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Final Fantasy X review - an obsession with death - Page 2

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nyxnyxnyx
Profile Joined April 2010
Indonesia2978 Posts
November 11 2013 11:57 GMT
#21
You need to make it X/10.
cool beans
ToT)OjKa(
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Korea (South)2437 Posts
November 11 2013 14:14 GMT
#22
FF X was a pretty strange FF, pretty different from the previous ones. The story was pretty odd but even if it wasn't a FF game, it was still a solid game with plenty to do.

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.
OjKa OjKa OjKa!
HeeroFX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2704 Posts
November 11 2013 15:07 GMT
#23
It was an amazing game. When I first played it I wasn't into the voice acting at first, it was different from what I was use too. I loved the battle system. The story was amazing. I want that HD remake out badly, but I may just play it again on My fat PS2(if it still runs)
Animzor
Profile Joined March 2011
Sweden2154 Posts
November 11 2013 15:26 GMT
#24
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.
koreasilver
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
9109 Posts
November 11 2013 16:34 GMT
#25
On November 11 2013 13:00 holdthephone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 11 2013 12:52 koreasilver wrote:
I really liked FFX when I played it a long time ago, but I'm pretty suspicious at the 10/10 rating you gave it when you gave FFXIII a 9/10 (wat) rating and a 6/10 to FFIX. That's just bizarre. Giving XIII a higher rating than VI is strange too, honestly.


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.
holdthephone
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States523 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-11 16:46:07
November 11 2013 16:45 GMT
#26
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.
Fumanchu
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Canada669 Posts
November 11 2013 18:22 GMT
#27
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.


Easy doesnt fit into grownup life.
holdthephone
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States523 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-11 18:47:19
November 11 2013 18:39 GMT
#28
Honestly, that really is one of the best scenes in the game, and I'm surprised so many people fail to see what the voice actors were doing. It's forced laughter, Tidus and Yuna are joking. They know they sound ridiculous, which is why Wakka is scratching his head in shame immediately afterward and wondering if the two have gone insane. It's all quite funny.

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.
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
11822 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-11 19:34:21
November 11 2013 19:33 GMT
#29
On November 12 2013 03:22 Fumanchu wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5FTJxfV3pc


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
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
11822 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-11 19:34:10
November 11 2013 19:33 GMT
#30
double post, sorry
SoSexy
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Italy3725 Posts
November 11 2013 22:48 GMT
#31
I loved this game and remember everybit of it. 106 hours played.
I bought X-2 just to see the ending, and when Tidus and Yuna reunited I cried like a baby
Dating thread on TL LUL
Vaelone
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Finland4400 Posts
November 12 2013 09:03 GMT
#32
Blitzball alone could have been a full fledged game, spent so much time playing that alone.

Last Final Fantasy I came back to after beating the main game once.
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10700 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-12 14:52:00
November 12 2013 14:25 GMT
#33
I never could get over Tidus whiny ass and the pure stupidity of the whole world + stereotypical and therefore boring characters.. and.. and... and... It was just so "dumb"?

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...
Nao
Profile Joined October 2008
Poland166 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-13 11:08:06
November 13 2013 11:07 GMT
#34
Great blog, thank you.

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.
One cannot out-kwanro Kwanro. -Trap
holdthephone
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States523 Posts
November 13 2013 16:10 GMT
#35
Outside of buying a Japanese PS2, getting an emulator is your only option. Not sure if you're willing to set all that up.

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.
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
11822 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-13 18:27:24
November 13 2013 18:27 GMT
#36
Setting up a ps2 emulator takes around 30 minutes. If you want to tinker with everything it might take 4h. The problem is how you legally would get the game and the ps2 bios.
Nao
Profile Joined October 2008
Poland166 Posts
November 14 2013 09:51 GMT
#37
Setting up Emu is not a problem, really. 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.
One cannot out-kwanro Kwanro. -Trap
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