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Will Squaresoft ever start making good games again?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 16
Date: January 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Squaresoft used to make awesome games when the Nintendo and Super Nintendo systems were around. When they started making games for Playstation, they seem to have forgotten that they were making games. Final Fantasy X, just like Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and IX, is not a role playing game. It is hardly a game at all. Role playing games require certain elements such as strategic gameplay or just gameplay in general. Squaresoft concentrates all of their effort toward the cg animation and cinematics of the game and leave out the gameplay. If you don't mind watching a movie instead of playig a game, then the Final Fantasy series is definitely for you. If you would prefer to actually play a game, then don't buy any of Squaresoft's titles.

This biggest disappointment since Battle Field Earth

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 25
Date: January 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have been waiting to play this game for over a year. I have read on all the video game sites every week, looking at screen shots, videos etc. To be blunt this is not a video game, it is a 40 hour movie, that lets you push buttons every 5 minutes for about 30 seconds. There is not playing involved, the people who like this game obviously dont like to PLAY video games they would rather watch videos. The graphics look good, but so does Shrek, its the same concept, its not a good looking video game its a good looking movie. I wish I could find some poor fool to buy this from me for the [money] I wasted on it.

Completely Amazed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: December 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As im sure a lot of us are, avid gamers. I myself am a big fan of the FF series. I started playing when FF7 came out, I wasnt too sure of the outcome for I have only played one RPG before them and that was Beyond the Beyond. Ever since playing FF7 i was hooked by Squaresoft. I finally got my hands on a demo version of FF10. I was completly amazed at what I saw before me. The cutscenes between CG's and actually playing mode was so smooth and seamless. The PS2's power definatly shows up here. But what caught my eye most what the fight scenes. NO MORE TIME GUAGES!!! I was in love. No more waiting for your char to build up an attack guage. When its your turn to fight... you can go right into it. Luna's summons are astounding, there is a definate more intimate reltionships with the Guardian Forces this time around. And they will stay the duration of the battle, instead of coming in for one quick massive hit and then gone again. Nope, they stay until you either send them back or they run out of health. They also have their own overdrives (ie..limit breaks, trance..so forth) When the chars do their own personal overdrives, you can control the hits, just like in FF8. I personally suck at those combintaions and I am curious if their is way to switch of the manual overdrive system and let it do it on automatic? Well anyway.. this game is a must buy, and you will be kicking yourself in the ass if you dont preorder this right now.

Wow, this game has really good graphics!...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: July 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

And that's about it, folks. The end of Final Fantasy as we know it. Why does every recent Final Fantasy have to be turn-based, has to be a long haired blonde whiner, fake voice-acting, no real strategy in battle, hard bosses, and a bland story? Because Square can't make Final Fantasies anymore, folks. Whatever happened to the goodness of 6, 7, and 9?

The ultiimate Role Playing EXPERIENCE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: January 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you want a proffesional review for this game, go for Offficial Playstation Magazine. They have a clear view of what this game is about. This is a game. And yet most people play it for the experience. If you ask any RPG gamer their opinion they will probalby say they play the game for the graphics, the sound and the story. Sqare has made it more into an interactive fantasy/drama/scifi movie than a true game. Granted the game is very linear and it is not very hard to progress in, it is one of the best of it's caliber.

Graphics: Since this is the first Square RPG outing on the PS2, you can imagine that the graphics will be a bit uneven here and there. I must say that the graphics in Metal Gear Solid 2 are better, but they are restricted to mosty brown and murky colors. Final Fantasy X is the best looking RPG ever, and everything is just so colorful and alive compared to MGS2. It has such vibrant colors it just sucks you into the world and does not let go until you have gotten every secret and everything.

Sound: As you probably expected, the sound in this game is superb, better than yadda yadda yadda... But the catch is that instead of just famed Nobuo Uetsumura composing all of the tunes, there are 2 others joining him. In turn, there is some music you would have expected in a game like Heavy Metal FaKK 2 instead of Final Fantasy. It is still superb.

Gameplay: Here we get to the good stuff. for all of you experienced ffers, the gameplay is similar to ffIX but not the same. for one there is the major addition of the new revamped battle system. now there is count time battle instead of the active time battle which is a huge breath of fresh air for the series. There is also the minigame blitzball which is more complex than that of the ordinary game. All of this is good and makes you want to play non stop.

Premise: Tidus, a Blitzball player from Zanarkand is attacked by sin at a big game. he is thrown 1000 years forward in time to the place called spira. there he meets many people such as Yuna (summoner) LuLu(Black Mage) Wakka (pro blitz player) Rikku (Al Bhed) Seymour (Maester of Yevon) Kimahri (big cat beast thing) and various races of people. He ends up helping yuna destroy sin and make the people of Spira safe again. The Plot is very good as is everything else.

The only reason I gave this game 1 star is so someone would look at it judging that there are about 279 other reviews here. I whole heartedly give this game as many stars as I can

Enjoy!

Also try Skies of arcadia (better) or Suidoken III (not as good but still good)

Interactivity?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: May 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has received excellent reviews from one end of the 'net to the other. I would simply disagree, because as a rental it was not engaging enough to even get me 5 minutes into the actual gameplay (although 5 minutes' gameplay meant 30 minutes' sitting around). The game begins with beautiful but *huge* cut scenes, with very little for the gamer to do but sit through them (no, you can't skip), and occasionally walk from one point to another (so you can't even go and make a cup of tea). Game designers don't seem to understand my beef, namely that I want a game to *play*, not *watch*. The plot that begins to unfold is, as always in these instances, hardly a strong one. If you stick with the tedium of the opening gambit (why don't designers use the first minutes to interactively "hook" the player?!), you are thrown through a couple of battles which are not quite easy enough to be tutorials. Also, if you haven't read your manual (and who on earth does?), you'll miss your one opportunity to save, period. You may well, as did I, then die in the next battle - where you cannot win by force of arms, and need to target an item, not a character - one of a number of points where you need to be intuitively connected to the inner workings of the design team's collective mind. All of which means you then see the words "Game Over", and sit through the tedium once more... if you decide to persevere. In short, this may be a beautiful game, and even quite fun once you get inside it, but I'm not going to bother. Poor game design, in my humble opinion, is not excused by pretty graphics and yet another weak Japanese-style fantasy-cartoony plot.

This is crap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 22
Date: January 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If I wanted to watch a movie I'd rent one. How can games like this be called "games" when all you do is sit there watching tv while the controller lay helplessly in your hands? I rented this game (thank God) before I was going to buy it. I think I put up with it for about an hour. Once in a whie you get to push a few buttons to fight and then you're stuck watching another movie forever!!! PLUS, I hate this crap with new games not letting you skip scenes. This goes for Jack and Daxter too. Dark Cloud is the only PS2 game that I actually enjoyed. I like Baldurs Gate too but it was WAY too short.
Bottom line: this game sucks. I'm bored. I need a game that I can play and not just watch for crying out loud!

Calling this a "game" is a generous use of the term

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 22
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was expecting this to be a role-playing game, but what I found instead is that it's a movie, albeit one where you have to hit the buttons every few minutes to move the story along.

The plot seems very linear to the point where there's not a whole lot you can do to influence it. It seems pretty hard to die, and a great majority of my time was spent watching cutscenes rather than doing any role playing, or for that matter playing of any kind. I'm actually a bit baffled by the sheer number of positive reviews. Sure, there's brilliant eye candy and a gripping plot, but there's no compelling game underneath.

You probably already know what you're buying

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Just to let you know that I understand why you're here, I'm sure that ninety percent of the people who actually READ these reviews already own the game. For the small minority of folks who don't fall into that category, I'll get to the point quickly--I doubt that you will be disappointed if you buy this game. That's the long and the short of it, if you want to cut straight to the point. I, however, would like to linger on some of the finer points of this title if I may. I'm giving the game five stars, but it's not a strong five--this title, like every single Final Fantasy game to date, has some pretty large problems that need to be addressed before the release of Final Fantasy XII.
The Final Fantasy series is a long one, and it's safe to say that every game to date has been a substantial improvement over the one that preceeded it. This is certainly true in the technical sense, and continues to be true with the newest installment. This game is pretty. The world is probably the most imaginative that Square has generated in recent years. The FMV sequences are well done, if a little sparsely distributed throughout the game. As a strictly visual experience, Final Fantasy X probably can't be surpassed by any other title available for the Playstation2.
Role playing games, however, are not all about appearance. While this game is marvelously balanced, with a combat system that finally allows you to economically keep all of your characters in the game, the game's story suffers from a couple of critical flaws. For one thing, it's massively, overwhelmingly depressing. The theme of Final Fantasy IX was somewhere in the neighborhood of mortality, and it appears that the good folks at Square decided to take the next logical step into the realm of death. Unfortunately, that's not a particularly jolly subject to discuss (a fact which makes the characterization of Tidus all the more difficult to understand). Death is all over the place in this game, and after a certain point, it starts to wear on you. There's little in the way of (deliberate) humor, as well--I can only watch Wakka take a pratfall so many times before it becomes blase. In short, this thing's story is pretty heavy, and the designers didn't do anything at all to try and lighten the load for the player.
What's more, Square, in typical Square fashion, has once again managed to screw up another ending. The formula for Final Fantasy is becoming clear--the first thing that you can assume going in is that you will not have heard of the being you defeat to win the game until the last hour and a half of play. While this game isn't as bad as, say, Final Fantasy IX (I STILL don't know who Necron was) in that regard, it's still got problems. The ending is sure to leave more than a few loyal gamers disappointed, and any objective evaluation would have to call it a failure. Endings, after all, are supposed to resolve things, and nobody really changes much after this game's plot runs out.
I should make clear, however, that these are simply blemishes on the face of an overall excellent game. If you want them to, they can detract from the fun, but most of them can be easily ignored. On the whole, this game is undoubtedly one of, if not the best in the series, and certainly one of the best for the platform.

this is not a game...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this is a movie. perhaps i would've cared more about these characters and their story if their intrusive, whining voices hadn't grated on my nerves and if i had been actually allowed any gameplay at all. you move 5 steps, cut-scene. you move 10 steps, FMV. 3 more steps and you have yourself a battle. repeat process. where is the fun? and do not tell me those unbearble "cloister trials" were supposed to be fun. blitzball was equally annoying.

you could not even control your own AIRSHIP. in final fantasies past, aquiring the airship is like a prize. after much hard work and dedication, you get your own ship, a symbol of power and superiority. you are cut down in FFX, you are nothing but a puppet. you are controlled by your characters and their story, you are not apart of their world. perhaps the story is good. perhaps the characters are interesting. but for me, i wasn't motivated enough to care. the graphics are flawless, which only serves to irritate me. there are no quirks. perfection. boring.

i'll stick with the classics...

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