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The standard of future RPG's have been set.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The many RPG's that have came out in the many years of video games, nothing even comes close to Final Fantasy X. The Characters are so detailed and and look so real it's breathtaking. If you want a game with GREAT character development and the best story I have ever seen, buy this game.

FFX raises the bar for platform RPG's

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

_____Final Fantasy X is a GREAT game. In fact, one of THE greatest. No, I can't say that it is the best, especially of all time, but it has etched its place in RPG history the way all of the greatest RPG's have done.

_____First of all, FFX has introduced next-generation graphics and Full Motion Video to the world of RPG's. The visuals are tryly breathtaking, and the FMV rival that of Toy Story and the FF movie. They have to be seen to be believed - I wonder what they look like on a digital display!

_____Second, there's the story. And what a wonderful ride it is. The plot is done in textbook Final Fantasy style, event-driven, unfolding slowly, keeping you on the edge of your seat. It's not just about "big main villain is bent on destroying world." The little things are what counts. Who is Tidus? Why is Yuna on the journey? What does Auron have to do with Sin? Why is Lulu so cold and heartless early on? These questions and more are answered as the story reveals itself. And the end is really a first in FF gaming history (I don't want to spoil it!)

_____The music in this game is really good. It makes use of Dolby Digital, and sounds great. The opening number (the main theme) is an emotional piece of piano excellence. The bg songs played during key moments of the game add to the tension and excitement of fighting a powerful boss. And the Final boss' music is something straight out of hardcore metal/trance.

_____The voice acting, another first for RPG's, is excellently done. Unlike some games that have used voice acting (i.e. Resident Evil), the voices do not detract from the overall quality of the game; instead they greatly enhance it. The many different voices, from Yuna's token delays in speech to Wakka's Hawaiian accent and Auron's "Clint Eastwood" style, add to the characterization of all the players.

_____Finally, the gameplay. Combat is turn-based, but you can swap out the current character for any one in reserve without losing a turn. Plus, each character has specific abilities: Wakka is key for attacking aerial monsters, Lulu casts powerful black magic, Yuna is a healer and summoner, Tidus is well-rounded and fast, Rikku uses special items and is good against robots, and Auron and Kimahri are deliver powerful physical attacks.

_____What else? There are lots of secret items and locations, a dozen or so mini-games and quests. The Sphere grid, in which you raise characters' attributes and learn new abilities, is nicely done and gives quite a bit of customization to the characters, especially late in the game. The load times are barely there, and Blitzball can be a lot of fun if you put time and effort into it.

_____Of course, there are a few gripes I have with the game. Most prominent is, compared to other Final Fantasy's such as V, VI and VII, the total package is a bit lacking. The mini-games are nice but not as cool as those in VII, for example. But this does nothing to downgrade this excellent game.

_____Overall, FFX will take you for a long ride, full of excitement, emotion, and lots of action. Any fan of RPG's will absolutely adore this game. Buy it!

One of the Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a longtime fan of Final Fantasy, and this is one of the ones I've enjoyed the most. The story is great, the graphics are excellent, the fighting system and skills system is intricate and allows great variety, and the minigame blitzball is a lot of fun.

The story is a bout a star athlete who is taken to a strange world by a monster called Sin. Sin terrorizes the world of Spira, and Tidus is lost and confused about his position in all this. Throughout his journey, Tidus, the main character, leanrs that his father had been to Spira and had fought against Sin. Teaming up with a young priestess, a giant blue thing, a blitzball player, a mammory-enhanced women, a quirky young lady and a silent Cloud-like character, Tidus travels to the ancient Zanarkand to learn about his purpose.

The game is very fun, but the voice acting is pathetic, and the game is best played with the sound off and the radio on. Other than that, there is nothing to complain about. The game is nonlinear, completely varied and completely not frustrating. Just play the first hour of the game and you will be hooked. I know I was.

the BEST that Squaresoft has to offer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My dad originally bought this game thinking it was X-2. But when he played it, he decided he didn't really like the turn-based battle system. But when I played it, I LOVED IT! It was just as good as Kingdom Heart ever was. Maybe even better. It presented me with some frustration when I encountered Seymour Flux, but that was easily solved with the help of a friend. The graphics and sound are wicked awesome, the storyline is really interesting. It's definitely an improvement from the N64 games where there was only music, no voices. If you want this game, buy it. You won't be sorry.

Linear Schminear!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There are two types of RPG players: one who likes the interactive novel, plot-based game like this, and those who like the infinite choice games, that sadly often feature embarrassingly shallow characters and practically non-existent plots (some were even by Squaresoft, some of them loved still -- like: Chrono Cross!). The world of RPG's was introduced to me with the fourth entry of the Final Fantasy series, a game that featured what is still one of the greatest plots to grace an RPG, and as such, plot and character have been the reasons I play such games.

As such, Final Fantasy X fit perfectly with my personal tastes. More than just being plot and character for me to like, but being a film student, this game's almost overdone cinematic tone is, to me, an additional bonus to a game of already high merit.

To start off, while maybe not the most detailed of looking games, the visuals are brilliantly artistic and colorful, and flow usually at a constant framerate. The characters are really the aspects that one could say the least impressive aspect of the game, but they look real, their movement is often fluid, and their facial expressions are as good as in any game. With the modern flashy-type of cinematic tone, the lighting is often very stylish in nature, and the special effects (in and out of battle) are phenomenal, with my favorite being the pirefly effect when a fiend dies. And the FMV...don't even get me started on how amazing it is!

The sound is somewhat short of perfection, but overall rather nice. The music, while sounding rather fake often, is still nicely composed, and a nice step up from the lacking FFIX musical score. Some of the music however is just too shallow to get a liking for, but the more emotional music is easily as good as anything in the past, featuring what is the most beautiful central melody of the entire series. Along with the slightly improved sound quality of the music synth, the foley has taken a huge leap foreword in production value, with some explosive sound effects that rattle, well, my TV speaker when loud. That leaves the voice acting. All I can say is that it isn't perfect as the voices do occasionally flop, most often Yuna's, the casted voices match the faces perfectly (voice wise -- not lip-sync), and feature rather solid performances overall. Tidus is whiney, but he is a character that does indeed evolve, with impressively presented moments of narration, and Auron's voice fits his infinitely mystique character perfectly.

The gameplay is slightly more old school than before, but with some nice modern alterations, mainly the sphere grid. The sphere grid changes something in the overall formula of addiction. Before, it was the plot that kept one playing, but for once the interface is actually as addicting as any story.

However, for the first time since FFVII, the story and characters were actually enough to get me through any tough spots. While following the conventional dramatic style of story (which I personally wouldn't have it any other way), it seems to have been written with emotion to be involved even more than it's already deep...depth. There are countless character subplots, mainly involving the main character, which work incredibly, despite how some of them might sound when you first hear them. Final Fantasy has somehow often been able to take a conventional, cliche or silly plot device/subplot and make it truly an emotional experience. Once again, the story is insanely detailed and thought out, and like the better entries, is interesting enough to want to understand it all.

The characters are also my favorite since the sixth entry of the series, with finally some truly differing personalities. Tidus is a young man forced from his happy world into the harsh world of Spira, Wakka is an unimaginative yet friendly sort, Yuna is determined and strong willed yet sometimes unwise, and Auron is a man of few, yet powerful words, who seems to know everything in the world, and fears literally nothing. These four are easily the four most developed of the seven characters, and the final developmental result is quite impressive. I was shocked by the depth of the scenes between Yuna and Tidus, giving them a sense that they were very real; their emotions too.

These are the reasons I liked this game. I guess I can understand how some people can like this game less than I, such as lack of freedom or that the story moves too slow (welcome to the world of RPG's, mate), but how someone can say that this game is terrible...that's beyond me! May Square continue their sometimes unstable, yet often incredible cinematic works in the videogame arena, forever!

So close to perfection...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When Final Fantasy VIII hit the shelves I was among the many who were hesitant about it. It was a completely new style of art for the game, and being the die hard FF VI fan I was it was unacceptable... but then I actually played the game. I was very upset when FF IX took a drastic step backwards in it's visual presentation. I'd grown fond of the more realistic art found in VIII.
Lately Square's efforts have been less than stellar. The Bouncer was a joke, and Driving Type Emotion-S will dissapear into the world of games so bad you shouldn't lay them sober. FF IX left me with little hope for the series. FF X, however has revived it.
This game may not be "filmed" as well as Metal Gear Solid, but it is still the work of artistic genious. While it is not the graphical marvel I had hoped for, it is still a visual treat considering the limitations of the PS2. The graphics rotate from FMV, to great to medicore depending on the character, the amount of characters on screen, etc. Many of the less important characters have a low polygon count and are not textured very well, but then you have characters like Auron who are so incredably detailed it almost makes you froget that there are two drastically more powerful systems out there.
Square has ended the endless reading that their games are known for, opting for voice acting instead, and while the voice actors are mediocre at best this was probably the best thing about this game. The voices and facial animations made the characters more real and it became easier to see these charcters as people, rather than just polygons.
The music in this game is slightly better than FF IX, but still leaves something to be desired, FFD VI and VIII had the best soundtracks of the series, and Umeatsu and his co-writers didn't seem quite up to the task of outdoing his previous works.
The story is the games best feature. The story can come off as being somewhat anti-religious at points, but really isn't. Like Xenogears before it it carries an important message about being careful about what we believe, and how we let other people control us through questionable traditions and the threat of damnation (or in this case Sin.) Despite this theme, the game is far from anti-religious. It's ending is (as with tradition) somewhat of a heart wrencher, yet it keeps a positive spin on things. My only complaint is that it would have been nice if the love story aspects of the game were better thought out. I don't know how or why Tidus and Yuna got together, they just kind of did... Not like Rinoa and Squall who had quite the love story.
Gameplay, FF X is the most fun of the series to play. There's so many new gameplay elements. Everything that was tidious about past instalments is gone. Switching characters at a save spots to keep everone built up? Gone. Switching out any time duriing a battle! Why didn't they think of that sooner? The traditional leveling up system is gone, in it's place an innovative sphere grid that takes some getting used to, but once you get the hang of it? This is hands down the best system for an RPG ever. Without a doubt FF X is inarguably the best of the series.

Squaresoft never ceases to amaze me.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy X. What can I say? Truly a milestone in the series, and Square outdid themselves with it.

The graphics are among the best displayed on the PS2, yet don't quite manage to exceed Metal Gear Solid 2's. That's saying a lot. Somehow Squaresoft still managed to include hours of motion capturing, real-time facial expressions and dynamic camera angles for nearly every cut-scene. Each area has a different mood and setting to it that really gets you involved in the game.

The voiceacting, while not the best (again I point you to Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 for the best examples of this), are better than most. James Arnold Taylor was perfect for the role of Tidus, and Hedy Burress gets the job done as Yuna. One major complaint is the fact that the mouths are never in synch with the voices. C'mon Squaresoft, if you could do it for "The Bouncer," you can do it for "Final Fantasy X." I would have preferred another few months delay for this. However you get used to it, and it's never TOO bothersome.

The music is great, as Uematsu incorporates other talented composers in this project. The result is a classic Final Fantasy musical bonanza, with songs including "Suteki da Ne," the love theme for FFX, as well as some modernized songs too, including "Otherworld," which departs from Uematsu's classic orchestrated themes. It fits well, however, with the amazing opening cinematics.

The gameplay is one area where Final Fantasy X shines the most, including one of the best battle systems since "Grandia." Characters are changeable during battle, and the time bars are gone, letting you take as much time as you need to strategize your moves during battle. Each character has a class (black mage, summoner, thief, etc), and most monsters have a weakness to a character's moves, making the "character zapping" technique very handy for when you don't have the right party setup. The Sphere grid replaces "Leveling Up," so that you control the areas your party will excel at (like more Hit Points, more Magic Points, more Strength, Agility, anything is possible).

The story is the other of its strongest points, and where it beats Metal Gear Solid 2 to a bloody pulp. Like any Final Fantasy, it has so many twists and turns that you'll never want to put the controller down. Character development is at its strongest, you feel for the characters... you even start to care for the non-playable characters (NPC's). And the ending is superb, however don't expect it to wrap things up... as another 40 hours of gripping story and amazing action is awaiting you with the inevitable release of Final Fantasy X-2, a seperate game which will include many of FFX's characters, and (hopefully) tie up many loose ends.

Final Fantasy X is among the best. If you're an RPG fan, get it now, you have no excuse for not playing it yet.

FFX..... Quite Possibly the Best ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i have been to japan & e3 many times before but this game, along with others such as MGS2 & GTA3 are the crem de la crem of gaming today.i urge any RPG fan to absolutly reserve & play this till your eyes explode because this is the best rpg sience FF7 & legend of dragoon & vagrant story. the graphics are phenominal, the story is fantasic & the gameplay is flawless. the thing i think is the most eye-candy worthy thing is the animations of the summons, like the Bahamut or Ifrit. to see movies of these & other worthy pics of delight, (...) get it ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!

ADDICTING!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had heard that this game was good. It is that and more. To me, the story line took me into another world.
I highly recommend Final Fantasy X!!!

A Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy X is a wonderful game to play,with many challening events in it. The "Cloister of Trials" puzzles can be a little tough and complicated at times, but you feel a sense of accomplishment after completing them. I started 3 new games already, and I haven't had the game all that long. I just love to see my characters grow stronger, and I also found out that I missed something the first time around (like treasure chests,etc.). That's not to say that I ever finished the first game I started. I am taking my time playing the game, enjoying it as I go. "Blitzball" is not one of my favorite episodes in the game, because it is kind of complicated, and I just can't seem to get the hang of it. It's just a little extra, that I'm sure other players would enjoy. All in all it is a great game, wich I highly recommend.

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