So I played FINAL FANTASY X For The First Time...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- JRPGs don't get more legendary than Final Fantasy X. A game with staggering influence that would define the genre for decades. After 21 years, I have finally played this game from start to finish. I would love to give you the TLDR, but this is Retro Rebound's longest video yet. With that much to say, I'll have the video do the speaking for me on where I lie with one of the most loved games of all time.
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world building of ffx and strong points of past games like ff78 9 were gone soul of game was not as good and music story treat you like garbage quite the oposite of xenogears and in the end you finaly reconized omg really , what crap is that totaly stupit
i can tell you tons of stories better than FF X on game or anything else ,
Wife and I just found about the retro channel. Had to sub. Look forward to slowly seek out all the highlights of classic games we love here on the channel
just found the channel and looking forward to all the videos i have to watch, 13 has its hate and understandable but its also one of my favourites, just takes so long to actually open up, stills looks more next gen than half the next gen games out now though
FFX and FF8,FF9,FF6 the best Final Fantasy's of all time. With First place for FFX.
As someone who's father left when I was tiny kid, this game really spoke to me with the whole relationship between Titus and Sin
Except jecht left to save the world. Your daddy left for ciggeretes
@@bigshirley8658 You're talking about yourself clearly, as you have no idea who he is ffs. Hope you got over your old man leaving you for the cigarettes.
@@jine7123 and how do you know big shirley's dad isnt a war hero? i hope you get over the fact that your dad is a giant whale
@@bigshirley8658 There was no need for this lol
@@bigshirley8658 ruthless!
When people aren't sent to the far plane they eventually become fiends. It was very clearly explained in the game.
...multiple times
I can't remember why auron was able to stay in the living realm without becoming a friend though. was it just a willpower thing?
@@rexusthevaliant6311 Pretty much, he made a promise and had his own unfinished business to take care of. There's a couple times you see him struggling to not be sent but you wouldn't notice unless you already knew about his condition.
People who die and don't accept their death becomes fiends, people who died and had strong will or unfinished businesses became unsent, they look alive but they are really death like auron, yunalesca and mika.
@@rexusthevaliant6311 think it had to do with jeht being sin
I love that, in a way, the game foreshadows Tidus being an Aeon from the first couple of minutes. The only entities you're allowed to name freely in FFX are the Aeons, and he just so happens to be our first one. Cheeky :)
omg never saw it that way !
Very clever observation, never thought of it like that either!
he is not really that much of Aeon, those beasts are basically revered figures from the past who worked along side yunalesca to end Yu Yevon's fanatical designs to crush all of spira and force everyone to embrace an eternal cycle of suffering until only his dream reality remains.
the Zanarkand Tidus comes from is essentially that dream reality and everything within it is just fabricated hopes and dreams of those who became Fayth under Yu Yevon's cult but some of these Fayth grew tired of dreaming and wanted to rest in peace with those they lost to war in the Farplane and so they began to plot Yu Yevon's demise by bringing their ideal "champion" into the real world to destroy Sin and end their miserable dreary dreamscape.
Yu Yevon ofc saw what they were plotting and to punish them he would purposely lose Sin so he could create a new one just to spite them an crush their hopes.
and so they had to gamble one last time using Tidus as the catalyst to end Sin, Dream Zanarkand, and Yu Yevon.
and this worked out for them perfectly because Jecht was a Sin who could be swayed to their favor and Tidus' link to him is precisely what they needed to bring down Sin an open the way to Yu Yevon's domain the "Tower of the Dead" located deep within Dream Zanarkand. Where the party will confront the man/parasitic undead thing he became and silence him forever.
I've heard about this from somewhere and it makes sense.
This just blew my mind
One of the greatest games of all time. There is no debate to be had on this.
It is the best game of all time period
This game came to me at a very formative time in my life when I was experiencing some difficult times with my own relationship with my father. No game will top the impact this one had on me.
I hate linear titles but my god if you do a linear story this is the blueprint
The feeling of seeing how good the graphics looked in the first few cutscenes blew my mind. FFX and FFXII were straight up epics of games back then when I was younger
The combat was so amazing. I loved how you could add elemental effects to your weapons and it shows. I also loved the fact that summons were playable characters. The icing on the cake was that your summons level up and learn new moves just like all other characters in the party. The Sphere Grid was a welcomed addition as well. Everything just worked so good together.
Good to see you play such an epic title. Problem is though, this game isn't designed to be rushed through and I kind of feel like you're not letting it hit the way it is supposed to. 30 hours or so is incredibly short for this game, to really enjoy it.
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FFX was immaculate, I remember playing itfor 3 days straight when it released. Near the end it was really challenging. There was so much to unlock, secret best weapons etc.
The story was perfect, emotional, intriguing, deception. The graphics were INSANE for that time. Training too in omega ruins for sphere nodes, saving up 40 or so and then using them all, filling in blank nodes with the best spheres available. Just perfect, and if you dislike this game then I don't know what's wrong with you.
I was 10 when I played it. Fucking blew my tiny mind and I loved yuna......like no joke I had a freaking waifu before I knew what it meant.
@@Kaodusanya I was also 10 when I first played it. Back then I hated Tidus but a few years later I replayed it and fell in love with him😂 This is how I learned to give games a 2nd chance.
@@Kaodusanya I was 10 as well! Thought I had a better chance with Rikku, so she was my pick😂
@@Kaodusanya ❤️
@@Kaodusanyathats how I felt with Rinoa couple years earlier.
I remember leveling up for hours and I would switch every character out and attack once then keep switching them out and using my main 3 so everyone got XP. Ah the good old days
I love this game lol. I’m pretty sure Tidus had every sphere filled on my old file to include all the other characters and his hits would do 99,999 damage lol.
Every single battle
It was a fantastic way to waste time. Thinking of doing it again after years and years
Just replayed this with my husband. You can hit the triangle button (on playstation) to guard during fights. If you switch in every single party member in every single fight, and at least have them guard, then switch them back out if you want, then every single party member will get AP at the end of the fight and level up. Doing this throughout the whole game as much as possible made it so that nearly every single boss fight was a walk in the park. Yes, there was one or two, like the Yunalesca fight, where there are specific mechanics that caused an issue, but as long as you know when each phase happens, and you have a particular strategy to deal with it, then it's not that hard to handle. The biggest frustrations we had were actually with chocobo racing and lightning dodging.
I own this game on PS2, PS3, PS4 , and a physical copy on my Xbox. This game is legendary. Best story telling I’ve seen.
Had it on PS2 though as a kid I leaned more towards Kingdom Hearts and FFXII. Over the years I've come to truly understand and appreciate FFX and I recently bought the remaster for PS4. Love it now more than ever! Truly a legendary game.
I have it on my vita
Edit: And my PS2
This but add my mac, on switch & my ps vita.
I got it on ps2 ps3 ps4 and switch lite i did play outf ffx-2 but not the perfect ending i want to do it but it takes sometime since im also playing pokemon on the switch ( sword and shield ) i was with one of the 3 playstation at breskas final aeon i didnt have the items or celestial weapons i did beat seymour but compared to jecht he was childs play and i do know what to do with yu yevon but then you have to fight the aons i just hope they got zombie inflicted on them but i probalby wont be that lucky eheh
I have all my physical copies still even my first copy for the PS2 I also have it on PS3 PS4 Vita Xbox and PC but PC is digital
I think your main problem being the time of this game (How long you spend in menus, the amount of cutscenes) is down to most jprgs not being for people who just want to play a game. You're meant to take your time with this game and savor every moment of it. It's not meant to be rushed through.
Absolutely love this game and has one of the greatest OST's ever IMO.
The ffx opening ost is simply majestic
I still listen to hymn of the fayth regularly, unrivaled OST
@@aaronquinn6626 Great song, I can listen to Besaid Island, Wandering Flame, Via Purifico and so many others on repeat and never tire of them.
@@DarkKnight896 so true
The great thing is the entire soundtrack is on Spotify as well as a lot of other FF OSTs
I've played all of the FFs excluding FF 1-5, and FFX is my favorite. The music, story, gameplay are all so good.
The ending haunted me as a child. One of the few games that actually made me cry.
An interesting thing about Tidus was that the foreshadow in the very first scene you play ffx. Remember you are allowed to name Tidus whatever you wanted? That was the same for the Aeon. Yup, Tidus is A SUMMON. Dream Zanarkand is the place where all of the Aeon's faith rest until calling for action.
cool puzzle piece bro
you just blew my mind
Can you name most characters in some FF titles though?
Listen, I'm glad you played it and liked it. I really am, this is my favorite game ever. But the constant harping about how "slow" it is really annoys the shit out of me because its this opinion that is causing them to fuck with the formula for 16. They're calling it "non stop action" and it isnt even going to have an overworld. Thats not even Final Fantasy any more. Final Fantasy is story and character driven. Theyre long.
God its annoying that they're accomodating the .5 second attention span current gaming culture.
10 is a timeless masterpiece
I know I'm a bit late to this one, but to explain the "unsent" or undead characters: When people in Spira die, their souls need to be sent to the Farplane or they'll just kinda hang around and become the fiends or monsters you encounter all over the place. This is explained by Lulu at the first sending ceremony. That's why monsters turn into Pyreflies and disappear when killed and human enemies just kinda drop. Souls with exceptional will and determination seem to be able to maintain their personalities after death. I believe they're basically still fiends, thus why they regain a corporeal form, but their fiend body resembles the sense of self they've held on to. This would also explain why Seymour was able to transform into more and more monstrous forms after his death. Hope this helps!
I’ve replayed this game literally dozens of time and love it every time.
I love your view of FF10, by far one of my best jrpg game. Not to complain to much but not knowing how many times you play through the game you should definitely replay the game again. One of the best reasons of why FF10 is such an amazing game is that it is 1 of the most enjoyable replayable jrpg game and the replay of this game you learn to keep learning more and more about the story and getting to understand even more then your first playthrough. You'll learn to love this game more and more the more you play it.
Just hits different, I’m proud of you 🥲
a game from my childhood on a channel called Retro Rebound....gods I'm old, never realized
This was the first game I ever played where I had an emotional connection and genuinely cared about the characters and story. I will say games like Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy X completely changed my perspective on what a story in a video game could be.
The same 2 franchises that I liked as well
I remember I racked up like 220 hours on just one save game for this FF. The amount of time you can invest in this game is incredible. It’s a lot of grinding at at times it can be challenging but also very rewarding. But fuck all those Chocobo race games. Never been so frustrated at a game in my life haha
The game was so damn good we forgot they took out the world map!
there was so much content gameplay wise there was no need for a world map
So you never see the Original PS2 Ending?
Tidus wakes up under Water. He Smiled and start to Swim. And Cut.
That is also the Secret Ending of X-2. He woke up in front of Besaid Island. But this Time the Scene is longer.
Than Yuna came whith the Airship and she start to tell her Story to Tidus.
IMO FFX tops FFVII as the best game in the series (and I've played almost every FF game). The beautiful scenarios, the amazing OST, the cutscenes and the story merge so well that it becomes one of the most immersive experiences that I ever had in front of a console.
"Listen to my TH-cam video...
...this, may be your first recommendation"
the Seymour battle on the snowy mountain seems to trip most people up! I spent hours gaining levels and farming fiends before I was able to finally get past it. Then Unalesca came... that's where my first few runs ended!
That commercial brought back memories. I love that trailer!
This game is in my top 3 for sure. I think you’re right about it being a product of its time. Playing this as a kid I had never played a game with the amount of detail, depth and emotion. The music, the graphics, the cutscenes, the story. It left a mark on me! I got all the secret aeons and characters unique weapons. Looking up guides on my dial up internet and keeping them in folders. I remember the monotony of traversing the large landscapes and getting pulled into a fight every 10 metres (the plains part) but you somehow have more patience and awe playing this in the early 2000’s where you don’t have hundreds of other games under your belt to compare it to.
yeah i remember honestly even back when this first came out sometimes i just didn't have time to level up or wander as much as needed, this game can be a bit tedious sometimes, but i still love it of course, it just takes a good chunk of time and energy
FFX was definitely the FF7 of PS2. The Endgame alone took me hundreds of hours. What a game. Difference in difficulty between endboss and black aeons was actually bigger than between the start monsters and the endboss. Crazy stuff.
About not balanced encounters... In the clip of the video where you fight it is clear that you didn't understand how that fight should have been dealt with. You were against two flyers and an armored enemy, and you kept using Auron to attack the flying ones, which can easily dodge slow attacks. Auron should be used with abilities to crack enemies armor, so its target was the armored knight. For the flying enemies, you should have instead used Wakka or Tidus, or Lulu with dark magic. That is why you feel like the fight, or other fights I presume, are unbalanced and takes forever. Cause of a lack of strategy comprehension. In reality almost all the encounters in the game are designed around your party development in that specific moment.
I agree with all the rest of the video, it is a very deep and well made analisys. Good job.
P.s: I'm one of the lucky people that played it on ps2 and had to do everything without speeding it up. What a ride. 🥲
Ah, this review is by someone who really doesn't understand how old school games used to be. He hates grinding, doesn't like to talk to people for more story....doesn't seem like the type who would have mashed x all over FFVII just to find stuff. If you do talk to everyone and don't try to "zip" through the game, a lot of your confusion goes away. This game was a great commentary on real life issues with religion and race, a huge topic of the time. Similar to FFVII being about the corporations and climate issues of the late 90's.
Oh, and to fight Yunalesca, keep your party as half Zombies and Half not.
I remember when i was 11 y.o and i was playing this game in the summer near a beach...FFX had a beatifull world,great characters(especially Auron,Tidus and Yuna),maybe one of the best romances,and blitzball.And dont say you didnt try the Jecht shot once
I always see people complaining about blitzball, but it's probably one of the parts I've spent the most time playing in FFX, I loved it.
I wouldn't say FFX is one of my favorites in the series but it was my first one and I definitely recommend it as the best place to start. Perfect mix of classic and modern FF and I will always respect it for that
This has probably been answered already in the comments but in general if people aren't sent they become the fiends that you often fight (some are like natural creatures/monsters and some are unsent) specifically they are all a play on the idea of ghosts that "Strong feelings of unfinished business" tie them to the land. Some most people go insane with their regret and become fiends but some like Auron have a strong goal and refuse to pass on until its complete. As I said its the whole "ghost/spirt" trope that is common, some are benevolent and some are malevolent.
This is actually a really really common thing in the FF series it more or less comes up again with the Cie'th in FFXIII (13) in particular the Cie'th stones which give you sidequests later in the game all being people who failed their "quest" but hang around trying to get others to finish it for them. Or the Cie'th themselves that failed a task and roam aimlessly in despair.
I feel like you missed the point of Tidus saying "I hate you" to Jecht. It was kind of tongue and cheek way of saying "I love you"
8:45 This is a known VRAM bug. The game is limited to 2gb, if you use more than that, the green screens start happening during cutscenes. Turning off Anti-Aliasing fixes it for most people. If not, there's a VRAM bugfix on the steam forum.
Man, my most beloathed boss fight was the dragon the airship one. I can't remember how to spell its name but I remember being stuck on that airship for days hopelessly trying to grind but being out of ability spheres and unable to learn any third teir magic or hastega. It wasn't an issue in the remasters because of ability distillers and attacks that the party could learn to make any enemy drop them but in the og version. The likely hood of getting like, soft locked because you went into it without the necessary level up material would kill you. Yunalesca on the other hand wasn't a problem but that was because I found out about the zombie status and how it makes you immune to death at the cost of being unable to heal.
It's kind of shocking looking back because the way the game was made usually made sure you had all the tools you needed for upcoming area's, giving you weapons beneficial to what you'd encounter but for some reason the Airship man... They dropped the ball on that one.
Getting the secret items inside of the temples gives you the strongest aeons or at one of them anima amazing
The obvious key to Yunalesca is to always have at least one character zombified. Then Megadeath can’t wipe you out.
Overall a good video, but there's a few things you've misunderstood. Firstly, this ISN'T the first fully turn-based Final Fantasy. Every FF from 6 (maybe 5) back are all turn-based. second, people who aren's "sent" turn into fiends. lastly, Tidus didn't "refuse to die", he was never alive. He is a "dream" of the summons. Their collective hopes for a way to stop Sin created him.
THIS
Yep this review annoyed me because he misunderstood or outright missed a lot of the lore which is explicitly explained to you...
being 13-16 and growing up with Kingdom Hearts & FFX was awesome. Is awesome..
@18:55 mark. It was kilika that got destroyed by sin not Besaid...
I knew I’d be annoyed trying to play this blind same with most old games so I followed a guide every step of the way, just wanted to get in to the story. one of my favourites and nothing bad to say by the end so don’t regret doing it that way
yunalesca is only hard if you ignore the armor crafting. you can easily craft an armor which nullifies zombie, give that one to one of your team and you cannot be oneshot by one move. they give you the tools to either get smart and ajust your equipment or brute force through the fight, but I dont understand how people try to brute force, fail, and blame yunalesca as an unfair bossfight. its like trying to hammer in a nail but instead of using a hammer, youre using a screwdriver.
I still have my Original PS2 copy. Not only that, I got it autographed by James Arnold Taylor (Tidus), Tara Strong (Rikku) and John DiMaggio (Wakka & Kimahri)
Its pretty crazy that X is easily one of the most played ones next to 7 but The characters in X are way more loved especially in Japan from the most recent Poll for favorite FFX characters. Crazy that Wakka is number 2.
Those green screen issues are part of the hd remake/ pc port, not the original ps2 game. I'd recommend anyone to play this game on a PCSX2 emulator up scaling to 4k resolution. Amazing experience with the original artwork and music.
I think for Auron and Seymour its a mixture of not having been sent and the strength of their wills. Both are burdened with a purpose that has consumed them to the point that they refuse to cross over into the Farplane. Yuna has to reach a place of power and experience before she can forcibly send Seymour and Auron finally lets go and agrees to be sent once Jecht has been laid to rest.
Great video. The US PS2 version is based on the original Japanese release, but another version called FFX International was released later that had extra content like the choice of 2 different sphere grids and fighting the dark aeons as bosses. The PAL PS2 version and all the HD remasters are based on the international version.
yeah that mt gadgazet fight is where my first playthrough ended 20 years ago, got stuck there for a bit and then my safe file got cleared for memory card room by a brother, took me a few years to go back to it after that haha
FF10, 11 and 12 were my all time favorites with FFtactics as my non-numbered favorite as well. 11 is my all time love but 12 had the best battle mechanics while 10 had the best music and love story with best graphics(at its times). Best story is FFTactics over all. Nobody can beat tactics.
FF12 had borrowed the macro-input function of FF11 and improved upon it, then Dragon Age origins improved upon it even further(as buggy as that game was).
FF13 killed FF for me, after that I couldn’t really bring myself to play any FF anymore, outside of 11, which I played till 2013, on and off.
Yo I cried watching the ending and explaining it to my 7 yr old. It was that good
Many of the things you hated, I enjoyed. The puzzles and sphere grid were fun and felt rewarding. Also, the boss fights and story was top notch for me. I'm sorry, but you're review seemed like you wanted to hate it before going into it. Many of the elements you disliked, were adored by the majority. I was surprised to hear you had to push through to the end. Everyone is entitled to their opinion though.
Thank you for going through these older Final Fantasy games. I’ve been slowing playing them as well (6 and 7 so far). Would you or anyone else here recommend playing 9 or X next? I’ll be playing on the switch if that makes a difference. Thanks for the content!
They explain what happens if a weak soul isn't sent. They become fiends, it's one of the first things the game tells you.
Turn based combat was in previous games.
Rikku isn't faking as Al-Bhed. She and Yuna are both Al-Bhed. Well, Rikku has more Al-Bhed blood than Yuna, but both are family.
I gotta ask: how many times did you flee from battles? I remember back when I first played the game as a kid, I did a lot of fleeing from battles. And I ran into walls with certain bosses, and I would have to go back and grind. Playing the game now that I'm a lot older and patient, I never fled from battles, and just killed everything I came across. I made it way further more easily doing that than fleeing. I never ran into problems with random encounters being way too difficult for me.
And, wait, you saw the cutscene where Yuna sends Sin, right? You never mentioned it, and I'm worried. It comes after the Yevon fight, and before Yuna giving her speech.
Actually Tidus and Yuna never confessed their feelings at all at Macalania. Yuna simply began crying partly due to all the plot revelations, Tidus comforts her and they kiss. In fact, Yuna never got to confess her feelings to Tidus at all. In the original Japanese version, Yuna only formally thanks him at the end. Thats the entire reason for X-2's existence, Yuna sees the sphere with a man that looks like Tidus, and sets out to see if its really him, so she can tell him how she really feels.
when people die and refuse to go, it is usually due to a very strong attachment to something and if they aren't sent they become fiends, this is explicitly clear in the story. As for Auron, he wanted to fulfill his promise to Jecht, and take care of his son; but his willpower was likely so strong the he's able to fight off the transformation, at least that's how I always understood it.
I totally agree with your assessment of FFX. I played it when it came out, and was blown away by the visuals and story. But those puzzles and gimmick fights. Man, talk about speed bumps. Trying to get some of the ultimate weapons was a real pain too. (Lulu, Wakka, and Tidus specifically.) Over all, still a damn good game but definitely not my favorite FF. Like you, I give that to 9.
By the way, don't even bother with X-2. It's crap. It doesn't have near the charm of X, nor is it as compelling. It feels like a massively watered down version of X that just uses some of things that got people hooked on X at the beginning then never touches them again. Including plot hooks. Just be content to have it as part of your collection and leave it at that.
O man, Yunalesca, Reaper of Souls, is the best damn boss fight of the era. I love that sweet poison honey.... slow and deadly af : - )
I cried so much at this game. Its worth it for the payoff to play both x and x-2 to the perfect endings.
Oh, and theres an art book pf fffx/x-2 book out there that is worth the cost if youre into them.
This was and is the best ff's. I highly recommend getting the guide book because without it, you will never figure out how to get all the secret aeons
The ending made me ugly cry dude lol still one of my favorite games!!!
Almost 40 yrs old now and played way too many games, but as far as Jrpgs or just RPGs go, FFX and Legend Of Dragoon if 100% completed are the 2 best story’s and just the most satisfying to complete period!
And I’m one who platinumed FFX and maxed the sphere grid on every character and that’s deleting the lower stats for maxed! Lol the Sphere grid was awesome! Man clearly didn’t do the monster arena nor face optional bosses more then likely! Rush through to make a video for views with a just as rushed opinion, man don’t like a sphere grid that allows you to have options on paths to take characters early to change gameplay and there abilities on 2nd play throughs, he doesn’t like puzzles lol, I mean this is the mindless FPS generation, I guess I get it, then complains about boss fights! Yikes opinions got more shallow as this video went! Don’t take advice from someone on an RPG who says they like to Blitzmode them then bitches about cutscenes lol! I mean a role playing game is about story! And the man has a gaming career, made me laugh!
Despite being a ffx lover myself, I think this was a very fair review. I think that when the huge ffx fans say the game is a masterpiece, what they mean is that they love the story and the characters. Now that you bring up all the gameplay elements, I don’t see how most people can say that blitzball is great (it’s no Gwent), or the cloister of trials is great, or even the gameplay mechanics are great. To me the gameplay is very hit or miss, and the story is what was amazing. Lots of the gameplay was terrible…no one should ever make a dodging lightning 200 times in a row mini game ever again.
Agreed. Also the chocobo race for tidus weapon was so bad LOL. Although one part i did like about the gameplay was the combat
even when I was a kid, I really only loved the story. Combat was alright but I just wanted to get to the next cutscene to see what happens next
I respect and understand those who grew up loving the game, but really, graphics and cutscenes appart, It wasn't very good :
Design-wise, they dropped Amano for Nomura (yuck !), the game was a big hallway, very linear, no real freedom, story was too stretched out, and 3rd act didn't make any sense, sphere experience was unclear and streamlined, and Tidus was such an insufferable main character, actually appart from Auron and Lulu, the team wasn't great either...
I loved VI, VII, VIII, IX, and even XI, but boy, did I hated X and XIII.
@@redjakOfficial I agree with the sphere grid and game design part but cannot go as far as you did with the story lol! Of course I understand people’s criticisms with the characters. Even as a child I thought, “Damn Tidus complains and cries a lot.” But of course I think that’s a matter of personal taste.
I will say that for me, this game was one of the only stories (books, movies, games, anything) that I actually appreciated more as an adult than as a child. There were themes, characterizations, and character similarities (Titus and Yuna, Titus and Seymour, Yuna and Seymour, Titus and Auron to name a few) that I completely missed as a child. This is what I’m very appreciative to this game for, for being something I could love both as a child and adult. In my head I compare this to the Kingdom Hearts series, which, to me, had absolutely nothing more to say to me as an adult than as a kid, and often nowadays makes me think, “Why did I *ever* like this?” Though, again it is all personal taste for sure.
I might have had a similar experience to you when recently playing VII. I just finished it a few months ago and really loved the story, but think I missed the emotional connection that many probably had if it was their first FF game that they played when growing up.
@@jejo63660 I understand that. It's a generation thing. I feel the same about VI, and would fiercly defend it. And, I mean hate is a strong word, I finished it, and I even liked Blitzball. It's still a FF game at heart.
But I feel like Square Soft drastically changed direction between IX and X. Design, tone, linear progression, cryptic lore... I wasn't the core audience targeted with those changes.
Edit : I just got your name's reference xD
Ffx was the first FF I was able to finish the others before it I only played for a bit, I was like 12 years old back then and I was so proud so it will always be one of my favorites
Frutiger Aero: The Game. What a legendary classic.
They explain that when souls are not sent to the farplane, they eventually become fiends. But a soul with an unusually strong emotion or driving force can refuse to become a fiend and become an unsent.
For Seymour it was his quest for power. For Auron, it was his friendship with Tidus's father.
Yeah, idk man... great vid overall but I have some notes:
1. I think maybe you did miss some plot details. Others have outlined them so I won't repeat.
2. The "stop-start" pacing issues probably stem from turbo mode. Turbo mode probably undermined the score too, which is masterful imo. Except the battle theme which gets old because it gets reused so goddamn much.
3. Hate to be that that guy, but regarding the balancing issues... git gud. Game doesn't have difficulty settings unfortunately, but a lot of the satisfaction in boss battles comes from succeeding after being wiped out a few times because there's always a solution; you just gotta figure it out. That Yunalesca one? Yeah, it's rough. After megadeath got me, I tried again and got around it by having an aeon out when she cast it.
I get that I have nostalgia goggles, but I still fell like these are valid points.
I wish the remaster version gave us an option to play the original version of the game. I’m replaying the game for the first time in almost 20 years and I am missing the facial impressions the original version had. Still having fun tho
Still one of my favorite games of all time. I still listen to the OST to sleep
Was Kilika, not Besaid, that got wiped out after the boat ride.
It's in my top 5 favorite games. Story, gameplay, almost everything. Even though it has 3 of my most hated things I had to do in a game. Chocobo racing, Blitzball and F'ng Dodging 115 (or something like that) consecutive lightning strikes.......
Own it on PS3, PS4 and PC.
200 consecutive lighting strike...
Don't miss the primer in home, or you'll miss x y or z until you decide to play again
I hit a stopping point at the Seymour fight on Mt Gagazet when I played it the first time around. Having to trek all the way to boss after every loss and just dying over and over, I gave up. Tried again another time and still lost, so I said screw it and used Action Replay codes. Years later, I was able to beat it on my own.
Final fantasy 10 believe it or not my first ps2 game I play since it came out when I was young and it’s was fun I didn’t understand it til later down the road to find the truth ending brought me into tears at the end game was wow
You can one shot Yunalesca with Yojimbo. Sure it’s by “chance” that he uses Zanmato, but yeah. Ends that fight pretty quickly.
The bug is easy enough to fix, putting the game into Borderless Window would get rid of it. But more often than not, it's an issue with Nvidia. If you're using an Nvidia card, go into the 3D settings and change the game to 'Prefer Maximum Performance' and you're golden. I play this game twice a year to full completion, as a sentimental nod to something when I was a kid. When I first seen that green-screen, I needed to figure it out. Glad you enjoyed the game, I'm sorry that you were screwed over by the port. Honestly, the port is glorious so long as you have those fixes in place. I can honestly say that I don't see this game through nostalgia goggles, I recognize the flaws with it -- but in comparison to so many other RPGs? Those flaws are miniscule. If you ever have questions about this game, let me know -- I'm the obsessive guy that bought all the books, models, scripts, and I own the game on every possible platform: The lore itself might be something you adore.
Wow, late to the game brother! It almost sounds unreal that someone didn't play this game. Haha. I'm glad you finished it.
I never had that green screen bug. I don't think I had any bugs replaying it on PC.
First time? Sheeesh enjoy that brotha
I will always envy people who experience FFX for the first time and do not even know about this privilege. If I could go back in time, I would like to play it for the first time again
I played the ps2 version. back then I was a PS fanboy back then now I'm playing this on Xbox gamepass and man does it look a hundred times better even the graphics are upgraded and the cgi scenes have a better transition from movie scene to the game.
The green screens aren't the game's fault, it's an Nvidia driver bug. Doesn't happen on AMD.
The leveling of the game requires a lot of grinding and adds to the game count
you don't get this *nostalgic* look often on social media. Cudos to this guy
Love FFX, one of my all time favourites. If memory serves, I think Yojimbo Zanmato goes through all 3 forms of Yunalesca (even if used on the first form). I remember I used to save a decent amount of gil for that fight just so I could do that lol. And for Seymour flux on the mountain, he has 70k hp so just get all your overdrives up around the save sphere before that fight (all summons and characters). You can easily do most of the damage from overdrives alone, maybe 50 or 60K HP? Just make sure you use the summons overdrives before he insta kills them. And then it just becomes above surviving his total annihilation which can usually be done with Auron out as he natually has the most HP and defence.
I think this is the biggest mistake of those who play FFX and try to understand their story. Many do not realize that Tidus is the narrator of the story and the angle of view of the facts that occurred in the story, there is no internalization of the yuna, there is what we can SEE of the yuna, what we see of the yuna is what TIDUS sees. I believe Yuna is a kind of Deuttaragonist, she makes the story go and participates in the central part of the plot, but she does not overlap Tidus, because he is actually the central part, we start with him and look at the story through him, and he it changes the events yes, a good example is the marriage yuna x seymour, this is fundamental for the sequence of the narrative. To say that Tidus is not the driving force behind FFX is a misinterpretation of the story.
LUL bro Seymour is one the greatest video game sub-bosses of all time. And FFX is one of the greatest video games of all time. The amount of hours required for a 100% probably exceeds any other game because of all the end-game quests which makes your levelling more worth it in the end instead of being like "well thanks for playing, you're file is over". It's almost never over with this huge game.
This game began my FF journey. Love this game.
Outside of PS3 and PSvita, I believe I've purchased every single version of this game after my PS2 finally died and the 2001 disc stopped reading
Just finished it on my XBSX last month again
It seems that i'm the only one that really loved Yunalesca and her bossfight XDDD
Pretty sure there was a reflect spell, that you used once you were zombified. No mega death spell and all those healing spells got deflected.
Phoenix down was your best friend in this fights (as a weapon).
Stumbled upon you and really like your content :)
Taken some notes for my own videos!
The cloister of trials has had me drop this game every time i've played it since the first play though back in 2001. I've tried 4 times since then to play it and i hit the first or second one and i'm like oh.... yeah... fuck this.
The greatest rpg ever made 🎉🎉🎉
I played this game for the first time when i was like 9 or 10 and it was the very first game I ever fell in love with. It is my Favorite game ever. And the soundtrack is one of if not the best out of all the Final Fantasy games in my opinion.
Yeah it seems like 50% of the story went in one ear and out the other.