Reviews of Final Fantasy X-2

A Very Underrated FF Game.

Posted : 5 months, 2 weeks ago on 6 March 2008 05:57 (A review of Final Fantasy X-2)

A lot of people judge FFX-2 on appearances, but after playing it through almost twice (during my first play i had to restart 3/4 through due to PS2 malfunction!) i really found a lot to like about this game. It has a bit of a girlish element to it at first, considering the only 3 characters you get are Women, and at the very start they seem to be singing for a living which i thought was lame. But After you get about 20 minutes in it is just like FFX but it expands upon things and finishes the story. There are some brilliant elements to it such as the spheres you can find throughout the game, these add depth to this story and also to FFX's story, there are parts of the world that you were unable to explore in the first that are open in the second. It wraps things up for the story, explains a lot of odds and ends, and it is a challenging game.
It is the first FF to show you a percentage of how much of the game you have managed to achieve also, certain parts can only fully be done by playing the game under New Game+ But the bulk of it can be done in one play through, you get rewarded with extra scenes, and a better ending the more effort you put into playing it and eventually get to find out what happens between Yuna and Tidus. You also get to play the game in the particular order you chose in some cases, as more often than not you are faced with a list of 10-20 different places you can go, and each one will add a little more to the story, give you a little more work to do, and add more to your % of filled games. There is a hell of a lot to this game, and you can play it as quick or as in depth as you like. Perhaps some of the concepts used in this could have been better used in other final fantasies, as its usually the style to never revisit the same ideas often, so in that case it is a shame that this game gets the small respect it does, as i think they had something with it, its equally as special as all final fantasy games are, just not epic or stand alone.

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Final Fantasy X-2 review

Posted : 7 months, 1 week ago on 14 January 2008 03:36 (A review of Final Fantasy X-2)

It's like FFX, but i don't like this story.

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Severely underappreciated

Posted : 1 year ago on 11 August 2007 10:44 (A review of Final Fantasy X-2)

You'll hear a lot about how terrible this game is, but it isn't. If you've been playing Final Fantasy games as long as I have, you will respect this game for daring to be original. It is a game you have mixed odds of liking. You have to understand exactly what you're getting into first: If you expect more of the same from FFX, you will be very disappointed. However, for what it is, without being compared to anything else, it is rather exceptional, and is perhaps the best game in the Final Fantasy series.

The main story path is rather short. You could probably finish it in 10 hours if you pushed a bit. However, the main path accounts for a relatively small portion of the game. There is so much optional content that you will easily get as much out of X-2 as any other game in the series if you try for it all.

The story itself is based mostly around characters and revisiting the world to see how it's changed. The conflict isn't particularly epic and the villain isn't very threatening. The game's tone is extremely happy-go-lucky - that's not to say anything is wrong with that. In fact, I'd go so far as to call it uplifting. The dressphere system is a fairly neat take on the classic job system developed for FFV; since you can switch classes on the fly, there's no need for the game to include more than three characters (don't let people tell you that's a weakness; it isn't). That gives plenty of time to focus on powering up those characters and figuring out ways to use them effectively. Combat itself is fast-paced and more fun than any other game that uses the ATB system. The new combo system allows you to string moves together for massive damage, and even stop an enemy's attack. Learn to use the system and it becomes pretty rewarding, especially against some of the tougher optional bosses.

FFX-2 also has the most replay value of any FF game, due to the fact that it requires multiple playthroughs to see everything thanks to its branching story paths. It is literally impossible to see everything in a single game, and it's very difficult to see the best ending if you just play through it once. The graphics, although not up to par with the most recent installation of the Final Fantasy series, are still fairly impressive and realistic looking. The soundtrack is mostly technopop, which provides a lighthearted feel to the game. The voice acting is impressive, but it can get repetitive and annoying - if you don't have problems with "girl talk", then you should be fine.

All in all, it's a very good package unless you're a whiny teenager who has to see a heavy dose of angst in his games and hates anything with bright colors out of some retarded fear of being associated with anything immature people might see as childish.

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Girl Power!

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago on 1 May 2007 10:17 (A review of Final Fantasy X-2)

Whoop-dee-do, the first FF sequel, although it was a good one to continue on. I docked it a couple points because it is a bit cheesy and girly. I still love the genre and FF, but this was one of the lighter ones in the series. Lots of side missions, beautiful cgi in between, and those wacky girls cruising around having a good time.

Alright, I put a Hell of a lot of hours into this, and I still don't think I'm going to get 100%. Screw it, I'm going to look up the perfect ending online.

But I will get the Mascot.

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