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still bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: October 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

well now ive played the english demo and the import the game is still horrible and I AM a final fantasy fan just not for this particular installment

Not that good...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When SQUARE/ENIX joined forces, there were some good games which they made together and some bad ones. The good was "Final Fantasy Origins" which had the remakes for both FF1 & FF2(which hit the PSone last year) and "Sword of Mana" (a remake of "Final Fantasy ADVENTURE" on the GBA) And now for the bad: "Unlimited SaGa" with its terrible, boring board gameplay and this one! FFX-2 is a very weak sequel to FFX in the series and drags the series down greatly! Graphics are good, (though NOT everything) but the soundtrack is just poor for an RPG game and sounds too much like Brittany Spears/Christina Aguilera American Pop garbage! (And believe me, a FF title deserves better!) The plot is also uninteresting and there's really no story involved at all except for some stupid side quests, therefore making the replay value VERY low! Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the first and ORIGINAL FFX on PS2, but the second one sucked! Yuna & Rikku are probably the only good thing about this game because they're both pretty cute. Otherwise, this is the WORST FF since Mystic Quest on the SNES console! Just skip this one and play the original FFX instead! It's 100% better!

As fun as watching paint dry!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 35
Date: September 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I remember once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away...1997 to be exact. That was the last time Square made a good Final Fantasy game. Now all they make is pure all japanese [stuff]! Seriously this used to be one of my fave companies and FF used to be my fave games, and then they made FF8 which was the WORST THING EVER! and it seems like the ball's just kept rollin'. I happened to play all the other FF games after 8 and I gotta say NOTHING and I mean NOTHING will ever be as good as FF3 (or 6 in japan) and FF7!

square cant make rpgs any more

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 24
Date: July 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

ok square really has done it this time ffx [was really bad]if i wanted ta watch a movie ill go rent one thats all the last few have ben. big cgi movies and no game play at all the last good one they made that was balanced was 7 . face it square isnt trying any more soon itll be just hittin a button for hrs jsut ta see a stupied cgi movie. the only 2 good ff that are around are the first and 6 thats it square please stop making movies on video game sysems and make a good game.

bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: June 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

From what I have heard it sounds really bad. I mean heck why would they even want to make a sequal for a good game. And its stupid you can't have most of the characters from the other game but there are only a few new characters and Yuna can't even summon anymore. And some new girl character which her name is pronounced as like some food but i forget. I would say that this will be a very bad game, Final Fantasy X was very good but when Auron and Tidus died it kinda makes it so a sequal would be stupid to have. Bad bad game do not get it but this game will either be very bad or very good so I might be wrong.

Please..wake up

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: June 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you love Final Fantasy games, then please, I beg you DON'T buy this disc of trendyness that FF is getting sucked into. FFX was the beginning of the decline of the series. Here's the points:

Graphics: 10/10; There are no worries whatsoever about graphics in this game. Phenomenal.

Storyline: 3/10; The storyline, I predict, will be fairly as flat as FFX, which consisted of: Beginning of game=Fight Sin, End of game=fight Sin, with character development on the 2 main characters and little to none on the rest!

Capabilities: The sphere grid system is idiotic. Easily said. Imagine a crippled old wizard kicking the [crud] out of a Grand Dragon as a barbarian. Or a 350 lb. full-plated knight shooting Firaga at a Garuda..What has RP come to?

I'll tell you. It has come to flashy advertisments and such to make the money that Square lost from the FF movie. For Pete's sake, Yuna has GUNS. Going from "no technology, it's against the religion!" to "Asta la Vista, Baby" is a little hard to swallow.
Here's an idea. Play FFVII, VIII, or IX. They are all excellent! Hours of challenging gameplay as opposed to complete ease that is FFX and X-2. I hope no more FF will be like this.
I gotta warn you too, FFXI will be a MMORPG (mass multi online rpg) and may have things such as hackers and people will bad storylines on it, so beware. Let's hope XII(TWELVE) will be good!

meh

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 73
Date: April 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

why make a sequel to a game as bad as FFX?
the same annoying characters are as vapid and shallow as ever--they might as well be cardboard cutouts. the character development is ridiculously scripted and can be predicted hours before it occurs.

the gameplay is good as it always is, but there are other rpgs with gameplay just as good and with better characters and plot.

i am still waiting for a good next gen game from squaresoft.

FFX-2 ruins a classic tragedy!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 39
Date: March 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Imagine if they made Romeo and Juliet 2, and they had Romeo and Juliet come back to life and live happily ever after. Now you know what Final Fantasy X-2 is all about.

Now that I know how FFX-2 turns out, I don't have need to keep my original FFX copy that I always thought of as a classic treasure. FFX had a definite ending, and realistically it was about one thing, a tragic romance. When FFX-2 was announced, I think it was obvious how it would turn out, and it does turn out that way. I was a bit surprised that the developers of the game where this predictable. I kept telling myself, something else has to happen, it can't turn out like a Disney fairytale, but deep down inside I think I knew it.

Anyway, as far as I'm concerned I just needed confirmation that this was true, so that I wouldn't waste my time playing the game. I don't think I'll ever play another Final Fantasy game again. The Final Fantasy train stops here.

What is up with reviewing a game before it comes out!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 49
Date: March 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Every jappanese game I have played has nerdy, [*], irritateting dialog. It is so bad that they realy need to add an option on these games that let you skip all story line and dialog and just play the game. Since the dialog in the first final fantasy was so annoying, you would have to be a NERD to shell out money for the the second edition.

Puts a blemish upon its predecessor

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: May 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Once upon a time, I was playing Final Fantasy VII for the very first time. It was 1997, and I was upwards of ten hours into the game. I had explored every inch of this monstrous metropolis known as Midgar, dominated and controlled by the evil corporation of Shinra. It was my quest (or so I thought) to stop Shinra from literally sucking the life force from the planet, when it suddenly became clear to me that my party and I were going to have to leave Midgar for the first time to chase down a man in a black cape, a man known as Sephiroth, and before I had ever even seen his face, I had learned to fear him. To my astonishment, when I left Midgar, it became apparent to me that not only was Midgar not the only place I had to go to in this game, but it was merely a dot on an enormous world map! It was then that I understood exactly why this game was being described as "epic." Since then, I've been consistently enthralled and compelled by all of the Final Fantasy games, from its humble beginnings on NES to its mastery on PS2.

And then came this debacle of a game. Final Fantasy X-2 not only took everything I loved about the series and threw it out the window, but it veritably raped everything I loved about the original. People who disagree with me will probably say that this game doesn't appeal to me because it's "different." No. Final Fantasy VIII was different. Different is one thing -- morphing an epic tradition into some sort of quasi-Sailor Moon/Charlie's Angels parody that makes me lose faith in my favorite genre is quite another.

The premise of the story for X-2 is that two years have passed since Yuna and her guardians vanquished Sin and Yu Yevon. Since the eternal calm has set in, Yuna has led a relaxed life, (which apparently involved throwing out the dress and staff for hot pants and a pair of guns, not to mention the whole becoming a pop star thing) and it comes to her attention that Rikku, who is now a sphere hunter, has found a sphere that shows a clip of someone who resembles Tidus in some sort of trouble. Thus, Yuna joins the gullwings, which is Rikku's team of sphere hunters, and the quest to find Tidus begins.

First of all, I'd like to point out that there is no real story to this game. There are subtle hints most of the time hiding in the background somewhere that a story might come into being sometime over the course of the game, which is the only reason I kept playing this game, really, but these unfortunately only remain as not much more than subtle hints until the end of chapter three, and by then you're pretty much done with the game. Everything that was epic and compelling about the previous installments of the Final Fantasy's is lost here in a muddle of girl power and uninteresting psuedo-politics that I couldn't have cared less about. The character that I grew to love in Final Fantasy X, Yuna, now has been rendered to be completely devoid of character. Sure, she's cute and happy now, but who cares? There is no conflict, no intrigue in her character. Her only desire seems to be to find Tidus and to help people (neither of which are substantially developed in this game), but rather than being the character who was built on self-sacrifice for the good of others like in the last one, she instead comes off as a self-centered brat who usually doesn't have much to say other than something along the lines of "why do I have to do this?!" Rikku's her dumb self, unsurprisingly, and Paine is just a female version of Auron except not half as cool and not a tenth as interesting. There are a few new characters who you do want to learn about, such as Nooj, Gippal, and Baralai, who are three of the leaders in the new Spira, but their backstory is minimal when compared to character giants such as Terra, Celes, Aeris, or Cloud. Characters like Buddy, or Brother, or whatever his name was wanted to make me cry. I wanted to take the composer who had replaced Mr. Uematsu and beat him out back with a stick, and every time Yuna, Rikku, and Paine would pose and cheer themselves on, I absolutely cringed. By the time the end of the story rolled around, I didn't really care what was happening next.

To be fair, there are a few good points to this game. The battle system has undergone some major revision, and the revision was for the better. The beloved jobs system of Final Fantasy V are back again, and this time they are mixed with the sphere grid of X and an extremely fast-paced upgrade of the active time battle system. The graphics are slightly better than its predecessor, which means that the graphics are phenomenal considering how amazing they were in X. Most of the missions -are- somewhat fun, but the whole game in itself was too sugar-coated, too easy, and too short (I had the game beat in fifteen hours). If I wanted just pure fun, I would've played Grand Theft Auto, and frankly, that game is much more fun than this one. Final Fantasy stands above all the other franchises because it's always been about more than just the fun involved with the battles. I have to admit that this is probably a love it/hate it type of game, but for my part, the closer and closer I got to the end, the more and more apparent it became to me that this game truly was the monumental disappointment that I was fearing it would be the second I first saw Yuna singing a pop song that reeked of Japanese excess in the introduction FMV. I wish I could've felt otherwise, but I didn't.

Forget about Kefka and Kuja -- the main villain of this game is a machine. This game was nothing more than a marketing ploy for Square to cash in on a successful game, and I'm just praying that XII won't turn out the same way.

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