Final Fantasy 10

Ok, so this is a redo of my Final Fantasy X (10) review that I did awhile ago. It was unprofessional, influenced by peer pressure, and didn't really express my opinions as an individual. So let's go on with the redo.

Final Fantasy X was one of the first, if not THE first, RPG that came out for the PS2. Since it had the famed "Final Fantasy" prefix, it was of course widely anticipated and had some pretty great looking trailers showing lots of cutscenes which looked absolutely amazing. I personally couldn't wait for this game to come out.

So it came out, I bought it and popped it into my Playstation 2 and had a blast. The game itself was good and still retained the original plot that almost every new Final Fantasy game has. In the game you are a BlitzBall Player named Tidus. BlitzBall is a sport that's played in the game. It's basically soccer underwater, there are some amount of players in a big sphere of water (Being held up by spheres of gravity I suppose) and the players swim around and hit the blitzball into the goal. It may not be real water though, they all can hold their breath forever.

Anyway, Tidus is a famous BlitzBall Player. His father had dissapeared some time ago and he hates him for leaving him and his mother by themselves. Jecht (Tidus' father) was also a very famous blitzball player and therefore, is often talked about in the city that Tidus lives in.

Tidus is happily enjoying life as a famous BlitzBall player when suddenly out of nowhere, a giant monster named Sin attacks his city and warps him to a strange location, possibly in an even different dimension entirely. Tidus is lost and confused and just wants to return home when he learns that his home doesn't exist anymore. The city he called home lay in ruins on the otherside of the world.



The graphics in this game, considering that it's for the PS2, is really well done. They look realistic while still retaining a sense of unrealisticness by having the crazy designs of weaponry, character design, and the locations that you visit with your party.

As with every RPG, the controls are simple and easy to handle. You move around, you select choices (i.e. Items, Equipment. Menu stuff), you go up to people and talk to them. There's nothing complex about the controls in this game.



Know that before you buy this game, since it's an RPG, you'll have to read a lot. If you don't like reading, you may not like this game. RPGs are known for their plots more than their gameplay so therefore they all require reading and some thinking.

The thing that I personally don't like about this game is that since it is a Final Fantasy game, I and so many other people expected a lot from this game. While it did deliver sufficiently, it stopped there. It didn't take it any further, and even though it had an original plot it didn't stand out like many of the other Final Fantasy games. Final Fantasy 7 captured people with it's plot and characters and some if it's crazy attack moves. One of the only things that I thought stood out was the way that you learned new abilities and leveled up. There was no XP just Spheres. It was called a Sphere Grid and to learn new moves, you'd get a Sphere Level up and therefor you could move along the grid along to a new circle which could contain a new ability, new stats etc. I don't think that a surprisingly unique level up system makes the game especially special though.



The music and sounds in this game again upset me. Let me clarify, the music upset me and the sounds were fine. The sounds didn't have any problems, they all sounded as they should except for the voice acting. The best voice acting was done by the person who did Auron's voice, but Tidus', Wakka, and Seymour's voice seriously started to get on my nerves. Tidus got very annoying as he whined a lot, Wakka used the phrase "Ya" too much, and Seymour sounded like Cuba Gooding Jr. and I hate Cuba Gooding Jr. Back to the music. Usually in every Final Fantasy I have at least 2 songs that I'll listen to repeatedly, but in this game I didn't find that. I found "To Zanarkand" the opening theme song, but even that's not worth listening to more than 3-4 times until you get bored of it. It wasn't a memorable music experience seeing as it had very little work done by the god of Final Fantasy Music, Nobuo Uematsu. (Courtesy of Kirk for that Nobuo information. Thank you).

Overall the game was of some quality and it's worth playing through. While it was a good game and all, it didn't leave much of an impression on me as many of the other games did. Also whether or not you think the voice acting or music is a big enough thing to change this game from 3 stars to 4 stars, but a game needs a good soundtrack and some quality voice acting to gain the approval of many people who are much pickier than me.

3 Stars.

3 star(s) out of 5

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