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40+ hour movie with 4 hours of game play....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 28 / 73
Date: December 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have 30 hours into this movie/game, because I refused to believe Square would come out with a movie in the guise of a game. And FFX is just that. A movie with limited (and I mean LIMITED) player interaction, on a level with the horrible Xenogears. There are NO camera angle changes, and no 360 degree control. The game is TOTALLY and completely linear. You spend the first two hours watching young Tidus, a supposedly great blitzball player, whine and whimper about `his old man' disappearing when he was young. Not only is the voice over emotionally inconsistant, the pitch is irritable. AND YOU CANNOT X-MASH THROUGH THE SCENES! The `game' is in complete control thoughout. The plot is entangled (and I mean in knots) with religious conflict and political manipulation, the intricacies of which, as an adult, I understood and enjoyed. As a teen, I wouldn't tolerate it, and would be horrified when I found YOU CANNOT BYPASS A SINGLE SCENE THROUGHOUT THE GAME. While most of the backdrops are graphically superior, there is little exploration allowed. Your characters run only only on paths in area scenes, and there is NO world scene, and no control over destination. You only go where the game sends you. (I have 30 hours in, I hope it changes...)

But there are some redeeming factors here. If you don't mind watching another `Final Fantasy: Spirits Within' movie, you are in luck. The computer graphics are absolutely breathtaking. As far as ganes go, FFX is the CG feather in Square's cap, especially the ocean scenes involving Sin, the mega-whale sized creature bent on destruction. I have never seen creatures and water displayed with such realism. On land, the trees sway, and I wish Square had invested as much time in the gameplay as they did making everyone's hair move in the breeze. The voice-overs were a step up in reading text after text after text (I turned the text off and just listened...)The battle scenes are copied from FFIX with a few graphic enhancements. The `sphere' grid' is a new way of powering up and learning spells, and is the most amusing part of the game. Weapons do not get stronger (you buy/find ones with different attributes) which is diappointing. Now for the Aeons, your summoned beings. There are only 4, taken from FFIX, with some very nice enhanced graphics. Unfortunately, the summoning scenes are excrutiatingly long (at least 15 seconds each and every time. Apparently Square was so enamured with the graphics, you CANNNOT shorten them as in prior FF games. You might as well get up and make a sandwich everytime you summon), so you prefer to leave Yuna, the heroine out of the battles. The sphere grid is a neat new way of upping HP and MP, and is actually challenging to maze through. The side game of Blitz is fair, but I found the control buttons do not respond per the instructions. You'll see. And, the game controls the matches. I prefered the card games in FF VIII and IX. And for you mothers of 12 year old boys, FFX graphics are true to EVERY scantily clad female body movement, so be ready for Lulu the Black Mage.

I play nothing but RPG's and Res-Evil style games. RPG stands for Role Playing Game. There is little to be had here except for moving the characters in and out of the battle scenes. I have 30 hours into this game only because I couldn't believe Square would come out with another game/movie (guess I forgot Xenogears) As a game, this falls so far short. As an example of computer graphic capabilities, Square has given us the showcase of the year. And I do mean a showcase. This is the feather in Square's graphics cap.

I have played every FF game, as well as almost every RPG made. I cannot recommend you buy this as a game, new. I would wait a week for the movies fans to return theirs, and buy it then. Since it is totally linear, without skip capabilities, I would not rent this. You will have it a while. Perhaps I will update this after I finish the `game', unless I just get sick of it and move on.

There are several other Square games much more suited to GAMING. I recommend FF IX most highly, as well as ChronoCross (very nicely done), the sequel to ChronoTrigger. Also try, Legend of Dragoon, Star Ocean: Second Story, and Breath of Fire III. For Dreamcast, try Skies of Arcadia. 50 hours of total 360 degree control through an extremely vast world.

The longest movie currently on DVD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 47
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have logged several hours "playing" this game, I threw in the game watched videos for 20 minutes, pushed the x button a couple times and did it all over again and again and again. This game looks great, but it is not 3d rendered it is pre-rendered cgi. All the fight scenes, video and everything is this game is not controlled by the player it is all pre recorded video. I have read hundreds of reviews of people who love this "game". I love PS2 and have waited over a year for this game, but am extremley disappointed there is NO game play at all, I have logged about 8 hours of play and the actual control time has be around 30 minutes the rest is watching "Lame Storyline Videos" I dont want to care about some caracter or his dead dad, or hope he hooks up with some chick in the end. I want to roam around a 3d world discovering secrets and PLAYING a video game. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY, get a video game like Metal Gear Solid or Devil May Cry. Yes the video looks nice but so does ToyStory 2

A counterpoint to the effiusive praise this game gets.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 43 / 74
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I understand that many people love this game. I understand that people love the characters, the storyline, and the visually stunning cutscenes. There are even people who like the levelling up system, find the combat fascinating, and feel that the emotional development of the characters is well done and genuinely touching.

I am not one of them.

There are a lot of things wrong with Final Fantasy X. One of the first, and most noticable changes from previous Final Fantasies is the completely voiced dialogue. This lends itself to a more natural and immersive feel when done right, but FFX's dialogue is so poorly delivered, it is more cringe inducing than inspiring.

As though the scriptwriters felt they had to come up with dialogue to match the lackluster acting, the storyline is one of the most blatantly obvious and hamfisted statements I've ever seen in any medium, poorly written children's books included. The main enemy is "Sin." Please.

In regards to the game itself, the gameplay consists almost entirely of walking towards a red dot. I understand that that statement may seem confusing, but on the "map" on screen, there is a red dot pointing to exactly where you need to go to progress in the story. Looking for secret items? Head exactly in the opposite direction from the red dot, and you're more than likely to find some helpful items. This is not "gameplay." This is merely the illusion of interaction in between movies. Movies that will make you want to tear your ears off, the dialogue is so horrific.

The combat system is rote RPG fare, with subtle alterations to the norm that don't end up making it a better or worse experience. Grandia II's combat system stomps all over it, and honestly, after Grandia II, no company, big or small, should be making "turn-based" RPG combat systems that are as dull as this one.

The new level up and skill development system supposedly allows for character customization, but there's simply no point. Each character starts out on the grid in a position that has an optimal path, and the *only* benefit to diverging from that path is for the novelty of having your brawler actually be a weak spellcaster, and have no brawling abilities. Whee!

I played about 25 hours of FFX, before finally realizing that not only would I never bother to finish this game, I found that I hated it. Hated it with a passion. The insipid storyline, the pathetically stupid main character, the horribly written relationship between the two leads, and the god-awful, ham-fisted, ridiculous writing makes this a game that I simply cannot recommend to anyone. The fact that it's as popular as it is is a strong statement about how much influence marketing and pretty graphics have on the game buying population as a whole, and it's not a statement that I could repeat here without it getting edited.

I love videogames. I love RPG's. I love a quality story. I do not, however, have any love for Final Fantasy X.

Worst RPG game of ALL TIME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 19
Date: January 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

How in the hec are you going to have an RPG game that is LINEAR???? The two ideas seem mutually exclusive. I love rpg games, and I have never played one where everything you do is predetermined, in the sense that you have ABSOLUTELY NO CHOICE as to where to go next. For god sakes, there's not even a map screen where you choose what villages to visit and so forth. This game is sooo very boring. I couldn't be bothered to finish it. Not only is the game boring, another thing that makes this game a torture to play is the voice acting- in particular, Luna, and the dreadful WAKKA. Oh my god, I could not stand this game. I could not stand his voice! It's a pretty good idea to have LIKEABLE characters.

Another thing: BLITZ BALL. I was expecting some fun mini-game as a refreshing side attraction to the main game. No. This "mini-game" is so horrible, it's beyond words. A beginner with 2 weeks worth of Java programming experience could've made a game more enjoyable than this. In fact, this same beginner could probably make a game much more fun than FFX. I'm just going to say this: not only is this the worst RPG of all time, this is one the most boring and annoying games of all time, failing in every way to live up to expectations.. I don't understand how people can give this game such high ratings. Probably just some stupid little kids that enjoys the graphics...

You guys are funny....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 16
Date: March 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I laugh at anyone who raves about this game, building it up as if it were truly a masterpiece. Please. Save your breath. This game is a perversion of every thing the Final Fantasy series has come to represent except on one level - graphics. Yup. This game is eye candy, the cinematic scenes perhaps even rivaling the technology that produced the FF movie. So if that's what you're looking for - a pretty game with pretty people, by all means stop reading now. This is the pot of gold at the end of your rainbow.

The problem with judging games by graphics, aside from making you a superfical moron, is that graphics are like the all the elements at the very bottom of the periodic table that no one knows much about. They appear, impress everyone and then *boom*, next milisecond you know, they're gone. The graphics of FFX are still decent by the standard of today, but unless this is the first next-generation video game you've played in about 2 years, they aren't going to blow you away. Give it a few more years and they won't even raise eyebrows. And then what will the game be left with upon which to stand? Certainly not memorable characters like previous FF titles... Tidus and Yuna are utterly forgettable right down to their physical appearances. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the generic looking pretty boy and the generic looking beautiful girl. They develop a generic soap opera relationship which does virtually nothing to advance the already paper thin, 1 dimensional plot and really only occurs because it was scripted that way. And speaking of scripts, one of the major "ground breaking" developments this game promotes is voice acting. Big deal. Voice acting in video games was nothing new when this game hit the market. There has been voice acting in games since early PSOne and perhaps even SNES (though no examples are coming to mind)... and it was annoying then as well. The only difference now is this is an RPG which means your characters are engaged in dialogue 80% of the time and therefore you're likely to be annoyed 80% of the time (moreso if that annoyance lingers for awhile after the characters have spoken). Tidus sounds like a whiny teenage boy and Yuna sounds as if she's always on the verge of either falling asleep or bursting into tears and that Seymour guy who keeps showing up time after time? Insufferable.

Lastly... this game w/ it's sorry characters and poor voice acting is paired with a genuinely lame plot. It's painfully linear (no world map, you go where the blinking arrow tells you to) and boring. This is not FFVII by any stretch of the imagination. It is also not FFIV, FFVI, Tactics or heck... even FFVIII or FFIX. As a matter of fact, I'd be hard pressed to call this game Final Fantasy. A better title would perhaps be "RPG for retards with no conception of artistic value" or "FF for the mindless spawn of MTV" (this title holds true even moreso for it's absolutely vile sequel). Certainly a lot more could be said... but I think I've already wasted enough life on this game. Wake up people. Go buy Final Fantasy Tactics and STFU.

How can you call this garbage a "game"?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 23
Date: January 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is possibly the worst game I have ever played (and we're talking going all the was back to the Atari 2600). There is nothing in this cheesy after-school-special movie that even resembles a game.

Don't get me wrong, the graphics are excellent. However, the graphics get boring after about 5 minutes of "gameplay" and there is absolutely nothing to support this "game" after that. I don't understand how you can have two hours of some kid looking startled by every sound and call it a story.

I have played this game for about 2 hours and have absolutely no desire to play it any longer. If I wanted to look at pretty scenery for 40 hours I'd sit through "Dances with Wolves" 13 times, it's just about as interactive.

Horrible movie / Horrible Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 28
Date: January 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy X is supposed to be a role playing game. There is no role playing in this game. You watch about 40 hours of movies and actually control your characters for a couple hours. When you do get to control your characters you can't go anywhere but the few screens that they give you. There is no adventure, no free will, no variation. I've played many RPGs and was really excited to get this game. I could not be more disappointed. If you're looking for an RPG (as opposed to a 40 hour movie) take your money elsewhere.

This is Final Fantasy?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: October 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well I am a huge fan of Final Fantasies but this one was just an embarassment. The point is just like any other FF but i'll let ya know whats wrong with it. First of the main character...Tidus....I think the name speaks for itself. The kid is a moron. Apparently he is a professional "blitz ball" player whatever the hell that is. One of the poorest excuses of a sport I have ever seen. More or less underwater soccer with cheap rules and unrealistic physics. But in short the entire time I was playing the game I was embarassed just playing as Tidus. Probably the worst FF character their is in the saga of Final Fantasies.

The magic and sphere grid was stupid as hell. You couldn't get your magic without waiting for a couple of years and it took forever to get around it. Remember in the other FFs when you got your magic and spells by gaining expierence or by collecting items. Well in this game Tidus and the gang thought up something new. Now you have to go through this annoying ass sphere grid which takes an hour to learn and another 100 hours to complete(Probably more).

Now the concept is just like I said similar to the other FFs with a story of love involved with the saving of all human kind. Well in this story Tidus is supposed to save the world with his "girlfriend" Yuna. The other characters are complete tag-ons and them making an impact on the story did not come into play at all.

Another thing wrong with this game was the boss. Now over the years in a bunch of different games I have seen werid bosses and cool bosses. Nevertheless it was nothing like I saw here. The boss "Sin" is a big blob. Not only that but hes brown (kinda makes you think). So with a queerish fellow like Tidus fighitng a Brown Blob Sin the game reached an all time low. So think about it do you want to reduce yourself to a level of absolute disgrace..If not don't play this game otherwise go for it and be embarassed out of your mind and be bored as hell. You will be disapointed. Their is an absolute gurantee that you will be disapointed after your done playing this game!!

Final Fantasy X

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 283
Date: November 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You would think, people would get tired of chocobos and magic... etc... The game is a lot like the others, use magic to defeat a enemy whatever, its all the same to me.

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.

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