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The Depth of a Good Novel, an Experience like Nothing Else

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: January 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is enough to bring in not only RPG-adverse gamers but also those who've never liked games to begin with.

First, the storyline is phenomenal. I have never become so emotionally involved in a game, nor have I seen such round characters and beautiful character development as the story progesses. Within a story, if you are going to draw a reader into your world, you must convince your reader that the events are truly believeable. In fantasy and sci fi, this often involves a "willing suspension of disbelief" where the reader is so captivated as to ignore what may be implausable logically. This game is like a novel in that sense: I was so involved in the game that there were only a few places where I faltered and asked myself "how does this make sense?" The storyline, while not without its bumps, is reason enough to play the game all the way through. And once you get to the very end, I think you will find, as I did, that you are moved in a way that borders on ridiculous coming from a video game.

Then you have side quests and Blitzball! I spent hours playing this game, which you can play at any save point. It is a really fun game outside of everything, and while it's none too complicated, as an action game it's worth playing for its own sake.

As others have mentioned, the newest touch is the addition of voice acting. The American voices are sometimes unbelievably good (Auron), and sometimes fall flat. Some are indeed laughable at first, but one quickly accepts and responds to those of the main characters.

Next comes the software engineering. I am still reeling, wondering how this was accomplished, in awe of how very long it must have taken to code. The achievement as a piece of software lies in facial expressions and graphics. The facial expressions are a wonderful touch, especially in the movies. But Sony's software developers obviously need more time to smooth things out with this new technology, as the characters sometimes look goofy. Finally, the graphics themselves are another reason, aside from everything else, to play the game. The CG movies are all breathtaking. Be sure to stop by Luca's sphere theater in this game, as if you have enough gil ($), you can purchase "spheres" that allow you to watch the CG movies whenever you visit Luca. A wonderful addition, as you will want to see these movies again.

As if Sqauresoft thought all this wasn't enough, they added a solid soundtrack alongside. Many of the songs will get stuck in your head, while others are forgetable. But when it counts, the music is perfectly chosen.

All in all, this is not only the greatest game I've ever played, but one of the more enjoyable things I've ever done with 80+ hours of my time. I never thought I'd feel such strong emotion from a video game, but leave that to the wizards at Square. Perhaps this is the world's newest artistic medium. What better than a great movie than a great movie you get to participate in.

Final Fantasy X

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 20
Date: November 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Square once again has amazed us all with the graphics for FFX, but does the game live up to its predecessors? YES! This game is very good, with Hollywood style graphics, gameplay that excels all games before it, also great soundtrack and voice acting! Buy this game as soon as you get a chance! I'm tired of playing my import, and I can't wait for the English version!

Does not live up to the title

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: July 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I bought this game I was expecting another rpg gaming masterpeice from Squaresoft, buit that was far from what I got. In the past, Squaresoft has released many fantastic titles including the incredible Final Fantasy series. This game, however, is not the final fantasy that i have grown to know and love. Althogh the game has still lived up to the series beautiful landscapes, incredible cg sequences, and well designed charecters, looks are not everything and this game lacks a lot of everything else.

First of all, it was to short. I found that I had beaten it in about two weeks playing for an hour or two per day. Strangely, the creators decided to leave out many of the classic Final Fantasy systems. They made it so that you do not level-up your character, instead you must earn AP points to slowly complete a confusing "sphere grid".

Also, they threw the origional world-map style out the window. The origional was actually a mini version of the planet that you walked around on to get to your destination and would be able to fight monsters on to gain experience. Now it is just a piece of paper with dotted lines. Adding to this, you cannot travel to different places, other than that of the plot line, until the VERY end of the game.

They trashed the combat system so that it has not even a hint of real-time(in other words, you can sit for 14 years in battle if you like without a monster attacking you) and you cannot pause to stop the in-game timer.

The character personalities were not very realistic, and often left you thinking "Man, those people are really weird"

The voice acting was laughable. The character voices did not enhance the game at all, in fact I found it annoying.

The plot of the game was okay, but it lacked interaction. You have no actual participation in the plot, as you sort of just "fill in the blanks" so to speak. Almost like watching a 20 hour movie.

If you have never played a Final Fantasy game before, you could probobly enjoy this, otherwise just rent it. In fact, if I had never played a Final Fantasy game before, I would probobly give it four stars. In the end the game is not horrible, but had a lot of un-used potential. There are better Final Fantasy titles out there, and I suggest VII, VIII, and IX.

Perfection

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm going to be crisp and clean to the point in this review, I played and completed it a few times.

STORY: This is possibly one of the best RPG storylines I have ever encountered. In the beginning, it leaves you wondering, it may be confusing to a few. However, as the game progresses, everything starts to get clearer, yet it still leaves you wondering what will happen next. Everything in this game is so very detailed, including the storyline. It's the little things that get you captivated. I highly recommend this game, because of the storyline alone.
CHARACTERS: In FF9, some of the characters were never developed. They entered, and didn't go anywhere. In this game, it's not the case. Characters get more interesting the more you play, don't judge by first impressions. Their dialogue matches up to what you would expect the character to say in that situation. Some people complain about the game being short, but it is far from that. With the characters each having a history, each having a future, and each having a different personality, this game lasts very long.
GRAPHICS: Have you seen screenshots? Unlike anything I've ever seen; amazing.
GAMEPLAY: FUN. Isn't that what games are all about? The fun factor? I enjoyed playing this, the battle system is great. There are no annoying levels, you can customise your characters' actions, weapons, armors, and a few other options. Add on Aeons (summoned beasts) that you can customise, and this whole game is at your conrol. By far, this is the best RPG (or game) on Playstation 2 currently.

I really suggest that you buy this. I wouldn't be writing all this if I thought it wasn't worth your time and money.

A great game with a great story

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Perhaps the most powerful feature of the Final Fantasy games is the story element; somehow, Square always manages to make a story that not only throws and emotional punch, but also raises the questions of the philosophical and the metaphysical. Final Fantasy X is no different; it has one of the most moving stories, perhaps since Final Fantasy VI [released as Final Fantasy III here in the US], and combined with great gameplay, astounding graphics (DUH, it's SQUARE), and wonderful music, and you have another masterpiece. After playing this, I played several PS2 games, and I could only appreciate Final Fantasy X more. Get this game!

AWESOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game blew my socks off.I've played a lot of RPG's most good but some bad.(summoner).Very few have given me such an enjoyable time.The story I felt was top notch,I love stories with depth in my RPG's this has depth.An not as confusioning as some past RPG's.The characters flesh out pretty well over the course of the game.The ending I thought was great and pulled strongly at my emotion strings. The game play was good,pretty easy to learn.I loved being able to switch characters in and out during battle.I also loved being able to use my aeons as fighting characters,instead of summoning them for just one big hit.This new feature comes in handy in some of the later battles,when your aeon can stick around and take a big hit for the team. The new sphere grid also greatly impressed me.Though a little awkward at first,I soon got the hang of it.You can control how your characters develop,as opposed to just leveling up in a pre determind order. The voice acting I felt added a lot to the experiance.Though the voices don't always match up to the mouth movements...,The game took me about 53hrs to complete.There are side quests and a game called Blitz Ball.Blitz Ball I really didn't like,an only played when I had to.Though my friend loves it and plays it all the time on his system.I guess its different for everyone and you'll have to make your own decision.After a while you can recruit players an play at every save point.Also the random battles can get on your nerves at times when you just want to advance the story,but this is the same in all FF games.Maybe someday Square will do something about this,but if they don't I'll still play their games,because they are the best.In the end FFX left me satisfied on so many levels.Buy this game I think you will enjoy it.

Unbelievable game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am a fan of all Final Fantasy games out there (been one since the days of Nintendo), and yet I was completely blown away by this... and after @80 hours of game play I'm still blown away. Take my advise on this, however, prepare for a lot of yelling by loved ones for hogging the TV, lol! The story line is detailed throughout the game, and of course it never wavers... you know what you have to do, just sometimes not where you have to go... but hey, when that happens... it's level up time right? The ending to this game is a tear jerker... espescially since you're riveted to the screen as it is... and don't shut off the game when you see the credits... heh heh, that's all I'll say on that. The level up system is frustrating at first, but soon you get the hang of everything... a caracter can at one time be a warrior, and you decide in the middle 'maybe I need another magic user'... no problem. The sphere grid allows you to decide whether or not to advance certain aspects of the characters... speed, defense, HP, MP, Magic strength, etc.
The cinama plays are esquisite and the voice over comments make things even better... psst! for those times when you need to mute the TV, subtitles are still there! hee hee.

Best RPG Ever?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

"Final Fantasy X" is possibly the greatest RPG video game ever released, which automatically also locks it in as a contender for best game ever, period. It'd probably be impossible to ever choose a single video game for that title, but I think I'd put this in the top half-dozen or so of games I've ever played, on any console.

Although I was, in the very beginning of the game, a bit disappointed in the lack of ability to choose character names (except for the 'Tidus' character, who can be renamed, as can Aeons) or characteristics (this was among the first of the 'current generation console' RPG games I played), that disappointment was rapidly blown away by what a great array of characters - including enemies and 'supporting' characters, not just the party members you play - the gamemakers had developed. They're fully realized, helped by great animation including facial expressions; first-rate voice acting that ranks as among the best in video games and shows that their performers are just as talented as those in other fields of acting; and believable personalities and character histories that are slowly revealed, while never spelling every last thing out and letting you draw your own inferrences. And, in a difficult feat to attain, the complex storyline doesn't overshadow the gameplay, nor the gameplay possibilities limit the range of the story. It's instead a perfect blending of story and game, much like the equally great (but very different) "Clock Tower 3".

A number of the enemies are truly challenging, in that it's not just a case of making sure you have enough hit points and the most powerful weapons available when you face them, but you really have to strategize and figure out how to beat them. The general look of the monsters is detailed and very impressive. A number of creatures also have high 'cute appeal', which I suppose may be a minus to some gamers but which I found a refreshing change whenever they'd appear. As the game unfolds, new revelations and angles really increase the characters's (and player's) motivations; you can get totally immersed in this.

The basic story - or at least the beginning of it - has the Tidus character (the game's main point-of-view character) apparantly brought forward in time a thousand years to a world much less technologically advanced from the one he's from but higher in magic and beset by monsters, as well as the eternal scourge of the mega-monster Sin, the creature that attacks Tidus's home city of Zanarkand in the incredible opening. Tidus winds up on the aisle of Besaid, befriended by a 'blitzball' player named Wakka, and meeting Yuna, a Summoner-In-Training preparing to embark on the quest many Summoners undertake but never complete, the quest of gathering enough Aeons to defeat Sin. The true curse of the world of Spira though, is that Sin is never truly defeated, never has been over the past thousand years, and always rises again within a few years of its defeat to terrorize the planet again. That's the situation Spira is in at the time the game's quest really gets underway. As Tidus (or whatever you choose to rename him) everything about the world is new, and the player learns about it along with the character. There's a full compliment of other characters who will eventually make up the full team.

Epic, wonderfully imagined, at times hilarious, fearsome and touching, even tearful at times, "Final Fantasy X" runs the full gamut. Even after you've played the game through to its conclusion, you'll likely want to go back and see what secrets there are that you Haven't unlocked yet. Just how many Aeons are there in addition to the ones listed in the book? How many secret cities, ruins, etc. can you really discover given enough exploration of the world map and of seemingly uninhabited deserts? All the characters, as in all the Final Fantasy games, have a little victory dance or celebration when they win, and here each character's is unique: will Lulu ever lean forward just a little too much in the bow that constitues her 'victory dance'? (sorry, sorry, I couldn't resist. The female characters in this game are Hot! And it's not just Lulu's celebration that's cool to watch, it's just the only one that, uh, presents the potential..uh, never mind.) How many different ways can the Cloudy Mirror be utilized once it's powered up? So there's great possibilities for followup gameplay, because it's hard to find Everything the first trip around.

Super story, super playability, wonderful characters that you really care about and function as fully engaging as the best characters in movies, books, etc. A must-own.

The Fantasy Holds True

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First let me start off by saying that this was the first game I played in the Final Fantasy series, so I can not compare it to any of the others. That is, however, not a bad thing. It means I'm not a fanboy and can give you an un-biased review, not that FF Fans can't but you see where I'm going with this.

I got X shortly after getting a PS2 (I got my PS2 only a year and a half or two years ago) and enjoyed it quite a bit, but somehow lost interest halfway through. Not sure why. I was stuck on a boss (first Seymour) and got irritated, but beat him and got to the next save point only to not pick up the game again. But then I realized "What's my problem?" and started over recently.

From the start of the new file I couldn't help but wonder why I had ever stopped. The characters are captiviating and interesting, it's fun to watch them interact, the graphics are (sometimes) stunning and always at least above average. I love the music from Otherworld to Fight With Seymour. All the tunes are either emotional or fun or fast or get stuck in your head. Some of Mister Uematsu's finest. The storyline starts out simply enough, but eventually develops into more mature and adult themes like religion's conflict with tradition and the modern times, racism, war, etc. There are enough sidequests and sidebosses to keep you interested long past the main storyline, though not as many as I'd have imagined. All in all, though, it's really just wonderful. Some of the acting in the cutscenes is ludicrous (see the infamous "laughing scene") but that's not too often. I also like the Sphere Grid (the system for leveling) and think it's a nice, non-linear alternative to projected paths of what the character turns out like. Blitzball, however, isn't fun. Good thing about that is you only HAVE to play it once.

Pros.
Great graphics, music, characters, storyline, battle system, weapon upgrade system, voice acting, leveling system.

Cons.
A tad short for an RPG (tad meaning not very much, it's long enough), sometimes laughable acting (you'll know what I'm talking about), and enigmatic ending.

When it all comes down to it, though, you're getting a five-star game for $10 used. And you really can't beat that. This is an A-grade RPG at a C+ price and you just can't go wrong. The game is great and you have no excuse but to buy it with it being so cheap.

Happy Fantasying...

Long, long lasting fun for all ages

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

You can really tell that the developers of FFX knew what they were doing, and listened carefully to all criticism and kudos from the previous versions. This game does just about everything right, improving on the previous games and keeping the parts that make the game so incredibly enjoyable.

First, the storyline. This isn't just a hack-and-slash game - you really do start to get to know the various characters, each with their own personalities and personality quirks. None of the characters are perfect - Tidus is a little petulant, Wakka a bit closeminded. But as time goes on, they learn, grow, get from a disparate bunch of individuals to a really well integrated group.

The addition of voice dialogue is rather neat, although it does get a little strange in some scenes. In general it does add to the sense that this is a live movie - especially during the GORGEOUS cut-scenes. As an anime fan, this is the sort of stuff I used to go to art movie houses to watch!

Where in the last game (FFIX) they required you to play card games to move through the game, this time the game of choice isn't required. Blitzball is like water soccer, and the scenes of it are truly amazing. You can play if you want to get one of the characters better weapons, but if it's not your style, you can ignore it as well. The choice is yours!

The world is really well put together, with the various culture and their art styles and architectures. It's great fun moving from deserts to mountains to water worlds. The game moves smoothly, letting you learn as you go. It's pretty unidirectional so you don't get wildly lost while you're learning. Near the end, you gain the ability to go whereever you want, and explore at your leisure.

You easily stay entertained for weeks and weeks (if not for months) because there are so many side quests and mini-games that you can play right before the final battle. Just put off the end battle as long as you want, building up your characters and the world in which they live. Then, when you're ready, blast the enemy and relish the ending!

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