Lightning Strike
11-05-2007, 10:15 AM
Final Fantasy X - Playstation 2
"This is just an alternative review to the one already there, i just thought it did not have enough about this game, but it will have the same score"
This game was FF's first release on the PS2, and what a hit it was, selling 1,926,000 copies in Japan within the first 4 days. It was also the first to have real voice-overs on the characters, instead of the usual subtitles, this gave the characters a real-person feel. The character designs are top notch and the FMV's in the game are sensational.
FFX is set in the world of Spira, where Tidus, lives in Zanarkand, and is on the blitzball team (blitzball is a fictional game in FFX where teams of 6 play underwater with a ball and try to score goals) and while playing, a monster attacks, later named 'Sin', and the city is destroyed piece by piece. Auron, Tidus's friend, appears and leads him towards Sin rather than away, and then Tidus and Auron are sucked into a hole on Sin.
Tidus awakens in a strange temple, and after defeating a large fish and swimming into a cave, he is found by Rikku and her gang of Al-Bhed friends (Al-Bhed is a race of people in FFX that speak the lanuage of Al-Bhed, which is english letters rearranged, and Primoirs around the game can be found to translate the lanuage) and taken aboard thier ship. There Rikku tells Tidus that "his Zanarkand" was destroyed by Sin 1000 years ago. After an attack by Sin, Tidus wakes up on Besaid Island and after meeting Yuna and her guardians Wakka, Lulu and Kimari, they set off around the world to kill Sin.
This Final Fantasy put quite a spin on the previous titles with not only the voices and graphics, but with many other changes. The first would be the new battle system, in FFX it is a turn based system, and not ATB, there is the return of Limit Breaks in FFX called overdrives, which allow the character to perform a strong attack at one time. Also, levels are no longer how characters gain stats, but the 'Sphere Grid' where characters gain AP, and use them to move around the SG and gain stats, magic and skills. The nodes must be activated by sphere items, that correspond with the stat or skill, that can be bought for found after battle.
Another added feature was the ability to control summons, named Aeons in FFX, which is quite a new feature for the previous titles summons were summoned, used automatically, and then disappear, in FFX, the character chooses the Aeons abilities and plays them in turn. And, in the other Final Fantasys, flying vechicles were manually controlled, in FFX however, it is a pick and choose destination feature, where the ship is auto-piloted, teh flying itself is not seen.
This was the first FF to have a direct sequel made for it, FFX-2. Which is a little side note lol, ill proberly do a review of it sometime, to get into more detail. I love FFX though, ever since i had a taste in about 2001, i wanted to play it fully, and when i got it around 2003, i loved it to pieces and now i have finished it 100% with all secret Aeons and all best weapons, and in having the EUR version, i have the inclusion of Dark Aeons, evil aeon forms, that have so much hp, they are bascially invincible. Great game for all its features, for all who love a challenge.
Score : 9.5/10
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9145/ffxboxjg8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2889/16vg4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/6084/179ec1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
"This is just an alternative review to the one already there, i just thought it did not have enough about this game, but it will have the same score"
This game was FF's first release on the PS2, and what a hit it was, selling 1,926,000 copies in Japan within the first 4 days. It was also the first to have real voice-overs on the characters, instead of the usual subtitles, this gave the characters a real-person feel. The character designs are top notch and the FMV's in the game are sensational.
FFX is set in the world of Spira, where Tidus, lives in Zanarkand, and is on the blitzball team (blitzball is a fictional game in FFX where teams of 6 play underwater with a ball and try to score goals) and while playing, a monster attacks, later named 'Sin', and the city is destroyed piece by piece. Auron, Tidus's friend, appears and leads him towards Sin rather than away, and then Tidus and Auron are sucked into a hole on Sin.
Tidus awakens in a strange temple, and after defeating a large fish and swimming into a cave, he is found by Rikku and her gang of Al-Bhed friends (Al-Bhed is a race of people in FFX that speak the lanuage of Al-Bhed, which is english letters rearranged, and Primoirs around the game can be found to translate the lanuage) and taken aboard thier ship. There Rikku tells Tidus that "his Zanarkand" was destroyed by Sin 1000 years ago. After an attack by Sin, Tidus wakes up on Besaid Island and after meeting Yuna and her guardians Wakka, Lulu and Kimari, they set off around the world to kill Sin.
This Final Fantasy put quite a spin on the previous titles with not only the voices and graphics, but with many other changes. The first would be the new battle system, in FFX it is a turn based system, and not ATB, there is the return of Limit Breaks in FFX called overdrives, which allow the character to perform a strong attack at one time. Also, levels are no longer how characters gain stats, but the 'Sphere Grid' where characters gain AP, and use them to move around the SG and gain stats, magic and skills. The nodes must be activated by sphere items, that correspond with the stat or skill, that can be bought for found after battle.
Another added feature was the ability to control summons, named Aeons in FFX, which is quite a new feature for the previous titles summons were summoned, used automatically, and then disappear, in FFX, the character chooses the Aeons abilities and plays them in turn. And, in the other Final Fantasys, flying vechicles were manually controlled, in FFX however, it is a pick and choose destination feature, where the ship is auto-piloted, teh flying itself is not seen.
This was the first FF to have a direct sequel made for it, FFX-2. Which is a little side note lol, ill proberly do a review of it sometime, to get into more detail. I love FFX though, ever since i had a taste in about 2001, i wanted to play it fully, and when i got it around 2003, i loved it to pieces and now i have finished it 100% with all secret Aeons and all best weapons, and in having the EUR version, i have the inclusion of Dark Aeons, evil aeon forms, that have so much hp, they are bascially invincible. Great game for all its features, for all who love a challenge.
Score : 9.5/10
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9145/ffxboxjg8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2889/16vg4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/6084/179ec1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)