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FFX was so fun AND had some of the worst minigames in the series. Blitzball Tournaments, the Chocobo Race with the birds, that stupid lightning dodging, monster collecting for the strongest superbosses... It felt like half the game was locked behind the endgame with all the extras, but geez...

Still easier than the stupid butterfly mini game

When I was a kid, I LOVED Blitzball but was terrible at it. Now, I’m grown and hate it but am good at it.

When I was a kid, I LOVED Blitzball but was terrible at it. Now, I’m grown and hate it but am good at it.

Really cool idea for a series. I love boss analysis, and the limitations of speedrunning give it a unique spin.

You didn't do djose trick

Not gonna lie. Enjoyed watching this but I had so many triggers. I need a lie down. Fucking GRAAV! You will not ruin my life! NOT AGAIN!

but the 200 .... ya 200 times dodging "lighting in FFX" not really necessary but maybe in a 100% run LUL

I think the entire FFX speedrunning community should come together and make a "FFX speedrun AFTER the blitzball game" category. And I can almost guarantee you 99.99% of the FFX speedrunners would jump on that and never ever let go.

I used to LOVE playing Blitzball as a kid. I would fire up FFX just to play a few rounds.

I'd be curious to hear a footnote on how often Kraken ends a run with his nasty physicals, or how much variation there is in Tiamat between versions (is the OHKO always fastest?). If you're going to be doing honorable mentions.

I think you took the dimming too far here, I could hardly make out anything.

Video begins at 2:25 (3:55 if you know what blitzball is) 2 minutes from losing Blitzball, 50 seconds x2 (1.40) for learning the Jeckt shot? Jeckt shot seems like its a worthwhile safe strategy I've gotta be honest.

Speak for yourself. I rather enjoy the minigame in Final Fantasy Speedrunning.

Hah! Never thought about speedrunning FFX or X-2. I usually spend near 100 hours in Blitzball, and have made new games in X-2 just to start over blitzball... Blitzball nut myself. But I can see why speedrunners would hate it.

Been thinking about playing through FFX again specifically to play Blitzball. Wayyyy too much fun

Now I feel like booting up X casually

Sucks that the mandatory game is bad even in speedruns. Might be the worst first impression of a minigame ever. The optional blitzball stuff is pretty fun at least for a while. Just need a good team and rudimentary knowledge. I never bothered to learn a single skill and still had fun getting every reward from blitzball.

More like the most hated minigame in the whole series, at least for me. IIRC if you kept losing, you'd not get any better stat wise, but the other teams would keep getting better. So eventually you'd just be softlocked out of the whole thing if you were bad at it. Which I was, lol.

I still would love a spin off of blitzball as its own multiplayer game

I got so into Blitzball I got every item without really knowing. I can see how it would be a nightmare if you didn’t enjoy it but I couldn’t get enough of it.

Blitzball is amazing and is a real skill issue identifier. It is a grind to get the sigil but its worth it as Wakka is the strongest character.

babe wake up another Syo banger dropped

The sphere grid in general is pretty handicapped if you aren't using the international sphere grid and don't invest time into Blitzball as well. Until you get Rikku to steal, and in general until post-game, Blitzball is your biggest source of rare and powerful spheres that unlock the flexibility that fans of the game like about the system.

Not a speedrunner, but I remember literally spending all night grinding Blitzball to get Wakka's item. My brother went to bed, woke up, and he was like "you're STILL playing Blitzball?" Hours and hours of Brother doing laps around the arena...

Loved it on my last playthrough, played more than I needed to because I was having such a good time building my team up. This most recent playthrough, I hated every blitzing second -I've got all the wakka overdrives and the celestial weapon, I am so glad I don't need to touch it again

Idk man I loved blitzball I wished it was online when they remastered it lol that’d be so cool hahaha

Abus OP

I loved Blitzball, going to far as to play a match at every save sphere across all of Spira.

wow another game reviewer with a disgusting accent. 🤮🤮🤮

Blitzball is very high in the list of things that sound and look really cool *in theory* , but should probably never have been put into practice 😂

I still remember when I learned that the aeons stats scaled with Yuna's stats. Dawg, seeing the super high damage Bahamet can do once Yuna gets the strength from Tidus' part of the grid was jaw dropping.

Been rewatching - can't wait for the V video!

Fantastic video - thank you

love this content format

Blitzball in X-2 is dumb fun. The change from 'really bad FIFA' to 'really bad Football Manager' was a much-needed sea change, and it's weirdly moreish for the ten hours or so it lasts. I did love X Blitzball as a kid, though. Which was weird, since I had... actual FIFA. And played that, too. I guess I liked the Bar Going Up.

Your content is criminally underrated

yo i see FFX speedrunning in my feed, I watch the damn video

This is some niche speedrunning knowledge of a game I'll never want to speedrun, and I love it. MOAR!

When doing a scan on that boss Evri on the airship, the poison breath happens if you repeatedly attack every turn. You can pull the ship back, use Wakka to hit or use items as well but that might be slower.

Thank you

X-2 honestly has my fave combat of any RPG. I know people say FF5 perfected the job system but this game perfected the job system. They definitely won’t but if they do X-3 I hope they keep this job system and expand and alter it to fit the other characters and new story.

I’m shocked that omega is thought to be harder than chronodia in the psp version as it’s easily the most difficult on a casual run. I was about level 50 when I fought it and it’s regular attack one shot me every time. Although now that I think about it the run probably faces the weakest version of it and not the strongest so that makes more sense.

9:30 The zombie status in various FFs work that way too, but some of them make it so you lose control of that character as well.

IIRC Fast/haste doesn't increase action speed but hit rate giving more attacks from the fight command, it doesn't get it's expected effect until Final Fantasy IV.

so funny that yu yevon goes down by getting smacked by a stinky rod by yuna and lulu just chucking a phenix down at it

the best thing that came from ff2 is the SaGa franchise

I have only played 4 on the ds and its one of my favorite FF games. The graphics look amazing, i love how cecil and rosa look especially, I love the sheer difficulty of it. Even normal mob fights feel like a real challenge. Bosses feel like a genuine threat… The game was simply too hard for me as a teen and i had to set it down for almost a decade. Years later i retried and when i got to the final boss i realized my team wasnt good enough ability wise and i restarted from the beginning. I eventually beat him and it was one crazy battle. Though i was a bit salty from having to restart, i feel like i truly mastered this game in a way. Probably one of the best “turn by turn” games ive ever tried… also i like how your party actually changes around quite a bit, but Cecil is always there so it’s basically through his POV. check out rabtoons “FF4 in a nutshell” for a funny recap (also the harder a game is, the more valuable a healer role is and let me tell you i dont think i could have beat this game without Rosa….)