's honestly some limits to this, especially when you rate XIII as better than VI; this is just exasperating. | ||
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holdthephone
United States523 Posts
On November 12 2013 01:34 koreasilver wrote: I did, and the most glaring problem I saw with your review of IX was your complaint that it referred back to the past games of the series too much when that was something the creators explicitly intended, and the setting of the game was pretty explicit as a throwback to the pre-VII games. You can't write about this as if it was some kind of compounded accidental mistake when it was an intentional design of the creators. That is what the phrase 'purposeful pastiche' meant in the review. Of course they were intentional throwbacks, my criticism was that they just weren't anything more than that. Whatever, all review are subjective and you can what you want about each games but there's honestly some limits to this, especially when you rate XIII as better than VI; this is just exasperating. VI was a great a game, I was just substantially bored by its latter half. I'd still say it's revolutionary to the series and perhaps even the JRPG genre. I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers, I'm just some dude trying these games out, most of them for the first time, and giving them my impressions. | ||
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Fumanchu
Canada669 Posts
On November 11 2013 15:55 Yurie wrote: This game has the best cutscenes of any game I've played. Especially the scene where Tidus + Yuna dive into the water with a matching Japanese song. I got chills from that scene for a year after just thinking about it. The random encounters are the worst in any game I've actually finished. I found a cheat to disable them, that was how much they annoyed me. | ||
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holdthephone
United States523 Posts
The scene also appears later as a powerful reflection, as Tidus learns that Yuna has been essentially marching to her own death the entire game. | ||
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Yurie
11959 Posts
Thank you for linking one of scenes you liked. I liked that one as well. The one I preferred the most was this though, the coordination to the song is just so great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R91wDYYWmdQ&t=27m5s | ||
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Yurie
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SoSexy
Italy3725 Posts
I bought X-2 just to see the ending, and when Tidus and Yuna reunited I cried like a baby  | ||
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Vaelone
Finland4400 Posts
Last Final Fantasy I came back to after beating the main game once. | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10823 Posts
Towards the end when you just kick Sins ass (which thru the hole game is this unstoppable force) I was close to just stop playing it... I should have, the ending is so bad... | ||
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Nao
Poland166 Posts
On the note of whiny Tidus, is there a way to play FFX with Japanese sound and subtitles? Or at least Japanese sound with English menus (i should be able to understand most of the plot without subs). I would love to try FFX but the voice acting is killing me. The horrible whiny or otherwise unusual lines spoken in english version would be quite natural and immersive in original language. | ||
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holdthephone
United States523 Posts
Tidus is whiny but he will whine in Japanese, too. He's a lost and confused character, it's just how he is. I do think the Japanese track is better, but the english VAs are far from terrible. | ||
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Yurie
11959 Posts
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Nao
Poland166 Posts
But i assume Japanese version has menus and other misc. text only in kanji. I could get over some things in katakana/hiragana but RPG fully in original language is too much.(I did play Princess Maker 3 - which i consider best in series, fully in Jap. but it was sooo much work >_<) I kind of hoped there could be some community mods or language patches that i missed when searching. Oh well, thanks anyway. | ||
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