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great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

one of my first RPGs! I totally fell in love with it!

"How many steaks do you think we can get out of this one?"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Although which FF game has the mechanically-best battle system is heavily debatable, FFX has the best-implemented battle system of the entire series, except possibly for FF Tactics. The battle screen in FFX loads quickly, battles are bug-free (remember the 'mblock stat' and 'dark status' bugs in FFVI), and the turn system in FFX takes into consideration character speed and execution time for moves, in order to determine when to give each character another turn, rather than working in battle rounds, like in FF 1-3. The result is a battle system tactically similar to the ATB system, except which allows for easy character and equipment swapping, and features no delay between the selection and execution of a move, keeping the battles moving along at maximum speed. The quality of battle action animations are at a series high in this game, and overkill bonuses, plus the ability to fight using Aeons, give the player extra battle mechanics to consider, just when hacking and slashing start to get a little dull. Although originating in Lunar, the in-battle voices in this game add a lot to it, with what characters say in battle often determined by the opponent, or combination of characters in the party, rather than merely the move being executed.

The voice acting in FFX is generally high-quality, although the abundance of voice acting serves to disguise the fact that the characters have much less to talk about in FFX than in FFVII through FFIX. Like FFVII, FFX often features five-minute cutscenes filled with dialogue, although the actual amount of dialogue present in five minutes' worth of voice acting is significantly less than in five minutes' worth of text boxes, with the final result being that FFX features a shallower story with less character development. The game's story has an annoying pattern of explicitly emphasizing moral dilemmas which should already be obvious to the player (ex: dialogue such as: "Is it really okay to hate the Al-Bhed?"), overemphasizing the emotion of particular scenes ("Nobody could believe that Yuna was about to call the final Aeon, and that meant..."), and allowing its characters to act too much like themselves (Wakka's continued objections to disobedience towards Yevon's teachings, even after exposing Yevon's corruption). After the reasonably mature stories of FF7-9, this game's story comes of as positively childish, despite featuring a good amount of philisophical content regarding the nature of death, because the dialogue is written with a constant degree of paranioa that the player won't understand the significance of certain scenes, and most of the time, the characters exist not to interact, but rather to be different from one another.

One particularly annoying flaw in FFX is the field exploration screen, where the edges of navigable areas do not in any way correspond with the position of walls and barriers, so the majority of the time, field avatar Tidus is exploring a dungeon or forest until he runs into a barricade of... absolutely nothing! This causes the player to spend more time looking at the minimap for the position of the abstract walls than the field screen for the position of the illustrated ones, and actually discourages the player from enjoying the level of detail that the illustrators have put into the game's environments. The music in FFX, while not bad, is also unspectacular.

Best Game EVER!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion, this is the best PS2 title ever. It is a very fun and a long game. The storyline deserves an award, and the battle sequences are awesome. It is also very addictive. I am an avid Final Fantasy fan, and this is the game that started it out. If you are smart you will buy this title.

Outstanding Performance, Square Enix!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is an excellent addition to the ongoing line of Final Fantasy games. The magic and fighting systems are top notch. The cinematography is breathtaking. The story, as always, isn't the best but pretty good, and they have very good voice actors this time.

Like most final fantasy games, this game allows you to play the main game quickly, or proceed on miniquests and games that will take you hours and hours passed the normal gameplay.

I recommend this game for any and all who like RPGs. Don't go for FFX-2, though - trust me.

Greatest Final Fantasy Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has everything, great story, fun, humor, action, adventure, drama, etc. One of the greatest Final Fantasy game ever.

This game is to be completed withing 40hrs of playtime, though, getting all the good stuff takes a lot of time and gets you bored, but it's worth the effort.

What got me into Final Fantasy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

About four years ago, I was growing as both an anime and a third grader, and seeing an ad for this game on TV absolutely blew me away. The graphics of the game were nothing like I'd ever seen in my life at that time, and the title (this was before I knew that there were other Final Fantasies), FINAL FANTASY, seemed to leave an impression in my mind that "THIS IS SO COOL". About a year later, recieving a PS2 for Christmas, I finally was able to rent the game. I wasn't impressed, but renting the game more and more and getting further and further pulled me into this vortex of mysteries. Another year later, I finally purchased Final Fantasy X and was addicted to it and still have been.

I have to admit, if you're looking for a hands-on, fast-paced action-RPG, you won't find it anywhere in the Final Fantasy series. This is a solid, strategically centered RPG that has one of the most addictive storylines ever. This is where I'll start:
Storyline (9.3/10)- at first, I thought that the story of Final Fantasy X was mundane, as in the main character being transported to this unknown time and has to find a way to get back, wow how original. Eventually, as I played more, it seemed to build more and turn into this deep story that strayed away a bit from the main character. I can compare it alot to FFVIII (bought it after playing FFX), with the romance between main characters (weak point in FFX's story, strong point in FFVIII's), the connection and mystery between heroes and foes, and back stories of the characters affecting the outcome of the story. The strongest point in the story was the relationship between the foe and hero, it was a great surprise and was like, "What to do next?" and finding out that the hero never existed almost made me want to burst into millions of tears. Though that's when the story was strong, the story was weak when it involved romance between Tidus and Yuna, resembling a soap opera type setting, not very Final Fantasy-like if you ask me. Though romance is always intriguing, but the problem is that it's always stereotypical and instantaneous. The romance seemed to make it seem alittle, well, corny (it's like, "You've known the guy for [I'm guessing] a few days, and now you're 'eternally bonded' to him?"). It was unique how heresy was a key word in the story, altogether a very intriguing story; JUST NO MORE CORNY/INSTANTANEOUS ROMANCE, PLEASE!

Graphics (8.6/10)- the graphics at first glance are quite stunning, but the flaws become more visible near the conclusion of the game. The good qualities of the graphics are the environments, they don't make the characters stick out like a sore thumb like they did in the PSX installments. The CGI graphics are beautiful, but the problem is that the CGI graphics seemed to appear alot more different than the field screen graphics (okay), battle graphics (not very good), and conversation graphics (ranged from good to absolutely horrid). The battle graphics contrasted to my comment on how the characters didn't stick out in the environment, well they really stuck out and looked blocky, plus movement wasn't very fluid. In coversations, the motion capture graphics were very good, considering that this game was one of the pioneers in using motion capture for facial expressions, but at times when it was not applied, the characters looked like their facial features/expressions were scribbled on with a blue Roseart crayon.

Gameplay (8/10)- the gameplay, as I said, is not fast-paced and action-packed; it is very strategic and hard to understand if you don't pay attention to the tutorials, but that really goes for the whole FF series. The Sphere Grid is not very hard to understand, but if you forget ONE sphere, your next boss fight will most likely be a failure. Once you learn how to use the grid, it's really easy to level up and get better. The battles are linear, and they get really annoying after a while. The bosses are very hard, you have to depend on raw instinct at times of doubt, and other times, continuous loss will make you shed blood, sweat, and tears (I had to battle Evrae about twenty times before I made it to Bevelle) and sometimes will leave you in a corner where you can't figure out whether to start the game all over again or fight more battles and slowly level up. I highly suggest saving at EVERY savepoint, considering that savepoints are put in some of the oddest places and there aren't many in general. The minigames are something that I prefer to skip, I'd rather see what happens at the end of the story than play a monotonous game of Blitzball against world champion caliber AI or ride a chocobo for hours against the same person again and again. Altogether, the game is hard, but not as hard and fun as previous installments i played after this. The maps made it incredibly easy, and the airship feature made the game speed up near the end. The game excels in storyline more than gameplay, I WANT to find the end of the story, not play all of this extra crap that doesn't help, but still, you have to fight to level and progress to reach the end...

Sound (9/10)- one of the most mesmerizing facts about FFX was the music. The music had so many facets to it; from ambient, to blissful, to strident, it was one of the most memorable parts of the game. The music had fit in so well with some parts, that it also wanted to make me burst into tears (as you can see, I'm very emotional when it comes to videogames); but if I were here to praise the music, I'd write a review on the OST. The voice acting (English Dub) was hillarious, every time Tidus yelled, he sounded like a little kid, Yuna sounded like a computer, Wakka sounded like one of the Baha Men as well as Kimahri; Auron, Lulu and Seymour had very good voice actors, their personality seemed to be portrayed well. As for the NPCs, let's just say that too many famous actors were selected (wow, the guy who voices Spongebob gets to be in Final Fantasy), but some were okay I guess. I highly reccomend buying the Japanese version, since it's the original voices.

Replay value (9.7/10)- Final Fantasy X has such an intriguing story, that you'll want to hear it over and over again; the gameplay wasn't great, but just to be capable of holding all of those emotions makes you want to play again and again. I beat it five times and am still not bored with it!

Overall (9/10)- Final Fantasy X is a story charged game filled with twists and turns to keep you stimulated, but you have to play through the game to get through it, but the gameplay is very slow and complex. It's not as fun as other installments, but is beautiful and intriguing. If you want to go through a bunch of Kleenex boxes, BUY THIS; if you want to have emotions once again, BUY THIS; if you want to escape from the cruel world of reality; BUY THIS, or if you just want to play Final Fantasy; BUY THIS.

Fantastic!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I loved the little mini puzzles within this game and I can play this again and again. the graphics are amazing; just what I've come to expect from the makers of Final Fantasy!

Masterpiece.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely stunning. The graphics are amazing. The music is fantastic and fits it perfectly. You can relate to the characters and they along with the voice acting are done so well they make you care about them. The story is great and feels epic the whole way through. When you feel like taking a break form the story there is blitz ball and chocobo racing. I seriously can't see a single imperfection in this game. Well actually I can, the sequel/side story they made called X-2 was terrible, don't buy that. Go buy Final Fantasy X, not X-2, please god don't get them confused, this game is amazing and the best Final Fantasy of all time, and X-2 is well.....crap.

Final Fantasy X

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was the Final Fantasy game I have played. (I have played through XII) It has a balance of romance, action, and suspense that is needed to make a game. It is not bloody but still has dramatic death scenes. It is very kid friendly and also adults would love it too.

Possibly the greatest Final Fantasy game ever. Period

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

From start to finish this game is a rock solid 5 stars. Its very immersing and the story compels you to play out each scene. Some of the acting is a little humorous just because of the facial expressions but these video games are getting more and more lifelike. Other then some annoying phrases spoken every now and then by Wakka, this game is just non-stop entertainment. Which is what I expect from a Final Fantasy game. Just AWESOME. No other words can describe them.

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