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Oh what a letdown from FFX

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I think most RPG gamers expected something decent out of this game. Beinga hardcore gamer myself, and someone who loved its prequel FF 10, I was jumping to buy 10-2.

First off, let me say that this is the only Final Fantasy game I EVER RETURNED! Thats right, i keep all my games, even the average ones. This one however I had to return due to its "piece of junk-ness".

FF 10-2 revolves around a trio of girls, 2 of which were characters in the previous FF 10 game. They go off on their adventures doing this, doing that, and in general, you don't really know quite what they are doing. Unlike regular Rpg's where you have a story, and a plot, this game sorta starts with you in your little flying ship able to go everywhere. Its like gigantic minigame. The places you go to don't really have any story, you just land at place A, fight monsters, get some item, and your done. Saying this, there are some awesome mini-games in FF 10-2, which was surprising since most recent Final Fantasy games have failed with minigames.

Now, onto the irritating part. You get to play 3 girls as characters. 3 annoying, teenie-bop girls. Girls who are what, late teens? Except they act like they are 9. They run about saying "oh poo" and other similiar phrases. Plus they take baths in skimpy underwear, and massage other girls, and walk about in thongs and skin tight outfits. MMM as a 40 year old gamer, I immensely enjoyed it (NOT!). The game looks like it programmed by experienced Japanese gamers, but created by their 9 year old daughters, and designed by their 11 year old horny sons. To gain abilities and powers you have to change into outfits. Thats right, you change your girl's clothes to gain abilities. And each outfit is tighter and more revealing than the last.

The game looks beautiful, definitely as great or better graphics as FF 10. But thats all the game excel's at, graphics. No plot, no story, very very bad dialogue and character development (unless you count bra's and thongs as development). There are some very good minigames, and of course the grapics look stunning (did i say that already?). But if you aren't a 11 year old kid, you will hate this game. I couldn't even push my way through the dumb parts, I got disgusted with the game half way through and had to return it for something decent.

Total Letdown

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was in love with Final Fantasy X when I played it, and it still resides high up in my list of 10 games I've ever played. I was looking forward to Final Fantasy X-2 eagerly, even though it looked to be nothing more than a cash-in on Final Fantasy fans. Lucky for me, my friend got this for his birthday and I got to sink a couple of hours into it before I spent the money on the game.

The graphics are great. They're really colorful, high quality, and they stand out. That being said, they haven't been upgraded at all sine Final fantasy X. So all that praise I just gave it, is pretty much praise for Final Fantasy X. They seriously did not improve the graphics at all. Yet another indicator that this is nothing but a cash-in on the fans.

The soundtrack is pretty good at times, and then horrible at others. When it uses more traditional JRPG music it's wonderful. Unfortunately, that's not the only music they use. They also have thins bubblegum-pop kind of music that is disgusting and revolting to listen to. The voice work is good, as it was in Final Fantasy X.

The game-pay itself usually isn't that big of a factor in JRPGs, as the story is the most important part. So there should have been nothing wrong with the original turn-based system, in fact, I kind of liked it. Well they released it with some kind of indescribable crap that can't even decide what kind of RPG combat system it wants to be. It's by far the worst combat I've ever experienced in an RPG, and at least a contender for worst in a game period. Don't even get me started on Square's pathetic excuse for platforming they decided to throw in. As for the story, in the trailers they make you think it will matter and truly carry on from where Final Fantasy X left off, but they're pretty much tricking you. The game has almost nothing to do with anything, except that it includes the same characters. I was so hoping for a continuation of the story, but no luck here.

In other words, this game utterly failed me in every way possible. I guess the game is passable from an unbiased standpoint, so I'll let it slide by with a 6.5. If you're a Final Fantasy fan, this may satisfy your Final Fantasy Hunger, but I seriously doubt it.

It's entertaining

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well it's definitely not FFX, but it's entertaining to say the least. The battles in this one are not nearly as tough as FFX, but it's fun to play. I beat the game in a week, and it's so so.

There's lots of different things about the game, but most of all, they change clothes...a lot...It seems a little stereotypical that girls change clothes...and that's how they do battle. It's just a little blase for me...

The story is good, but not nearly as enthralling as FFX. It's a little anti-climactic for an ending, and the end boss is not hard to fight AT ALL! I never had to re-do a game. I beat the storyline bosses without a problem.

Overall a good play, but if you're looking for something deep, this is not it.

Okay, but I've played better.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was my second final fantasy game that I have played. My first was FF Tactics Advanced, which i would reccomend alot more than this game. The storyline can get overly confusing, and the battles just don't feel right. I would reccomend it to some, but not too all.

Algo decepcionado...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

estoy algo decepcionado del juego, cambia "todo" o casi todo las reglas del FFX, nisiquiera sale un instante el novio de Yuna, las chika comienzan con un nivel tan bajo, y yuna sin usar sus Summon, bueno en mi perpectiva perdio muchas caracteristicas buenas del FFX.

Only for fans

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First off, I've been playing FF ever since I can remember. Second, FFX blew me away and I fell in love with it. So, naturally I ran right out and bought FFX-2.
Big disappointment, really, even if you are a girly girl. But, if you love FF and even RPG, I would recommend renting this game to play for a little while. If you are like me and love FFX, play this game 100% through just for the satisfaction of seeing how the sequel plays out. I don't think if anyone had told me what the game was like if it would have stopped me from playing it -- please, you won't want to play the game more then once.

Final Fantasy XII

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

FF XII on PS2 format is challenging and fun, and you dont need 20 fingers to play it.

A shining example of what happens when you throw together a game using a bunch of negative female stereotypes...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Where to start? Sigh, just thinking about this game gets my blood boiling. I can't for the life of me understand why some people are giving this 5 stars. Well, first off, just let me say that I am female. It should be glaringly obvious that this game is targeted towards a female audience (or so Square-Enix may believe). Unfortuneately, I was sickened by this game. Well, let's start with the good.

Graphics (10/10): Not bad at all. I'm not too picky about graphics and I can honestly say that these are pretty good. Bright, shiny, nice for a PS2 game.

Battle System (6/10): I had no real qualms with the actual battle mechanic. The system is a variation of turn based that is rather fast -- battles move quickly and your characters move around the field, helping you break out of the "let's all line up and attack" feel of previous games (which I actually didn't mind at all). I must say that the Dress-sphere system itself is actually a rehashed version of the Job system from FFV. Except in FFV it felt serious and mature-here it feels like you're playing Barbie dress-up. Also, unlike FFV, you usually need to switch outfits in mid-battle, which slows battle down in an irritating fashion. Another complaint that brings down the score in this section is the irritating phrases of your characters in battle. Just listening to Rikku sqeal out another irritating inane phrase makes me cringe.

Music (4/10): Honestly, this is a matter of opinion, but I didn't like the mix of jazz, techno and pop that made up this soundtrack. The final fantasy series is known for its beautiful classical-style music, and this game is a huge departure from that. The airship music made me want to turn off the sound and put a previous game's soundtrack into my cd player. The only song I really liked was "A Thousand Words".

Characters (0/10): This section may even deserve a negative rating. It's like Square-Enix decided to make a game just for the women out there-except they chose the top 10% of the female populous that were the most stupid, shallow, and air-headed people they could find for advice on what to put in this game. This game gives real women a bad image. Yuna, a mature, intelligent character I love from FF10, has been kidnapped and replaced with a body double who has the intellect of a card-board box covered in glitter. I mourned the loss of the real Yuna. FF10 Yuna grappled with such deep and complex issues as self-sacrifice and questioning her faith, FF10-2 Yuna likes playing dress-up and uses words like "dissasteriffic". Honestly, the other two characters are no better; they are just as shallow and stupid. I was actually excited about the all-female cast, I was expecting the intelligence-level of the female characters from FF10--not to be found here.

Story (1/10): Wow. This story is vapid. It starts out promisingly enough-Yuna views a sphere of someone who looks like Tidus, and sets out to find out if the impossible task of ressurecting him can be accomplished. The rest of the story falls apart from there. The vast majority of this "story" is made up of mini-games and side-quests. Now, I like sidquests and mini-games as much as the next person, but there's a reason they have the words "side" and "mini" in them. They are supposed to take a back-burner to the main story. In this game, it's the other way around: the main game is composed of one dull, uninteresting sidequest/mini-game after another, while the main storyline takes forever to emerge/develop. By the time the main story finally got around to being focused on, I no longer cared.

Gameplay (0/10): If the rest of my review isn't enough for you, here's the final nail in the coffin. I was excited when I heard this game would be non-linear. I thought it would be like Chrono Cross, where there was a story that you moved through, but certain key decisions (i.e. choose to rescue a character vs. not doing so) made along the way would affect future plot points. Not so here, it is a mission based system with almost no direction. The only real effect skipping half the inane crap does is to keep you from getting the perfect ending. Things as small and pointless as forgetting to talk to one random NPC in chapter 2 could make you miss 1/2 a point which would prevent you from getting that perfect ending. The effect of this is that you must follow a guide to the nearest letter, thus ruining any feeling of "non-linearity". Oh, and all those "fun" sidequests you'll be doing aren't fun at all.

Overall score (1/10)- *NOTE that this is not an average, it's my subjective feel of what this game deserves. As for whether you should rent or buy this, I suggest neither. In fact, if you're a fan of the original FF10, I suggest you forget this game ever happened.

Fantastic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I had heard that this was "A Chick's Final Fantasy" and I was a little more than turned off at first by the way people described it too me, what with the basic concept being to collect different outfits and stuff. But I was drawn in by my pretty much impossible goal of getting every Final Fantasy game out there, I got this one fairly cheap. It was shipped super fast, in near perfect condition, it doesn't skip or anything. I agree, it has more of an appeal to females, however, there are some fan service areas that might make men consider buying it. Such as a hot spring scene, and a rather up played back massage scene and skimpy outfits. Game play is very familiar basically, except there's no summoning for your party, you only control three characters, and you can change outfits mid-battle to change abilities. Even though some parts are disappointing, I would still recommend this game for hardcore fans, and sometimes even a few laughs ^^.

I Just Can't Get Enough!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just gotta buy this game! I love it! Look what gamespot wrote about it: The quirky story, which appears to be an odd mix of serious and zany material in the import, is maintained in the US version, but some impressive tonal shifts in the narrative have been implemented as well. Over the course of the game we're privy to Yuna's thoughts as she comments on people and/or events as they happen. The internal dialogue takes the form of a direct address to Tidus as she fills him in as to what's going on in her life. The segments appear throughout the game and end up having a wistful air to them that's surprisingly effective. Nostalgia also plays a large part in the game's appeal as, over the course of her adventures, Yuna will revisit many of the locales from FFX-2--like Besaid Island, Zanarkand, and Mount Gagazet. In addition, you meet with old friends, like Wakka, Lulu, and Kimahri. The silliness is, of course, still there, albeit with some context, to provide some goofy fun. As you'd expect, the game's localization is on par with Square Enix's usual high standards.

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