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Final Fantasy X |
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The first Final Fantasy game for the Playstation 2 console,
and the tenth game by Square, both very big events. So of course, you KNOW
this game was gonna be big. The game is virtually one big innovation, from
being one of the first games made to have the entire game's conversation
actually recorded, in comparison to most games out at the time, in which
characters talking was written on the screen. It also sports the biggest
mini-game of Final Fantasy games yet, Blitzball.
Blitzball is almost large enough to be considered a game in itself! This underwater cross between football and soccer plays an integral part of the games storyline, as two of your main characters are both blitzers. A large part of the early part of the story will actually revolve around Blitzball, and it's not until you finish the "Mi'ihen Operation" that the story changes dynamically. The story is about a young teen (aren't they all?) named Tidus, whose choice in dress is... strange to say the least. He's the star player of the "Zanarkand Abes", a Blitzball team, and is considered a town hero for Zanarkand. Everything's going good until his city gets attacked by an evil monster named "Sin", which thrusts him into a parallel world to his own, in which his city Zanarkand was destroyed 1000 years ago. Not fun at all. Of course, as with all other Square RPG's, the game gets much more complex than that, and the storyline truly takes off. The basic story of this game is pretty standard: "Evil monster on planet, going to blow it up. We get really strong, go beat big monster up, cuz we're heroes, after all. It's what we do." The only thing that keeps it different from that all too boring video game clich� is the character development. The entire story is based on how the characters interact with each other, on their world-saving quest. FFX is one of those games that you can play once and fall in love with it. But you can't play it too many times (at least I couldn't) without getting really bored with it. Many times, you can't skip story-advancing dialogue, which gets really repetitious on your 3rd or so time through. If you were looking for yet another PSX-type final fantasy, big on story, this isn't it. But if you were looking for something fresh and new in an rpg, with lots of character develoment, this game may indeed be made for you. |