Final Fantasy X | A Complete History and Retrospective
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Final Fantasy X is such amazing game i love it even to this day hard game to platinum lol still working on it, but back in my days playing the original ps2 version I related to Titus with and then he gets sent to into the the future a new place were he has to rebuild himself again I felt like that when I went to Canada it was all new to me I my wife is from Canada and while I was there I got kicked out of Canada me and my wife who was my girlfriend at the time were ripped apart I was sent back to California but my wife never gave up on me and came to me haha now were married with a baby and I tell my wife this game reminds me of us and my step dad haha. But yeah I will always love ffx FF8 is my favorite tho. 8,10,9,7, crisis core.
Final Fantasy X is my favourite Final Fantasy game and one of my favorite games of all time. That ending still gets me every time. It's perfect.
@@lyonhart8768 !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeeeeeee
Me: existing peacefully
To Zanarkand: im about to destroy this man
20 years, goosebumps every time. The nostalgia is eye watering
I still remember playing this game when I was younger, so many fond memories. The best memory is when I woke up one day during the week and playing the last bit of the game I had maybe 1 hour before school started but I got so into it that by the time I realized it I was already later then I had intended... in my mind I was im not leaving now gotta beat it here and now I played for another 30 minutes and beat the game enjoyed the ending scenes and credits. Then hopped on my bike and pedaled so fast to get to my high school. I was over an hour late but luckily the students were moving to another class and I got one of them to open up the gate. Over th years I had played it on and off again on my ps2. Then once again when they remastered it bought it for my ps3. This game was a part of me growing up and I love it to this day, my favorite of all the final fantasy I've played.
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Final Fantasy X my first RPG and my 1 of 4 first PS2 game.
It was an experience...a journey...I will forever love this game
such nostalgia. Thank you for all your hard work FFU.
I beat this game last year. My first FF.
A true gem that is so fun to analyze and think about.
Yuna is an icon amazingly written.
The soundtrack is perfect.
So much extra content.
I could gush about it for hours if I wanted to go all out.
My Favorite game of all time 🥰🥰🥰
Happy anniversary to my all-time favorite FF!
FFX is just pure perfection, and it will always be my favorite. The characters, the story, the voice acting, the visuals, and the Aeons... everything was just the perfect recipe.
Close to perfection. The mini games are horribly frustrating
Final fantasy 7, 8 and 10 got me through my teenage years and taught me so much about life, passion, story-telling, imagination, love, heart ache, defeat and triumph. They are all pure modern-day works of art.
Nailed it man! Well said
@@ryleyspencer822 thank you ! Really mean that haha
I don't have the same nostalgia but your comment still made me happy. I feel that way about kingdom hearts 🌽 😂
Same here. The nostalgia that floods my brain when I hear a couple notes of music from any of these games is almost overwhelming. We are lucky to have this awesome channel to bring us back to those years.
FFIX actually crying in the club rn
I’m currently writing a book about Final Fantasy X and I mentioned this channel and the team in my forward and probably throughout the book. Thank you so much for helping to inspire me to take on this project! If there’s a way I can give you more credit in my book let me know. For the most part it’s really just about my thoughts! Thanks again!!!
When you release it, please share the name of your work to support you, it holds a special place in my heart, it was one of my first games.
This sounds exciting!
That’s amazing! I want to read it!
It’s going to be a very personal subjective retrospective, but more importantly it’s for us the fans who grew up with it. A celebration piece if you will. I went through a personal journey with this game from a child to an adult. I can truthfully say it is my favorite game of all time!
Foreword 👀
It’s amazing to think that’s it has been 20 years since this game came out; multiple rereleases, 15 million copies, wonderful cast of characters, a protagonist that is still one of the best written characters in all of gaming, this game was my introduction to this iconic series and still lives in my heart in my Mount Rushmore Of Video games along with Super Mario Galaxy 2, Street Fighter 4, and Persona 5 Royal. Such a legendary video game
I've purchased the game 3 times now. On launch for PS2, the PS3 remaster, and now again digitally on the PS5. It's that fn good
20 years...
Dang, I feel old.
This was for me the last good main line final fantasy game. Pure turn based great character progression and great story.
Also the music. After this the music got more and more weird, specially the latest titles that seem to have been composed by a monkey on LSD.
@@unixtreme After X, no other FF game got me hooked until XV. The stories were "meh", gameplay faltered, and it was all GRAPHICS NEW FIGHTING ENGINE BLAH BLAH. FF is about story and getting you hooked. Everything else is secondary (well, maybe third after the music).
@@jakedeschamps4454 I feel you my guy lol
This and Kingdom Hearts were really a one-two punch for Square in the early 00s, weren't they?
and ff9 came out in 99 so it really was just a wombo combo for years.
I still remember 14 year old me first discovering Final Fantasy X through music videos. Yes, I was a hopeless romantic at that time, so the story really captured me. Little did I know I would get swept away by the franchise starting with FFX ❤
SAME, i'm 31 now, but at age 14/15 this game really captured me and then I got into Kingdom Hearts
Never understood how VIII, which main theme is love, is a joke compared to to well that theme in X is told.
Tidus and Yuna might be the best couple in gaming history (one of the reasons I'm glad they never made X-3).
I'm still a hopeless romantic.
26 y.o.
I remember watching my brother play at 7 and never trying because I knew it was too complicated for me. Then playing from 8 to 10 just replaying the game till I'd get stuck around the cliff battle. Little did I know I was doing no sphere grid runs all that time and my brother lvld me up when I was 10 and I beat it around 11 years old 4 years later. First game I ever cried to.
X was the first FF game I bought as an adult, with my own money and played to death. My wife was in the same boat, and we actually had To Zanarkand as the music we walked down the aisle to on our wedding day!
The characters are so vibrant, the world is alive, and there are so many good story developments. My favourite is Wakka having to question his faith and work with the Al-Bhed to protect Yuna, ultimately turning his back on the only life he knew.
Also, the Auron/Yunalesca scene gives me goosebumps to this day
Love that scene with Auron. I get pumped up every time he gets emotional, realizing he has a rare chance to prevent another cycle of death and rectify his fall on Gagazet.
How could you even walk down the aisle with To Zanarkand? Wouldn't be able to see at all 😭 That track will never not get at least a couple tears out of me
No WAY!! You used that music to your WEDDING!!! ho-lee-fuuuk..
And I thought I was a true fan. You and your wife have amazing taste! I wish I met more final fantasy X fans in real life.
This game changed my life. It shaped the person I really am!
@@onliner10000 my Anima tattoo is finally finished after a toral 16 hours in the chair lol. Been a fan of this game ever since it's release and just finished Penance again after a couple of years of bot playing it.
But Richard, awesome choice @ wedding music. Nicely done ^^
@@geralt7926 I NEED more Final Fantasy X loving friends irl. I only met one girl who liked it as much as me
I’ve always wanted a braska jecht auron play through. I know they go through their story. But still.
X-0 maybe 😬
I hear that a lot, but I thought it was too predictable. What I wanted to see is a prequel set in the Machina War that drove Yu Yevon mad and gave birth to Sin, with Yunalesca and Zaon as the protagonists.
People have been asking for that game since X came out, never understood why they made a sequel instead of that game, or how they even started development on X-3 (and then they scrapped it) before X-0.
Final Fantasy X was my first ff, I was excited with this title particularly, because I no longer needed my brother next to me to translate for me. English not being my first language, I'd had powered through ever since having played LoZ: OoC and MM as a kid and being frustrated over not understanding what was going on/what to do. Playstation titles were always very English-heavy for me, which is why I had opted for nintendo as a kid and thus ffx being my first title. I thoroughly enjoyed it and still remember how it made me feel. I remember I beat the game at 4 AM on a Wednesday, a school night. That last boss/section took so long and I just couldn't put it down before I finished it, I even woke up my brother to tell him and we watched the final scene together, then I cried during the credits hahaha, I love this game, will forever be in my memory.
"Listen To My Story. This May Be Our Last Chance." - Tidus
A Skylit Drive stole this line. 😬😅
Oh look, it's raining.
It will never be Tee-dis for me. I don't think I'm in the minority here when I say it should be pronounced Tie-dus
you cried
@@boltinabottle6307 tie-dus just feels right. The whole game references the ocean and a life near it. The word tide refers to the ocean as well, it just fits.
I heard the intro and immediately felt like I was home 🥰
My favorite cast of characters in ALL of Final Fantasy honestly. I love this game a lot and the OST is the best in the series too.
Same here. Every character has an arc, even Kimahri. I love how Tidus reconciles the past by forgiving his father. I love how Auron explodes before the fight with Yunalesca, coming alive with anger at the thought of repeating the past as he had done with Braska. I love how Lulu slowly accepts Chappu's death and warms to Wakka, and I love how Wakka overcomes his bias against the Al Bhed by seeing Rikku as a person, rather than what she represents to him. I love the sun and moon dynamic of Tidus and Yuna, with the latter's boisterousness and the former's diligence complimenting each other perfectly. Even Rikku gains maturity while Kimahri reclaims his honor as a Ronso by using the strength of his friends to help him rise up. I like the awkward but sincere way the cast interacts with each other, and I LOVE how the group earns its dynamic by the end by starting off so terse and alienated.
It's funny because I think the OST is really solid, but I prob wouldn't even rank it on my top 3 fav FF osts. They're just all too good imo. But it's still great. So is the cast and gameplay. And the story, easily the best in all the series imo.
The combination of Nobuo Uematsu's genius with the collaboration of Masashi Hamauzu, among others, make FF10's music a unique experience to listen to
I got this game for Christmas with my PS2 back in 2001, so much nostalgia. I still remember how badly I wanted to play it while I was sitting with my family eating dinner waiting for my chance to play it
I got it at the same time. I got the demo with the PS1 release of FF6 a few months earlier and loved it. FFX was all I asked for that year, so my parents bought me my own TV to play it on :) I miss those days.
I got mine about the same time but I forgot to get the memory card and I started playing it and about got a few hours in "just to try it out" and I died. I forgot about the saving so when I died a little part of me was too cuz I couldn't save so I had to start over
Same me too!! Then i got Kingdom Hearts and my love for that series started!
Ff12s 20 year anniversary is gonna be rough for me, have very vivid memories of not only playing it but my life when it came out. It was the first time I lived on my own. Have so many bitter sweet memories around that time and I associate it with ff12.
@@DarknessFlameMedia dude, I'm 36. I swear, one moment it's the mid 90s, I'm in my folks basement playing chrono trigger on the snes, I blink and I'm playing ff12 in my apartment in the mid 2000s. Blink again and it's now the 2020s and I'm married with 3 kids. Two of my kids are older then I was when i was playing Chrono Trigger in moms basement.
20 years later
Everyone: you're as beautiful as the day I lost you.
Final Fantasy X is my favorite game of all time and my favorite Final Fantasy game. It's also the game that introduced me to rpg's as it was from what I remember the first rpg I ever played. It was the game that got me into the Final Fantasy series and I have so many fond and happy memories of it. It's just such a great and beautiful game.
Completed it over 5 times, felt happy when playing it, helped me grew as a person and I don't think there will be a game that will ever surpass it.
Thank you for this video! It brought back so many memories. FF8 got me hooked. And I remember before it released constantly looking at updates. I remember having the game purchased for me for Christmas excited at the prospect of playing! Even though it was 7 months before I had even got a PS2. It was…wow…it was mind blowing. But of course I was much younger… with the way the franchise has/had been going over the last decade and a half I lost touch with it’s magic and with stuff like The Last of Us and GoW (PS4) it has not always been easy to look back on some of the titles from FF. But, I still love FF8-10. 7 was fun and good, but it lacked the emotional intimacy amongst the characters that really gripped me on titles like FFVIII or FFX.
So, thank you
This is indeed a special game, with the passage of time I've grown to love even more the characters, the themes, the lore, it might not be perfect, but it's my personal favorite
My first ff,
Will always hold a place in my heart ❤️
Last real wow factor.... now graphics and voice acting common and each gen are so similar to the last, ffX was a huge impact at the time.
Yeah well when you think about it graphics can only get as good as real life at one point, then there's no further to go
FFX was my first plot heavy game and I still replay it almost every year.
Final Fantasy X is my favourite game of all time and, like you two, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve played it.
I can still remember how exciting it was experiencing the story on the ps2, and the hd remaster actually got me to buy a ps3 and got me back into gaming in general.
Happy 20th birthday Final Fantasy X, and thank you FFUnion for a great video!
i remember getting the demo as a freebie for another game and it was my first experience with a ps2 game the graphics then were outstanding. It's a little sad that people from newer generations will probably never experience such a graphical upgrade. going from one generation to the next these days is not massively different compared to the difference from ps1 to ps2.
@@MissMultiConsole Yes! I also miss the treat of the cgi cutscene, and how much of a visual step up that would be in the game. I liked to imagine what other moments in games would look like with those graphics.
I have memories of speaking with a friend after FFX2 came out and saying one day game graphics will be as good as the cgi cutscenes in that game, and the idea just blowing our minds. It’s crazy to think that’s basically a reality now.
My favorite FF game
"Tide-us". Like the tide. Water. You're wrong, Square. Fight me.
Greatest game ever made.
i disagree. it's an incredible irreplacable work of art. it's one of the greatest stories ever told.
but strictly as a *game* i think there are many far better and more fun ones out there. its fun but turn based rpg gameplay is antequated imo.
but i will say this it is one of the few story focused games i enjoy replaying.
cannot say that about most of them lmao. like uncharted or last of us.
some games should just be books, movies, or shows yall, its cheaper and easier.
Tbh it's more than a game
FF10 will forever be one of the best games of all time ❤
I can't believe I first laid my eyes on Spira 20 years ago. Time to go back there for the 100th time I think
This is actually my first FF game.. Cause I never have ps1 and the only console I've ever had is ps2.. I really enjoyed this as my first FF game.. It somehow helps me grow as a person? Glad that there's actually a lot of people liking this game too..
FFX is one of the best FFs to start with. A truly wonderful experience. I will remember it for the rest of my life.
FFX was the first PS2 game I had played with my cousin, back when my grandma was alive and I was but a boy in school... I remember getting all the way to Shiva's temple before getting a game over, with no memory card. Id watched my cousin play for 5 hours. Sadly it's one of the last games I played with my cousin.
My little brother and I got to play it again after I finally got a ps2 damn near the middle to end of PS3's life, and I think it's the only FF game that I've beaten more than twice. While it's not my favorite, that title goes to FF8, I still have countless memories of this game. Hearing "To Zanarkand" always makes me feel... A lot of things... And for all the love I have for FF 10 and the series in general, I don't think it needs a third game.
It didnt need a second game to begin with.
Glad they scrapped the whole X-3 thing.
My fave game of all time - solid vid
I love FFX, it's my favorite in the series.
I love FFX, it is my first and favorite (didn’t care much for X-2). My interest in Final Fantasy games began back during FFVII days. Back then we only had one game console and it was in the main room. I enjoyed watching my daughter play almost like watching a movie. Didn’t start playing any FF games for myself until FFX came out on the Switch. I asked my daughter if it would be a good one for an entry into FF. She said definitely so I bought it and fell in love with the story, music and battle style. Yes, I love the battle style because I prefer turn-based fighting. It gives me time to think and I like the strategy of selecting moves. I love how they allowed you to switch players in battle in which other turn based games that I have played never allowed. It also made it easier to adapt to the fighting styles in the later games. FFX will always be my favorite Final Fantasy game.
As always, great video! FFX is my favorite Final Fantasy!
Final Fantasy X arrived around that time in my youth when I was old enough to follow along and anticipate it's arrival with great fervor.
The PS2 had also arrived around that time, and I was fortunate enough to actually have one to experience FFX on day one.
Originally, even after having played through Origins, and IV through IX all on PS1, FFX didn't resonate with me like I had hoped. I regret to admit that I put the controller down just shortly before finishing Mt. Gagazet.
I did play and enjoy X-2 but, it didn't wow me.
Years later, I would return to Spira with X HD on PS4. This time my heart sang out with approval and the game finally hit on all levels.
FFX was my first FF and made me fall in love with the series.
PS: now I have to start a new playthrough…. Thanks for that… xD
Thank you for doing this video. Everytime I hear To Zanarkand, I just want to cry. I can't believe it's been 20 years. I still didn't finish this game, but I always felt it was special to me. From characters, to music to story.
I believe this was the first game I've played I had to cry (the ending, obviously). That is an achievement for almost 30 year old at the time. It then has not happend again until Wither 3 (Gerald finding Ciri in the shed). But at that point I was old, and crying comes a lot easier to me now :)
Same. I remember beating it EARLYYYYY in the morning before school. And after beating it I was in shock from the ending. I had that legendary single tear drop fall down my face. Then I turned off the PS2 and went to school and thought about it all day.
Amazing fucking game.
7 is my favorite FF game hands down. I played 8, it was okay. I played 9, loved it. But 10...that was something special. And the thing about is, some days I say I like 7 better, others I say 10. This game truly was one of the most emotion wrenching games I had ever played up until that point. I loved the game, still do, and always will!
It was truly a beautiful game
It’s been 20 years…I thought you’d be crying.
Has it been 20 years already? I remember getting this game as, if it was yesterday. Yuna and Tidus story accompanied me on those long hours on the weekend staying at home and playing this game, truly a masterpiece :)
This is my 2nd favourite game of all time. The feelings I have for the characters and music are nothing short of wonderful nostalgia. That being said, still waiting for History of Square Part II!!!
I need to play though this game again with the expert sphere grid. Great game.
Missed you guys
I see ffx, I click
Thank you both for your work in this. There is no single game that has been as impactful on me personally. The music. The characters. The locations. The ADVENTURE. I will never forget the chills it first gave me when the team went up against Seymour at Macalania and again at Mt Gagazet. Or the melancholic anticipation on the short road through the Zanarkand Ruins before you face Yunalesca. Or the final embrace between Yuna and Tidus before they say goodbye.
This game will always deserve celebration.
I love these videos. FFX is one of my favorites as well. Not so much combat as the bestiary is weak IMO. But pretty much everything else. Always a fun playthrough.
I'm so glad that FFX was my first Final Fantasy game I played
Final Fantasy X was my first proper Final Fantasy, after my cousin introduced my to the series and I was a bit mid on 7 as a kid. It was massively impactful on how I grew to see stories and media growing up, and honestly is what made me such a huge JRPG fan today and lifelong Final Fantasy fangirl. I remember sitting in front of my old tv playing this game and trying to solve puzzles for hours at a time. The music still makes it onto my playlists today and To Zanarkand actually inspired me to want to learn to play piano just so I could play it. This is a very long winded way of saying X and honestly X-2 were a huge formative part of my life.
I’m planning to get a Switch and I will be getting 3 games, 1 from each franchise (Mario,LoZ &FF) each game chosen is my favorite in their respective series and FFX is my favorite among Final Fantasies. Thank you for this video
"Sony fights Cube with Square" is a brilliant title for an article. I'm sure that journalist is still proud of that.
just read an article about ff game rankings, and it put this game in second, only losing to Terra's, thankyou for the video!
The first FF i genuinely love despite not winning the Chocobo race once.
I still have my original PlayStation 2 copy of Final Fantasy X and it’s signed by James Arnold Taylor (Tidus), John DiMaggio (Wakka & Kimahri) and Tara Strong (Rikku)
Final Fantasy X is both my favourite PlayStation 2 game and favourite Final Fantasy game. Yes, I’ve heard the rumours of a potential Final Fantasy X-3 after the completion of the entire Final Fantasy VII Remake. You know, I’m 100% open to it. If it happens; AWESOME! If it doesn’t, I’m fine with that.
Same. FFX was a product of its time and I am happy with the story remaining as it was. Hopefully it'll inspire more stories like it, but everything tacked on labelled as a sequel or expansion has been a letdown for me, personally, particularly the characters' appearances in other games.
Beautiful video. Made me appreciate the game even more than I already do. You brought great insight and emotion to it.
I observed FF go from NES to SNES, then played through it's transition into 3D. When I played X, I felt very quickly that the quality of storytelling had advanced more than any prior technological jump. The characters, world and plot felt rich and alive in a way no prior one did, and all crafted around a story being communicated to and from the heart. I felt connected to it, where in every other FF prior I felt interested.
Listen to my story... I remember sneaking out of school during lunch time to go to my local video game store and buy FFX with my bday/xmas savings. For the rest of the school day, all I could do was read the game's manual front to back, multiple times and stare at the artwork. I spent the next few weeks, simply mesmerised by the game, the voice acting, the characters, the story... it was like nothing l have ever experienced before. My brother once walked into my room and teasingly asked if I am playing a game or watching a movie... I just replied, "both", without even turning my head away from the TV. This game has so many awesome moments, I tear up just thinking about them. Needless to say, this is my favourite FF game. My original save had over 200 hours of play time, which might not sound like a lot for some of you, but it's something I had never done before. Thanks for all the memories...
Considering this was the first game I’ve ever played after first moving to Canada, it holds a special place in my heart and it’s what got me invested in the storytelling aspect of games. It was so good in using elements (character development, music, gameplay, etc) to add to the already emotional story of FFX.
Tidus was supposed to be a plumber? What an unholy Super Mario hommage it could be...
No wonder he's so good at jumping and swimming. 'Let's-a-go!'
You could say that Final fantasy x Is a 10/X
LES GOOO. I just finished my second playthrough, where I 100% the game, and I'm still on that high of loving the game. So this was perfectly timed.
Thanks to FFX2 I'm fall in love with rpg. It's my first rpg and first FF game.
Ffx will always be the game i return to for the rest of my life. And the ending always make me cry. Just the sound of "To Zanarkand" brings everything back.
One of the best story written in a video game
This is my story..
I was 20 when this game came out. To say that I sunk at least 10,000 hours into it is a given. But I think that is actually more like 15k. Perhaps more.
I burned out consoles playing it. Generations of consoles came & went.
“To Zanarkand”, “Hymn of the Fayth”, and the victory chime has been my ring tone, alarm clock, and text notification on every single cell phone I’ve owned.
It got me over several nasty breakups, including the decade long one with my now ex-common law wife.
It helped me make peace with the issues between me & my old man (33 years later, I miss him still. Every minute of every day).
It’s continued to be here as I near the age he was when he passed, and as I’ve started to develop the same health issues he did.
Can’t say any other single thing, let alone a silly little perfect game, has ever had quite the same impact on my life as FFX.
I never had gotten to play any other game in my life, my life would be just as complete.
Thank you union. You’ve brought a smile to this old man’s face.
Since 20 years release FFX original in PS2 HD remaster in PS3, PSVita, PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch early 2010's during before fallen in 9/11 2001 on USA
Every time I hear that to zanarkand opening I start to get emotional goddam square. Doesn't help it's the game I used to play with my best friend when I had 11 years old when he was still with us :/
Long boring comment ahead, but trying to type what this game means to me in a timely matter.(Failed but still lengthy!)
Final Fantasy is the first one I actually played from start to finish. Previous attempts ended usually due to theft of hardware or files lost which would include(in english) 1, 3, 5, 7(total five separate times), 8 then 10. It shown me what video games can do in narrative and world building. Perhaps my first taste of world building that I saw through to the end of a single title. The curve and fights throughout feels well balanced, never necessarily grinded.
Aside first time because of a friend whom made this mean even more to me. A self proclaimed Final Fantasy expert needed help with Evrae during his first playthrough. Naturally had to wait until the weekend but I came over and died first try, looking over the sphere grid and was blown away(actually looking at it than passively while chilling with). Picking up Dark Buster with a little grinding and finished it, nothing goes wrong. Not long after, another friend needed help. With Evrae, I swear they're great at this! So with some work, clear the fight after making adjustments to equipment I clear it. Taking the controller back, he immediately runs into the robot with Eject and leaves him the last one standing without any damage(and he did scan them). The look on his face when all three party members were out, apologizing profusely as I took it up again for him. They did ask for my help a few more times, but it was a blast each time. Inparticularly when I got cocky against Yunalesca, he leveled Kimari and I got through phase one. Not knowing anything about this, I work her down to the end of phase two with Self Destruct for a flashy finish. Everyone died in one round. We laughed hard to this day, including other witnesses of my mistake. Through that initial experience I gained much needed confidence in my own gaming skill, having grown up with gamers FAR better than me over the years. I gained motivation lost to get better at the games I played with my family members who've played often. Despite still having nights where I score maybe at best two kos in a stock match of five ALL night for Smash brothers. I was focused on learning from my loss rather than just feeling a little down but eager for more fun.
Back to my first friend, I was invited over so I did detour to drop my school stuff before having to make an hour to reach his place. But delays occurred and I missed out on the final fight where he and others that beat me there were hyped as can be. Taking hours to beat the end of the game(Yes, Yu Yevon.....) and going wild. Insisting I would struggle with such a boss, kept this in mind when I bought it myself years later. I severely overleveled by doing the monster arena first to near completion(missed last two originals at the time). But had Rikku at 190 str or so with dmg limit broken, remembered hearing about the code for it and friend told me about the mirror. So with Godhand and the arena cleared(mostly) I cruised up to the final boss. Grabbing a 2L and bag of something to snack on for the most epic showdown. Overkilled in one attack....
Up to that point I was having a blast watching everything I unlocked comeback, realizing if I didn't grind I was in for a FIGHT. But it'd be worth it to finish that boss my friend said I would struggle so hard against. Second time(and properly leveled) left me loving the steps towards the end boss. Dreading some fights but pulling through with well timed Overdrives or taking advantage of an easier one to recover and help my bench catch up a little more. I still binge on FFX content to this day knowing how much I played this title over the years, especially once I owned it. Clearing the game with everyone in several combinations, yet most fun for me was Rikku, Auron and Lulu.
Gah, almost out of time. This game shown me how much I LOVE worldbuilding in my media, a high standard I hold for myself whenever I get to be a GM or writing stories. Hopefully can make time to binge through this one more time for such a year.
This was the first FF game I ever played. Though I did have a SNES and PS1. I got FFX in a bundle of PS2 game being sold for cheap by Blockbuster. Then I went back and played FF 4, 6, 7. and Crono Trigger. Got hooked to the rpg bug.
Final Fantasy X came at time when I was lost in every aspect of life. This game helped me cope with things and as I saw light once again, I actually finished the game. I’m my opinion, nothing else compared to it.
Bloody hell 20 years....
it’s hard to find a new ffx TH-cam video to watch, I forgot I’m subscribed to FF Union !
FFX makes me realize that I can actually cry when playing a game, both through beautiful story, and punishing hardcore minigame...
I felt this on a spiritual level
Thank you so much for this video. This game brought so much feeling to the table, where many games of the time did not imo. It was my 5th FF game. Like many teenagers at the time of its release, we grew up with videogames as a part of our lives. The story/music/voice acting overall gave us the ability to more easily dive-in and feel a part of the game rather then just decision makers. That is why it is still my 2nd most played and enjoyed FF game. I play it every couple of years to capture that feeling again even if just for a little while, and for the 20th anniversary I will almost positively visit the Spira troop again.
My favourite Final fantasy!
X is not one of the Final Fantasies I grew up with, in fact, all the changes they made to the formula scared me off when it was new. I only played it for the first time five years ago, so it's without nostalgia that I say it's one of the best entries to the franchise, if not the _very_ best.
Lol this is why hironobu sakaguchi was needed back then to veto all these bad ideas and give final fantasy games some actual form and direction
I love the positive feedback loop in this game. Just enjoy the story, this game is for you. Want more? This game is also for you. Want to really test yourself against the dark aeons and penance? This game is also for you.
My favourite Final Fantasy game, one of my all-time favourite games and RPGs. That first part in Zanarkand just blew me away after playing FF 7-9 before. I love the story, characters, world-building, progression system, battle system, all of it!
I wish I was around back in the day. These are some of my favorite games and it must have been really special to play them on release.
Who down voted this video, that's a SIN.
Still my favorite FF, and I see no signs of that changing any time soon.
Why does everyone have to keep reminding me that FFX is 20 years old lol?
I have no idea why before, I resisted playing this game. Once I did, man, I told myself I was missing a lot.. I truly enjoyed the game from the moment I started it.. Since then, I never stopped playing it and I want to play this game over and over again.. I can say that this is one of the best, if not, the best Final Fantasy game I have ever played.. I am so impressed with the gameplay mechanics, as well as the story.. I have a lot of things to say about this.. But we all know why.. Thanks for having us this wonderful game!
X is the first Final Fantasy game I played. I still adore this game ♥️
This game us the reason I bought a ps2. I still have it, as well as remaster for ps3, ps4, and switch. I find myself going back to this game just as much as I do ff3/6. Definitely two of the best games ever, imo.
True
Final Fantasy X came to me when I was fighting with depression and it really helped and kept me going.
Even though it's unfortunate that there were issues behind the scenes, it still turned out amazing, FF10 is one of my favorites. Thanks for making this video!
I always wanted to see all the guardians as final aeons
tidus - leviathan
auron - gilgamesh
wakka - kujata
lulu - moogle
rikku - alexander
kimahri - greiver
bartello - titan
pacce & maroda - minotaur brothers
It as my first FF game!
Then fell in love with the franchise, but it will be my favorite FOREVER! ❤️